Item 15a - Letter from D’Arcy Power to R. B. McKerrow

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10A Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London, W.—Thanks him for the news of his (Power’s) election to the Bibliographical Society.

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Transcript

10A Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, W.

Dear Sir

Very many thanks for your letter telling me of my election to the Bibliographical Society {1} & also for a further one about the price of a set of the Transactions. By sheer good luck I found a complete set up to date in Francis Edwards’ catalogue {2} this evening for £15.00 including the News Letter to the end of 1913 so I have bought it & stacked the volumes on my shelves.

As a present may I have the 1899 reprint of Erhard Ratdolt {3} & if its permissible the list of Corrections to the Iconography of Don Quixote? {4}

I have sent a cheque for £2.2.0 to Mr Graves. {5}

Yrs very truly
D’Arcy Power

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Black-edged paper. Formerly pinned to a calling-card (MCKW A1/15b), also black-edged, which was probably sent with it.

{1} Cf. MCKW A1/14. Power was among fourteen members elected on 2 March 1914; the others included Sir Sidney Lee (re-elected without a fee) and the Reform Club. (Ex inf. Robin Myers, honorary archivist of the Bibliographical Society.)

{2} Booksellers and publishers, of 83 High Street, Marylebone. The firm was founded by Francis Edwards in 1855.

{3} Gilbert R. Redgrave, Erhard Ratdolt and His Work at Venice: A Paper read before the Bibliographical Society, November 20, 1893 (1894; reprinted 1899).

{4} H. S. Ashbee, An Iconography of Don Quixote, 1605–1895 (1895). It is not clear when the corrections referred to were issued.

{5} R. E. Graves, the Society’s honorary treasurer.

Formerly pinned to MCKW A1/15b, and probably sent with it.