Letter from H.G. Wells, Worcester Park, England, to Rosamund Marriott Watson, 1898? : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing that he did not have access to (her volume of poems) "Vesputalia" and read "The Book on Furniture in its place, a splendid second best"; going on to confess that he did not expect to be so interested in furniture, owing to his "Philistine strain" which he characterizes as "a simple Spartanicity tempered by indecision", adding "and yet strangely enough the book got me & completely held me"; noting that by the end of the book, he looked up "& beheld what I had thought was a careless simplicity -- as sin", providing a humorous sketch (or "picshua") of himself pointing disconsolately at his fireplace and adding a facetious condemnation of its "silly curves" and enamel; providing another sketch of a man wielding an ax, labeled "The Amateur Decorator", with a passage below headed "How to make the Home beautiful[.] First -- procure an axe"; and concluding "But now I am to be allowed Vesputalia."