![WHISTLER LAURENCE: (1912-2000) British Artist and Poet. A.L.S., Laurence Whistler, two pages, 8vo, Lyme Regis, Dorset, 18th July 1960, to [Neville] Braybrooke. Whistler states that he had read in the Sunday Times about his correspondent's collection of juvenilia and continues 'Some years ago I began an anthology of “First Fruits” - the first verses ever written by poets (& others)', further explaining 'Mr. de la Mare promised to put his in it - but he lost it, and it only returned to me after his death, without his contribution alas! So there's very little in it….But I had….Robert Graves's….If you would care to have these, and anything else that's any good, I could send them to you'. In concluding Whistler remarks 'When I say “good” they are, of course, very childish, being not merely juvenilia, but literally remembered “first fruits”'. Together with a T.L.S., Laurence Whistler, two pages, 8vo, Lyme Regis, Dorset, 15th August 1960, also to [Neville] Braybrooke. Whistler writes 'Looking through First Fruits again, I see that it has too many “works” by amateurs to be worth sending…' and adds that he has therefore elected just to send some extracts and continuing to provide brief quotations from Andrew Young, Robert Graves ('Who did that?/ Said the grown-up cat./ I not,/ Said the dot'), Edith Oliver, as well as one of his own, written at around the age of ten years. Also including a T.N.S., Laurence Whistler, on one side of a plain postcard, Lyme Regis, Dorset, 19th August 1960, also to Neville Braybrooke, forwarding a further recommending another contribution from First Fruit which had been submitted by C. Day-Lewis. Some light overall age wear and a few minor paperclip rust stains, G to about VG, 3 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher. Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic. Whistler's letters were written in connection to Neville Braybrooke's research, which extended over some thirty years, into an anthology of juvenilia by writers who would later become famous. The book was published with the title of Seeds in the Wind: Early Signs of Genius in 1989.](https://stageimg.invaluable.com/housePhotos/International_Autograph_Auctions/30/612530/H3882-L126618825.jpg)
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