MARIA TUKE (BRITISH, 1861-1947) (7)
Henry Scott Tuke. R.A., R.W.S. A Memoir. London: Martin Secker, 1933. 8vo (218 x 140mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece portrait, plates (some staining to title). original blue buckram gilt. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, with separate note inscribed 'from Mrs M.T Sainsbury/ 5 Provost Rd./ Hampstead/ NW3/ With many thanks/ for your idea & cheque/ I do hope you will/ like the book/ Dec 5 1933 MTS'
Together with three letters from the author to Andrew Dennison and four from him in response
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£150 - £250
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Hammer price:
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£140 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Provenance
Private collection, UK
Footnote
Dated between 7th September 1933 and 14th March 1934, the correspondence was prompted by a notice posted by Maria Tuke following the obituary of Mr S.M. Ellis who had written a biography of Tuke that was never published '...for various reasons, one being its excessive length.' Dennison writes how he '...knew Mr Tuke quite well at Falmouth/ and I have somewhere, a number of photographs I took/ of him, and if by any chance these would be of any/ interest to the person writing the memoir, I would/ be pleased to look them up.' Although not included in the biography Dennison sent an album to Maria including some twenty-two photographs with Maria responding 'I am very grateful for all/ the pictures, they do indeed/ bring back my brother and his life at Swanpool, all of/ them show the things he cared for, and all are excellent.' Maria offers Dennison a complimentary copy of the biography but he responds '...I do not really/ want to take advantage of this' and encloses instead a cheque for two copies.
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