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[ali15son]

Yesterday this hand written letter by Lewis sold on ebay for £66.00, was i tempted with a bid , yes i was but unfortunately bills to pay put a stop to that. Anyway Lewis your grammar needs tweaking (just a little bit *g*)

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[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

I would've gotten it and sent it to you! :nods: :-)
(Well, I just got paid, anyway LOL)

I think it's neat that it's his now-wife who was handling the requests.

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

aww thankyou, how sweet of you but the price was going up and up and then somehow you get sucked into a bidding war so i backed out on this ocassion.

Yes it is and i wonder what "pix" he was offering .

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Ahh, too bad. I'm sure you would have been a good home for it!

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

never mind , it would have been lovely to own tne original but i could sense a bidding war starting, it's nice to look at though.

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Interesting to see! Did he write that on the back of someone's letter?

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

yes he did, obviously this person called Clive must have been enquiring about an autograph and this is Lewis's reply.It's really lovely (for me) to see it.

[watteaux.livejournal.com]

Aww ;)

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

awww i know, i love to read little insights like this reply to a fan and it would have been lovely to own it but a bidding war was out of the question.

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

Judging by the writing, he must have dashed this off (I expect he had loads).

Not sure about the grammar - it threw me at first, but I think the first bit is saying 'Sorry but my pix are 10x8'(which is interesting in itself, because you'd expect 8x10 - I wonder if that was right or just a quirk of speech). Anyway, read like that it makes perfect (if scribbled) sense. 'If you still wish one...' etc.

It's a lovely snapshot of a moment in time - it's always the unconsidered ephemera which come to mean the most with the passage of years.

I too am intrigued as to which photos were available :0)

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

no doubt about it but i love to see such things as this reply written by lewis and it made me laugh when i saw how he had written "pix" and how he uses the phrase "if you still wish one" and like you i wonder which picture he was signing. I do have in my collection a few autographed images of him that i have collected over the years and they are always lovely to keep.

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

I use 'pix' myself, but it is an odd juxtaposition of the informal and the formal.

I don't think your autographed photos could have a better home :0)

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

i know i have used the word pix in brief text when i'm leaving a quick message.

Thankyou, believe me they are well treasured.

[cyanne]

I always find it so interesting to see someone's handwriting. Sorry you didn't win it but my theory is that if I don't get it, at least someone else paid a lot of money for it. Petty but it makes me feel better. :)

[sw33n3y.livejournal.com]

How lovely to have that little bit of Lew's personality..his handwriting! Thank you for sharing. :D