One Typed Letter Signed, one Autograph Letter Signed, one Autograph Postcard initialled, all to Harry Paynter (one also to Paynter's wife), and a typescript annotated in Young's hand.

Both letters, two pages, 8vo, stained and marked, but texts clear and complete. The Postcard is grubby (view of Marrakesh on front). Subjects and features: (1928) questioning Mitchell Kennerley of the auction-house, Anderson Galleries about books owned by Paynter; passing on Kennerley's opinions and guidelines on what would sell (firsts of Conrad, Hardy, Yeats, Gissing, Galsworthy, etc); pencil annotations listing a Hudson proof copy and home and businesss addresses of Kennerley (pencil lines through them); 9(1930) acknowledging the present of some "Hudson letters" he hadn't seen before; despite working "like a dog" his current novel isn't yet finished; a warning not to read the serial version if "Good Housekeeping" (an "abbreviated" version - perhaps "Jim Redlake" pub. 1930?); fishing; Harmsworth; the ministry; (postcard) presnt from Harry; "beautiful place". The Typescript. has six pages, 4to, incomplete, some staining and wear, but text clear, entitled "Sweet Broom", with additions and corrections, in places heavy, in Young's hand. It commences "Five miles West of the City Centre of North Bromwich, where the suburb of Tilton ( lately a shy hamlet) degenerates into a frayed selvedge of roads as yet unmetalled . . . ." He gives a detailed and atmospheric description of the place particularly, but also the inhabitants. Possibly an introduction?