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Thomas Streatfeild (1777-1848) [William Nicol, Shakspeare Press; James Toovey; F. C. Brooke; T. G. Godfrey Tempest] 'Excerpta Cantiana; Being the Prospectus of a History of Kent, Preparing for Publication by the Rev. Thomas Streatfeild.'; with two other prospectuses of the same; four prospectuses for Toovey's 'History of Kent'; Autograph Letters Signed. The collection in a contemporary green leather quarter-binding, with grey paper boards and title in gilt on spine. Good, in heavily worn binding splitting at rear hinge. The letters are expertly mounted on leaves in the volume. 'Excerpta Cantiana': folio: 23 pp of letterpress, with illustrations...	£250.00
Tom Driberg [Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell of Bradwell-juxta-Mare] (1905-1976) [crossword puzzles] [Tom Driberg, politician etc] Two Autograph Drafts of reviews and one Autograph Letter Signed to Philip Doss? of Hansom Books, Artillery Mansions, 75 Victoria Street, London SW1. All three items lightly aged but good. Driberg has written 'TOM DRIBERG' at the head of the first page of both reviews. First Review (8vo, 7 pp) with slight wear at head (not affecting text) of first four leaves; last three leaves on House of Commons letterheads. With corrections. The subject is...	£100.00
George Hazlehurst, sometime General Manager of Millwall Docks [Manchester Ship Canal and Millwall Docks Co} Hazlehurst's Papers A small archive of material relating to the Millwall Dock Co and the Manchester Ship Canal. George Hazlehurst, whose papers these are, worked several years in Manchester and climbed the ladder at Millwall, eventually becoming General Manager (1909). The archive includes: the Act entitled London...	£120.00
Samuel L. ('Roxy') Rothapfel [Rothafel], American theatre impressario [Samuel L. Rothapfel, Theatre Impresarion] Typed Letter Signed to the actress Mary Lawton. One page, quarto. On paper discoloured with age. Attached along one edge of blank verso to card mount. Reads 'To simply tell you that your work is good would be putting it mildly. Things that I have heard all about me as I sat and watched the performance for the first time, from a loge seat, if...	£56.00
[Victorian mountaineering in Switzerland; Oberammergau; Tonneson Sisters of Chicago] [ Mountaineering ] Victorian album, containing 82 photographs, including several large-scale images of mountaineering in Switzerland, and of the 1900 Oberammergau Passion Play. Album, in maroon cloth and fake leather half-binding, containing 24 leaves of thick paper (dimensions 36 x 26.5 cm). Small stamp on front paste-down: 'D.A.I. LONDON \| No. 20[2]' (last digit added in manuscript). The binding is heavily-worn, with spine lacking, and the pages are somewhat...	£380.00
[Protestant Cuttings] Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine (1878-1950), Vicar of St Paul's, Darlington, who performed the 1937 wedding ceremony of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor [ Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine, the man who married the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. ] Album of newspaper cuttings and other material, with signed note on front cover: 'PROTESTANT CUTTINGS \| PAMPHLETS & general items: \| R. Anderson Jardinee'. Jardine, dubbed by the press 'the Poor Man's Pastor', travelled to France to perform the ceremony. As a result, his vestry committee resigned and he resigned his living, emigrating to the United States. The cuttings are laid down on 19pp of a Victorian folio volume, in superior brown calf...	£350.00
[Nineteenth-Century Periodical, Prospectus and Issue] [Nineteenth-Century Periodical, Prospectus and Issue] The Sans Pareil; or, Curiosities of Literature, no. 1, 17 March 1832. with Prospectus (Handbill). Four pages, 8vo, good condition. Price one farthing. It includes an obituary of William Roscoe, a facsimile of the playbill in which the late Mrs Siddons was announced to sing!, notes on The Arts, Metropolitan Weekly Return (including Seduced females 1000), and Stocks (Impudence, open . . ....	£80.00
Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor [Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor] Autograph Letter Signed, in Keneally's hand, Tom and Judy Keneally to Hunter [Davies], journalist and broadcaster. WITH:card with sketch and a few words in Keneally's hand. Autograph Letter Signed,one page, sm.fol., fold marks, tiny chip, good +, with small folded card, 10 x 15cm, with signed by Keneally and docketed by Hunter Davies. Text of ALS: Dear Sir Hunter \| I was delighted to read of your elevation to Bath or Garter or Thistle in the last issue of Punch [...	£250.00
Sir Stanier Porten (baptised 1716 ? 1789) government official and diplomat [appointed keeper of the state papers at Whitehall in 1774, and from 1782 until Nov.1786 commissioner of the customs] [Sir Stanier Porten (baptised 1716 ? 1789) government official and diplomat] Autograph Note Signed S Porten to Philip Stephens Esq [secretary of the admiralty, sponsored by Anson] One page, 4to, bifolium, fold marks, good condition. Text: As a Messenger will be dispatched from the East India House oveland to the East Indies in very few days, Lord Hillsborough has deferred till then communicating to Sir Edward Hughes the intelligence about the Illustre & St Michel [...	£220.00
Samuel Morley (1809 ? 1886), woollen manufacturer and political radical, philanthropist, Congregationalist dissenter, abolitionist, and statesman. [Samuel Morley, woollen manufacturer, political radical, abolitionist] Autograph Note Signed S Morley to Rev. S.C. Baker making a donation. One page, 12mo, black-bordered, residue of laying own on reverse, minor staining, closed tear on fold, text partially obscured by annotation presumably by the recipient, Rev. S.C. Baker. Text: Your reference to old times compels me, altho' sorely pressed, to send you a small cheque as an...	£38.00

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