PAMELA WYNDHAM (LADY GLENCONNER) TENNANT - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 02/29/1912 - HFSID 154610
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PAMELA WYNDHAM TENNANT (LADY GLENCONNER)
Autograph letter on literary matters, signed by the writer who would later
immortalize her poet son, killed at the Battle of the Somme.
Autograph Letter signed: "Pamela Glenconner", 2 pages (front and
verso), 7¾x9¾. Queen Anne's Gate (London), 1912 February 9. On personal
letterhead to "Dear Mr. Streatfield", in full: "Thank you for
writing as you have done. I am so sorry about the misprints - & I am the
deeper vexed at the one about 'Mead' instead of 'Meadows', I had myself
corrected; in fact the publishing of this book has not really been carefully
done & I have (privately) a good deal against Mrs. Fisher Union's staff of
type setters: for the pages were returned to me so often without the
corrections being put into effect. But I feel particularly vexed it should have
happened in the work of the dear & revered S. J. B. As to the further
carelessness of not having including the sonnet when asking your permission - I
do indeed apologize! It is so kind of you to write as you do - & I thank you
so much for your courtesy. Please believe me when I say how deeply I regret
these errors. Yours indebtedly." Pamela Wyndham (1871-1928) became Lady
Glenconner after her marriage to Edward Tennant (Lord Glenconner). She
was already well known as the subject - with her two sisters - of a famous oil
painting by John Singer Sargent, a work commonly called "the Three Graces."
Lady Glenconner wrote several books and published the youthful poems of her
gifted son Edward Wyndham "Bim" Tennant. Her son had just reviewed the draft of
a volume of verses he composed in the trenches during World War I when he died
in the Battle of the Somme (1916). In 1919, Lady Glenconner published a
memoir of her son's short but promising life. Lord Glenconner died in 1920.
Two years later, Pamela married Sir Edward Grey, the former British Foreign
Secretary who had vainly attempted to prevent World War I. With this
marriage she attained the title of Viscountess. Fold creases through "m"
of Pamela. Lightly toned at blank margins. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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