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Harriet Martineau, pioneering journalist and writer [Harriet Martineau, pioneering journalist and writer] Bold Signature with partial address. Signature and place name on fragment, 9 x 2.5cm, laid down on slightly larger backing. Text: Mrs Harriet Martineau | Ambleside [Mrs as the shortened form of Mistress presumably,] See Image. |
£45.00 | |
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William Cobbett (1763 ? 1835) pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer Address panel from an envelope/letter with Free stamp, 11 x 7cm, aged but good condition and clear wording. See Image. Note: Presumably John Hudson, who was recorded as an Inn Keeper in the Subdeanry of Chichester in 1830, and as an Inn Keeper at the Dolphin in 1832, was proprietor by 1840 at 92... |
£30.00 | |
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Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, Austrian-born British sculptor (1834-90). One page, 12mo, fold marks but good condition. .Text: I have begun the sketch of John Knox and shall feel greatly obliged if you would do me the favor to lend me the small engraving of him for a few days. [...] |
£80.00 | |
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T.C. Mendenhall [Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1841 ? 1924) American autodidact physicist and meteorologist] One page, 4to, fold marks, minor spotting, good condition. I beg to thank you for the facilities afforded Mr. E.D. Preston [author of The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey: its origin, development, and present status] of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, while engaged in gravity and... |
£90.00 | |
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Robert Southey, Lake Poet [Rafael del Riego y Fl?rez] Part of a cr. 8vo page, 18 x 14cm, aged but clear and complete, over-writing a letter on verso (part of) signed B Gooch [perhaps a relative of Southey's friend Robert Gooch]. SEE SCAN for full text. Title On the Death of Riego. Four stanzas, 4 lines each. First lines [He?] is gone the life of... |
£1,250.00 | |
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Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), English Conservative politician, signatory of Locarno Treaties, winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2pp.,8vo, black-bordered, bifolium, good condition. I am at the present time so tied by public work that I should hesitate to take any fresh engagement, but in addition to this I feel that the times are unsuitable [First World War] for anniversary celebrations for which none of us can have much... |
£95.00 | |
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John Leighton, artist and illustrator One page, cr. 8vo, fold marks, good condition. There's a brief note at the top saying Ist draft of a letter regarding a 'Lay' Secretary for the Royal Academy probably Leighton but a smaller hand thanin the Letter. Text of letter: Here we have had a case somewwhat akin to yours - Dr Bence Jomes F... |
£80.00 | |
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Hans Richter [Johann Baptist Isidor Richter (1843 - 1916), Austro-Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor.] One page, 4to, fold marks and a bit battered but text clear and complete, as follows: At my next visit in London I shall come to you and we shall talk about your harp at the Covent Garden Theatre. I was very sorry for my not having been able to call at your house, but you must excuse me and you... |
£120.00 | |
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Fanny Kemble, actress [Frances Anne Kemble (1809 -1893) actress from a theatre family, well-known and popular writer and abolitionist] [Fanny Kemble, actress] Autograph Note Signed Fanny Kemble to unnamed male correspondent One page, 11 x 14cms, trimmed but apparently complete, residue of tipping in a reverse (four corner glue dabs), good condition. Text: My dear Sir - I intend leaving London by the 9-55 Express train on Monday - I think it reaches Brighton about half past eleven[...]. |
£35.00 | |
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Evelyn M. Hatch, one of Lewis Carroll's child-friends. Pp.[xviii].268, 8vo, endpapers foxed, sl. hinge strain, in slightly worn and dulled dj, frontis. portrait, illus., mainly book in very good condition. ENCLOSED: A. Two Autograph Letters Signed Evelyn M. Hatch, both to Falconer Madan, bibliographer of Lewis Carroll, [Printed heading] 17 Pembroke... |
£450.00 |
