AUTOGRAPHS "A" to "M"
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M
ADMIRALS:
A small group of letters to the artist
W.L. Wyllie, as under:
a) STARTIN, SIR JAMES
(1855-1948).
Typed letter signed, 1-page 4to,
“…As regards my work, I think the gentlemen on the opposite shore
will get tired first……It must be a bit harassing to be bombed every
time you show your face…” With
autograph postscript. File punched.
H.M. Naval Base, Granton, 23rd
July, 1918.
b) BERESFORD, LORD
CHARLES (1846-1919).
Autograph letter signed (3-sides 8vo) thanking him for the gift of a
picture.
H.M.S. King Edward VII, Channel Fleet, 9th June,
1907.
c) KEYES, ROGER, 1ST
BARON (1872-1945).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 4to, sending Wyllie a plan (not
present) of three ships at Zebrugge. File
punched.
Fleet House, Dover, 6th July,
no year.
d) GOODENOUGH, SIR
WILLIAM EDMUND (1867-1945).
Autograph letter sign, 1-page 8vo, thanking Wyllie for a picture but
stating that he, “had the masts reduced
at the beginning of the war by lowering the topmasts or rather the
top gallant masts, otherwise we all like the picture very much…”
Parson’s Pightle, Coulsdon, February 9th,
no year.
e) MEUX, SIR
HEDWORTH (1856-1929).
Autograph letter signed 1-page 8vo (file punched) thanking Wyllie
for letting him know that, “your way
was smoothed for you. You seem to
have been away a long time……”
Admiralty House, Portsmouth, 8th October,
no year.
Quote Item No. 6160
Price: The five letters -
£100.00
AIDE, CHARLES HAMILTON
(1826-1906; poet and musician).
The first 2-sides of an autograph letter, unsigned, to Miss Burrard:
“Do you think your kind & clever
Aunt would do me and Leighton a service? By making a careful
sketch of a lily in blossom with buds – as nearly as possible in the
same position of that in Christ’s hand in the photograph of the
fresco – (which I dare say you have). He asked me to do this for
him, being so pressed”.
No place or date. Inscribed at head in another, contemporary,
hand: “Hamilton Aide 1863”.
Leighton often stayed with his friend, Aide, at
Quote Item No. 9689
Price: £60.00
Autograph letter signed to,
“My Dear Fanny” apologising
for not having visited and continuing:
“I ..... assure you now how truly I
sympathise in the happiness you must all feel from dear Isabella’s
agreeable prospects. The
connection sounds like every thing that can be desired & I sincerely
hope that all it promises will be realized. We shall see you won
back from your seclusion to the world, each after each; & it is
right that it should be so; but you will never find cause to reckon
amongst your last hours those which you have employed in making a
village good & happy ....” Continuing regarding the illness of
“Mrs. Joanna” and her care by
“Mrs. Agnes” and concludes by
sending, “kindest remembrances to
Isabella, & Anna, & Laura”.
Hampstead, Jan. 8th n.y.
2¼-sides,
laid down on the address panel to a leaf from an album compiled by Maria
Burrard, a second cousin of Caroline Anne Southey. Corner of last
leaf torn away affecting one word, some glue marks. Inscribed in an
early hand at head of first leaf,
“Lucy Aikin 1832”.
On the reverse of the leaf an autograph letter signed from
SHARON TURNER (1768-1847;
historian) to Caroline Southey:
“Shall I be intruding on you if I
trouble you with this letter to ask if our valued friend has recovered
his state of health ..... ?” and continues on the subject of
Southey’s health and hopes that,
“at least your own strength & spirit have not gone”. He also
sends (not present) a tract
“written for the use of my village neighbours”.
Winchester Hill, Middx. 10th May, 1842. 1-side
4to, laid down. Inscribed at head in an early hand,
“Sharon Turner”. Some
glue marks.
Quote Item No. 9679
Price: £100.00
The bottom half of an autograph letter signed, ½-side 8vo:
“.... accept my ‘
Kensal Manor House,
Quote Item No. 9682
Price:
£35.00
Autograph poem signed: “The
Faded Flower”, 18-lines commencing:
“What speaks the pale and drooping
flower / Of joys that wither in an hour ………”
1-page 8vo, dated
Quote Item No. 9784
Price: £40.00
Autograph poem signed: “The Pearl Shell”, 15-lines
commencing, “What saith the rose-lipp’d shell …”
1-page 8vo with calligraphic heading, dated
Quote Item No. 9785
Price: £40.00
ALBANI, DAME MARIE LOUISE (1852-1930:
operatic soprano).
Autograph letter signed, 2-pages small 8vo, to "Dear Mrs Talbot"
accepting an invitation to dinner, "... and as I sing the Stabat
early on Sunday morning you will kindly excuse us if we must leave
early. I am so glad that you like Dvorak"s Stabat Mater.
I do so enjoy singing it! It is a great work".
Great Northern Hotel, Leeds, Tuesday, n.d.
Integral leaf removed.
Inscribed, "Madame Albani" in ink in another hand on upper
margin.
Quote Item No. 1526
Price: £25.00
ALBANI, DAME MARIE LOUISE (1852-1930:
operatic soprano).
Autograph letter signed, adding her married name, "Gye" to
her signature, 2-pages small 8vo, to "Dear Mrs Talbot"
accepting an invitation to dinner. Monogrammed notepaper.
Great Northern Hotel, [Leeds], Tuesday, n.d.
Integral leaf removed, traces of mounting upper left.
Quote Item No. 1561
Price: £15.00
ALEXANDER, MRS. CECIL FRANCES
(1818-1895; poet and hymn writer, including ‘There is a green
hill far away’ & ‘All things bright and beautiful’).
Autograph verse, 4-lines, signed: “His another thousand
sparkling rills / That from a thousand fountains burst / And fill with
music all the hills / And yet he saith I thirst”.
30 April, 1879. 4½ x 4½ inches; laid down.
Quote Item No. 9661
Price: £75.00
DOWNING
OF A ZEPPELIN:
ALEXANDER-SINCLAIR, SIR EDWIN SINCLAIR (1865-1945; Admiral).
A good autograph letter signed to the artist, W.L.Wyllie:
“It was very good of you to write about the Zepp, you ought to have
been there to see as it was a fine sight, a lovely day & the Zepp
looked very fine with the sun on him, a sort of silvery grey colour.
She was evidently scouting & I think must have been too intent on
seeing who the B.C’s about 30 miles astern of us were to notice us
getting within range ………… anyway he waited too long & allowed us
within 10,000 yards before he moved off to the East … we only had
time for 7 rounds between us …… the shell looked very pretty
bursting all round him but we didn’t know we had hit him until 10
minutes after we had ceased fire when he suddenly stood on end,
doubled up in the middle & fell ends first in the water about 20 odd
miles off ………… We saw him all spread out on the water & went off
full speed to finish him off & pick up survivors, as we got closer
one end began to stick up in the air & I wondered whether they could
possibly blowing him out again but I expect it was the damaged end
sinking & the gas being forced to the other end … as we got closer
we saw the coning tower of a submn show above the water……………”
2-sides, 4to; some creasing. H.M.S. “Galatea”, 1st
Light Cruiser Squadron, 22nd May, 1916.
* Alexander-Sinclair became Commodore
Commanding of the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron in 1915.
Nine days after this letter was written, on the 31st May,
1916, he sighted two enemy destroyers; it was his “enemy in sight”
signal that brought the battle cruiser fleet, and subsequently the
whole Grand Fleet into action in what was to be known as the Battle
of Jutland.
Quote Item No. 8188
Price: £200.00
ALEXANDRINE, QUEEN OF DENMARK
(1879-1952).
Autograph correspondence card
signed, 2-sides, bearing her embossed crest, black edged, to Miss
Ella Turner at Cannes thanking her for her condolences on the death
of her husband King Christian X (1870-1947): “Please accept my
heartfelt thanks for your kind letter of sympathy in my great loss.”
With
the original autograph envelope.
Copenhagen May 11th 1947.
Quote Item No.
6149
Price: £30.00
ALFONZO XIII
(1886-1941; King of
Their large and impressive signatures, dated by the King 4th
May 1906, on a piece of card 12½ x 5½ inches (the King’s signature 7½
inches in width). The card edge toned and a trifle spotted.
Together with a photograph of the royal couple, 3½ inches sq.
Quote Item No. 9620
Price: £200.00
ALICE, PRINCESS (1883-1981: Countess of
Athlone).
Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 4to, to "Dear Mr Cust" [Sir
Lionel Cust, Surveyor of the King"s pictures]: "I am going
to trespass upon your good nature & ask if you will be so kind as to
tell me what you consider the value of the enclosed miniatures
............ I have no excuse to plead except my respect for your
oracular qualities as regards miniatures ....."
Henry III Tower, Windsor Castle, 21 VII 1921.
Usual fold marks.
Quote Item No. 1490
Price: £35.00
ALISON, SIR ARCHIBALD
(1792- 1867; historian).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo,
regarding the health of his son, “Lady Alison & I are rather
uneasy with the accounts we received on arriving in
London of our son Col. Alison’s health,
particularly his repeated fainting fits… …”
Piece cut from upper left blank
corner, integral blank laid down on part of album leaf.
Athenaeum; Dec. 30th,
1862.
Quote Item No.
4808
Price: £15.00
ALLENBY,
EDMUND, FIRST VISCOUNT ALLENBY OF MEGGIDO (1861-1936:
Field-Marshall).
A good autograph letter signed, 3 ½ sides 4to, to, “My dear
John” [Gen. John Vaughan]:
“ …I’m afraid I can think of no likely job for you in this part of
the world; but I haven’t the foggiest idea what is going to be
the future of the near East. Anything may happen, as a result
of the Peace Conference. I suppose we shall be allowed to
control Egypt & I hope we shall be allowed to control Palestine, but
French & Americans are in the running too… … … … … I don’t know what
will become of me. I presume that I shall be kept in my
present post till the peace comes. After that, I have no idea.
I have a wide command now. I control the Baghdad railway, from
Konia in the West & Nisibin in the East; and can occupy any
strategic points I like….I have the Military Administration of
Cilicia, Syria & Palestine, besides administrating Martial Law in
all Egypt…… All nations & would be nations, & all shades of
religions & politics are up against each other & trying to get me to
commit myself to their side. I am keeping my end up so far;
but there is need to walk warily …… …”
He concludes by discussing the Cavalry: “ I am sorry they
have started to revise Cavalry training. I don’t think there is
anything in it that needs revising. I have never found any
reason, during the war, to find fault with it; and I have had
as much experience, in this war, of Cavalry fighting – mounted &
dismounted – as anyone….”
G.H./ E.E.A. 2nd March /19. Folded and
file punched.
Allenby assumed command of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in June
1917. He was appointed special high commissioner for Egypt in March
1919 shortly after the date of this letter.
Quote Item No. 8463
Price: £500.00
Autograph draft of poem,
38-lines, with heading "On Ranmore Aug. 26" commencing,
"Not yet Dear Mother Earth / How good thou this autumn day / To him
that loves thee ......." in pencil with numerous deletions and
alterations, on an album leaf , 7 x 4½
inches, with a crude drawing to the reverse. No date
Tipped onto a backing sheet with portrait.
Quote Item No. 2199
Price: £90.00
Autograph letter, 2-pages 8vo, to Mr Fitzgerald,
"I could not get away! I tried hard to finish an
important paper & some pressing office letters; but it was
3.55 when I rose from my desk & I thought it was too late ...."
The Daily Telegraph, Fleet Street, n.d. -
22. Oct. 1884 added in pencil.
Last leaf cut-away below signature and torn on fore-margin.
Quote Item No. 2221
Price: £15.00
Autograph note signed, 1-side 12mo, to W.H. Lucas, Merton, an invitation
to dine at his lodgings.
Friday, no date, no place. Inscribed in another, contemporary,
hand on address panel, “Matthew
Arnold”. Laid down, brown glue marks showing through.
Quote Item No. 9708
Price: £140.00
ASQUITH, MARGOT, Countess of Oxford & Asquith (1864-1945:
wife of the Prime Minister).
Autograph letter signed, in pencil, 3-sides 8vo, to Lord Inchcape
making arrangements to meet and continuing, “I am shattered & see
no good in any of the things I believed in – Patience, loyalty,
truth, justice, love, & devotion. I am shattered & tired – not
so Henry he is quite unmoved but it is a blow all the same.
I’m glad he went to Egypt yesterday with the boy for 8 weeks.
What a satire! The country expected protection with its false
cries & corruption & rejected Socialism & the only Party that has
fought both is crushed”.
44 Bedford Square, 12th Nov.[1924].
File punched, remains of album leaf to blank verso of last leaf,
this leaf holed by removal from album but without loss.
Written shortly after the defeat of the first Labour government at
the General Election in October 1924.
Quote Item No. 7265
Price: £35.00
AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE
(1813-1854; Scottish poet). Autograph poem signed
commencing, “Open wide the gates of Athol.....”
10-lines, 4to. Signed and dated June 1848. Written on the
writing paper of the ‘Parthenon Club’ (small embossed name as such at
head). Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9737
Price: £125.00
BACON, JOHN (1740 - 1799; Sculptor).
Autograph letter signed to his daughter, addressed to her at Mrs.
Wood's Boarding School, Mile End Green. 3-sides 4to. An affectionate
letter expressing his concern for her and her siblings health and
happiness.
Newman Street, Sept. 26th 1781. Usual fold marks. Holed
where wax seal opened, old repair to right margin of last leaf, tear
through subscription. Clean central cut in both leaves without loss.
Bacon's works include the
monument to Pitt in Westminster Abbey and Dr. Johnson in St.
Paul's.
Quote Item No. 10669
Price: £35.00
BADEN-POWELL, SIR ROBERT, 1st BARON (1857–1941;
army officer and founder of the Boy Scouts).
An original watercolour by the 22-year old
Baden-Powell, a scene from an amateur dramatic production,
“Poor Pilicoddy”
dated, “
Together with printed illustrated programme for another
amateur dramatic performance held at 8 St. George’s Place during
February 1880; amongst the cast is listed R.S. Baden-Powell, 13th
Hussars, playing the part of ‘Sam Gerridge’; this with tear and
foxed.
Baden-Powell developed his interest in amateur theatricals, which
remained with him throughout his life, and his talent for sketching,
whilst at
Quote Item No. 9619
Price: £450.00
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BAILLIE, JOANNA
(1762-1851; Scottish dramatist and poet).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 12mo, to: “My dear Henrietta” – “I
write you this short note to say that your Aunt Agnes & I are to receive
the Sacrament from our worthy Pastor to morrow about half past one
o’clock and will therefore see nobody till after that time. Would indeed
wish to see no body through the whole day unless there should be some
especial reason for it. It is very cold here but
Hampstead, Monday March 25, no year. Inscribed in another,
contemporary, hand at head of the first leaf, “Joanna Baillie 1849”.
Laid down by the conjugate leaf on to part of a Victorian album leaf.
Quote Item No. 9651
Price:
£150.00
BAILLIE, JOANNA
(1762–1851; playwright and poet).
Her signature, subscription, and place and date cut from a letter.
Hampstead April 9th. The year, 1846, added in another
hand. 4¾ x 1½ inches laid down to an 8vo piece of mauve paper and
mounted to part of a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9751
Price: £35.00
BALDWIN, LUCY (1869 – 1945: wife of the
Prime Minister).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides small 8vo, to Lord Inchcape,
written shortly after Stanley Baldwin’s appointment as Prime
Minister, “I am so flattered at your writing to me that I must
take your letter right out of its proper order & reply at once … …at
the moment…astonishment is my paramount feeling! – No doubt that you
will see me swelling with pride when I have grasped it all, but it
has all come so suddenly & the task is so stupendous ………”
11 Downing Street, 18th May, 1923.
File punched and a little marked.
Quote Item No. 7266
Price: £15.00
BALLANTINE, JAMES
(1807/8–1877; Scottish stained-glass artist and poet).
Autograph song, signed, “A Love
Song – Air – The Shepherd’s Wife”. Two verses each of 8-lines
commencing: “Oh whaur gat ye
that pearly brow? ………”
Dated
Quote Item No. 9753
Price:
£100.00
BANKHEAD,
TALLULAH (1902 – 1968: American actress).
A fine signed coloured portrait photograph, head and shoulders,
looking directly at the camera. 10 x 8 inches. Inscribed across the
pale are of her neck, “To Renee Phillips sincerely Tallulah
Bankhead”.
Traces of mounting to blank margins not affecting image. ca. 1940.
Quote Item No. 7263
Price: £125.00
BANKS,
LESLIE (1890 - 1952: actor).
Photograph, half-length, in his
role as the Earl of Leicester in the production of 'Fire over
England'. Inscribed, "To Leslie with my very best wishes from
the other Leslie" [Leslie Howard?] 1937. The photograph 10 x 7
inches; small piece torn from each upper corner. With Erich Pommer
Productions label and the stamp of Tunbridge photographers to the
reverse.
Quote Item No. 10628
Price: £25.00
BARNES, WILLIAM
(1801-1886;
the Dorsetshire poet).
Autograph letter signed, 4-sides (each 8½ x 6½ inches) to the Rev. John
Compton, Minstead Parsonage: “Thanks for your good notes. I do
not think much more or much
that is better can be said of Ps XIX.5. The passage holds no doctrine,
......... My version of vv.4.5 is ‘There is no where a speaking / and no
where are worlds/and none of their voices / have ever been heard / There
love is outreaching / all over the earth/and their teachings so
uppermost / bounds of the world ........” He continues by
giving his versions of several other psalms, and finishes: “No
sinners shall rise up in judgement, nor wicked in councils of saints, in
judgment not in the judgment, what say you and your books?”
With postscript.
Came Rectory, 25 Nov. 1865. Inscribed in another contemporary hand
at head of first leaf, “William Barnes, The Dorsetshire Poet”.
Some browning and a very small puncture to last leaf.
Quote Item No. 9644
Price: £425
BARNES, WILLIAM
(1801-1886;
the Dorsetshire poet).
Autograph letter signed, 4-sides
(each 8 x 6½ inches)
to the Rev. John Compton, Minstead Parsonage: “Thank you for
your good notes. My version now stands ‘no sinners shall rise in
the judgement nor wicked in councils of saints. There is
another ... Psalm IV v. 7 ... ’Thou hast put gladness in my heart
more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
They ... differ from the Hebrew.
They have oil as well as wine and corn
..... ” and continues:
“... The vulgate makes the men and not the fruit increase.
Whose corn and wine increased? Those who had said v.6 ‘Who will
show us good’ and do they or the Psalms say ‘Lord lift thou up’ etc.
Does the verse refer to .... the famine of II Samuel XXI. My
version is ‘There are many that say who will show to us good, O Lord
light upon us, The light of Thy face. Thou dost gladden my heart,
they have fullness of corn and of wine’. With postscript,
signed again (but with initials): “You are only to answer me at
times when you otherwise would like to do a bit of Hebrew, no hurry.
In the scope of the passage .... that there were many Israelites (who we
see were not wholly David’s in heart) crying that his reign was not
blessed, as in the famines .............. These are only random
thoughts”.
Came Rectory, Dec. 12th ’65.
Quote Item No. 9645
Price: £450.00
BARRIE,
SIR JAMES MATTHEW (1860-1937; playwright and novelist).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 8vo
with integral blank, to Miss Dora Tulloch, “I send you back your
book signed and thank you very much for the photographs which are
excellent. I hope at some future time you will play for me again …”
With the original autograph envelope, this with forwarding
address to Miss Tulloch at New Gerrards Theatre, Southampton.
133, Gloucester Road, S.W.; 1 Dec. 1898.
Quote Item No.
4814
Price: £175.00
BARRIE, SIR JAMES MATTHEW
(1860-1937; playwright and novelist).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 8vo with integral blank, to Miss
Dora Tulloch, “In answer to your letter I remember you well and
look forward to have…you in a play the first time the opportunity
offers”.
With the original autograph envelope.
133 Gloucester Road, S.W.; 14 Dec. 1899.
Quote Item No.
4815
Price: £175.00
BARTON, BERNARD
(1784-1849; Quaker poet).
His signature and lengthy subscription cut from a letter; laid
down, glue mark.
Quote Item No. 9665
Price: £50.00
BARTON, BERNARD (1784-1849; Quaker poet).
Autograph poem signed. 5 stanzas of 4-lines each
commencing: “Autumn leaves are
fading / Some ones flitting by; / Frequent clouds are shading / Heaven’s
o’reaching sky ………”
1-page 8vo, on pink paper. Dated
Quote Item No. 9775
Price: £150.00
BARTON, BERNARD (1784-1849; Quaker poet).
Autograph poem signed commencing:
“I feel that I am growing old, /
Nor wish to hide that truth; / My heart is not a whit more cold / Than
in my by-gone youth ..........”
Woodbridge
Quote Item No. 9731
Price: £150.00
BARTON, BERNARD (1784-1849; Quaker poet).
Autograph poem signed, “The Law, & The Gospel”, 3-stanzas of 4-lines each, commencing:
“The law, with all its terrors,
may but harden ………”
1-page oblong 8vo, mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Undated.
Quote Item No. 9762
Price: £125.00
BEATRICE, PRINCESS
(1857–1944; the youngest child of Queen
Their signatures on a piece of card 5¾ x 5 inches; some age toning
[n.d. but 1906].
Quote Item No. 9621
Price: £65.00
The end of an autograph letter signed to Henry Lucas:
“There has been found more work
on the Monument than was at first calculated”.
Fold marks, laid down on a Victorian album leaf. Dated in another,
contemporary, hand 1838.
With on the same page the cut signatures with subscriptions of
Francois Rochard (d. 1858; portrait painter) and Henry Gastineau
(1791-1876; painter).
With, on the reverse of the page, an unidentified autograph letter
signed.
Quote Item No. 9675
Price: £30.00
Autograph letter signed to Mr. Lucas, Newport Pagnall, Bucks. 2-sides
4to: “Enclosed I send the
amount of my stakes, two sovereigns for the cup and the same for the
hunters ..... Pray accept my thanks for the trouble you took for me
during the races, I do not know what I should have done without you.
On Saturday and again yesterday I had brilliant sport with my
hounds ...... this gives me 17 out of 20 foxes .... nothing can be
better”. With
postscript: “Mrs. Berkeley bids
me say that if Mrs. Lucas will, with you, give us the pleasure of your
company .... for the
Harrold Hall, Aug. 20th, 1831. Mostly laid down by the
address panel to a leaf from a Victorian album, partly folded.
Address panel holed. With mounted to the reverse two other pieces
including a short autograph letter signed from
John Brown (1810-1882;
essayist).
Quote Item No. 9704
Price: £55.00
BERLIN,
IRVING (1888-1989:
songwriter).
His signature with typed subscription.
Quote Item No. 1465
Price: £50.00
BETJEMAN, SIR JOHN (1906-1984: poet).
Typed letter signed, 1-side oblong 8vo, to a Mr. Poulter,
thanking him for his letter and enclosures and adding, “How good
that you and I have similar memories of North London.”
43 Cloth Fair, London, 3rd January 1963.
Central fold.
Quote Item No. 7261
Price: £50.00
BLATCHFORD,
REV. SAMUEL (1767–1828; Presbyterian Minister);
BLATCHFORD, ELIPHALET WICKES (1826-1914;
An archive of letters and papers assembled by Edward Windeatt
(1846-1921) of Totnes,
Price: £1,800.00
BLESSINGTON, MARGUERITE,
COUNTESS OF
(1789-1849; author).
Autograph transcript, signed, from her book, “Desultory Thoughts and
Reflections” (published 1839):
“Happiness consists not in
having much but in being content with little”.
Signed
“Marguerite Blessington”.
No date. 1-page 8vo with small embossed crest
at head. Mounted on a
leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9725
Price: £90.00
Autograph letter signed to a Mrs. Lucas, 1 side 8vo:
“I am quite ashamed to
have been so long in sending you the information you want: but since my
return there have been 400 pages of proofs to correct, I know not how
many letters to write & - notwithstanding its microscopic size – my
parish to engage our hand...”
Kennington,
Quote Item No. 9719
Price: £15.00
BOER
WAR:
An original water-colour drawing of a 21st
Lancer, signed S. O’Beirne and dated 1899. The water-colour on card,
9 x 6¾ inches, some edge damage not affecting image.
Quote Item No. 6146
Price: £125.00
BRIDGES, ROBERT (1844-1930: Poet
Laureate).
Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 8vo
with integral leaf to "My dear Cust" thanking him for "presenting
my enquiries" and wondering "where things go. It
reminds me that when I lived in London I illuminated my dining-table
with "Palace ends" they were very good wax candles which I could buy
at a grocer"s shop in Oxford St. ! ! Do come here when you
visit Oxford. Perhaps then I shall be able to show you the
alternative to the Royal Standard - for I think I have hit on one
....."
Chilswell, Oxford, March 14, 1925.
Quote Item No. 1497
Price: £95.00
BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-1889:
Radical statesman and orator).
Autograph letter signed, 3-pages 8vo, to Robert Cust thanking him
for complimentary remarks on his speeches and continuing, ".... I
have always found members of the Civil Service very well disposed to
the natives of India & speaking of them with kindness & sympathy -
but all this is quite consistent with a resolution to maintain their
own supremacy unimpaired & with opposition to any attempt to admit
the natives to a position equal to that they themselves occupy ...."
132 Piccadilly, Aug. 4 '83.
Traces of glue to reverse of integral leaf.
Quote Item No. 1509
Price: £45.00
BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-1889:
Radical statesman and orator).
Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 8vo, to J.W. Clowes stating that he
has not taken up his offer to fish as "The weather was too
threatening .... I return your rod & reel with thanks ........... Mr
Moss recommends me to try the little river beyond Cariloch for trout
..."
Cariloch Hotel, Sept. 8 '76.
Integral leaf removed.
Quote Item No. 1525
Price: £21.00
BRISTOW, EDMUND (1787 - 1876: Painter).
Autograph letter signed. 1-page small 4to, stating that he
was, "hindered by unforeseen difficulties in procuring models,
the first I had was taken from me before I had derived much benefit
from it and it was a great while before I could get another, with
respect to the treatment of the subject I have taken you at your
word and have us'd some licence and the picture may be something
larger than you expected but my opinion is that a pheasant painted
small will not have a good effect, therefore I painted him as large
as life… … I have shown it to several as my custom is to hear their
various opinions, amongst them Mr. Edridge the artist … … he
expressed himself pleased with it, I showed your letter to Blunt and
Ronger [?]. With respect to your caution concerning their
keeping company with that drunken fellow Mr. Bacchus it has had the
desired effect I believe at least this I can say if they have been
much in his company it was when they were out of my sight".
No place, Monday Feb. 13, 1815.
Laid-down, small piece torn from left margin affecting 6 letters,
these supplied in facsimile on the backing card. Central fold.
Quote Item No. 6588
Price: £40.00
BRITISH
EMPIRE EXHIBITION - AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION COMMISSION VISITORS BOOK:
The visitors book of the Australian
Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1924-1925.
This substantial volume has specially printed pages for the
signatures of visitors (15-per page) and spaces for their
Australian
or English addresses. Signatures include George V (twice);
Queen Mary (thrice); Edward, Prince of Wales (the future Duke
of Windsor); Prince Albert and Princess Elizabeth (the future
George VI and Queen Elizabeth); Princess Beatrice, and Prince
Arthur. Also Ramsay Macdonald, Stanley Baldwin (twice).
Also numerous notable Australians including Sir Hugh Robert Denison,
Sir Harry Colebatch, Sir Thomas Henley, Sir Edward Lucas, Sir
Francis Newdegate, T.L.F. Rutledge, Sir Frederick Young, E.
Drake-Brockman, Sir Tom Bridges, also the Australian musician, John
Amadio and Australian singer, Miss Florence Austral on the same page
but not together (Florence Austral was cited by Amadio’s wife a year
later as co-respondent in her divorce petition). Together with
numerous other, largely Australian, visitors, but also dignitaries
from all parts of the world including H.H. Yang di-Pertuan
Besar-Negri Sembilan of Malaysia.
Upwards of 800 signatures; some unidentified.
Large oblong folio, full morocco lettered in gilt “Australian
Exhibition Commission Visitors Book”; a few leaves coming
loose.
Quote Item No. 8184
Price: £1,500.00
BROOKE,
SIR JAMES, RAJAH OF SARAWAK (1803-1868).
Autograph letter signed, 2½ sides 12mo, to Mrs. Vaughan, “I must
claim the privilege of an old acquaintance to reply in this manner
to your invitation. On Saturday I am expecting my sister here and
will therefore avail myself of the option you give of dining with
Dr. Vaughan and yourself on Monday next instead of tomorrow. I
heard from your brother yesterday and hope to see Mrs. Stanley when
she returns to Town”.
The integral leaf slightly trimmed on fore-margin not affecting
text; blank side of integral leaf laid-down on part of an album
leaf. The writer identified, “Rajah Brooke of
Sarawak” in
another, contemporary, hand at head of first leaf.
No place; no year.
Quote Item No.
4821
Price: £175.00
BROOKS, PHILLIPS
(1835-1893; American Episcopal Bishop, consecrated Bishop of
Massachusetts in 1891; wrote "Oh
little town of Bethlehem").
Autograph letter signed, 1¼-pages 8vo, to “My dear Archdeacon
Farrar” [Frederick William Farrar, 1831-1903] asking a
favour, “which I know you will not grant if I ought not to have
asked It … … Four American friends whom I am Exceedingly anxious to
oblige are very desirous of attending the afternoon service at the
abbey today. Last Sunday they failed because of the crowd. Is
there any way in which they can be admitted to seats? … …”
Usual fold marks; mounted to part of an album leaf.
Westminster Palace Hotel; Sunday morning, May 20th. n.y.
Quote Item No.
4822
Price: £50.00
BROWNING, ROBERT
(1812-1889; poet).
His signature, place and date, “
Quote Item No. 9654
Price: £225.00
BURRARD, SIR HARRY
(1755-1813; general. Commanded in
Autograph note, unsigned: “Most people think (& I refer you to
the papers) that something
sinister has happened to that hitherto dextrous fellow Nap. God
grant quiet to this distracted world”.
Inscribed at head in another, contemporary, hand, “General Sir Harry
Burrard Bt. Ob.1813”. Creased and browned, slightly holed on
margin.
Quote Item No. 9668
Price: £30.00
BURY, LADY CHARLOTTE
(1775-1861; novelist).
The first two sides of an autograph letter, 12mo, in the third person:
“Lady Charlotte Bury
presents her compliments to Mr. George Burrard & takes the liberty of
soliciting for the Honour of his name, as a subscriber to a work by Lady
Charlotte of which the enclosed prospectus gives every particular .....”
Quote Item No. 9683
Price:
£20.00
Autograph verse, ‘The Times’, 16-stanzas, (68-lines), 4-sides 4to,
commencing: “Old times, new times,
put to the test! / Old times, new times, which are the best ? / I have
known both times, /
With covering autograph letter signed to R.C. Kebell:
“Here’s the doggerel screed for
better or for worse. If the
chief thinks it too long, the managers could be cut, but I would rather
not sacrifice the deserved tribute to C.F.C.
I had to get it off my chest – otherwise it haunts me…”
Barnes, 4th March 1938.
Quote Item No. 9635
Price: £65.00
CANADA: EDINBOROUGH, ARNOLD
(b. England 1922; art critic,
journalist & broadcaster, Editor of the Journal “Saturday Night”,
formed the influential Council for Business and the Arts in Canada).
A very good series of 12 early
autograph letters to his close friend, Douglas Eves; 29-pages 8vo
and 60-pages 4to, 1947 – 1954.
In 1947 Edinborough left Cambridge to take up an appointment at
Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. The first letter is
written shortly before sailing: “… I now languish in the deep
heart of the Lincolnshire harvest
country-side with tonsillitis ravaging my throat … my wife (God
bless her) struggling with all the final arrangements…”
The following extracts from a 6-page
letter written from Kingston, Ontario, on 20th Feb. 1949
will give an idea of content although the bulk of the correspondence
remains unread:
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Quote Item No. 4824
Price: £295.00
CANDLISH, ROBERT SMITH
(1806–1873; Free Church of
Autograph letter signed to Alexander Kincaid:
“you must excuse me from
complying with the request of your letter however gratifying &
encouraging your esteem of my poor labours ...... Jesus Christ, the same
yesterday, today, & for ever”.
Edinburgh
Quote Item No. 9739
Price: £15.00
CANNING, GEORGE (1770 - 1827; Prime Minister).
Autograph letter signed, 1-side 8vo, to the poet Robert Southey
(1774-1843). "Mr. Wynn delivered to me youir letter of the
2nd on Monday. I shall have great pleasure in putting you commission
into the hands of Mr. Chinnery who is going to Madrid next week".
Gloucester Lodge, January 7th 1824. Central vertical fold mark, laid
down on part of an album leaf.
*George Robert Chinnery (1791-1825) sent by Canning to Madrid in
1824 as Commissioner of Claims.
Quote Item No. 10665
Price: £75.00
CHARLOTTE
AUGUSTA, PRINCESS (1796-1817;
the only child of George, Prince of Wales,
afterwards George
IV, and Caroline of Brunswick).
A delightful survival, being a little manuscript keepsake
prepared as a gift for her governess, Lady Elgin, in whose care she
had been placed following the separation of her parents. Four
stitched leaves between yellow wrappers ruled in ink and lettered,
"The Gift of Princess
Charlotte" to both front and rear wrappers.
Inscribed within, "To
the Countess of Elgin from Her very affectionate Charlotte" - "My
dear Lady Elgin, I hope you will accept of this little book, to
remember me by. I hope
I shall be good; and I will try not to do so again; and I will be a
good child, and do my reading, and my French lesson, and my music
lesson well; and I will look at my book, and not put myself out of
temper, and sit still, and do everything you wish. I am, My dear
Lady Elgin, your affectionate friend, Charlotte." Dated
"Weymouth, Dorsetshire,
July 21st 1802".
A rather contrite little work, the six year old Princess had
obviously been admonished by her governess over some trifling
misdemeanour hence, "I will
try not to do so again".
Perhaps this little work was created with the
collaboration of her dresser Mrs. Gagarin or tutor Mr. Trew for
which see footnote.
4¼ x 2 inches; small piece torn from one blank margin. The leaves
seemingly made up from scrap paper, most likely letter wrappers as
two are addressed to Lady Elgin in another hand. Inscribed at
front, “W. Thompson Esq. To
J. Smith Esq*. Print Room, British Museum” this over an
illegible signature and dated April 27th, 1823 [*John Thomas
Smith 1766-1833; Keeper of Prints & Drawings, British Museum].
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* Martha, Countess of Elgin, was appointed governess to the Princess
Charlotte, then 1 year old, in 1797; Lady Elgin, known
affectionately by Charlotte as "Eggy", took great pains in
Charlotte's education, teaching her to read and write, to sing and
sew, keep accounts and say her prayers.
Charlotte, a great favourite of her grandfather, George III,
seldom saw her father, and Lady Elgin disapproved of the Princess of
Wales and the exciting effect she had on the child; a visit to
Caroline often ending in temper and tears.
She resigned the post, aged 70, in 1804.
Charlotte died in childbirth, aged 21, following her marriage
to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg in 1816.
The following extract is from, “The Beloved Princess, Princess
Charlotte of Wales” by Charles Pearce (1911):
"Lady
Elgin was assisted by Miss Gale (who succeeded Miss Hayman as
sub-governess), a dresser named Mrs. Gagarin, for whom the child had
a great affection, and a tutor, Mr. Trew. From all accounts the
little Princess in her nursery days had a passionate but generous
temper, was clever and vain, affectionate and impulsive, and
certainly bore more resemblance to the Princess Caroline than to the
Prince.
Though Lady Elgin was chiefly anxious for the moral training
of her pupil, the child's school education was not neglected, and
when she was but five years old Mr. Trew certified that, "Mrs.
Gagarin had taught her with so much care and attention that Her
Royal Highness is now sufficiently advanced to under-take the
reading and reciting of easy pieces of poetry and prose, and to
begin the first rudiments of English grammar."
During this period of infantile progress Miss Hannah More paid a
visit to Carlton House, and records how she spent a morning with the
"prettiest, most sensible, and genteel little creature you would
wish to see." The pretty Princess took her visitor by the hand and
trotted off with her through the house and garden, opening drawers,
uncovering chairs, sofas, and ending with showing off her
accomplishments. She repeated to the kindly old lady in the black
silk hood and powdered hair, "The Busy Bee " of pious Dr. Watts,
danced gracefully a fas seul, and wound up by singing with "much
spirit and precision God save the King."
In fact she so
charmed Hannah More that the exemplary woman was moved to write her
book, "On the Education of a Young Princess."
Price: £650.00
CHATELAIN,
JEAN BAPTISTE ERNEST, CHEVALIER DE
(1801-1881; poet & journalist).
Autograph letter signed to Laura Compton, in French; with, on the
conjugate leaf, autograph verse
addressed to her, this also signed. In all 3-sides 8vo.
Castelnau Lodge,
Quote Item No. 9717
Price: £75.00
Autograph letter signed to G. Lucas:
“After the obliging manner in which you have sent over your pony &
the authority which I had given Mr. Smith to purchase him .....” He
continues by saying that although he will pay for the pony he would like
to return it, “as he is
considerably lower than I expected” and wonders whether Lucas can
find a buyer amongst, “persons in
your neighbourhood who have known the pony”.
Two sides 8vo, laid down by the blank conjugate leaf to a page from a
Victorian album to which is also affixed the signature and subscription
of a letter from the Earl of Orkney.
Quote Item No. 9711
Price: £30.00
CLARKE, J. ERSKINE (1827-1920; writer for children,
founded the “Chatterbox” annuals).
Autograph letter signed, 4-sides 12mo to:
“Dear Madam” – “I think ‘The Emigrant’s last Sunday at home’ will do .... I will get the
picture from Capells – to which we resort to for such padding out. The
St. Andrews, Litchurch,
Quote Item No. 9718
Price: £30.00
CLAY, HENRY
(1777-1852; American statesman and orator).
His signature on a free front, ‘H.
Clay’ and with autograph
address, “Mr. Francis Mackae Jr.
Dept. of State, Wash’n City”. n.d.
Quote Item No. 9636
Price: £90.00
CLIPPER
"WILD PIGEON":
The
manuscript journal of Crawford Williams
on board the extreme clipper ship "Wild Pigeon", George W. Putnam
Commander, on a voyage from San Francisco to Hong Kong, Whampoa, and
Canton, in 1853 and part of the return voyage.
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Quote Item No. 8189
Price: £1,800.00
COBBETT,
WILLIAM (1762-1835; Essayist,
Politician, and Agriculturist).
Autograph free-front signed, addressed to
Robert Macfarlane in Edinburgh. Dated and
postmarked 6th July, 1834.
5 x 3½ inches; laid-down on an album
leaf.
Quote Item No. 5933
Price: £75.00
COOK, ELIZA
(1812–1889;
poet and journalist).
Autograph verse signed, the first stanza, of 8-lines, of her poem:
“The Old Arm Chair” –
“I love it, I love it and who
shall dare / to chide me for loving that old arm chair? ………”
1-page 4to, mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album. Undated.
Quote Item No. 9759
Price: £80.00
COOK, ELIZA
(1812–1889;
poet and journalist).
Autograph manuscript signed, 4-lines, with the heading:
“On being told the death of my
Mother would a scar on my heart” –
“……………. But oh! It would not leave
a scar, / The wound would never heal”.
1-page 8vo, pale pink paper. Undated. Fold marks, some
creasing and browning.
Quote Item No. 9760
Price: £40.00
COOK, ELIZA
(1812–1889;
poet and
journalist).
Autograph poem signed, a variant version of her published poem ‘Waters,
gentle Waters’; 16-lines commencing:
“Waters, gentle Waters / Beautiful
in showers / Ye help to wreathe the arms that breathe / A perfume
through the bowers ………”
1-page 8vo, on lavender paper. Undated. Mounted to a leaf
from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9788
Price: £80.00
CORELLI, MARIE (pseud.
of Mary Mackay, 1855-1924; novelist).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo, to “Dear Sir” and
marked “Private” thanking him for his,
“…amiable and amusing allusion to myself in this morning’s ‘Daily
Express’ in connection with W.L. Courtney’s ‘Feminine Note in
Fiction’. But please be quite assured that I take his omission of
my name from his book, as one of the greatest and most signal
honours that could possibly have befallen me…”
Laid-down on an album leaf, short marginal tear, fold marks. Some
browning to second side. Written on her embossed notepaper.
Mason Croft, Stratford-on-Avon: Nov. 1. 1904.
Quote Item No.
4827
Price: £55.00
COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH
(1813-1866; Bishop of
Calcutta, founded schools for poor European and
Eurasian children, drowned in the Ganges).
Autograph letter signed, “G.E.L .Calcutta”, 3-sides 8vo,
blank side of integral leaf laid-down on part of an album leaf to:
“My dear Mr. Smith” – “I am very much obliged to you for
the Buchanan. It is a most valuable book, for he was the real
founder of the Church of England in India & a man for whom we may
all be thankful …… there is only one thing wanting to make the present
perfect, that you should write my name in it … … You will think of us
at 1.30 p.m. on Sept. 25 & I doubt not that you will pray that God’s
blessing may be with us, to protect us on our journey & in our new
mode of life & that the Spirit may fit & strengthen me for my
work …”
3 Northwich Terrace, N.W.; Sept. 16th [1858].
*Cotton taught for 15 years at Rugby and was “the young master” of
“Tom Brown’s School Days”.
Quote Item No.
4828
Price: £25.00
CRABB, JAMES (1774 - 1851: Wesleyan Methodist)
Autograph sentiment signed. Commencing, "Fifty years
this day I have been united to my dear wife in the bonds appointed
by a wise and good God. And, I may truly add, that I feel more
love to her … … …. May you and your dear wife live long
together in happy union and then be translated to heaven".
Dated Southampton 5th April 1848.
10-lines on a 4to album leaf, this damp-marked on lower blank
margin.
Crabb was a schoolmaster at Romsey, a preacher at Southampton, and
missionary to the New Forest gipsies.
Quote Item No. 6586
Price: £20.00
CRIPPS, SIR STAFFORD (1889-1952:
Chancellor of the Exchequer).
His signature; closely trimmed.
Quote Item No. 1463
Price: £10.00
CROLY, GEORGE
(1780-1860; Irish born writer).
Autograph verse signed, “On the
tomb of Petrarch”.
Oblong 8vo, 8-lines. Signed and dated 1848. Mounted on part
of a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9724
Price: £75.00
Autograph letter to his son Ensign Alexander Cunningham (for whom Sir
Walter Scott had obtained a cadetship in the Indian service in 1828):
“I am glad to hear that you
demolished the bridge, but the open groins of your sketch gave
facilities which the solid groins of the real bridge would not afford.
I am also glad that you have kept yourself clear of the contagion of bad
example. Believe me that by fixing your mind constantly on
subjects worthy of your station you will keep up your proper dignity
……………”
Belgrave Place
Quote Item No. 9758
Price: £65.00
CURTIS, SIR WILLIAM
(1752-1829; Lord Mayor of
London).
Autograph address panel signed, addressed to Admiral Wilson,
Redgrave, Diss, Norfolk and dated London October Nineteen 1825.
Blank corners trimmed, attractively laid-down on a contemporary
folio album leaf with an engraved coat of arms, a contemporary
portrait of Curtis and a view of the Bank of England. The writer
identified in another, contemporary, hand on lower margin of panel.
Three other 1820’s address panels and an engraved view mounted to
the reverse of the leaf.
Quote Item No.
4829
Price: £25.00
CURZON, GEORGE NATHANIEL, MARQUESS
CURZON OF KEDLESTON (1859-1925; Viceroy of India).
An original sepia-toned
photograph of the young Curzon taken during his last year at Eton.
A group photograph of 33 pupils, Curzon seated centrally to the
front. In arch-topped mount, this with arms in colours and
gilt to the head and calligraphically inscribed, "Rev. A.
Wolley-Dod, 1877 House Group" within a banner. Each of the
subjects neatly identified in ink to base of mount.
The photograph 8 x 10½ inches excluding mount. Framed in a
contemporary oak frame with gilt slip and glazed. With Hills &
Saunders, Photographers, label to the reverse.
Quote Item No. 3398
Price: £90.00
CUST, NINA: Not All the Suns. 1917 Poems 1944.
London: Nicholson & Watson, 1944.
First edition. 8vo, pp.51, original cloth; binding
faded, corners bumped.
* With 6-line manuscript verse "An Epitaph" signed by
Nina Cust, pasted to endpaper.
Quote Item No. 2965
Price: £25.00
DAVIS, JEFFERSON (1808 -
1889; President of the Confederate States of America).
Autograph letter signed to a Mr. Payne, 1-side 8vo. No place.
18th January 1889. "Can you send a keg of Barbrick [?]
molasses to Mrs Julia Porterfield, Vicksburg .... on my account.
I neglected to mention it to you today and wish to make the present
to Mrs. Porterfield, your friend, Jefferson Davis".
The letter creased and edge worn, blue crayon marked upper margin,
the "D" of the "Dear" of "Dear Mr. Payne" smudged. Annotated
to the reverse, tear upper right corner not affecting script. Tipped
onto a folio sheet with the printed heading of the Consulat de
Belgique, La N'lle Orleans on which is typed "Jefferson Davis,
President of the Confederacy during the American War, 1860/65".
Below, tipped onto the same sheet is an autograph letter signed from
his wife, Varina, to, "My dear Mr. Landauer" - "I was extremely
ill when your note came asking for an autograph of my husband - and
am sorry to say I have nothing of the kind here ...... when I go
home I might find some but it is not generally known that I wrote &
signed for him for years, so that he seldom had use for pen or
paper.
Mr. Payne has some letters of his & might at once be able to
give you a signature ...." Signed Varina Jefferson
Davis. Room 128, N.Y. Hotel, New York, March 21st 1891.
2½ sides 8vo, mourning paper,
creased.
Mr. Landauer had obviously heeded her advice to contact Mr.
Payne and, as the above letter regarding molasses testifies, was
successful in obtaining the autograph he desired. Mr. Payne is
most likely J.U. Payne (1808 - 1905), a personal friend of Jefferson
Davis, the owner of many sugar plantations in Louisiana and of
offices and warehouses in New Orleans. He contributed $750,000
to the Confederate cause at the outbreak of the War.
Quote Item No. 10663
Price: £975.00
DAVY,
SIR HUMPHRY
(1778-1829; natural philosopher).
A printed card announcing,
and giving details of, the two courses of lectures delivered by Davy
to the Dublin Society, 5th November to 3rd
December [1811].
The first course, a series of 12 lectures, on Electro-Chemical
Philosophy; the second course, a series of 6 lectures, on Geology.
The card, printed to both sides, measures 7 ⅝ x 4 inches; a
trifle dusty but generally very good. Together with an
engraved portrait, also on card, 4½ x 3 inches, published by William
Darton, 1823.
* The
proceeds of these lectures amounted to £1,101. Before leaving
Dublin Trinity College conferred upon him the honorary degree of
LL.D.
Quote Item No. 8200
Price:
£200.00
DE LABILLIERE,
PAUL (1879-1946: Dean of Westminster).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides
oblong 8vo, to "My dear Douglas" [Smith] thanking him
for his letter and continuing, "I am sure in days to come you
will look back on this strange experience which has come to you with
gratitude: that is certainly my feeling about the last war.
I am glad that you miss the Abbey ...... we miss you and the other
members of the Brotherhood [of St. Edward the Confessor] ....
I hope you like Plymouth Sound. It is one of the best
approaches to England..."
The Deanery, Westminster SW1, Nov. 30. 1942.
Central fold mark.
Quote Item No. 2552
Price: £21.00
DE
QUINCEY, THOMAS (1785-1859;
Author of “Confessions of an Opium Eater”).
Autograph manuscript of part of his “Autobiographic Sketches.
Selections Grave and Gay from Writings published
and Unpublished”.
Written on both sides of a single leaf cut from the middle of a
larger sheet, the text commences on one side,
“of the case, and would have been executed in a summary way, upon
the prima facie evidence against him, that he did not appear
to be in the condition of a prisoner; and, if his name had ever
again reached his country, it would have been in some sad list of
ruffians, murderers, traitors to
their country…………” and finishes,
“……roused from their slumbers by the glare of conflagration,
reflected from gleaming cutlasses and from the faces of demons.
This fear it was--a fear like this, as
I have often thought…”
The second side commences, “I have said
that he would not have appeared to any capturing ship as standing in
the situation of prisoner amongst the pirates, nor was he such in
the sense of being confined. He moved about, when on board ship, in
freedom……………” and finishes, “…
Much, therefore, it was that he owed to this accomplishment.
Still, there is no good thing without
its alloy; and
this great blessing brought along with it something worse than a
dull duty - the necessity, in fact, of facing fears and trials to
which the sailor's heart is preeminently…”
Both the above forming part of Chapter
XII, “My Brother” of “Autobiographic
Sketches” first published in 1853. Approximately
500 words with much crossing out, alterations and revisions.
The leaf 4 x 7½ inches.
Quote Item No. 5936
Price: £650.00
DICKSON, ELLEN
(1819-1878; musical composer under the pseudonym ‘Dolores’].
Autograph letter signed to,
“My dear Maria” informing her that:
“When the lamp is Shattered’ has
been published some years. I fancied you were away of that”.
The Birds Nest,
Quote Item No. 9687
Price: £20.00
DONOHUE,
JACK (1908 - 1984; film director and choreographer).
Photograph signed and inscribed, "To Stella with best wishes".
ca. 1938. The photograph 10 x 7¾
inches, by S. Georges, London (stamp on verso), tipped onto an album
leaf. Inscribed to the
actress Stella Lang who doubled and stood in for Vivien Leigh in the
production, 'A Yank at Oxford' and for Mary Maguire in 'Piccadilly
Circus'.
Quote Item No. 10631
Price: £25.00
DREW, JOHN (1809 - 1857: Astronomer).
Autograph verse signed, addressed (on the occasion of
their marriage), "To Mr. And Mrs Sheppard". 12-lines on
a 4to album leaf commencing, "Learn to expect, through life's
wide lea, The shock of rude commotion; You'll not escape all
cheerily, While sailing on its ocean… …."
Dated Southampton, Feb. 20th 1848.
Some marking a light marginal damp staining.
Drew was schoolmaster at Southampton, and one of the founders of the
Meteorological Society.
Quote Item No. 6587
Price: £20.00
DUNKIN, JOHN
(1782–1846;
topographer.
Author of ‘History and Antiquities of Dartford’
and other works).
A long and interesting autograph
letter signed [to Gordon Willoughby Gyll], praising him for his historical and genealogical research and
continuing: “Some months back, old Mr. Finch the decrepit sweeper of the
Spilman’s in the paper mills at Dartford died at the age of 84.
Several times I questioned him respecting the Gills, when strongly
suspected by you as successors to Spilman …………… the original mill of
Spilman, being then in a state of dilapidation, the men & boys
frequently plucked the weather board from the mill & were accustomed
wantonly to throw them into the water & watch their progress swimming
down the stream to the lower mill head where they were taken out ……” and
with much else on the history of Dartford mill.
Dartford
Quote Item No. 9628
Price: £65.00
"E"
EDGEWORTH, MARIA
(1767-1849; novelist).
Autograph letter signed, 3¼-sides 8vo, to:
“My dear kind friends Mr. & Mrs.
Carr” – “......... I
will go on to tell you why I write to you today more than any other day
in the year – Because my brother Sneyd Edgeworth is now in Town & Mrs.
Sneyd Edgeworth with him – Perhaps he may contrive to have the pleasure
of presenting this note to you in person......we always considered it to
be of all our family one of the feathers in his cap that he was the
first presented to you and the first favoured by your kindness
............ you will find him I fear looking much older since you last
saw him – 6 years residence on the Continent & ill health & great
sensibility wear dreadfully ............ His manners, unless I am
deceived by sisterly partiality, will please you & Mr. Carr & Dr & Mrs Lushington. They have
foreign ease and politeness without any dandy-ism or affectation – and
she is perfectly ladylike ... she is particularly fond of music ...
What does Mr. Carr say to the O’Brians & the O’Flaterys? I wish he
could be caught by the leg again (without being hurt) and made to write
his delightful letters to me.
Fanny says it is nearly 2 months since she has heard from
Isabella ........... Fanny is growing as fat as ----- she possibly can
......” With postscript:
“Tel me something of Lady Byron &
of her daughter. I am curious to know what she will turn out.
But as Mrs. L. Aikin observes that nobody can tell till she is
married. Still that I deny –
for here am I unmarried – I hope that we unmarried dames are not doomed
for life to have no characters at all”.
Dec. 13th 1827.
Lower fore-corner of last leaf torn away with slight loss to one word.
Mounted to stub on inner margin. From an album compiled by Maria
Burrard, a second cousin of Caroline Anne Southey.
Quote Item No. 9680
Price: £400.00
EDWARDS, LIONEL
(1878–1966;
sporting artist).
Two autograph letters, one signed (Lionel), 3½-sides 8vo, to,
“My dear Denis”, about
domestic matters, the harvest, condition of his hunter, his painting:
“I have more or less finished the
Crosfield picture – I cannot say its one of my best!” etc.
Also commenting on the book ‘The Drove Roads of Scotland’ [by
Haldane] in consequence of
reading which he had written to ‘The Field’ on the subject of beef on
the hoof and, “got a most
interesting letter from Eric Pentecost in reply (he is a well known
breeder of Aberdeen Angus) apparently with the exception of the
Galloways all North Country cattle were horned until about 1700 from
which I presume the Aberdeen Angus was only polled after that date?”
Buckholt, West Tytherley,
Together with the cutting of his letter to ‘The Field’, the 2-page 4to
typed letter signed from Erich Pentecost to Lionel Edwards as mentioned
in the above letters, another letter from Pentecost, and one other
letter written in response to his letter in ‘The Field’.
Quote Item No. 9633
Price: £65.00
EGERTON, FRANCIS (1736-1803: 3rd and last Duke
of Bridgwater "the founder of British inland navigation").
Autograph letter, 1-page 4to folded, in the third person, "The
Duke of Bridgwater"s Comp"ts. to The Duke of Newcastle and returns
His Grace many thanks for His obliging Enquiries".
"Tuesday morn"g"
n.d.
Tear to one fold not affecting text.
Inscribed in pencil "1767-68".
Quote Item No. 2088
Price: £35.00
ELLIOTT, EBENEZER
(1781–1849;
poet. The ‘Corn Law Rhymer’).
Autograph epigram signed, 4-lines:
“…… Our tax
on food is useful though I say it ………”
Hargate Hill, Nr. Barnsley, 5th April,
1848. 1-page 4to, mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9757
Price: £50.00
EVANS, SIR E.R.G.R. (1880 - 1957:
Admiral, Second-in-Command Scott"s second expedition, accompanied
Scott to within 150 miles of the pole [1912]).
His signature on a slip of paper.
Quote Item No. 1573
Price: £30.00
EVERSLEY, CHARLES SHAW-LEFEVRE,
VISCOUNT
(1794-1888; public official).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo, to:
“My dear
Beckfield Place
Quote Item No. 9709
Price:
£25.00
EYRE, EDWARD JOHN
(1815-1901; explorer of
Autograph letter signed, 1½ sides 8vo, to:
“Dear Mr, Lushington” –
“My cold is so very much worse
this morning that I shall be afraid to go out late in the afternoon
tomorrow and I must ask you kindly to let me defer going with you to the
Club until Wednesday at 41/2 p.m. if that day & time are convenient to
you – Mrs. Eyre joins me in kind regards to Lady Margaret & yourself
....”
104 Rue de Trone, 12th Jan. 1868.
Inscribed in another, contemporary, hand at head of first side,
“Governor Eyre”. Laid down by the blank conjugate leaf to a leaf
from a Victorian album.
Unexciting content but a rare autograph.
Quote Item No. 9703
Price:
£500.00
FAIRHOLT,
FREDERICK W. (1814-1866;
Engraver and
Antiquarian).
Autograph letter signed, 3-sides 8vo, to the painter,
J. Noel Paton, “Mon
Cher Vieux Garcon, In plain English, Dear old
boy……here I am in this wicked Metropolitan City. My dark
superstitions got the better of me; I did
not like to risk an unlucky day by traveling at night
I hope that is quite clear, and not at all Irish. So
I did not stay at Newcastle and have been traveling since 8 a.m. ……I
send you some game if you care for it and which Lord Londesborough
made me pay………” etc.
Clarendon Hotel, Princess St. [Edinburgh],
n.d.
Quote Item No. 5937
Price: £20.00
FAITHFULL,
EMILY (1835-1895: philanthropist, promoter of remunerative
employment for women, founder of the Victoria Press, printer and
publisher in ordinary to Queen Victoria.)
Autograph letter signed "Em. F." to her cousin, also Emily,
3-pages 8vo, "I will send the parcel to you at Norwood, but I
shall detain it a little in order to send you 500 title pages with
your first sentence to the Reader. I think if you will send
this widely it will be a good thing .... and if you will keep an
acct. of stamps they may fairly be charged against the acct. of the
Book. I am quite satisfied with the sale of it, it is going on very
steadily at any rate ..... if we send the title page out we are sure
of orders ........"
83A Farringdon St. E.C., Feb. 12th '63.
Miss Faithfull's name added in another hand in ink to first page.
Quote Item No. 1565
Price: £225.00
FIELDS,
GRACIE (1898 - 1979: actress).
Photograph, head and shoulders with dog. Inscribed, 'My best
wishes to Stanley' and signed. ca. 1938. The photograph
10 x 8 inches, edge worn and with 4½
inch corner crease lower left.
Quote Item No. 10629
Price: £25.00
FIELDS,
JAMES T. (1817-1881; American Writer
and Publisher).
Autograph note, “And you also, friend,
whoever you may be”.
Signed and dated Boston, Dec. 5,
1864. 1-page 12mo.
Quote Item No. 5938
Price: £25.00
FFOULKES, CHARLES JOHN (1868-1947: first Curator of the
Imperial War Museum, Master of the Armouries of the Tower of
London).
Autograph letter signed to Sir Charles Hercules Read (1857 – 1929;
Keeper of the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities,
British Museum). Written upon the occasion of Read’s
retirement, thanking him for past help in antiquarian research and
hoping that he will be, “spared for many years to help us in the
many archaeological difficulties which arise, almost daily”.
Office of the Armouries, 29th June, 1921.
1-page 4to. In the original envelope; usual fold marks.
Quote Item No. 6777
Price: £20.00
FROUDE, J. A. (1818-1894:
Historian; author of "Oceana, or England
and Her Colonies" 1886, etc.)
Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 8vo, to Lady Lyttelton, "...
I hope that I have arrived back all the better for my expedition
"down under" as the gardener in the Square puts it to me with an
exclamation of "Well Well" as if he hardly believes in the
possibility!"
5 Onslow Gardens, May 28th n.y.
Integral leaf removed.
Quote Item No. 1522
Price: £55.00
FROUDE, JAMES ANTHONY
(1818-1894; historian).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo, to,
“Dear Mr. [Charles Hamilton]
Aide”. Apologising for
not visiting due to being busy in the Record Office and inviting Aide to
dinner.
10
Quote Item No. 9693
Price:
£25.00
FRY, HENRIETTA JOAN
(c.1799-1860; poet and translator).
Autograph letter signed to Caroline Southey: “May
I be permitted, whilst quite a stranger, in this manner, to address
Caroline Southey, in her character as an author.
She will perceive that the lady who takes this liberty is a
‘Quaker’ & she will I hope forgive the introduction of this unasked
[?]. Allow me to say I
have lately amused myself in making some sketches of characters in
verse, in wh number I have included many bright names, those of the
wise & the good ….. and belle lettres , as Felicia Hemans …. Jane
No place or date. 3-sides 8vo, mounted to a stub on the
inner margin.
* Perhaps referring to her ‘Portraits in miniature; or
Tableaux du coeur’ published in 1848.
From an album compiled by Maria Burrard, a second cousin of
Caroline Southey.
Quote Item No. 9676
Price:
£65.00
Autograph address panel unsigned, addressed to, “Miss S. Dashwood,
With stamp and postal markings showing that it was posted from
Marseille, 1866. Inscribed, “Lady Georgina
Quote Item No. 9671
Price:
£15.00
GARIBALDI,
RICCIOTTI (1847–
1924;
son of Giuseppe
Garibaldi).
Letter signed, 1-page 8vo, to Graham Briggs in Rome, “My father
desires me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter & to express
his thankfulness for the …fruits which you have so kindly sent to
him.......”
Light fold marks and short edge tear.
Caprera, March 2,
1863.
Together with a letter from Thos. Pate & Co. of
Leghorn
informing Graham Briggs that his instructions that,
“a case of Preserves from
London be forwarded to
General Garibaldi”
had been carried out and that they were enclosing the above letter
of acknowledgment.
1-page 4to. Leghorn
10th March,
1863. With conjugate blank, address panel, and numerous postal
markings.
Quote Item No. 5940
Price:
£35.00
GARTSHORE, MRS. MURRAY
(d. 1851;
musical composer).
Part of an autograph letter, laid down in three pieces on a Victorian
album leaf: “Dearest Mrs. Southey, I look upon his lines and
note as two of the most precious gifts I ever received. I say this
from my heart and I know you believe me ….”
Mrs. Gartshore and Caroline Southey collaborated on a piece of music,
published ca. 1850, titled ‘River, River’; Caroline Southey
writing the words and Mrs. Gartshore the music (which she dedicated to
Caroline).
Also laid down on the same leaf the autographs of other women writers,
i.e. an envelope addressed in the hand Dinah Maria Mulock
(afterwards Mrs. Craik), the cut signatures, with subscriptions, of
Anna Eliza Bray, Rebecca Hey, Sarah Gordon, and
Anna Mary Howitt.
Also autograph note signed, with initials, from Elizabeth M. Sewell
(the recipients name excised); with cut full signature pasted on.
From an album compiled by Maria Burrard, a second cousin of Caroline
Southey.
Quote Item No. 9672
Price:
£45.00
GENNÉE, DAME
ADELINE (1878 - 1970: ballet dancer).
Autograph letter signed adding her married name "Isitt", 1½
sides 8vo, to Sir Ronald Storrs thanking him for his
congratulations, ".... It would be ungracious of me to say I am
sorry to be your superior, as you say in your letter, as I am
naturally very happy His Majesty has conferred the Order of O.B.E.
on me ..... I am ....
once more in my dear little Denmark ...."
Hojbjerg, Jan. 1950.
Folded, central rust marks.
Quote Item No. 2118
Price: £15.00
1890’s GERMAN ARTISTS: A collection of 40 autograph
letters signed and autograph correspondence cards signed, all
addressed to H. Lewis in Dusseldorf who was apparently making
arrangements for an exhibition at the Crystal Palace; all, apart
from the last, in German. 1894-1899.
Together with 11 letters and 10 correspondence cards of which we
have been unable to decipher the signatures.
Eberhard Stammel (1833-1906); Auguste Splitgerber
(1844-1918); Fritz Sonderland (1836-1896); Eduard Sporer
(1841-1898); Carl Saltzman (1847-1923: 2 C.C.S & 3 A.L.S.):
Emanuel Spitzer (1844-1919); Nathaniel Sichel
(1843-1907); Theodore Schuz (1830-1900); Friedrich
Schwinge (1852-1913); and Heinrich Schnabel, 3 A.L’s.S.
in English discussing his British Columbian and Alaskan paintings
“for the Exhibition of the Glasspalace London.”
Quote Item No. 3861
Price: 40 pieces in
all - £200
GIBBON, MONK (1896-1987: poet).
An Alphabet of Mortality.
No publisher or date.
Broadside, single folio sheet folded. No. 72 of only 80 copies
printed. Signed and inscribed by the poet on verso.
Quote Item No. 197
Price: £65.00
GIBBS, SIR PHILIP (1877-1962; writer).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo, to
“I am so glad that article of mine was the right kind of thing …… I
am desperately finishing a novel and as soon as that deed is done I
have to go to Geneva…… ”
Slight edge tears.
Overponds, Shackleford, Surrey, Aug. 11, n.y.
Quote Item No.3849
Price: £25.00
GIELGUD, SIR JOHN (1907-2000: actor).
Signature and "best wishes 1943" on a slip of paper.
Quote Item No. 1431
Price: £20.00
GILFILLAN, GEORGE
(1813–1878;
minister of the United Presbyterian church and
author).
Autograph letter signed to Charles G. Kincaid who had requested his
autograph and, “according to your
desire a few sentences of my composition”.
1-page 8vo,
Quote Item No. 9779
Price:
£80.00
Autograph song, signed, 4-stanzas, each of 8-lines, commencing:
“O! this were a bright world / Most pleasant and gay, / Did love never
languish, / Nor friendship decay ………”
2-sides 8vo. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Undated.
Quote Item No. 9765
Price:
£125.00
GILFILLAN, ROBERT
(1798-1850; Scottish poet & songwriter).
Printed poem, ‘Lines upon a Mother’s death’.
1-page large 8vo. Inscribed,
“To Mr. Alex. Kincaid with the author’s respects” and further
inscribed by Gilifillan, “Mrs. Gilfillan died 8th Jan’y 1844 a woman of superior
intellect ……… her memory deserves a far higher tribute than these feeble
lines convey”.
Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9781
Price:
£50.00
GILFILLAN, ROBERT (1798-1850; Scottish poet & songwriter).
Autograph song, signed, 2-stanzas each of 8-lines, commencing:
“The grave it holds my fairest now / The loved one of my heart; / Ah!
Little thought I we so soon, / So, Sadly soon, should
part!........”
Signed and dated
Quote Item No. 9734
Price: £100.00
GINNER,
[ISAAC] CHARLES (1878-1952: artist; exhibited with Camden Town
and London Groups, founder-member of the Cumberland Market Group).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 4to, Charles Ginner, to
[Victor] Pasmore accepting Pasmore's explanation for missing a
meeting and continuing, "... Anyhow the result of my expedition
to the Euston Road ended in meeting a friend....I had not seen for
some time so I finished up at the 'Horse Shoe' ........." He
finishes by making arrangement for a meeting and comments that
Pasmore has "a very enchanting place for your school & so good
luck to it".
66 Claverton Street, Pimlico, 8th December 1938.
Usual fold marks; tipped-onto an album leaf which has Henry Moore's
signature, cut from
a form, laid-down to reverse.
Quote Item No. 2226
Price: £65.00
GRANT, JAMES
(1822–1887; novelist and writer on history). Autograph
transcription signed, 6-lines:
“He spoke of the alliances between
the Houses of Stuart and Bourbon, and of the many years of exile which
the descendants from these marriages had spent in each others
territories. Vol. IV”.
Stockbridge,
Quote Item No. 9761
Price:
£45.00
GRENVILLE, RICHARD TEMPLE, 1ST DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM & CHANDOS
(1776-1839: statesman).
Autograph letter signed, 3-sides 8vo, to an un-named correspondent
thanking him for his letter and discussing the Labour Rate,
"....
I can only say that I should in my own case see with great regret
any labour rate in parishes where the Labourer can be employed at
fair wages without going his rounds
...." etc.
November 12th, 1832.
Sealing wax mounting marks to blank verso of last leaf, small
hole to upper blank margin of last side.
Quote Item No. 2493
Price: £25.00
GURNEY, JOSEPH JOHN (1788-1847: Quaker Philanthropist,
brother of Elizabeth Fry).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 4to, to "My dear Friend"
[the Rev. Edwin Sidney] agreeing to attend a meeting of the Bible
Society at Acle, ".... & if agreeable to the, beg to propose the
Evening of fifth day (Thursday) the 29th Inst. - but if the abcense
of a moon is sufficient to prevent it, thou canst fix any subsequent
day which may suit thee ......", with postscript.
Norwich, June 7, 1831.
Usual fold marks, sealing wax mounting spots to corners on
reverse with paper adhesion, integral leaf removed, some age
marking.
Quote Item No. 2503
Price: £75.00
Autograph note in the third person:
“The Editor of the Sunday Magazine begs to apologise to Miss Royle
[?] .... He believes the
Epistles will be published ..... Mr Strahan .... is the proper party to
apply to”.
Edinburgh
Quote Item No. 9707
Price:
£15.00
HAGGARD, H. RIDER ( 1856 - 1925:
novelist).
Signature and subscription, "Sincerely yours" on a small
card, 1 x 3 inches; traces of mounting to the reverse;
no date.
Quote Item No. 2202
Price: £40.00
HAGGARD,
SIR HENRY RIDER (1856-1925;
novelist).
Autograph letter signed, to de Poix (?), 1-page 8vo with integral
blank, on mourning paper, accepting an invitation to shoot, with
postscript, “Thanks for Ernest’s interesting letter - My son, be
admonished, much study is a weakener to the flesh!”
Ditchingham House, Bungay; 26th Sept. 1893.
Quote Item No.
4847
Price: £90.00
HALL, ANNA MARIA
(1800-1881;
miscellaneous writer).
A good autograph letter signed, 4-sides 8vo, to:
“Madam” –
“Although my name may be known to
you – I feel I owe you an apology for this intrusion which I trust the
subject will render excusable – It has been proposed to me to undertake
the editorship of a monthly magazine designed more especially for Ladies
– and I am willing to undertake the task (although I feel it is one of
no ordinary responsibility) – if I continue to meet with the promise of
support, which support, alone can ensure success, there are three or
four ‘Ladies Magazines’, but it cannot be wrong to say, that they are in
all respects unworthy – I expect to produce a work which will be an
acquisition to the Drawing Room table, and do no discredit to the
Library – I hope that the aid I shall obtain will enable me to produce a
Magazine that will elevate the position of women in this Country and
direct young minds into their best and proper, as well as happiest
channel – I do not enter upon this duty without as much as possible
securing the elements of success. The Proprietor commands ample
funds, and the remuneration I beg on his part to offer – is from 10 to
12 gns a sheet – paid the first week in every month
........................... If you Madam, will give me the
advantage of your valuable support ............................ I should
require your aid (either in Prose, or Verse, or in both) in
March, and believe me you would not find yourself companioned unworthily
.............. I have a pledge that the magazine be carried on for two
years & the price will be half a crown. Mr Hall begs his best
respects.....”
The Rosery, Old Brompton, n.d. Inscribed at head of first leaf in
another, contemporary, hand, “Mrs
S.C. Hall 1844”. Two small pieces of old paper adhered to
surface of first page not obscuring text.
Quote Item No. 9699
Price:
£75.00
HALL, ANNA MARIA
(1800-1881; writer).
Autograph transcript, 9-lines, signed, from,
“The White Boy”.
Single sheet of green paper, 8vo. Dated The Rosery, Old Brompton,
Sept. 29th 1845. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian
album.
Quote Item No. 9738
Price:
£45.00
HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (1800-1889; journal editor and writer).
Autograph poem signed, 8-lines commencing:
“Where, at his loom, the artisan
/ Feels that his skill is worthy man.......”
Signed, “S.C. Hall” and dated
The Rosery, Old Brompton, Sept. 29th 1845. On a single
8vo sheet of yellow paper mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9736
Price: £50.00
HALLAM, HENRY (1777-1859:
historian).
Autograph letter signed,
Pickhurst, Nov. 17, n.y.
Fold marks, integral leaf removed.
Quote Item No. 1557
Price: £45.00
HALLAM, HENRY (1777-1859;
historian).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 12mo, inviting the unidentified
recipient to breakfast. With integral leaf; mounted to part of an
album page.
24 Wilton Crescent; Friday, April 22, n.y.
Quote Item No.
4848
HARDINGE, GEORGE
(1743–1816;
judge and writer).
Autograph letter signed to the Earl of Wigtown, 2-pages 4to, with
contemporary biographical notes on Hardinge on the conjugate leaf.
Stating that he could not see the Attorney General regarding his
claim. Signed with initials (the rest of the surname added in
another hand. No place or date; fold marks, piece torn from
blank upper margins, spotted and marked. Inscribed in pencil
“1783”. Together with a 5-page draft of a petition to the King, in Hardinge’s hand, on behalf of the Earl’s claim. 8vo, mounted to stub on
inner margin.
* Hamilton Fleming, who styled himself Earl of Wigtown, had his
claim to the title dismissed by the House of Lords.
Quote Item No. 9624
Price:
£35.00
HART, SOLOMON ALEXANDER (1806 - 1881; Painter).
Autograph envelope signed. Postmarked 20th May, 1878 and addressed
to Mrs. Maurice Davis, 11 Brunswick Square; some foxing.
Quote Item No. 10667
Price: £12.00
HARTNELL, SIR NORMAN BISHOP (1901-1979; Fashion
Designer, dressmaker to the British Royal Family):
A group of 8 of his highly decorated Christmas cards signed.
These cards made in his workshops to his designs and incorporate
crystals, stones, shells, pearls etc. All but one inscribed by
Hartnell to a Mr. Lack, the second being inscribed to Couture Fabrics, presumably Lack's firm. Together with a 9 x 7 inch
photograph of Hartnell by Dorothy Wilding.
The cards are dated 1965,1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977,
& n.d.
Quote Item No. 8873
Price: £240.00
Autograph letter signed, as Bishop of Ossory, to a Mr. Flemming:
“I received yo’r letter, &
you may bee assured [I]
never intend to obstruct ye Queens Right; I have already given my
Bro’r Marten the Refusal of all Poor Mr. Congreve had in my Diocese.
I design God willing to be in Ireland long before Michaelmas, so
cannot conceive there is so violent haste in these Matters, till we are
both sufficiently apprised of ye validity of Titles; to yo’r good
Lady & all friends as if named am yo’r affectionately, Jo’n Ossory”.
July 1st 1710. Contemporary note of identification.
Chipped on right hand margin, damp stained, reinforced on verso.
Quote Item No. 9631
Price:
£60.00
HASSALL, CHRISTOPHER
(1912-1963; poet, biographer, playwright, librettist to Ivor
Novello and William Walton).
A good wartime letter to Katharine Munday of the Salisbury
Poetry Circle, 1¼ -pages 4to, “It’s ages since you wrote, but the
world has been shaken and I have been shaken with it. Now,
gatherings are prohibited, so no doubt if you still intend to have a
meeting it will have to be a ‘fire-side’ one, an intimate clustering
round a cup of coffee after dinner…… I shall be game… I’ll write a
week before to assure you I’m not lying face downwards in a French
ditch…”
Highgate; no date.
Quote Item No.
Price:
HAYTER,
CHARLES (1761-1835: miniature painter).
An old manuscript label from the back of a painting, age-stained,
browned and chipped, "This portrait was executed by Mr Hayter,
father of the present Sir George Hayter for the late Mr Samuel
Bagster of Paternoster Row...."
Laid-down.
Quote Item No. 2223
Price: £15.00
Autograph poem signed, 14-lines commencing:
“The bard who woos
misjudging flattery, / And only sings that partial friends may praise
………”
1-page 8vo on mauve paper.
Dated Oct. 13, 1845.
Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9773
Price:
£80.00
HELPMAN, SIR ROBERT
(1909-1986; ballet dancer).
Photograph signed, as Hamlet, three-quarter length, by Anthony.
5½ x 3½ inches. n.d.
Quote Item No.
4850
Price: £25.00
Autograph letter signed: “Madam, I regret not being able to assist a work which is I doubt
not effecting good & carried out in much kindness ........”
Ashley Arnewood Farm, Lymington, Oct. 24th
Quote Item No. 9701
Price:
£15.00
Two long autograph letters signed, 16-sides 8vo, to C.E.
Carrington of the Cambridge University Press, who had published her, ‘A
Cardinal of the Medici’ in 1937, seeking a publisher for a play:
“I
ought not to waste y’r time with this, for I don’t believe you can tell
me of any publisher who wd. have sufficient courage for it.
Mr. Roberts says it is a ‘period piece’ – but I of course feel it
is for all time! It is St. John XII 27 – I (curiously) wrote it
before the war, in February 1914. In 1916 I had it typed & sent to
Mr. du Maurier. My husband had just taken his nephew’s … place in
parliament & we were in
Feb. 25th & March 2nd, 1938.
Together with two other autograph pieces. Also a retained carbon
copy of a letter from C.E. Carrington to G.I. Whitham:
“It was a most unusual event for the Cambridge University Press to
publish an historical novel, and it only took place because of the
extraordinary display of original research which was shown in Mrs. Hicks
Beach: Cardinal of the Medici….”
30th June 1937.
Quote Item No. 9634
Price: £40.00
HILL, ROWLAND, 1ST VISCOUNT
(1772-1842: general)
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo, to the Rev. Edwin Sidney,
thanking him for "the Yarmouth Bloters [which] arrived
yesterday and I cannot resist troubling you with a line to say that
we thought them Excellent ....."
Belgrave Sq. 12 Oct. 1840.
Integral leaf removed.
Quote Item No. 2497
Price: £20.00
HOBBS,
SIR JOHN BERRY [JACK] (1882 - 1963; Surrey & England
Cricketer).
Postcard portrait signed. This ca. 1920's postcard showing Jack
Hobbs full length in cricket whites, signed by Hobbs across his
right leg; corner creased and with short edge cut.
Quote Item No. 10685
Price: £36.00
Two autograph letters, 1½-sides 8vo and 1½-sides 4to, the first
to Katharine Munday, the second to “Kit”, both of the Salisbury
Poetry Circle. The first letter discussing his fee and the
assistance they may get in paying it from the National Poetry
Secretariat, the second suggesting that he give a talk on Seamus
Heaney, “but I don’t want to impose myself on the circle”
etc. The second letter annotated by recipient at end.
Winchester; 12.2.’82 and Frome; 18th
April, 1996.
Quote Item No.
4852
Price:
£15.00
Autograph letter signed, 1-side 8vo to,
“My dear W”,
in a virtually illegible hand.
Hedgebury
Quote Item No. 9720
Price:
£15.00
HOWITT, MARY
(1799–1888; Quaker writer and translator).
Autograph poem, signed,
6-stanzas each of 2-lines, commencing: “They dread no pining sickness, no anxious night or day, / No
disappointment mocks them, no idol turns to day……”
1-page, 4to, mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album. Undated.
Quote Item No. 9752
Price:
£120.00
HOWITT, MARY
(1799–1888; Quaker writer and translator).
Autograph transcription, signed,
“Translated from the Danish & transcribed by Mary Howitt”, being a
translation from Hans Christian Andersen, 6-lines commencing:
“We are no citizens of the earth
but citizens of heaven ……”
1-page 8vo, on lilac paper. Dated The Elms,
Quote Item No. 9767
Price: £120.00
HOWITT, WILLIAM
(1792–1879;
writer).
Autograph transcription, signed, from page 208 of his, ‘Rural
Life of England’, 16-lines commencing:
“It is truly reviving to see the
awakening of mind in the common people ……”
One page 8vo, on lilac paper. Dated Clapton, Nov. 7th
1845. Mounted on a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9764
Price: £100.00
HUNT, HOLMAN
(1827-1910;
Pre-Raphaelite painter).
Autograph letter in the third person:
“Mr Holman Hunt presents his compliments to Miss Burrard and begs in
reply to her note of this day to say that he should be happy to show her
the portrait of Dr. Lushington tomorrow at two o’clock, that time
suiting him particularly as then he discontinues work for a quarter
of an hour on account of the shifting light not suiting his present
task”.
Tor Villa, Camden Hill, March 9th 1863. 1-side 8vo,
laid down on a leaf from a
Victorian album.
Holman Hunt had painted the portrait of Stephen Lushington in 1862.
With to the reverse, the end of a letter from Hamilton Aide (1826-1906)
mentioning Leighton, with cut signature and subscription.
Quote Item No. 9690
Price:
£90.00
HUNT (JAMES HENRY) LEIGH
(1784–1859;
poet, journalist, and literary critic).
Autograph transcription,
signed, from his poem ‘Captain Sword and Captain Pen’ (first published
in 1835): “The Sun” – “The great,
sweet, warm Angel with golden rod, / Bright with the smile of the
distance of God”.
On a piece of yellow paper, 3½ x 2½ inches with
narrow ink border. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album. Undated.
Attractively presented.
Quote Item No. 9764
Price:
£225.00
Autograph letter signed, on an aerogram, to A. Morton, British
Council, London, thanking him for his letter and stating that he has
"arranged for a portrait by a Dutch artist of repute to be sent
by my publishers .... to the Hague. Of MSS I have none here; but
will see if I can get the Library of the University of California
.... to send one. In regard to photographs of the scenes of my books
& details as to the place of writing, I fear I can do nothing;
for I do not possess any of the first & have only the sketchiest
recollections as to the latter."
The Warwick, New York, NY, 1.V.50.
On an aerogram, folded, and with ink date of receipt stamp upper
right margin.
Quote Item No. 1502
Price: £325.00
IBRAHIM EDHEM PASHA (1919 - 1893; Greek born Turkish
Statesman, Grand Vizier 1878).
Autograph letter signed, in French. To an unnamed recipient,
mentioning a Mme. M. Neville, her interest in Egypt, and
acknowledging receipt of a parcel. 2½
sides 8vo, no place or date but dated 1839 to the reverse;
usual fold marks.
Born on the Greek island of Chios, orphaned and captured as a
prisoner of war during the Ottoman assault on the island in 1822.
Sold into slavery and taken to Constantinople he was adopted by Koca
Mehmed Hüsrev Pasha, himself later to be Grand Vizier.
Educated in Paris at the École des Mines he became Turkey's first
mining engineer.
Quote Item No. 10664
Price: £45.00
IDZIKOVSKY, STANISLAV (ballet dancer).
His signature and date, London 1919, on a small album leaf.
With the signature of Kathleen Starling "the Welsh Nightingale" to
the reverse.
Quote Item No. 2121
Price: £25.00
INDIA:
A manuscript account,
With integral covering letter and address panel; usual fold
marks, slightly holed.
Quote Item No. 2553
Price: £20.00
INGE, W. R. (1860-1954:
Dean of St. Pauls).
An autograph correspondence card signed to the Rev. A.V. Lyttelton,
"I have never heard of the book. I do not think it is by my
grand-father. From the title I guess that it may be only a
published sermon, perhaps by my great-uncle Whittaker Churton".
St.Pauls, n.d.
Inscribed on the address panel in another hand "Dean (Inge) of
S.Pauls".
Quote Item No. 1532
Price: £18.00
IRVING, DAVID
(1778–1860; Scottish literary scholar and librarian).
Two autograph transcriptions, signed, the first, 11-lines, in
Latin, from the preface to
Thomas Dempster's, ‘Historia
ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum’ (which
Quote Item No. 9776
Price:
£120.00
IRVING,
SIR HENRY (1838 - 1905: actor)
and TOOLE, JOHN LAWRENCE (1830 - 1906: actor and
theatrical manager).
Signed photograph, a studio cabinet portrait by Barraud
of Oxford Street, Irving seated, Toole standing to his right,
signed by both on the mount.
Size overall 6½ x 4¼
inches; a trifle faded.
Quote Item No. 2200
Price: £90.00
"J"
JAMES, JOHN
(1783-1863).
Autograph letter signed, 3-sides 8vo, to the poet,
Robert Southey:
“Upon the principle that the whole
work is done by each learning the part according to his power I have
ventured again to lend my hand towards sustaining the cause of truth.
Every added day of life proves to me that if I want to do any
thing till I can do all my heart would wish – sure it is I shall do
nothing. You, under your own
range of literature is will as I know by happy experience not disdain to
comparing one who takes a narrower course but will favourable receive
the homely little work which I now take the liberty of offering for your
consideration ....”
Prebendal House,
James would have been sending Southey his ‘Christian Watchfulness in the
prospect of sickness, mourning and death’ published that year.
Quote Item No. 9714
Price:
£30.00
Autograph letter signed to Charles G. Kincaid at Glasgow, 2-sides 8vo:
“I am sure I should be very
ungrateful, as well as very ill bred – if I could hesitate about
complying with a request made in so flattering and polite a manner ……
I beg leave therefore to say that this is my genuine handwriting and
that I wish it were better both for my own credit and for that of your
collection ……………”
Quote Item No. 9792
Price: £50.00
JESSE, EDWARD (1780-1868; writer on natural history).
Autograph transcript, signed, from page 283 of his book, ‘Favourite
Haunts and Rural Studies; Including Visits to Spots of Interest in
the vicinity of
13-lines on a single 8vo sheet, signed and dated Dec. 2nd
1847. Mounted on a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9732
Price: £60.00
JOACHIM, JOSEPH (1831-1907: Hungarian
violinist and composer).
Autograph letter signed, in English, 4-pages 8vo, to "My Dear Mr
Donkin!" stating that
although flattered by his sister, "... I am afraid there will be
some difficulty in
finding suitable time for carrying out her wish ..... I shall be out
of town a good deal, and busy with rehearsals and performances in
London. This week I go to Edinburgh, and rehearse twice at the
Crystal Palace besides playing at Camberwell on Friday evening!"
and going on that he might
"..... talk the matter over with her, and try to arrange
suitable hours ....."
The printed address, 14 Hyde Park Gate, crossed through and
substituted with "13 Kensington Gore" and with autograph note
running vertically down left
margin of first leaf, "There is Scarlatina at my brother"s house
(in a mild form I am happy to add) therefore the change of address".
22nd [Feb. 1880 added in another hand in pencil].
Quote Item No. 2192
Price: £150.00
JOHN, AUGUSTUS EDWIN (1878 – 1961: Painter).
Autograph letter signed, 1-side 4to, to Sir Hercules [Read]
regarding John’s portrait of him “… …Many thanks for your promise
to resume sitting …The thing is, I think, getting on well and will
be in its way good, finally – if you’ll continue to help me.”
28 Mallord St. Dec. 22, 1921.
Usual fold mark, ink smudged in two places.
Quote Item No. 6775
Price: £55.00
"K"
KELLY, SIR FITZROY
(1796-1880; Lord Chief Baron).
Autograph letter signed, 3-sides 8vo, marked,
“Strictly Private” to
Henry Lucas: “I very much
regret to say that I have now ascertained that P------- will not obtain
the appointment he solicited.
I have no reason to think that if he were to apply for one, in
which he would not be at once chief, but where he would for a time be
under command & acquire experience & confidence he would be equally
unsuccessful ...”
6th Dec. ’42. Inscribed at head in another,
contemporary, hand “Fitzroy Kelly
1842”. Laid down
on a leaf from a Victorian album,
on the same page the signature and subscription of the Judge Sir John
Barnard Byles (1801-1884) and on the reverse a short letter from
Sir David Dundas (1799-1877).
Quote Item No. 9702
Price:
£30.00
KEMBLE, FANNY
(1809-1893; actress).
Her signature and subscription cut from a letter; laid down.
Quote Item No. 9658
Price:
£25.00
KENT AND STRATHERN, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1767–1820:
fourth son of George III, father of Queen Victoria).
Autograph letter front signed; “Kent and Strathern”.
Dated Windsor, March 26th 1815. Addressed to W. De
Soyn, 33 Park, Bristol. Two short edge tears.
Quote Item No. 7858
Price: £20.00
KINGSLEY, CHARLES
(1819-1875; author of ‘The Water Babies’, etc.).
Autograph letter signed to, “Dear Sir”, 1-side 8vo:
“Most gladly wd I comply with your request but I am come home little
better than I went to the sea & shall have enough to get through my own
writer’s work here. So I fear you must still excuse me ….”
Eversley Rectory, Sept. 20, ’65. Laid down on a Victorian
album leaf.
Kingsley had just returned from three months on the
With, mounted to the reverse of the leaf, 5 other autograph
pieces including a single line in the hand of William Makepeace
Thackeray (1811-1863): “He had better have a set of all you
have, I have 2”.
Quote Item No. 9655
Price: £50.00
KNOWLES, JAMES SHERIDAN
(1784-1862; playwright).
Autograph transcript, signed, from his play ‘William Tell’ (first
performed at
14-lines on a single oblong 8vo sheet, fold marks, mounted to a
page from a Victorian album. Signed in full and dated 24th
Dec. 1847.
Quote Item No. 9735
Price:
£75.00
KRUGER,
OTTO (1885 - 1974: American actor).
Photograph, half-length, signed and inscribed, "To Stella, Best
Wishes". ca. 1938. The photograph 10 x 8 inches, tipped
onto an album leaf. ca. 1938.
Inscribed to the actress Stella Lang who doubled and stood in for
Vivien Leigh in the production, 'A Yank at Oxford' and for Mary
Maguire in 'Piccadilly Circus'.
Quote Item No. 10627
Price: £35.00
"L"
LAING, ALEXANDER
(1787-1857;
Scottish poet).
Autograph letter and poem signed. The letter, to Charles Kincaid
at
With on the conjugate leaf his autograph poem:
“The Wayside Flower”
- “There’s a moral, my
child, / In the wayside flower; / There’s an emblem of life / In its
short liv’d life ......”
3-stanzas, each of 8-lines. Signed and inscribed,
“To Charles G. Kincaid Esq. With the respectful and best wishes of the
author. 1848”. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Laing ‘the Brechin poet’ was the son of an agricultural labourer.
He received only two years schooling and became a cowherd at the age of
eight.
Quote Item No. 9744
Price:
£100.00
THE
LANDGUARD FORT LIFEBOAT 1821.
An original pencil drawing, on
parchment, showing the deck plan with buoyancy cases and seating,
inscribed, also in pencil, “Mr. Bayley Boatmans plan for a Life
Boat – like a Whale Boat. 26 feet by 6 x 30 inches
deep, to be light as possible & not exceed £100 pounds
Sterling in costs. This boat it is expected
can be launched by a few men – say 10 or 12 & well manned by seven &
will carry 18 or 20 upon any necessary occasion”.
Inscribed and signed in ink to the reverse; “First plan for a
Life Boat to be built at Ipswich
1821. This was extended to 30 feet & six wide but
should
be eight feet by thirty & 6 deep, B.W.
Page”. 6 ½ x 5 ¾ inches;
folded.
Benjamin William Page
(1765-1845, Admiral; for which see D.N.B)
raised by public subscription the funding for this life boat. Built
by Baleys of Ipswich she was launched in April 1821 near Stoke
Bridge, after undergoing trials on the Orwell, she was stationed at
Landguard Fort, Felixstowe.
Quote Item No. 8199
Price: £200.00
LANDSEER, SIR EDWIN (1802-1873: painter).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo, conjugate leaf removed, [to
the portrait painter John Partridge (1790-1872)
recipient’s name however removed with conjugate leaf] – “The only
dress I have was sent me by Her Majesty’s order, at this moment I am
attempting to paint from it, being obliged to go to Windsor
Castle tomorrow, half an hour ago I received your first note
– if I had had time I would have sent to beg you not to trouble
yourself to send here – as I conceive you are under some mistake – I
have no Lace but that which is attached to the Dress”.
No place, Aug. 11th 1842.
Quote Item No. 7251
Price: £65.00
LANG, ANDREW (1844-1912: poet,
folklorist, and a founder of the Psychical Research Society).
Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 8vo, to "My dear Sir"
returning some photographs and with a long postscript "Any
details of how spirits annoyed the living would be useful to my new
book ..... Do they rap or appear or move objects ......."
1 Marloes Rd. Kensington, July 31, n.y.
Integral leaf removed; glue mark to lower blank margin of
second side.
Quote Item No. 1548
Price: £125.00
LAUDER, SIR THOMAS DICK
(1784–1848;
Scottish author).
Autograph letter and transcript signed to:
“Sir” [Charles Kincaid]
“Yours of the 30th
ultimo came by so circuitous route that it is only now that I am made
acquainted with your wish to possess my autograph, together with a short
extract from one of my works …”
With, beneath the signature, the extract mentioned, 5-lines commencing:
“Ha! Cried the wolf recovering
himself……”
Dated The Grange House,
Quote Item No. 9749
Price: £75.00
LAUDER, SIR THOMAS
DICK
(1784–1848; Scottish author).
Signature and subscription cut from a letter, 4½ x 1¼ inches,
laid down and mounted to part of a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9772
Price:
£15.00
LEIGH,
VIVIEN
(1913-1967):
Fine large attractive and early
portrait of Vivien Leigh, signed & inscribed photograph. ca.
1938. Measuring 9 x 7 inches, the head and shoulders portrait,
looking half left, by Cannons of Hollywood (London) with their stamp
on the reverse & reference number, 2318-15. Inscribed to
Stella and signed,
Vivien Leigh, lower right. One short corner crease, a little
edge rubbed.
A
delightful image from ca. 1938.
Inscribed to the actress Stella Lang who doubled and stood in
for Vivien Leigh in the production, 'A Yank at Oxford' directed by
Jack Conway. A typed notice to this effect on the headed paper
of Arthur Goullet accompanies this photograph as does a 6 x 8 inch
photograph of Stella Lang herself, this stamped on
verso,
'Moss Vernon Productions' and 'Film-Snaps Studio, Charing Cross'.
The photograph of Vivien Leigh tipped onto an album leaf.
Quote Item No. 10623
Price: £575.00
LEIGH,
VIVIEN (1913 - 1967):
Autograph card signed and inscribed. ca. 1938. Autograph card
signed and inscribed, "Stella dear with best wishes". The
card 3 x 1¾
inches enclosed in the original envelope inscribed by Vivien Leigh,
"Miss Stella Lang". Some damage to envelope flap.
Inscribed to the actress Stella Lang who doubled and stood in for
Vivien Leigh in the production, 'A Yank at Oxford' directed by Jack
Conway.
Quote Item No. 10624
Price: £240.00
LEIGH,
VIVIEN (1913 - 1967) and OLIVIER, LAURENCE
(1907 - 1989):
A fine large and attractive photograph of Vivien Leigh and Laurence
Olivier taken in the year they commenced their affair, signed and
inscribed by both. 1937. Vivien Leigh has inscribed upper left
on a light portion of the image, "1937. Stella with many thanks
& good wishes" and signed Vivien Leigh. Laurence Olivier has
inscribed lower right across his jacket, "To Stella, Best wishes
ever" and signed Laurence Olivier. The photograph 10 x 7¾
inches, tipped onto an album leaf. Very short corner crease
upper left. Generally in fine and attractive condition.
It was during the filming of 'Fire over England' in 1937, in
which they both appeared, that Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier
began their affair.
Inscribed to the actress Stella Lang who doubled and stood in
for Vivien Leigh in the production, 'A Yank at Oxford' directed by
Jack Conway.
Quote Item No. 10625
Price: £575.00
LEIGHTON, FREDERICK, BARON
LEIGHTON OF STRETTON
(1830-1896; painter, President of the
Autograph letter signed, 3½-sides 8vo, to Miss Burrard:
“I should have written already yesterday to beg you to make my most
sincere thanks to Miss Burrard for the excellent study of a lily she has
so kindly drawn for me, it is capitally done & will answer my purpose to
a nicety & If I were not afraid of being indiscreet I should like to ask
a second from her & draw me a wreath of roses for the head of the
Saviour- but this would be perhaps encroaching on time & kindness.
My return to Lyndhurst will depend a good deal on Aide’s
movements, if he returns for the winter, as I hope he may, I shall
probably go down in November ...... Shall you be at Lyndhurst then?”
Saturday, no place or date. Inscribed in another, contemporary,
hand at head of first leaf, “F.
Leighton 1863”. Remains
of mounting stub on inner margin.
Leighton was engaged at this time in painting the altar piece fresco, of
the Wise and Foolish Virgins, for the newly built church at
Quote Item No. 9691
Price:
£200.00
LEININGEN, PRINCE ERNEST LEOPOLD (1830-1904;
Admiral, Comander-in-Chief at the Nore
1885-7).
Printed document signed, filled out by hand being a “Reference
Sheet” addressed to the Captain Superintendent, H.M. Dockyard
Sheerness. 1-page folio, folded.
Sheerness, 22 April,
1887.
Quote Item No. 6162
Price: £30.00
EXCURSIONS
TO LEAMINGTON AND THE COUNTRY AROUND & THENCE TO THE ISLE OF
WIGHT 1824:
The fully written up manuscript journal of Luke Thomas Flood
(1775-1860).
Click here
to
see full description
Quote Item No. 8206
Price: £400.00
LETHEBY, HENRY (1816-1876: analytical chemist, analyst of
foods for the City of London).
Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 12mo, to the Rev. Edwin Sidney
stating that he has been "making enquiries about my diagrams and
find that they will not be returned for some time" and that
therefore he will not be able to send them to Sidney.
Dec. 3rd 1844.
Quote Item No. 2492
Price: £45.00
Autograph letter signed, 1-side 8vo, accepting an invitation.
No place or date. Inscribed at head in another, contemporary,
hand, “Charles Lever”. Laid down, glue marks showing through.
Quote Item No. 9694
Price:
£35.00
LEWIS, CECIL DAY (1904-1972; poet).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 8vo,
to Katharine Munday of the Salisbury Poetry Circle, giving thanks
for an invitation but declining because, “I’m pegged down here
too thoroughly – except for an occasional weekend, when I go home to
Devon”.
Ministry of Information, London; 25th July, n.y. but
1941-45.
Quote Item No.
4854
Price: £40.00
Typed letter signed, 1-page 8vo, to
Katharine Munday of the Salisbury Poetry Circle regarding his
forthcoming reading and asking that “perhaps your members might
care to suggest any particular poems they would like to hear”,
with autograph postscript.
Box Cottage, Charlton Kings, Glos.; n.d.
Quote Item No.
4855
Price:
LINCOLN-GRANGE, L.F: Motor Ships and their Story.
The original typescript of this apparently unpublished work.
183-pages folio; tie bound.
Together with 12 folders containing another copy of the typescript,
arranged in chapters, with ca.111 original photographs with which it
was intended to illustrate the published book; these photographs
showing numerous ships, engines, etc.
Chapter headings include "The First Motor Ships", "American Motor
Ships during the 1920's", "Cargo-passenger liners", "Oil Tankers".
A well written and illustrated work.
Ca. 1958.
Quote Item No. 1329
Price: £250.00
LIVEING, GEORGE DOWNING (1827-1924: chemist, professor of chemistry at Cambridge 1861-1908, carried out spectroscopic investigations).
Autograph letter signed, 3-sides 8vo, to an un-named correspondent, perhaps the Rev. Edwin Sidney, "...... I understand you have kindly offered to write in my behalf with respect to the Chemical Professorship at Woolwich - Should you happen to be acquainted with Col. Portlock, Inspector of the Royal Mil. Academy, your recommendation of me to him would be of service to me ..... Col. Portlock wishes to make his recommendation to the Master General of the Ordnance on Tuesday next ..."
St. John's College [Cambridge], 20 Feb. 1852.
Sealing wax mounting marks to blank verso of integral leaf; neat repair to lower blank fore-corner of third side.
Quote Item No. 2490
Price: £65.00
LODGE, SIR
OLIVER (1851-1940: scientist).
His signature and subscription, "Yours faithfully Oliver Lodge"
on a 6 x 9 cm card.
Laid-down on a piece of paper which is inscribed "Autograph of
Sir Oliver Lodge received 23rd Aug. 1934".
Quote Item No. 2075
Price: £15.00
Engraved title and 4-page panoramic view of Cleopatra’s Needle from
the Thames extending over 4-pages, 1-page with engraved heading,
detailing the occurrence of eclipses, 12-page calendar, and 6-pages
of details of Cabinet appointments, postage rates, etc.
Miniature book, 2⅜ x 1⅜ inches, original burgundy moiré silk, all
edges gilt, enclosed in the original burgundy velvet slipcase with
gilt metal filigree to upper cover.
Fine and very attractive.
Quote Item No.
4856
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo, to, “My Dear Dana”
[Richard Henry Dana Jr. 1815-1882, American lawyer and writer]:
“Many thanks for your kind note and good wishes. We had a charming
supper at ‘Fields’, and deeply regretted your absence.
But you were right in not going, for the night was stormy, and
any exposure might have made you much worse. Do get well soon, and
don’t overwork yourself, if you can help it. With kindest regards
to Mrs. Dana. Ever your most truly, Henry W. Longfellow”.
Camb. [
Longfellow’s daughter Edith (1853-1915) married Dana’s son, Richard
Henry Dana III in 1878.
Quote Item No. 9694
Price:
£350.00
LUCY, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (1843-1924: journalist).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo [to Lord Inchape], commencing,
“Good Lord!" thanking him for a case of oranges, asking him
whether he remembers, “those delightful outings, invariably
cheered by the presence of dear old Zarnikow in his flame coloured
suit, & his pockets crammed with choice cigars?” and continuing,
“We hear that Lord & Lady Swaythling will shortly be your guests.
I would not like to introduce a note of discord … but I should,
perhaps, suggest that during their stay Lady Inchcape should keep an
eye on her husband. Lady Swaythling is as charming as she is
pretty, and as good as she is both……”
Whitethorn, Sept. 1922.
File punched, brown tape along upper edge.
Quote Item No. 7247
Price: £15.00
LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN
(1782-1873; jurist and abolitionist, represented Queen Caroline
at her trial before the House of Lords).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo, to:
“My dear Maria” [Burrard] –
“When I came home last night I had no idea you intended to leave
Quote Item No. 9700
Price:
£30.00
"M"
MACDONALD, GRANT,
R.C.A. (1909-1987; Canadian
painter).
A good autograph letter signed, 6-sides large 8vo, to Douglas
Eves, “I had not expected news of you except through Arnold [Edinborough]
so it comes as both a surprise and a pleasure. I can well
imagine your happiness when you first saw the English coast again.
Even I who do not rightly belong am made to feel I do by the sight
of it …” and continues by reminiscing about his time in London,
his experiences during his visit to New York, stating that he will
go to England, “if a pending book of my drawings shows sign of
going into publication” and concluding, “I am not a letter
writer so please do not be alarmed into believing this an invitation
to correspond… your letter, coming like a breath of calm into this
frenzied nightmare of New York, compels me to prolong the moment by
indulging in a reply”.
Beckman Tower Hotel, New York; 12th October, 1949.
Quote Item No.
4858
MACKAY, CHARLES
(1812–1889;
poet and writer).
Autograph transcription, signed, from his poem, ‘The Salamandrine’,
9-lines commencing:
“It stood upon the mountain side / Its porch with honey-suckle shaded,
Its windows screened from summer suns / by clustering ivy, bird invaded
………”
Dated. October 3rd 1845. 1-page 8vo, of pale yellow
paper. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9763
Price:
£100.00
MACKENZIE, HENRY
(1745-1831;
Scottish writer).
Autograph fragment unsigned, six lines on a scrap of paper, 4 x 3
inches, mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album, with, mounted below, a
letter from his son, J.H. Mackenzie, to Charles G. Kincaid of Glasgow,
explaining that he can only provide a scrap of his father’s handwriting,
“written in old age” as he does not have
a signature spare.
Belmont
Quote Item No. 9722
Price: £15.00
MAGUIRE,
MARY (1919 - 1974; Australian actress):
A charming photograph of Mary Maguire inscribed and signed, "Mary".
1938. Inscribed, "To Stella Hoping I will never have a stand-in
out side of you. Thanks." and signed, "Mary".
The photograph 10 x 8 inches, tipped onto an album leaf. The
photograph numbered within the negative 'T.C.P.Z./.E.84'.
Together with a typescript letter from Colin Leslie,
Casting
Director of 20th Century Fox, on their headed paper, sending Stella
Lang her contract (not present) for her part as stand-in for Mary
Maguire, "in our forthcoming production at present entitled
Piccadilly Circus". 27th May 1938.
Also a telegram, laid-down, asking Miss Lang to be on set as
stand-in for Mary Maguire at Elstree the following day.
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Item No. 10626
Price: £65.00
Her signature and subscription cut from a letter; laid down.
Quote Item No. 9670
Price:
£15.00
MANUSCRIPT
PLAY: COLUMBINE, DAVID ELWIN.
A manuscript of Columbine's "Marcus Manlius, a Tragedy in Five
Acts".
Folio, pp.85 together with calligraphic title and one leaf of
"advertisement" dated 1836, old marbled boards;
binding chipped.
* This play was published by Richard Bentley the following
year, in 1837.
Quote Item No. 2556
Price: £75.00
MARY, QUEEN (1867-1953:
Consort of George V).
Autograph letter on Buckingham Palace memorandum paper, printed at
head, "from the Queen", 1-page 8vo, to Lady Cust, "The
picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds, injured in the fire at Carlton Hse,
represents Frederick Duke of York - I promised to send you this
information".
Buckingham Palace, 10. Nov. 1929.
Contained within the original autograph envelope.
Quote Item No. 1542
Price: £50.00
MARY, QUEEN (1867-1953:
Consort of George V).
Autograph letter on printed Balmoral memorandum paper, inscribed
from "the Queen" in her hand at head, 2-pages oblong 8vo, [to
Sir Lionel Cust, Surveyor of the King"s pictures], "When I was at
Newburgh Abbey in Yorkshire ...... I came across a picture of a Lady
Bellasyse - now there is a picture at Hampton Ct. of a very handsome
Ly. Bellasyse (I don't know whether I have spelt it right) & I
wonder whether you can tell me who she was and why her picture is at
Hampton Ct.? I remember your telling me that the artist who painted
it is the same who painted Catherine of Braganza with the Lamb - any
information you can send me to Buck. P. will be gratefully
received".
5th Oct. 1923.
Quote Item No. 1541
Price: £115.00
MASEFIELD, JOHN (1878-1967:
Poet Laureate).
His signature and subscription; trimmed rather close to
subscription, signature unaffected.
Quote Item No. 1444
Price: £15.00
[MASEFIELD, JOHN]
- EVES, DOUGLAS (b.1922).
His manuscript diaries and commonplace books for the years 1941
(Jan-June) & 1949-1956.
The first diary commences whilst he is at Corpus Christie,
Cambridge, reading Classics, but his studies are interrupted by the
war, he being severely injured in combat. They recommence in 1949
and continue through, with occasional gaps, to 1956. During this
period he studies law at Lincolns Inn, becoming a member of Middle
Temple, teaches at Repton, and takes up an appointment as deputy
chairman of the family firm, the Ibstock Brick & Tile Co. near
Leicester. He has ambitions as a poet, visiting John Masefield
(see below) and also contemplates the stage but, from a limited
perusal of the diaries he appears to suffer much from depression and
lacks direction; he certainly finds no joy in working for the
family firm nor does he find law or his role as a schoolmaster
terribly rewarding. His diaries are generally descriptive
narratives of particular events or very observant pen portraits of
people he encounters. Included with these diaries are a photograph
of Eves and a copy of his privately printed ‘Reflections at Random –
The Story of a Life’ from which we learn that he taught not only at
Repton, but also at St. Peter’s, Weston-super-Mare, and the Dragon
School, Oxford, and that he was a friend of Sir John Betjeman.
The following extracts, chosen at random, will we hope give an
indication of the diaries as a whole, but the bulk of them remain
unread and may produce more of interest.
Written in ten 8vo and 4to notebooks.
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Quote Item No.
4861
His signature and date, London 1919 on a small green tinted album
leaf.
Quote Item No. 2119
Price: £45.00
Photographic postcard signed appearing
in “Tricorne”, full-length, by Baron. 5½ x 3½ inches. n.d.
Quote Item No.
4863
Price: £45.00
MASSINE,
LEONIDE (1895 - 1979; Russian-born
choreographer and ballet dancer).
Fine photograph signed , half-length, by Maurice Seymour. 8 x 6
inches. n.d.
Quote Item No.
4864
Price: £65.00
MEDICINE:
The cut signatures of the physicians, Sir Richard Jebb
(1729-1787); George Fordyce (1736-1802); Daniel Peter
Layard (1721-1802); the surgeon Sir Everard Home
(1756-1832); and the signature possibly of the
surgeon William Dalrymple (1772-1847).
All mounted to an irregular part of an album leaf together with the
signature of James Napier (1810-1884; dyer and antiquary).
Quote Item No.
4866
Price: £35.00
MELBOURNE, WILLIAM LAMB, VISCOUNT (1779-1848;
Prime Minister).
Autograph free front signed, addressed to Miss Bowles*, Buckland,
Lymington, and dated
* Caroline Bowles (1787-1854; poet) later to marry the poet Robert
Southey. From an album
compiled by Maria Burrard, a
second cousin of Caroline Southey.
Quote Item No. 9641
Price:
£30.00
MILNES, RICHARD
MONKTON, 1st BARON HOUGHTON
(1809–1885;
author and politician).
Autograph poem signed, 2 stanzas of 4-lines each commencing:
“Father! If we may well endure / The ill that with our lives begins ……”
1-page 8vo, on green paper; undated. Mounted to a leaf from
a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9774
Price:
£65.00
MILNES, RICHARD
MONKTON, 1st BARON HOUGHTON
(1809–1885;
author and politician).
Autograph translation, signed,
“From the German of Herwegh”,
8-lines commencing: “If my
Pegasus……”
1-page 8vo, undated. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9769
Price: £45.00
MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL
(1787-1855; writer and playwright).
Autograph poem signed, commencing:
“Fair May beneath her feet the
grass is set / With violets, cowslips, primroses, all wet / With perfect
dew, as any crystal clear. / The earth, the smile, the music of the year
is she........”
Signed, M.R. Mitford, and dated Three Mile Cross, Jan. 5th,
1845. 6-lines, 1-page square 8vo, mounted to a leaf from a
Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9729
Price: £180.00
MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL
(1787-1855; writer and playwright).
Autograph transcript signed, M. R. Mitford, being the opening
lines of her, ‘Mary Queen of Scots' Farewell to
Dated Three Mile Cross, Oct. 14th 1845. On a single
8vo sheet of pink paper mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9748
Price:
£125.00
MITFORD, MARY
RUSSELL
(1787-1855; writer and playwright).
Autograph poem signed, M.R. Mitford, headed:
“Extract from Christina – an early
poem”; 10-lines commencing:
“ A lovely desert they had found, / If desert ‘twere, where all around /
Lived herb & flower & flowering tree ………”
1-page small 8vo, dated Three Mile Cross, July 3rd 1845.
Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9783
Price: £150.00
MOIR, DAVID MACBETH
(1798–1851; Scottish physician and writer, known as ‘Delta’).
Autograph poem signed:
“Lines Written under a Portrait of Sir Walter Scott”; 6-lines
commencing: “Spirit of Homer
and of him ………”
1-page 4to, mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album. Undated.
Quote Item No. 9755
Price:
£50.00
MOIR, DAVID MACBETH
(1798-1851; Scottish physician and author, known as ‘Delta’).
Autograph letter signed, 3-sides 8vo, to,
Caroline Southey (1786-1854;
poet. Wife of the poet Robert Southey). Sending:
“ a little collection of verse commemorative of domestic bereavements”
and continuing by praising her work,
“ I must also apologise for the
intrusion – but really I can not look upon one – the thoughts of whose
mind I have though so many years known, so well and admired so much, as
a mere stranger and feel that on this score you will forgive me.
I have just read ‘The
young grey head’ and allow me to say that it is perhaps the most
touching and effective of all you compositions, not even excepting ‘The
Evening Walk’ which moved me, even to tears ....... Would to God, I
could convey through you to your illustrious husband my high admiration
.......... that your own health may remain improved and that you may
long be spared to adorn the female literature of England .....”
Musselburgh, 2nd Feb. 1843. Laid down by the blank
conjugate leaf to a page from an album compiled by Maria Burrard, a
second cousin of Caroline Southey.
Quote Item No. 9713
Price:
£100.00
MONTALBA, CLARA (1842-1929: painter).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 8vo to Sir Lionel Cust [1859-1929;
Surveyor of the King"s pictures] stating that "Hilda and I have
at last returned to London to see our friends .... you will not pass
our old Studio door without speaking a word to us. Every wednesday
afternoon you are certain to find us there ...."
Studio, Camden House Road, Camden Hill, n.d.
Some adhesion damage just affecting one letter of the address,
integral leaf removed
Quote Item No. 1531
Price: £25.00
MONTGOMERY, JAMES
(1771-1854; Scottish hymn writer & poet).
Autograph verse signed, 4-lines, commencing:
“From Young and Old, with every
breath…”
Dated The Mount,
Quote Item No. 9745
Price: £50.00
MONTGOMERY, JAMES
(1771-1854; Scottish hymn writer & poet).
Autograph poem, “Labour & Rest”, signed. Two stanzas of 4-lines each
commencing; “Work till the Evening
shadows close; / Sweet after
labour is repose ………”
1-page 4to. Dated The Mount nr.
Quote Item No. 9778
Price:
£125.00
MONTGOMERY, JAMES
(1771-1854; Scottish hymn writer & poet).
Autograph hymn signed, commencing:
“Eternity! Eternity! / That boundless, soundless, tideless, sea, / Of
mysteries the mystery, / What is Eternity to me? .........”
4-stanzas, each of 4 lines. Signed and dated The Mount nr.
Quote Item No. 9728
Price:
£200.00
MONTGOMERY, JAMES
(1771-1854; Scottish hymn writer & poet).
Autograph poem ,“Mark XV 31” commencing:
“ He saved others scorners cried,
/ Beholding Jesus Crucified .....”
6-stanzas, each of 5-lines on both sides of a single 4to sheet.
Signed and dated The Mount,
Quote Item No. 9740
Price:
£200.00
Autograph poem signed, “A Thought”, 6-lines commencing:
“I love the present, - but the
past / Hath such a spell around it cast ……”
Inscribed in another hand on lower margin,
“Robert Montgomery, Author of
Luther”. 1-page 8vo on blue paper, mounted to a leaf from a
Victorian album. Undated.
‘Luther’, his last long poem, appeared in 1842.
Quote Item No. 9756
Price:
£40.00
MONTALEMBERT,
An autograph note, in the third person, directed to Mr. Lucas, providing
tickets to attend the National Assembly. In French. 1849.
Quote Item No. 9686
Price:
£30.00
MOORE, THOMAS (1779-1852;
Irish born poet).
His signature and, “Sloperton
Cottage, October 1845”,
central on a single sheet of pink paper, 8vo. Mounted to a leaf
from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9727
Price:
£40.00
MORRIS, LEWIS
(1833-1907; Welsh poet).
The end of an autograph letter signed. 9-lines with
subscription: “…. it
is more than probable that they will forget all about it, & I shall not
remind them if they do …..”
Inscribed in purple ink in another early hand on lower margin,
“Author of Epic of Hades”. Laid-down.
Quote Item No. 9662
Price:
£25.00
MOTHERWELL, WILLIAM
(1797–1835; Scottish poet and ballad editor).
His signature on a slip of paper 3½
inches sq. Some foxing. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian
album; undated.
Quote Item No. 9770
Price: £30.00
MOTLEY, JOHN
LOTHROP (1814-1877: historian).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 8vo with integral leaf, complying to
a request.
31 Hertford Street, Mayfair, Dec. 20. 1860.
Quote Item No. 2220
Price: £15.00
MOYNE, BRYAN WALTER GUINNESS, 2ND
LORD (1905-1992; poet, playwright,
and novelist).
A good series of 6 autograph letters signed (12-pages), 2 typed
letters signed (3-pages), 5 correspondence cards/notes signed, to
Sheila Higgins, apart from 1 to Katharine Mundy, of the Salisbury
Poetry Circle; and a draft address by Guinness as president of the
society on its 60th anniversary in 1992, “That a small
circle of friends should have joined together in Salisbury as long
ago as 1932, to appreciate poetry, to write it and to listen from
time to time to the readings from laureates… besides publishing… the
unaffected and discerning work of its members deserves the lustre of
a Diamond Jubilee. But there is nothing of the static nature
of a jewel about the Circle. Its brightness and its endurance are
rather of the nature of a tree……”
The letters concerning play and poetry readings, one suggesting
inviting Laurie Lee to read, garden parties and other meetings etc.
Together with
an inscribed copy of his “Four Places” and a signed copy of “The
Absentee”, also a few other family cards/letters.
Biddesden House, Hampshire, & elsewhere; 1980-1992.
Quote Item No.
4871
Price: £75.00
MULLER, WILLIAM JOHN (or JAMES) (1812 - 1845;
Landscape Painter).
A good series of 4 autograph letters signed, in all 10-sides 4to,
all but the last with address panels and postal markings; usual
folds. The letters addressed to D.W. Acraman at Clifton, Bristol.
Interesting letters discussing suitable paintings for Acraman, his
changed style, his travels and, in the last letter, advising on
drawings lessons for Acraman's daughter.
From his letter of July 25th 1843: "Pray pardon my not
having written you before this. My excursion to Asia where I
am to meet the expedition now sending out under my friend Mr.
Fellows by Government engages much of my time as my preparations are
great ..... The subject I originally intended for you, as mentioned
to your son, the 'Opium Seller' I have been induced to change as he
seemed to wish a lighter picture - I have in consequence chosen a
view of Lago Maggiore. The size is 29 inches x 19½
...... I trust the selection will give you pleasure - I am painting
for London in a very altered school to my former productions, as
Egypt requires, but the present picture is done with a little of my
past feeling ......."
From his last letter: "I fearfully have neglected you,
firstly in not writing & secondly in not having forwarded the little
drawings but I am convinced had you been aware of my various
occupations since my return from 'Lycia' ... it
would some excuse ..... I have 3 small drawings
alias water colour sketches .... as I am not aware how far Miss
Acraman may have advanced - these are calculated to give her an easy
free manner (if she will have patience to copy them) which is a
difficult painting as they are not what is commonly called pretty or
what drawing masters in general recommend - as I do not belong to
that fraternity I may be pardoned - when speaking as an artist -
that to acquire a good method of sketching - easy & bold drawings
should be the first to copy ..... I had further hoped to have
enclosed you a small outline of an Eastern subject .... I cannot as
yet begin the picture, my being so hard pressed for the British Inst
....."
22 Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, May 24th & 30th, July 25th
1843 & November 6th 1844.
Quote Item No. 10671
Price: £240.00
MURRAY, JOHN
(1778-1843; publisher).
Autograph letter signed to Robert
Southey: “At the desire
of my own, & Mrs. Murray’s, excellent friend – Mrs. Trollope, I write
these few lines of introduction to you.
Her valuable writings will obtain for her a far more flattering
reception than any unnecessary recommendation from me.
Allow me to congratulate you upon your recent alliance with a
Lady of whose talents and amiability I have heard invaluable praise”.
Albermarle Street
Murray
With the related autograph letter from
FRANCES TROLLOPE
(1780-1863; novelist), in the third person, to
Robert Southey:
“Mrs. Trollope presents her
compliments to Mr. & Mrs. Southey and with her daughter and two sons
will have the honour of calling on them any morning after tomorrow that
they will have the kindness to name”.
Ambleside, Wednesday Aug. 7th 1839. Laid down on part
of another leaf from the same album, on the reverse of which is the end of a letter from
Lady Charlotte Bury
(1775-1861; novelist):
“Lady
Charlotte begs to apologise for this liberty”.
Quote Item No. 9681
Price:
£950.00
MUSSARD,
ANDREAS (fl. 1740-1765; Swiss miniature portrait
painter).
Autograph letter signed to Mr. George Parkin, Nottingham.
1-page, small 4to with conjugate leaf folded and addressed. ca.
1760. The letter in French, undated but ca. 1760.
The recipient has written a partial translation on the conjugate
leaf: "I have the honour to write to you to assure you of
my very humble respects & to present you with one History Piece of
Mars 7 Venus, as you are a connoisseur & Lover of Painting, and as
you have a good taste & paint yourself, I hope you will find the
piece of Mars & Venus after your own taste, it is the best piece
which I ever did in my life. I have finished it with the grand
Italian Taste with all the care & skills I was master of and it is
worthy of the gallery of the Grand Segnior or Prince....." etc.
Mussard placed an advertisement in the Bath Chronicle of 24 October,
1765: "This is to give Notice, to all Gentlemen and Ladies,
that ANDREAS MUSSARD, Native of the Republic of Geneva, LIMNER in
MINIATURE, is to come to this Town to exercise his Art for a short
Time. He was Disciple of the late celebrated Signora Rosalba in
Venice; has an extraordinary Talent for Portraits of
Resemblance and History Pieces; and not only for grown
Persons, but particularly for the extraordinary striking Likenesses
of Children; he has been in all the Courts of Europe. – If
there be any that choose to favour him with their Commands, he may
be heard of a Mr. Guedelle’s, Master of Languages, near the Theatre
in Orchard-Street, Bath."
Quote Item No. 8215
Price: £65.00