Symons (Arthur) Autograph and typed manuscript signed of the essay "Baudelaire and his Letters", 30pp., comprising 3 pages of typescript and 27 pages of manuscript on 26 leaves, with 16 pages on verso containing a seemingly abandoned work of fiction and 6 pages of poetry, numerous corrections and deletions, first 3 leaves with hole to upper corner, some light marking and creasing to extremities, unbound, with initialled ?proof sheets of the published article, preserved folding chemise with bookplate of John Quinn and morocco-backed slip-case, 4to, [1919].

⁂ An excellent manuscript by Symons on one of the key writers of the Decadent Movement, whose writing he helped to introduce to the British and American public. Symons' book Charles Baudelaire: A Study was published the year after this essay. This manuscript also includes a portion of rejected and unpublished work by Symons on the reverse.