RIPPER

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?

See her entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, landscape 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once for postage. Signed ‘Marie Belloc Lowndes’ and addressed to ‘My dear Mrs Doubleday’. Begins: ‘This is only a line of very very grateful thanks for our delightful stay with you and the Great Effendi!’ They ‘enjoyed every minute’ of their visit, and she wants the recipient to have their ‘London address and telephone no. so that we may meet at once when next you are in England!’ She will write if she has ‘any authentic news as to Lord Grays book’.