Letter from Vyvyan Holland, London, to Montgomery Hyde, 1953 April 7 : autograph manuscript signed | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Returning Hyde's copy of the Tite Street sale catalog, explaining the delay with a long account of his physical ailments; saying "Please forgive me for having kept your book for so long. I have been rather in the wars. About a month ago I was suddenly assailed by epitaxis which means nasal haemorrage. After two days of it I was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital. This being cured I had a go of septecemia [sic], which, in its turn, settled down to a form of arthritis in the right wrist, which makes it very difficult for me to write and therefore rather immobilises me in the literary world! However, here is the book. I have made extracts. As I suspected, my mother removed all articles of value of her own before the sale."