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DOUGLAS, NORMAN. Two autograph letters signed to the author Henry Savage, Florence, 30 December 1923 and 10 February 1924, together 2 pages, 4to, slightly browned, a few fold tears : "Thanks so much for...the [Arthur] Machen bibliography which strikes me as highly creditable to everybody...So kind of you sending up my stock in the U.S....I wish I had a book or anything else -- except my congratulations to offer to the new American publishing firm you speak of. But I haven't. I crawl along so slowly! And have lately entered my second childhood, or possibly menopause, which makes writing more difficult than ever..."--MOORE, GEORGE. Autograph letter signed to SIR JAMES M. BARRIE, n.d. [London] 20 July n.y., one page, 4to, fold creases, arranging for a visit by Moore: "...From this you will see that all days are alike to me with the exception of one -- the Saturday before. I am looking forward to this visit. I know the name of the house and station and the hour of the train starts from Paddington"--WODEHOUSE, P.G. typed letter signed to "Dear WW" [undoubtedly the columnist Walter Winchell], Remsenburg, Long Island, 16 May 1956, one page 4to, double-spaced, on Wodehouse's imprinted letterhead : "Thanks ever so much for the two plugs of America, I Like You. They will be a tremendous help. It was awfully good of you to give the book a boost. Several letters from Guy Bolton [his frequent collaborator on musicals] since he got to London..."--DREISER, THEODORE. Typed letter signed to "Dear Mr. Newbegin" [the San Francisco bookseller?], New York, 10 November 1930, one page, 4to single-spaced, Dreiser's name imprinted at top : "I am interested in doing something for the works of Charles Fort; trying through publicity to force orthodox science at least to note and acknowledge the value of the gigantic quantity of data Mr. Fort has assembled in his Book of the Damned, New Lands , and Lo! about to be published...I would appreciate anything you can do to asist in my effort to make known to the world at large this so far comparatively little-known writer"--TARKINGTON, BOOTH. Typed letter signed to Bob Davis of the New York Sun , Indianapolis, 9 January 1936, one page, 8vo, single-spaced, with 2 related letters, discussing a Kennebunkport, Maine, neighbor and thanking Davis for "your light-hearted book, Tree Toad ...and for inscribing it so indulgently..."--RUNYON, DAMON. Typed letter signed to Bob Davis, French Lick, Indiana, 3 May 1939, one page, 4to, central panel slightly darkened, small ink stain, with envelope : "Thanks for your recent note and for the coming profile. Patrice tells me she spoke to you the day before she left for Kentucky. She is also, I think, less interested in the [Kentucky] Derby than she is to get back and read the books which you sent to her..."--LEACOCK, STEPHEN. Autograph letter signed to Bob Davis, Montreal, 11 December [1935], one page, 4to : "...I send you today via Dodd Mead a copy of my Humor with a reference to you...I was much interested in your Mark Twain remarks..." -- and 5 other letters, 1935-38, including 2 TLS from A.J.A. Symons to Bob Davis, 1 TLS from A. Edward Newton to Mrs. Lathrop C. Harper, 1 ALS from Ben Ames Williams (wrote Leave Her to Heaven ) to the Davises, and 1 TL (signed by secretary) from Hugh Walpole; together 13 letters and 2 related items. (15)