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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, 1930 Mar. 3.

BIB_ID
304995
Accession number
MA 1967.15
Creator
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.
Display Date
1930 Mar. 3.
Credit line
Gift of Ray Nash, 1959-1960.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 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 from "16 Clifford's Inn E.C.4, [London]."
Provenance
Gift of Ray Nash in 1959 and 1960.
Summary
Complaining of the poor management of the A.I.G.A. 50-Book Shows and the sad state of "decorative bookmaking"; mentioning his hope to see Frederic Warde who is to be briefly in town; acknowledging receipt of his letter and a copy of Theocritus' Third Idyll, that he had printed with Kent and Bryson Burroughs in 1928; asking for a copy of the catalogue of the Arthur Davies Memorial Exhibition; describing lunch with Poet Laureate Robert Bridges and his wife and Humphrey Milford; mentioning regular lunches with Johnson, the Oxford printer; indicating that Roberts of Cambridge is coming to New York in a few weeks with some pages of a book in Centaur that he'll arrange for Kent to see; complaining of the slow progress on the Odyssey; mentioning that Adler sent him "Kittredge's compilation about [his] book designs" for the forthcoming Colophon, which he doesn't care for, and emphasizing his lack of involvement in the project.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (31.6 cm)