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Violet Fane, pseudonym of Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie (née Lamb,1843–1905), poet, a writer, and later an ambassadress.

[ Violet Fane ] Autograph Signatures Only Mary Montgomery Currie | (Violet Fane) | Sept. 1899

One page, 12mo, good condition.

£45.00
Mrs Gore [ Catherine Grace Frances Gore (née Moody, 1798–1861), 'silver fork' novelist and dramatist ]

[ Mrs Gore; 'silver fork' novels ] One leaf of the holograph manuscript of Sketches of English Character, with authorial corrections and additions.

Substantial part of pp. 226-7, in the section The Optimist and the Pessimist (vol.II, 1846). Two pages, 4to (19 x 20cm), crumpled, trimmed untidily, with several tears, many repaired as best they could. Text as follows, changes and additions noted in square brackets: First page [p.225 in book]...

Literature, Women £300.00
James K. Colling [ James Kellaway Colling (1816–1905), architect, watercolour artist, noted book illustrator, pioneer of early Chromolithographic printing.]

James Kennaway Colling; Chromolithography ] Autograph Letter Signed James K. Colling to Revd. H.T. Ellacombe, divine and antiquary [Wikipedia]..

Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, fold marks, very good condition. If you will let me know what Numbers you require of the Gothic Ornaments {his work first published in 1838] I will endeavour to let you have them. It is very probable that you would not get them at my publishers as there being so...

£120.00
Agnes E. Weston [ Dame Agnes Elizabeth Weston (1840–1918), also known as Aggie Weston, philanthropist noted for her work with the Royal Navy. ]

[ Agnes Weston; Sailors' Rest ] Autograph Note Signed on card, thanking a Mrs Taylor for her remembrance of [her] work.

Card, c. 11 x 9cm,rounded corners. Very many thanks dear Mrs Taylor for your kind remembrance of my work | Agnes E. Weston.

£32.00
G.G. Kilburne [ George Goodwin Kilburne (1839 – 1924), genre painter. ]

[ G.G. Kilburne, genre painter ] Four Autograph Notes Signed G.G. Kilburne to an unnamed fellow artist

All one page, 12mo, good condition. A. (23 May 1877) He thanks his correspondent for showing his drawings to Messrs Daldy, [publishers] adding, I presume the drawings would not all [underlined] be required very [underlined] soon. I am rather pressed for time just now. B. (3 Aug. 1877) [...] I...

£120.00
James Lord Bowes (1834–1899), wealthy Liverpool wool broker, art collector and patron of the arts, author and authority on Japan and its art, and benefactor.

[ James Lord Bowes; Japanese Art ] Two Autograph Notes in the third person consigning copies of his books (Japanese interest) to the editor of The Academy.

NOTE 1: One page, 12mo, very good condition. Mr. James L. Bowes presents his compliments to the Editor of The Academy and has pleasure in forwarding for his acceptance copy of his new work on the Art of Japan entitled 'Japanese Pottery' and he ventures to draw attention to the Notes with which...

£120.00
Hesba Stretton [ Pen name of Sarah Smith (1832–1911), writer of children's books.]

[ Hesba Stretton; NSPCC ] Autograph Letter Signed Hesba Stretton to an unnamed lady about the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, organising its foundation on 11 July 1884.

One page, 12mo, neat hand, laid down on slightly larger paper, good condition. The ladies of the Children's Safety Committee gave me permission last Thursday to send to each member of the society ten invitation cards for the meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, in...

£180.00
Marghanita Laski [ (1915–1988), journalist, radio panellist and novelist. ]

[ Marghanita Laski ] Typed Note Signed Marghanita Laski to a Mr. Ager, declining an invitation to speak to a Society.

One page, 12mo, good condition. It is more than good of you to invite me again to speak to your Society, and it makes me feel very sorry and ashamed that again I must say no. But I have had to give up all lecturing except where there is an inescapable personal obligation to do so because it...

£28.00
Plantagenet Somerset Fry [ born Peter George Robin Fry (1931–1996), historian ]

[ Plantagenet Somerset Fry; historian ] Typed Letter Signed Plantagenet Somerset Fry to Lord Elibank (James Alastair Frederick Campbell Erskine-Murray, 13th Lord Elibank) who has written his reply in the margins and spaces.

Two pages, 8vo, very good condition, with a few holograph corrections. He thanks Lord Elibank for the loan of pamphlets, naming the one on Bismarck that he is returning. He agrees with most of what Elibank says about the Armada, finding the key question whether there was 'a strike of not'. He...

£56.00
[Anthony McKenrot [Mackenroth; MacKenrot], lunatic; Prince Regent [George IV]; Lord Sidmouth [Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth]; John Beckett [Newgate Prison; Bethlem Hospital; Napoleon Bonaparte]

[Anthony McKenrot [Mackenroth; MacKenrot], lunatic who tried to serve subpoena on Napoleon Bonaparte.] Two Autograph Petitions Signed (both 'Anthony Mc:Kenrot') from Newgate to the Prince Regent and home secretary Lord Sidmouth, with covering letter.

Anthony Mckenrot's attempt to serve a writ on the captive Napoleon Bonaparte is well-described by Colin Fox ('Napoleon Bonaparte: POW'), in The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, 2016. Mckenrot (also MacKenrot or Mackenroth) who was of German extraction, was a lawyer, merchant and prize agent...

£750.00