A collection of autograph letters signed or initialled to [John] Lane, publisher

Artist and etcher. See new DNB for substantial entry. Twelve autograph letters and notes signed, all 8vo, total 35+ pages, good condition. Contents: (undated letter) asking Lane to get a "Miss Hester Frow" work as illustrator with a weekly or monthly periodical (19 May 1903) He tells Lane to expect a letter from a Miss White concerning "an interesting matter" which she had already put before another London publisher, but Cameron thought Lane "the real man for the subject". He thinks the projected book would have a large circulation and she is "well known" as is her father, J. Forbes White, who "was about the first to buy the great French artists in this country. (16 July 1903) "the Burns drawings and the remuneration". He expects to send them soon. (10 Sept. 1903) About his drawings for the "Poems of William Watson" [pub. by Lane in [1904]] and Burns. "Some time when you wish some important work I shall be glad to consider it." He asks for the publication date for the Watson since "there are several poems in it I should like to do." (1905) He is disappointed he cannot entertain Lane "the father & friend of the poets and the brilliant writer of among the most talked of articles . . ." (April 1906) Jocular letter. (Sept. 1906) Books sent to Devon. (July 1910) "I will see what I have in the way of etchings . . . Gutekunst & Obaeli have my etchings - but as I have done so few plates for a year or two they have my old proofs just now & the prices are very high and such as no professor should pay-". (June 1910) He would have enjoyed being a guest at the meeting of "Ye Sette of Odd Volumes"; saw the King's Funeral; travelling. (Feb. 1911) Illness. (Nov. 1902) Failure to meet up. (1916) daeth of "Phillips"; meeting planned. WITH: autograph postcard signed, 9 April 1903, returning a book, hopes to meet in London. AND: three Chrsitmas cards, two with motif and his address in gilt. Sixteen items,