[SCHWOB, Marcel (1867-1905)]

Lot 134
13.02.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 1362850
Lot 134 | [SCHWOB, Marcel (1867-1905)]
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£ 3 000 – 5 000
[SCHWOB, Marcel (1867-1905)]
'Les correspondants anglais de Marcel Schwob', collection of letters to Schwob (or his wife) by English literary figures including Arnold Bennett, Edmund Gosse, George Meredith and others, 1892-1905
Bound, in imperfect sequence, in five three-quarter brown morocco volumes. Provenance: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books, 1999; Barry Humphries (1934-2023; bookplate).

The English literary correspondence of this French symbolist writer and collaborator with Oscar Wilde. The correspondents include: Arnold Bennett (13 autograph letters or lettercards, three autograph notes and a telegram, 1903-05; also proof-sheets of Bennett's novel Leonora signed and annotated with Bennett's address on p.1, July 1903), Sidney Cockerell (1896, discussing William Morris's refusal to undertake a book project at the Kelmscott Press), F. Marion Crawford (18 letters, of which 11 autograph), Edmund Gosse (two autograph letters and an autograph note, 1903-05), John Gray (3), Sidney Lee (letter signed), George Meredith (3 autograph letters, 1894, in the first sending a copy of Modern Love, though warning Schwob against attempting 'The Sage Enamoured of the Honest Lady', and in a second letter encouraging Schwob to concentrate more on creative writing and less on criticism), John O'Neill (two letters, including one on 11 July 1892 referring to Oscar Wilde), Vincent O'Sullivan (16, of which 14 autograph, discussing books and mentioning R.L. Stevenson, 'I think, if that person lives at all, it will be by his letters and poems. He has an attack on Balzac, I notice; which made me laugh'), William Sharp, R.H. Sherard (6), Arthur Symons (7 autograph letters and one postcard), T. Fisher Unwin, Charles Whibley (38), J.M. Whistler (3 autograph notes) and numerous others; also 10 letters by various Chinese correspondents addressed to Charles C.T. Lu, labelled (Ting frère and apparently connected with Schwob's servant and travelling companion Ting Tse-Ying).

Marcel Schwob is best known as a journalist and a writer of short stories which influenced Borges amongst others. His literary connections were very broad, and beyond those represented in the present volumes included R.L. Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, with whom he worked closely on the French text of Salome.
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