Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 214
* Masefield (John Edward, 1878-1967). English poet and writer, Poet Laureate 1930-1967. An archive of letters and drawings, circa 1940s/1960s, including a group of 79 autograph letters signed, ‘John’ or ‘John Masefield’, c. 1948-66, all to Winifred Gledhill of Sheffield Manor School, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, all in pen except one in pencil and written on 1 or 2 sides of personal printed stationery, oblong 8vo, together with 58 of the original hand-addressed and postmarked envelopes, the letters and envelopes filed in 3 small modern ring binders, together with:a typed poem [Collingdon Downs, Sonnet XXVII] signed, [published 1917], a little creasing and a few minor marks, 1 page, 4to, matted with a reproduction portrait of Masefield, framed and glazed, plus 4 other framed and glazed items: a sheet of pencil drawings of brigs and other shipping vessels, signed and dated November 1927, 1 page, 8vo, matted with a manuscript caption in an unidentified hand beneath, ‘Drawings of Ships made for RHS by John Masefield, Nov 1927’; a drawing of a ship at sea, pencil and watercolour, initialled lower right, 11 x 15 cm; a sketch of a horse rider in hunting pink in the countryside, pen and ink and watercolour, drawn at the head of an octavo sheet with Masefield’s signed presentation inscription to lower blank area for Grace Hunter on her birthday, 17 x 11 cm; a portrait of John Masefield, by W.H. Caffyn, pen and ink and body colour, head and shoulders portrait within decorative border and with subject’s name in capital letters within lower border, pencil notes and marks to verso, 16 x 12 cmQTY: (an archive)NOTE:Winifred Eleanor Gledhill was principal of Market Rasen’s Sheffield Manor School, and was also one of the instigators of the Market Rasen Festival from 1944 through to 1976.
