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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury Autograph Letter to the printseller [Dominic Paul] Colnaghi. English novelist (1775-1861). One page, 12mo. A frail item in poor condition: on discoloured, frayed paper, with several closed tears and some loss to edges. A formal letter in the third person. 'Lady Charlotte Bury presents Her Comp[limen]ts. to Mr: Colnaghi and would be obliged to Him if He...	Book Trade History, Women	£45.00
Lady Clementine Churchill. Two copy TNs, Lady Churchill's Private Secretary to unknown correspondents. Extensive corrections in Clementine Churchill's hand.The notes simply acknowledge firstly, a letter about a legal matter in which she cannot intervene, and secondly, she displays sympathy for someone's son who is doing "dangerous work". Two items,	History, Women	£50.00
Charles Chabot, expert and autograph-dealer [Edward Twisleton, Frederick George Netherclift and the Letters of Junius] [Book] The Handwriting of Junius Professionally Investigated, With Preface and Collateral Evidence by the Hon. Edward Twisleton. With ten items, mainly letters relating to the Junius controversy. 300pp., 4to, brown boards, sp.gt, rubbed. spine a little damage, hinge strain, mainly good condition. A hefty volume. Inscribed "From the Editor", front endpaperWITH: Ten items relating to the Junius controversy, including the original 'valuable Copper-Plate' of the facsimile of an anonymous...	Literature	£1,250.00
Lady Dorothy Macmillan Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mrs Burns'. Wife (1900-66) of the Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, and daughter of the Duke of Devonshire. Three pages, 12mo. Grubby, creased and stained (perhaps with tears?). She was 'up in Stockton' the previous week, and heard that her correspondent's son was ill. 'Having children of my own...	Women	£33.00
Lady Dorothy Nevill [Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill, née Walpole] (1826-1913), hostess and horticulturist Autograph Note Signed ('Dorothy Nevill') to 'Mr <Descou?>'. 12mo: 1 p. 8 lines of text. On aged paper somewhat grubby around signature at foot. Asks when he will be 'able to come to us to meet the d[uke] of Wellington'. They are 'at liberty any time between the 4th and 11th of January'.	Social history, Women	£28.00
Lady Gray[?]. Autograph letter, third person, to [Ackermann]. Two pages, 4to, chipped, spike-hole, small loss, mainly readable. "Lady Gray is very sorry that owing to her having been for three Months from home - She has been prevented answering Mr Ackermanns Letter sooner - have any of the Number[s] which of His Repository - wishes them now [underlined...	Art and Architecture, Book Trade History	£50.00
Lady Holland Autograph Note, Third Person, to [Edward] Jeffery, bookseller. Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady Holland, Society Hostess (DNB). Remnants of laying down process, chipped, text complete and clear, as follows: Lady Holland informs Mr Jeffery that in the set of English Poets sent to here there are six volumes wanting viz. 59, 60, 61, 62, 63 & 64 - which she...	Book Trade History, Women	£100.00
Lady Isabel Somerset [Lady Isabella Caroline Somerset; Lady Henry Somerset] (née Somers-Cocks) (1851-1921), Temperance activist and campaigner for women's rights Autograph Signature ('Isabel Somerset') on piece of paper. On irregularly shaped piece of paper, roughly 3 x 7 cm, cut around the signature and its double underlining. Good signature, with slight smudging to a couple of letters.	Women	£23.00
Lady Jane Halliday [née Tollemache] (1750-1802), English society beauty painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds [Lord Hugh Seymour; the Royal Navy] Autograph Letter Signed ('Jane Halliday') to an unnamed Lord of the Admiralty. 4to, 1 p, 12 lines. Very good, on aged paper. Asking the recipient 'through this medium to recommend my son Lieut Halliday [Francis Halliday, born around 1776; fl. 1820] of the Thunderer, now at Jamaica, to the notice of Lord Hugh Seymour; Sir Hyde Parker has sent me an account of him, but to my...	Military and Naval History, Women	£120.00
Lady Jane Wyville Thomson [wife of Sir Charles Wyville Thomson] [Sir Samuel Smiles] Autograph Letter Signed to [Sir Samuel Smiles]. Wife of the noted Scottish naturalist (1830-82). The recipient (1812-1904) is author of the celebrated 'Self-help' (1859). Three pages, 12mo, with mourning border. Very good on slightly discoloured paper. She has found among her late husband's letters 'one from you in which you ask for any...	Book Trade History, History	£45.00