[Frank Swinnerton, English novelist and critic.] Autograph Letter Signed, thanking the grammarian Vere Henry Collins for a copy of his book ‘One Word and Another’.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The archives of the recipient are at Yale. Addressed to ‘Vere H. Collins Esq.’ and signed ‘Frank Swinnerton’. Written in Swinnerton’s distinctive minuscule hand. The central part of the letter has smudging from another letter lightly blotted over it (not near the signature), otherwise in good condition, lightly aged, and folded twice. He thanks him for sending a copy of his book ‘One Word and Another’. He has ‘already glanced through the book; but we have visitors here, with children, and I am writing an urgent article under great difficulties’. In consequence he must ‘defer reading properly’ until the following week, when he promises himself ‘a most enjoyable excursion. It is just the sort of book I like to browse in; & I am hopeful of finding in its pages a theme for Gog & Magog’.