[Robert Lynd, Irish journalist and essayist; his wife the poet Sylvia Lynd.] Autograph Letter Signed from SL to Clement Shorter on the birth of his daugher; and signed autograph letter of condolence from RL to Shorter's widow on his death.

See the entries on Robert and Sylvia Lynd, and Clement Shorter, in the Oxford DNB. (Shorter’s first wife, the Irish nationalist poet Dora Mary Shorter (née Sigerson), had died in 1918.) Both items are in good condition, lightly aged. Both 1p, 12mo, and each folded once for postage. ONE: SL to CS, 18 January 1922. Signed 'Sylvia Lynd'. Begins: 'My dear Clement, I hear that you have a little daughter. Many many congratulations & good wishes. It is very nice to know that you are so happy.' She turns to her own family: ‘We are all well down here & very busy. Sheila & B. J. [the Lynds’ two daughters] must have grown about a foot taller since you saw them. R[obert]. sometimes brings me kind messages from you which should have been replied to long ago.’ She thanks him now, sending ‘all my belated good wishes with these new ones’. TWO: RL to Annie Shorter, 21 November 1926. She turns to her own family: ‘We are all well down here & very busy. Sheila & B. J. [the Lynds’ two daughters] must have grown about a foot taller since you saw them. R[obert]. sometimes brings me kind messages from you which should have been replied to long ago.’ She thanks him now, sending ‘all my belated good wishes with these new ones’. TWO: RL to Annie Shorter, 21 November 1926. Written two days after Shorter’s death. ‘My dear Mrs. Shorter, / My wife & I were both shocked and sorry to hear of your husband’s death, & we send you our sincerest sympathy. I had been hoping ever since I saw him last that his great energy & vitality would end in a perfect recovery & that he had still a long life before him with you & the little girl. In all sympathy with you in your sorrow, / Yours very sincerely, / Robert Lynd’.