Hugh Walpole collection II of 31 items
Date Published: 1911 to 1941
Binding: No binding & hard cover
Hugh Walpole was a New Zealand-born prolific, best-selling English novelist. He wrote between 1909 and 1941 thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two original plays and three volumes of memoirs.
The collection consists of 31 items dating from 1911 to 1941, specifically 17 letters, 1 quotation, 1 photo, 1 drawing, 1 card, 4 photo post cards , 4 ephemera, and 1 book.
17 Letters: 14 Autographed Letters Signed (ALS) and 2 Typed Letters Signed (TLS)
• ALS to Mr. Coverley, 5? January 1911, requesting various books (Trevelyan English under the Stuarts) to be sent to him.
• ALS (3 pp.) to Mr. Arnold, [26 February 1913], apologizes that that he changed his lunch plans when he received Captain Graham’s wire.
• ALS 2pp September 27, 1921 on his Regents Park stationary. Walpole writes that he is off on a lecture tour and the house will soon be closed.
• ALS (a few tears and a couple of words missing) addressed “My dear Desmond” (probably Desmond MacCarthy, literary reviewer and drama critic), 25 October 1924, re receiving a book, his little flat with his “dogs, a gardener, and a marvelous view”. • ALS addressed “Dear old Desmond” (Desmond MacCarthy), 11 July 1929, “Got your line… where I can finish a book in peace”, tells Desmond to send the novel, has a collection of D.C. books beautifully written, has finished his books, hasn’t published one for 2 ½ years, the Percy sale.
• ALS to Mr. Evans, 26 February 1932, re meeting Evans, going abroad, “hideously busy”.
• ALS to Mr. Woodward, 8 April 1932, telling him to use his name, reference to Winnie (Winnifred) Wagner.
• ALS to Mr. Coals, 6 September 1938, “I’m delighted with the look of the Poems… The book will have a fine place in my library… I’m glad that the Delaneys are moving – A bookseller’s job must be a pretty stiff one just now.”
• ALS to Miss A.V. Lucas, 28 March 1941, with envelope, re “It isn’t a good time for plays—but who knows?”
• TLS to Mrs. Gustave, 3 December 1926, re her appreciation of Harmer John.
• ALS addressed My dear Malcolm, 21 June 1939, pleased his correspondent has settled the Cosmopolitan deal with Margot Johnson, hopeful about The Sea Tower if there isn’t a war, excited about the Elizabethan novel, asks to be remembered to his correspondent’s wife who charmed him.
• ALS (2 pp.) addressed My dear Burchard (probably Ludwig Burchard, the art historian), 1 May 1922, written from the Hotel de Palermo, apologizes for "the promised letter", all gone very well, weather wonderful, Syracuse, Sorgenti and flocks of snow-white goats, going to Taormina then on to Rome, thanking Burchard "for your goodness and friendliness in Naples"
• ALS to Malcolm, 4 April 1935, pleased to meet Malcolm’s wife at his flat, sending Sea Tower to Macmillan tomorrow, hard at work on Bright Pavilions (which he will finish this week), continuing to write his autobiography.
• ALS (2 pp.) to Mr. Hodgson, 21 January 1922, re the English report and The Gods and Mr. Perrin ("will become a rare book as a very samll edition was printed. The last nine chapters are entirely different from the English version.").
• 2 ALS and a TLS to Mr. Ward (probably Arthur Henry "Sarsfield" Ward, better known as Sax Rohmer, the English novelist), 18 May 1925, Sunday, and n.d., re meeting for lunch and a Rembrandt etching.
• TLS to George Holzapfel, 24 July 1934, on letterhead of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, re his address in Beverly Hills and meeting each other there (bottom and verso of letter has shorthand, written in pencil).
1 Book:
• Woodbridge Riley. Men and Morals: The Story of Ethics. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1929. Black cloth, signed presentation copy from Walpole for Highland Hall, dated 10 January 1930 on front free endpaper, obituary news clipping of Walpole on the front pastedown, remnant of paper pocket on the rear pastedown.
12 Ephemera:
• 1 small B&W photo
• 1 Signed quotation, 9 December 1937: “He pulled so many chestnuts out of the fire that he became one himself—which is why he doesn’t like fires! From an unpublished novel.”
• 4 photo postcards:
- Signed postcard (photo of Walpole’s house, Brackenburn) to Douk Patmore, post-marked 17 September 1936, is finishing a book, doesn’t know when he’ll be in touch with him.
- Walpole with J.B. Priestley, “`Good Companions’ at Brackenburn”, circa 1929, verso blank;
- Walpole wearing a blazer jacket, G.P. Abraham, Ltd., Keswick, n.d. but a posthumous photo reproduction;
- Walpole with his dog, Bingo, Maysons Keswick series, n.d.
• 1 Signed piece of paper (card), n.d.
• 1 Reproduction of signed pencil portrait from a magazine, n.d.
• The Freedom to Read Books, leaflet issued by the National Book Council.
• Card with letter to Austin Strong, 3 November 1922, re Seventh Heaven.
• Leaflet advertising The Herrries Chronicle.
• 2 b&w post cards: Walpole with his dog, Bingo; Brackenburn, Walpole’s residence.
Collection on consignment with LDRB.
Item #8516
$1,000.00 USD
$1,343.38 CAD