[Letter] 1935 Sept. 24 : Bloomsbury, London [to] W.R. Orwen, Jr., Rochester, N.Y. / A.J.A. Symons.

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[Letter] 1935 Sept. 24 : Bloomsbury, London [to] W.R. Orwen, Jr., Rochester, N.Y. / A.J.A. Symons.

Letter begins: "Very many thanks for your agreeable letter on the subject of my book on Corvo ..."

[1] leaf ; 25 x 20 cm.

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SUNY Geneseo, Milne Library

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Orwen, William Raymond, 1912-

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Symons, A.J.A. (Alphonse James Albert), 1900-1941

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Alphonse James Albert Symons was born in a suburb of London and privately educated, until apprenticed to a furrier at age fourteen. With little experience in the book trade, he founded the First Editions Club, and soon published a bibliography of William Butler Yeats. An avid collector, he was editor of the Book-Collector's Quarterly, establishing himself as an authority on literature of the 1890s with essays and lectures. He wrote several biographies, notably The Quest for Corvo, an innovative ...