TAGORE

lvi,57,lvii-lxxx,[43]p. of plates : ill. ; 28cm. Paper wraps, detached, edges damaged, but complete, spine worn and some of it missing . Contents fair. All Plates present (by Frank Leah, Gaganendranath Tagore and his brother, Lady Carmichael, etc.). Textual Contributors include Rabindranath Tagore, Coulson Kernahan, R.C. Lehmann, Vast number of advertisement pages. One copy of this edition (1915) recorded on WorldCat at the St Louis Public Library two copies at Copyright libraries on COPAC.

2pp., landscape 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. The recipient is not named or addressed, the letter starting abruptly after the date: 'I like your portrait much. Thanks for sending it. Yes, the people are [last word underlined] fools, and the mills of God grind slowly. Nevertheless the work is not lost, and its outcome is sure. It is no good bothering about special results. They must take their own way (generally to the Crematorium!) but all the while something is being built up, wh.

The colourful life of the 'deeply eccentric Bradford-born writer' Jaeger is the subject of a good obituary in the Scotsman, 2 October 2008. In his youth Jaeger was adopted by Lady Margaret Sackville, and moved in Edinburgh high society. While studying at Montpelier University he developed a close friendship with the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. While living in Bognor Regis he made the acquaintance of Julian Maclaren-Ross, with whom he sampled the wares of Fitzrovia.