[ilds] ILDS Digest, Vol 103, Issue 2

[Bruce Redwine]

Good question.  Are the letters forgeries?  What's the provenance?  Henry Miller's estate or someone associated with it?  That should help to authenticate.  They sound like Durrell, however.

Bruce

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> On Nov 10, 2015, at 11:34 PM, mail at durrelllibrarycorfu.org wrote:
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> Are they genuine? (or as LD once wrote to me, 'genuwine'). The price is suspiciously low, and I wonder if LD wrote 'marevllous' as 'marvelous' - a typical mistake for an American forger...
> RP 
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> Send ILDS mailing list submissions to ilds at lists.uvic.ca To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ilds-request at lists.uvic.ca You can reach the person managing the list at ilds-owner at lists.uvic.ca When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ILDS digest..." Today's Topics: 1. LD letters for sale (Anthony Hirst) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 08:13:10 +0000 From: Anthony Hirst To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca Subject: [ilds] LD letters for sale Message-ID: <969F8594-7AC1-405A-A0C1-EF0B4445F490 at btinternet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" This may not be news to ILDS list readers, but, just in case it is, I thought I should pass it on. Yesterday I receive an email, addressed to me personally, from Clouds Hill Books stating that: <> The brochure that goes with the offer of sale (pdf attached to this email) contains the full texts. A quick check suggests that most of the 16 items offered for sale are not included in The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80. There is no information about the provenance of the typescripts/manuscripts concerned. If anyone knows more it would be good to hear it. The background material in the brochure is simply extracts from Ian MacNiven's narrative contributions to The Durrell-Miller Letters. While few of us are likely to have a spare $17,500, perhaps someone could use their influence with one of the libraries/archives that already hold Durrell collections. It would be a great pity if the letters were to end up inaccessible in a private collection. Contact details for Clouds Hill Books are are below. Anthony Hirst ------------------ Clouds Hill Books P.O. Box 1004 Village Station New York, NY 10014 212-414-4432 cloudshill at cloudshillbooks.com Anthony Hirst ----------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Lawrence Durrell - Letters to Henry Miller 1974-1979.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1342870 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ ILDS mailing list ILDS at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds ------------------------------ End of ILDS Digest, Vol 103, Issue 2 ************************************
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