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* Wharton (Edith, 1862-1937). Autograph letter signed 'E. Wharton', 53 rue de Varenne, [Paris], 31st December 1910, To John, wishing him best wishes for the New Year, and the Newcastle, if he goes, 'When you wrote me that you were sending a book of Ballads which was "improper reading", my spirits rose, & I fell upon it with avidity. But on perusing L's preface I learned to my dismay that he had personally seen to it that not a line or syllable of the original subsided "which boy & maid may not read". As I fall under neither of these categories, I felt that he need not have taken so [?] trouble in my behalf; but when (at his request) I turned to the "bracketed" lines in Glasgerion & Young Hunting, & saw that "He kissed her in the red fire-light" had been substituted for language of which I dare not even think (judging from the context), I realised how thoughtful you had been in selecting for me this expurgated edition of the songs of our rude ancestors. I trouble to think what I have escaped, when such indelicate allusions are still left & though I shall always value your kindness in sending me the book, I trust you will not expect me to leave on the drawing-room table a work in which such distressing instances of female weakness are celebrated with all the fallacious charms of art. It would certainly do you no good at Newcastle if it were known that you were in the habit of sending to ladies poems in which kissing in the red fire-light is regarded as a comparatively innocent pursuit!', then asking for a letter with news and concluding if there is any chance of his going down to Rome en-route for Newcastle, 4 pp., 8vo (1)
Foxe (John). [Actes and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happenying in the Church. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published, at London, Printed by Iohn Daye, 1583], an incomplete copy, comprising part of the colophon, 28 pp. of A diligent Table, and text pp. 397-790, 217-396, 855-1483, and 1790-2154 (which is actually the final leaf of text proper), with num. woodcuts of burnings and tortures in the text, but without the two folding leaves of plts., the map, title-pages etc., text generally soiled and stained, some leaves defective, in the remains of an early calf binding, disbound to all intents and purposes, but sewing intact, folio. The fourth printing of Foxes Book of Martyrs. See S.T.C. 11225. Sold not subject to return. (1)
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