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Douglas, Lord Alfred COLLECTION OF 12 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, TO VARIOUS CORRESPONDENTS: to Thomas Jones four letters, agreeing to sign books and discussing his works ("...My 'Complete Poems' ... includes of course all the sonnets & In Excelsis which I wrote in Wormwood Scrubs prison when I was serving 6 months for 'libelling Winston Churchill!'..."), 5 pages, 4to, Hove, Sussex, 26 February to 18 September 1931; to Mr Lewis, two letters, the first accepting an invitation ("...Please don't apologise for being young. It is I that ought to apologise for being so old..."), the second on his latest book and praising his sonnets, 4 pages, 4to, mourning stationery, Hove, Sussex, 18 May to 16 November 1937; to "Dear Sir", on his City of the Soul and enquiring about life in Oxford, 2 pages, 8vo, Dorset, 11 November 1899; to an unnamed correspondent, apologising for his sudden disappearance and inviting him to visit, in French, 4 pages, 8vo, Lake Farm, Salisbury, 7 April 1906; to T.W.H. Crosland, accusing him of being "a strange person" for sending such an "extraordinary letter", 4 pages, 8vo, Lake Farm, Salisbury, 16 December 1906; to Mr Green-Armitage, discussing one of his books, 2 pages, 8vo, Lewes, 21 December 1919, with two autograph envelopes, stained; to Mr Martin, on his health, 2 pages, oblong 8vo, Hove, Sussex, 14 March 1930; to J.S. Cowley-Broan, complaining that anthologies "are very generally compiled by persons who have no taste or judgement about poetry", 2 pages, 4to, Hove, Sussex, 14 September 1931; to Frederick Drimmer, explaining that "I look upon [John] Masefield, even at his best, as a quite minor poet", 2 pages, 4to, mourning stationery, Hove, Sussex, 24 March 1940, with autograph envelope; also a photographic portrait (135 x 80mm), signed and dated 1932