Two Autograph Letters Signed Alss The First 4 Pages On Small Folded Octavo Sheet With Labri Return

by Matthew Phipps Shiel

$850 · Offered by L. W. Currey

Most of the letter dated 1 May is devoted the cinema and my books which reads in part ... I think that, if the plots of my books were presented to them in a persistent way, the law of chance would operate to get one accepted; and then after one all. But I am told that it is no good sending them the whole book; the story must be written out succinctly in 1000 words or so. In the second, shorter letter Shiel responds favorably to White's proposal to publish a book of Shiel's poems. Good

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