BIB_ID
304973
Accession number
MA 1967.11
Creator
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.
Display Date
1929 Feb. 12.
Credit line
Gift of Ray Nash, 1959-1960.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 20.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed and revised typed and autograph copies of letters to Henry Watson Kent. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on letterhead from Strand Palace Hotel, Strand WC2, London.
Written on letterhead from Strand Palace Hotel, Strand WC2, London.
Provenance
Gift of Ray Nash in 1959 and 1960.
Summary
Describing his travel routine from Slindon to London each week; discussing recent work, including his Monotype Centaur, which will make its debut by way of a pamphlet from a paper by Alfred Pollard; indicating that he frequently has lunch with Pollard and Victor Scholderer at the British Museum; describing a recent lunch with Bernard Shaw, "not at all an arbitrary person - at least at his own house," and his wife, who "has a much keener eye for printing than G. B. S."; indicating that [Emery] Walker and [Sydney] Cockerell had also been in attendance and that his invitation had been by way of T. E. Lawrence; mentioning "sub rosa" his work for Lawrence's Odyssey translation; telling of a dinner of the Double Crown Club, at which he was the guest of honor and "nearly everybody in the English printing world" was in attendance; further mentions of lunches and asking for a list of prices realized from The Grolier Club's annual meeting.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (31.6 cm)
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