Oct 22, 2015 - Sale 2394

Sale 2394 - Lot 317

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
"THE WAR HAS PUT AN END FOR EVER TO . . . FUTURISM" CROWLEY, ALEISTER. Autograph Letter Signed, "Your rival / Crowley," to John Rodker ("My / dear Rod / Ker"), thanking for the gift of a book of poems, and giving the address of Ethel Archer. Written in intersecting diagonal columns. On verso is written a note, in an unknown hand, signed "Bertha," to an unnamed recipient, concerning Margaret Drew[?]. 1 page, 4to, "33 Avenue Studios" stationery; moderate scattered soiling, folds. [London], 26 September 1914

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"Thanks for the book of POEMS but you know the war has put an end for ever to all this rot of Futurism and the rest of it.
"Ethel Archer lives at 75 Finchley Road, I believe. Get shy[?] there Music Grammar and don't be such a bloody fool."