Found in the first issue of The Dancing Annual (1923) from the Mayfair Press in London. Anna Pavlova had been living in London for over 12...

From  Fairies at Work and Play by Geoffrey Hodson. Published by the Theosophical Society in 1925 (and still in print) the book is a sort of...

A good John Betjeman letter found in a VHS cassette from the estate of Felicity Ashbee the daughter of the great Arts and Crafts figure C.R....

I had been invited to interview him on his book collection. Of course, I was aware of his reputation---as a champagne socialist and general...

Found in a HarperCollins paperback Cool Names for Babies (2007 reprinted from Mother & Baby magazine) a list of names that are 'too...

Signed letter sold in 2010.  Brian Howard  poet, journalist, socialite, 'failure'. Found in a book from the Gilmour estate. 2pp. A...

To Fuddle Rooks Cocculus Indica berrys 2 Ounces. 4 Glasses of Geneva. Crush the Berries & steep them & the Liquor together for 2 Da...

Came across this article in the Winter 1948 Occult Review by the intrepid cinematographer J.C. Bee-Mason, a war photographer in France...

Almost everybody has met someone with a good story about someone well known that they had met - the 'I danced with a man, who danced wit...

Triolet of the Self-examining Journalist My writing is bad And my speaking is worse I have lost all I had My writing is bad, It’s drea...

Winter, London,1997. It was at the Elbow Room in Notting Hill Gate, a bar and snooker hall. The occasion was  the Low, Howard, Spink adverti...

A news clipping from 1919 found pasted to the endpapers of Hall Caine's The Story of a Crime. It is by the artist Lovat Fraser   - obvi...

In the library of Chatsworth, the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, are two doors disguised as shelves of books. The second one was created i...

This is a new category -'I nearly met.' It could be very useful to future writers and biographers gathering info. Take it away Robin...

Found among some papers bought from the late John Rolph, a memorable man, publisher with the Scorpion Press and latterly a bookseller in his...