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Invaluable book!! - By: Bozo1, 22 Nov 2007
This first major assembly of Machen's annotated correspondence spans sixty years & reveals the man behind the masterpieces. The sequences of letters to his friends A. E. Waite, Colin Summerford, & John Gawsworth, & to fellow authors & publishers, chart his progress from literary man of the fin de siècle, initiatein the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, actor with Frank Benson's Shakespeare company, Fleet Street journalist, to his final years as a frail but indomitable sage livingin quiet retirementin Buckinghamshire. With a foreword by the author's son, Hilary. Selected & edited by Roger Dobson, Godfrey Brangham & R.A. Gilbert.