[Algernon Blackwood, celebrated ghost story writer.] Typed Card Signed to ‘Miss Cond’ [autograph collector Eileen Cond], thanking her for a card that has enchanted him.

Blackwood’s entry in the Oxford DNB quotes H. P. Lovecraft’s opinion that he was the author of ‘some of the finest spectral literature of this or any age’. On post card with printed stamp. In good condition, lightly worn, on light-brown card. Addressed to ‘Miss Cond, / Deer Park, / Honiton.’ Apart from the signature, Blackwood has added quotation marks and dealt with two typing mistakes in autograph. Good firm signature. Reads: ‘Savile Club, 69 Brook St, W. 1. / I must send my ‘Thank You’ [corrected from ‘Your’] for the enchamnibg [sic, underlined, to indicate that it should be ‘enchanting’] card, though my postbag prevents a longer word. You will, I know, understand and forgive. / Algernon Blackwood. / Dec 15/49.’ See Image.