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- Collection: LETTER REPOSITORY
Responds to alarming note; describes terrible family illness requiring seclusion; wife's illness prevents hosting visitors; lives alone in hillside…
Letter from S.R. Crockett to Charles (possibly Geddes)Enthusiastic invitation but explains work commitments; encourages friend toward literature career
Letter from S.R. Crockett to Clement ShorterDeuced sorry could not manage it; Watt showed publishing limits clearly; Windsor and Cornhill people standing on rights requiring meeting deadlines;…
Letter from S.R. Crockett to Clement ShorterGladly accepts; would like to do rattling adventure and generally rousing tale for Illustrated; pretty pressed but others are magazine people (Windsor…
Letter from S.R. Crockett to correspondentFar from copies of Lad's Love; will forward letter to publishers asking them to send copy
Letter from S.R. Crockett to correspondentWill send notes; glad worthy, just, sober literary paper started; The Red Axe founded on annals of hereditary executioners of Baltic provinces;…
Letter from S.R. Crockett to cousin SamRequests cousin Sam call at Walker's chemist for terabithine (gum for kidney complaints) and half dozen bottles of Vichy Celestine by carrier or post;…
Letter from S.R. Crockett to cousin SamThanks cousin for excellent letter; glad to see his mother though confined to bedroom with illness; never fully recovered from influenza/malaria…
Letter from S.R. Crockett to Cousin WillDiscusses CD Miscellany loan; mentions Leader interview mistakes; reports new son baptised; moving to larger house
Letter from S.R. Crockett to Dalbeattie General Improvement CommitteeResponds gratefully to banquet invitation but expresses concern about appearing to advertise himself; questions whether he deserves such honour; notes…