esme william howard (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable.

Both items in good condition, on aged paper. Complete Letter (12 September 1908): 12mo, 3 pp. Bifolium with mourning border. He thanks Gop [Goss?] for the 'letter of great length extended exclamation marks but otherwise agreeable & genial'. Howard 'can understand that vowing to keep silence the next best thing is to write to someone'. Gop's 'instinct is sound': Howard has 'abandoned Presque Isle which is a 12 hrs journey from here'. Gives a date for his return to Manchester. 'This place is really quite charming, though there might be too much society, but the walks & drives are perfect & the colouring like the Bay of Naples'. He quite understands the 'celebrations'. He approves 'the visit of George Junior Rep: & Indian '. 'We can write to Mr. Osborne for you when I return.' Incomplete Letter (4 November 1908): 12mo, 4 pp. Bifolium. The first part of a longer letter. 'I am anxiously awaiting the result of the Presidential elections & feel so American that I am compelled to write to someone on the other side.' Asks Gop to collect from 'the in the Chancery in a pigeon-hole worded with my name, a lot of private letters to Harding's & Sir E. Grey etc. which I was unable to get at before leaving Washington'. Asks for them to be 'put into an envelope & sent in the bag to the F.O.' Among other papers to be sent he would like in particular 'my report on agricultural education of which I know there are some in my room'. Complains that since he has gone 'Charlie treats me as if I was dead, & I don't know whether he is sending my cases or not as I asked him to do [.] Charlie promised he would send me a list of them all as numbered, & I should realy like to know what is being [.]'. Ends here. Pixton Park was the seat of Howard's brother-in-law, the fourth Earl of Carnarvon.

1st Printing. SIGNED by the Ambassador. Broadside, with a 'plate' impression applied. Image of Howard, with credits & accomplishments listed underneath, as well as the evening's menu. Graphics by Chas. Sindelar [signed in the plate]. 18" x 13" "Esmà William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith, GCB, GCMG, CVO, PC was a British diplomat. He served as British Ambassador to the United States between 1924 and 1930. He was one of Britain's most influential diplomats of the early part of the twentieth century. With a gift for languages and a skilled diplomat, Howard is described in his biography as an integral member of the small group of men who made and implemented British foreign policy between 1900 and 1930, a critical transitional period in Britain's history as a world power." [Wiki]. "The Lotos Club was founded in 1870 as a gentlemen's club in New York City; it has since also admitted women as members. Its founders were primarily a young group of writers and critics. Mark Twain, an early member, called it the 'Ace of Clubs'. The Club took its name from the poem 'The Lotos-Eaters' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which was then very popular. Lotos was thought to convey an idea of rest and harmony. . The Lotos Club has always had a literary and artistic bent, with the result that it has accumulated a noted collection of American paintings. Its 'State Dinners' are legendary fetes for scholars, artists and sculptors, collectors and connoisseurs, writers and journalists, and politicians and diplomats. Elaborate souvenir menus are produced for these dinners." [Wiki] "Charles Sindelar was an American illustrator and painter, who in later life focused on religious art. Sindelar established a reputation for himself in graphic design and illustration during the first quarter of the 20th century through his favourably reviewed creation of a number of menu cover designs produced for a series of events referred to as the Lotos Club dinners, in New York City. The guest lists for the events included four U.S. presidents and other notables of the time, including writer Mark Twain. Sindelar's covers incorporated a likeness of the celebrity who was being feted at the event, accompanied by intricate detailing." [Wiki] And here offered is one of these Sindelar-designed souvenir dinner menus printed for the fete honoring Farrand, not too long after accepting the Cornell position. A bit of age-toning. Some modest edgewear, and light soiling in margins. A VG copy. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.