AUTOGRAPH

Full Signature on irregular scrap of paper, 10.5 x 2.5 at extremities, sl. mottled by glue used to apply it to slightly larger rectangular paper. Signature Clear. See Scan.

All three letters with their seals in red wax, the first two intact and the third damaged. All addressed to 'Mrs Evelyn | St Clere'. Gossipy, energetic and characteristic letters. The references to Lady Frederick Campbell date the letters to before her death in a fire in 1807. ONE: Letter written on 'Monday', and signed 'H Stanhope'. Total 5pp., 12mo. Bifolium and single leaf, the latter acting as the envelope, with text on one side and address with seal on the other. The letter begins: 'You will think I fear my dear Mrs Evelyn there is no end to my eternal scribbles.

Page extracted from album, c.17.5 x 12cm, Extensive staining (paper aging), but image clear. See Scan.

Two pages, 8vo, bifolium, second leaf tipped onto larger piece of paper, very good condition. Text: She thanks her for a cake and for Christmas greetings but explains a delay by referring to her tiredness, presumably because of Parliamentary duties, having been elected in 1929]. I was getting so tired that it was as much as I could do to carry on my work till end of session - now since the House rose on Friday aft[ernoon] I am not doing a blessed thing for 10 days - just being as lazy as I know how to be.

Black & White Photograph (at foot Radio Pictorial Photo Card), 8.5 x 13.5cm, WITH: Compliments, 13 x 9cm Slip headed Mantovani and his Tipica Orchestra, in the middle WITH A.P. MANTOVANIS, | COMPLIMENTS. Both in very good condition. See Scan

One page. 8vo, fold mark, sl.dulled but clear and complete. Text: By some error the enclosed [no longer] cheque for 5 guineas has been sent me in payment for my article in last Sunday's Weekly Despatch. There can, of course, be no question of my accepting remuneration in that scale. Perhaps you will consult with those who arrange these things & let my know their conclusion.

One page, 12mo, right edge frayed and stained, not affecting text, mainly good condition. Text: I am no less proud than touched by your letter about Orientations [underlined]. Exactly the sort of praise that encourages most. It was also very good of you to send me the book which once belonged to Coningsby Disraeli, whom I used to meet at the house of that wonderful Lady Dorothey Nevill (looking at 80 well under the age of consent). Eaton Place is still hallowed ground to me and I feel very near to anybody who remembers my father well. [...]

1p, 12mo, blank area dusted, mainly in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Further on the subject of MAESHENDRE, which you offered me, if this is still available I think I should like to take it for 3 or 4 months from 14th March. Before definitely deciding I should like to view it & for that purpose I will run home to Glasbury on Friday or Saturday next if you can give me the offer of it firm until then. I might want the [?] to extend the term for which it is now offered if possible. | Will you please wire me tomorrow to the Adelphi Hotel Liverpool, whither I am going in the morning?

Two pages, 8vo, bifolium, some staining but text clear and complete. We are just off, and I want before leaving to thank you from myself and my brother for all your kindness to us during our stay in Cairo. | I can't tell you how much I enjoyed our cheery evening on Saturday. | There are great crowds going up to Khartoum this evening but Major Stock has fixed up everything for us. I am only too sorry that we shall not have the pleasure of finding you all at the [Kasr-el Nil? Qasr?] on our return, so must [underlined] look forward to meeting at home.

One page, 8vo, lined paper, good condition. Text: Thank you for your letter - I am glad you enjoyed Vic/Son [A Victorian son: an autobiography, 1897?1922, 1972]. You are probably right about [Norman?] - Brigadier and Jessie [?] was a review actress. But there are some worse mistakes [Delville?] word left out by Type setters & a couple of others. | Anyway the main [?] is that you have had pleasure from the book [...].

LETTER A.

Paper, 16 x 6.5cm, fold mark, good condition. Subscription only as follows: Lombard St. City | I am | Your obed[ien]t serv[an]t | Charles Reade Image on request.

One 'page', postcard addressed to Furness, very good condition. Text: Your enquiry about publs is very interesting but I'm afraid I'm not much help. I don't even remember going to a pub in Barnsley at all. I was not brought up in a drinking environment. And while I have been involved in various political scenes since, I have never actually been attached to any group that met regularly in a pub, and at such occasional pub-meetings that I have attended, the exact locations have sliupped my memory.

One page, 12mo, embrowned by the glue that was used to lay it down on sl. larger piece of paper, but text clear and complete, as follows: We see the Bridal on Monday. Please let us see you here by six o'clock to coffee & beleive [sic] me ever yours most truly[.] Note: Harriet Martineau's longterm friendship with the Brownings is well documented.

Part of letter, 9 x 5cm, formerly tipped on something by survivng stamp hinge, both side stained but text mainly legible. Recto: [soon?] as possible - he has been very ill - staying for three months at [Ben ??]: - but as his illness came on with indigestion I have persuaded him to take the; Verso: [?] and regards to [?] Hepburn - believe me | Yours very truly | DMMulock:- Image on request.

Is it missing a covering note to the client? Four pages, 8vo, bifolium, text clear and complete, some staining and small closed tears. Eleven Autograph Letters AND Manuscripts. With prices. See Images for full text. ITEM 1: ALS, 2 Nov. [1839] re. story published in the Comic Almanack, quotation not found (Googlebooks); ITEM 2: ALS, 11 Aug. [1839] quotation found (Googlebooks: Library of the Late Major William H.

One page, cr.8vo, fold marks, aged, text clear and complete as follows: Dear Sir | I had much pleasure in accompanying your friend, who appears to be a very intelligent person, round the Ob[servator]y. Mr Airy wished me just to mention that as a matter of form he would wish any application in behalf of scientific foreigners, to whom he has always willing to show the OB[servator]y, to be addressed to himself. I have had a delightful tour in the West since I had the pleasure of seeing you, and have returned quite invigorated to my duties.

One page, 12mo, staining on verso from previous laying down, text clear and presented as if he thought the recipient would want to frame it. Text: Dear Madam | I much regret that I have so long delayed complying with yr request according to which I now send you my autograph and beg to subscribe myself yours truly | B.W. Noel [then address] followed by the word over, recto blank, suggesting that he supplied a further slip of paper with an autograph no longer present. See Image.

Two pages, 12mo, bifolium, aged but good condition. Text: I have rec[eive]d the enclosed information from St Ives. I should be obliged to the Govt. if they would place at my Disposal this Office. | However do not let me stand if the way of any object of the Govt beyong requesting that they will not dispose of the employment in favour of any Cornish Connection [against?] my application, as it would be the means of [implying?] my [or any][?] with the [Boro[ough?]. See Image of second page.

Two pages, 12mo, bifolium, fold marks, aging, damage to second leaf without affecting the text and signs of having been tipped onto another surface. Text: I am dsired by his Excellency Lord Spencer to aknowledge the receipt of your letter, and of the copy of the Hand book on Irish Lace [see note below: Irish lace : a history of the industry] for which I am to express His Excellency's thanks to you.

Envelope, 12 x 8cms, damaged slightly as opened (inevitably) obscuring the stamp Osborne House, addressed in Victoria's hand Charles Manby Esq | 24 Great George St | Westminster | S.W. See Image.

Two pages, 8vo, blue paper, closed tear not affecting texyt, a bit rumpled but text clear and complete as follows: Leslie [Caron, first wife] & I are delighted to hear that you're getting married. I'm a firm believer in a bourgeois base for artists! | Shan't see your student I'm afraid till I return from my three month rest. We leave on Tuesday. But I'm sure John [Barton, co-director] will take good care of him. | I hope you enjoy the Histories. They've been misery to do, but I think are my most important work to date.

Typescript with MS add, 2pp., 4to, aging but text clear and complete. Hind adds a note in MS indicating that he has sent this text to his dedicatee , a man of mystery who adds in pencil (presumably returning the text) I put a pencil line through the lines I would omit-. (Pencil marks confirmed). C. Lewis Hind has made corrections, additions and elisions. See Image of Page 1.

One page, 12mo, good condition. Text: Sorry - no letters from poor J.R.A. [J.R.Ackerley, author] You should have had them and welcome if they had existed. See Scan.

On piece of paper cut from letter, roughly 8.5 x 2 cm, stuck on larger piece of paper, minimal smudging, signature clear. on reverse.

Autograph Sentiment Signed on card, 12.5 x 7.5 cm., aged but clear. Evidnece of tipping onto something on verso, along with identification as Du Maurier. See Image. With photo. See Image

One page, 12mo, stained, with marks indicating tipping in on verso. Text: I have ordered the thermometers to be made by Carella Hatton Garden [underlining] London, & he will soon send you six. I will look after him. Phillips had become reader in geology at Oxford in this year.] See Image.

All three items in good condition, lightly aged, with the book in worn and spotted binding. ONE: Letter from Hassall to 'Professor Huxley', in the hand of 'an amanuensis' and signed by him. 3pp., 12mo. Tipped-in onto the half-title of Item Three below. He begins by explaining that he has 'directed Messrs. Longmans' to forward a copy of his book (which he describes as 'a brochure') to Huxley.

Postcard, good condition. Typed text with MS adds in square brackets: 7 unrecognised wonders of London are the interior of Holy Trinity [Somerset House], Sloane Sreet (locked). St.Erkenwald's Church, Southend-on-Sea [deleted]; the entrance hall of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. I could go on indefinitely [but only locally]. | Yours sincerely, | [Not signed]. There are four lines of obscure writing apparent;y in rubbed out pencil and by Betjeman. See Image.

One page, 4to, fold marks, good condition. Thank you very much indeed for your extremely kind appreciation, and for the drawing which you enclosed. I am doing exactly as you tell me and send the cards back herewith.