DOROTHEA

On 10 x 18 cm piece of paper. Aged and worn, laid down on leaf from album. Unsigned. Reads: 'Theh Princess Pauline Schwartzenberg | the story of her fate is beautifully related in "L'Allemagne" Vol. 3. p. 336'. Beneath this in a contemporary hand: 'Holograph [sic] of Mrs. Hemans the Poet'.

The three letters in very good condition; the first two attached to one another in one corner by a stud. Also included is Dorothea Stephen's copy of Annan's biography ('Leslie Stephen: His Thought and Character in Relation to his Time', 1951), worn and without dustwrapper, with her ownership signature ('D J. Stephen'), and a page of autograph notes critical of the book at the rear.

On the reverse of the half-title leaf (only) of her book 'Records of Woman: with other Poems'. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Reads: 'Miss Chorley. With | Felicia Heman's kindest regards.' A nice association: Henry Fothergill Chorley edited the 'Memorials of Mrs Hemans' (1836).

1p., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed to 'Dear Mr. Jack'. Having married Ioma Gladys Heaton-Nicholls the previous year, Evans-Pritchard had been commissioned in the Sudan defence force in 1940. (He would return to the Sudan-Ethiopian border to fight against the Italians alongside irregular troops of the Anuak.) In this letter Evans-Pritchard's mother writes to J. H. Driberg, at the time Lecturer in Anthropology at Cambridge University: 'Teddy & his wife were to leave England about the 3rd. for the East. I understood the sea voyage would be only about 4 or 5 days.

12mo, 1 p. Fair, on lightly-aged, slightly-grubby paper with small dogears to a couple of corners. Reads 'June 13th. | Dear Mrs Barrow, | It is very kind of you to meet me. I shall hope to arrive punctually. | Yours sincerely | [signed] Dorothea Beale'.