English & American Literature A fine group of 6 framed literary autographs and 4 books signed or inscribed, as follows: Santayana, George. Autograph letter, signed ("G Santayana"), 1 page (10 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.; 260 x 165 mm), Rome, 20 April 1928 via Brown Shipley Co., London, to Marshall A. Best, Viking Press, with accompanying stamped envelope, matted, glazed and framed with photo portrait. Acknowledges receipt of Hillyer's The Seventh Hill, and expresses his thoughts on poetry and the differences between the British and American varieties. — Eliot, Thomas Stearns. Autograph letter, signed ("Tom Eliot"), 2 pages (7 3/4 x 7 in.; 197 x 178 mm), on letterhead "24 Russell Square WC 1, Museum 9543," 1 April 1957, to Cecilia, matted, glazed and framed with a portrait photo. Thanking her for her good wishes on his recent marriage, asks for her help in presenting his wife at a Garden Party: "The point is that it would be very embarrassing to have a royal command in which my wife was not included!" — Frost, Robert. "Acquainted with the Night." Autograph manuscript, signed ("Robert Frost"), 1 page (7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.; 190 x 145 mm), 14 lines, San Antonio, 5 January 1937, "For Mrs. Emmaline Jones," matted, glazed and framed with portrait photo. — Lewis, Clive Staples. Autograph letter, signed ("C.S. Lewis"), 1 page (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.; 171 x 105 mm), on letterhead "Magdalen College, Oxford," 21 January 1942, to Mrs. Eyre, matted, glazed and framed with portrait photo. Offers his impression of Buddhism: "and if His final aim is simply to suck us in again why did He originally puff us out?" Thanks her for making his Allegory of Love a bedside book, a "compliment almost beyond ambition. My own are Alice, The Wind in the Willows and Boswell." — Douglas, Alfred Bruce. Autograph letter, signed ("Alfred Douglas"), 2 pages (8 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.; 215 x 168 mm), on letterhead "1 St. Ann's Court, Nizells Avenue, Hove 2, Sussex", 23 September 1942, to an unnamed correspondent, matted, glazed and framed, with a portrait photo with Oscar Wilde. Reflecting on his relationship with Wilde "it can do no good to Wilde to pretend that he was a saint as you seem inclined to do. My own book ... is written in spirit of charity & affection and I have said in his favour all that is possible to be said." — Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Autograph quotation of the last two stanzas of "The Arsenal at Springfield", signed "Henry W Longfellow", 1 page (4 x 6 1/4 in.; 102 x 158 mm), 8 lines, dated 1 January 1880. With 4 books: Rudolph Valentino. Day Dreams. New York: Macfadden, 1923, inscribed — Norman Douglas Old Calabria. London: Martin Becker, [1915], inscribed — Robert Frost. West-Running Brook. New York: Holt, 1928, number 699 of 980 copies, signed by Frost — W. Somerset Maugham. Cakes and Ale. Melbourne-London-Toronto: Heinemann, [1954], number 551 of 1000 copies signed by the author and the artist.
English & American Literature A fine group of 6 framed literary autographs and 4 books signed or inscribed, as follows: Santayana, George. Autograph letter, signed ("G Santayana"), 1 page (10 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.; 260 x 165 mm), Rome, 20 April 1928 via Brown Shipley Co., London, to Marshall A. Best, Viking Press, with accompanying stamped envelope, matted, glazed and framed with photo portrait. Acknowledges receipt of Hillyer's The Seventh Hill, and expresses his thoughts on poetry and the differences between the British and American varieties. — Eliot, Thomas Stearns. Autograph letter, signed ("Tom Eliot"), 2 pages (7 3/4 x 7 in.; 197 x 178 mm), on letterhead "24 Russell Square WC 1, Museum 9543," 1 April 1957, to Cecilia, matted, glazed and framed with a portrait photo. Thanking her for her good wishes on his recent marriage, asks for her help in presenting his wife at a Garden Party: "The point is that it would be very embarrassing to have a royal command in which my wife was not included!" — Frost, Robert. "Acquainted with the Night." Autograph manuscript, signed ("Robert Frost"), 1 page (7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.; 190 x 145 mm), 14 lines, San Antonio, 5 January 1937, "For Mrs. Emmaline Jones," matted, glazed and framed with portrait photo. — Lewis, Clive Staples. Autograph letter, signed ("C.S. Lewis"), 1 page (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.; 171 x 105 mm), on letterhead "Magdalen College, Oxford," 21 January 1942, to Mrs. Eyre, matted, glazed and framed with portrait photo. Offers his impression of Buddhism: "and if His final aim is simply to suck us in again why did He originally puff us out?" Thanks her for making his Allegory of Love a bedside book, a "compliment almost beyond ambition. My own are Alice, The Wind in the Willows and Boswell." — Douglas, Alfred Bruce. Autograph letter, signed ("Alfred Douglas"), 2 pages (8 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.; 215 x 168 mm), on letterhead "1 St. Ann's Court, Nizells Avenue, Hove 2, Sussex", 23 September 1942, to an unnamed correspondent, matted, glazed and framed, with a portrait photo with Oscar Wilde. Reflecting on his relationship with Wilde "it can do no good to Wilde to pretend that he was a saint as you seem inclined to do. My own book ... is written in spirit of charity & affection and I have said in his favour all that is possible to be said." — Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Autograph quotation of the last two stanzas of "The Arsenal at Springfield", signed "Henry W Longfellow", 1 page (4 x 6 1/4 in.; 102 x 158 mm), 8 lines, dated 1 January 1880. With 4 books: Rudolph Valentino. Day Dreams. New York: Macfadden, 1923, inscribed — Norman Douglas Old Calabria. London: Martin Becker, [1915], inscribed — Robert Frost. West-Running Brook. New York: Holt, 1928, number 699 of 980 copies, signed by Frost — W. Somerset Maugham. Cakes and Ale. Melbourne-London-Toronto: Heinemann, [1954], number 551 of 1000 copies signed by the author and the artist.
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