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SMITH (DODIE) Autograph manuscript addressed to Ambrose Heal ('To my Master, he having desired m...
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SMITH (DODIE) Autograph manuscript (signed as 'The Little Gal of the Little Gallery') addressed to Ambrose Heal ('To my Master, he having desired me to compose a Valentine'), 27 lines, one page, ink on vellum, surrounded by ink and watercolour decorations of two cupids holding the letters AH beside a four-poster bed, and a female figure in a landscape at the foot, her bonnet flying off in the wind with the ribbons forming the letters DS, contained within decorated vellum 'envelope' laced together with green ribbons, 8vo (225 x 140mm.), [c.1923-1932]; with a second small autograph manuscript, 'The Light o' Loves in the Court of Heaven', 7 pages, watercolour and ink frontispiece, in stiff vellum wrappers, upper cover with similar illustration, 16mo (100 x 100mm.), [n.d.], and a small autograph note card enclosing 'some light reading for Easter', [n.d.] (3) Footnotes: 'The days of dear Romance are dead, / Killed by our noisy Jazz & Beano, / St. Valentine is quite outshon / By Rudolph Valentino': an enchanting Valentine from the young Dodie Smith to her boss and lover, Ambrose Heal. The poem, surely unpublished, plays with the idea of Valentines 'of trim & formal times that saw / The House of Heals in making', back 'in the days of hoops or crinoline'. Smith wittily addresses 'thou on whom the Gods did shower / Ambrosial gifts of Healing power' and concludes by sending 'thanks, for far, far more than salary - The Little Gal / of the Little Gallery'. Smith worked at Heal's department store for nearly a decade beginning in 1923, selling toys and gifts in the store's Little Gallery (referenced in her sign-off to this Valentine), during which time she became romantically involved with Heal. He gave her the Underwood typewriter on which she wrote, in 1929, her first play, Autumn Crocus. The married Heal had an established mistress, Prudence Maufe, and in 1940 Smith married another Heal's colleague, Alec Beesley with whom she spent the rest of her life. (See Heal's web site blog, 'Dodie Smith: Heal's toy buyer, novelist and Dalmatian devotee'.) Provenance: Ambrose Heal; by descent to the present owner. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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SMITH (DODIE) Autograph manuscript (signed as 'The Little Gal of the Little Gallery') addressed to Ambrose Heal ('To my Master, he having desired me to compose a Valentine'), 27 lines, one page, ink on vellum, surrounded by ink and watercolour decorations of two cupids holding the letters AH beside a four-poster bed, and a female figure in a landscape at the foot, her bonnet flying off in the wind with the ribbons forming the letters DS, contained within decorated vellum 'envelope' laced together with green ribbons, 8vo (225 x 140mm.), [c.1923-1932]; with a second small autograph manuscript, 'The Light o' Loves in the Court of Heaven', 7 pages, watercolour and ink frontispiece, in stiff vellum wrappers, upper cover with similar illustration, 16mo (100 x 100mm.), [n.d.], and a small autograph note card enclosing 'some light reading for Easter', [n.d.] (3) Footnotes: 'The days of dear Romance are dead, / Killed by our noisy Jazz & Beano, / St. Valentine is quite outshon / By Rudolph Valentino': an enchanting Valentine from the young Dodie Smith to her boss and lover, Ambrose Heal. The poem, surely unpublished, plays with the idea of Valentines 'of trim & formal times that saw / The House of Heals in making', back 'in the days of hoops or crinoline'. Smith wittily addresses 'thou on whom the Gods did shower / Ambrosial gifts of Healing power' and concludes by sending 'thanks, for far, far more than salary - The Little Gal / of the Little Gallery'. Smith worked at Heal's department store for nearly a decade beginning in 1923, selling toys and gifts in the store's Little Gallery (referenced in her sign-off to this Valentine), during which time she became romantically involved with Heal. He gave her the Underwood typewriter on which she wrote, in 1929, her first play, Autumn Crocus. The married Heal had an established mistress, Prudence Maufe, and in 1940 Smith married another Heal's colleague, Alec Beesley with whom she spent the rest of her life. (See Heal's web site blog, 'Dodie Smith: Heal's toy buyer, novelist and Dalmatian devotee'.) Provenance: Ambrose Heal; by descent to the present owner. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Montpelier St Knightsbridge
London
United Kingdom
SW7 1HH
United Kingdom
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