LUCAS, (E.V.).

A one page signed autograph letter from E.V. Lucas to Stephen Wheeler. Headed 41 Sloane Street, S.W.1. Dated 2nd November 1921. In original stamped envelope, addressed in Lucas' hand.


'...Thank you for that very nice book. Having read it I am now sending it on to another Old Lady...'. Lucas (1868-1938) began his writing in Punch magazine in 1904. He became a prolific author and also contributed a regular column titled: A Wanderer's Notebook for the Sunday Times. In 1924 he became Chairman of the London publishers Methuen & Co. Swanton, World of Cricket, 1966, page 138-139: 'E.V. Lucas, [a] fine cricket poet, but a greater essayist...his greatest service to the game's literature lay more in essays...'
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