ALS and postcard from Stephen Graham to fellow writer Douglas Sladen dated 1922

GRAHAM, Stephen (1884–1975). ALS and postcard to Douglas Sladen.
 
Autograph letter signed to man of letters and writer, Douglas Sladen, London, 12 January 1922, on Graham’s printed letterhead (60, Frith Street, Soho Square, W.1.), 2pp., together with an original photographic postcard of fellow writer Vachel Lindsay and Graham after returning from tramping in the Rocky Mountains. Letter with light adhesive marks to verso, otherwise very good. Postcard with wear to reverse, image panel unaffected.
 
An autograph letter from travel writer Stephen Graham to author and anthologist Douglas Sladen. Graham refers to Wilfrid Ewart’s novel The Way of Revelation, calling it “the success of the winter – it is very good”, and mentions his own Scandinavian travels. At this period Graham, recently returned from America and editing travel writing in Soho, was well established as one of the notable literary wanderers of the inter-war years.
 
The accompanying postcard is captioned “Vachel Lindsay and Stephen Graham, after returning from tramping in the Rocky Mountains” and is inscribed by Graham “Best wishes from”. The image records Graham with the American poet Vachel Lindsay following their celebrated walking expedition later recounted in Graham’s Tramping with a Poet in the Rockies (1922), and captures their unlikely transatlantic friendship.
 
A coherent pair linking three literary figures — Graham, Lindsay, and Sladen.