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("F.M. Ford") in black fountain pen ink on engraved Guermantes, Pres Lagny, 84, Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs light-blue letterhead, Paris, July 7, 1926. 4to, 1 page, together with a holograph addressed envelope, bearing a Paris postmark (stamp lacking). To Miss Louisa H. Harda, in Des Moines, Iowa: "I shall be pleased if you will include To Christina at Nightfall in y[ou]r anthology. I usually ask three guineas for permission to reprint my poems but I don't exact this if the anthology is being compiled for any charitable purpose or if the permission is of service to the anthologist. I mean that I don't mind obliging a fellow writer to any extent but I don't see - that apart - why publishers sh[oul]d reprint me for nothing." "To Christina at Nightfall" was first published in the Athenaeum in 1901, and afterwards used as the dedicatory poem of "Christina's Fairy Book," in 1906.. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 4to, single-spaced, with a couple of holograph corrections, with envelope. For most of the letter Ford responds to queries from Hinton regarding the publication of several of his books. Towards the end Ford writes: "... I think 'The Good Soldier' is my best book technically unless you read the Tietjens books [the 'Parade's End' tetralogy] as one novel in which case the whole design appears. But I think the Tietjens books will probably 'date' a good deal whereas the other may-and need-not." Published in 'Letters', ed. R. M. Ludwig, pp. 203-04, but omitting a six-line paragraph. (BA).