Ink on laid paper, letterhead of Whitehall Club, address struck though. 2-1/4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
1910 · 31 St John's Wood Park N.W., [London]
by Roberts, Morley
31 St John's Wood Park N.W., [London], 1910. Ink on laid paper, letterhead of Whitehall Club, address struck though. 2-1/4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Toning to edge. Ink on laid paper, letterhead of Whitehall Club, address struck though. 2-1/4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 'the telephone love story'. Author Morley Roberts (1857-1942), to Herbert Greenhough Smith, legendary editor of the Strand Magazine, concerning the fate of a submission "'Dear Sir,' the telephone love story", urging Smith "not to reject it till some sympathetic 'she' has read it and scorned it."
The "telephone love story", exploring the potential of this still novel new means of communication, was published as The Splendid Lover in the Strand for December 1911.
Roberts was a prolific writer of short fiction, and author of a travel account, The Western Avernus (1887). He had been educated at Owens College at the same time as George Gissing, whom he knew well during the lean times of the later 1880s and 1890s; he wrote a fictionalized account of Gissing's life,The Private Life of Henry Maitland (1912). (Inventory #: 301703)
The "telephone love story", exploring the potential of this still novel new means of communication, was published as The Splendid Lover in the Strand for December 1911.
Roberts was a prolific writer of short fiction, and author of a travel account, The Western Avernus (1887). He had been educated at Owens College at the same time as George Gissing, whom he knew well during the lean times of the later 1880s and 1890s; he wrote a fictionalized account of Gissing's life,The Private Life of Henry Maitland (1912). (Inventory #: 301703)