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Charles Hamilton Aidé [Charles Hamilton Aide] (DNB), author and musician The 1889 note: "Let me know whether you care to publish poetry - I can send you 3 stanzas". The other note: "I regret much that I am already engaged to dinner on Tuesday. If it were probable that yr party sat late into the night I would gladly join you in the coffee state of yr festivities... |
£50.00 | |
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Dorothy Brooks ALS, 3pp, 8vo, to Malcolm MacKenzie On two letterheads of the West African Writers and Artists Club, 129 Camberwell Rd. Major Shepheard has suggested that correspondent might supply contacts for the Club. Describes the Club's activities and lists the names of thirteen Gold Coast students from a recent British Council exhibition... |
£50.00 | |
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George Manville Fenn (DNB), Victorian novelist ANS, 1p, 16mo, to unnamed correspondent Difficult handwriting. "Dear Sir | I wish <?> good government and Peace [last word underlined three times] | Faithfully Yours | Geo Manville Fenn" |
£25.00 | |
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Henry Reeve (DNB), editor of the Edinburgh Review ALS, 2pp, 16mo, to unnamed correspondent "I am laid up from the effects of an accidental blow on the leg." Is only writing to postpone the visit to 9 November. |
£20.00 | |
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James Sheridan Knowles (DNB), dramatist ANS, 1p, 8vo, to "- Phillips Esq." Asks correspondent to give the trunk to the bearer ("the Lewisham carrier") if it has arrived, "and I shall take the first opportunity of calling to settle the expense". Grubby and creased, with glue and paper from mounting on reverse of otherwise-blank second leaf. |
£25.00 | |
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John Palgrave Simpson (DNB), dramatist and novelist He has heard that "a prospectus of the Company now being formed for the establishment of an English Opera Theatre in London has been sent to you at Thurloe Square", but he sends another with a few words. "I think that we have undertaken a good work: and I feel confident that, were the Company... |
£80.00 | |
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Montagu William Lowry Corry, Baron Rowton (DNB), politician and philanthropist ALS in autograph addressed envelope, to Charles Williams of 28 Theobald's Road Grubby and stained envelope addressed to Williams with "With a bag." in top left-hand corner. "The proof of your remembrance of your kind promise to me reached me just as I was leaving London, for a few days in this region. | I place your volumes on the shelves of my humble library with real... |
£50.00 | |
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Mrs Humphry Ward [Mary Augusta Ward] (DNB), novelist Asks whether he is able to dine with them on 6 July. Neat square stamp in purple ink at head filled in in another hand with details of when received and answered. Small paper and glue mark at centre of otherwise-blank reverse. |
£25.00 | |
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Roxburghe family Oval seal, around a centimeter and a half tall, containing the Roxburghe family crest. Reasonably crisp impression on neatly cut remains of blue envelope stuck to slip of card. |
£20.00 | |
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Samuel Jones Loyd (DNB), 1st Baron Overstone, authority on banking and finance ALS, 2pp, 16mo, to unnamed correspondent Is "at present engaged in building a large School upon my property in Buckinghamshire and in providing Apprentices, Master & Mistress &c. I do this entirely at my own expense without seeking aid from the Government or from any of the Societies. This more than absorbs the sum which I... |
£80.00 |
