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[Lydia Becker, suffragette and scientist] Final lines and signature ONLY clipped from Autograph Letter

Author: 
Lydia Becker, suffragette and scientist
Publication details: 
1867 or after. See Note below.
£56.00

Final lines and signature ONLY clipped from Autograph Letter, 11 x 6cm, good condition. Text: We beg that you will favour us with your presence and support on the occasion | I am| Yours faithfully | Lydia E Becker | Secretary. Note: In February 1867, she became secretary of the Manchester National Society for Women?s Suffrage.

[Hilaire Belloc, author] Autograph Note Signed H. Belloc to The Manager. The Sunday Dispatch, declining what he thinks is an over-payment for something of his published. With envelope with address in his hand.

Author: 
Hilaire Belloc [Joseph Hilaire Pierre Ren? Belloc] (1870-1953), Anglo-French author and poet.
Publication details: 
[Headed] Tetton House, Taunton crossed out adding As from The Reform Club, Pall Mall, SW1, 21 Nov. 1936.
£80.00

One page. 8vo, fold mark, sl.dulled but clear and complete. Text: By some error the enclosed [no longer] cheque for 5 guineas has been sent me in payment for my article in last Sunday's Weekly Despatch. There can, of course, be no question of my accepting remuneration in that scale. Perhaps you will consult with those who arrange these things & let my know their conclusion.

[Dorothy Macmillan, wife of Harold Macmillan, P.M.] Typed Note Signed Dorothy Macmillan to Professor W.K. Stanton, organist, educationalist, and composer of sacred music.

Author: 
Dorothy Macmillan, wife of Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister (1957-63)
Publication details: 
{Headed] 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, 28 October 1963.
£65.00

One page, 12mo, very good condition, docketed (by Stanton prob.) Letter from [D] M. Macmillan. Text: I am so sorry that your most kind letter to me of the 11th of October has not been answered before this, but I feel sure that you will understand how very occupied my days have been during these past few weeks. | My husband asks to join with me in thanking you most sincerely for your very generous references to his work. We were both so touched and most grateful. Notes: a. She refers to the consequences of Macmillan being voted out of office on the 18th October. 1963. b.

[Barry Cornwall, Poet] Autograph Letter Third Person (Mr. Proctor will be obliged to Mr. Hogarth (Printseller) Haymarket (see Note below), somewhat heated.

Author: 
Bryan .B.W. Proctor (Barry Cornwall), Poet
Publication details: 
13 Upper Harley Street, 31 August 1852.
£80.00

Two pages, 16mo, bifolium (2nd leaf blank apart from address as above), good condition. Mr. Proctor will be obliged by knowing from Mr Hogarth whether he has received back the print of Mr Macready [William Macready, actor] as Werner, after a picture of Mr. Maclise. | As Mr Proctor never [underlined] ordered this this [sic] - as he had told Mr. Hogarth so personally - & as he subsequently (a fortnight ago) [phrase interpolated later] sent back this print, which Mr. Hogarth failed to send for, according to his promise, Mr.

[The Death of Prince Albert; PRINTED LEAFLET] The Prince Consort

Author: 
[The Death of Prince Albert] R.R.R. [author unidentified]
albert
Publication details: 
Presumably 1861, the year of Prince Albert's death.
£200.00
albert

One printed page, 12mo, the first page of four in a greyish bifolium, fold marks, minor staining of fourth page, good condition. Verse, 5.5 x 11cm on Page 11 x 18cm. First two lines: There's silence fallen on the land, | Unwonted dread; [...]. Last two lines: And leaving on the dead its trace, - | A loving smile. See Image for complete text. Apparently no other copy listed

[[Charles Dickens; Eliza Lynn Linton; Gadshill] Photograph of Gadshill.

Author: 
[Charles Dickens; Eliza Lynn Linton; Gadshill]
Publication details: 
Undated.
£50.00

Contemporary Photograph, 15 x 10.5cm, good condition. Image compared with online (googled) images, and is a slightly different angle to the closest. See Image.

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