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Dion Boucicault. one autograph note, third person, to George <Teuss?>, Dion Boucicault the younger. Actor-manager (1859-1929), son of the actor and dramatist. Formal acceptance of an invitation in the third person. "Mr Boucicault accepts with pleasure Mr. & Mrs George 's invitation for Tuesday July 4." Paper and glue from previous mounting on blank reverese... |
£20.00 | |
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Duke of Somerset Autograph letter signed to Sir John Coxe Hippisley Edward Adolphus Seymour, eleventh Duke of Somerset (1775-1855), agriculturist, etc. Three pages, 4to. His correspondent was Sir John Hippisley who, among many avocations, pursued agricultural science which is the main topic of this letter. Somerset is pleased to see the books of General Beatson... |
£100.00 | |
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E. G. Harcourt-Williams Autograph letter signed to Mrs [?] Villiers, Actor and producer (1880-1957). 2 pp, 4to. He thanks her for taking an interest in his work. "Yes - you are right I have a wonderful mother. / Wasn't it dreadful on Saturday afternoon! I thought it brave of you to sit it through." Somewhat grubby and creased. |
£20.00 | |
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E. Ray Lankester Autograph letters signed (x 3) to Clement Shorter, editor The Sphere, etc. Zoologist. 2pp. each, 8vo. He talks about proofs of his articles,giving instructions, discusses a manuscript he has submitted and congratulates Shorter on photographs of a Siberian mammoth. 3 items, |
£50.00 | |
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Edmund Payne Autograph note signed to the editor of "Strand Magazine", English actor (died 1914). "Dear Sir / My height is five feet three & a half inches in my half hose". Negligible traces of previous mounting to the blank reverse. |
£20.00 | |
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Edmund Yates Autograph card signed to Mr [Spencer Cecil Brabazon?] Ponsonby-Fane, Journalist and playwright (1831-94). One page, 12mo. "Very many thanks for your kindness in sending me the records. I knew Bolland well, and many of the others who have 'gone over'. So the book is very interesting to me. " |
£25.00 | |
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Edward Askew Sothern Autograph note signed to unnamed male correspondent, One page, 12mo, written in purple ink on grey paper. "My dear Sir / Could you lunch with me at 2. on Tuesday at my rooms in Midland Hotel St. Pancras? / Yrs always / E. A. Sothern". With traces of previous mounting to the reverse. |
£20.00 | |
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Edward Compton Autograph letter signed to [?] Pemberton, English actor-manager (1854-1918). One page, 8vo. "My dear Pemberton / We had a beastly passage over here, have both been seedy ever since, & only just able to crawl through our routine work I shall not attempt to sit down to the Play until Sunday, but on that day I will write you all... |
£20.00 | |
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Rev. Arthur Hudleston. Autograph letter not signed to The Editor of the Quarterly Review (Lockhart). Two pages, 8vo, good condition. With a note identifying the writer who simply describes himself in his letter as "The Author of the accompanying volume of sermons" of which he asks the Editor to give an early notice. He offers the "accustomed remuneration [!] for this trouble through his... |
£45.00 | |
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William Adam Autograph Letter Signed, 2pp., 4to, to James Pillar, Land Revenue Office Scottish lawyer and politician, friend of Walter Scott (1751-1839). Damp-staining and some damage not affecting legibility and completeness. He discusses in some detail the lease on the Cock Close Estate at Eton, and the attitude of the family concerned (Slatter). |
£75.00 |
