BIB_ID
157918
Accession number
MA 8979
Creator
Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933.
Display Date
1922 September 8.
Credit line
Purchased, 1956.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.4 x 20.2 cm
Notes
On stationery with the letterhead: "70, Elm Park Road, / Chelsea, S. W." On the lefthand side: "3098 Kensington."
Previously accessioned as MA 1754, part of a collection of letters to T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, his wife Anne Cobden-Sanderson, and other relatives.
Previously accessioned as MA 1754, part of a collection of letters to T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, his wife Anne Cobden-Sanderson, and other relatives.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby Sale, 27 June 1956, Lot 708.
Summary
Concerning the death of Anne Cobden-Sanderson's husband, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson; writing he and his son Tony were "quite overwhelmed on reading the 'Times' today"; mentioning that they had spent a "delightful afternoon" with her husband just a week ago; telling her that Cobden-Sanderson had "insisted on giving me to take away his two Anthologies of Keats & Shelley & also his own copy with autograph notes of Cosmic Vision, & ever since I have been thinking whose book of verse I could send him in recognition of his kindness"; commenting that Cobden-Sanderson was "altogether his own dear self & though he mentioned his heart attack, it never occurred to any of us that he was so near his end"; recalling the time they spent together at the Chalet Soleil; writing that "Tony will never forget him nor shall I, for he was an [exhalation?] of all that is holy wise, good & agreeable."
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