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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 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 Charles (possibly Geddes)Enthusiastic invitation but explains work commitments; encourages friend toward literature career
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 BrownInvites Brown to visit new house; discusses library of 35,000 books; requests 1st edition of Satan's Invisible World by Professor; thanks for…
Letter from S.R. Crockett to BramStarting for Italy; very poor due to Jubilee year; sends ten fivers (£50); requests Memoirs of Barnsdale (Highland Chief about 1759); threatens no…
Letter from S.R. Crockett to booksellerRequests South Italian books: Unter-Italien by Gsell-fels, Grande Grece by Lenormant, Lear's Journal of Landscape Painter, Keppel Craven book on…
Letter from S.R. Crockett to Bain (bookseller)Changes mind (author's privilege); requests big one-volume dictionary immediately; continuing with smaller one; can't spell 'weird' and unsure about…
Letter from S.R. Crockett to Bain (bookseller)Requests nice copy of Evelina (not first edition, but old); delivery to Morley's Hotel 25th; terrible cold caught at zoo watching monkeys ('improper…
Letter from S.R. Crockett to AuntReturns borrowed book; reports family well; mentions printing uncle's City Missionary notice in Christian Leader