[Hugh Walpole [Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole], popular English novelist, born in New Zealand.] Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Mr. Patterson Webb’ regarding a ‘carol’ he sent him. With double-signed photograph by Elliott & Fry.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The two items were previously held together by a small dab of glue at the head of the letter. They are now separated, and traces of the glue remain, not affecting any text. Otherwise they are in good condition, lightly aged. ONE: ALS, 30 December 1932. 1p, 12mo. Signed Hugh Walpole. He thanks him for his charming ‘Carol’: ‘I have been picking it out on the piano. And I send back the photo autographed. With every good wish for 1933’. TWO: Black and white head and shoulders photographic portrait of a balding bespectacled Walpole by Elliott & Fry, on thickish paper, around 11 cm square (image 10 cm square). Inscribed by him below Walpole’s neck: ‘Hugh Walpole / Dec: 32’ And signed again in the thin white margin beneath the image: ‘Hugh Walpole -’. See Image