AGAINST

[Florence Fenwick Miller. journalist, author and social reformer] Autograph Letter Signed F. Fenwick Miller to publisher Mr Sonnenschein, trenchantly stating her conditions for writing and suggesting some advertising.

Author: 
Florence Fenwick Miller, journalist, author and social reformer [Women's Suffrage]
Publication details: 
[Embossed] 68 Halton Road, Canonbury, London, N., 29 January 1885.
£180.00

Four pages, 12mo, , bifolium, minor staing on 'spine', text clear and in good condition. Text: I hope you will not think me an abnormally business-like member of my sex when I tell you that I am absolutely incapable of writing an article without knowing beforehand that I am to be properly remunerated providing I do my work satisfactorily! Such is my unlucky constitution; & I find I cannot begin the article on Geo. Eliot for 'Time', till the important question of [?] terms is satisfactorily dealt with. May I beg you therefore to send me the enclosed [not present; contract?] at once?

Writers Against Apartheid [broadsheet magazine containing poems by MacDiarmid, MacNeice, Empson]

Author: 
I. F. White, editor, 'Writers Against Apartheid' [South Africa; racism; Sean O'Casey; Hugh MacDiarmid; Louis MacNeice; William Empson]
I. F. White, editor, 'Writers Against Apartheid'
Publication details: 
Printed by Villiers Publications Ltd., Ingestre Road, London, N.W.5.
£280.00
I. F. White, editor, 'Writers Against Apartheid'

Broadsheet bifolium, 4 pp. Text clear and complete. On lightly-aged paper, worn along fold lines. Poetry collection, containing twenty-eight poems by writers including 'Mazizi Kunene (In Exile, London, 1960)' and Hugh MacDiarmid, whose two poems have the footnote 'We are especially pleased to print these two new poems by Hugh McDiarmid, contributed despite the painful after effects of his recent car smash. We wish him a speedy and complete recovery.' Masthead endorsement by Sean O'Casey: 'I am with you in all efforts to create perfect race equality the world over.

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