Tobit transplanted
Stella Benson (1892-1933)
Category
Books
Date
1931
Materials
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3173082
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 361, [1] p. ; 20 cm. Loosely inserted, 6 items of correspondence: 1. Stella Benson to 'Vita Nicolson', manuscript, dated: November 14th [n.y.]; headed: Chinese Customs, Pakhoi, South China, na Siberia; 2. Stella Benson to 'V. Sackville-West', typescript, dated: June 28th 1933; headed: Chinese Customs, Pakhoi, South China; 3/4. Dr. J.R. Grant [Benson biographer] to Nigel Nicolson, typescript; dated: 22 November 1985 / 30 November 1985; headed: 43 Embercourt Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey; 5. Ivy Cayley to 'Miss SackvilleWest', manuscript; dated: Jan 10th 1936; headed: The Square, Stow-on-the-Wold, Glos; offering disclosures on SB's life; 6. [V. Sackville-West] to Ivy Cayley, typescript copy; dated: 20th January 1936; declining offer of confidences as 'dishonourable'. Author's name crossed through on titlepage, with ink inscription beneath: "Stella Benson / Sissinghurst / May 17th 1932". Pencil text marking, with rear endpaper annotation and page references (in hand of Harold Nicolson). Provenance: pastedown inscribed "V.N. / Long Barn" [i.e. Vita [Sackville-West] Nicolson, 1892-1962]. Binding: green publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Stella Benson (1892-1933)