Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), author of The Wind and the Will...

Hammer

£450

Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), author of The Wind and the Willows - an ink manuscript autographed letter, 2pp written on writing-paper from his address: 16, Durham Villas, Campden Hill, [London], W., and dated 2nd June 1901, thanking its recipient for his initial letter and his enclosed ?manuscript, but unfortunately having to disabuse him of his being able to introduce it or him to a magazine editor because "I rarely see any magazines now-a-days/they change both editors and proprietors with significant rapidity", signed: "Faithfully, yours/Kenneth Grahame", folded for postage, later hole-punctured for filing, the verso inside margin with traces of having been pasted, 18cm x 11.5cm, sold by Francis Edwards, Ltd., their manila Autographs envelope en suite, (1); Paleography, [Warner (Sir George Frederic, FBA, FSA, editor), Facsimiles of Royal, Historical, Literary and other Autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum, First Series: Nos. 1-30, reproduced in lithographic sheets, London: Printed by the Order of the Trustees [...], 1895, folio (46cm x 29cm), (1), [2]