GILBERT FRANKAU - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 12/10/1927 - HFSID 22370
Price: $360.00
GILBERT FRANKAU. Typed Letter signed: "Gilbert Frankau",
1p, 7¾x9¾. London, 1927 December 10. Affixed to blank lower margin are a
magazine photo of Frankau (b/w, 2½x3) and a clipping referencing the poem
"Horatius." On letterhead of the May Fair Hotel to Hugo Mackay, the Hague
(Netherlands). In full: "I was very interested in yours of December
3rd and am appending the autograph for which you ask to this letter. You are
quite right about 'Horatius'. The verse in question was never writen by Macaulay
but by a member of my own family. We used to put it in for dramatic effect. Very
sincerely yours".Gilbert Frankau (1884-1952) was a British author of
numerous poems, novels and short stories. Many of his poems and other works drew
on his experience as a veteran of trench warfare in France during World War
I. (He was involved in the horrific battles of Ypres and the Somme and later
invalided out for shell shock.) His mother Julia, writing as Frank Danby, and
his daughter, Pamela Frankau, were also successful writers. Lightly creased and
soiled. Mounting tape remnants in upper left corner. One-half inch tear at lower
right edge.
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