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One page, cr.8vo, fold marks, aged, text clear and complete as follows: Dear Sir | I had much pleasure in accompanying your friend, who appears to be a very intelligent person, round the Ob[servator]y. Mr Airy wished me just to mention that as a matter of form he would wish any application in behalf of scientific foreigners, to whom he has always willing to show the OB[servator]y, to be addressed to himself. I have had a delightful tour in the West since I had the pleasure of seeing you, and have returned quite invigorated to my duties.

One page, 12mo, staining on verso from previous laying down, text clear and presented as if he thought the recipient would want to frame it. Text: Dear Madam | I much regret that I have so long delayed complying with yr request according to which I now send you my autograph and beg to subscribe myself yours truly | B.W. Noel [then address] followed by the word over, recto blank, suggesting that he supplied a further slip of paper with an autograph no longer present. See Image.

Two pages, 12mo, bifolium, fold marks, aging, damage to second leaf without affecting the text and signs of having been tipped onto another surface. Text: I am dsired by his Excellency Lord Spencer to aknowledge the receipt of your letter, and of the copy of the Hand book on Irish Lace [see note below: Irish lace : a history of the industry] for which I am to express His Excellency's thanks to you.

Two pages, 12mo, bifolium, aged but good condition. Text: I have rec[eive]d the enclosed information from St Ives. I should be obliged to the Govt. if they would place at my Disposal this Office. | However do not let me stand if the way of any object of the Govt beyong requesting that they will not dispose of the employment in favour of any Cornish Connection [against?] my application, as it would be the means of [implying?] my [or any][?] with the [Boro[ough?]. See Image of second page.

Envelope, 12 x 8cms, damaged slightly as opened (inevitably) obscuring the stamp Osborne House, addressed in Victoria's hand Charles Manby Esq | 24 Great George St | Westminster | S.W. See Image.

Two pages, 8vo, blue paper, closed tear not affecting texyt, a bit rumpled but text clear and complete as follows: Leslie [Caron, first wife] & I are delighted to hear that you're getting married. I'm a firm believer in a bourgeois base for artists! | Shan't see your student I'm afraid till I return from my three month rest. We leave on Tuesday. But I'm sure John [Barton, co-director] will take good care of him. | I hope you enjoy the Histories. They've been misery to do, but I think are my most important work to date.

Typescript with MS add, 2pp., 4to, aging but text clear and complete. Hind adds a note in MS indicating that he has sent this text to his dedicatee , a man of mystery who adds in pencil (presumably returning the text) I put a pencil line through the lines I would omit-. (Pencil marks confirmed). C. Lewis Hind has made corrections, additions and elisions. See Image of Page 1.

One page, 12mo, good condition. Text: Sorry - no letters from poor J.R.A. [J.R.Ackerley, author] You should have had them and welcome if they had existed. See Scan.

On piece of paper cut from letter, roughly 8.5 x 2 cm, stuck on larger piece of paper, minimal smudging, signature clear. on reverse.

Autograph Sentiment Signed on card, 12.5 x 7.5 cm., aged but clear. Evidnece of tipping onto something on verso, along with identification as Du Maurier. See Image. With photo. See Image

One page, 12mo, stained, with marks indicating tipping in on verso. Text: I have ordered the thermometers to be made by Carella Hatton Garden [underlining] London, & he will soon send you six. I will look after him. Phillips had become reader in geology at Oxford in this year.] See Image.

All three items in good condition, lightly aged, with the book in worn and spotted binding. ONE: Letter from Hassall to 'Professor Huxley', in the hand of 'an amanuensis' and signed by him. 3pp., 12mo. Tipped-in onto the half-title of Item Three below. He begins by explaining that he has 'directed Messrs. Longmans' to forward a copy of his book (which he describes as 'a brochure') to Huxley.

Postcard, good condition. Typed text with MS adds in square brackets: 7 unrecognised wonders of London are the interior of Holy Trinity [Somerset House], Sloane Sreet (locked). St.Erkenwald's Church, Southend-on-Sea [deleted]; the entrance hall of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. I could go on indefinitely [but only locally]. | Yours sincerely, | [Not signed]. There are four lines of obscure writing apparent;y in rubbed out pencil and by Betjeman. See Image.

One page, 4to, fold marks, good condition. Thank you very much indeed for your extremely kind appreciation, and for the drawing which you enclosed. I am doing exactly as you tell me and send the cards back herewith.

One page, sm. fol., fold marks, minor staining, mainly good condition. Text of poem as published version. Note as follows, after address, Dear Hunter, my doubts about this poem have increased even further since our chat. | Best, Dannie.

Autograph Note, one page, 16mo, good condition, but part of a bifolium, the third page of which is a printed (possibly early Punch) cartoon with a gentleman exposing a lady's ignorance of literture. Spiegl's text as follows: Many thanks, Hunter. Hope you enjoyed the book (post facto!): you see, it's not really [underlined] an angry book. Have a good Christmas, | Greetings | Fritz. Someone (probably Davies) has added Fritz Spiegel [sic]. See Image.

Two pages (one leaf),18.5 x 14cms, left edge showing signs of being tipped on to something, text mainly clear and apparently complete, as follows: Mr Charles Kemble begs to return the best Thanks of the Committee of Management to Mr Thelwall for the kind offer of the occasional Address, which they would gladly have had receited if they were not convinced by experience, of the total want of attraction in similar productions - They think, however, it might be of great service to the cause which it advocates, were it to be inserted previously to the Benefit in the daily Papers as powerful stimul

Document, one leaf, fold marks, good condition, 40 x 30cm. See Image. Certificates illustrating Urquhart's military career in Inda are also available.

About his Lecture On Some Instances of the Power of God manifested in his Animal Creation which was perhaps a side-swipe at Darwin?. Two pages, 12mo, some staining and edged with sellotape, but text is a scrawl and occasionally hard to interpret, including the loss of a couple of words under a stain. Full text as follows: By the post I forward to your Lordship a Copy of the Lecture [and scratched out] as printed by the Committee of the Y.M.

See his entry, and that of the Vining family, in the Oxford DNB, as well as well as his sister Emma?s memoir. 3pp, 12mo, with the last page written lengthwise. Bifolium. Text clear and entire, but in fair condition only, on aged and worn paper, with strip of tape from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf, and short closed tears at foot of both leaves and tape repair. Folded once. Written in feverish style: one word is underlined seven times. Addressed to ?My dear Vining? and signed ?Watts Phillips?.

Jerrold, Manby and Rennie all have entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On bifolium of grey paper. In good condition, lightly aged, with trace of tape from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded twice. Jerrold has tipped in a newspaper cutting of a letter by him to the editor of the Daily News at the head of the first page, proposing ?A STATUE TO SIR JOHN RENNIE?.

James Samuel Walter de Soysa (b.1880) was one of the children of the vastly wealthy Ceylonese tea planter and philanthropist Charles Henry de Soysa (1836-1890) of Moratuwa and Alfred House, Colombo. An Anglican, he was educated at Cambridge, and was a bencher of the Inner Temple. In 1904 he married Maria Micada Piedra Albo, of a distinguished Spanish family. They lived in London in Kensington, and in Ceylon, where he had his own plantations.

See the two men?s entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Aged and a little worn, with short closed tear at head of the first leaf repaired with tape, and the second leaf having a discoloration at one edge from tape used in mount. Signed ?W. T. Moncrieff?. Casting interesting light on the production of melodramas in the ?Surrey-side? theatres.

See the three men?s entries in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with tape from mount adhering to reverse of second leaf, which is docketted by Manby. Signed ?J Emerson Tennent?. Folded once. He explains that a friend of his, ?who is much interested about the Suez Canal, is going to Egypt next week?, and that he has that day promised, if he can, ?to obtain for him, a copy of an Address which you once gave me, (but which I have put away so carefully that I cannot find it now) delivered by J. M.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient A. M. Broadley was widely-regarded as an expert on the middle east. The year before the present letter, he had represented Ahmed Urabi after an uprising in Egypt, earning himself 10,000 guineas and the nickname ?Broadley Pasha?. At the time of writing he was acting as English agent and legal adviser of the ex-Khedive Ismail, who had been deposed in 1879 and was living near Naples (although at the time of writing he was clearly in London). 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with strip of tape from mount adhering to second leaf.

See the entry for his father the Owenite Robert Buchanan in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. With mourning border. In good condition, lightly age. Folded once. Addressed to ?T. E. Woodrow Esq? and with good firm stylized signature ?R. Buchanan?. He has sent Woodrow?s form on to ?Mr Leslie Stephen, asking him to fill it up, which he will possibly do?. He thanks him for ?the Catalogue?, adding ?Of course my term of subscription will not begin till you send me the final receipt.?

Despite a recent book by Miles Macnair supporting Serre's claims, the case for her imposture is overwhelming, as her entry in the Oxford DNB demonstrates. See also the various reports of the matter (for example Ryves v. Duke of Wellington, Law Times, 31 October 1846). 23pp., foolscap 8vo. On six loose bifoliums of laid paper with 1833 Britannia watermark of Gilling & Alllford. Good, on lightly aged and worn paper. Folded into the customary packet, and docketed on reverse of last leaf 'Copy Letter to the King from the Princess Olive'.

1p, 16mo. On bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of mount adhering to reverse of second leaf. Folded once. Signed ?Peter Cunningham?. The recipient (?Dear Sir?) is not named. Written in a tight difficult hand. Clearly with regard to his nine-volume edition of Horace Walpole's letters, published between 1857 and 1859, he asks him to have ?ye enclosed seal cut on wood for me [?] to suit the page description I enclose. .. I will make Bentley pay for it.? I asks to have it ?within ten days of this?.

See the entries for the Cruikshanks in the Oxford DNB. 1p, landscape 12mo. On 20 x 11.5 cm piece of paper. Somewhat aged and worn, with small pinhole at head, and postage folds; neatly inserted in trimmed windowpane mount. The recipient is not named, the text reading: ?Mr Ryan was suggesting an idea of something come upon the Jewess which is very popular after the manner of Bombastes and also a ballad part of which I leave as a specimen perhaps you will consider of it and let me know / R. Cruikshank?.

See the two men?s entries in the Oxford DNB. A long letter, covering all four sides of a 12mo bifolium with mourning border, with the first pages written conventionally on the recto of the first leaf, and the rest written lengthwise. Signed ?Joseph Hatton? and addressed to ?Alexander Ireland Esq?. In good condition, on aged and worn paper, with tape from mount adhering to the second leaf. Folded once. There were some doubts regarding Frank Hatton?s death in the jungles of Borneo, but the accepted account was that he had been accidentally shot.