Autograph letter signed, Manchester, 12 March 1925

Montague (C.E.).         4 pages, with envelope  To James Agate replying to his offer, explaining: “I don’t like reading—never did—am still of the same mind as I was on the first day of school ... The chief things I do like I have been gushing about within the last year ... Behold me in the ... middle of a novel which I must get done this summer ... I wish I could be a dramatic critic—or at least live in a town where there were plays. As I know what the inside of a theatre is made of, I am the veriest varlet that ever chewed a tooth ...”   

Price: £60