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Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to McKnight Kauffer, 1930 December 18.

BIB_ID
404148
Accession number
MA 1664.18
Creator
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931.
Display Date
1930 December 18.
Credit line
Purchased, 1955.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.9 x 17.8 cm
Notes
Written on stationery embossed "97 Chiltern Court, / Clarence Gate, N.W.1."
Marion Dorn and McKnight Kauffer lived in London from 1923 until July 1940.
In a letter written two years earlier (MA 1664.1) Bennett tells Kauffer "I should be delighted to have No. 1. of 'Don Quixote'; but I do not think that you ought to give it to me. My intention was to buy it."
Kauffer provided twenty-one color plates to a two-volume edition of Don Quixote published in London by Nonesuch Press in 1930.
Provenance
Purchased from Marion Dorn Kauffer, 1955.
Summary
Concerning the gift of a Don Quixote illustration; asking "Is this magnif 'Don Quixottian' McKauffer from you? if so, I am charmed & delighted with it, and very grateful to you, & enclosed are my special-edition thanks."