BIB_ID
442444
Accession number
MA 13112.153
Creator
Raverat, Gwen, 1885-1957, sender.
Display Date
Cambridge, England, 1949 May 6
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.1 x 10.3 cm
Notes
Written on letterhead stationery from: The Old Granary, / Silver Street, / Cambridge.
In a different hand at upper left of first page: 4 proofs from Farmer's Glory.
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.
In a different hand at upper left of first page: 4 proofs from Farmer's Glory.
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
Thanking him for "these charming little books", informing him that she has heard from Miss Edmonston who wishes to know the value of the items she sent Balston at the National Book League for insurance purposes, stating that she hasn't the "least idea", but that she has written to Geoffrey Keynes to let her know that value of Ashendene Press Daphnis and Chloe; commenting that his catalog (for his exhibition on English books illustrated with wood engravings) doesn't include any "upright full-page pictures" of her work, and suggesting that a cut from "Farmer's Glory is perhaps the most possible", unless he the Ashendene Press would let him have the block for one of her cuts from Daphnis and Chloe, adding "I don't even know who they are now that Nick Hornby is dead."; providing a list of possible page openings from her books; asking "I suppose there is no way of indicating that the Bird Talisman is still on sale?", and noting that the book never had the publicity the other books had, and that Faber has recently printed a second edition.
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