[Gerald Gould] Two Autograph Letters Signed and Two Typed Letters Signed to Robert Lynd, author.

Two ALsS and two TLsS, total 4pp., 4to, fair-good condition.. The last three on letterheads of 1 Hamilton Terrace, NW8; and the first from 54 St Mary's Mansions, Paddington; 11 August 1918, 27 December 1925 and 17 and 26 March 1926. First, discussing the practicalities of the Herald publishing RL's 'Ireland and the League of Nations': 'That we should like to have the publishing of such a book is not, I think, open to serious doubt: [...] But our machines, I know, are choked with work, and it is possible (a) that we couldn't do it as quickly as you would like (b) that if we could our costs of production would be too big to allow of you making a good bargain with us from your point of view.'Second, 'Barbara says I may wear a dinner-jacket on Tuesday if you will do the same. I never know myself, what one ought to wear, but I know that a majority makes a fashion: or, Swinburnially, | Where two men hold together, | The fashions are less by two. | After all, the whole of London looks to YOU and ME as examples of how to dress.' Third (typed), asking RL to 'glance' a Richard Cloudesly Savage's 'Casements': 'He is in a very humble position in the Civil Service, and, I understand, extremely young and extremely poor and extremely apprehensive that his little book will not be noticed.' Fourth (typed), he finds that he is right in stating that Coleridge wrote the first stanza of 'We are Seven': 'I write to you about it because I feel the point to be so important.' Followed, in autograph, by 'I don't think.'