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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
SLAVERY and PIRACY - CUBA 1789:
PAGE, BENJAMIN WILLIAM (1765-1845; Admiral).
Manuscript: “Log & Journal of His Majesty’s Schooner Supply, Lieut. Page,
commencing the 9th May & ending the 16th June, 1789 on a
Voyage from Jamaica to Cuba by order of Com. Gardner”.
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description
Quote Item No. 8198
Price: £2,000.00
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
PALMERSTON, HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, 3RD VISCOUNT (1784-1865: Prime Minister).
Two autograph letters signed [to the portrait painter, John
Partridge], 2-sides 8vo with conjugate leaves, making arrangements for a
sitting.
C[arlton] G[ardens]16th and 22nd August 1849.
Some offsetting of ink when folded; traces of mounting to reverse of
conjugate leaf.
Together with two autograph letters signed from Lady Palmerston, also to
John Partridge, one inviting him to dinner at stating that Lord Palmerston,
“will not fail to be with you at 2 o’clock for his sitting”, the other
asking for the address of an artist.
Piccadilly and Carlton Gardens, 27th July & 4th August
[1849].
4-sides 8vo, one with conjugate address panel. Traces of mounting to
reverse.
Together with a reproduction of Partridge’s portrait of Palmerston in the
National Portrait Gallery collection.
Quote Item No. 7256
Price: The five pieces, £55.00
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
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
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
PINCHES, T.R.
- Engraver: Royal Cameo Alphabet. Dies Engraved by T.R. Pincher.
Sumfield and Jones, Printers, Embossers, n.d. ca. 1850.
Engraved and
embossed card, 11¾ x 9½
inches, embossed with cameos representing the letters of the alphabet in white
on blue backgrounds with a decorative background printed in sepia. The dies for
the cameos engraved by T. R. Pincher. Repairable 2 inch tear into
left-hand margin just above the cameo for the letter D but with no loss.
A charming and
attractive alphabet. Rare.
Quote Item No. 8216
Price: £150.00
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
PRIESTLY, J.B.
(1894-1984: playwright and critic).
His signature and date, Aug. 21st 1944;
central fold.
Quote Item No. 1440
Price: £10.00
A QUAKER
TRAVELLER IN THE MINISTRY – FRANCE & ITALY 1864:
The manuscript journal of an unidentified Quaker minister travelling through
France and Italy.
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Quote Item No. 8194
Price: £225.00
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: 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-Whitcombe Co., 1929.
Illustrations
throughout, map. 8vo, pp.124, original cloth-backed embossed boards gilt; very
good. 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, DAVID (1796-1864: Painter).
Signature with subscription: “Your Ob’t Ser’t” on a slip of
paper 4 x 1½ inches cut from a letter.
Quote Item No. 7855
Price: £20.00
ROBERTS, DAVID (1796-1864: Painter).
The lower half of an autograph letter signed, written on both sides, most likely
to the Artists' General Benevolent Fund, pleading the case of an engraver:
“… petitioner Mr. Turrel the engraver who appears to be labouring under great
distress from his long want of employment, arising from no want of exertion on
his part, but from circumstances over which he has had no controls. I
have long known him as a Landscape Engraver, several of my works having been
executed by him for the Landscape Annual and other works....” 7
Fitzroy St. Dec. 24th 1846.
Quote Item No. 7856
Price: £45.00
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
RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR:
Autograph letter signed
from Ernest G. Barton, on board H.M.S. “Espiegle” at Chin-Wang-Tao, to Miss
Godley.
8-pages 8vo,
dated 18th June, 1904.
“Very
many thanks on behalf of the Espiegles for your very kind enquiry concerning the
well being and safety of us all, and we assure you we appreciate and value the
interest you have always taken in your small ship, and those who sail in her.
We spent a very interesting winter at New Chuang… … … It was a novel
experience making and getting the ship into a mud dock, cut in the bank of the
river, for the town is about 14 miles from the mouth of the Liao, and we
were laying about a mile above the town, with the Russian
and an American man-of-war just above us again. The whole country about New
Chuang is terribly bleak and dreary, being nothing more than a mud plain, with
roads, houses, walls, all composed of mud, and the ice and snow soon assume the
same colour. We were very friendly with the Russians, who were most civil and
hospitable, but after the commencement of the war, their manner changed
somewhat… … … There was naturally a good deal of anxiety and apprehension on the
part of the foreign community, as it was fully expected the Japanese would
attack as soon as the ice in the river broke up. Consequently most of the women
and children left, and the Russians became very active in making preparations
for defence, at the same time martial law was proclaimed, and foreigners
restricted in their tramps abroad… … … I still hear all is peace and quiet
there, as its time for Japanese occupation has not yet come, but must soon do
so. I know many alarmist reports appeared in the papers regarding New Chuang ,
which was to be expected with over twenty war correspondents living in the
place, who had to earn their pay… … … We saw a good deal of the Russian Troops
and were not impressed by the appearance of the Siberian Regiments, but the
cavalry and artillery looked finer men, and were beautifully horsed. We passed
P. Arthur at daylight on the 13th April, the morning the
Petropavlovsk was lost, on our passage to Wei-hai-wei, and saw a part of the
Japanese fleet engaging some of the Russian ships. It would not be desirable to
go close to the Liao-ti-shan promontory now, on account of the submarine mines.
After a month at Hong Kong, we were ordered to this place, to be near New Chuang
in case of emergency… … … … The Japanese are now apparently making preparations
for the assault on P. Arthur. It is said they will employ 40,000 men, and
expect to lose 20,000 and to have the fortress in a fortnights time. In
action they claim to ever go forward, never to turn back. They are very
formidable foes… …”
Quote Item No. 8187
Price: £150.00
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
SEDDON, RICHARD JOHN
(1845-1906; Prime Minister of New Zealand).
Typed letter signed, 1-page 4to, to Major-General Baden-Powell, “this will
serve to introduce you to Major A. Bauchop, C.M.G. who has served with
distinction in the New Zealand Fourth, Seventh and Eighth Contingents,
completing a period of two years and three months’ continuous trekking in South
Africa with our regiments. He now intends to settle in that country” and
continuing by further praising Bauchop.
Gilt embossed arms of the Prime Minister of New Zealand’s office at head.
Partially laid-down on an album leaf, slightly torn and creased on vertical
margins. The first use of Bauchop’s name in the letter crossed
through.
Cape Town; 29th September, 1902.
* Seddon was at Cape Town on his way to England to attend Edward VII’s
coronation. Major-General Robert Baden Powell, 1st Baron, following
the siege of Mafeking, raised the South African Constabulary 1900-1903.
Quote Item No.
4884
Price:
Autograph change of telephone number card signed. Printed card filled out by
Shaw, noting the telephone number of, “Mrs Bernard Shaw & Mrs Higgs, Ayot St.
Lawrence” has been changed to “Codicote 218”. Signed “G.
Bernard
Shaw”. Addressed by Shaw to the reverse to “Mrs. Camp, Rose Cottage,
Gustard Wood, Wheathampstead” and postmarked 20th Sept. 1937. A
few short edge tears but generally sound.
Quote Item No.
4886
Price:£150.00
SMITH-DORRIEN,
SIR HORACE LOCKWOOD (1858-1930: General).
A good autograph letter signed, 2-sides 4to, to, “My dear Vaughan”
[General John Vaughan] regarding the circumstances leading up to the battle of
Le Cateau, 26th August 1914:
“You will probably have seen that Lord F[rench], repudiating his
original dispatches, is holding me up to the public as the fons et origo of all
his difficulties in 1914. Amongst other things he states that I fought at
Le Cateau in spite of General Allenby’s warning that if I did so my force would
be surrounded on the morning of 26th Aug. At about 1.30 or 2
a.m. on the 26th you came into my H.Q ….. with General Allenby & the
following is what I say took place - Generall Allenby told me his
Division had had an exhausting time, that 2½ Brigades were about Catillon & 1½
B’des about Caudry & Ligny & that he could get no orders from G.H.Q. whereupon I
asked him if he would act under my orders if I decided to fight & he agreed – as
a matter of fact it was General Allenby’s report of the scattered & tired state
of the Cavalry Division which was the deciding factor as to whether I should
attempt to go on with the retreat or not – my impression is that General Allenby
was relieved by my decision - & certainly did not argue that I should go on
retiring. I shall be so much obliged if you will tell me whether you think my
account agrees with your own impressions – as I have asked for an enquiry & must
be prepared ………”
Government House, Gibraltar, 14.6.19. Folded and file punched.
Smith-Dorrien was Governor of Gibraltar, 1918-23. His decision to stand and face
the enemy at Le Cateau has, of course, since been vindicated; his troops
achieved what was thought impossible, both flanks turning on an enemy twice
their size and hitting him hard before withdrawing. This letter to Vaughan would
have been in response to adverse comments in French’s book “1914” published in
1919.
Quote Item No. 8462
Price: £150.00
SMUTS,
FIELD-MARSHAL JAN CHRISTIAAN (1866-1950: South African statesman).
A good autograph letter signed, 4-sides 8vo, to "My dear Bishop" (Rt.
Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, 1870-1955; Bishop of Pretoria, 1909-1920): "I
am most sorry to think that you are leaving South Africa without my saying
goodbye to you ..... I have just read your note to me with the enclosed letter
to the Press. It is a noble parting
word from you and will do much good. The difficulties between the white
peoples in this country .... blind us but too often to the great underlying fact
which your letter so ably notes. But we shall achieve success in South Africa
.... as we succeeded in solving the so-called Native Question. In saying
goodbye to you I think of the many occasions we have worked together and a
poignant feeling overcomes me. I remain with the great problems which
confront this dear land: you are marching forward at the call of duty to
grapple with the still grave problems which are afflicting the Old World and
shaking the very foundations of Christian Civilization.
The will and the courage which you carry away from our shores will not be
amiss when you come to your new task ...."
Prime Minister"s Office, Cape Town, 18th March, 1920.
Usual fold
marks.
Quote Item No. 2549
Price: £150.00
SMUTS, FIELD-MARSHAL
JAN C. (1866-1950: South African statesman).
His signature with typed
subscription.
Quote Item No. 1464
Price: £15.00
THE
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS – ENGLAND AND PHILADELPHIA:
An
extensive Quaker archive in 19 volumes, being transcripts of letters, autograph
letters signed, memorials, commonplace books and other material, relating to the Tuke family of Yorkshire, the
Wheeler family of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire and Friends in Philadelphia,
ca. 1778 – 1845.
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Quote Item No. 8192
Price: £7,500.00
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
Typed letter signed, 3-pages 4to. On the letter-heading of "The Review of
Reviews", of which Stead was Editor. To the Editor of the "Western Morning
News", Plymouth, complaining strongly about the behaviour of one of its
reporters: "..... a stout middle aged person, who said he was your
representative, behaved in such an intolerable fashion at the Duke of Cornwall's
Hotel on Friday night, that I had forcibly to eject him from the room. I
think he must have been somewhat the worse for drink, otherwise he could not
possibly have misconducted himself as he did ... ... ... I found him
interviewing Dr Trefz ... ... as it was impossible to begin speaking until he
finished his interview, I went up to him and courteously asked him if he would
finish his interview in another room ... ... he took absolutely no notice of the
request.... ... ... He said that he would only go when he pleased ... ... ... he
said he would remain in the room whether I liked it or not ... ... I took him
round the middle and threw him out. He had a glass of some liquid in his hand
which dropped and the glass was broken... ... It was a disagreeable fracas, and
one which for the credit of British Jounalist was the worst thing which could
have taken place in the presence of fifteen German Editors... ... ..."
July 4th 1906.
Usual fold marks.
Quote Item No. 6318
Price:
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
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
Quote
Item No. 8214
Price: £80.00
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
TEMPLE, HENRY JOHN, 3rd
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON (1784-1865;
Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 8vo, to R. Smith, acknowledging receipt of a
letter. Usual fold marks, untidily trimmed on lower blank margin.
Broadlands; 31st Oct., 1859.
Quote Item No. 4895
Price: £20.00
TEMPLE, HENRY JOHN, 3rd
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON (1784-1865;
Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister).
His signature and a few words cut from the end of a letter, “being
referred to a Committee. Yrs. Sincerely, Palmerston.”
Corners trimmed, laid-down.
Quote Item No.
4896
Price: £10.00
A carte-de-visite
photographic portrait of Tennyson, head and shoulders wearing a hat, by Elliott
& Fry, London. With Tennyson’s facsimile signature printed to mount beneath the
portrait. 4 x 2½ inches.
Quote Item No.
4897
Price: £25.00
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
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:
THORNDYKE,
DAME SYBIL (1882-1976: actress)
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo, to Sir Ronald Storrs who had obviously
enjoyed her performance in Peer Gynt, "..... So glad you both enjoyed it. It's
a tremendous play isn't it - one of the greatest in the world ....."
Quote Item No. 2116
Price: £20.00
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
TRAVERS, LINDEN (1913-2001; actress known for her ‘femme fatale’ roles).
A charming series of
24
wartime love letters to Lieut. Commander Gerald Pawle,
R.N.V.R.
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Quote Item No. 8185
Price: £295.00
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
UPWARD, ALLEN
(1863-1926: novelist).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 4to, to Calvert praising his newspaper
column and promising to send a story: "I really think that 'flapper
fiction' has been overdone of late".
23 Wolverton Gdns. W6. 13th Dec. 1923.
Vertical crease.
Quote Item No. 3878
Price: £15.00
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
VILLIERS, GEORGE WILLIAM
FREDERICK, 4TH EARL OF CLARENDON
(1800-1870).
Passport signed. Printed sheet, engraved Royal Arms at head, filled in by
hand, issued to Reginald S. Smith, “accompanied by his wife and two sons and
daughter travelling on the Continent”. Signed by Clarendon lower right.
Folded.
Foreign Office, London; 26th May, 1870.
Quote Item No. 4915
Price: £25.00
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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description
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
WARREN, SAMUEL (1807 - 1877: Novelist):
His signature on an envelope front. Penny red. Postmarked 1853.
Quote Item No. 6312
Price:
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
WHISTLER, LAURENCE (1912 – 2000: glass engraver and writer).
Autograph letter signed, in pencil, 2-sides 8vo, to, “Dear Miss
Chaney,” sending her, “the last sections of Castle Howard which
completes that chapter. I also send two middle bits for retyping … … ….
One is from “Glympton”… … The other thing I send (to keep you well occupied!) is
the Stowe chapter.
Little Place, no date.
Some foxing, usual fold mark.
Presumably referring to his life of Vanbrugh published in 1938.
Quote Item No. 6778
Price: £25.00
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
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:
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
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
WORLD WAR
I:
A group of 54 letters addressed to 2nd A.M. Reginald G. T. Howard,
R.F.C., Feb.-Oct. 1916, from his girlfriend Louie who resided with her parents
at ‘Sunny Villa’, 20 Turnpike Lane, Hornsey. Simple letters informing him of
her ‘doings’, visits to the picture house, picnics, family excursions,
attendance at chapel, & general domestic matters. All in their original
envelopes, largely addressed, “23402 2nd. A.M. R.G.T. Howard, 28
Hut, C. Flight, F. Squadron, 25 camp R.F.C. – TC.No.2, Larkhill, Nr. Salisbury,
Wilts.”. Only a few examined out of envelope but most likely about
100-pages in all; she concluding each letter, of those read, “I remain with
my very best love, your affectionate & ever loving friend Louie xxxxx”.
Together with 12 slightly earlier and later letters, some incomplete, one
relating to her writing to another serviceman:
“I was very surprised the
other day to have a letter from that George Holbrow, he has been moved from
Egypt to France, & he has been wounded slightly & been in hospital, he has been
in France since last May. He said it was 2 years since he had seen me, & he was
feeling very down, & asked me if I would write to him as a stranger to a
lonely soldier, I asked my Mother & Father’s advice, & they said they
did not see any harm in my writing to him, under that understanding. I wrote
and told him that I was going out with you & have been with you for 2 years, & I
was writing to him merely as an acquaintance,
so that he could clearly understand there was no hope for him to go out
with me. He sent me a Christmas card all worked in silk from France………he
said you are a very lucky fellow to have got me to go out with……I am keeping his
letters & my reply to it, to show you when you come home……I thought I would be
honest & write & tell you about this matter, in case any-one…”
Evidently Reginald disapproved of her simple action as later letters
indicate he suggested they should part in consequence.
Quote Item No.
4923
Price: £50.00
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
WWII - 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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Quote Item
No. 8183
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
CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON SPENCER (1874 – 1965) and
MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN, BERNARD LAW, VISCOUNT (1887-1976: Field-Marshall).
The printed programme for the El Alamein Anniversary, October 23rd
1946 at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Signed by both.
SMITH-DORRIEN, SIR HORACE LOCKWOOD
(1858-1930; General).
A good autograph letter signed, 2-sides 4to.
ALLENBY, EDMUND, FIRST VISCOUNT ALLENBY OF
MEGGIDO
(1861-1936; Field-Marshall).
A good autograph letter signed, 3 ½ sides 4to.