BIB_ID
440933
Accession number
MA 13112.6
Creator
Barton, Margaret, 1897-, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1930 March 28
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 16.2 x 12.3 cm
Notes
Date of writing from postmark.
Written on a pre-stamped folded "letter card"; postmarked and addressed to: Thomas Balston, Esq, / 101 Artillery Mansions / Victoria St / AW 1.
Written from: 144 Addison Gardens / W14; dated "Friday.".
At head of letter: Margaret Barton / re "Sober truth".
Forms part of a collection chiefly composed of letters received from friends and associates of the English publisher Thomas Balston (1883-1967); see: MA 13112.
Written on a pre-stamped folded "letter card"; postmarked and addressed to: Thomas Balston, Esq, / 101 Artillery Mansions / Victoria St / AW 1.
Written from: 144 Addison Gardens / W14; dated "Friday.".
At head of letter: Margaret Barton / re "Sober truth".
Forms part of a collection chiefly composed of letters received from friends and associates of the English publisher Thomas Balston (1883-1967); see: MA 13112.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing to express her unhappiness with "that dedication that was slipped in against my expressed wish" (a reference to the book "Sober truth", co-edited by Barton with Osbert Sitwell), and remarking that "it is irritating to know that if the book is a success Mr. Sitwell will lean back & take the applause. If it is a failure, he will say, 'It was a marvellous idea of mine, but my secretary bungled it.' And in any case I have to be a door mat", adding that she hopes they will make some money from the publication "to console us for all the annoyance which an association with Mr. S necessarily entails."
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