Beschreibung:

FORD, FORD MADOX. One autograph letter signed to the Rev. Yates Thompson, and eight letters to his literary agent J.B. Pinker, comprising one autograph letter signed, two typed letters signed, four letters signed (three with the text in the hand of his mistress and amanuensis, the author Violet Hunt , and one letter (both text and signature in Hunt's hand); written from Trier (Germany), London, and Winchelsea, [late 1896]-21 April 1913. Together 15 pages, 12mo-4to, some fold creases, a few closedx tears. With an autograph letter signed from Oliver Madox Hueffer [Ford's brother] to Yates Thompson (names inverted in greeting). A fine series. In the letter to Thompson Ford requests a Ford Madox Brown painting for the exhibition he is arranging in January 1897. In his letters to Pinker Ford announces his German marriage to Violet Hunt (letter of 4 October 1911), discusses (in three letters) difficulties with the publisher Constable regarding his novel The Panel (published by Constable in 1912); writes about the contract for the novel Mr. Fleight (published 1913), and talks of cutting down a manuscript, of placing a story, of payment problems with Harper & Bros. for the American edition of Ancient Lights (1911), and of other literary matters. In a letter signed of 16 October 1908, on stationary of The English Review (of which he was editor), Ford tells Pinker about the upcoming second issue of the important periodical: "...the second number will contain a long unpublished poem by Rossetti, an unpublished short story by Anatole France, some recollections by George Meredith & several other plums. I suppose you will let me know who copyrights the various contributions that you are agent for in the United States..." (10)