Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, 1929 Feb. 12 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Describing his travel routine from Slindon to London each week; discussing recent work, including his Monotype Centaur, which will make its debut by way of a pamphlet from a paper by Alfred Pollard; indicating that he frequently has lunch with Pollard and Victor Scholderer at the British Museum; describing a recent lunch with Bernard Shaw, "not at all an arbitrary person - at least at his own house," and his wife, who "has a much keener eye for printing than G.B.S."; indicating that [Emery] Walker and [Sydney] Cockerell had also been in attendance and that his invitation had been by way of T.E. Lawrence; mentioning "sub rosa" his work for Lawrence's Odyssey translation; telling of a dinner of the Double Crown Club, at which he was the guest of honor and "nearly everybody in the English printing world" was in attendance; further mentions of lunches and asking for a list of prices realized from The Grolier Club's annual meeting