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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION -- The Bloomsbury Group, and others, including Vita SACKVILLE-WEST (1892-1962), autograph letter signed ('Vita Nicolson') to Ottoline Morrell, Sissinghurst Castle, 17 November [n.y.] 2 pages, 4to , on her impressions of D.H. Lawrence, formed from Ottoline's own interpretations, 'I see he was all wrong 'on paper', but that he was right and more than right underneath the appearances'; Augustus JOHN (1878-1961). Autograph letter signed to [Philip] Morrell, 8 Fitzroy St, 23 June 1908, 2½ pages, 8vo . 'Epstein would be very glad to show you his figures' - an urgent appeal to Philip for support of Jacob Epstein whose sculptures (on the facade of Charles Holden's British Medical Association building on the Strand) were still behind hoardings on the eve of a conference to decide on their destruction; it is not a defence of their artistic merit which is needed, but a 'defence by some moral expert . John's own view is that 'the works can of course stand the moral test as triumphantly as the artistic'; Augustus JOHN Autograph letter signed to 'my dear Ottoline', Fryern Court, Fordingbridge, 27 March [after 1928], 3½ pages, small 4to (a few small holes, faint stain to opening page), on Ottoline's illness, praising her courage, the loss of Garsington ('I wish I had visited you there') and his work ('of course the portrait will be yours now. I have refused a pot of money for it'); Henry LAMB (1883-1960). Autograph letter signed to 'Dearest O', 27 May 1910, Hotel-Restaurant de L'Etoile, Charlotte Street, 4 pages, 8vo , with envelope (torn), on his excitement over his exhibition, missing Ottoline's support, social engagements and 'a village full of the most lovely radiant youths with black hair, supple limbs & wonderfully coloured garments & headgear from Formosa - beautiful young warriors - I couldn't tear myself away from them'); and others including: Maurice BARING (1874-1945) (three autograph letters signed); Walter John DE LA MARE (autograph letter signed to Philip Morrell, 1936, on his illness); H.G. WELLS (autograph card signed to Philip); John F. LEHMANN (autograph letter signed to Mrs Goodman, on Virginia Woolf's letters); Dorothy BUSSY (autograph letter signed, to Ottoline, 40 rue Verdi, Nice, 1938); Edmund G.V. KNOX (two autograph letter signed to Ottoline, 1929). (12)