Autograph letter signed : London, to Margaret [Haley], 1967 Feb. 15.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to Margaret [Haley], 1967 Feb. 15.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270870862

Naming great men who have shared his habit of writing in bed, describing his bedrest, and referring to his surname: "Please note I have reverted to an earlier ancestra[l] spelling of my name ... Shakespeare had an e, Dante had an e, Racine had an e, Goethe had an e, and who am I not to have an e?"

1 item (4 p.) ; 10 x 12.1 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Haley, Margaret T.

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Gerhardie, William Alexander, 1895-1977

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William Alexander Gerhardie (1895-1977), novelist and critic, was born in St Petersburg, Russia, on 21 November 1895, where he attended the St Annen Schule and Reformierte Schule. He moved to London, with the intention of training for a commercial career, but joined the Royal Scots Greys at the outbreak of the First World War. He was posted to the British embassy in Petrograd, 1916-1918, and in 1918 was attached to the Scots Guards. After the war, Gerhardie travelled the world before attending W...