AUTOGRAPH

[Mary O'Brien, Irish poet and playwright; Arthur Murphy, C18th Irish author] Autograph Letter Signed Mary O'Brien to Michael Bourke WITH two ALSs from husband Patrick, one third person joint (trying to launch her literary career).

Author: 
Mary O'Brien [Mary O'Brien (fl. 1785 ? 1790), Irish poet and playwright who wrote during and about the Regency period.
Publication details: 
White Hall & Whitehall Court & Whitehall Chappel [sic] Stairs (No.11), 27 May 1785 and 3 Nov. 1785.
£450.00

LETTER A.

[Stuart Cloete, South African novelist] Autograph Note Signed Stuart Cloete to a Mr Oulton appreciating Oulton's response to a book of his.

Author: 
Stuart Cloete [Edward Fairly Stuart Graham Cloete (1897 ? 1976) South African novelist, essayist, biographer and short story writer.]
Publication details: 
Box 164 | Hermanus, 5 April 1972.
£35.00

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 [...].

[Charles Reade, novelist] Subscription only of an Autograph Letter, signed Charles Reade.

Author: 
Charles Reade (1814-1884), English novelist and playwright [Manton Marble (1834-1917), editor and proprietor of the New York World]
Publication details: 
No place but part of date (23/46) on verso.
£28.00

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.

[John Arden, playwright] Autograph Postcard Signed John Arden to Paul Furness who'd asked about his pub-going (as he did with many authors).

Author: 
John Arden, playwright
Publication details: 
10 St Bridget's Place, Lower Galway, Ireland, 13 Oct. 1982.
£75.00

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.

[Harriet Martineau, social theorist, writer] Autograph Note Signed Harriet Martineau to Mr. Browning [presumably Robert Browning, poet] about a Bridal (wedding?).

Author: 
Harriet Martineau, social theorist, writer
Publication details: 
Saturday, | July 22d., no year given.
£380.00

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.

[Charles Reade, novelist] Subscription only of an Autograph Letter, signed Charles Reade~No place but part of date (23/46) on verso.~Paper, 16 x 6.5cm, fold mark, good condition. Subscription only as follows: Lombard St. City | I am | Your obed[ien]t serv

Author: 
Charles Reade (1814-1884), English novelist and playwright [Manton Marble (1834-1917), editor and proprietor of the New York World]
Publication details: 
No place or date surviving cut.
£25.00

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.

[Frank Sabin, leading bookseller in his time] Autograph Quotation of Eleven Manuscript items by W.M. Thackeray

Author: 
[Frank Sabin, leading bookseller in his time]
Publication details: 
[Headed Notepaper] 118 Shaftesbury Avenue, W, (late 3, Garrick Street), London [and later 46 Albemarle St, close to John Murray], BOOKS | ENGRAVINGS | AUTOGRAPHS | ETC. , 10 March 189[2?]
£150.00

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.

[The Reverend Robert Main (1808 ? 1878) astronomer.] Autograph Note Signed Robert Main to Haggard Esqre including Airy's view on foreign visitor.

Author: 
Robert Main [The Reverend Robert Main (1808 ? 1878) astronomer.]
Publication details: 
Royal Observatory 28 July 1836
£56.00

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.

[B.W. Noel, Baptist Minister] Autograph Note Signed B.W. Noel saying he's complying with a request for autograph..

Author: 
B.W. Noel [Reverend The Honourable Baptist Wriothesley Noel (1798 ? 1873) Baptist minister]
Publication details: 
13 Westbourne Terrace, [London], 25 Oct. [no year given]
£56.00

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.

[Alfred E. Turner, British Army officer who served in administrative posts in Ireland] Autograph Letter Signed Alfred E. Turner, to C.H. Biddle Esq, lacemaker, concerning the manufacture and improvement if Irish Lace

Author: 
Alfred E. Turner [Major-General Sir Alfred Edward Turner (1842 ? 1918) British Army officer who served in administrative posts in Ireland]
Publication details: 
[Headed] Vice Regal Lodge, Dublin, 17 August 1883
£200.00

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.

[W.L. Wellesley [William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, etc]] Autograph Letter Signed W.L. Wellesley [Docketed by unknown recipient] Recommending Mr. Tremearne to succeed his father as Comptroller [Custom House] at St. Ives.

Author: 
W.L. Wellesley [William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington (1788 ? 1857) Anglo-Irish nobleman notorious for his dissipated style of living].
Publication details: 
[St Ives presumably] 9 February 1831.
£180.00

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.

[Queen Victoria; Charles Manby, engineer (DNB)] Envelope addressed in Queen Victoria's hand.

Author: 
Queen Victoria [Charles Manby, engineer]
Publication details: 
[Osborn House] Postal stamp Cowes Ja[nuary] 9 65 [blurred].
£180.00

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.

[Peter Hall (1930 ? 2017) theatre, opera and film director.] Autograph Letter Signed Peter to another Peter (unidentified) saying he's unable to meet a student since he's having a three month rest away after working on the Histories

Author: 
Peter Hall (1930 ? 2017) theatre, opera and film director.
Publication details: 
[Headed] Avoncliffe, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, 31 August 1963.
£80.00

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.

[C. Lewis Hind, journalist etc] Typescript of his introduction to The Daiiary of a Looker-On [pub.1908] Dedication To The Discouragement of Hesitancy with authorial annotations.

Author: 
C. Lewis Hind [Charles Lewis Hind (1862?1927) journalist, writer, editor, art critic, and art historian.]
Publication details: 
[1908]
£120.00

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.

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[Kingsley Amis, novelist] Autograph Note Signed Kingsley Amis to a Mr. Braybrooke [?Neville Braybrooke, magazine editor and publisher in his youth, literary critic]

Author: 
Kingsley Amis, novelist [J.R. Ackerley]
Publication details: 
[Headed] Lemmons, Hadley Common, Barnet, Hertfordshire, 11 Oct. 1971.
£56.00

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.

[F.L. McClintock , Arctic explorer] Autograph Signature ('F. L. Mc:Clintock:').

Author: 
F.L. McClintock [Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (1819-1907), Scottish naval officer and Arctic explorer]
Publication details: 
Without date or place.
£23.00

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.

[Daphne du Maurier, novelist] Autograph Sentiment Signed Daphne du Maurier.

Author: 
Daphne du Maurier, novelist
Publication details: 
No place or date.
£45.00

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

[John Phillips, geologist.] Autograph Note Signed to unnamed correspondent (Sir) about an order of thermometers.

Author: 
John Phillips (1800-1874), geologist.
Publication details: 
Oxford, 1 Nov. 1856.
£45.00

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.

[ Arthur Hill Hassall, public health pioneer; T.H. Huxley] Secretarial Letter, Signed 'Arthur. H. Hassall', to T. H. Huxley, presenting copy of his 'The Narrative of a Busy Life', with the book and a ms. copy of a letter from him to Lord Rayleigh.

Author: 
Arthur Hill Hassall (1817-1894), physician and microscopist, pioneer in the field of public health [ Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), biologist; Lord Rayleigh and the Royal Society ]
Publication details: 
Letter from Hassall to Huxley: 3 Alpenstrasse, Lucerne (on cancelled letterhead of Corso dell'Imperatrice, San Remo), 23 September 1893. Copy Letter from Hassall to Rayleigh, same details. Book: Longmans, Green, & Co., London and New York, 1893.
£250.00

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.

[Mortimer Wheeler, archaeologist] Typed Note Signed REM Wheeler to an Arnold Brierley about a drawing.

Author: 
Mortimer Wheeler [Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler (1890 ? 1976), archaeologist and officer in the British Army.]
Publication details: 
[Headed] The British Academy, Burlington Gardens, W1, 24 February 1954. Secretary of the British Academy.
£45.00

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.

[Dannie Abse, poet and physician] Typewritten text of his poem The Wife of Columbus with Autograph Note Signed Dannie toHunter [Hunter Davies, author and journalist] referring to the poem.

Author: 
Dannie Abse, poet (1923-2014)
Publication details: 
85, Hodford Road, London, NW11, no date.
£50.00

One page, sm. fol., fold marks, minor staining, mainly good condition. Text of poem as published version. Note as follows, after address, Dear Hunter, my doubts about this poem have increased even further since our chat. | Best, Dannie.

[Fritz Spiegl, musician etc] Autograph Note Signed Fritz to Hunter Davies, author and journalist

Author: 
Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born English musician, journalist, broadcaster, humorist and collector.
Spiegl
Publication details: 
No place or date
£45.00
Spiegl

Autograph Note, one page, 16mo, good condition, but part of a bifolium, the third page of which is a printed (possibly early Punch) cartoon with a gentleman exposing a lady's ignorance of literture. Spiegl's text as follows: Many thanks, Hunter. Hope you enjoyed the book (post facto!): you see, it's not really [underlined] an angry book. Have a good Christmas, | Greetings | Fritz. Someone (probably Davies) has added Fritz Spiegel [sic]. See Image.

[John Betjeman, Poet] Postcard with Typed Note UNSIGNED, with manuscript additions in Betjeman's hand. to Hunter Davies, author and journalist.

Author: 
John Betjeman (1906-1984), English Poet Laureate
Betjeman
Publication details: 
[Printed address] SIR JOHN BETJEMAN | 29 Radnor Walk, London, SW3 4BP, 13 May 1977
£75.00
Betjeman

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.

[Charles Kemble, actor; John Thelwall, radical] Autograph Letter in the Third Person to Mr Thelwall, gently declining an Address (no doubt political) by Thelwall.

Author: 
[John Thelwall, radical] Charles Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons.
Publication details: 
Covent Garden Theatre, 27 Nov. 1822.
£220.00

Two pages (one leaf),18.5 x 14cms, left edge showing signs of being tipped on to something, text mainly clear and apparently complete, as follows: Mr Charles Kemble begs to return the best Thanks of the Committee of Management to Mr Thelwall for the kind offer of the occasional Address, which they would gladly have had receited if they were not convinced by experience, of the total want of attraction in similar productions - They think, however, it might be of great service to the cause which it advocates, were it to be inserted previously to the Benefit in the daily Papers as powerful stimul

[Richard Owen, palaeontologist who coined the term ?Dinosaur?] UNSIGNED Draft Autograph Letter to your Lordship (prob. Lord John Russell (see note below; a covering letter), apparently about a controversial YMCA lecture.

Author: 
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), biologist, comparative anatomist, paleontologist, first Director of Natural History Museum, opponent of Charles Darwin
Owen
Owen2
Publication details: 
No place or date (1863-4)
£650.00
Owen
Owen2

About his Lecture On Some Instances of the Power of God manifested in his Animal Creation which was perhaps a side-swipe at Darwin?. Two pages, 12mo, some staining and edged with sellotape, but text is a scrawl and occasionally hard to interpret, including the loss of a couple of words under a stain. Full text as follows: By the post I forward to your Lordship a Copy of the Lecture [and scratched out] as printed by the Committee of the Y.M.

[Queen Victoria [Military Rank; Land Forces]] Document Signed Victoria RI appointing Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart as an officer (2nd Lieut.) in the Land Forces.

Author: 
Queen Victoria [Military Rank; Land Forces]
Victoria
Publication details: 
14 January 1880
£250.00
Victoria

Document, one leaf, fold marks, good condition, 40 x 30cm. See Image. Certificates illustrating Urquhart's military career in Inda are also available.

[Walter de Soysa, son of Charles Henry de Soysa, Sri Lankan tea planter and philanthropist.] Autograph Letter Signed from his wife Maria Albo de Soysa to ?Mr. Powell?, attacking his character and their divorce settlement. With Sinhalese document.

Author: 
Walter de Soysa, son of Sri Lankan tea planter and philanthropist Charles Henry de Soysa of Moratuwa and Alfred House, Colombo, Ceylon
Publication details: 
?Address - / c/o Mrs. G?m? / Glencairn / Colpetty. / 23rd Nov: 1911 / Colombo / Ceylon?
£60.00

James Samuel Walter de Soysa (b.1880) was one of the children of the vastly wealthy Ceylonese tea planter and philanthropist Charles Henry de Soysa (1836-1890) of Moratuwa and Alfred House, Colombo. An Anglican, he was educated at Cambridge, and was a bencher of the Inner Temple. In 1904 he married Maria Micada Piedra Albo, of a distinguished Spanish family. They lived in London in Kensington, and in Ceylon, where he had his own plantations.

[Watts Phillips, playwright and novelist.] Autograph Letter Signed from Paris to the actor Frederick Vining, discussing plans for writing his play ?The Huguenot Captain?, which will be ?my best piece?, and in which their interests ?are identical'.

Author: 
Watts Phillips (1825-1874), playwright and novelist whose play ?The Dead Heart? inspired Dickens? ?A Tale of Two Cities? [Frederick Vining, actor]
Publication details: 
18 August 1863; 29 Rue de Penthi?vre.
£56.00

See his entry, and that of the Vining family, in the Oxford DNB, as well as well as his sister Emma?s memoir. 3pp, 12mo, with the last page written lengthwise. Bifolium. Text clear and entire, but in fair condition only, on aged and worn paper, with strip of tape from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf, and short closed tears at foot of both leaves and tape repair. Folded once. Written in feverish style: one word is underlined seven times. Addressed to ?My dear Vining? and signed ?Watts Phillips?.

[William Blanchard Jerrold, journalist and author.] Autograph Letter Signed, inviting Charles Manby of the Institute of Civil Engineers to work with him to erect a statue to Sir John Rennie, with cutting of letter by Jerrold on the subject.

Author: 
William Blanchard Jerrold (1826-1884), journalist and author [Charles Manby, Secretary of the Institute of Civil Engineers; Sir John Rennie, engineer who built London Bridge]
Publication details: 
10 January 1853; Lyndhurst Square, Peckham.
£60.00

Jerrold, Manby and Rennie all have entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On bifolium of grey paper. In good condition, lightly aged, with trace of tape from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded twice. Jerrold has tipped in a newspaper cutting of a letter by him to the editor of the Daily News at the head of the first page, proposing ?A STATUE TO SIR JOHN RENNIE?.

[William Thomas Moncrieff, English playwright and theatre manager.] Autograph Letter Signed, inviting to the Irish singer and composer Tom Cooke to collaborate on a production at the Victoria Theatre.

Author: 
William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857), English playwright and theatre manager [Thomas Simpson Cooke, Irish singer and composer]
Publication details: 
3 November 1835; Victoria [i.e. the Victoria Theatre, London].
£50.00

See the two men?s entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Aged and a little worn, with short closed tear at head of the first leaf repaired with tape, and the second leaf having a discoloration at one edge from tape used in mount. Signed ?W. T. Moncrieff?. Casting interesting light on the production of melodramas in the ?Surrey-side? theatres.

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