BIB_ID
442737
Accession number
MA 13112.180a
Creator
Balston, Thomas, sender.
Display Date
Rome, Italy, 1928 March 27
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.1 x 12.8 cm
Notes
Written on printed letterhead stationery from Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd.
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.
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 in response to a letter by Scott-Moncrieff regarding the Sitwells and requesting a copy of a publication by them issued by Duckworth in which he is mentioned; remarking that he must have anticipated no response, as he knows "the relations of publisher and author are more or less confidential ones"; adding, in response to Scott-Moncrieff's expressed enjoyment of Eric Parker's book "Playing fields", that "It must be a hard exile which makes Mr. Parker's works consoling", and suggesting that he return to England soon "to see the even more meretricious charms of the new Savile."
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