[ Winifred Gordon, W. J. Barwick of Truslove and Hanson, and C. F. Cazenove. ] Autograph Letter Signed by Gordon, two Autograph Letters Signed and Autograph Note Signed by Barwick, and three copies by Cazenove, on her book on Romania.

Gordon is described in The Times, 20 August 1958, as a 'traveller, lecturer, and author', and a resident of Lausanne at the time of her death. All seven items in fair condition, on aged paper, with some rust spotting from a paperclip. The book referred to is 'Roumania, Yesterday and Today' (1918), which has an introduction and two chapters by the Queen of Romania. ONE: Gordon's letter to Barwick. 24 June 1912. 3pp., 8vo. She writes that she has already tried to place 'the little book' with 'Geo. Bell - Jacks - & Gay & Hancock. As to yr. suggestion that I should dedicate it to a Royalty [sic], I think the Queen of Roumania - "Carmen Sylva" would accept the dedication though of course I should have first to make the necessary formal application through her secretary'. TWO: Barwick's two Autograph Letters Signed (21 and 24 June 1912) and Autograph Note Signed (2 July 1912), all to an unnamed male recipient. The letter of 24 June 1912 repeats the content of that of three days earlier: 'Dear Sir | We enclose MSS for nine months, the other 3 months are not yet typed, also the book which came out 3 years ago. There is a lot of original stuff in the MSS, all those unsigned.' He ends with her address in Copenhagen. THREE: Three carbon copies, two of them signed 'C. F. Cazenove | SKH'. On 5 July 1912 Cazenove writes to Barwick asking for information, despite the fact that Gordon's manuscript 'does not seem to us very attractive'. The other two letters are to Gordon, with Cazenove writing in one of them (15 July 1912): 'We are a little doubtful about this, but perhaps you could give us, in confidence, of course, some particulars of the sale of the other book, of which we see there were five editions.'