BRISTOW & GARLAND BOOKSELLERS

"Do you think your kind & clever Aunt would do me and Leighton a service? By making a careful sketch of a lily in blossom with buds - as nearly as possible in the same position of that in Christ's hand in the photograph of the fresco - (which I dare say you have). He asked me to do this for him, being so pressed".

No place or date. Inscribed at head in another, contemporary, hand, "Hamilton Aide 1863".

thanking him for "acting as patron of the following Ball which is being given in connection with the Motor Show, for the benefit of The Middlesex Hospital". 1-side 8vo. Henry:III:Tower, Windsor Castle, 8th Nov. 1922.

£25.00

"Open wide the gates of Athol....."

10-lines, 4to. Signed and dated June 1848. Written on the writing paper of the 'Parthenon Club' (small embossed name as such at head). Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£125.00

To "Dear Sir", he writes thanking the recipient for information that will lead to improvements to a new edition of his manual [Manual of British Botany, the 7th edition corrected throughout published in 1874?] - ".... whorls of 5 is the certainly regular form in Erythraea [?] and I did not know that there was any variation. It is not uncommon to find 'accidental' changes of this kind and thus we see the necessity of always looking at several flowers of plants before deciding that we have the true number of the parts in the speciman before us....." etc.

Cambridge, 17th July 1871. 3-sides 8vo, laid down by reverse of conjugate leaf to part of an album page.

£65.00

"I cannot transmit to you the accompanying official record of the gratitude of our members without assuring you of my own thankfulness; & of the pride I felt that my fellow collegian was so worth of a place at a table at which the gratest philosophers of the world have stood".

1-page 8vo. Royal Institution, June 5, n.y. c. 1845. Holed and slightly stained at head.

£35.00

"Admit Rev'd E. Sidney & Mrs Sidney to all the Lectures of the Royal Institution during their residence in London."

4 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches; sealing wax to reverse. n.d. c. 1845.

He regrets not having been at home when Sturge called & stating that he has tea at 9, "& should be very glad if you will come in & have some chat on things in general".

10 Montague St. (postmarked Jan. 11th 1879).

£20.00

"There has been found more work on The Monument than was at first calculated."

Fold marks, laid down on a Victorian album leaf. Dated in another, contemporary, hand 1838.

With on the same page the cut signatures with subscriptions of Francois Rochard (d. 1858; portrait painter) & Henry Gastineau (1791-1876; painter). With, on the reverse of the page, an unidentified autograph letter signed.

£30.00

1-page 8vo. Kinnerton Studios, Knightsbridge, n.d. Some rust marking.

£12.00

With conjugate blank. Jan. 9/60. Douro Place, Kensington.

£20.00

"It was today I asked for the pleasure of your company to dinner ....... we shall have plenty of time to talk over the business, indeed as Lord Wellington does not go out early tomorrow morning I will come over & breakfast with him and if not again interrupted we can converse on the changes to be made .... as far as regards the commissariat I really do not see what further can be done but to proceed to organize one on the principle given in by Ld. Wellington & me. In respect to other matters I can mention to you my general objects for the amelioration of the Portuguese army, but the particulars will be best talked over when & where they can be finally arranged at Lisbon where I trust circumstances will permit of our being together...."

"Enclosed I send the amount of my stakes, two sovereigns for the cup and the same for the hunters ..... Pray accept my thanks for the trouble you took for me during the races, I do not know what I should have done without you. On Saturday and again yesterday I had brilliant sport with my hounds ...... this gives me 17 out of 20 foxes .... nothing can be better". With postscript: "Mrs. Berkeley bids me say that if Mrs. Lucas will, with you, give us the pleasure of your company .... for the Bedford races ...."

He writes with reference to the celebrated court case of Patterson v. Bonaparte; Berryer representing the American Elizabeth Patterson in the attempt to have her marriage to the late Prince Jerome declared valid. He regrets that he is unable to obtain tickets for admission to the court for Cochrane, says that he will send him a memo he is to publish about the case and hopes that he will extend his stay in Paris so that they may meet.

The writer identified in another early hand at head of first side; mounting stub to margin of the reverse of the conjugate blank. Very good.

£60.00

He writes, "I return you my warmest thanks for your valuable communication .... I have given as little trouble as possible to geological friends - I have however always met with the kindest response - as now".

89 Glou. Pl. 18th January 1872. 1-page 8vo, on mourning paper, conjugate blank removed.

£55.00

"I think rather a nice sketch of my wife's which we hope you will llike" (referring to the illustration). Commander in Chief's Camp, India, Christmas 1929.

£40.00

Written on board, "The Ringdove" in Bunessan Harbour [Ross of Mull]: ".... can you & Mrs. Aitken find some means of reaching us and dining with us tonight ..... could pick up Henderson, if he cares to take his chance of what our scant larder contains? We are in a dead calm & can't get round to you". Friday, n.d.

£24.00

The first, dated May 28th '96 addressed to "My dear Drummond Wolff" inviting him to a "great entertainment" (2-pages 8vo); the second to the same inviting him to a shoot (1-page 8vo), this undated.

Both laid-down by their integral leaves to an album leaf together with a portrait of Dufferin and Ava.

£20.00

"I am quite ashamed to have been so long in sending you the information you want: but since my return there have been 400 pages of proofs to correct, I know not how many letters to write & - notwithstanding its microscopic size - my parish to engage our hand..."

Kennington, Oxford, March 25th 1872.

£15.00

Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 8vo with integral leaf to, "My dear Cust" thanking him for "presenting my enquiries" and wondering "where things go. It reminds me that when I lived in London I illuminated my dining-table with "Palace ends" they were very good wax candles which I could buy at a grocer's shop in Oxford St. ! ! Do come here when you visit Oxford. Perhaps then I shall be able to show you the alternative to the Royal Standard - for I think I have hit on one....."

Chilswell, Oxford, March 14, 1925.

£95.00

1-page small 4to, stating that he was: "hindered by unforeseen difficulties in procuring models, the first I had was taken from me before I had derived much benefit from it and it was a great while before I could get another, with respect to the treatment of the subject I have taken you at your word and have us'd some licence and the picture may be something larger than you expected but my opinion is that a pheasant painted small will not have a good effect, therefore I painted him as large as life… … I have shown it to several as my custom is to hear their various opinions, amongst them Mr. Edridge the artist … … he expressed himself pleased with it, I showed your letter to Blunt and Ronger [?]. With respect to your caution concerning their keeping company with that drunken fellow Mr. Bacchus it has had the desired effect I believe at least this I can say if they have been much in his company it was when they were out of my sight".

4to sheet folded vertically in 2, also with horizontal fold. The signatures rather scratchy and faint, that of Pears with (coffee?) marking.

£75.00

"which I know you will not grant if I ought not to have asked It … … Four American friends whom I am Exceedingly anxious to oblige are very desirous of attending the afternoon service at the abbey today. Last Sunday they failed because of the crowd. Is there any way in which they can be admitted to seats? … …"

Usual fold marks; mounted to part of an album leaf. Westminster Palace Hotel; Sunday morning, May 20th, n.y.

£50.00

He writes: "My dear Hill, I am still anxious to learn of your complete recovery & I hope Miss Hill will favour me with a line ......"etc. A note on the reverse of the conjugate leaf reads, "Private note from Lord Brougham to M. D. Hill Esq. Q. C. given me by Miss F. Hill".

Brougham, Penrith 31st October 1865. 2-pages 8vo on mourning paper.

£50.00

"Beshrew the common pencil! I envy not its powers - She stoops to Conquer ". On a piece of paper 7 x 5 1/2 inches. n.d.

£15.00

"Most people think (& I refer you to the papers) that something sinister has happened to that hitherto dextrous fellow Nap. God grant quiet to this distracted world". Inscribed at head in another, contemporary, hand "General Sir Harry Burrard Bt. Ob.1813".

Creased and browned, slightly holed on margin.

£30.00

"Old times, new times, put to the test! / Old times, new times, which are the best ? / I have known both times, / This is my quest / - In Paternoster Row we started, / Small the premises and dirty; / Bad sanitation, and unworthy / Of the Press's noble prestige; / Counting-house a one man show, Packing bench ditto ditto / - Then to A. M. L. we shifted / To a brand new building gracious, / And the stock when all was lifted / Far from filled the floors so spacious …………" One stanza marked: "cut".

14 Russell Square June 5th 1885. Pre-addressed to the Hon. Secretary, Exhibition of Women's Industries, 20 Park St. Bristol. Narrow band of cloth tape affixed to upper margin where once attached to the pictures wrapping.

She writes: "I regret that there is a mistake about my being on the committee for the [?], I allowed parcels to be sent to Mr. Grant's care, but nothing further ............... I fully sympathise with your work".

Red Lodge House [Bristol] Sept. 18th, n.y. 1-page 8vo, tipped on to part of an album page (glue marks just showing through on upper corners).

1-page 4to with integral address panel. "Adm[iralt]y, Monday", no date."My dear Forbes, Pray put the accompanying cup on your sideboard as a souvenir of me & a small testimony of my great regard and ...... of your frequent kindness. I shall be charmed to form a part of Mr. [?]'s committee. Yrs ever, Castlereagh". Inscribed in ink in an early hand at base, "President of the Board of Control 1805" this just touching the signature.

3-inch tear into the salutation, some browning, address panel, also signed by Castlereagh, dusty and with blank corner cut away. Red wax seal intact. Mounting stub to margin of reverse.

He writes to Edward Coleridge - in a postscript to the letter he writes after Coleridge's name "Rev? Dr. or Esq? I know not which" - " I wish it were in my power to accept your kind invitation to Eton College on Friday next, and kill a Trout in the Thames, but I can do neither - I have higher games in view! - a Salmon in Wales ....."

Mounted stub to margin of address panel. The writer identified in an early hand on lower margin.

£50.00

in French; with, on the conjugate leaf, autograph verse addressed to her, this also signed. In all 3-sides 8vo. Castelnau Lodge, Warwick Crescent, 15th July 1872. On his crested paper.

£75.00

Mounting stub to reverse of integral blank. Writer identified in an early hand on upper margin.

£15.00

"After the obliging manner in which you have sent over your pony & the authority which I had given Mr. Smith to purchase him ....." He continues by saying that although he will pay for the pony he would like to return it, "as he is considerably lower than I expected" and wonders whether Lucas can find a buyer amongst "persons in your neighbourhood who have known the pony".

Two sides 8vo, laid down by the blank conjugate leaf to a page from a Victorian album to which is also affixed the signature and subscription of a letter from the Earl of Orkney.

£30.00

"I think 'The Emigrant's last Sunday at home' will do .... I will get the picture from Capells - to which we resort to for such padding out. The Paris poem I return as it is not suited for any of my serials. I have a mass of material & it may be months before I can insert the poem ..... If you do not dislike writing to such pictures I might sometimes be able to send you 2 or 3 similar pictures to write little papers or verses for for Chatterbox or Prize".

St. Andrews, Litchurch, Derby, Jan. 30th 1871. Browning to one corner of first leaf.

£30.00

"…………… But oh! It would not leave a scar, / The wound would never heal".

1-page 8vo, pale pink paper. Undated. Fold marks, some creasing and browning.

£40.00

"I love it, I love it and who shall dare / to chide me for loving that old arm chair? ………"

1-page 4to, mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album. Undated.

£80.00

"I should so much like to welcome you to The Ferns before we disperse to the country, our garden & the tree-fern house look so lovely now ..." and discusses his new house, "it will be the most picturesque Sussex House quite in character with the scenery". His new house in on a plot of the "new grand estate at Birchen Wood".

4-sides 8vo. The Ferns, Hyde Park Gate South, 8 Aug. 66. Very good.

Mr. Prideaux is one of the developers.

"Sir, Having received from The Strand this morning some heavy papers I am to sign & must return - some I can send today & the others on Friday. I presume on your Royal Highness accustomed kindness to give me Two Franks, one of this date & the other on the 25. I am with the most dutiful respect Ever Your Royal Highness most Faithful & Obedient humble servant".

Integral blank/ address panel removed, corner chip else good. Early annotation to the reverse.

£240.00

Commencing: " Fifty years this day I have been united to my dear wife in the bonds appointed by a wise and good God. And, I may truly add, that I feel more love to her … … …. May you and your dear wife live long together in happy union and then be translated to heaven".

10-lines on a 4to album leaf, this damp-marked on lower blank margin. Dated Southampton 5th April 1848.

He writes: "I shall be much indebted to you for help in the selection of nominees - It is most important to have men who will be able to hold their own under circumstances wh. at first will present some difficulty. Two classes are needed one for the local the other for the Metropoltan Bd. which will have charge of the Insane .... & Smallpox patients ....."

Traces of mounting to reverse of last leaf and some creasing and short tears at base of this leaf.

£28.00

Circa 1930. Freeman Wills Crofts signature, "Freeman W. Crofts" on a card 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches; very good.

£90.00

1 side small 8vo, no place, no date; conjugate blank removed, a little dusty, smudged word at head.

£25.00

"I am sure in days to come you will look back on this strange experience which has come to you with gratitude that is certainly my feeling about the last war. I am glad that you miss the Abbey ...... we miss you and the other members of the Brotherhood [of St. Edward the Confessor] .... I hope you like Plymouth Sound. It is one of the best approaches to England ..."

The Deanery, Westminster SW1, Nov. 30. 1942; central fold mark.

£21.00

The first, a T.L.S., "W.J. de la Mare" , Hill House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire 4th. Oct. 1939. He writes that he is, "indeed sorry you have felt compelled to give up your work with Mr. Pinker ..... you have always been so kind to me, and I shall hate to think of your not being there. I should of course be interested to hear what the actual difficulties were, but that, no doubt, is a personal thing ....."

WHISTLER, THERESA (1927-2007). Biographer of Walter de la Mare. A.L.S. 3-sides 8vo to, "Dear Miss Barton", dated Little Place, Lyme Regis, Dorset, Dec. 3rd 1959 - "I am returning your de la Mare letters under separate cover ....... I have copied passages ..... which I may wish to quote in the biography ........ I should be very grateful if you could tell me the facts of the firm's collapse - & what happened to Eric & Ralph Pinker .... Eric at any rate went to prison & also that Mr. de la Mare suffered some financial losses himself in the affair ...." continuing regarding the Pinkers and her forthcoming biography.

DUFF, LADY JULIET (1881-1865). A.L.S. 3-sides 8vo, Bulsbridge House, Wilton, March 11th n.y. Thanking Miss Barton for her letter and, "How very kind of Mr. De La Mare to say that I may have the last 4 lines of 'Trees;' & please forgive my indiotic slip of the pen. I am gradually becoming more & more imbecile....." Together with a T.L.S. and a typed postcard, both dated 1950, requesting permission to use some of Walter de la Mare's verse in an anthology; addressed to Faber & Faber and Constable & Co.

"I shall feel great pleasure in giving your watercolour pictures my best attention...".

1-side 12mo. Lordsworth, Petworth. 11 March 76 [?], Very good.

£20.00

12-lines on a 4to album leaf commencing: "Learn to expect, through life's wide lea, The shock of rude commotion; You'll not escape all cheerily, While sailing on its ocean… …." Some marking a light marginal damp staining. Dated Southampton, Feb. 20th 1848. Drew was schoolmaster at Southampton, and one of the founders of the Meteorological Society.

£20.00

"Dear Frederick, Should you not intend making use of your box for the Oratorio tomorrow night (the 21st) would you have the goodness to indulge me with an order for it: if you can gain it, only send me the card ....." etc. With footnote, "Pray excuse the paper, as it is the only half sheet I happen to have in my dressing room".

“Mon Cher Vieux Garcon, In plain English, Dear old boy …… here I am in this wicked Metropolitan City. My dark superstitions got the better of me; I did not like to risk an unlucky day by traveling at night I hope that is quite clear, and not at all Irish. So I did not stay at Newcastle and have been traveling since 8 a.m. …… I send you some game if you care for it and which Lord Londesborough made me pay ………” etc.

Clarendon Hotel, Princess St. [Edinburgh], n.d.

£20.00

"I have the honor to enclose [not present] the address of the person who was employed about my stoves, I believe they are called, Swedish Stoves, & can only add, that I think them most excellent ..."

The address panel also signed, remains of red wax seal. Mounting stub to blank margin of address panel. The writer identified & the letter dated in another early hand.

£25.00

Cut from a letter & laid down on part of an album leaf.

£15.00

Inscribed, "My best wishes to Stanley" and signed. ca. 1938. The photograph 10 x 8 inches, edge worn and with 4 1/2 inch corner crease lower left.

£25.00

New Court, Temple, 30th Oct. 1880. 1-side 8vo. "I have asked Mr. Seaton, a Cambridge man of much legal and academical knowledge and skill whether in case the Leeds Ladies Association still are in want of a lecturer to give them four lectures on the Legal Disabilities of Women. He is willing to do so on the terms you mentioned to me and I believe he has much interest in the subject and the Ladies would do well to secure his services......" He then gives Seaton's address on the conjugate leaf.

£15.00

80 Eccleston Square, S. W. Sunday morning, no date. 1 1/4 sides 8vo, tipped on to part of an album leaf. He writes to a Mr. Levy regarding "the Congo Question".

£15.00

Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 8vo, to Lady Lyttelton: "... I hope that I have arrived back all the better for my expedition "down under" as the gardener in the Square puts it to me with an exclamation of "Well Well" as if he hardly believes in the possibility!"

5 Onslow Gardens, May 28th n.y. Integral leaf removed.

£55.00

Laid down in three pieces on a Victorian album leaf: "Dearest Mrs. Southey, I look upon his lines and note as two of the most precious gifts I ever received. I say this from my heart and I know you believe me…." Mrs. Gartshore and Caroline Southey collaborated on a piece of music, published ca. 1850, titled 'River, River'; Caroline Southey writing the words and Mrs. Gartshore the music (which she dedicated to Caroline).

"... The vague reports which too quickly circulate. She is now in a manner without complaint. Believe me ever My Dear Frederick, Your most Affectionate Father, George R". Laid down on an old album leaf below which is mounted the cut signature, "Charlotte R" of his consort Queen Charlotte (1744-1818).

To the reverse of the leaf is mounted a letter address panel addressed, in French, to the Duke of York, signed twice (some dust marking). Identified in an early hand as being the Grand Duke Nicolas 1817 [the year he visited England]. The Grand Duke Nicholas (1796-1855), Nicolas I of Russia, Emperor 1825-1855.

£550.00

and at the conclusion on the 2nd side by the 1st Marquess of Crewe, as Secretary of State for India. 3rd of June, 1913. Wafer seal, conjugate blank. Folio. Horizontal fold. Very good.

£400.00

and by Wedgewood Benn, as Secretary of State for India, at the conclusion. Blindstamped seal. 1st January 1930. 15 x 12 1/2 inches. Folded in four. Very good.

£400.00

All addressed to H. Lewis in Dusseldorf who was apparently making arrangements for an exhibition at the Crystal Palace; all, apart from the last, in German. 1894-1899. Together with 11 letters and 10 correspondence cards of which we have been unable to decipher the signatures. 40 pieces in all.

“I am so glad that article of mine was the right kind of thing …… I am desperately finishing a novel and as soon as that deed is done I have to go to Geneva …… ”

Slight edge tears. Overponds, Shackleford, Surrey, Aug. 11, n.y.

£25.00

1-page 8vo, Dundee, 10th Dec. 1847. On the conjugate leaf Gilfillan has transcribed, on both sides, 35-lines on, "Poetry and Religion"; this also signed. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£80.00

"The grave it holds my fairest now / The loved one of my heart; / Ah! Little thought I we so soon, / So, Sadly soon, should part! ........"

Signed and dated Leith, 3rd July 1845. Written on both sides of a single sheet, 4to, tipped-onto a leaf from a Victorian album on the inner margin.

£100.00

"O! this were a bright world / Most pleasant and gay, / Did love never languish, / Nor friendship decay………"

2-sides 8vo. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album. Undated.

£125.00

"To Mr. Alex. Kincaid with the author's respects" and further inscribed by Gilifillan: "Mrs. Gilfillan died 8th Jan'y 1844 a woman of superior intellect ……… her memory deserves a far higher tribute than these feeble lines convey".

Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£50.00

'Your charming card written .... after hearing my "Five Impressions of a Holiday" arrived at my Connecticut retreat and gave me immense pleasure. Not only was I glad you liked my very juvenile efforts written some thirty years ago, but also that you remembered an old friend ......'

Office of the Conductor, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Sept. 28, 1944. Usual fold marks, a little creased. Annotated by Storrs in pencil.

£25.00

1-page 4to. Salt Dykes, Winchelsea Nov. 4th 1930. Together with the last page of an autograph letter signed, 1-page 4to: ".... I really do not feel equal to 'dashing off' a sketch on your truly tiny piece of paper, it seems so very tiny to me! And just now I am working on a very large oil pictures and find it difficult to switch off on to anything else ........" and continuing by mentioning a picture of his in the Leeds City Art Gallery. Three short tears. no place, no date.

"He spoke of the alliances between the Houses of Stuart and Bourbon, and of the many years of exile which the descendants from these marriages had spent in each others territories. Vol. IV".

Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 17th Nov. 1847. 1-page 8vo, mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album. Perhaps from his novel 'The Romance of War' (4 volumes, 1845).

£45.00

11 Clifton Park Road, October 26th n.y. 1-page 8vo laid down by the blank conjugate leaf to part of an album page. To "My dear Madam" writing that she hopes to attend a meeting.

£20.00

Of irregular shape, 3 x 3/4 inches. n.d.

£300.00

"....& if agreeable to thee, beg to propose the Evening of fifth day (Thursday) the 29th Inst. - but if the absence of a moon is sufficient to prevent it, thou canst fix any subsequent day which may suit thee ......", with postscript.

Norwich, June 7, 1831. Usual fold marks, sealing wax mounting spots to corners on reverse with paper adhesion, integral leaf removed, some age marking.

£75.00

"With Compliments, Very Truly Yours, Geo.G.Haite, 24th March, 1908".

On a piece of paper 5 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches, laid down on light card.

£15.00

"Although my name may be known to you - I feel I owe you an apology for this intrusion which I trust the subject will render excusable - It has been proposed to me to undertake the editorship of a monthly magazine designed more especially for Ladies - and I am willing to undertake the task (although I feel it is one of no ordinary responsibility) - if I continue to meet with the promise of support, which support, alone can ensure success, there are three or four 'Ladies Magazines', but it cannot be wrong to say, that they are in all respects unworthy -

Single sheet of green paper, 8vo. Dated The Rosery, Old Brompton, Sept. 29th 1845. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£45.00

She writes that she is: "greatly honoured that the Circle would care to hear me, and will do my best to give some idea as to how I evolved 'Adam's Breed'. I could speak on Monday October 18th at 6.45, if that will do, but I should like you to let me know for how long you would like me to speak ....." 37 Holland Street, Kensington, W.8. 28th June 1926. 1 1/4 sides 8vo on 2 conjoined leaves, on cream paper; remains of an album leaf on the blank reverse of the second side. Very good.

It was not until the following January that she addressed the Writer's Circle of the Institute of Journalists, the meeting chaired by Wilhelmina Stitch who afterwards hosted a dinner at Gatti's in her honour at which the menu consisted of dishes described in "Adam's Breed".

£400.00

"Where, at his loom, the artisan / Feels that his skill is worthy man ......." Signed, "S.C. Hall" and dated The Rosery, Old Brompton, Sept. 29th 1845. On a single 8vo sheet of yellow paper mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£50.00

24 Stamford Rd. Kensington, 1st January 1885. 1page 8vo. Slight damage to margin, a little light foxing. He writes: ".....I shall await your instructions as to where I should send the.....small drawings of Mrs. Hemans, Miss Mitford and Mrs. Loudon (L.E.L.)" Most likely refering to the the Exhibition of Women's Industries held at Bristol early this year. This exhibition, the first of its kind, i.e. entirely devoted to the arts and industries of women only, was organised by the Irish suffragist Helen Blackburn (1842-1903).

£35.00

Autograph letter signed to 'Dear Mrs Clive', 2-pages 12mo, declining an invitation '... but hope to accompany my daughter & son-in-law the next following day as I believe she has already mentioned to you'. Pickhurst, Nov. 17, n.y. Fold marks, integral leaf removed.

£45.00

1-page 12mo, inviting the unidentified recipient to breakfast. With integral leaf; mounted to part of an album page. 24 Wilton Crescent; Friday, April 22, n.y.

£15.00

beneath the typed subscription "Believe me, Yours very truly". Cut from a letter. Overall 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches. Laid-down on part of an album leaf.

£30.00

14-lines commencing " The bard who woos misjudging flattery, / And only sings that partial friends may praise ………" 1-page 8vo on mauve paper. Dated Oct. 13, 1845. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£80.00

3 Clarence Place, Penzance, 2nd Jan. 1867. 1-side 12mo; conjugate blank removed. "I do not posess Dr. Smith's book nor is it in the Library of the Geological Society. I had an opportunity of looking at it .... I thought the work the most bungling and illogical piece of rubbish I ever saw ....."

£30.00

The first leaf is headed, "The Professor's Rebuke" against the layman's use of an uncouth 4-letter word for a part of the female anatomy: "The portions of a woman that appeal to Man's depravity / Are fashioned with considerable care / And what at first appears to be a simple little cavity / Is really an elaborate affair / And Doctors who have troubled to examine the phenomena / In various experimental dames / Have made a list of all the things in feminine abdomena / And given them delightful Latin names / [etc. etc. another verse] / Why is it then that when we common people chatter / Of the mystery to which I have refered / We use of such a delicate and complicated matter / Such a very short and unattractive word".

1-page 8vo but unevenly trimmed. 108 Marine Parade, Brighton Nov. 3rd 1877.

£12.00

2 1/4 x 3/4 inches; very good.

£15.00

Regarding a child's education and continues regarding a visit to the Isle of Wight which "was my home from 1817 to 1826" - "We spent ten days with Lord Justice & Lady Wood at Freshwater where we staid for the pleasure of being able to pay daily visits to the Poet Laureate ........" etc.

Traces of mounting on left hand margin, last leaf holed with loss of only one letter.

£25.00

Some smudging, laid down on a leaf from a Victorian album. Inscribed at head in another, contemporary, hand "Beresford Hope".

£15.00

He writes: "My answer to you about the Empress Frederick's second marriage ..... As far as I know, it never found its way into the press. How I came by it was that I had two English friends, living in Germany, in the year following the Emperor Frederick's death, and they had friends among the German aristocracy, who spoke of the marriage as an accepted fact; it was not regarded in any way as a scandal - morganatic marriages being so usual among German royalties - quite sympathetically ..... "

"..... We are now busy preparing for our removal tomorrow & hope soon to have the pleasure of welcoming you in our new home ...."

The identity of the writer inscribed in purple ink in an early hand at head of first page. Mounting stub to margin of last blank, a little marginal paper adhesion where once mounted; generally good.

Together with a piece of paper inscribed, "William Howitt, written for Mrs. Shadwell in Rome May 10th 1876".

£45.00

"It is truly reviving to see the awakening of mind in the common people ……" One page 8vo, on lilac paper. Dated Clapton, Nov. 7th 1845. Mounted on a leaf from a Victorian album.

£100.00

1-page 8vo with conjugate blank. 14 Melbury Road, Kensington, Saturday, n.d. Very good.

£12.00

Laid down on part of an album leaf. n.d. Hurlstone was admitted as a student of the Royal Academy in 1820.

St. Paul's, 31st July, n.y. 1-page 8vo with conjugate blank; ink mark at head of blank margin, some light foxing. To "Dear Sir" - "The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's accept gratefully the engraving of Bishop Heber bequethed by the late Mr. Sturge".

£15.00

An autograph correspondence card signed to the Rev. A.V. Lyttelton: "I have never heard of the book. I do not think it is by my grand-father. From the title I guess that it may be only a published sermon, perhaps by my great-uncle Whittaker Churton". St.Pauls, n.d. Inscribed on the address panel in another hand 'Dean (Inge) of S.Pauls'.

£18.00

The first, 11-lines, in Latin, from the preface to Thomas Dempster's 'Historia ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum' (which Irving edited 1828 & 1829), the second, 10-lines, from his 'Introduction to the Study of the Civil Law' (1837). 1-page 8vo, mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£120.00

1-page 4to to Lieut. Col. Sir Beauchamp St. John thanking him, "for all you have done while you have been in charge of Baluchistan........ I know how sad you and Lady St. John must be feeling at leaving India..."

Viceroy's Camp, India 23rd October 1930. Usual fold; in the original envelope.

£55.00

"Dear [? illegible] Many thanks! I know you are pleasant for old friendship's sake". Fox Hill, Reading, Oct. 12. 1910. Mailing folds, some soiling. Partly laid down on an album leaf, corner crease.

With autograph and musical notation to the reverse by the conductor, B. Walton O'Donnell.

£50.00

"I am sure I should be very ungrateful, as well as very ill bred - if I could hesitate about complying with a request made in so flattering and polite a manner …… I beg leave therefore to say that this is my genuine handwriting and that I wish it were better both for my own credit and for that of your collection ……………" 24 Moray Place, Edinburgh, 24 Nov. 1847. Laid-down by the blank conjugate leaf to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£50.00

63 Brook St. Grosvenor Sq. 24th June 1874. 2-sides 8vo, affixed by the conjugate blank to part of an album page. He writes: "I cannot advise you to remain after your letter - I fear the supervision of a man like Rydon having other occupation would [?] be enough - of course a man must come down to take charge & if Mr. Lucas is kept without money he cannot very well be off anywhere".

£200.00

being his reflections on country churchyards; the extract commencing, "The grave of a child has, indeed, something peculiarly affecting in it. So young - so promising - so pretty - (for what is so pretty as a child ?) the delight of a fond mother - perhaps her only one ........." 13-lines on a single 8vo sheet, signed and dated Dec. 2nd, 1847. Mounted on a leaf from a Victorian album.

£60.00

A series of 12 autograph letters signed, 60-sides 8vo. Winster Hall, Derbyshire & elsewhere. Three of the letters (15-sides 1875-1881) are addressed to "Dr. Brushfield" [Thomas Nadauld Brushfield (1828–1910), Alienist and Antiquarian]. The other 9 letters are addressed to another member of the Brushfield family.

"I very much regret to say that I have now ascertained that P------- will not obtain the appointment he solicited. I have no reason to think that if he were to apply for one, in which he would not be at once chief, but where he would for a time be under command & acquire expejrience & confidence he would be equally unsuccessful ..." 6th Dec. '42.

Inscribed at head in another, contemporary hand, "Fitzroy Kelly 1842".

and subscription cut from a letter; laid down.

£25.00

Regretting that he is unable to accept an invitation to preach as, "this spring is my time for work at Cambridge, so that my time is fully occupied ...." but suggesting a future date.

Some light creasing to fore-margin, tipped on to part of an album leaf.

£65.00

The letter, to Charles Kincaid at Glasgow explaining that ill health had prevented him from complying with Kincaid's request for his autograph earlier. 1-side 8vo. Dated Brechin June 11th, 1848. With on the conjugate leaf his autograph poem "The Wayside Flower" - "There's a moral, my child, / In the wayside flower; / There's an emblem of life / In its short liv'd life ......" 3-stanzas, each of 8-lines. Signed and inscribed,<em> "To Charles G. Kincaid Esq. With the respectful and best wishes of the author. 1848".

"The only dress I have was sent me by Her Majesty's order, at this moment I am attempting to paint from it, being obliged to go to Windsor Castle tomorrow, half an hour ago I received your first note - if I had had time I would have sent to beg you not to trouble yourself to send here - as I conceive you are under some mistake - I have no Lace but that which is attached to the Dress". No place, Aug. 11th 1842.

£65.00

Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 8vo, to: "My dear Sir" returning some photographs and with a long postscript: "Any details of how spirits annoyed the living would be useful to my new book ..... Do they rap or appear or move objects ......." 1 Marloes Rd. Kensington, July 31, n.y. Integral leaf removed; glue mark to lower blank margin of second side.

£90.00

"Lord Lansdowne presents his compliments to Mr. Pound and desires to acknowledge his letter of the 9th instant, accompanying his work on the Ecclesiastical Disciplines Bill" [Church Discipline Bill].

Remains of mounting stub on left-hand margin.

£30.00

[Mudros]: 15. IX. 15. "............. the soldiers have had and are having desperately hard times and we sailors live in luxury by comparison with our house over our backs. Our submarines have done splendidly and are the envy of the French who have had only misfortune: Boyle who got a VC was in the St. Vincent with your friend the OC or autocrat; when Boyle returned from the Marmora for the first time, the then French Rear Admiral Guipratte who everyone is fond of went on board the mother ship and embraced Boyle saying 'Oh you Beautiful Boy!' ............."

Laid down and mounted to part of a leaf from a Victorian album.

£15.00

"I should have written already yesterday to beg you to make my most sincere thanks to Miss Burrard for the excellent study of a lily she has so kindly drawn for me, it is capitally done & will answer my purpose to a nicety & If I were not afraid of being indiscreet I should like to ask a second from her & draw me a wreath of roses for the head of the Saviour- but this would be perhaps encroaching on time & kindness. My return to Lyndhurst will depend a good deal on Aide's movements, if he returns for the winter, as I hope he may, I shall probably go down in November ...... Shall you be at Lyndhurst then?"

"making enquiries about my diagrams and find that they will not be returned for some time" and that therefore he will not be able to send them to Sidney. Dec. 3rd 1844.

£45.00

p> "It's always good to hear from a fan of Mendoza's" and continues by giving publication details and saying that she will send her a book. 1/2 page 4to; some creasing. 721 South St. Glendale, Calif. April 5, n.y.

£15.00

"Robert Liston Esq. His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, humbly craves Allowance of his extraordinary Disbursements in that Service from the 5th Day of April 1798 to the 5th Day of July following, viz. For Stationary Postage of Letters & Packets, Intelligence, Memorials etc. £100".

Signed by Liston and counter-signed by the Foreign Secretary William Grenville, "I allow this Bill, Grenville" & dated Downing Street, Feb. 9th 1799. 1-page 4to .

Paper adhesion and glue marks to left hand blank margin where once mounted. Good.

£350.00

"...... I understand you have kindly offered to write in my behalf with respect to the Chemical Professorship at Woolwich - Should you happen to be acquainted with Col. Portlock, Inspector of the Royal Mil. Academy, your recommendation of me to him would be of service to me ..... Col. Portlock wishes to make his recommendation to the Master General of the Ordnance on Tuesday next ..." St. John's College [Cambridge], 20 Feb. 1852. Sealing wax mounting marks to blank verso of integral leaf; neat repair to lower blank fore-corner of third side.

£65.00

100 Lancaster Gate, 9th November 1868. 1 page 8vo tipped on to part of an album page; some foxing, usual folds. Accepting an invitation to dinner "and to be introduced to your home & its inmates".

£15.00

"Please to deliver to the bearer of my Ticket the two designs belonging to me, No. 962 Maeslough Castle, Radnorshire built for W. Wilkins Esq. No. 1113 Design for a House to be built at Gwilth-faes, Brecon, for W. West Esq."

13 Henrietta St. Brunswick Sq. 29 July, 1841.

£45.00

He writes: "Your book reached me while still suffering from a severe bronchial attack ....... I have read your volume with much ... pleasure - it is a genuine [?] to find one self led thro' a picture by a hand so accomplished ....." etc. etc.

Small piece torn from one corner, short split to central fold, glue marks on blank margin on last side where once mounted.Inscribed in an early hand, "Bulwer Lytton 1864" at head of the first page.

*Alexander Baillie-Cochrane whose book "A Young Artist's Life" was published this year.

£50.00

9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. Undated. Packard Studios, New York, Chicago, & Los Angeles stamp to reverse.

£21.00

"It stood upon the mountain side / Its porch with honey-suckle shaded, Its windows screened from summer suns / by clustering ivy, bird invaded ………" Dated October 3rd 1845. 1-page 8vo, of pale yellow paper. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£100.00

No place, February 15th no year: "Sir, I am most anxious to hear how Her Royal Highness is. Hope in God your Royal Highness' accounts are good today. I am with the highest sense of duty your Royal Highness' most sincerely, Lauderdale".

£25.00

and subscription cut from a letter; laid down.

£15.00

Autograph letter on printed Balmoral memorandum paper, inscribed from "the Queen" in her hand at head, 2-pages oblong 8vo, [to Sir Lionel Cust, Surveyor of the King's pictures]:

On a small green tinted album leaf.

£45.00

With the original envelope. Villa Mauresque, St. Jean, Cap Ferrat, 12th Feb. 1953.

£65.00

March 25th 1871. 1-page 8vo, conjugate blank removed. He writes: "I am much obliged to you for your kind letter, which I have printed among my testimonials. It cannot fail to tell much in my favour".

£25.00

2 stanzas of 4-lines each commencing: "Father! If we may well endure / The ill that with our lives begins ……" 1-page 8vo, on green paper; undated. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£65.00

Sending, " a little collection of verse commemorative of domestic bereavements" and continuing by praising her work " I must also apologise for the intrusion - but really I can not look upon one - the thoughts of whose mind I have though so many years known, so well and admired so much, as a mere stranger and feel that on this score you will forgive me. I have just read ' The young grey head' and allow me to say that it is perhaps the most touching and effective of all you compositions, not even excepting 'The Evening Walk' which moved me, even to tears ....... Would to God, I could convey through you to your illustrious husband my high admiration ......... that your own health may remain improved and that you may long be spared to adorn the female literature of England ....."

"I love the present, - but the past / Hath such a spell around it cast ……" Inscribed in another hand on lower margin, "Robert Montgomery, Author of Luther". 1-page 8vo on blue paper, mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album. Undated. 'Luther', his last long poem, appeared in 1842.

£40.00

on a slip of paper 31/2 inches sq. Some foxing. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album. Undated.

£30.00

There then follows 34 individual leaves inscribed by indivdual cadets, these are dated 1822-1825 (mostly 1823), one with attractive affixed black paper "box" with lift up flaps, one flap inscribed "Sey Treulos" with "nie deinen Freund" revealed below; another flap inscribed "Verachte Alle" with " die dire bases Zutrauen" revealed below, & "Liebe Niemand" with "als dein Madeben" revealed below. The whole "box" covers an engraving of a cherub. A translation of the leaf that accompanies the "box" is given below.

The title leaf and the 34 other leaves all gilt edged and enclosed in a full crimson grained morocco book box, decorative gilt border to sides, all edges gilt, spine gilt and gilt lettered " DER FREUNDSCHAFE GEWEIHET". The box measures 6 1/2 x 3 7/8 x 1 inch. Box & contents very good. A curious and very attractive item.

The translation of the handwritten leaf accompanying the "box" leaf is as follows: God wanted to make the people happy, so He created love. Gratefully they received this heavenly gift; He wanted to reward them, and He created friendship. When reading these few lines, dear George, remember your devoted friend and brother F.M. Baunach Cadet au Corps des CadetsMunich, 3rd December 1822. Remember sometimes the romance we played with Nany Kreiterer in Rosenheim in the month of October in the year 1822, the happy hours we spent in her company, the tender squeezes of hands and our delight at the two bouquets of flowers she gave us when we said farewell. Don't forget the blissful hours on the eve of our departure when we were floating on air, dancing with her in turns. How because of this lovely creature we spent two whole hours devoutly in church only to be near her heavenly presence. Think of the night in Grafing, where we enjoyed a very pleasant bottle of Forster's from the Corps' crates, and we then ranted and raved at the night watchman who had the audacity to disturb our sleep.

£225.00

1864. 4-sides 8vo on the blindstamped letterhead of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, November 21st 1864. Mounting stub on the left hand margin. He writes: "Miss Coutts may have you at dinner on Thursday if she wishes it; for there is no Royal Society Club on that day. You must pardon my slip - but being a very old member of that Club I was thinking of times past when the Club met every Thursday. Now it has a rival the Philosophical which meets next Thursday & although I am one of that too I cannot invite any Englishman - the guest must be a foreigner. I have ...... invited Mr. Gladstone to dine as my guest with the Geologists & if he accepts you can come ......." etc.

£375.00

"In your capital article on the McCulloch sale you say 'It is true that the McCulloch continental examples as a whole showed a better return on the original outlay than the English ones: but the former were largely purchased under expert advice, almost wholly consisted of works by artists of established repute whereas the latter comprised not a few by men of secondary reputation etc. etc. Now I think your first remark on this subject is the right one, if it is a pity you qualified it for if the facts were known they would go to strengthen confidence in modern English art, which it stands much in need of now that the Trade has for its own reasons taken up any art but modern English .............. I may say as, I think it will interest you to know the fact that Mrs. Coutts Michie [wife of the Scottish painter James Coutts Michie] herself, on the evening of the RA soiree volunteered to me the statement that their disappointment in the sale was the miserable show made by the foreign portion of the sale on which she assured me they had lost £14,000 ......." etc.

Tenby, May 16th 1885. Pre-addressed to the Hon. Secretary, Exhibition of Women's Industries, 20 Park St. Bristol. Narrow band of cloth tape affixed to upper margin where once attached to the pictures wrapping.

The letters written to her sisters. The first letter is dated 2 Nov. 1927 written on board the M.V. Adda & the last from St. Monica's School Onitsha on 29 Feb. 1928, 38-sides 4to typescript and 8-sides hanwritten. Together with some carbon copies and a few letters from her during her visit to Nigeria in the 1950's.

Titled: "Cardigan Bay (for Kitty*)" and commencing: "The buzzard hung crossed / On the air and we came / Down from the hills under.....". 25-lines. 1 page folio with two light fold marks.

*Kitty, his wife Catherine.

£150.00

Titled: "Alert" and commencing: "Rain mutters on the roof. I am alert / For God knows what unseemliness ...." 9-lines. 1 page 4to with two light fold marks.

£90.00

Titled: "Winter Song" and commencing: "Over the bluff hills / At the day's end / The diffident snow / Swirls before dropping..." 21-lines. 1 page 4to with two light fold marks.

£150.00

Titled: "Clymping, Sussex" and commencing: "I wait on the wet beach and watch the sun / Lie in a long blood on the reflecting sand ...." 9-lines. 1 page folio with two light fold marks. Holed on blank lower margin

£90.00

Inscribed vertically in paler ink on left hand margin, very slightly affecting the first three letters of Daniel, "Posted on the 8th". Laid down.

£125.00

Lyceum Theatre, Strand, 14th May 1929. To a Mr. Berrey, "It was very charming of you to come into the theatre. I was delighted to see you again and hear all the nice things you said about 'Mercenary Mary'. I shall look forward to the judging ......." Signed also with subscription in her hand. 1-page 4to.

signed, cut from the end of a letter, with postscript: “Please also say whether I am to give ‘John Bull Junior’ or ‘The Scotch at Home’, I don’t mind which at all”. No place or date.

£25.00

The first 2-sides 8vo with conjugate blank to a Miss Jackson stating that he will be pleased to come to Fulham. 43 Bloomsbury Square, Jay.2.76. The second apologising for not having written before, 1-side 12mo with conjugate blank. 12 Bryanstone Sq. 4th June 1907.

£20.00

Arranging a meeting: " Any morning any time. But if I am to name one let me say tomorrow at 9 1/2 or 10 ........"

Integral blank removed, traces of mounting on reverse.

£40.00

"Pray allow me to recommend to your favourable consideration a memorial which you have received from the Town of Sligo, praying that the Winter speed of the Mail between that Town & Dublin may be made equal to its Summer speed, in order that the Sligo People may have a little more time for answering their Letters ......... Sligo is a thriving and improving Town, with an increasing commerce ....."

Glue marks and some paper adhesion to left hand margin where once mounted. The writer identified in an early hand on upper margin of first leaf.

£150.00

"Emmas Urn", two stanzas of 8-lines each commencing "Strewn with flowers of loveliest hue, / Bathed in morning's spangly dew …………" 1-page 8vo on pink paper; undated. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£90.00

" Lend me thine azure eyes / Beauty's fond dwelling ...." 2-stanzas, each of 8-lines. On a single sheet, mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£75.00

or in the third person, to Partridge from sitters, making arrangements for sittings and other matters as below, 11 with their original envelopes, mostly with traces of mounting to the reverse: Baron Ebury (1864); Lord Morpeth (1847); Lady Palmerston (n.d.); Baron Willoughby de Eresby ( 2 - 1847); Sir James Graham (3rd person, 1848); Charles Shaw Lefevre (5 - 1829, 1849 & n.d.); Lord Northampton (3rd person, 1828); Lord Guilford (1830); Lord Dartmouth (1833); Baron Stockman re pictures for the Queen (n.d.); Duke and Duchess of Sutherland (2 - 1849 & n.d.); Marquis of Westminster (3 - one in the 3rd person - 1858, 1865, & n.d.); Baron Ashburton (n.d.) Duke of Norfolk (1859); & Marquis of Lansdowne (2 - in the 3rd person - n.d.)

£125.00

He writes that he has been unwell and that he is, "allowed to work no more than four hours a-day; a matter of much vexation and disappointment overwhelmed as I am with half completed works of every description" and continues by mentioning Puck and that he has made a "rough draft of 'A Night Mail' to the scale of the first edition, but I can without much difficulty reduce it 'on the block' ....... As regards the business part of the transaction I have a .... great aversion to money dealings between myself and any person I desire to regard as a friend .... we will then .... put filthy lucre out of court" and continues by stating that whereas he would without hesitation take money from a publisher, "but from a private individual I cannot accept payment for such a thing as an illustration of your poem" and continues, "your Symposium I should doubtless have enjoyed but I must in honesty assure you my presence could in no way have promoted 'the flow of Sole' which no doubt took place on the occasion...." etc.

"I gladly send you my autograph" and suggesting that she write to him when next in London so that they may meet. 1-page 12mo. Her Majesty's Theatre, London. June 16/02. Some edge staining, traces of mount to reverse.

£15.00

"Dear Mr. Wilson, If you will call here any day between 11 & 12 o'clock you will find me in the school".

Royal Academy, 18/3/87. 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches; traces of mounting to the reverse.

£25.00

"I have just this moment received your note at which I cannot express my astonishment, the honours of the academy are achieved by merit & by that alone, your brother must rise or fall. Personal application is discountenanced, how much more then must be the interference of relatives by letters, such measures are more likely to do harm than good, no one has admired your Brother's talent or spoken more of it than I have but if a case could happen where the claims & merits of two candidates were equal I should I think be disposed to lean on the unsolicited side, my vote at elections is seldom influenced by private friendship or party feeling and I have every reason to believe the same motive guides the older Members, let me therefore if you wish not to injure your Brother cause to write no more letters ........ I trust you will be able to .... excuse my observations which may appear harsh".

Eggersford House, N. Devon, 30th Jan. 1885. 2-sides 8vo with conjugate blank. "I am so sorry that It will not be possible for me to have the honour of opening the Exhibition .........." etc.

The exhibition to which he refers was the Exhibition of Women's Industries in Bristol; this exhibition, the first of its kind, i.e. entirely devoted to the arts and industries of women only, was organised by Helen Blackburn.

£15.00

The volume containing specifications of the work to be undertaken, manuscript notes, calculations and specifications and also, on stout paper, many fine large folding drawings in pen & ink and watercolour of the West Door of South School, Brompton Barracks, a drainage system, a floor design, house design, a hutment scheme, and a steel bridge design, etc. Many marked with the examiner’s notes and comments in red ink. Folio, contemporary full blue morocco lettered in gilt on upper cover, “Fowke Medal 1910. R.E. 2nd Lieutenant J.W.J. Raikes R.E.”

£325.00

On a slip of paper 3 1/2 x 1 7/8 inches: "Yours very truly E. T. Reed May 16. 1911".

£28.00

38 Grosvenor St. 23rd June 1874. 2-sides 8vo, tipped on to part of an album leaf. He writes regarding consultations concerning one of Sturge's patients. Reynolds was physician-in-ordinary to the Queen's household; wrote on nervous diseases and edited, "System of Medicine" 1866-1879.

£65.00

1-page 8vo, stating that she will be driving down with her husband and had been asked to lunch by Lord Moyne prior to her reading and concluding, "I can't for the life of me remember that I have written a poem called 'Rain', but I hope to clear this up when I come to Salisbury!" Usual fold marks. 14 Stanley Road, Oxford; 6th March, '80.

£15.00

"I return the Duke's report with many thanks. It is distinctly valuable and I hope will not be pigeonholed". 1-side 8vo with conjugate blank. Englemere, Ast, Berks. date indecipherable.

£35.00

University College, London, Saturday, 1879. 1-page 8vo, traces of mounting on left hand margin, right margin uneven. "Dear Mr. Sturge, Morning dress, tomorrow evening at 7". Annotated in another hand.

£15.00

He writes to Joseph Stevenson in London thanking him for, "the prompt attention which you have been so kind as to give to my literary wants" and continues regarding Anglo-Saxon literature at some length.

Inscribed at head in contemporary hand, "Daniel Rock, Ans. 8 Jany. 1839". Address panel holed, Mounting stub to margin of address panel.

£40.00

3-stanzas each of 8-lines commencing, "Maggie how I joy to see ……". 1-page 8vo, on green paper. Undated. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£100.00

"The path of sorrow, & that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown". Dated April 30th, 1845. Oblong 8vo. Mounted to part of an album leaf.

£60.00

of his poem, "Oh, if the selfish knew how much they lost /What would they not endeavour, not endure/ To imitate, as far as in them lay/ Him who his wisdom and his power employs/ In making others happy!" 1-page 8vo, 5-lines, signed and dated Sept. 30, 1845. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£125.00

He writes: "My dear Lord, I have received so satisfactory a letter in favour of Mr. Palmer, from Mr. Austin, to whom I had offered the Recordership of Yarmouth, that I shall now have great pleasure in complying with your wishes in favour of Mr. Palmer".

Inscribed in another hand, "Mr. Palmer written to 30 May 1836" and the writer identified in another early hand on lower margin. Mounting stub to left margin.

£75.00

Printed document filled-in by hand, 14 x 18 inches, countersigned by El Secretario de Estabo en el Despacho de Relaciones Exteriores and with two blindstamp seals. A few short marginal tears, at one time folded into four, some creasing and surface soiling.

£100.00

"Dear Sir, An Illustrated paper will make a single page of 'a moving story' .... " and continues by discussing size and asks, "what you feel inclined to offer as a fee?"

Two blank corners slightly defective. 43, Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, May 8/96.

£22.00

He writes: "Sir, I am commanded by The House of Lords to acquaint your Royal Highness, that your Presence is desired at The House on Thursday the 15th Day of this Instant November, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon".

Traces of mounting to margin of blank.

£35.00

She holding two dachshunds. Very short corner crease, else excellent.

£35.00

"Dear Mrs St. John" thanking her for her kindness at Quetta, "Col. St. John & the others all conspired to make our visit most memorable .... Baluchistand is contented & that makes a great change for us, indeed anything more unlike other parts of India can't be imagined. Please give the kindest & warmest thanks of us all to Col. St. John ..... to his colleages & staff". Usual folds.

"Princess Sophia will be much obliged to Mr Dighton if he will still further take the trouble of disbursing the enclosed bills for which purpose Her Royal Highness orders the sum of £400 ....." etc.

£60.00

Autograph letter signed to Mr Morton stating that he will be glad to give,"my contribution to the exhibition". 1-page 4to, folded and with file punch holes to left margin and with printed slip pasted to lower blank margin. 15 London Road, St. John's Wood, April 25th 1950.

£75.00

On mourning paper, one short blank corner torn away, usual folds. Identified in another early hand on lower margin, "Dean Stanley".

£15.00

She writes about sending, " a volume of my poetry, of course a youthful production, having been written seven years before the publication of the first volume of the 'Lives of the Queens of England', a very small impression was printed, and I believe it would be very difficult to obtain a copy anywhere ............ I have got a first rate sketch of William Rufus for my frontispiece ......" and continues regarding illustrations.

Indentified as "Miss Strickland" in a contemporary hand at head of first page, 2 small ink smudges. Mounting stub and some paper adhesion to margin of last page obscuring a few letters of text.

£50.00

"Woman, thy hallowed name inspires / Heaven breathing thoughts, with soft desires / Formed every stage of life to please / Childhood is sooth'd upon thy knees......." Gorbals, Glasgow, Nov. 23rd 1847. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£125.00

With pasted on below another piece signed, "Emmelina ....." [not legible] & dated Belvoir Castle April 26th 1827.

Laid down on part of an album leaf with numerous cut signatures of the nobility pasted to the reverse.

£50.00

Birmingham 3/13 1852. 1-page 8vo, tipped on to part of an album page. He regrets that he is unable, "to lodge at your home at the Quarterly Meeting" as "My dear Hannah is expecting to be confined almost daily and I cannot .... leave home at all ........"

On the first side Sumner has written: “And the undersigned now appeal to Congress for the full payment of their just claim, & for such further legislation as may be suggested by the premises”. On the reverse he has written: “ I know nothing about the within scrap”. Signed and dated Boston, 31 May, ’65. In the original autograph envelope address to Messrs. John Pilkington & Son, Philadelphia; the envelope also signed. Conjugate blank removed.

£140.00

Two stanzas, each of 4-lines commencing: "Forgive and forget! Why the world would be lonely, / The garden a wilderness left to deform ………" 1-page 8vo, on blue paper; mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£50.00

".... you wish for my autograph, which you will find within in the shape of a song, taken out of a play of mine called 'A Sicilian Summer". On the conjugate leaf Taylor has written the two stanzas of six lines each; The Roost [Bournemouth] 7th May, 1875. Laid down on a Victorian album leaf.

£120.00

9-lines , commencing: "Where is thy dwelling, life repairing sleep / Hast thou a temple ……" dated Devongrove, Dollar [Clackmannanshire] 20th Sept. 1845. 1-page 4to, on green paper. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£75.00

Postmarked 20th August 1857.

£10.00

He writes: "Sir, Should yr R.H. not go to the play on Saturday may I request that your box at Covent Garden for Lady Torrens."

The writer identified in ink in an early hand at upper margin, traces of mounting to blank.

£30.00

10-lines commencing: "Best ye all forget, while ye rail at your doom ………" 1-page 4to, undated. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

£75.00

He writes: "I made a blunder as to Aaron's Calf, - which I here correct: Let the first line stand. When Israel after many days not 'forty' ......... the Aaron's calf incident occurred before the 2nd ascent & return as I now remember......" etc. etc.

The writer indentified in a contemporary hand at head of first leaf. Tipped on to part of an album leaf by the final blank. Very good.

£30.00

4½ x 3½ inches.

£20.00

"I read your little poem to Mr. Ward on our journey and we both liked it much, it is so simple and tender, producing an effect because it aims at none. I have sent by this post my little book 'Doing and Suffering'...." Blendworth Rectory, Horndean, June 8th 1871. Inscribed in another, contemporary, hand at head, "Charlotte Bickersteth Ward".

£35.00

Penny red. Postmarked 1853.

£10.00

"Hush! hush! Now she sleeps! ..." Dated Inner Temple, London, 24th December; year indistinct. 7-lines, on a single sheet, oblong 8vo; mounted to part of a leaf from a Victorian album. 'Ten Thousand a Year' was first published in 1841.

£55.00

thanking her for a gift and giving instructions for its safe shipment to South Africa: "it will require great care in packing so as to bear the up country journey...." 14 Eaton Place, London, Dec. 17th n.y. Inscribed in another, contemporary hand, at head of first leaf, "Bishop Allan Webb Bloemfontein".

£25.00

"I have been quite prevented returning the enclosed [not present] until now. You will see I have made a few alterations & additions".

Thorpe Lodge, Camden Hill, May 19th 1898. Unevenly browned.

£15.00

"..... I had a letter from Bishop McDougal which made it somewhat doubtful whether he would be able to take my place at Ringwood ..... if he does, and you have occasion to write to him, I will send you a short treatise on the titles of Dowager Bishops, who are actual Archdeacons; which, you will see, further complicates the question ...." The College, Isle of Cumbrae, Greenock, Aug. 28th 1870. Laid down by the blank conjugate leaf to a page from a Victorian album. With, mounted below, the signature and subscription of Canon Bright, 1871.

£20.00

To: "My dear Sir" "I return you by this post your Book with many thanks for all the interesting occupation it has afforded me. I think I have seen a long time since that Book of Drexelius which you mention and perhaps at some future time I should be glad to avail myself of your kind offer to let me see it again, but just at present I happen to have a good deal on hand ......." etc. Stinchcombe, March 17th 1847.

Identified on last page in an early hand, "Divine & Poet Isaac Williams". Mounting stub on margin of last blank. Very good. An uncommon autograph.

£140.00

cut from the end of a letter, 2½ x 1¼ inches, laid-down on part of an album leaf, no date.

£15.00

With the signature of John Kaye (1783-1853; Bishop of Lincoln) mounted to the reverse.

£15.00

His signature and "Christmas Day 1942 (1941) (a Mistake)".

£15.00

Identified, and dated 1870, in another early hand on lower margin.

£40.00

"Very many thanks for letting me see the letter from one of your colleagues in Paris on the desirability of Japanese cooperation in Europe. Nobody is more convinced of that than we are; nobody has made more strenuous efforts than we have; but short of getting a direct negative the Japs have made it quite clear that they do not desire it. It seems most difficult to convince the French of this. They can however find out for themselves at Tokio". File-punched.

£25.00

She writes: "I am much obliged for the Outline - I do not think the figure can possibly be Mary of Scotland ..... Zucchero did paint Queen Mary while she was in France. I should think most likely she was the child in the picture ........ I have not the last edition of Miss Strickland's life of Mary, where I think it would almost certainly be mentioned".

Tipped on to part of an album leaf by final blank. Inscrbed in an early hand "Miss Yonge Novelist" at head of first page. Good.

£80.00

On blue paper, she writes: " If you will accept of a proxy, I shall have great pleasure in considering myself your new little daughter's godmother, and will think of her with all my heart on her Christening day ....." etc.

Some paper adhesion to right hand margin of last side where once mounted obscuring just a few letters of text. Usual folds marks.

£80.00