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Letter from H.G. Wells, Sandgate, Kent, England, to H.B. Marriott Watson, 1900 November 16 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
456100
Accession number
MA 14714.6
Creator
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Written on embossed letterhead stationery from: Arnold House, / Sandgate, / Kent.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing that he has read a (unspecified) work by Watson and praising him as writer ("You're a damned copious ingenius eventful beggar & you write like a Duke"), and adding "You soar -- you do it like a bird, & as for me I go from Bog to Briar thicket damning and damning."; complaining of the onerous responsibilities of overseeing the building of his house and the toll it takes on his literary imagination.