A file of 12 Typed Letters Signed and 2 Typed Notes Signed to the publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd. (all but one to Gollancz himself), who issued Ford's memoir 'Return to Yesterday' in November 1931
by FORD, Ford Madox (formerly Ford Hermann Hueffer)
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WITH: (1) The contract for Return to Yesterday, 4 pp., folio, signed by Ford and a Gollancz representative, 30 March 1931; (2) A handwritten sheet by someone at Gollancz, 1 p., 4to, listing publication date, sales numbers and royalty payments for the book (apparently through 1931); (3) Carbon copies of nearly all of the publisher's replies to Ford's letters, written by a variety of representatives of the firm (a number of these replies browned with edges chipped, etc.).
AND WITH: Letters from scholars, bibliographers, and biographers, etc., of Ford, mostly requesting permission to publish extracts from Return to Yesterday or to use the correspondence in the Gollancz file: a total of approx. 26 letters (including a few notes) . Correspondents include Violet Hunt Hueffer (ALS, 4 pp., explaining that Ford is not really her husband), Arthur Mizener (2 letters), D. D. Harvey (4), Frank MacShane (4), R. M. Ludwig (1), D. H. Mitchell (2, from Buckingham Palace, regarding a negative paragraph about King George that should be removed from the book). Return to Yesterday includes engaging and informative accounts of Ford's literary collaboration with Conrad, of Stephen Crane's last years in England, and of Henry James home at Rye. (BA).
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- A file of 12 Typed Letters Signed and 2 Typed Notes Signed to the publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd. (all but one to Gollancz himself), who issued Ford's memoir 'Return to Yesterday' in November 1931
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- FORD, Ford Madox (formerly Ford Hermann Hueffer)
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- From the Bart Auerbach Collection
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