Beschreibung:

Autograph manuscript by A.A. Milne for scenes 3 and 4 of his stage adaption of Miss Elizabeth Bennet by Jane Austen, nearly 30 pages, in a partly-dismembered notebook, small 4to; autograph letter signed by Rudyard Kipling, to A.A. Milne ("...I should have liked to have told you how very greatly I admired and appreciated 'When we were very young' and all the Punch verses – both for the stuff and the craft. But what was the drop-scene you pinched? I've never been able to write a play, so I am the more interested!..."); series of five autograph and four typed letters signed by Rudyard Kipling to W.W. Parsons, of Automobiles Rolls-Royce Ltd of Paris, discussing in considerable details the overhaul of his car (Chassis 6 UE), with file-copies of Parsons's replies (and of Kipling's letter to Claude Johnson), 1926; two autograph letters signed by L.P. Hartley, responding to praise for The Go-Between ("...I can't describe to you the pleasure your letter gave me, not only because of what you say about 'The Go-Between' itself but to think that the book could have moved you as it did. To have had this privilege of doing that makes me feel at once very humble & very proud..."); and autograph verses by Lord Dunsany; together with a "Journal of a Passage from Corfu to England May 1833" by Mrs F.F. Maclellan, a treatise for the instruction of the young entitled "Electricity, Or Do Not Skip", and a rental ledger for the Theddlethorpe (Lincs) estates of Lord Brownlow Bertie, Duke of Ancaster, 1744-1784, the letter to Milne dust-stained; the ledger in contemporary vellum, folio (small quantity)