John Galsworthy Manuscripts

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 642, 19 April 1929, Page 14

John Galsworthy Manuscripts

AN exhibition o£ great interest to i book collectors was recently j opened in the beautiful library j of the First Edition Club, 17 Bedford Square, London. The works of John ! Galsworthy were shown in all their i bibliographical forms—first editions, I proof copies, and manuscripts. He himself sent such manuscripts of his books as are in his possession, and Mr H. \. Marrot, who has for many years j been collecting Galsworthy editions, I provided others. Not only did the ex- ! hibition contain first editions of every book written by Galsworthy, but it afforded the opportunity of tracing through the original manuscripts the genesis and developments of “The Forsyte Saga.” According to Mr A. J. A. Symons secretary of the club, authors fall into two groups, those who write without correcting their manuscripts, like Gautier and Sir Edmund Gosse, and those who, like Balzac and Galsworthy, score their manuscripts repeatedly. During the last few years there has been an astonishing appreciation in the value of the volumes of “The Forsyte Saga," first editions of “The Man of Property,” and of the first four volumes published by Galswortliv under the pseudonym “John Sinjohn” being now virtually unobtainable.