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Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, Anglican missionary society, founded 1849 [The West Galway Church Building Fund; Thomas Span Plunket, Bishop of Tuam; Rev. Alexander Dallas] [Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics.] Printed promotional pamphlet, including ‘The West Galway Church Building Fund / Appeal from the Bishop of Tuam.’ [i.e. Thomas Span Plunket] A scarce item: the only copy on COPAC at Trinity College Dublin. (WorldCat records a German library holding). See the entry on the Society’s founder, Rev. Alexander Dallas, in the Oxford DNB. The organisation, which still operates, is a controversial one. It was founded to convert Irish Roman...		£320.00
William Plomer [William Charles Franklyn Plomer] (1903-1973), English poet and novelist, born in South Africa, Benjamin Britten’s librettist [Eileen M. Cond, autograph collector] [William Plomer, poet and novelist, Benjamin Britten’s librettist.] Autograph Letter Signed to the autograph collector Eileen M. Cond, apologising for his ‘ordinary’ signature. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice for postage. Reads: ‘Dear Miss Cond, / I have pleasure in sending you my signature. As you will see, it is quite an ordinary one. / Yours very truly / William Plomer’. The signature is in fact rather stylish...	Literature	£56.00
[Sir Travers Twiss QC FRS (1809 – 1897) was an English jurist]. [Travers Twiss, jurist; Queen's Advocate-General; scandal (Wikipedia)] Autograph Note Signed Travers Twiss to a Mr or Mrs Rowcliffe, promising to send some autographs. One page, 12mo, black-bordered, backed by paper of similar size with evidence of having been laid down, and with MS note Dr. Travers Twiss \| Vicar [sic] General \| &c, good condition. Text: I am much obliged by your note & will take care not to forget my promise - on the first leisure...		£56.00
[Amé Thérèse Joseph Masclet (1760 - 1833) was a French diplomat and an author of letters to Lafayette.] [Joseph Masclet; Lamartine; SNCF; Railway History] Autograph Letter Unsigned, ascribed to Joseph Masclet, with attributable content (Note below), to a Monsieur Mollard about early English Railways and his article of use to 'l'institut'. One page, 12mo, unsigned, bifolium, good condition. Note by another hand in top left corner, lettre de Masclet. Text (unsigned): J'envoye a Monsieur Mollard la copie du memoire sur la place du chemin de fer entre Liverpool et Manchester. \| On pourra annoncer a l'institute un autre memoire plus...	French	£120.00
[British India; the Edwardian Raj; Indian finances; Edward Broome; Sir Colin Scott-Moncrieff; William Martin Wood (1828-1907), editor of Times of India, founder and editor of Bombay Review] [British India; Edwardian Raj; Indian finances; Edward Broome, civil engineer; Sir Colin Scott-Moncrieff; William Martin Wood, editor of Times of India, founder and editor of Bombay Review.] Five galley proofs of articles by Wood, on Indian topics. Five galley-proofs of articles written during the high-point of the Raj by leading Victorian journalist in India W. Martin Wood (editor of the Times of India, founder and editor of the Bombay Review). Ephemeral items, creased and worn, but with text clear and entire. ONE: Headed ‘ALLEN’S INDIAN...		£320.00
[British India; the Edwardian Raj; Indian finances; Edward Broome; William Martin Wood (1828-1907), editor of Times of India, founder and editor of Bombay Review] [British India; Edwardian Raj; Indian finances; Edward Broome, civil engineer; William Martin Wood, editor of Times of India, founder and editor of Bombay Review.] Five galley proofs of articles by Wood, on Indian topics. Two galley-proofs of articles by leading Victorian journalist in India W. Martin Wood (editor of the Times of India, founder and editor of the Bombay Review). Ephemeral items, creased and worn, but with text clear and entire. ONE: Headed ‘ALLEN’S INDIAN MAIL / THE LATE MR. EDWARD BROOME, C.E. /...		£320.00
A. H. Evans [Arthur Henry Evans (b. 1902)], Anti-Revisionist Maoist Welsh communist and poet, proprietor of David-Goliath Publications [Joseph Needham (1900-1995), biochemist and sinologist] [‘His knowledge of Marxist philosophy is zero’: a Maoist attack on the sinologist Joseph Needham.] Printed pamphlet by A. H. Evans titled: ‘Against Dr. Needham / An Exposure of his Anti-Marxism’. A. H. Evans was born in the village of Aber Clydach, near Talybont on Usk, Breconshire. He gives biographical information in his ‘English Historians and Welsh History’ (1975). See also Needham's entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item is excessively scarce: no other copy found on OCLC WorldCat...		£180.00
Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, GCB (1757 – 1833) was a British naval officer. He fought during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars, etc. [Admiral Pellew; HMS Caledonia; Fall of Napoleon] Incomplete Autograph Letter in Admiral Pellew's hand (lacking signature page) to Admiral Sir [William] Sidney Smith concerning the end of hostilities and the Fall of Napoleon. A difficult handwriting. Four surviving pages, lacking signature page, bifolium, first and last page dusted but text clear and complete. My dear Sir Sidney, \| It is with sincere pleasure I [?] your safe & happy meeting with Lady Smith and her amiable daughters. I am [?] in the enjoyment of similar feelings sailing...		£280.00
Alf Mac Lochlainn, former Director of the National Library of Ireland, author, etc, Editor of The Irish Book. [Alf Mac Lochlainn, editor; periodical.] The Irish Book, volume One, Number Two WITH related Autograph Letter Signed by Mac Lochlainn to Mrs [Cathleen] O'Duffy, widow of Eimar O'Duffy, author of The Wasted Island etc. [Periodical] 60pp., 8vo, good condition. It includes Eimar O'Duffy: A bibliographical biography. The enclosed letter is two pages, 12mo, stained edges, but text complete and clear, as follows: I now enclose a copy of the issue of The Irish Book in which my article on Eimar O'Duffy appeared. It...		£120.00
Alfred Emden, First Superintendent of Alexandra Palace (opened 1873). [Alfred Emden, First Superintendent of Alexandra Palace] Autograph Note Signed Alfred Emden to Greenwood [T.L. Greenwood, playwright] asking for the Pantomime Manuscript. One page, 12mo, sl. worn and stained but text clear and complete. Dear Sir \| I hope you would be able to let me have the Pantomime Manuscript within this week.. WITH: [on verson] Copy of answer, as follows: Dear Sir, \| The work is now in the Blanchards hands - I saw him yesterday when he told me...		£56.00