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Osbert Sitwell [Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet] (1892-1969), English writer and aesthete Autograph Letter Signed ('Osbert') to 'My dear James'. 12mo, 2 pp. Very good. Attractive letterhead with engraved illustration of 'Renishaw Hall | Derbyshire' (last word crossed out by Sitwell). Written in purple ink. Asks if there is 'anything to be made of a curtain-raiser, or short film, which wd. show Napoleon catching the cold, which lost him... |
£120.00 | |
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Pelham Warner, cricketer and writer on cricket. Part of an Autograph Letter Signed "Pelham F. Warner" to an unknown correspondent. Piece cut from letter, c.3.5 x 2",, good condition. Surviving text as follows: "into something entirely to what he had lead [sic] me to expect, to take up which I would certainly not have left my land .......[excised] ....[overleaf] worrying you./ I am/ yrs tly/ Pelham F. Warner." |
£28.00 | |
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Prince Hoare, artist and playwright. One Autograph Letter and one Autograph Note both Signed "P. Hoare.Signed Total 3pp., 4to, creasesedges dulled, odd spot, mainly good condition. (1810) He humorously asks for an enclosed letter (not present) be forwarded to a Mrs Nooth (named on address panel). (1812) He gives a gracious and witty apology, outlining the circumstances. According to an information... |
£120.00 | |
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Sir Philip Watts (1846-1926), English naval architect [Sir Archibald Hurd (1869-1959)] Autograph Letter Signed ('P Watts') to Archibald Hurd, 5 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London N.W. 4to, 2 pp, 25 lines. Good, on slightly discoloured and grubby paper. Watts takes issue with 'The statement of British Shipbuilding Programmes since 1889' which Hurd has forwarded. 'It was found more convenient to draw up the table again', and Watts is sending 'the result of the investigations... |
£100.00 | |
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Walter de la Mare, writer Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent. Two pages, c. 7 x 5", good condition. He discusses his correspondent's request (via his publishers, Constable) to include five of his poems in an anthology. "One of these, 'Tartary', is taken from a collection entitled 'Songs of Childhood, which is published by Messrs Longman Green & Co." He... |
£100.00 | |
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Annie S. Swan, novelist Autograph Letter Signed "A Bennett Smith / Annie S. Swan" to an unnamed male correspondent. Two pages, 8vo, punch-holes (with loss of one or two letters), closed tear and a small hole in the corner (with some rust marks), but text clear and complete. "In my opinion it is impossible to over estimate the value and importance of the work being done for the troops at home and abroad by the... |
£75.00 | |
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Virginia Frazer Boyle, American Science Fiction writer, novelist. Autograph Subscription signed. Scrap of paper,3.5 x 1", with the words, in Boyle's hand, "you and believe me / with sincere regard, / Your friend / Virginia Frazer Boyle". Paper partly laid down on card, unevenly and crudely cut, staining, corners have remnants of a laying down, and another hand has added "Author of 'Devil... |
£50.00 |
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Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), English writer and journalist Autograph Signature ('H. Martineau') on fragment of letter. Irregularly-shaped (like an 'L') piece of paper, cut from the head of a letter with a mourning border. Dimensions (very roughly) 4 and 3 cm high and 7 cm wide. Good, with minor traces of two tissue mounts adhering to reverse. The following written vertically across three lines of writing: 'to... |
£45.00 | |
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James Rennell Rodd (1858-1941), 1st Baron Rennell, English diplomat and classical scholar Autograph Letter Signed ('Rennell Rodd | priv: sec:') to unnamed male correspondent. 12mo, 2 pp, 10 lines. Good, on lightly aged paper, with scrap of brown paper mount adhering in top right-hand corner on the reverse (not affecting text). Concerns a volume which 'has been duly forwarded to Count Seckendorff, Comptroller of the Household of Her Majesty the Emperess Frederick'.... |
£35.00 | |
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Margot Asquith [Emma Alice Margaret Asquith] (1864-1945), Countess of Oxford and Asquith Both items written in pencil and good, on lightly aged paper, with their stamped and postmarked envelopes addressed by Asquith. Both envelopes with traces of brown paper mount adhering to reverse, and both docketed by the Graphic's editor 'To me Harold Lawton'. Letter One (12mo, 4 pp, headed '... |
£100.00 |
