BIB_ID
248042
Accession number
MA 6308
Creator
Holland, Vyvyan Beresford, 1886-1967.
Display Date
London, England, 1953 April 7.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.5 x 13.2 cm.
Notes
Acquired with PML 77375.
Written from "12 Grosvenor Court / 99 Sloane Street / Chelsea S.W.1" on stationery engraved with the address.
Written from "12 Grosvenor Court / 99 Sloane Street / Chelsea S.W.1" on stationery engraved with the address.
Summary
Returning Hyde's copy of the Tite Street sale catalog, explaining the delay with a long account of his physical ailments; saying "Please forgive me for having kept your book for so long. I have been rather in the wars. About a month ago I was suddenly assailed by epitaxis which means nasal haemorrage. After two days of it I was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital. This being cured I had a go of septecemia [sic], which, in its turn, settled down to a form of arthritis in the right wrist, which makes it very difficult for me to write and therefore rather immobilises me in the literary world! However, here is the book.I have made extracts. As I suspected, my mother removed all articles of value of her own before the sale."
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