Letter from W. E. Henley, London, to John Stephen Farmer, 1901 November 20 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

Record ID: 
430164
Accession number: 
MA 8020.16
Author: 
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Credit: 
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description: 
1 item (2 pages) ; 8.7 x 11.2 cm
Notes: 

Written from "19, Albert Mansions, / Battersea, S.W." on a note card engraved with the address.

Summary: 

Asking him to "...hold over the sheets : I want 'em bound, & must find a binder. Meanwhile this nest of cupboards is far too small for anything more than that is in it already; asking if he sent him a quotation for "piffle" and saying that he thinks it is a different word from "piffer;" asking him to return "Gil Blas" to a bookseller in Haymarket on his account and concluding "Those slips I sent you last night are all I've had."

Provenance: 
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.