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Paul Blouet ("Max O'Rell") Autograph Letter Signed to "Fred. Mouillet" 2pp., 8vo, discussing work in progress and promising to get the MS to "Andre" by Christmas. He will also be "Max O'Relling" (as a participle) a MS sent to him by Mouillet. |
£50.00 | |
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Peter Whalley Autograph note signed to the Revd Mr. Lye (perhaps Edward Lye - see DNB) Author and editor (1722-1791). Two pages, 4to. comprising a note and a list of questions, a tear but not affecting text. Whalley requests Lye's help in getting answers to these questions concerning the history of Easton (Northants), a history drawn "from Mr Bs [Bridges'] Collections". Whalley... |
£100.00 | |
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Philip Pusey Autograph note signed to unnamed correspondent Agriculturalist (1799-1855). He is pleased that his correspondent's book is making its way (which is "a work of time"). He hopes it will be as useful as his correspondent "could wish". |
£25.00 | |
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R.H. Bruce Lockhart Autograph postcard signed to J.G. Wilson, Chairman of Bumpus's, booksellers Author. Two sides of card used, thanking Wilson for obtaining for him an invitation from John Buchan to be a guest at the National Book Trade Dinner and for the "splendid showing" he arranged for his book (probably "British Agent") at Bumpus's. |
£35.00 | |
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Rev. Edward Coleridge (1800-83), Assistant-Master at Eton College Autograph letter signed to an unnamed archdeacon, 2 pp, 12mo. "My dear Archdeacon. / I thank God for your note. It is at least an anapneusis in one's deep anxiety at this moment. How very earnestly we ought to pray & long for our good & beloved Primate's recovery - if even but for awhile. I will write to the Bp. of Lichfield (is he in... |
£45.00 | |
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Richard Everard Webster, Viscount Alverstone Autograph letter signed to Mrs F[rederick W.] Hollams, Lord Chief Justice of England (1842-1915). One page, 12mo. Marked "Confidential". "My sister told me of the letter. I have made some enquiries about the man who wrote to you and from what I hear I certainly think you ought not to engage him. You will of course treat this letter as strictly... |
£40.00 | |
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Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool One page, 12mo. On recto: "<...> 1797 of John Meheux the sum <...> / <... f>orty five Pounds for one <...> / me as one of the Commissioners <...> / <...> from Michaelmas to <...> / [signed] Hawkesbury". Docketted in pencil and in ink. On verso: "25 Decr... |
£50.00 | |
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Robert Keeley Photograph and two autograph fragments signed, English actor (1793-1869). A small oval photograph, 2 inches high, of an aged Keeley seated at a table with papers before him. Glued to a thin piece of card beneath which is a fragment cut from a letter, "Believe me / yours very truly / R. Keeley / Lovell Reeve Esq." Evidently cut from an... |
£20.00 | |
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Robert Plumer Ward Autograph letter signed to "Byham", of the Ordnance Office. Novelist and politician (1765-1846). One page, 8vo. (He is writing to his former colleague in the Ordnance Office where he was a clerk from 1811 to 1823). He asks him to forward an important packet and recalls "pleasant remembrances of former intercourse". |
£50.00 | |
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Rosa Place Autograph letter signed to S. Timmings Artist. 3pp., 8vo. None of her pictures has ever been chromo-lithographed but she will let him know when one is. She hopes to exhibit at the Royal Academy and would like inform,ation about exhibitions in Birmingham, etc. where she would think of exhibiting. |
£35.00 |
