BIB_ID
105608
Accession number
MA 1617.162
Creator
Grosvenor, Sibell Mary, Countess, 1855-1929.
Display Date
Saighton, England, 1897.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written from Saighton Grange on stationery engraved with a small gold crown and "Sibell" engraved beneath it.
The letter is simply dated "Thursday" but the book to which the letter refers was published in 1897.
Henley's book "English Lyrics / Chaucer to Poe / 1340-1809 / selected and arranged by / William Ernest Henley" was published in London by Methuen and Co. in 1897. The dedication reads "To / George Wyndham / in gratitude for / much good talk good counsel / and good feeling."
The letter is simply dated "Thursday" but the book to which the letter refers was published in 1897.
Henley's book "English Lyrics / Chaucer to Poe / 1340-1809 / selected and arranged by / William Ernest Henley" was published in London by Methuen and Co. in 1897. The dedication reads "To / George Wyndham / in gratitude for / much good talk good counsel / and good feeling."
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Saying "How am I to thank you for the book of lovely Lyrics, so perfectly chosen with its dear words of dedication to George & your inscription to me - I am simply DELIGHTED with it, & touched by your kind thought in giving me this, the first copy. I love & appreciate it, for it is a most precious possession, dear Mr. Henley - I have had such very busy days, that I have really not had time to enjoy it until this eve'g or I should have written sooner - it has been a ray of light thro' rather a distracting week."
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