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[Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, to Mark Bonham Carter.] Autograph Letter Signed ('K M Atholl') to 'Major Bonham-Carter', regarding a meeting on the role of the Poles in the Second World War, at which he is to be a speaker.

Author: 
Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray [née Ramsay], Duchess of Atholl (1874-1960), Chairman, British League for European Freedom [Mark Bonham Carter (1922-1994), Baron Bonham-Carter, publisher and Liberal]
Publication details: 
On letterhead of the British League for European Freedom, 66 Elizabeth Street, London, SW1. 10 April 1946.
£140.00

4pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged. She is especially pleased that he has agreed to speak at 'our meeting', as the League is 'always so anxious to have our meetings all-party ones - this one more especially so'. The theme of the meeting is the role of the Poles in the Second World War, and she describes the plan of the meeting, which is to include a speech by 'Major Beamish' on 'conditions in Poland'; and a resolution by the Dean of Chichester ('our Vice-Chairman'), seconded by 'Mr. O'Brien M.P. (Labour)'.

Album of 49 photographs by the Victorian photographer William Claridge of Berkhamstead, with the ownership inscription of his granddaughter Sybil Maude Hubert, and including character studies of individuals, and an unknown view of the City of London

Author: 
William Claridge (1797-1876) of Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, Victorian photographer; his granddaughter Sybil Maude Hubert [married name Churchill] (1872-1944)
Publication details: 
[Berkhamstead] The photographs dating from c. 1855 to 1876. Sybil M. Hubert's ownership inscription dated 1883.
£850.00

49 photographic prints, laid down on 48pp. of a small (16.5 x 13 cm) contemporary 4to album, quarter-bound with brown leather spine and brown cloth boards, with yellow endpapers. No captions: the only manuscript in the volume being the ownership inscription of 'Sybil M. Hubert | 1883' on the front free endpaper. A fragile survival: aged and discoloured, with occasional staining from damp, which also caused some of the photographs to stick to one another, with slight damage occurring on their being detached; binding also in poor condition, with boards detached and leaves loose.

Autograph Letter Signed ('Leverhulme') from William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, to the Scottish folklorist Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

Author: 
William Hesketh Lever (1851-1925), 1st Viscount Leverhulme [Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (1857-1930), Scottish folklorist, collector and editor of Hebridean folksong]
Publication details: 
On letterhead of The Hill, Hampstead Heath, London, NW3. 10 January 1922.
£35.00

2pp., 12mo. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. He thanks her for her letter and announces a date on which 'your two sisters your daughter and yourself' can 'dine with my sister and myself at The Hill, Hampstead'. He expects that his niece 'Miss Emily Paul' will be staying with him at that time. He ends by saying that if the hour of the dinner is too early for Mrs Kennedy-Fraser's 'afternoon engagement', it can be altered to 'whatever time is most convenient for yourself'.

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