WALEY, Arthur (1889-1966). Series of 23 autograph letters and two typed letters signed (five lacking signature) to Oswald Sickert, British Museum, Ladbroke Grove and elsewhere, all incompletely dated (c.1916-1920), approximately 88 pages, 8vo and 4to ; with 20 letters and cards (one fragmentary) by Sickert to Waley, Tokyo, Shanghai, Madrid and n.p., 31 March 1916 - 17 February 1920, on Waley's translations, his impressions of Shanghai and other matters.
WALEY, Arthur (1889-1966). Series of 23 autograph letters and two typed letters signed (five lacking signature) to Oswald Sickert, British Museum, Ladbroke Grove and elsewhere, all incompletely dated (c.1916-1920), approximately 88 pages, 8vo and 4to ; with 20 letters and cards (one fragmentary) by Sickert to Waley, Tokyo, Shanghai, Madrid and n.p., 31 March 1916 - 17 February 1920, on Waley's translations, his impressions of Shanghai and other matters. A rich correspondence, full of literary anecdotes, including on Yeats and Pound, Pound's version of No plays and his own projected translations, on the Bloomsbury Group, and other matters. 'About Pound's translations. It is physically impossible for me to send out a copy without correcting some of the most appalling errors ... Roger Fry's Omega Club, of which I am a member, meets once a fortnight for "conversation and light refreshments" at the workshops. It is not being a great success. The theory, as you proba[b]ly know, was that rich and gullible people could be lured on to the premises by the prospect of seeing Bohemian intellectuals in the flesh'; 'Lytton [Strachey], who is a vacuum behind a façade of beard & sombrero, will I think be very ill-advised to unmask'; 'The ménage in Caroline Place, to wh. I have often referred, has split up in horror. Marjery Olivier has gone raving mad, Alix has gone to live with Carrington (a blonde short-haired Slade woman) and my cousin Margaret is in the country. Another time I will tell you about some extraordinary evenings at "Omega" & how Arnold Bennett didn't get a seat & no one would speak to B. Shaw'; 'I move chiefly in a sordid Cubist underworld ... I think one condition of Peace should be the muzzling forever of Dr Freud. He does make people into such gloomy bores. I saw Roger Fry lately. He has given up drawing with his eyes shut and now does "translations" of the old Masters'; 'did you know the Boston poet, T.S. Eliot? He is so nice & writes such bad imitations of La Forgue. His book is called "Prufrock". I think I will send it, for, bad as it is, it is the fashion at present'; 'I am going this evening with Joan to hear the great Dr Jung deliver an address. He is not quite as great as the great Dr Freud, but he is the best we can do for the moment. He is speaking on the sexual life of ghosts. See what you miss by living in a semi-barbarous country [i.e. Spain]?'. It was Sickert, a brother of the painter, who had introduced Waley to the British Museum.
WALEY, Arthur (1889-1966). Series of 23 autograph letters and two typed letters signed (five lacking signature) to Oswald Sickert, British Museum, Ladbroke Grove and elsewhere, all incompletely dated (c.1916-1920), approximately 88 pages, 8vo and 4to ; with 20 letters and cards (one fragmentary) by Sickert to Waley, Tokyo, Shanghai, Madrid and n.p., 31 March 1916 - 17 February 1920, on Waley's translations, his impressions of Shanghai and other matters.
WALEY, Arthur (1889-1966). Series of 23 autograph letters and two typed letters signed (five lacking signature) to Oswald Sickert, British Museum, Ladbroke Grove and elsewhere, all incompletely dated (c.1916-1920), approximately 88 pages, 8vo and 4to ; with 20 letters and cards (one fragmentary) by Sickert to Waley, Tokyo, Shanghai, Madrid and n.p., 31 March 1916 - 17 February 1920, on Waley's translations, his impressions of Shanghai and other matters. A rich correspondence, full of literary anecdotes, including on Yeats and Pound, Pound's version of No plays and his own projected translations, on the Bloomsbury Group, and other matters. 'About Pound's translations. It is physically impossible for me to send out a copy without correcting some of the most appalling errors ... Roger Fry's Omega Club, of which I am a member, meets once a fortnight for "conversation and light refreshments" at the workshops. It is not being a great success. The theory, as you proba[b]ly know, was that rich and gullible people could be lured on to the premises by the prospect of seeing Bohemian intellectuals in the flesh'; 'Lytton [Strachey], who is a vacuum behind a façade of beard & sombrero, will I think be very ill-advised to unmask'; 'The ménage in Caroline Place, to wh. I have often referred, has split up in horror. Marjery Olivier has gone raving mad, Alix has gone to live with Carrington (a blonde short-haired Slade woman) and my cousin Margaret is in the country. Another time I will tell you about some extraordinary evenings at "Omega" & how Arnold Bennett didn't get a seat & no one would speak to B. Shaw'; 'I move chiefly in a sordid Cubist underworld ... I think one condition of Peace should be the muzzling forever of Dr Freud. He does make people into such gloomy bores. I saw Roger Fry lately. He has given up drawing with his eyes shut and now does "translations" of the old Masters'; 'did you know the Boston poet, T.S. Eliot? He is so nice & writes such bad imitations of La Forgue. His book is called "Prufrock". I think I will send it, for, bad as it is, it is the fashion at present'; 'I am going this evening with Joan to hear the great Dr Jung deliver an address. He is not quite as great as the great Dr Freud, but he is the best we can do for the moment. He is speaking on the sexual life of ghosts. See what you miss by living in a semi-barbarous country [i.e. Spain]?'. It was Sickert, a brother of the painter, who had introduced Waley to the British Museum.
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