AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED To John Gawsworth (Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong), 17 July 1956.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, Dated 17 VII 1956, on the author's printed letterhead, return address "21 Adelaide Crescent, Hove, Sussex". 80 words, signed in initials ""E.H.V.". "My Dear John, You may have wondered at my silence about my Milton proofs. The explanation is thatthe publication has been postponed until february, and this has given me the chance of working over and adding to the whole book, with much retyping, alas! - expensive both to pocket and no less failing eyesight. Yet well worth while. I hope very much that you are better. I have been all engrossed - but not forgetting my old friend and helper, As Ever, E.H.V." Folded once for mailing, near fine. Item #312690
¶ E.H. Visiak (pseudonym of Edward Harold Physick 1878-1972); the author of 5 books of poems 1910-1919 (mostly nautical and weird) and the fantasy novels The Haunted Island (1910) & Medusa: A Story of Mystery (1929). Visiak was a scholar, critic and authority on John Milton, the book in question is most likely Visiak's work THE PORTENT OF MILTON: Some Aspects of His Genius (1958).
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