Maugham, W. Somerset (1874-1965). Autograph letter signed ("W.S. Maugham"), to Miss Burr, Sentry Mead, Totland Bay, Island of Wight, August 1920.

2pp., 8vo (178 x 140 mm), central horizontal fold.

MAUGHAM MENTIONS H.G. WELLS AND REBECCA WEST.

In full: "I am taking a holiday and had the hazy idea that I would take my ease also; but since the appearance of my play I have received about thirty letters (today nothing of anonymous ones) which I have felt bound to answer. Really they take up so much time that I must ask you to forgive me if I do not write what you want me to. In any case what I had to say on the subject you are interested in is so sketchy that I should not know how to write it down. Why do you not fit in much with a woman (I forget her name, but she was tall and handsome and sat at the feet of H.G. [Wells]) whom we met at Rebecca West's. [illegible] It is too bad for you to offer me such a tempting bribe. Why did I not meet you before I married."

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Maugham, W. Somerset (1874-1965). Autograph letter signed ("W.S. Maugham"), to Miss Burr, Sentry Mead, Totland Bay, Island of Wight, August 1920.

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