One Autograph Letter Signed to "Gosse" and one Autograph Note Initialled to an unnamed correspondent.
Founder, with Humphrey Toulmin of the Cayme Press. Total 3pp., 8vo, minor defects, good condition, text clear and complete. (The ALS (2pp.) is addressed to [Edmund prob.] "Gosse", inviting him to dinner at the Double Crown Club and thinking he would be amused. "The members are mainly publishers & include such people as Sadleir, Sidgwick, Holbrook Jackson, Harold Monro, Albert Rutherston, Emery Walker & C". He adds: "I had hoped to send along something on a/c of the Pirates [not traced] but as yet I've only had about half the amount of the first volume paid." He then revises a "rough estimate" he'd given during a recent meeting. The ANS is written on a compliments slip. One sentence reads "a very good rebview in Army & Navy Gazette of to-day", the other "Unless you want to keep this dreadfully badly let me have it back as I like to keep it to shew the complete & sodden stupidity of . . . / P.S." Two items,