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Author, Title, Summary Price
T. Crofton Croker, Irish antiquarian (1798-1854).

Autograph Letter Signed"T. Crofton Croker" to "Wansey".

Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, good condition. "I have much pleasure in sending you, I believe, the last unappropriated Copy of my youngster's juvenile production.- I think it's produce was accounted for by his subscribing Ten Guineas to the Royalk Literary Fund.-| I shall be delighted to see you...

£85.00
Sir Samuel Romilly, law reformer and advocate (1757-1818).

Autograph Letter Signed "Saml Romilly" to unnamed correspondent [Hans Francis Hastings. See note below, re. claim to peerage].

Three pages, 12mo. Good only: some staining but text clear and complete. He's been away and so has only just received his correspondent's letter. He continues: "It is impossible for me to give you any information as to the probable amount of the Expence of presenting your claim to the Earldom of...

£225.00
Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1868-1936), American journalist, biographer and historical writer [Robert Proud (1728-1813), American quaker classicist]

Autograph Letter Signed from American journalist Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer to 'Mr Kennedy', regarding a portrait of quaker classicist Robert Proud in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, with appended note on the painting, presumably by Kennedy.

2pp., 12mo. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. Kennedy is 'quite right' in his 'supposition regarding the picture. It is Proud's - indeed the only one familiar to me.' He thinks 'the original is at the rooms of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania'. He concludes with thanks for Kennedy's 'kind words...

£80.00
Amos Perry (1812-1899) of Providence, US Consul at Tunis to the Barbary States, 1862-1867, and author [William Whitwell Greenough (1818-1899), Boston merchant, co-founder of American Oriental Society]

Three Autograph Letters Signed from Consul Amos Perry to William Whitwell Greenough, one describing the critical response to his 'Carthage and Tunis, Past and Present', the others about Rhode Island Historical Society and Boston Public Library.

The first and third items good, on lightly-aged paper; the second letter brittle, on high-acidity paper, with slight loss to the corner of one leaf, affecting a few words, but not the sense, and a few repairs with archival tape. Letter One: 2pp., 12mo. 31 lines of text. Perry begins by asking...

£250.00
Robert Bridges [Robert Seymour Bridges] (1844-1930), British Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930 [Lady Ottoline Morrell; Emery Walker; Arnold Dolmetsch]

Printed copy of letter from the Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, headed 'To the Donors of the Clavichord', in facsimile of his handwriting, with collotype print of photographic portrait of Bridges, seated at the instrument, by Lady Ottoline Morrell.

Nicely printed on laid paper, on sheet folded to make a bifolium, with the facsimile of the letter on the reverse of the first leaf, and the photograph of Bridges facing it on the recto of the second. As he is unable 'to write personal thanks to each of the many friends who contributed to honour...

£150.00
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC (1799–1869), statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,

Two Autograph Letters Signed "Derby" to John Abraham, Bold Street, Liverpool (envelope present), head of the Dispensing Department of the Liverpool Apothecaries Company, 1838-1845, later of Clay & Abraham, pharmaceutical chemists, about Poisons Bill.

Two pages and one page, 12mo, good condition. A. "I have received the Petition of the Liverpool Chemists' Association against some of the provisions of the Sale of Poisons Bill, and will present it without loss of time. As the Bill has been referred to a Select Committee to consider its...

£150.00
[Ryder Cup; Golf; Great Britain vs USA]

The Ryder Cup International Golf Match [...] Official Programme

68pp., illustrated, original pictorial wrappers, minor wear, good condition. Enclosures: a. Ticket, c.1.5 x 1.5", printed, headed "Professional Golfer's Association | Wentworth Club Surrey | Ryder Cup Matches 28 Sept. to 3rd Oct. U.S.A. v. G.B. | Admission to Course | Saturday, 3rd Oct [...]",...

£320.00
Henry L. Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer GCB, PC (1801–1872), Liberal politician, diplomat, traveller, and writer.

Autograph Letter Signed "H L Bulwer", diplomat and writer, to "Hamilton" about a cook for his residence in Spain..

One page, 8vo, slightly crumpled and stained but text clear and complete, as follows: I remember that at Brussels there used to be female cooks who knew french and english cooking, could you find me one which knoiws well the english way [...] I should be glad to have one who could cook my...

£80.00
Cahir Healy (1877-1970), Nationalist Party Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and Tyrone in the British House of Commons [George Lansbury (1859-1940), Labour Party politician; Lieut. C.H. Glendinning]

Typed Letter Signed from Cahir Healy to Lieutenant C. H. Glendinning, discussing George Lansbury's support in the House of Commons for his case of wrongful imprisonment, and hinting at a cover up.

1p., 4to. Eighteen lines. On creased and lightly-aged paper. On 21 February 1924, in the House of Commons, Lansbury 'asked the Secretary of State for War if his attention has been called to the fact that the Officers' Association have sent in a claim to the Army Council for compensation on...

£120.00
Horace Dobell [Horace Benge Dobell] (c.1827-1917), Consulting Physician, Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, and at the Mont Dore Sanitorium, Bournemouth

Part of corrected autograph draft by Horace Dobell, Consulting Physician, Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, of a preface to a planned abridgment of his book 'On the Mont Dore Cure'.

4pp., landscape 8vo. On four leaves pinned together. On aged and worn paper. With numerous deletions and emendations. COPAC only lists the first edition of this book, so it may be that the second edition was not published. Dobell begins by giving his reason for attempting an abridgment: he has...

£250.00
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