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[Emily Peel, daughter of Sir Robert Peel III; Alice Keppel and her like]

Conservative High Society in late Victorian Britain: The album of Miss Evelyn Peel, daughter of Sir Robert Peel, 1896-1899

Evelyn Emily Peel (c.1869-1960), second daughter of Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Bart (1822-1895), and Lady Emily Hay, daughter of the Marquess of Tweeddale, married the diplomat Sir (James William) Ronald Macleay (1870-1943) in 1901. Compiled in the years preceding her marriage, the album reflects...

Social history, Women £2,500.00
[Rosyth; social housing]

Papers concerning the planning stage of Rosyth workers' housing from the archive of engineers, Easton Gibb & Son Ltd. Correspondence, printed ephemera, plans and pamphlets..

Removed en masse from battered file (punch-holes in all items), final items chipped, with closed tears (Certificates for occcupant's for cleanliness etc.), but complete, dusting, but everything else in good condition. Note: The area is best known for its large dockyard, formerly the Royal...

Science, Medicine and Technology, Social history £1,200.00
W. Viney, Angel Hill, Tiverton; James Pope; William Bragg, printer, of Cheapside, Taunton [nineteenth-century ceramics; Bridgwater Red Ware]

18-line handbill advertisement, beginning 'W. Viney, Angel Hill, Tiverton, Begs leave to inform the Families and Inhabitants of this Town and its Neighbourhood, that he has just received a supply of the Bridgwater Red Ware, [...]'

On one side of a piece of wove paper, watermarked 'BRIDGE MILL | 1826', roughly 24 x 19 cm. In a variety of types and point sizes. Good, with text clear and entire, on slightly grubby and lightly discoloured paper . Two spike holes at centre, puncturing one large letter (the 'W' of 'WARE')....

£85.00
W. Whately [Piddletrenthide, Dorset]

Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent.

1 page, 8vo. Creased and discoloured, with some wear to extremities and a small spike-hole at centre. He encloses sixteen pounds for the payment of the bill of 'Mr Holder', and enquires whether 'Mr Halsey' has paid over the fifteen pounds he owes.

£20.00
W.A.B. Coolidge.

Autograph Letter Signed to [J.W.H. Thorp], Macclesfield silk manufacturer and mountaineer.

William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (1850-1926), mountaineer, writer on mountaineering and climbing history, sometime editor of the "Alpine Journal". Two-pages, 8vo, some marking but text clear. "Many thanks for your lists. I fear you have been anticipated in your ascent of the Stecknedelhorn...

£300.00
W.B. Maxwell.

Autograph Letter Signed to Clement Shorter, ed. The Sphere, etc.

Novelist. One page, 8vo, fold mark, good condition. "I cannot refrain from writing to thank you for two kindly notices of my work that you have given in recent numbers of "The Sphere"; & I trust you will not consider me troublesome for doing so, or for saying that it gave me much pleasure to...

Literature £35.00
W.B. Maxwell.

Autograph letter signed to Douglas Sladen with drawing.

Novelist. Two pages, 4to. He can't make a game of golf. He looks forward to reading "the novel, & think the title is most taking - "Weeds that incumber the Earth [& entrance the Heavnes]." He discusses weather, his swimming in a thunderstorm. "The "Weeds" lie about on the Bexhill sands,...

Literature £80.00
W.B. Richmond

Autograph Notes Signed to "Mrs Cash".

Painter (1842-1921). 2 ANSs, 8vo, good. In the first letter, he says that he has rested and feels able to continue with the sittings. In the second, he asks if he can exhibit her portrait at the “Grosvenor”. 2 items,

Art and Architecture £40.00
W.B. Sprague, American Congregational clergyman, autograph collector, biographer.

Autograph Letter Signed to "Mrs Shelly".

Two pages, 8vo, good condition. A good deal of politeness and circumlocution surround his statement of gratitude for the gift of some autographs.

£150.00
W.C. Taylor [William Cooke Taylor], Irish miscellaneous writer, author of "The History of Mohammedanism", etc (DNB, 1800-1849.

Autograph Letter Signed to "___Harrison Esq".

One page, 8vo, some spotting but mainly good condition, complete and legible. "I send you a translation of an Arabian Tale written by Al Mohdi, an employé [underlined] of the French govt during the time that Egypt was occupied by the French Army. It has been modified & abridged for some of...

Book Trade History, History, Literature, Military and Naval History £150.00