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George Crabbe, poet and clergyman [George Crabbe, poet] Subscription to a letter with Signature Geo. Crabbe. Subscription to letter (cut off), 16 x 6cm laid down on slightly larger piece of paper, staining (by glue perhaps) but text is clear. See Image. Text: Love to Caroline & Carolinette | Yours affectionately | Geo Crabbe. |
£100.00 |
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Annunzio Mantovani, Anglo-Italian violinist and conductor (1905-1980), composer, and light orchestra-style entertainer. Black & White Photograph (at foot Radio Pictorial Photo Card), 8.5 x 13.5cm, WITH: Compliments, 13 x 9cm Slip headed Mantovani and his Tipica Orchestra, in the middle WITH A.P. MANTOVANIS, | COMPLIMENTS. Both in very good condition. See Scan |
£56.00 |
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Ethel Bentham (1861 ? 1931) progressive medical doctor, a politician and a suffragist. Two pages, 8vo, bifolium, second leaf tipped onto larger piece of paper, very good condition. Text: She thanks her for a cake and for Christmas greetings but explains a delay by referring to her tiredness, presumably because of Parliamentary duties, having been elected in 1929]. I was getting so... |
£45.00 | |
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Admiral Sir John Ommanney Hopkins One page, folio, aged, fold marks but text clear and complete. Text: I beg to thank you for your courtesy in sop kindly offering to do any service for me on the 'Cephalonia' leaving Boston tomorrow for England; and I think there is nothing I need trouble you with at present. Note: Captain Percy... |
£75.00 | |
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[Payment to Queen Anne; Tellers of the Exchequer] One page, cr 8vo, bifolium, bottom edge trimmed with some (small) loss of text, aged, a bit battered, but (except very bottom) text complete and clear. See Image. Signed boldly by Henry Cartwright, presumably a Teller, with two other signatories (J Miller and another). Text: Received the 22... |
£180.00 |
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Clara Novello Davies, Welsh singer, teacher, composer, and conductor, mother of Ivor Novello. Signature on verso of detached album leaf, 20 x 16.5cm, one edge frayed, aging but good condition. Other signatures on the recto, but not deciphered. See Image. |
£50.00 |
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[Ernest Marples, sometime Minister of Transport AND Harold Macmillan, sometime Prime Minister.] Banners, paper, 50 x 10cm, fold marks, good condition. Perhaps intended to put in one's window unlike the brazen Marples Must Go that decorated a bridge on the MI in living memory, objecting to his policies (including the Beeching Railway butchery). Harold Macmillan had reached his sell-by date... |
£100.00 |
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Lydia Becker, suffragette and scientist Final lines and signature ONLY clipped from Autograph Letter, 11 x 6cm, good condition. Text: We beg that you will favour us with your presence and support on the occasion | I am| Yours faithfully | Lydia E Becker | Secretary. Note: In February 1867, she became secretary of the Manchester... |
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Hilaire Belloc [Joseph Hilaire Pierre Ren? Belloc] (1870-1953), Anglo-French author and poet. One page. 8vo, fold mark, sl.dulled but clear and complete. Text: By some error the enclosed [no longer] cheque for 5 guineas has been sent me in payment for my article in last Sunday's Weekly Despatch. There can, of course, be no question of my accepting remuneration in that scale. Perhaps you... |
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Dorothy Macmillan, wife of Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister (1957-63) One page, 12mo, very good condition, docketed (by Stanton prob.) Letter from [D] M. Macmillan. Text: I am so sorry that your most kind letter to me of the 11th of October has not been answered before this, but I feel sure that you will understand how very occupied my days have been during these... |
£65.00 |
