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
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
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
PEABODY, GEORGE (1795-1869; American entrepreneur and
philanthropist).
Albumen carte-de-visite portrait photograph by H.N. King. Circa
1860's. Size overall 4 x 2½ inches; very good.
Quote Item No. 12007
Price: £35.00
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
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
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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Price: £80.00
SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY (1751 – 1816;
Irish-born playwright and poet):
Autograph note signed. 1-page 8vo: "I have made over a Share to
C. Ward for which He has paid me - Please to make out the same in
the name of". Signed: R.B.Sheridan, \june 31st n.y.
Some smudging but not to the body of the text or signature;
traces of removal from an album on inner margin. The reverse of the
blank conjugate leaf inscribed, "Mr. Sheridans order for a share
to C. W. Ward".
*Charles William Ward, Secretary to the management of the
Drury Lane Theatre, of which, of course, Sheridan was the owner.
Quote Item No. 10990
Price: £165.00
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 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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Quote Item No. 8905
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
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
STANFIELD, CLARKSON (1793-1867; English Marine
Painter).
Albumen carte-de-visite portrait photograph by Maul & Polybank.
Circa 1860's. Size overall 4 x 2½
inches.
Quote Item No. 12005
Price: £35.00
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"
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
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
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
TROLLOPE, ANTHONY (1815-1889; Novelist).
Albumen carte-de-visite portrait photograph of Trollope, head &
shoulders within an oval, by Marcus Ward. Circa 1860's.
Size overall 4 x 2½
inches; slightly faded.
Quote Item No. 12001
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
VERNET, HORACE (1789-1863;
French Painter).
Albumen carte-de-visite portrait photograph, seated, by Disderi.
Circa early 1860's. Size overall 4 x 2½ inches; very good.
Quote Item No. 12003
Price: £40.00
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
"W"
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
Price:
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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Quote Item No.
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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Price: £475.00
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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Price:
£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