Collection of autograph letters : Wilsford Manor, Salisbury, to his nephew, Simon Blow, 1972-1985 and undated.

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Collection of autograph letters : Wilsford Manor, Salisbury, to his nephew, Simon Blow, 1972-1985 and undated.

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Collection includes 7 letters to Simon Blow: [20?] March 1972 from Wilsford Manor (2 p.); [7?] Jan. 1973 from Wilsford Manor (2 p.); 8 [no month] 1974 from Wilsford Manor (4 p.); "Homespun November" 1974 (2 p.); "Early Spring" 1985 (1 p.); and 2 undated letters (each 2 p.). Collection also includes a manuscript poem called "The Question" (first line: "Can you intercept a glance, that true love has winged its way?"; 1 p.); a page of notes ("Mystical faith is the Inexpressible...") written on the verso of the end of a letter from Sandra Jobson (1 p.); and 5 p. of notes entitled "Some thoughts on Religion" and labeled "for Simon Blow." The letters mention Jane Austen, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Anita Loos, Sandy Wilson, Siegfried Sassoon, Cecil Beaton, and others.

10 items (22 p.) ; 21-26 cm. + 6 envelopes

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SNAC Resource ID: 8085392

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Blow, Simon.

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Tennant, Stephen

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Illustrator and author who associated with English artists and writers. Also known as The Honorable Stephen James Napier Tennant (1906-1987). From the description of Papers, 1929-1977. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 35158547 Tennant was Siegfried Sassoon's lover and an intimate member of the "Bright Young Things" circle, which also included Cecil Beaton, the Mitfords, the Sitwells, Evelyn Waugh, etc. He was a model for Cedric Hampton in Nancy Mitford's Lo...