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Charles Bradlaugh, radical Letter Signed "C Bradlaugh" to The Editor, Weekly Echo One page, 8vo, good condition. Boddy of letter in secretrarial hand, signed "Yours sincerely | C Bradlaugh". Text: "Protest against war in the Sudan. | Dear Sir | I should be obliged if you would kindly add to the letter you have received from me that S Storey Esq MP & Professor Beesly have... |
£45.00 | |
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Marie Corelli (1855-1924), British novelist Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. On a piece of paper roughly 5.5 x 13 cm. Good firm signature (8 cm long) on lightly aged and creased paper. Reads 'Faithfully yours | [signed] Marie Corelli'. Fragment on reverse reads '<...> education nowadays <...> hope you <...> induced to <...> estimable'. |
£25.00 | |
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[Author's Inscription] Frank Gallagher, Irish Republican 175pp., 8vo, sl. hinge strain, corners bumped, spine label worn, author and title obscured. INSCRIBED by author to a fellow hunger-striker as follows (hf-title): "To Andrew Mc Donnell in memory of these [DAYS OF FEAR = half-tile printed] through which we went together. | Frank Gallagher | 6-5-29... |
£200.00 | |
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John Stuart Blackie, Greek Professor (Edinburgh). Piece of paper, c.17.5 x 11cm, fold mark down middle, good condition. The initialled poem, four lines, is headed "Love" ("Poor is the man who in self-hardened shell . . . . And grows to great estate by loving great and small." The next heading is "Life" folowed by the line "Why stay us on the... |
£100.00 |
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Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810-1870), French historian Autograph Letter Signed ('le Cte de Montalembert'), in French, to an unnamed male correspondent. 12mo: 2 pp. Very good on lightly aged paper. Asks if it might be possible, as previously, to forward a packet to 'Mr. d'Abbadie': 'depuis deux ans je suis sans nouvelles de lui'. It is six months since he had the honour of forwarding a similar packet via the French legation at Lisbon. Good firm... |
£56.00 | |
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Eugène Auguste Ernest Havet (1813-1889), French scholar. Autograph Letter Signed ('Ernest Havet'), in French [to someone living in Sainte-Beuve's old house]. 16mo: 1 p. 14 lines of text. Close hand. He is touched that Sainte-Beuve has found time, in the midst of his labours, to write a letter expressing his 'adhésion'. 'Je suis heureux de penser, en vous écrivant rue Montparnasse [Sainte-Beuve lived at no. 11], que la philosophie et l'esprit d'... |
£56.00 | |
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Grant David Yeats [G. D. Yeats] (1773-1836), English physician, born in Florida, America [Jane Ellen Paterson; Admiral Charles William Paterson (1756-1841)] Both items clear and entire: good on lightly aged paper. Both addressed, with postmarks, to 'Mrs. Admiral Paterson, East Cosham Cottage, near Portsmouth.' Letter One, to 'My dear Ellen' (4to, 8 pp). Long letter, leaving his sister 'to judge as a reasonable Being whether I do not do every thing... |
£56.00 | |
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Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939), writer Autograph Signature on piece of paper. On a piece of wove paper, roughly 5 x 14.5 cm. Rough lower edge. Good, on lightly aged paper. 0.5 cm closed tear at left (not affecting signature). Paper folded once vertically. Good clear signature. |
£18.00 | |
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Marie Krebs [Marie Krebs-Brenning] (1851-1900), German pianist Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. Dimensions of paper 3 x 8 cm. Good, firm signature, on lightly aged and spotted paper. The flourish beneath the signature (paraph) has been cropped. |
£23.00 | |
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Sir William Scott [William Scott, Baron Stowell; Lord Stowell] (1745–1836), judge and politician [Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844), British prime minister] Autograph Letter Signed ('W Scott') to his son-in-law Viscount Sidmouth. 12mo: 3 pp. Good, on lightly aged paper. Small spike hole through both leaves of the bifolium. Text clear and entire. Execrable hand. Begins 'I certainly shall not secede from my conditional Promise'. Paragraph describing the weather ('The Heat of the Weather here is intolerable.') 'I agree... |
£28.00 |
