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[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Seventh Annual Report of the Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women. Presented at the Annual Meeting, 28th July, 1876.

Author: 
[Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] [Alexander Ireland
Publication details: 
[Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] Manchester: Alexander Ireland & Co., Printers. 1876.
£135.00

15pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Two copies on COPAC, at Cambridge and the London School of Economics. No other copy currently on the market.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Sixth Annual Report of the Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the General Committee, October 20th, 1873.

Author: 
[Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] [Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women.] Manchester: Alexander Ireland & Co., Printers. 1873.
£135.00

10pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Three copies on COPAC. No copy at the BL. No other copy currently on the market.

[Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, London; printed pamphlet.] Shall my Daughter learn a Business? ['Tract No. 2' in the series 'Tracts for Parents and Daughters'.]

Author: 
[Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, Princes Street, Hanover Square, and 83a, Farringdon Street. 1863.
£320.00

12pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. No copy on COPAC or OCLC Worldcat.

[Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, London; printed pamphlet.] How shall I educate my Daughter? ['Tract No. 1' in the series 'Tracts for Parents and Daughters'.]

Author: 
[Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, Princes Street, Hanover Square, and 83a, Farringdon Street. 1863.
£250.00

12pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. No copies on COPAC, surrogates on WorldCat.

[Female and child factory labour; printed pamphlet.] Mr. Mundella's Bill for Limiting the Hours of Labour in Factories. Observations of the Employers upon the Report to the Local Government Board by J. H. Bridges, M.D., and T. Holmes, [...]

Author: 
[Association of Employers of Factory Labour in the four Counties of Lancaster, York, Chester, and Derby; Richard Haworth; J. Simpson; J. H. Bridges; H. Whitworth; T. Holmes; Anthony John Mundella]
Publication details: 
['John Heywood, Excelsior Printing Works, Hulme Hall Road, Manchester.'] Dated on p.45: '69, KING STREET, MANCHESTER, | 7th June, 1873.'
£50.00

The full title reads: 'Mr. Mundella's Bill for Limiting the Hours of Labour in Factories. Observations of the Employers upon the Report to the Local Government Board by J. H. Bridges, M.D., and T. Holmes, on the Health of Women, Children, and Young Persons engaged in Textile Manufactures, with Special Reference to the Hours and Ages of Employment.' 45pp., 8vo. Disbound, with the signatures separated, otherwise in fair condition, lightly-aged, no wraps.

[Printed pamphlet.] Report of the Committee for amending the Law in Points wherein it is Injurious to Women. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Defence of Personal Rights, Held in Liverpool, November 14th, 1871.

Author: 
[Association for the Defence of Personal Rights; Committee for amending the law in points wherein it is injurious to women] Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer; women's suffrage]
Publication details: 
[Association for the Defence of Personal Rights.] Manchester: A. Ireland & Co., Pall Mall. 1871.
£180.00

24pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Four copies on COPAC, and two copies on OCLC WorldCat. No other copy currently on the market.

[Female suffrage; printed anti-feminist pamphlet.] The Woman is No Human Being.

Author: 
['Attila'] [Victorian anti-feminist polemic; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[New York, 1870s.] Without printer or date.
£150.00

31pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Excessively scarce: two copies on COPAC (at Lambeth Palace and the London School of Economics) and only one more copy (apart from surrogates) on OCLC WorldCat, at the Ohio History Convention. This copy, like the two on COPAC, lacking the title leaf, which, according to the WorldCat entry, gives the place of publication as New York, and the full title as 'No female suffrage! Attila: theology, logic, anatomy, physiology and philology united, to establish the truism that the woman is no human being'.

[Women's suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Remarks on Woman's Work in Sanitary Reform.

Author: 
'S. R. P.' [Susan Rugeley Powers] [The English Woman's Journal] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Publisher not stated. Undated [circa 1860].
£120.00

20pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Signed in type 'S. R. P.' at end of text (p.20), followed by a 'List of [17] Books Recommended at Page 2.' Four copies on OCLC WorldCat, and three more on COPAC: Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Oxford (the last of which states that it is reprinted from the English Woman's Journal). BL and LSE hold copies of a third edition.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Women and Doctors: Or Medical Despotism in England. An Essay by Mrs. Hume-Rothery.

Author: 
'Mrs. Hume-Rothery' [Mary Catherine Hume-Rothery (1824-1885), Swedenborgian campaigner for medical reform] [Abel Heywood, Manchester printer; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, Printers and Publishers, 56 & 58, Oldham-street. London: T. W. Grattan, Publisher, Amen Corner, Paternoster Row. In type, p.15: 'MARY C. HUME-ROTHERY. | 3, Richmond Terrace, Middleton, Manchester, 1st May, 1871.'
£200.00

16pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In good condition, lightly-aged, unbound, with only the blank grey back wrap present. The only copy traced at the BL. See the author's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

[Female suffrage; printed handbill.] Mr. Mundella, M.P., on the Right of Women to Work for Wages.

Author: 
'Mr. Mundella, M.P.' [Anthony John Mundella [A. J. Mundella] (1825-1897); Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918)] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Road, Chelsea. Signed in type at end: 'ELIZABETH C. WOLSTENHOLME, | 63, Finborough Road, London, S.W.'
£75.00

1p., 8vo. Handbill with drophead title. In fair condition, aged and chipped at extremities. Laid down on leaf removed from book. No copy traced, either on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Women's Need of Representation: A Lecture upon the Necessity of Giving Women the Parliamentary Franchise.

Author: 
'Miss A. I. Robertson [Anne Isabella Robertson], President of the Irish National Society for Women's Suffrage; Author of "Myself and My Relatives," etc.'
Publication details: 
[Printed for the Irish National Society for Women's Suffrage, Dublin.] Dublin: Alfred Webb, Printer, 74, Middle Abbey Street. (Late R. D. Webb and Son.) 1872.
£320.00

Subtitle: 'Printed for the Irish National Society for Women's Suffrage, upon the motion of The Right Hon. Lord Talbot de Malahide, at a General Meeting of the Society held February 21st, 1872.' 18pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. The only copy on COPAC (other than surrogates) at the LSE, with three copies of an 1873 edition. No copy on OCLC WorldCat. Note: "The National Society for Women's Suffrage was the first national group in the United Kingdom to campaign for women's right to vote.

[Printed pamphlet.] Éloge du Luxe Effréné des Femmes. Extraits des legendes de J. T. de Saint-Germain. [In two sections: 'De la mode' and 'Du Luxe et du travail'.]

Author: 
'J. T. de Saint-Germain' [pseudonym of Jules-Romain Tardieu (1805-1868)]
Publication details: 
Paris: Jules Tardieu, Éditeur, 13, Rue de Tournon, 13. [1865.]
£120.00

[2] + 12pp., 16mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, disbound. A tastefully-printed little production, well laid-out with vignettes. In two parts: the first, titled 'De la mode' (pp.1-), an 'Extrait de la Veilleuse, Légende'; the second, titled 'Du Luxe et du travail' (pp.6-12), an 'Extrait de l'Art d'etre malheureux, Légende'. On reverse of title is a page of 'Ouvrages de J. T. de Saint-Germain'. Only copy on COPAC at the British Library. Copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale, whose entry dates the item to 1865.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Remarks on the Obstacles to the more general Employment of Women, and on the Means of removing them. Reprinted from the English Woman's Journal.

Author: 
'J. B.' [Jessie Boucherett] [English Woman's Journal Company, Limited, London; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Published at the Office of the English Woman's Journal Company, Limited, 19, Langham Place, Regent Street, W. 1860.
£150.00

16pp., 8vo. Aged and worn, no wraps, disbound, with evidence of side stitching and slight loss to the last two leaves. Several copies listed on COPAC, No other copy currently omn the market.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] National Society for Women's Suffrage. Object. - To recover for Women the Ancient right of voting for Members of Parliament on a par with men. Intellectual and Moral Tendencies of Female Suffrage.

Author: 
'F. W. Newman, (Emeritus Professor of University College, London)' [Francis William Newman (1805-1897); National Society for Women's Suffrage] [Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Printed for the London National Society for Women's Suffrage, by I. ARROWSMITH, Bristol. Undated.
£150.00

4pp., 8vo. Bifolium. Drophead title. In fair condition, lightly-aged, disbound. No copy traced. Note: "The National Society for Women's Suffrage was the first national group in the United Kingdom to campaign for women's right to vote. Formed on 6 November 1867, by Lydia Becker, the organisation helped lay the foundations of the women's suffrage movement, furthered later by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and the Women's Social and Political Union."

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] The Industrial Employment of Women in France compared with England. A Paper read at the Social Science Congress, Cheltenham, 1878.

Author: 
'Edward J. Watherston, F.S.S. of Pall Mall East London' [Edward James Watherston (1839-1904), London goldsmith and jeweller] [The Social Science Congress, Cheltenham, 1878] [women's suffrage]
Publication details: 
['London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-street Square and Parliament Street. [1878.]
£80.00

16pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Several copies on COPAC, but now scarce, with only one copy on the open market.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] The Ladies' Sanitary Association. From the "English Woman's Journal."

Author: 
'B. R. P.' [Bessie Rayner Parkes] [The Ladies' Sanitary Association; The English Woman's Journal, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[The Ladies' Sanitary Association.] London: Published at the Office, 14a Princes Street, Cavendish Square. [Printed by Odell & Ives, 18, Princes Street, Cavendish Square.] Undated [1859].
£90.00

15pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. No copy on COPAC or on OCLC WorldCat.

[The Geological Society of London.] Fifty-year run of 153 numbers of 'The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society', from no.1, including contributions from leading geologists including T. H. Huxley, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison

Author: 
[The Geological Society of London] T. H. Huxley; Sir Charles Lyell; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison; Sir Richard Owen; William Conybeare; Sir Joseph Prestwich [Charles Darwin; theory of evolution]
Publication details: 
Published throughout by Longmans of London (no.1, 1845 by 'Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans'; and no.265, 1911, by 'Longmans, Green, and Co.'; later issues by Longmans, Green, and Co.).
£1,800.00

A substantial run of a historic scientific journal, at a significant period in its history, with the theory of Evolution occasioning an upheaval of received ideas. 153 numbers, dating from the first number of 1 Feb. 1845 to that of 1 Nov. 1901, with a single subsequent number (Feb. 1911). (Numbers were generally arranged in yearly 'Volumes', with occasional additional numbers (for example 120* and 200a and 200b). All issues 8vo, with numbers of pages varying from around 60 to upwards of 20. The full number and date range are as follows: 1-4 [1 Feb. 1845 to 1 Nov. 1845], 9 [1 Feb.

Manuscript 'Journal of a Tour to London' in 1844 [by William Morris Mousley of Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire?], including descriptions of visits to 'Tom Thumb' at the Egyptian Hall, and to 'Wizard' Jacobs, the magician and ventriloquist, in Dover

Author: 
[Rev. William Morris Mousley (b. 1828), son of the Rev. William Mousley, vicar of Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire; 'Tom Thumb'; the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly; 'Wizard' Jacobs, conjuror and ventriloquist]
Publication details: 
4 to 28 June 1844.
£450.00

12mo, 39 pp. Stitched into original coloured wraps decorated with pastel-coloured rainbow stripes. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper. The final two pages of the volume contain crude sketches in coloured pencil (figure seated on steps of country cottage, a clump of trees, ships at sea). The year is not stated, but certainly 1844 from the references in the volume. Found with other autograph material of the Rev. W. M. Mousley, who would have been sixteen at the time of writing. The trip is made along with 'Papa', 'Mama [Mamma]' (often 'poorly'), 'Henry' and 'James'.

[Sales of farm stock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1844 and 1845.] Three manuscript lists of 'the goods and chattels of David Kauffman sold at public sale', describing articles sold, with prices and purchasers' names.

Author: 
[David Kauffman of East Hempfield township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Dutch; Mennonites of America]
Publication details: 
[East Hempfield township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.] Sales on 12 November 1844 and 25 February and 10 March 1845.
£1,250.00

For more information on the Kauffman family, see Alexander Harris's 'Biographical History of Lancaster County' (1872), pp.332-335. The family were Mennonites, and originated in Hesse. The most notable member was affluent farmer and bank president Abraham Cassel Kauffman (1799-1886), a member of the Pennsylvania legislature for the 1835, 1837 and 1843 sessions. 18pp., 8vo. Unbound. On five loose bifoliums (with remains of stitching still present). The leaves of one bifolium are separated from one another, and the order of the pages is probably disturbed.

Irish Orange Order political handbill poem, ostensibly by 'Robert Todd, Comber', ridiculing Liberal candidate in North Down John Shaw Brown on his defeat in the General Election of 1885, titled 'The Burial of the Radical Cause in the Glassmoss'.

Author: 
'Robert Todd, Comber' and 'M'Cullough's Mule, Coroner, Glassmoss' [John Shaw Brown of Edenderry and Tordeevra, linen manufacturer; County Down, Northern Ireland]
Publication details: 
[Glassmoss, County Down, Ireland. 1885.]
£250.00

1p., 12mo. Cheaply printed in small print. A frail survival: aged and worn. In the 1885 General Election Brown was soundly defeated in the North Down constituency by the Conservative candidate Thomas Waring. The present item is headed 'The Burial of the Radical Cause in the Glassmoss. (By Robert Todd, Comber.)' The poem is 32 lines long, divided into eight four-line stanzas.

[Walter William Ouless, portrait painter.] Autograph Letter Signed ('W. W. Ouless') to 'Mr. White' [John Forbes White?], regarding the contribution of paintings to an exhibition in Aberdeen.

Author: 
Walter William Ouless (1848-1933), RA, British portrait painter from Jersey [John Forbes White of Aberdeen?; Herbert Stacy Marks (1829-1898); Sir Alexander Matheson (1805-1886)]
Publication details: 
On letterhead of 12 Bryanston Square. 27 October 1887.
£65.00

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly aged paper. Ouless regrets that he has 'nothing available' for 'the Aberdeen Exhibition this year', 'unless it be Marks' portrait [Henry Stacy Marks, artist] which is my property & now at Manchester, but as it was painted 12 years ago I do not think you will consider it suitable'. He suggest asking the Highland Railway Company whether they might lend the 'half length by me of Sir A. Matheson'. The letter ends: 'I wish I had something more recent which I could propose. I hope another year you will ask me again.'

[Sir James Emerson Tennent, Irish politician and traveller. ] Autograph Note Signed ('J. Emerson Tennent') to Mrs J. R. McClean.

Author: 
Sir James Emerson Tennent (1804-1869), Irish traveller and politician, Colonial Secretary of Ceylon, 1845-1850
Publication details: 
66 Warwick Square, Belgravia [London]. 4 November 1861.
£45.00

1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Reads: 'My dear Mrs McClean | Will you accept the accompanying Volume from me, as a slight token of my remembrance of old times & old friends | Faithfully Ever | J. Emerson Tennent'.

[Richard Wharton, Secretary to the Treasury.] Autograph Letter Signed ('R Wharton') to Sir Francis Freeling, Secretary of the General Post Office, regarding 'Dodds', who is applying to be made a guard. With Autograph Note Signed by Freeling.

Author: 
Richard Wharton (c.1765-1828), Tory Member of Parliament for Durham, and Secretary to the Treasury [Sir Francis Freeling (1764-1836), Secretary of the General Post Office]
Publication details: 
Treasury Chambers [Whitehall, London]. 14 March 1811.
£56.00

1p., 4to. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with slight damage to one corner. Wharton writes that 'Dodds, whom on my request you some time ago put on your list to be made a Gaurd [sic]', writes me word that he will be 30 years old on the 23d inst. and is told that he cannot be made a Gaurd after he has attained that age.' He asks to be informed 'how that stands, as I shrink at the idea of having him again on my hands'.

[Richard James Lane, lithographer and sculptor, and Henry Fothergill Chorley, journalist.] Unusual double text, signed by 'Richard: J: Lane' and 'H: F: Chorley', written by both parties in response to a request for an autograph.

Author: 
Richard James Lane (1800-1872), lithographer and sculptor; Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808-1872), journalist
Publication details: 
On letterhead of 1 York Villas, Campden Hill, W. [London] Undated.
£90.00

1p., 12mo. On bifolium. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with one dog-eared corner, and minor traces of previous mount to blank second leaf of bifolium. The text is neatly written out in the two men's autographs, as follows, with Chorley's writing in square brackets. 'My Autograph? With pleasure. Another Lady begged me to get an autograph of H. F. Chorley. She did not ask for mine. | I immediately wrote to Chorley, and he promptly replied. | [But not for Hope I pray, to day contriving | Tomorrow's dreams. | Only for Patience, through long years of striving | Against the stream.

[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'.

Author: 
Herbert Samuel [Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel] (1870-1963), British Liberal Home Secretary [Grant Richards (1872-1948), London publisher]
Publication details: 
Both on letterheads of 88 Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, W. [London] 6 January and 20 February 1902.
£80.00

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 book 'Liberalism' be sent to 'C. P. Lucas, Esq., Colonial Office, Whitehall'.

[Herbert Henry Asquith, Liberal Prime Minister.] Autographh Signature ('H H Asquith') on envelope, franking a letter to Quintin Hogg.

Author: 
H. H. Asquith [Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith] (1852-1928), British Liberal Prime Minister, 1908-1916.
Publication details: 
Home Office, Whitehall. Envelope with London and Brighton postmarks, 10 March 1893.
£28.00

10 x 13 cm envelope. In fair condition, aged and worn, with damage and loss to back flap.. Asquith has written out the address as follows: 'Quintin Hogg Esq | 5 Cavendish Square | W'. The last two lines have been crossed out, and the address amended in another hand to '56 Westbourne St | West Brighton'. The front of the envelope has a square London postmark in black ink, and circular frank in red; the rear has two more postmarks (one London and the other Brighton. The flap has 'Home Office | Whitehall' printed on it.

[Georg Friedrich Creuzer.] Printed item: 'Oratio de Civitate Athenarum Omnis Humanitatis Parente, qua Literarum Graecarum Cathedram. In Academia Leidensi. Auspicaturus erat.'

Author: 
Frederici Creuzeri, Graecarum Latinarumque Literarum in Academia Heidelbergensis Professoris P. O. [Georg Friedrich Creuzer (1771-1858), German philologist and archaeologist]
Publication details: 
Lugduni Batavorum apud van Laar et Herdingh, 1809.
£120.00

[6] + 66pp., 8vo. Disbound. In fair condition, on aged and spotted paper. Creuzer's work was controversial. He was attacked by Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, Johann Heinrich Voss and Christian Lobeck, and praised by Hegel.

[Charles Dolman, Roman Catholic London publisher.] First part of Autograph Letter [from the publisher Charles Dolman] to Nicholas Wiseman in Rome, discussing his

Author: 
Charles Dolman (1807-1863), Roman Catholic London publisher ('nephew and successor to the late Joseph Booker') [Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Roman Catholic Cardinal]
Publication details: 
London. 12 May 1839.
£250.00

4pp., 4to. Bifolium. 135 lines of text. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. At the time of writing Dolman had just published 'Four Lectures on the Offices and Ceremonies of Holy Week, as performed in the Papal Chapels. Delivered in Rome, in the Lent of 1837, by Nicholas Wiseman'. Later in 1839 he would publish Wiseman's anonymous 'A reply to the Rev. Dr. Turton's "Roman Catholic Doctrine of the Eucharist considered"'. Written in a close neat hand.

[Anne Manning, Victorian novelist.] Autograph Letter Signed to her 'cousin and friend' 'Mr. Maleson', regarding his efforts to obtain a Civil List pension for her.

Author: 
Anne Manning (1807-1879), Victorian novelist [Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., London publishers]
Publication details: 
Reigate Hill, Surrey. 18 July 1872.
£80.00

2pp., 12mo. 25 lines of text. In fair conditon, on aged and worn paper. Her sister Frances is 'overjoyed at your benevolent efforts for me', and 'Mr Arthur Hall is very glad indeed to hear what you are trying to do, and is quite ready if you and I approve to send a set of my books, with a notification to Mr Gladstone, and also of privately interesting the Archbishop, who will, he has no doubt send an autograph letter privately to the Prirme Minister'. The letter ends with a prayer for her 'kind friends', concluding 'The Lord will provide'.

[Violet Attlee, wife of the Prime Minister Clement Attlee.] Autograph Note Signed ('V H A') at head of Autograph Letter from Downing Street secretary E. J. Sayer, apologising for a mistake.

Author: 
Violet Helen Attlee [née Millar] (1896-1964), Countess Attlee, wife of Clement Attlee (1883-1967), 1st Earl Attlee, Labour Prime Minister; Elizabeth Sayer, later Cooper, Downing Street secretar
Publication details: 
On letterhead of the Prime Minister. Sayer's apology: 30 March 1950. Violet Attlee's reply on the same day.
£65.00

1p., on 20.5 x 8.5 cm slip, headed by the Prime Minister's official letterhead. Sayer's apology is headed 'Mrs Attlee', and she writes that she feels she 'must apologise in writing for the mistake I made over the arrangements for giving your two seats to the Misses Trevor', hoping that it did not cause inconvenience and promising not to do the like again. Violet Attlee's reply, headed 'Miss Sayer', is at the head of the letter: 'Please don't worry. It is quite a relief to me to find that somebody besides myself makes mistakes! | W H A 30/3'.

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