Lot 314
Keynes, Sir Geoffrey. Henry James in Cambridge, portrait frontispiece, presentation copy to Dennis Silk, 1968, with ALS loosely inserted, Lammas House, 30 April 1968, 1p., 8vo, describing a visit to see Edmund Blunden at Long Melford, who is unwell and has "given up any attempt to deal with Oxford", with a copy of The Earthly Paradise by Jon Stallworthy, The Newdigate Prize Poem, P.P., 1958, loosely inserted, original cloth backed boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, Cambridge: W. Heffer And Sons, 1967; Blake, William. William Blake's "Laughing Song" A New Version by Geoffrey Keynes 1910, one of 150 copies prepared for presentation to Sir Geoffrey Keynes at the Opening of the Blake Exhibition in the National Library of Scotland, original wrappers, presentation copy to Dennis Silk and a note to the same, "I had a letter from one of your boys, Andrew Motion about R. Brooke…And a poem in the modern manner has come. I mean prose divided up into lines", 8vo, Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1969; with another volume, also presentation copy to Dennis Silk, with an ALS to the same, Lammas House, 7 March 1979, 2pp., 8vo., "I am perpetually regretting that I never see you…& I am getting very old"; with memorial service sheet, 15 November 1982 for Sir Geoffrey. With typescript copy of Stockholm University thesis by Alf Rosfelt titled Imagery in Siegfried Sassoon's Poetry, presented to Geoffrey Keynes, and ALS, 1971, with ALS from Keynes to Dennis Silk, 23 April 1974 forwarding the thesis (4)
