BIB_ID
298698
Accession number
MA 7645.3
Creator
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965.
Display Date
[1931] Oct. 29.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 16.5 cm
Notes
Dealer description suggests that this letter dates to ca. 1931.
Maugham is first recorded to have "kept a small flat at 18 Half Moon Street" in 1928.--Cf.Ted Morgan, Maugham (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980), p. 312.
Part of a collection of five autograph letters signed and five photographs of W. Somerset Maugham (MA 7645.1-10); see collection-level record for more information.
Possibly referring to the five photographs in this collection (MA 7645.6-10).
Written on stationery embossed with "18, Half Moon St., Mayfair, W. 1."
Maugham is first recorded to have "kept a small flat at 18 Half Moon Street" in 1928.--Cf.Ted Morgan, Maugham (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980), p. 312.
Part of a collection of five autograph letters signed and five photographs of W. Somerset Maugham (MA 7645.1-10); see collection-level record for more information.
Possibly referring to the five photographs in this collection (MA 7645.6-10).
Written on stationery embossed with "18, Half Moon St., Mayfair, W. 1."
Provenance
Purchased by Gordon N. Ray from the dealer G. F. Sims.
Summary
Thanking him for the photographs, stating that they are "so lovely" he would like to buy the negatives.
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