B i magraw (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1955. 3rd impression. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Beige pictorial cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is lightly tanned. Previous owner details on ffep. No DJ.

2pp., 12mo. In good condition. He thanks her for 'the very pleasant glimpse of yourself and your family which I got last Saturday to Monday'. He hopes she will excuse the delay in acknowledging her 'kind and graceful hospitality'.

2pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. He begins by granting her permission to quote from his 'little Keir Hardie book'. He is glad she is 'going to make him better known'. He continues: 'What you tell me about the encouragement I gave you when I was editing the Daily Herald has made me feel happy. Looking back, I find that what gives me most satisfaction is to have been able now & then to give a helping hand. I am so glad you were en- and not dis-couraged.'.…

ONE: ACS ('R Power'). 29 Devonshire Street, London. No date. In pencil (as Item Two). Addressed to 'Mrs B. I Magraw | Ash | Canterbury'. In fair condition (as Item Two), lightly aged and worn. Begins, on the subject of a proposed children's script for BBC radio: 'Will you go ahead with Akbar? I am in a nursing Home pro. Tem small sudden operation septic tonsils & will be incapacitated for a fortnight.' She reassures her about the script: 'I know you'll do a good job. Working on these things one after another is always a bit wearisome but you're full of ideas.' Ends: 'I've found some nice pictures of Akbar in the Vic & Albert.' TWO: ACS ('Rhoda Power'). Again no date and address as Item One. She thanks her for 'the lovely little rose tree I lie & look at it'. She reports that her health is improving: 'I can't do any work so I am having an orgy of reading & have just finished The Bride (Margaret Irwin)'. She hopes that Magraw's 'books are doing well, & that Akbar is not being tiresome.' Ends: 'There's plenty of time so don't get worried.' THREE: TLS ('Rhoda Power'). On letterhead of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Bristol; 24 June 1940. 1p., 4to. Aged and creased. Reads: 'We owe you an apology for not using your script on the Christ of the Andes after you had taken so much trouble. The last minute capitulation of France made us feel that we ought to tell the children that defeat in battle does not necessarily mean the end of France. | We are keeping your script so that we can use it another time.'.…

1p., 4to. She is 'very happy that RHODES gave you pleasure when you so badly needed it'. She hopes she will 'use your play in any way you wish. I hope it will go very well. It should.' She points out that there is 'a film made from the book - not much to my liking'. The letter ends: 'I hope your eyes are well again.'.…

2pp., 4to. Forty-four lines of text. She thanks her 'for returning the plays, and thte nice things you say about them'. Mitchison's entry in the Oxford DNB has no reference to her working for the BBC, but from the context of the letter it is clear that she wrote scripts for radio broadcasts for children. Regarding the BBC she suggests that Magraw writes to 'Miss Edith MacQueen, and if I were you I think I should write out one or two synopses of broadcasts which you propose to do'. She continues with advice, commenting: 'I think myself that the tendency is rather to writet down for the broadcasts, but I suppose they have to make them intelligible to the stupidest children in any class.' She sees no harm in mentioning her name to MacQueen, with whom she 'always got on very well', but she 'didn't get on with Miss Begg, who would have been my immediate boss - she didn't seem to me to be any good as an historian and we always had different ideas. Of course, working with Eileen Power was a delight.' The advice continues, including 'One thing you will find is that the plays always take rather longer to broadcast than you think, and I usually had to cut mine, or rather to let them be cut.' The letter concludes: 'Yes I was with old Mrs. Johnson too. I don't think we got very much good out of our official teachers; things sound rather livelier now!'.…