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Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889), English journalist of Irish extraction, editor of the Art Journal [Art Union] Autograph Letter Signed ('S C Hall') ['To Mrs G. Barrow']. 8vo: 1 p. Good, with slight wear to outer edge, and strip from previous mount neatly adhering to reverse. With name of recipient at head, and docketed on reverse. He has 'seen some charming & useful Leaflets advocating Humanity to Animals' and has been 'led to understand they may be obtained... |
£45.00 | |
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Sir Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890), English social reformer Fragment of Autograph Letter Signed ('Edwin Chadwick') to David Cannan. Paper dimensions roughly 9 x 11 cm. The lower part of the last leaf of a letter. Good, on lightly discoloured and aged paper. Ten lines of text on reverse, including the comment (apparently referring to 'drainage works') 'Mr. Lawson would do the work very well, and is to be commended as Mr.... |
£25.00 | |
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Sir Francis Reginald Wingate (1861-1953), British general and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan Autograph Signature ('Reginald Wingate') on fragment of letter. On piece of grey paper roughly 2 x 8.5 cm. Discoloured and with some glue staining. Mounted on larger piece of paper docketed 'Sudan Egypt'. Reads 'Yours very sincerely | [signed] Reginald Wingate'. |
£20.00 | |
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Sir John Henniker Heaton (1848-1914), English Member of Parliament and postal reformer [Post Office] Signed ('J. Henniker Heaton') Letter, in a secretarial hand, to A. M. Tapp. 12mo: 3 pp. Good, but with the leaves of the bifolium separated, and reattached with three tissue mounts. 'It is impossible to trace the obstructiveness of the Postal department to any particular officials; they stand shoulder to shoulder, defiant and impenetrable, like a square of infantry'.... |
£100.00 | |
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Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901), English novelist and historian of London Autograph Notes relating to the London district of Fulham. The notes, on three 12mo bifoliums, cover three pages, with a few lines on a couple of others. In excess of eighty lines. Very good. Brief chronology and list of notable residents, presumably an outline for the description of the district in Besant's 'London' (1892) or another of his many... |
£100.00 | |
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Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), London banker of Scottish extraction [Coutts & Co.] Autograph Letter in the third person to the London printseller James Caulfield (1764-1826). 12mo: 1 p. Somewjhhat grubby, but with text clear and entire. Caulfield 'has been misled in supposing Mr Coutts is inclined to collect Hogarth's or any other pictures as he has hardly ever had any taste or inclination for that Line.' |
£38.00 | |
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Tom Gallon (1866-1914), English novelist, dramatist and humourist [George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Tom Gallon') and Typed Letter Signed to Ernest Pertwee. Both items quarto. On worn, discoloured paper, with a couple of closed tears to the folds. Pertwee was the author of numerous anthologies for recitation, and these letters presumably relate to his 'Reciter's treasury of prose and drama: serious and humorous' (Routledge, 1904). TLS: 'Provided, of... |
£56.00 | |
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William Dickson; John Miller Dickson; General Henry Shadforth [Royal Military College, Bagshot; British army; military history] The collection is in good condition, with occasional light creasing. The 'Regulations' ('ON HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE') consist of four pages printed on a folio bifolium. The other printed item, in facsimile handwriting, dated '15.11.51' (and dated in manuscript 'Horse Guards 1st. February 1853'),... |
£125.00 | |
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C.H. Bracebridge, friend of Florence Nightingale Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent, in a difficult hand. Four pages, 8vo, good condition. Much is indecipherable to me but he appears to hope his correspondent will read something referring to Scutari, says he would have sent a duplicate (article?) but "it is in print". He refers to the Prince [Albert] and considering the "exhibition of folly we have... |
£180.00 | |
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James Smith [Horatio Smith], author ("Rejected Addresses" et al). Two pages, bifolium, 4to, fold marks and minor faint staining, good condition. An earlier draft of the satirical piece printed first in "Comic Miscellanies" (1840)(no other publication listed by LION, though one has to suspect an earlier periodical publication). Comparison with samples of... |
£750.00 |
