22 Nov 2011
10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs, including the Property of the late Michael Silverman
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Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs, including the Property of the late Michael Silverman
Back to auction 18992
JEKYLL (GERTRUDE)
Autograph letter signed, to Mr Jeans, thanking him for some mistletoe berries and describing her experiences with the plant ("...I hope I may live to see some results... But in any case it is satisfactory to provide for it. I never like to hear people say 'It will do for my time' – even in these little things I think one has to do the best one can for the future, and every little effort to make a small corner of the world more beautiful and interesting I always feel is something done to the good..."), 3 pages, headed paper, some slight thinning on the blank reverse of last page where formerly mounted, 8vo, Munstead Wood, 3 April 1914
Sold for
£225
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 'THE BEST ONE CAN FOR THE FUTURE': Gertrude Jekyll sums up her gardening aesthetic. She ends this letter (giving vent to a loathing of litter that Michael Silverman very much shared): "Alas our pretty country here is becoming sadly spoilt Every road is littered with waste paper & every cross road disfigured with hideous signs".
Category: Books / Books, Maps and Manuscripts
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