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[London banking and West Indian sugar market.] Manuscript copies of two letters by William Wilson of London bankers Hankeys, Plummer & Wilson, regarding 'West India Distress' and the 'unfortunate failure' of the mercantile house Mannings & Anderdon.

The present two items are of the highest interest for the information they provide regarding the financial connections between the West Indian market and the London banking interest. Wilson presses the claims of the new banking house of which he is a partner - Hankeys, Plummer & Wilson - in...

[Herbert Samuel, Liberal politician.] Two Autograph Letters Signed (both 'Herbert Samuel') to the publisher Grant Richards, the second concerning the reviewing of his book 'Liberalism'.

Both items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Both 2pp., 12mo, on bifoliums. ONE: 6 January 1902. Attempting to rearrange an appointment from morning to afternoon, and giving news of a lost penknife. TWO: 20 February 1902. With Richards's dated receipt stamp. Requesting that a copy of his...

[Thomas Frognall Dibdin, bibliographer] Autograph Letter Signed "TFD" (monogram) to William Combes, book collector, of Henley upon Thames.

Letter written across two pages, 8vo, small tear with no loss of text, small hole at fold, mainly good, address on verso counter-signed (Free Post) "H.Gally Knight", M.P., traveller and writer. Notation top left corner "F.66.Cole. CR". Text as follows: "The enclosed will prove to you that you...

[William Hutton, Birmingham bookseller and local historian.] Leaf of 'unpublished poems, composed by, and in the Autograph of, William Hutton', with note by 'WB'; and fragment of his daughter Catherine Hutton's handwriting, 'when 87 years of age'.

Both items are laid down on a 12mo leaf extracted from an album. All in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Laid down on the reverse of the leaf is an early eighteenth-century engraving of a man (William Hutton?) holding a book. The explanatory note, on one side of the leaf from the album,...