autograph.

Autograph Note Signed to N. Shearing.

Author: 
Richard Garnett.
Publication details: 
British Museum, 2 Jan. 1892 (printed heading).
£35.00

Librarian and author. "I shall be very happy to conduct the members of hte South Place Ethical Society over the Library, at any time that may be mutually arranged."

Signature and date.

Author: 
Oscar Browning.
Publication details: 
King's College, Cambridge, 8 June 1900.
£20.00

Browning has signed his headed notepaper virtually in the centre.

Typed Letter Signed ro S. Graveson.

Author: 
St John Ervine.
Publication details: 
Honey Ditches, Seaton, Devon, 11 August 1931.
£45.00

Author and drama critic (DNB). One page, 4to, good condition. He thinks that "the man who alters the view of life of the world is a more important person" than the rose-grower "who makes his neighbourhood fragrant". Those who initiate are few. Hw would rather see wages increased, and the purchasing power of hte masses. He disklikes the tendencu to giving "bad value for money" - e.g. in his childhood the milkman would give extra just iun case of a shortfall. Today, it's exact measure or less.

Autograph Letter Signed to A. Edmund Spender.

Author: 
F. Carruthers Gould.
Publication details: 
3 Endsleigh Street, Tavistock Square, W.C., 4 Sept. 1907.
£45.00

Cartoonist. Four pages, 8vo, good condition. He is enthusiastic about the idea of a "Press visit to Devon" but thinks that the sort of journalist he calls the "boozy bounder" should not go. He names people who would help, including aristocrats and literary figures.

Pen and ink sketch signed "GAB".

Author: 
Gilbert a Beckett.
Publication details: 
No place or date.
£120.00

Paper, c.6.5 x 4.5", fold mark, some foxing, but image bold and clear of people on the sea-front pulling and pushing an invalid chair against a fierce gale which has caught an umbrella, a fish, a handbill, etc. The sub-title reads "I [underlined] got a nice little airing! / Yours ever / GAB."

Autograph Letter Signed "Thomas Coutts & Co" (Coutts's hand) to Thomas Steuart, The Secretary, Bank of Scotland.

Author: 
Thomas Coutts.
Publication details: 
London, 28 Nov. 1780.
£250.00

Banker. Bank to Bank transaction. One page, 4to, good condition. "Sir/ Since our last of the 2[0]th Inst we are favour'd with yours of the 23d agreeable to which we have this day bought the undermention'd Bills (listed with numbers, description, date and amount, three "Victualling Bills" and one "Navy Bill"; discount, total given "Charged to the Bank of Scotland £5062.18.10".

Autograph Note Signed to unknown correspondent (name partly clipped off)

Author: 
E.A.Sothern.
Publication details: 
Junior Carlton Club, no date.
£20.00

He has "stopped all orders at T.R.H. [Haymarket?]" and cannot, therefore, ask other managers for favours.

Autograph Letter Signed to Acton Chaplin.

Author: 
Lord Carrington.
Publication details: 
Wycombe, 11 Jan. 1809.
£35.00

Robert Smith, Ist Baron Carrington (DNB). Two pages, 4to, good condition. He welcxomes news of a marriage, shows a disinclination to pursue a property for wwhich there is competition, and discusses the enclsure of Bledlow.

Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Francis Vincent.

Author: 
George B. Rumbold.
Publication details: 
Berlin, 23 June 1806.
£180.00

Diplomat. Three pages, 4to, poor condition but most of the text legible. "Private". Rumbold discusses the reception of a petition he sent to "Mr Fen[?]" saying that he is to get "immediate indemnification for the losses & expenses occasioned by the seizure of my Person, my imprisonment &c". Vincent is giving him support. He encloses his account, anticipates delay by the Treasury in paying but enlists his correspondent's help. His case was a cause celebre of the time, described in DNB as follows: "On the night of 25 Oct.

Signature.

Author: 
Edna Lyall.
Publication details: 
No place or date.
£20.00

Paper, c.4 x 3.5", good condition, at the top of which the authoress has signed her real name and her pseudonym "Ada Ellen Bayly. / Edna Lyall."

Document Signed "Geo. Dodington".

Author: 
George Bubb Dodington.
Publication details: 
01/04/37
£200.00

Dodington, George Bubb, Baron Melcombe 1691-1762, a Lord of the Treasury, Pope's "Bufo". One page, folio, fold mark, tear, loss of text (including the full signatures formerly below Dodington's), rest of official countersigning, etc. surviving. An order (8 March 1736) to pay £300 from His Majesty's treasure to John, Duke of Montagu (see DNB) "for one quarter of a year due at Christmas 1736 on his Annuity or yearly Pension of One Thousand two hundred pounds . . ."

Signature.

Author: 
Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
Edward Bulwer Lytton signature
Publication details: 
71 Marina, St Leonards on Sea, Sussex, no date.
£25.00
Edward Bulwer Lytton signature

Novelist. Text: "Yours / E Bulwer Lytton / 71 Marina / St Leonards on Sea / Sussex", clipped part of letter, c.4 x 2", laid down on similar sized card, fold mark but clear.

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs de Salis.

Author: 
B.B. Woodward.
Publication details: 
Windsor Castle, 18 May 1866.
£45.00

Librarian at Windsor Castle (DNB). Three pages, 8vo, good condition. He has received a reply to his letter to publishers, Chapman & Hall who claim to have sent "No.II" (prob. of ‘The Fine Arts Quarterly Review,’ which appeared from May 1863 to June 1867, which Woodward founded and edited) at the "proper time" but they have sent another copy. The titlepage, index &c will be given when the new number comes out." He discusses his excessive "mental work" and current "idling", and requirement of a "real holiday".

Postal Address in his hand

Author: 
Peter Kropotkin.
Publication details: 
No date.
£75.00

Envelope, c. 4.5 x 3.5", foxed with small tears, but address, in pencil, clear,in Kropotkin's hand as follows: Peter Kropotkin / Viola / Bromley // Kent".

Signature.

Author: 
Matthew Arnold.
Publication details: 
06/12/60
£45.00

Signature, "Faithfully yours / M. Arnold", on laid down piece o fblue paper, c. 2 x 1", accompanied by another small portion of the same letter with date 6 Dec. 1860, and a blind-stamp, "Privy Council Office"

Autograph Note Signed to "Miss Daniel".

Author: 
Neil Bell.
Publication details: 
Devon, 18 Dec. 1958.
£30.00

Novelist. One page, 8vo. She has obviously asked him for a copy of his "So Perish the Rose" but he says that it has "long been out of print & copies are extremely difficult to come by as I well know for I have been trying to get one for some time."

Autograph Note Signed to [Maurice] Codner, artist.

Author: 
Ian Hay.
Publication details: 
Garrick Club, 17 April 1946.
£25.00

Ian Hay Beith, novelist. Two pages, 8vo. He is sending one of his books, "The Lighter Side of School Life" since Codner has expressed a desire to read it. He gives instructions about how he should return it.

Signature only.

Author: 
Hall Caine.
Publication details: 
No date.
£15.00

Novelist. Card, c.3.5 x 2.5", verso has traces of the laying down processs., slightly soiled by signature clear.

Autograph Note Signed to S. Colllinson, poet.

Author: 
"Festus" Bailey
Publication details: 
13/01/70
£50.00

P.J. Bailey, Poet. One page, 8vo, letter in good condition, the name "'Festus' Bailey" in red ink top left corner. He thanks his correspondent for a "little volume of poems" which have given him pleasure, and many of which "give evidence of pure and true feeling & graceful fancy". Collinson published a volume called "Autumn Leaves" in [1869] in London and _Nottingham_. Presumably he was a fellow-townsman of Bailey's.

Autograph Note Signed.

Author: 
Maurice Baring.
Publication details: 
Chelsea, 6 June 1932.
£30.00

Poet and Man of Letters. One page, 4to, folded, minor spotting. "Dear Sir / Love is what you ask for: / Yours very truly / Maurice Baring".

Autograph Note Signed to "Mr Davies".

Author: 
Michael Arlen.
Publication details: 
The May Fair Hotel (headed notepaper), 23 March (no year).
£35.00

Novelist. One page, 8vo. "Thank you so much for your appreciative letter."

Small part of autograph letter signed.

Author: 
Dionysius Lardner
Publication details: 
No place or date surviving.
£25.00

Irish scientist. Original letter probably to David Brewster, sceintist, since he contributed substantially to the collection of which this was part (a collection made by his daughter-in-law). Part of letter, c.3.5 x 2". One side "Believe me, Dear Sir, / yours very truly / Dion Lardner". Other side, 21 words, talking about a "subject" and "extensive knowledge", and producing "about twelve s[heets?]", having enclosed a "specimen".

Part of autograph letter to Sir David Brewster, scientist.

Author: 
William Fairbairn.
Publication details: 
No place or date surviving.
£25.00

Scottish engineer. Small part of letter, trimmed, formerly laid down, 3 x 1.5". One side, the subscription, "My dear Sir David, / yours faithfully / Wm Fairbairn". Other side, a few words about seeing Brewster and his wife and mentioning Hopkins who appears to be a visitor.

Autograph Note, third person, to David Brewster, scientist.

Author: 
William Grylls Adams.
Publication details: 
South Street, Saturday 4 Dec. (no year).
£20.00

Scientist and astronomer. One page, 12mop, margin with remnants of connection to album, good.He invites Brewster to dinner.

Signature only.

Author: 
Prosper Merimee.
Publication details: 
No place of date surviving.
£25.00

French novelist. Signature "Pr. Merimee" underlined on piece of paper, 1.5 x 0.75"

Autograph Note Signed to "Capes".

Author: 
Joseph Napier.
Publication details: 
1 Whitehall Gardens, Friday, no date.
£25.00

Lord Chancellor of Ireland. One page, 8vo, sl. damaged but text only marginally affected. He asks his correspondent to dinner and reports on Lord Wensleydale's health.

Autograph Letter Signed (part only).

Author: 
Anna Jameson.
Publication details: 
14 Bruton Street, Berkeley Square, Friday, no date.
£20.00

Author. Part of an autograph letter signed with much of text trimmed off, leaving piece of paper, 4.5 x 4.5", good condition. One side, "Believe me / dear Sir / Yours very truly / Anna Jameson [with address]. Other side, she wonders if an accident has intervened in something (a meeting?) but hopes to see him at the same time and place the following day.

Signature only.

Author: 
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence.
Publication details: 
No place or date.
£15.00

Suffragist. End of letter, "Yours ever [typed] F W Pethick-Lawrence [autograph]", c.3.5 x 0.75".

Signature only.

Author: 
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence.
Publication details: 
No place [1930].
£20.00

Suffragette. "Yours sincerely, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence"], c.4 x 1".

Signature only.

Author: 
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence.
Publication details: 
No place or date.
£15.00

Suffragist. End of letter, "Yours sincerely [typed] F W Pethick-Lawrence [autograph]", c.3.5 x 1".

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