AUTOGRAPHS "N" to "Z"
N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z
"N"
NEALE, SIR HARRY BURRARD
(1765-1840; admiral).
Autograph letter signed, 1-side 4to, to Sir Charles Burrard at
Lyndhurst: “My Dear Charles” – “I think there is as good
a prospect of my becoming a Bishop, as there is of my being offered the
command at Portsmouth, but should I receive such an appointment, you may
rest assured that my application will be for you as my Flag-Captain ……”
Walhampton, Dec. 22
Neal was to be appointed commander-in-chief in the
Quote Item No. 9667
Price: £55.00
OBERON,
MERLE
(1911 - 1979; actress).
A fine and attractive photograph, inscribed 'To Stella, best wishes'
and signed. ca. 1938. The photograph 9½
x 6⅞
inches, tipped onto an album leaf. A delightful portrait in
excellent condition.
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. 10630
Price: £90.00
O'CONNELL, DANIEL
(1775–1847;
'The [Irish] Liberator').
Autograph address panel signed, addressed to Thomas Brooke,
Dated Wexford, December seven, 1838.
Inscribed vertically in paler ink on left hand margin, very
slightly affecting the first three letters of Daniel, “Posted on the
8th”. Laid down.
Quote Item No. 9643
Price: £150.00
O'NEIL, PEGGY (b. 1898; Irish-American actress).
Typed letter signed. Lyceum Theatre, Strand, 14th May 1929. To
a Mr. Berrey, "It was very charming of you to come into the
theatre. I was delighted to see you again and hear all the nice
things you said about 'Mercenary Mary'. I shall look forward to the
judging ......." Signed also with subscription in her
hand. 1-page 4to.
Interestingly Peggy O'Neil was the first person to be interviewed on
television appearing on an experimental Baird Televisor at the Ideal
Home Exhibition in Southampton in 1930. She is the subject of
the famous Irish ballad, "Sweet Peggy O'Neil," first recorded in
1921 by lyricists Harry Pease, Edward Nelson, and Gilbert Dodge.
Quote Item No. 10058
Price: £25.00
O’RELL, MAX (pseud. of Paul Blouet, 1848-1905;
French author, lecturer and journalist).
Autograph fragment signed, cut from the end of a letter, with
postscript:
“Please also say whether I am to give ‘John Bull Junior’ or ‘The
Scotch at Home’, I don’t mind which at all”.
No place or date.
Quote Item No. 3866
Price: £25.00
"P"
PALMERSTON, HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, 3RD VISCOUNT (1784-1865:
Prime Minister).
His signature on a free front, date indistinct. Glue marks
to reverse with some show through.
Quote Item No. 6314
Price: £10.00
A
VISIT TO PARIS 1840:
The manuscript journal of Elizabeth Todd, travelling with “Our
beloved mother, my brother, sister & my self”, leaving
London Bridge Wharf on board the Maquet
on 15th July 1840 for Boulogne.
Spending the night at Boulogne they depart the following morning by
diligence for Amiens which they pass through at night: “…we
watched the moon rise & then closing the windows of our Coupé sought
what rest we could whilst jolting over the stones…” arriving in
Paris the following morning where they; “sallied forth in search
of lodgings … the rooms on the 3rd floor are quite in a
fashionable situation, our suite comprised the whole floor &
contained drawing room, dining room, 3 bedrooms, k
itchen
etc … most of the rooms gently furnished…”
The rest of the journal describing in detail the usual sights
including a lengthy description of the Manufacture des Gobelins. The
journal ends abruptly on 27th July. 8vo, pp.34,
contemporary black roan.
* Elizabeth Todd married Luke Trapp Flood on the 18th
of November 1841.
Quote Item No. 8210
Price: £85.00
PARK, ANDREW (1807-1863;
Scottish poet).
Autograph song signed, commencing:
“Lend me thine azure eyes /
Beauty’s fond dwelling....”
2-stanzas, each of 8-lines. On a single sheet, mounted to a
leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9743
Price: £75.00
PARK, ANDREW
(1807–1863; Scottish poet).
Autograph poem signed, “Emmas Urn”,
two stanzas of 8-lines each commencing:
“Strewn with flowers of loveliest
hue, / Bathed in morning’s spangly dew …………”
1-page 8vo on pink paper; undated. Mounted to a leaf
from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9786
Price: £90.00
PARR, HARRIET
(1828-1900; novelist under the pseudonym ‘Holm Lee’).
Autograph letter signed to:
“My dear Mrs. Henry” – “ I am
detained this evening. Will you....come up to tea, ‘patty tea’ tomorrow
...... will you kindly just say ‘yea or nay’ to the bearer of this note
.... Tomorrow is Coronation Day & the shops will be shut”.
With postscript: “Next week when your thirst for the sea is a little appeased, I hope you
will come up to early dinner ....”
1⅓-sides, small
8vo. No place or date.
Quote Item No. 9684
Price: £45.00
PARR, SAMUEL ( 1747-1825; pedagogue ).
Autograph letter signed to a Mrs.
Brooke, written in his characteristic virtually illegible hand,
1-page oblong 8vo (3½ x 8 inches), address panel to the
reverse. 10-lines with subscription.
Nov. 24th, no place or year.
Tipped onto an album leaf together with a contemporary engraved
portrait of Parr; seven mounted free fronts to the reverse including
two signed by Reginald Heber (1783-1826; Bishop of Calcutta) – one
being signed with initials.
Quote Item No.
4878
Price: £90.00
PARRY,
SIR WILLIAM EDWARD (1790—1855;
Arctic explorer).
Two autograph letters signed, the
first to the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry: “My dear Mrs Fry , I
return you the interesting letter …… I can scarcely venture to give
an opinion as to the practicability of the plan of your humane and
intelligent correspondent but I am sure that it at least deserves an
experiment—for nothing can well be worse than the state of affairs
which he describes” and continues by requesting;
“Hannah send me word what convict ship (as there are 9 going)
and what is the name of the chaplain……” 3-sides,
8vo. 30 Weymouth St., 3rd July, 1829.
The second letter, to Hannah, is dated 9th July 1829: “There is
somehow a jumble about the person who is to take a box for me to
N.S.Wales and for whom I have sent a box full of prayer books and
other religious books, as likely to be the least objectionable at
the Custom-House …… your dear Mother said it was a chaplain. A note
from your brother John last night acquaints me that it is Dr
Osborne, Surgeon of the Lucy Davidson. Captain Young …… says he
knows of no chaplain appointed to any convict ship. Thus I am all
adrift …… I have only 4 days more in
London. Pray clear up this knotty point………” 3-sides,
8vo.
* Parry arrived in N.S.W. to take up his
appointment as Commissioner for the Australian Agricultural Company
in December, 1829.
Quote Item No.
8201
Price: £250.00
PARTRIDGE, SIR
BERNARD (1861-1945: artist and cartoonist).
Autograph note signed, 1-page 8vo, "Certainly:
I send you my signature with pleasure."
2, Orme Square, Sept. 7th, 1924.
Quote Item No. 2219
Price: £15.00
PARTRIDGE, JOHN (1790-1872:
“Portrait–painter Extraordinary to Her Majesty”).
A group of 24 autograph letters
signed, or in the third person, to Partridge from sitters, making
arrangements for sittings and other matters as below, eleven with
their original envelopes, mostly with traces of mounting to the
reverse:
Baron Ebury (1864); Lord Morpeth (1847); Lady Palmerston
(n.d.); Baron Willoughby de Eresby (2 – 1847); Sir James
Graham (third person, 1848); Charles Shaw Lefevre (5 - 1829,
1849 and n.d.); Lord Northampton (third person, 1828);
Lord Guilford (1830); Lord Dartmouth (1833); Baron
Stockman re pictures for the Queen (n.d.); Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland (2 – 1849 and n.d.); Marquis of Westminster (3 –
one in the third person – 1858, 1865, and n.d.); Baron
Ashburton (n.d.) Duke of Norfolk (1859); and, Marquis of Lansdowne
(2 – in the third person – n.d.).
Quote Item No. 7258
Price: £125.00
PEEL, SIR ROBERT
(1788-1850; Prime Minister).
Autograph free front signed. Marked “Private” and addressed
to Mrs. Southey*, Greta Hall, Keswick. The free frank dated 23rd
March 1843. Laid down.
From
an album compiled by Maria Burrard, a second cousin of Caroline Southey.
* Caroline Southey, wife of the poet Robert Southey. Written
two days after Southey’s death; it was Peel who granted Southey a
pension of £300 per annum in 1835.
Quote Item No. 9642
Price: £65.00
PEYTON, LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR WILLIAM ELIOT
(1866-1931).
Two autograph letters signed and one typed letter signed, two to
Major Durham Mathews, one to, “My dear
Field-Marshall”, all referring to an appointment for Mathews'
son, the strength of the regiment, vacancies etc.
4-sides, 4to (A.Ls.S) and 1-page,
4to (T.L.S.).
War Office, 31st July & 18th August,
1923, and 3rd January, 1924.
Quote Item No. 5338
Price: £25.00
PIOZZI, HESTER
LYNCH THRALE
(1741-1841; writer; friend of Dr. Johnson).
Two autograph notes, unsigned:
“Mr. Tasker has written some
verses for Johnson in which he compares him with Venus!
- a palpable Blunder Sir ! as Boswell says when he mimics him”
and
“No Frank can I get as I can see
no member either of Parliament or even of Society, they will all come
together presently tho’ & confound me.
God bless you my Dear & do write, & give my best Regards to Mr.
Crisp always - & do eats wings of chicken, & make Fun, there’s nothing
like it ! adieu”.
* William Tasker (1740-1800; Poet & Antiquary);
Samuel Crisp (1707-1783; Playwright;
Fanny Burney’s dear second ‘Daddy’ whilst she his dear ‘Fannikin’).
Laid down together on an album leaf, overall 7 x 3¼ inches. With,
laid-down below, an address panel in her hand,
“Miss Burney at Mr. Hamilton’s.
Chessington near Kingston,
With, laid-down below, another autograph note, unsigned, in the hand of
Frances (Fanny) Burney, Madame
D’Arblay (1752-1840; writer):
“A large party here have all
some separate small grievance; but all think their own of profound
importance, though they see with quickness, derision, & contempt the
futility of similar little chagrins or inconveniences in the
neighbours”. Inscribed in another, early, hand “Miss Burney,
Thi
Quote Item No. 9721
Price: £1,500.00
PITTER, RUTH (1897
– 1992; poet).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page small 8vo, thanking Katharine Munday
of the Salisbury Poetry Circle for a cheque and concluding, “I
was so glad to be with you all and very much enjoyed the occasion”.
Usual fold mark.
Old Church Street, Chelsea; 26th Nov., 1947.
Quote Item No.
4879
Price: £15.00
PLUMPTRE, EDWARD HAYES
(1821-1891; Dean of Wells, biographer of Bishop Ken).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo, to:
“My dear Lucas” –
“I have read the verses and think
they have quite merit enough to justify me sending them to Strahan with
a line of recommendation ......”
No place, Sept. 27th 1867.
Inscribed in another, contemporary hand at head,
“Plumptre”.
Quote Item No. 9706
Price: £20.00
LONDON
and ESSEX – EARLY 18th CENTURY
MANUSCRIPT DIARY:
The manuscript diary of Thomas Prat (1686?-1756) the fourth son of
Dr. Samuel Prat (1657-1723;
Canon of Windsor and Dean of Rochester – for which see
D.N.B.).
The diary opens on 21st August, 1728 and concludes on the
18th September, 1731.
Thomas had inherited his father’s freehold estate in
Stratford, Essex, and his time is spent between Stratford and London
although later in the diary much of his time is spent at Chobham
where he farms.
He is appointed as a Justice of the Peace for Essex in
1729.
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Price: £3,300.00
PRIESTLY, J.B. (1894-1984:
playwright and critic).
His signature and date, Aug. 21st 1944; central fold.
Quote Item No. 1440
Price: £10.00
PRINGLE, THOMAS
(1789–1834; Scottish poet, journalist, and philanthropist).
Autograph inscription, unsigned,
“To Archibald Constable Esq. With
best Compliments from the Author.
On a piece of paper 4 x 5 inches. With an early
biographical note on Pringle on lower margin and provenance of this
piece: “The above was extracted
from his ‘Autumnal Excursion and other poems’ 1819 – his first poetical
publication”. Foxed. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian
album.
Quote Item No. 9747
Price: £28.00
"Q"
"R"
RAMBERT, MARIE (1888 - 1982: ballet
director).
Autograph postcard signed, with printing heading of the Rambert
Ballet, to the School of
Painting and Drawing, 12 Fitzroy Street, W.1, "Thank you so much
for asking me. Alas, I will be away on the 17th, else I would
have come with pleasure."
Postmarked 2nd Dec. 1937; traces of mounting to address face,
some smudging to the ink.
Quote Item No. 2191
Price: £25.00
RAYMOND & WHITCOMB COMPANY: Log Book, Round Africa Cruise, 1929. Being
a Brief Description of the Land of Cham, Together with the Customs
and Manners of the Inhabitants ......
Boston: Raymond &Whitcomb Co., 1929.
Black & white illustrations throughout, map. 8vo, pp.124, original
cloth-backed embossed boards gilt, no dustwrapper; binding slightly
bumped at headbands and with two very slight white marks to front
cover, else good; internally, some joints cracked and stitching
slightly slack. Mr W.C. Balle's copy with his name in gilt on upper
cover. The blank diary pages provided in the volume are fully
written up with his daily observations of this cruise which departed
from new York on January 12, 1929 and arrived at Southampton, March
26.
Quote Item No. 1160
Price: £30.00
RICARDO,
DAVID (1772-1823: Economist. The principal founder of
the classical school of political economy).
Autograph letter wrapper signed. A letter wrapper, complete,
addressed by Ricardo to W.W. Currie, Gt. George Street, Liverpool,
dated London May eleven 1820 and signed in full lower left.
Stamped free. Black wax seal to reverse. A rare
signature.
The recipient William Wallace Currie (1784-1840) was Mayor of
Liverpool 1833/36. He was the son of James Currie, the
campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade.
Quote Item No. 8213
Price: £750.00
RIDLER, ANNE (1912 – 2001; poet & librettist).
Typed letter signed, to Katharine
Munday of the Salisbury Poetry Circle, 1-page 8vo, stating that she
will be driving down with her husband and had been asked to lunch by
Lord Moyne prior to her reading and concluding, “I can’t for the
life of me remember that I have written a poem called ‘Rain’, but I
hope to clear this up when I come to Salisbury!”
Usual fold marks.
14 Stanley Road, Oxford; 6th March, ’80.
Quote Item No.
4882
Price: £15.00
ROBERTS, FREDERICK SLEIGH, 1st Earl Roberts of
Kandahar (1832-1914: Field-Marshall).
Photograph signed on the mount, also signed by his wife, Nora, and
inscribed: “Taken on our jubilee wedding day” [1909] . The
photograph showing them arm in arm on a garden terrace.
Size of image 3½ inches square,
mount 5½ inches square; mount foxed.
Quote Item No. 6773
Price: £30.00
RODGER, ALEXANDER
(1784–1846; Scottish poet).
Autograph poem, “Maggie
Howe”, signed; 3-stanzas each of 8-lines commencing:
“Maggie how I joy to see ……”
1-page 8vo, on green paper. Undated. Mounted to a leaf
from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9780
Price: £100.00
RODNEY, GEORGE BRIDGES, 1st BARON RODNEY
(bap.
1718, d. 1792; admiral).
Good autograph letter signed to:
“My dear Lord” [most likely
the Earl of Wigtown], 3-sides 4to:
“Many many thanks for the very
kind favour of your letter and the paper enclosed.
* Rodney had
taken the Dutch
Quote Item No. 9623
Price: £750.00
ROGERS, SAMUEL
(1763-1855; poet).
Autograph transcription, signed,
of his poem: “Oh, if
the selfish knew how much they lost / What would they not endeavour, not
endure / To imitate, as far as in them lay/ Him who his wisdom and his
power employs / In making others happy!”
1-page 8vo, 5-lines, signed and dated Sept. 30, 1845.
Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9726
Price: £125.00
ROGERS, SAMUEL
(1763-1855; poet).
Autograph quotation signed from William Cowper:
“The path of sorrow, & that path
alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown”.
Dated April 30th, 1845.
Oblong 8vo. Mounted to part of an album leaf.
Quote Item No. 9746
Price: £60.00
ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART
(1775-1843; poet and translator, of Ariosto's '
Autograph pass signed: “Allow the bearer, Miss Bowles to see
the house & garden at Gundimore”.
June 2nd 1825. Laid down. Gundimore, Rose’s seaside villa
at Mudeford, Nr. Christchurch, Dorset.
Caroline Bowles, the future wife of the poet, Robert Southey.
Quote Item No. 9664
Price: £65.00
A bound folio volume of the
work of 2nd
Lieutenant JOHN WALTER JULIAN RAIKES
(1888-1974)
whilst undertaking the
construction course at the
Price: £325.00
RUSKIN, JOHN
(1819-1900; art critic).
Autograph letter signed, 1-side 8vo, to: “Dear Miss Owen” –
“I heartily beg pardon – I quite forgot that I had not answered your
last note – Your MSS must have reached you (as I hope) soon after you
wrote it …. You are entirely free to make any use of mine that you like,
Always faithfully yours”.
Denmark Hill, 5th Feb.
Quote Item No. 9674
Price: £250.00
"S"
SAFMARINE: S.A. "Vaal".
Souvenir of the final passenger voyage of the South African Mail
Service "Vaal" in 1977 listing the crew of the first voyage of the
service in 1857 and that of this the final voyage; with coloured
illustration of the ship at sea. T
ogether with four copies of the "Farewell Dinner" menu.
Quote Item No. 1297
Price: £12.00
SAMOSA GARCIA, ANASTASIO (1896 - assassinated 1956: Nicaraguan
dictator).
Document signed, "A. Samosa" as El Presidente de la Republic,
accepting Archibald Wallace Robertson as British Consul General to
Nicaragua to reside at Managua. 29th July 1946. Printed
document filled-in by hand, 14 x 18 inches, countersigned by El
Secretario de Estabo en el Despacho de Relaciones Exteriores and
with two blindstamp seals. A few short marginal tears, at one
time folded into four, some creasing and surface soiling.
Quote Item No. 2103
Price: £220.00
SAMUEL, HERBERT LOUIS, 1ST VISCOUNT
(1870-1963; Liberal politician and
philosopher; 1st High
Commissioner of Palestine 1920-1925).
Typed letter signed, 1-page 4to, to Mrs. Hovell,
“……As to my doings …I have been getting on with the book and hope
to finish…before the new Parliament meets…Einstein’s death was a
grief, but he seemed to me very frail when I last saw him, in
Princeton three years ago. I
think he would have been ready to comment on my early
chapters…………John Bowle has just come back from a visit to Israel to
get background for his Palestine chapter; he was much impressed by
what he saw………”
32 Porchester Terrace, 18th May 1955.
Paper toned, file punched, tear on fold.
Together with another, brief, T.L.S. to Mrs. Hovell
thanking her for her birthday greetings.
Quote Item No. 6153
Price: £20.00
SARTORIS,
Her signature, with subscription cut from a letter; vertical fold
marks, laid down.
Quote Item No. 9659
Price: £15.00
SAY, FREDERICK RICHARD
(fl. 1826-1858; portrait painter, exhibited R.A. 1826-1854).
Autograph letter, unsigned, perhaps lacking last leaf. 4-sides
4to to Mr. Acraman. He complains that only 4 of the 6 pictures
sent to the exhibition are to be hung, of those not selected he
writes, "now these two pictures are your little buttons, & Mrs.
Bullers little buttons, for the former I feel a considerable share
of chagrin as certainly it was the best of the whole ......"
He continues by discussing his painting "The Little Ramblers"
being portraits of the daughters of D.W. Acraman and mentions that
he is, "altering, or with much modesty I say it, improving a
whole length picture by Sir. Thos. for Lord Castlereagh ... painted
in 1808, but a very indifferent performance, for the proportions
were terribly out, after shortening the figure about a foot ....
when his Lordship called this morning he saw the improvement but
could not tell how it had been made, for I had been very happy in
assimulating the handling and colours of my work with the other
parts of the picture" and continues by mentioning the failing
health of the King, "it will be a most unhappy thing if he does
go off at this time as the Season in London will be completely
annihilated ..."
He concludes by saying that he will be sending a painting and that,
"you shall have the size of the frame in my next".
No place, April 28th 1830. Usual fold marks, some splits on folds,
some dust marking.
Quote Item No. 10670
Price: £65.00
SCHWEITZER,
ALBERT (1875-1965: philosopher):
His autograph signature, in full, on the reverse of a printed card.
The card being an advertisement for his lecture, to the Glasgow
University Philosophical Society on "Ethics in Present-day German
Philosophy" on Tuesday, 19th November, 1935. The card measuring 3⅝
x 2⅜ inches. Some offsetting to
side bearing signature.
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Item No. 8214
Price: £80.00
SIGOURNEY
Very fine autograph letter signed to
Caroline Southey.
3-sides 4to with address panel:
“My dear Mrs. Southey” –
“It was one of my deepest regrets
to leave
Hartford
From an album compiled by Maria Burrard, a second cousin of Caroline
Southey.
* The D.N.B. entry for Caroline Southey quotes from a letter she
had written to Lydia Sigourney, obviously in response to the above
letter, she writing: ‘The last three years have done on me the work of
twenty’. Robert, who died on 21st March 1843, had
suffered from rapidly advancing senile dementia, the early signs of which were
apparent immediately after their marriage on 4th June 1839.
Quote Item No. 9677
Price:
£950.00
THE
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS: EXTRACTS OF LETTERS FROM SARAH R. GRUBB.
Manuscript volume so
titled, comprising, on 143-pages,
transcripts of numerous letters from Sarah Grubb, and also
letters of T. Hoyland, Henry Tuke, Tabitha Middleton, Elizabeth Tuke
and others. 4to,
contemporary half crimson roan, marbled boards.
The paper water-marked 1827;
transcribed about this date. The letters from which these are
transcribed, ca. 1778 – 1795.
We have been unable to establish whether the original letters
from which these transcripts were made are extant.
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Quote Item No. 8902
Price: £450.00
THE
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS -
QUAKERS: Manuscript with heading, "Daniall Bell's
sermon, Preached at Gracechurch street at Deborah Bell's Buriall the
7th day of the 9th Month 1738". Also: "A Sermon
Preach'd at Wheeler street by Lydiah Lancaster the 10th of ye 10th
mo. 1738".
Two manuscript sermons, the first of 11-pages, the second of
17-pages, small 4to, remainder blank. Old wrappers, sewn.
Inscribed at front, "John Funston, 1738".
Quote Item No. 9125
Price: £45.00
THE
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN ENGLAND & PHILADELPHIA: WHEELER FAMILY OF
CRANFIELD, BEDFORDSHIRE & HITCHIN, HERTFORDSHIRE:
Two volumes of
transcripts of family and other letters relating to this prominent
Quaker family, together with some autograph letters signed and other
pieces inserted.
Inscribed at front of first volume:
“Memoirs of Joshua
Wheeler born 1635 died 1711;
Joshua Wheeler born 1704 died 1749;
Rudd Wheeler born 1728 died 1807;
Joshua Wheeler born 1755 died 1803”.
Elizabeth, the second
wife of the latter Joshua Wheeler, was the daughter of William Tuke
of York. His first wife
was Elizabeth Brown of Ampthill, Bedfordshire.
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Quote Item No. 8904
Price: £750.00
THE
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS: WHEELER FAMILY
OF CRANFIELD, BEDFORDSHIRE & HITCHIN, HERTFORDSHIRE: A manuscript
volume with calligraphic title:
“Letters etc. of the
Wheeler Family, 1697 to 1803 – My boast is not that I deduce my
birth, From loins enthroned and Rulers of the earth, But higher far
for my proud pretensions rise – The child of parents passed into the
skies”. With
facing pen & ink drawing of
“The Residence of Joshua Wheeler – Cranfield”.
The volume comprising the transcripts
of numerous letters between members of the family and between
friends. Neatly written
on 248-pages, 4to and bound in half black roan, marbled boards. ca.
1840’s. With ten
autograph letters signed, 1743-1802, tipped-in.
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Price: £600.00
THE
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS: MANUSCRIPT DIARY:
Being,
“Some account of my
attending the Yearly Meeting in 1807”.
Unsigned. Fully
written up on 49-pages, 8vo, 4th May–2nd June,
1807. The affairs of
Ackworth School discussed, mention of Sarah Grubb amongst many
others.
Original wrappers, inscribed on endpaper;
“The Tenth years
account of my being at the Yearly Meeting”.
The front wrapper inscribed;
“An Account of my attending
the Yearly Meeting in 1807.
Which account in not included in any of the larger Memorandum
Books where several of the accounts of my attending the Yearly
Meetings are included”
“I left home … in company with Martha Smith,
nothing material occur’d on the road to notice here – We were
favour’d to get well to London about 5 on 5th day
afternoon – the cordial reception I met with from my relatives in
Old Jury seem’d to have a very cheering influence upon me
……
“Sixth day forenoon I was at Westminster Meeting … Martha Smith
first appeared in testimony, … … Elizabeth Wheeler was next engaged
in a lively testimony – then Sarah Abbott – John Conrad was also
engaged with clear demonstrative authority to advocate the course of
Truth … - the Baptizing influence of Truth in a remarkable manner
seemed to solemnize the Meeting into a state of tender sensibility ,
after which Martha was engaged in supplication and the Meeting
appeared to close under a solemn covering of Divine regard… … …”
*
Sarah Grubb (1756-1790;
Quaker minister and writer) married Robert Grubb of Clonmel,
Co. Tipperary in 1782.
In 1786 she accompanied Rebecca Jones of Philadelphia on a visit to
Wales and in 1787 to Ireland;
in 1788 she accompanied the Americans George and Sarah
Dillwyn to the Netherlands, Germany, and France.
[see D.N.B.]
Quote Item No. 8906
Price: £200.00
THE
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS: ACKWORTH SCHOOL:
“A true Copy of a
Letter written by a Parent to his Children at Ackworth School in the
Year 1790”.
Manuscript, 8-pages.
Together with an acrostic and 4-pages of,
“Verses supposed to be
written by Alexander Selkirk who was shipwrecked on the Island of
Juan Fernandez”.
Small 4to, contemporary marbled wrappers;
last leaf torn, ca. 1790’s.
Quote Item No. 8907
Price: 90.00
THE
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS: COMMONPLACE BOOK:
Comprising, neatly written on
166-pages, advice on obedience of children from the,
“Yearly meeting of ministers
and elders 1805; “Some
Account of……Eliz’h Ashbridge”;
“A Brief Memorial of … …my mother Fidelity Wheeler”;
“On Tythes”; “A
Testimony deliver’s by Isaac Sharples”;
“Verses composed by Eliz (Brown) Wheeler and found in her
Pocket Book after her decease��;
“A Testimony from Hitchin monthly meeting converning Josua
Wheeler”; “… a few
particulars respecting Joshua Wheeler which were taken down by his
wife”; “The Testimony
of York monthly meeting concerning …Esther Tuke…1794”;
“A testimony from the monthly meeting of the middle division
of the county of Somerset concerning Samuel Clothier Bryon”;
Extract of a letter from Mathew Franklin to his wife while in
New England 8 mo 1812”;
“John Churchman’s advice to a young woman on the subject of
marriage”; “ On the Death of Sarah Grubb” verse by L. Hird, and
other manuscript verse;
“Richard Shackleton to James Abell”;
“A testimony of Wellingboro Monthly Meeting
concerning…Tabitha Middleton”;
“Some Expressions of Joseph Sparkes Dymond , late of Exeter”;
“Some Minutes left by Thomas Browne of Philadelphia”; “Yearly
Meeting of Ministers and Elders 1805”;
“A Tribute to Filial Affection”;
and other testimonials, etc.
Small oblong folio, contemporary full sheep, ca. 1800-1815.
Signed S. Robson at front and with partial index of contents.
Quote Item No. 8908
Price: £320.00
THE
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS ENGLAND & AMERICA:
COMMONPLACE BOOKS OF MARY ALLCARD:
56-pages of manuscript in two volumes comprising:
“On War to Mr. J. M.
Grays Inn 1793” (15-page verse on the American War of
Independence); “A sorrowful
account of several young persons in America who going on a Party of
Pleasure after attending a Quarterly Meeting… … were drowned”
(3-pages);
“Extracts of a letter from
Philadelphia 2nd Mo 7 1772”;
“Some remarkable
circumstances attending the pillaging of David Sands house in North
America” (6-pages); “A
Compendium of a Controversy on Water Baptism between a Clergyman and
a Quaker”
(5-pages);
“Elegy written in an ancient
Quaker’s burial ground about the year 1769”;
“Ura or the Georgian Sultana” (3-pages), and other
pieces, verse, etc.
Two volumes, 4to, contemporary marbled wrappers, paper of one
volume watermarked 1806. With another Commonplace Book, manuscript
on 60-pages, 4to comprising:
“Copy of a Dream Mary Brooks had in the beginning of the Year 1776”;
“Salem Osgood Advice
to his Children” (12-pages);
“Some Verses on the
Yearly Meeting at Preston” (by David Hall);
“A Copy of a Letter
from John Cash …1799” (4-pages);
“On the Shipwreck of
Edith Lovell and Joseph Sparrow who perished in their passage from
Cork to Bristol addressed to her Sister by her Friend M.S”
(9-page verse); and
other verse etc. The
last leaf dated 1829 but commenced earlier.
Quote Item No. 8909
Price: £360.00
THE
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS ENGLAND & AMERICA: COMMONPLACE BOOK:
Manuscript on 68-pages, 4to (most likely by Richard Cockin of
Doncaster) comprising:
“A Speech deliver’d by an
Indian Chief about the year 1710 in Reply to a Sermon preached by a
Swedish Missionary in order to convert the Indians to the Christian
Religion” (5-pages);
“Advice to the
Indians. To
Netawattwaleman, and the rest of the head men of the Delaware
Indians … … and all the other Indians living beyond the Ohio … … by
Israel Pemberton 1773” (5-pages; a near contemporary copy);
“Some Minutes left by
Thomas Brown of Philadelphia, deceased” (5-pages);
“An Account of some
weighty Expressions that dropt from our Friend John Churchman…”
(6-pages);
“copy of a Letter from Samuel
Fothergill to a widow in America on his hearing of the Decease of
Her Husband” (4-pages);
“Heads of Advice from
York Quarterly Meeting held 26th & 27th of the
6 mo, 1776, to be Communicated by the representatives to their
respective Monthly Meetings” (5-pages);
“Copy of Clemency Willits
Letter to a Friend in Philadelphia” (5-pages);
and other pieces, verse etc.
The last leaf inscribed;
“Finished Transcribing this
Manuscript the 15th of the 2 Month 1779”.
4to, old worn marbled wrappers, 1779.
Quote Item No. 8910
Price: £750.00
THE
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS:THE COMMONPLACE BOOKS OF RICHARD COCKIN OF
DONCASTER.
Manuscript on 111-pages,
4to, in two volumes, comprising:
“A Short Memorial of Judith
Hill…” (41-pages); “An
extract from Mary Peasley’s Journal which remains in Manuscript … …
Transcribed from M. Smith’s copy 12th Mo 20th,
1789” (2-pages);
“Copy of a letter from a
Clergyman to Patience Brayton of New England when on a religious
Visit in old England, Reciv’d 2nd Mo, 1786” (5-pages);
“Mary Brooks letter to Jno Hall a Baptist Teacher formerly
her acquaintance … … transcribed 4 Mo 16th, 1778 from
John Dollin’s Copy” (37-pages);
“Samuel Fothergills
Letter to a Person near Leeds in answer to his letter wherein was
enclosed Cos. Cayley’s letter to the Quakers at Leeds … …
transcribed the 4th of the 8th Mo, 1778 from
[?] Prior’s Copy”
(7-pages);
“A Relation of a Vision to a friend by Sam’l Fothergill at
Preston in Lancashire… … transcribed the 6th of the 8th
Mo, 1778 from Eliz. Boulton’s Copy” (2-pages);
“Some Expressions
dropt in Testimony by Wm. Hunt in a Friends Family”
… … transcribed the 7th of the 8 Mo 1778 from
Eliz. Boulton’s Copy” (1-page);
“The life of the Happy Man &
Reflections arising from well known events … … transcribed 8 mo 31st
1778” (7-pages);
and “Directions for sailing
into Felicity Harbour” (3-pages).
Two volumes contemporary wrappers; wrappers dusty, 1778–1789.
One volume inscribed;
“Rich. Cockin, Doncaster 1786” the other;
“Richard Cockin No. 35 Pudding Lane 4 Mo 16th, 78”
[or 79].
With:
LIBRARY CATALOGUE:
Manuscript, “Inventory
of Books belonging J.C. & Co.”, List of “Books belonging to Sarah” &
“To Thomas Cockin” . 5-pages folio, remainder blank. Original
marbled wrappers. ca. 1800.
Quote Item No. 8911
Price: £225.00
SOMERVILLE, WILLIAM
(1675-1742; poet).
Autograph letter signed to: “My Dear Lord” – “I shall
half ruin you with my letter but my Parliamentary Friends are at such a
Difference that I can not apply to them for Franks.
I return your Lordship my best thanks for your kind condolence
and as I am now alone I hope you will not forget your promise in
November, by which time the Deeds will be finished and we may execute
them together. Your servant Reynolds is gone to Adderbury to my
Mother to take Directions from her own mouth about her Funeral.
Edstone, 27th Sep. 1731. 1-side 4to; mostly laid
down on a Victorian album leaf, left hand section folded and a little
edge chipped, some browning and spotting.
His wife, Mary, had died on the 5th September 1731.
Quote Item No. 9650
Price: £225.00
SOUTHEY [née BOWLES], CAROLINE
ANNE (1786-1854;
poet, wife of the poet Robert Southey).
Autograph letter
signed, 3-sides 8vo, to her cousin Charles [Burrard:
“I have a little private communication to make to you ..... which will I
am sure give you pleasure.
Much to my surprise at receiving by this days post a very handsome
letter from Lord Derby, to acquaint me that at his recommendation the
Queen has been pleased to place me on the Civil list for a pension of
£200 pr.an ...... Is that not some thing to be thankful for? - &
indeed I am so“.
She continues by saying that she needs two trustees for the pension and
asks Charles if he is prepared to be one:
“will you dear Charles .........
Ld. Derby’s communication being marked private – as it may
perhaps be some time before the matter gets into the press., I do not
mean to make it known to any but yourself & Laura, Sir George & Mrs.
Roche & the Warters. I do
not think I shall long burthen the Civil list but I am certainly
something better than I was - & if it please God to prolong my life
beyond this year –
Buckland, Friday night, n.d. [but 1852]. Laid down by the blank side of
the conjugate leaf to a page from the album of Miss Maria Burrard,
a second cousin of Caroline Anne Southey. Inscribed in another,
contemporary, hand at the head of the first leaf,
“Mrs. Southey (Caroline Bowles)”.
With, laid down to the reverse of the leaf, two other
autograph pieces, one being an autograph note (or upper three-quarters
of a letter) unsigned from
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
(1820-1910; hospital reformer) to a Mrs. Hillier:
“Mrs. Smith is so good as to say
that you will go with me to Edinburgh where I am obliged to go tomorrow
on business. I start very
early – and I think you had better come here tonight to sleep ....
please bring a week’s things.”
30 Old Burlington Street
Quote Item No. 9696
Price: £500.00
SPENDER, SIR STEPHEN (1909-1995:
poet).
Autograph letter, 1
15 London Road, St.John"s Wood, April 25th
1950.
Folded and with file punch holes to left
margin and with printed slip pasted to lower blank margin.
Quote Item No. 1495
Price: £75.00
SPRING-RICE, SIR CECIL ARTHUR (1859-1918:
diplomatist).
Autograph
letter, 1-page small 8vo, to "My dear Lionel" [Cust]
"Blessings on you! I enclose a piece of Chinese embroidery ...."
Bryanston Square, n.d.
Quote Item No. 1550
Price: £15.00
Autograph letter signed, "Stanley",
to H. Smith regarding a petition, “…on
the subject of the four & a half per cent Duties as affecting the
Island of Antigua, to which you desire my support………… I am free to
admit that the manner in which the tax is levied, and the mode of
application are open to my grave objections……” etc.
3-sides, 4to, folded, split in two at
central fold.
Carlton Gardens, Feb. 11th,
1837.
Quote Item No. 5946
Price: £25.00
The manuscript minutes of the Christchurch Daily & Sunday Schools,
Salford, signed 18 times by Hugh Stowell, with printed
reports.
Salford, Manchester: 1848.
96-pages of manuscript minutes of meetings of the committee, bearing
18 signatures of Hugh Stowell, dated between 1848 and 1854, with
seven printed reports tipped-in with a few other pieces, a notice of
the re-opening of the school, etc. 4to, contemporary quarter
roan, lacking backstrip.
Hugh Stowell was the incumbent of Christchurch, Acton Square,
Salford, during this period.
Quote Item No. 8876
Price: £100.00
STRICKLAND, AGNES
(1796-1874; historian).
A good autograph letter signed, 8-sides 8vo, to:
“Dear Madam” [Caroline
Southey] – “I am sorry that
the first time I have the honour of addressing you should be for the
purpose of calling your attention to a paragraph in the
Reydon Hall, Wangford,
From an album compiled by Maria Burrard, a second cousin of
Caroline Southey.
Quote Item No. 9715
Price: £300.00
STRUTHERS, JOHN (1776-1853; Scottish poet and anthologist).
Autograph letter signed to Charles G. Kincaid, 1-page 8vo
incorporating a 12-line poem commencing:
“Woman, thy hallowed name inspires / Heaven breathing thoughts, with
soft desires / Formed every stage of life to please / Childhood is
sooth’d upon thy knees.......”.
Gorbals,
Quote Item No. 9730
Price: £125.00
A curious autograph note signed, 2-sides oblong 8vo.
On the first side Sumner has written,
“And the undersigned now appeal to Congress for the full payment
of their just claim, & for such further legislation as may be
suggested by the premises”. On
the reverse he has written, “ I know
nothing about the within scrap”.
Signed and dated Boston, 31 May, ’65.
In the original autograph envelope address to Messrs. John
Pilkington & Son, Philadelphia; the envelope also signed. Conjugate
blank removed.
Quote Item No. 5947
Price: £140.00
Autograph poem, “Forgive to
Forget”, signed. Two stanzas, each of 4-lines commencing:
“Forgive and forget! Why the world
would be lonely, / The
garden a wilderness left to deform ………”
1-page 8vo, on blue paper; mounted to a leaf from a Victorian
album.
Quote Item No. 9777
Price: £50.00
"T"
TALFOURD, SIR
THOMAS NOON
(1795–1854;
writer, judge, and politician).
Autograph transcription, signed, from his play ‘Glencoe, or,
The Fate of the Macdonalds. A tragedy’. From Act III,
26-lines commencing: “When a
fragile bark convey’d our little household ………”
Signed and dated 7 November 1845. 1-page 4to, mounted to a
leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9782
Price: £100.00
TAYLOR, SIR HENRY
(1800-1886; poet).
Autograph letter signed, 1-side 8vo, and autograph verse. In the
letter, addressed to a Mr. Lucas, he writes: “.... you wish for my
autograph, which you will find within in the shape of a song, taken out
of a play of mine called ‘A Sicilian Summer”. On the conjugate
leaf
The Roost [
Quote Item No. 9647
Price: £120.00
His signature and date, London 1919, on a small tinted album leaf;
another signature to the reverse.
Quote Item No. 2122
Price: £25.00
TEIGNMOUTH, JOHN SHORE, 1ST BARON (1751 - 1834;
Governor-General of India).
Autograph letter signed. 2-sides 4to, with address panel on
conjugate blank, to the Reverend Dr. Steinkopff expressing great
concern for the recipient's health. Usual fold marks, some
browning.
Earl Street, Feb. 2nd. 1824
Quote Item No. 10668
Price: £25.00
Document signed, as Secretary of War, requesting the names of the,
“Three Deserters of the Militia who have enlisted in the Line,
and who were sent from Ireland to
this Country…”
1-page folio with conjugate blank. Addressed to Major Genl.
Hope, Edinburgh. War Office, 31st Jan. 1810.
Fold mark through signature, corners creased, some light soiling.
Quote Item No. 5948
Price: £38.00
TENNANT, WILLIAM
(1784–1848; Scottish scholar of oriental languages and poet).
Autograph poem, signed,
2-stanzas of 6-lines each,
commencing: “The Almighty Lord in
his hand doth hold …”
Dated Villa of Devongrove, Dollar [Clackmannanshire], 7th
October, 1845. 1-page 8vo on pale pink paper mounted to a leaf
from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9754
Price: £75.00
TENNANT, WILLIAM
(1784–1848; Scottish scholar of oriental languages and
poet).
Autograph poem, signed,
9-lines , commencing: “Where is thy dwelling, life repairing sleep / Hast thou a temple……”
Dated Devongrove, Dollar [Clackmannanshire] 20th Sept. 1845.
1-page 4to, on green paper. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian
album.
Quote Item No. 9790
Price: £75.00
TERESHKOVA, VALENTINA NIKOLAYEVA (1937 -
): Soviet Cosmonaut; the first woman in space.
Menu for a "Select Dinner Given in [her] Honour" by the
British Interplanetary Society at the Piccadilly Hotel, London, on
Tuesday 4th Feb. 1964.
Signed by Tereshkova and by A. Soldatov [Russian Ambassador?].
Central fold mark.
Quote Item No. 1544
Price: £150.00
THACKERAY, ANNE (1837-1919;
novelist).
Autograph letter signed. 3-sides 12mo, to:
“Dear Lady Margaret” –
“It is so wet that I don’t like to
bring the children away to day & this is a petition to implore
leave for your little girls to come to tea at 5 o’clock. It would be so
kind of you .....”
No place or date. Mounting stub on inner margin of last, blank,
leaf.
Quote Item No. 9697
Price: £35.00
THACKERAY, WILLIAM
MAKEPEACE
(1811–1863;
novelist).
Autograph letter signed to Charles G. Kincaid at
1-page 12mo with blank conjugate leaf. Kensington, Jan 18 n.y.
Enclosed in the original autograph envelope with red wax seal.
Some dust marking, fold mark. Laid-down by the envelope flap to
part of a page from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9789
Price: £325.00
THEATRE:
The actress, Miss Julia Murray’s album,
comprising, on one side only of 12 tinted leaves, autograph
inscriptions as under. The delightful Miss Murray, presumably
appearing at the Princess’s Theatre, seemingly entranced the
contributors to her album:
HARLEY, JOHN PRITT
(1786-1858; actor and singer, excelled in role of Shakespearean
clowns). Three quotes from Shakespeare signed, 1 full-page 4to,
commencing, “Thou Julia, thou hast metamorphos’d me, made me
forget my studies, lose my time…”etc. July 1st,
1856.
MEADOWS, DRINKWATER
(1799-1869; actor). Shakespearean quote signed: “There’s
language in her eye, her cheek, her lips, nay her foot speaks”.
July 9th, 1856.
COOPER, JOHN
(fl.1810-1870; actor). 5-line quotation,
signed. Dated Royal Princess’s Theatre; July 9th,
’56.
KEAN, CHARLES
(1811?- 1868; actor, Manager of the Princess’s Theatre 1850-9).
Autograph quote signed, half-page 4to: “She looks like Ceres in
her harvest; corn, wine, and oil, milk, honey, gardens, groves, and
purling streams, play on her plenteous face”. Royal Princess’s
Theatre; 11th November, 1857.
KEAN, ELLEN
(1805-1880; actress, wife of the above). Autograph quote
signed (on the same leaf as the above): “Lord, what fools these
mortals be!” Dec. 5th, 1857.
BARTLEY, GEORGE
(1782?-1858; comedian). Autograph quotations signed:
“Let the Court of France shew me such another!”, “I saw how thine
Eye would emulate the Diamond” & “Thine Own true knight, By
day or night, Or any kind of light, with all his might, for thee to
fight”.
READE, CHARLES
(1814-1884; novelist and dramatist, author of “The Cloister and
the Hearth”). Autograph inscription signed: ”Here is an
impromptu writ all in a hurry, At Beauty’s command Miss Julia
Murray”.
RYDER, JOHN
(1814-1885; actor). Autograph Shakespearean quote
“improved for the occasion”, 1 full-page 4to: “May you live
linger than I have time…..”etc. Royal Princess’s Theatre; July
15, 1856.
CUNNINGHAM, PETER
(1816-1869; author and critic, treasurer of the Shakespeare
Society, author of “Handbook of
London” and many other works).
Autograph verse signed, 1 full-page 4to: “To Miss Julia Murray”
– “Skilled Actress, and with beauty Harley says, Meadows and
Harley give alike their praise, At forty I approve – skilled men
admire, Old Men applaud – and younger men aspire, Hands ache in
praise- and I in English tongue, Unequal to your praise – must ever
think her young”. 10 Dec., 1857.
SIMPSON, JOHN PALGRAVE
(1807-1887; dramatist and novelist).
Autograph verse, half –page 4to: “Tis said, you witch, you
‘Storms in Teacups, rain, But yet with you to drink a cup of tea, If
any evening you would make me free, I’d brave your spells, e’en
though my wits they craze. Besides, you often ‘Live too Fast’ I
hear – Yet, had I but chance for a while, To live beneath the
sunshine of your smile, My life would also run too fast, I fear”. 17
December, 1857.
SMITH, ALBERT
(1816-1860; author and lecturer, known for
his entertainments at the Egyptian Hall). Autograph verse
signed, half-page 4to: “Simpson and Co. have praised you so,
I’ve naught to say beside, Except that I a tour would try,
With ‘Murray’ for my guide!”
Dec. 21, 1857.
ROBSON, THOMAS
(1822?-1864; the greatest comic actor of his day, manager of the
Olympic Theatre). Autograph inscription signed: “I’m Shylock
at your service…” Royal Olympic Theatre; July 1st,
’60.
FISHER, DAVID
(1816?-1887; actor). Autograph quotes,
from Herrick etc. signed, 1 full-page 4to, “Some asked me where
the rubies grow, And nothing did I say, But with my finger pointed
to, The lips of Julia….” etc. July 15th, 1856.
BALFE, MICHAEL WILLIAM
(1808-70; composer of “The Bohemian
Girl” etc.). Autograph musical quotation (“andante
cantabile”), both instrumental and vocal, from the “Bohemian
Girl: “In such a moment I but ask that you’ll remember me”.
1 full-page 4to. Signed & dated London; April 2nd,
1858.
PARRY, JOHN
[ORLANDO] (1810-1879;
actor and entertainer). Autograph dialogue “Mrs.
Roseleaf – again!” and musical notation with vocal score
“Wanted a Governess fitted to fill, the post of tuition with
competent skill” to be sung “With a ‘daily paper’ kind of
expression!” 1 full-page, signed and dated Oct. 1st,
1873.
Together with
a few others, including a full-page autograph verse by the ballad
writer H. St. Leger; remainder blank. 4to, contemporary full
gilt morocco, lacking backstrip and lower board, upper board
detached; with Miss Murray’s small book label on upper pastedown.
Quote Item No.
4898
Price: £425.00
His signature on an envelope front.
Postmarked 20th August 1857.
Quote Item No. 6317
Price:
Autograph, “Song of Old Time”,
signed. 10-lines commencing:
“Best ye all forget, while ye rail
at your doom ………”
1-page 4to, undated. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.
Quote Item No. 9771
Price: £75.00
TRAIL, ANTHONY (1838-1914; Provost of Trinity College, Dublin).
Autograph letter signed to the Editor
of “Irish Life” – “As I have just recovered from the only illness
I ever had in my 74 years of active life, you may perhaps wish to
insert my photograph in your “Irish Life” along with the picture of
the beautiful “Beech Trees” at my Country Residence”.
The letter untidily crossed through. 1-page 8vo. Trinity College,
Dublin, 17th Jan. 1912.
Quote Item No. 5345
Price: £15.00
TROLLOPE, ANTHONY
(1815-1882; novelist).
His signature and subscription cut from a letter. Laid-down, some
browning. Inscribed on upper margin in another, contemporary hand, “Anthony Trollope”.
Quote Item No. 9692
Price: £60.00
TUPPER, MARTIN F. (1810-1889; author of “Proverbial Philosophy”).
His bold signature and subscription cut from a letter. 4½ x 3½
inches.
Quote Item No. 3870
Price: £20.00
"V"
VAUGHAN, BERNARD
(1847 – 1922; Jesuit
priest, social reformer).
Autograph sentiment, four lines commencing,
“Measure thy life by loss and not by gain…”
1-page, oblong 8vo, central fold.
Signed and dated Aug. 31st,
1907.
Quote Item No. 5346
Price: £30.00
Concert programme for the evening of 12th May 1869. The
programme printed in gold within wide paper-lace floral borders,
“Buckingham Palace”
in large gilt letters printed at head over royal arms embossed in
gold and colours. Performers included Santley, Nilsson, and Gardoni.
10 x 8 inches with integral blank. The paper-lace borders
stamped Ortner & Houle, 3 St. James’ St. Apart from one small edge
chip a fine example of these elaborate programmes.
Quote Item No.
4909
Price: £75.00
Music programme for the 23rd June, 1871. The programme
printed in blue within elaborately embossed wide borders, “Buckingham
Palace” in large blue letters printed
at head over royal arms embossed in gold and colours. The concert
comprised 9 pieces including works by Gounod, Meyerbeer &
Mendelssohn.
9 x 7½ inches with integral blank, the embossed borders
stamped Ortner & Houle, 3 St. James’ St. Fine.
Quote Item No.
4911
"W"
A
TOUR INTO NORTH WALES
THROUGH MATLOCK, HARROGATE, CUMBERLAND, & LIVERPOOL 1828:
The manuscript journal of Luke Thomas
Flood (1775-1860) travelling with his wife, son (also Luke, b.1809)
and daughter on an 880 mile excursion of over three months into
Wales, the Lakes, and with visits to Liverpool, Birmingham, York,
& elsewhere, 17th July – 21st October 1828.
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Quote Item No. 8208
Price: £425.00
WALKER, TED
(1934 – 2004; poet).
Autograph letter signed, 1½-pages 4to, to Kit Parry of the Salisbury
Poetry Circle making arrangements for his intended talk to its
members and amusingly reminiscing, “I was interested to hear
about the old Diocesan College…I have very vivid memories of the
place as it was in 1953 when I went to a dance there one summer’s
evening. Terrifying! The Principal obviously disapproved of
all males (can’t blame her for that!). We danced to gramophone
records. I think all of us chaps had to be vetted. A
contingent of what were called ‘Y.O’s’ (young officers) had been
brought in by bus from somewhere: They were O.K. because they were
‘gentlemen’ who held the King’s Commission – or was it the Queen’s
by then? I was okay because I was an undergraduate at
Cambridge. Young theological students from
across the Close were okay because they were Men of God. After
it was dark outside, suddenly a huge stag beetle got into the hall,
terrifying the young ladies. The Principal immediately turned off
all the lights (which the Y.O’s took as an unexpectedly propitious
sign inviting dalliance); but then she switched them on again, to
show how the stag beetle had fallen helpless to the floor.
Which is what I wanted to do……”
Annotated by the recipient at end, usual fold marks.
Argyll House, Chichester; 24th Sept., ’93.
Quote Item No.
4916
Price: £25.00
WARD, CHARLOTTE BICKERSTETH
(1822-1896; writer for children).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo, to Miss [Maria] Burrard:
“I read your little poem to
Mr. Ward on our journey and we both liked it much, it is so simple and
tender, producing an effect because it aims at none.
I have sent by this post my little book ‘Doing and
Suffering’....”
Blendworth Rectory, Horndean, June 8th 1871. Inscribed in
another, contemporary, hand at head,
“Charlotte Bickersteth Ward”.
Quote Item No. 9705
Price: £35.00
His signature on an envelope front. Penny red.
Postmarked 1853.
Quote Item No. 6312
Price:
WARREN, SAMUEL
(1807–1877; lawyer and writer).
Autograph transcript, signed, from his novel, ‘Ten Thousand a Year’
(Vol.1, pp. 115 & 116), commencing:
“Hush ! hush! Now she sleeps! ...”
Dated
‘Ten Thousand a Year’ was first published in 1841.
Quote Item No. 9741
Price: £55.00
WEBB, ALLAN (1839-1907;
Bishop of
Autograph letter signed, 4-sides 8vo, to Miss Burrard thanking
her for a gift and giving instructions for its safe shipment to South
Africa: “it will require
great care in packing so as to bear the up country journey ....”
Quote Item No. 9698
Price: £25.00
Signature, "N. Webster",
cut from the end of a letter with subscription.
4¾ x 2 inches. Light fold mark.
Quote Item No. 5953
Price: £125.00
Autograph letter in the third person, 1-side 8vo: “The
Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Lt. Colonel Leach and has
received his note and is much obliged to have his journal which he will
peruse with much interest”.
London
Quote Item No. 9639
Price: £150.00
WILKIE, SIR DAVID (1785 – 1841: painter).
Autograph letter signed, 1-side 8vo, with conjugate leaf, to the
portrait painter, John Partridge (1790-1872) excusing himself due to
ill health, “…a cold, something like influenza keeps me to the
house and puts it quite out of my power to make one of your party…”
Kensington, Wednesday July 19th 1833.
Quote Item No. 7250
Price: £35.00
WILLIAMS, GEORGE
(1814-1878; divine & topographer).
Autograph letter signed in his very small hand on 2-sides 8vo, to:
“My dear Lucas” –
“..... I had a letter from Bishop McDougal which made it somewhat
doubtful whether he would be able to take my place at Ringwood ..... if
he does, and you have occasion to write to him, I will send you a short
treatise on the titles of Dowager Bishops, who are actual Archdeacons;
which, you will see, further complicates the question ....”
The College, Isle of Cumbrae,
Quote Item No. 9712
Price: £20.00
WILSON,
SIR HAROLD (1916 - 1997: Prime Minister).
Typed letter signed to a lady in his constituency of Huyton
shortly before the 1959 General Election. The letter offering
to send a car to take her to the polls and continuing,
"After the 8th October, if I am still your M.P., I shall be glad to
take up your case again, but unless there is a change of Government
I do not see Mr. Boyd-Carpenter being any more co-operative……"
On the headed paper of the Huyton Constituency Labour Party
incorporating a photographic portrait of the "Candidate Harold
Wilson".
1-page 4to, dated 6th October 1959.
Usual folds, brown spots top and bottom, in the original stained
envelope.
Quote Item No. 6589
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Autograph letter signed to,
“My Dear Friend”, 1-page small 8vo, about some songs:
“…… I have read them through with
a great deal of pleasure – there are some very pretty things among them
…… there are some …… pithy bits by Ballantine ……”
Quote Item No. 9791
Price: £30.00
WINGATE, SIR [FRANCIS] REGINALD (1861-1953:
soldier; Governor General of the Sudan).
Typed letter signed, 1-page 4to, to R.E.H. Baily, Secretary, Royal
Empire Society, stating that he will accept the invitation "to be
present at the Ceremony on November 12th when T.R.H. the Duke and
Duchess of York graciously consented to open the Society"s new
building ...."
Queen Anne's Mansions, St James's Park 24th.Sept. 1936.
File hole upper left.
Quote Item No. 1535
Price: £20.00
WINGATE, SIR [FRANCIS] REGINALD (1861-1953:
soldier; Governor General of the Sudan).
Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 8vo, to Sir Frederick Sykes
accepting an invitation, "... I shall be in the City that
morning, so we may arrive independently. We are much looking forward
to seeing you both again ..... Splendid news about Addis Ababa!"
Goring Hotel, Belgravia, 6.4.'41.
Quote Item No. 1534
Price: £35.00
WOLFF, JOSEPH
(1795-1862; missionary to
Cut signature, laid down, vertical crease. With the signature of John
Kaye (1783-1853; Bishop of Lincoln) mounted to the reverse.
Quote Item No. 9657
Price: £15.00
WOLFF, JOSEPH (1795-1862;
missionary to Mesopotamia, Persia
etc.).
His signature and subscription cut
from the end of a letter, 2½ x 1¼ inches, laid-down on part of an
album leaf, no date.
Quote Item No.
4922
Price: £15.00
WOOLLCOTT, ALEXANDER (1887-1943:
American writer and actor).
His signature and "Christmas Day 1942 (1941) (a Mistake)".
Quote Item No. 1433
Price: £15.00
MARQUIS, FREDERICK JAMES, first Earl
of Woolton (1883–1964;
politician and businessman).
Typed letter signed, Woolton. Ministry of Food, 13th June,
1941. To Sir Emsley Carr of the News of the World: "I
should very much like to have the opportunity of meeting the Editors
of the National and Sunday newspapers for a frank, confidential talk
about the food situation" and inviting him to lunch at the
Savoy. With note by the recipient on lower margin. 1-page 8vo.
Quote Item No. 10057
Price: £20.00
WORLD
WAR I -
NAVAL ENGAGEMENT: [EVANS, SIR E.R.G.R;
'Evans of the Broke']. Retained
carbon copy report, with autograph corrections, unsigned, from the
Commander of H.M.S. Swift regarding the celebrated
action of 21st April, 1917 when the Swift in
company with H.M.S. Broke commanded by Evans mounted a
remarkable attack, engaging five German destroyers in darkness
off the Dutch coast. During the encounter Evans sunk one
destroyer by ramming it and another following hand-to-hand fighting
on the deck of H.M.S Broke, a third was also sunk.
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4924
Price: £200.00
The manuscript diaries of
Captain (later Major) CUTHBERT JOHN BELL
(1905-1967) 116211, R.A.S.C.
in the
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WORLD WAR II
- ARMY SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL TRAINING:
An extensive series of ca. 500 autograph letters from 935325
Sergeant Instructor William J. Jones, Army Physical Training Corps,
to his fiancé, later wife, Phyllis also addressed affectionately as
“Muffy”.
The letters written from
various English postings, Northern Command, Aldershot, York etc.
and, in 1945 from Greece. Together with several hundred
photographs.
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£350.00
WYNDHAM, SIR GEORGE O’BRIEN, 3rd
EARL OF EGREMONT (1751-1837; patron of fine art).
Autograph address panel signed, “Egremont”,
addressed to Miss Langford, 23 Upper Harley Street, London and dated
Petworth April Thirtieth 1829.
Attractively mounted to a contemporary folio album leaf with
engraved arms and contemporary engraved portrait of Egremont.
With two further address panels, signed by the Bishops of Chester
and Worcester and an engraved view of Worcester Cathedral mounted to
the reverse of the leaf..
Quote Item No.
4925
Price: £35.00
YONGE, CHARLOTTE MARY
(1823-1901; novelist).
The upper part of an autograph letter to Miss [Maria] Burrard:
“I well remember that pleasant day we spent together at
Laid down on part of a Victorian album leaf with, mounted below, the
signature and subscription from the letter. Eldersfield, Sept. 27th,
Quote Item No. 9669
Price: £20.00