[H. Montgomery Hyde, authority on Oscar Wilde and Ulster Unionist MP.] Autograph Letter Signed to Philip Dosse, publisher of ‘Books and Bookmen’, regarding a review by Lord O’Neill of his book on Carson, a trip to North America, and money owed.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Philip Dosse was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and Plays and Players. See ‘Death of a Bookman’ by the novelist Sally Emerson (editor of ‘Books and Bookmen’ at the time of Dosse’s suicide), in Standpoint magazine, October 2018. The present item is 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, and folded once for postage. Thirty-one lines of text. Signed ‘H. Montgomery Hyde.’ He thanks Dosse for his note, and is ‘so glad the noble Lord O’Neill came up with such a splendid review of Carson’. He is sure O’Neill ‘will be glad to do notices of any other books you feel he may be interested in - particularly, of course, on Ireland’. He is ‘just off on a brief Visit to Ottawa & New York’, but would like to meet for lunch when he returns. He is ‘sorry to be a bore’, but he must point out that he is owed payment for ‘six contributions, from March to August inclusive, with one more in the pipe-line for next month!’ His ‘poor wife has been in hospital with breast trouble, & it would help to pay the specialist’s fees etc!!’