Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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Lot 257 | Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Letter to Clement Shorter. 6 November 1914

HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Letters on the War. [N.p]: Privately printed for Clement Shorter, 1914. [Bound with:] Typed letter signed 'Thomas Hardy') to Clement Shorter, Max Gate, 6 November 1914. One page, 227 x 200mm. Envelope.



First edition, one of 12 copies printed for private distribution, this being the publisher’s own copy. Letters on the War comprises two letters written by Hardy on the subject of Friedrich Nietzsche and the German bombardment of Rheims Cathedral.



Quarto (229 x 173mm). Bound in blue half-morocco, spine lettered in gilt, preserving the original purple wrappers. Provenance: Clement Shorter (1857-1926; bookplate) – Bertram Rota, Bookseller (card pasted to endpaper, inscribed to) – Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. (1910-2001, American bibliophile and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library; bookplate, sale Sotheby’s, London, 7 November 2001, lot 556).



On the publication of his letters on the war, and an adaptation of The Dynasts. Hardy's letter complains that 'I cannot very well formally authorize you to reprint letters that I hurriedly wrote for the moment only on matters on which one's opinion is liable to be modified by new information', nevertheless giving Shorter permission to reprint the letters, with the exception of a single sentence, and insisting that 'For the same reason I cannot correct the proof'. He goes on to write with a notable lack of enthusiasm about Harley Granville Barker's adaptation of scenes from The Dynasts: 'I hope you will not be disappointed with [it] ... I do not quite see how he is going to manage the job. I don't suppose I shall be at the production'.

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