Autograph Note initialled, and Typed Note, initialled, to J.G. Wilson, Chairman, J & E. Bumpus's.

Publisher. Both letters one page, 4to, good condition. (1931) He asks if an American scholar whose stay in London and studies of Coleridge have been affected by illness can have a look at a relevant book belonging to Murrays, but in a Bumpus Exhibition. He thinks the Exhibition successful and adds in ms. "The Times gives us a nice notice today". (1932) He is congratulatory on teh [Scott] Exhibition at Bumpus's, ading "What a lot of defunct papers there are!/ Hats off to your continuing & unflagging enterprise!" With: Autograph Letter, initialled "JGM" [John Grey Murray] to Wilson, discussing at length the book he is sending "J.W.II" (presumably Wilson's son)("written by a friend of mine", etc.). "This is the first book I have nursed through Albemarle St./ and I should be proud for it to find a place in J.W.II's doubtless already extensive Library." (A pencilled note indicates that Hampden Gordon's "Throught the Enchanted Wood" was the book in question.) Frank Mumby describes Wilson as "one of the outstanding booksellers of the day" (1956 ed., p.235). Three items,