Autograph Letter, signed “Morley Roberts” , to Greenhough Smith, editor of the Strand, concerning “‘Dear Sir,’ the telephone love story” The Splendid Lover

by Morley Roberts

$200 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Ink on laid paper, letterhead of Whitehall Club, address struck though. 2-1/4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Toning to edge. Item #301703 Author Morley Roberts 1857-1942 , to Herbert Greenhough Smith, legendary editor of the Strand Magazine, concerning the fate of a submission “‘Dear Sir,’ the telephone love story”, urging Smith “not to reject it till some sympathetic ‘she’ has read it and scorned it.”

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