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Publication Date: 1928
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
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No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Two one-page letters, signed, dated January 21, 1925 and March 31, 1928. Lewis Melville was the pseudonym of Lewis Saul Benjamin (b. 1874 -- d. 1932). Lewis Melville was an English editor and biographer. He is respected as a literary historian and biographer. Among his works are biographies of Thackeray, Sterne and Smollett. In these letters he discusses the correspondence of Edmund Burke. He plans to edit Burke's letters but then withdraws from the project due to the pressures of other work. Signed by Author(s).
Published by On letterhead of The Playgoer's Club Strand W.C. London 28 July, 1900
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
1p., 12mo. On grey paper. In fair condition, lightly aged. He writes to enquire whether the recipient 'can undertake the publication of the novel I submitted to you In the World of Mimes as I am leaving town at the end of the week', and he hopes to 'settle the matter one way or the other (preferably one way & not the other)' before he leaves. 'In the World of Mimes' was published in London by Greening & Co. in 1902.