GRANT ALLEN - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED - HFSID 73458
Sale Price $180.00
Reg. $200.00
GRANT ALLEN
Signed autograph letter, declining to write part of a "composite
novel."
Autograph Letter signed: "Grant Allen", 1 page, 4½x7. Brighton
(England), no date. To "Dear Sir", in full: "I fear I can't
take part in your composite novel. It would be a poor affair at best, trying to
the ingenuity, and unsatisfactory in result; and you would get the names as an
advertisement too cheap." Charles Grant Allen (1848-1899) was a
Canadian-born British author whose nonfiction subjects ranged from botany
- he was an early supporter of Darwin - to psychology to metaphysics. Between
1884 and his death, he also wrote 30 novels in a variety of genres. The Woman
Who Did (1895) scandalized Victorians with its feminism, including
opposition to conventional marriage. His The British Barbarians, a time
travel novel was also published that year, the same year in which H. G. Wells
wrote The Time Machine. A friend of Arthur Conan Doyle's, Allen also
wrote several pieces of detective fiction. Horizontal fold at center. Corners
lightly creased and soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.
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