autograph.

Autograph Letter Signed to “le Ministre de l’interieur” (J.C. Persil).

Author: 
Louis Lemercier.
Publication details: 
11 Sept. 1830.
£50.00

French politician (1755-1849). 2pp., 4to, sl. creased. In French with official stamp.He recommends to Persil’s attention a “M. Ducon”, lawyer and “sous-prefet”, describing his exemplary character and his achievements, and requesting an extension of his period in office.

Autograph Note Signed to Lady Holland, society hostess.

Author: 
Richard “Conversation” Sharp.
Publication details: 
10 July (n.y.).
£50.00

Politician and critic (1759-1835). One page, 12mo, good. He regretfully declines her invitation claiming a prior engagement.

Autograph Note Signed "Granville" to Lady Clarendon.

Author: 
G.G. Leveson-Gower
Publication details: 
29/11/64
£20.00

2nd Earl Granville, statesman (1815-1891). One page, 8vo, small portion cut out (place name prob.), ow. good. He claims a prior engagement, presumably after receiving an invitation, and hopes Clarendon is not tired after a long journey.

Autograph Letter Signed to "Mr Chittenden".

Author: 
G.O. Trevelyan
Publication details: 
Venice, 12 Oct. 1880.
£25.00

Statesman and man of letters (1838-1928). 3pp., 8vo, good. He and his wife are pleased that their son is happy (presumably at aboarding school). He then expresses his detestation of the sort of touristwho does not enter into the spirit of a place (in this instance, Venice).

Autograph Note Signed to May [Irving?].

Author: 
Anne Ritchie.
Publication details: 
No date.
£35.00

Novelist and biographer, daughter of W.M. Thackeray (1837-1919). 2pp., 12mo, good. She commends a doctor to May’s mother, Mrs Irving.

Autograph Notes Signed to "Mrs Cash".

Author: 
W.B. Richmond
Publication details: 
Hammersmith, Undated and 12 March 1888.
£40.00

Painter (1842-1921). 2 ANSs, 8vo, good. In the first letter, he says that he has rested and feels able to continue with the sittings. In the second, he asks if he can exhibit her portrait at the “Grosvenor”. 2 items,

Autograph Note Signed to Bennet Woodcroft, writer on inventions (DNB)

Author: 
Fitzroy Kelly.
Publication details: 
32 Dover Street, 5 July 1862.
£25.00

Judge (1796-1880). One page, 8vo, good. He asks for an opinion on whether someone could procure a patent on the basis of some papers he is sending to him.

Autograph Note Signed to an unknown correspondent.

Author: 
Carlos A. Pozzo di Borgo
Publication details: 
No date.
£30.00

Corsican-Russian diplomat (1764-1842). One page, 12m,, in French, some damage to one word, traces of mounting. He accepts an invitation in gracious terms.

Autograph Letter Signed to an unreadable correspondent.

Author: 
Henry Labouchere
Publication details: 
27 Aug.[wm 1848].
£30.00

Baron Taunton, statesman (1798-1869). 2pp., 4to, good. He has been sent some material relating to the Merchant Seamen’s Billand relates it to his own views on the matter.

Autograph Letter Signed to “Paulet” (superscription “P. Redway”[?]).

Author: 
Sydney Smith
Publication details: 
03/12/40
£75.00

Canon of St Paul’s and wit (1771-1845). One page, 4to, good. some damage, slightly affecting the text, traces of mounting. Smith outlines his travel plans, including a visit to his correspondent. He continues, “We talk of nothing now but bombarding & it is supposed that Troy would have been under such a Cannonade have been taken in 15 or 20 minutes”.

Signature.

Author: 
Thomas Hughes.
Publication details: 
No place or date.
£45.00

Novelist. Signature with part of subscription ("yours truly / Thos Highes"), on piece of paper c.1.5 x 0.75", good condition.

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Christie-Miller.

Author: 
Isabella Herschel
Publication details: 
Observatory House, no date.
£35.00

Daughter of J.F.W. Herschel. Two pages, 8vo, good condition, still attached to part of page from album, expressing her regret at missing her visit and arranging a meeting.

Document Signed to the Army and Navy Co-op Society

Author: 
Count Gleichen.
Publication details: 
St James Palace, 29 March 1883.
£45.00

Prince related to Victoria (DNB). Piece of paper, c.6 x 4", sl. soiled but clear, missing top left corner (and a word or two), text as follows: " . . . [end of word] 13123 / [P]lease give the Bearer 2 Gal: Brandy No. 2. at 24/6 the Gal: --- / Gleichen/ St James Palace / March 29/83/ The Secretary / A & N. Co:Op: Socty"

Signature.

Author: 
Robert Williams.
Publication details: 
No place and date.
£20.00

Inventor of a screw propeller (DNB). End of letter clipped, text "Yours very truly / Robt Griffiths", c. 3.5 x 1-1.5" (irregular), good condition.

Signature.

Author: 
A. Moncrieff, colonel and engineer
Publication details: 
25/06/69
£25.00

Moncrieff, Sir Alexander 1829-1906, colonel and engineer (DNB). Bold signature and date on part of headed notepaper (Royal United Service Institution), paper, c.4 x 4", slightly stained from having been laid down but clear.

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."

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".

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.

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 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 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.

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: 
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."

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 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.

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".

Autograph Fragment.

Author: 
S.T. Coleridge.
Publication details: 
[1828].
£250.00

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet. A fragment cut from a letter, c. 6" long and from 0.5 to 0.75" wide, with vestiges of hte laying-down process and small tear. Text:" P.S. Derwent! James Coleridge has written to his Brother, that / your wife is beautiful, unaffected, good, & an ornament to our / Family.-" I am informed by Professor James Mays, editor of the "Works" of Coleridge, that "Derwent was married on 6 Dec. 1827 . . . and the letter must date from very soon after 28 April 1828 when C's brother James paid STC a surprise visit at Highgate."

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