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Charlotte Mary Yonge

Autograph Signature on fragment of letter.

English novelist (1823-1901). Paper dimensions: 1 inch by 4 1/4 inches. Paper creased, browning and with discoloration from previous mounting. Reads 'Your most loving | C M Yonge'. On reverse: 'More of a woman She | might do something'.

Literature, Women £20.00
[New Road Chapel; Brighton Unitarian Church]

Manuscript and printed ephemera relating to the work of a Committee to remove the encumbrances on the Unitarian Chapel in Brighton.

Five manuscripts items, 15pp., 4to (4), fol.(1); three printed items, 4to, some with MS. additions. The Manuscripts items are related to the printed and are as follows: a. List of Subcriptions recd towards building the Chapel at Brighton (names and amounts). [1820] - Total, £1591.11-; b. [Fol.,...

Religion £300.00 New Road Chapel; Brighton Unitarian Church
H. W. Nevinson (1856-1941), journalist.

Five Autograph Letters Signed, H.W. Nevinson, journalist, to Robert Lynd, essayist.

5 ALsS, total 8pp., 12mo. One, on letterhead of 4 Downside Crescent, Hampstead; 'Tuesday' [December 1908]. Concerning Nevinson's sacking as a Daily News journalist following his heckling of the Liberal Chancellor Lloyd George at a meeting in December 1908 in which the Daily News editor Gardiner...

£600.00
'Edna Lyall', pseudonym of the novelist Ada Ellen Bayly (1857-1903)

Autograph Letter Signed ('Ada Ellen Bayly / "Edna Lyall."') by the novelist Edna Lyall (real name Ada Ellen Bayly), on the part played by illustrations in novels.

2pp., 12mo. Fifteen lines. On bifolium. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. The male recipient is not named. She apologies that 'the crowd of Christmas engagements' has meant that his letter has gone unanswered until now. 'With regard to the question you ask, my feeling is that where an artist and an...

£90.00
Charlotte Yonge [Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901)], English novelist

Autograph Note Signed ('C M Yonge') to unnamed woman.

On one side of a piece of paper, 9.5 x 7.5 cm. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. Minor traces of stub in thin strip along one edge. Reads 'Elderfield | Decr 19 | Dear Madam | The Story you mean is in the Christmas number of the Monthly Packet for 1877 | Yours truly | [signed] C M Yonge'....

Literature, Women £45.00
Charterhouse (English school) [examination papers, 1866]

Charterhouse. Examination. MDCCCLXVI. [1866]

8vo, 40 pp. Unpaginated. Stitched as issued. In original blue wraps. Fair, on lightly-aged and foxed paper, in grubby and stained wraps. The examination papers, covering fields including Latin, Greek and French; scripture; ancient and modern history; mathematics, chemistry and chemistry, cover...

Education, History £56.00
Chaulieu.

Autograph Note Signed to an unknown correspondent.

French composer. 2pp., 8vo, , referring to a list he has added to the letter of 8 pieces he would like to publish if his correspondent can cooperate. He has the proofs of To the Hills “a votre disposition”, and describes in a postscript a “fantaisie” he has justfinished.

French, Music and Theatre £75.00
Chelsea Polytechnic [the South-Western Polytechnic; Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]

Scrapbook of material relating to the foundation of the Chelsea Polytechnic Institute.

The South-Western Polytechnic was opened at Manresa Road, Chelsea, in 1895, to provide scientific and technical education to Londoners. It changed its name to Chelsea Polytechnic in 1922. Renamed Chelsea College and formally incorporated into the University of London, 1971. An important...

Education £200.00
Chevalier Fortunino Matania (1881-1963), Italian artist

Autograph Note Signed (F Matania) to unnamed correspondent.

One page, quarto. On lightly creased, aged paper with a few closed tears. Rust marks from paperclip at head. Reads 'Il triangolo della perfezione arte scienza ad amore | [signed] F Matania'.

Art and Architecture, Travel and Topography £78.00
Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford

Autograph letter signed to [?] Monsell,

Liberal politician (1823-98). 4 pp, 12mo. "The Railway people object strongly to the Post Office Clause in my Railway Bill, & are going to move an amendment to strike it out in Committee. I think it wd. be well if you wd. send somebody to represent the P. O, and to meet two or three Railway...

History £30.00