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Alaric Watts [Alaric Alexander Watts] (1797-1864), English journalist and poet [keepsakes; The Literary Souvenir]:
Alaric Watts Autograph Letter Signed 'Alaric Watts' to Mr Limbird.
28 November 1828; 58 Torrington Square London. 4to 1 p. On aged creased apper but with text clear and entire. A small piece of paper from a bottom corner has been torn away in opening the letter and is still present on the reverse under a red wax seal bearing a clear impression of a lyre and the words 'Addolcire ed Maturare'. Brief communication apologising for the fact that the Literary Souvenir has not reached him sooner. 'The omission is the sin of my booksellers and not mine'. He is sending a copy with the letter and asks him to accept his thanks 'for your courtesy'. The address on the reverse is unclear: 'With the Literary Souvenir The Editor of the <> if Mr Limbird.' 28 November 1828; 58 Torrington Square, London. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6854
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[GO TREVELYAN] Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928), Liberal politician and author [Henry Fawcett (1833-1884), English economis
G.O. Trevelyan Autograph Letter Signed to Henry Fawcett.
9 October 1882; on letterhead of the Chief Secretary's Office Dublin Castle. 12mo 4 pp. Good on lightly aged and creased paper. The 'appointment of examiners' is entirely a matter for 'the Commissioners of Intermediate Education'. However Trevelyan will be glad 'to send the papers on to the proper quarter and will do so accordingly'. He is 'much obliged' to Fawcett for his 'kind expressions about my proceedings here. It is a very queer post and I always feel as if on the brink of an appalling escape.' He has been 'much struck' with the success of Fawcett's policy at Trinity College Dublin. The Trevelyans 'spent some days in Salisbury in 1879. On the whole I doubt whether anything in the world is more beautiful than the close and the Bishop's Garden. Giotto's tower is as beautiful in itself: but the setting of Salisbury is incomparable.' 9 October 1882; on letterhead of the Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6752
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Herman Charles Merivale (1839-1906), English playwright and novelist [victorian publisher Samuel French, of 89 The Strand, Londo
Herman Charles Merivale Autograph Note Signed 'Herman C. Merivale' to the London publisher Samuel French. With a printed subscription form filled in by Merivale.
Letter: 25 April 1879; on embossed letterhead of the Union Club Brighton. Subscription form: undated. Letter: 12mo 1 p. Grubby and stained. He 'did not mention the Planché-affair' in his letter of the day before. Asks for his name to be put down 'for a copy of the book' French's edition of Planché's 'Extravaganzas'. The subscription form 12mo 1 p heavily worn and with loss to the extremities is laid down on the reverse of the letter. On it Merivale gives his address as 'Barton Lodge Kingston on Thames'. Image on application. Letter: 25 April 1879; on embossed letterhead of the Union Club, Brighton. Subscription form: undated. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6856
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Henry Warren (1794-1879), English painter of Biblical and oriental themes:
Henry Warren artist Autograph Letter Signed to the Birmingham inventor Samuel Timings active between 1853 and 1869.
28 March 1863; on letterhead of 24 Upper Phillimore Place Kensingon W. 12mo 4 pp. Good on aged paper with a little light staining at head. A significant letter in which Warren gives information of those of Warren's 'poor works' which have been engraved: 'they have been chiefly for book illustration and are spread through many publishers'. Begins by describing how 'Murray's Childe Harold has many vignettes very well engraved from my drawings'. Ends by saying that 'There is also a print in the mixed style of considerable size engraved by Humphreys but not yet published. It is from my picture of a story teller reciting in a coffee house of Damascus'. Had he any copies of any of them he 'should have been proud to have sent them'. 28 March 1863; on letterhead of 24 Upper Phillimore Place, Kensingon, W. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6855
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William Blanchard Jerrold (1826-1884), English journalist and playwright:
William Blanchard Jerrold Secretarial Letter Signed 'W. Blanchard Jerrold' to 'Wm. <Raikes> Esq'.
30 June 1864; 11 Maddox Street Regent Street London. 12mo: 2 pp. Very good. 'The Association for establishing depots of cheap food for the poor' has been formed 'under the auspices of Lord Brougham the Earl of Shrewsbury Sir John Villiers Shelley and others' and Jerrold asks whether Raikes would 'permit us to add your name to the list of patrons' a position which 'entails no pecuniary responsibility whatsoever.' 30 June 1864; 11 Maddox Street, Regent Street, London. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6790
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William Windham (1750-1810), English Whig politician [Richard 'Conversation' Sharp (1759-1835)]:
William Windham Autograph Letter in the third person to 'Mr Sharpe' Richard 'Conversation' Sharp.
15 February 1804; Pall Mall. 12mo 2 pp. Good on aged paper. A formal letter in the third person. Windham 'is almost ashamed' of sending Sharpe 'anything so trifling as what accompanies this note'. His justification for doing so is the 'wish of having his opinions stated with tolerable correctness on a subject to which Mr Sharpe as a matter of some interest at the moment may happen in some degree to have turned his thoughts.' Sharp's name was often misspelt by contemporaries and he is listed in the index to the online Oxford DNB as 'also known as Sharpe Richard'. 15 February 1804; Pall Mall. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6757
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Sir George Clausen, RA (1852-1944), English artist [John Littlejohn; Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd]:
George Clausen artist One Autograph Letter Signed and one Autograph Note Signed both 'George Clausen' to the London publishers Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd.
Letter of 13 February 1931 and note of 18 December 1930; both on letterhead of 61 Carlton Hill St John's Wood NW8 London. Both items concern John Littlejohn's 'British Watercolour Painting and Painters of Today' Pitman 1931. Note of 18 December 1930: 12mo 1 p. Five lines. Good on lightly aged paper. Thanking the publishers for sending 'the prints of my drawings . they are really very well done!' Letter of 13 February 1931: 12mo1 p. Eight lines. Good on lightly creased paper. Thanking the publishers for four presentation copies of the book. 'It is a handsome book and the drawings are well reproduced: I am particularly pleased with those of my own drawings.' Two items Letter of 13 February 1931 and note of 18 December 1930; both on letterhead of 61 Carlton Hill, St John's Wood, NW8 [London]. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 7112
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Terrick Williams [Terrick John Williams] (1860-1936), English landscape painter [John Littlejohns]:
Terrick Williams landscape painter Three Autograph Letters Signed all 'Terrick Williams': two to John Littlejohns and one to Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd.
First Letter to Littlejohns: 15 June 1929. Second Letter to Littlejohns: 20 December 1930. Third Letter to Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons: 14 February 1931. All three on letterhead of 89 Gunterstone Road W. Kensington W14 London. All three items concern Littlejohns' 'British Watercolour Painting and Painters of Today' London: Pitman 1931'. First Letter: 12mo 3 pp. 43 lines. Text clear and entire. On two leaves attached to one another in a corner by a pin. Good on lightly-creased paper. Interesting and informative letter concerning 'two watercolours' which Williams would 'like to be 'reproduced in Littlejohn's work on water colours'. Gives details of the titles of the works and the name and address of the owner 'who has consented to send them'. Discusses the techniques employed in executing the two works and the paper they were painted on. Second Letter to 'Dear Sir' i.e. Littlejohns: 12mo 1 p. Four lines. Good. Thanks him 'for the prints of my two water colours' which he thinks are 'excellent'. Third Letter to Pitman: 12mo 1 p. 8 lines. Good. Acknowledging the 'very welcome gift of copies' of the book. 'I think the reproductions of my own watercolours are excellent and as far as I am able to judge the others are equally good & the book is a most pleasant possession'. First Letter (to Littlejohns): 15 June 1929. Second Letter (to [Littlejohns]): 20 December 1930. Third Letter (to Sir Isaac Pitm unknown
书商的参考编号 : 7108
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Saxe Bannister (1790-1877), English writer and lawyer, the first Attorney-General of New South Wales [Eugene Garay de Monglave (
Autograph Letter Signed 'S. Bannister' in French to 'Monsieur de Monglave l'Institut Historique'.
'Au Mai Jouy Près Versailles 23 Juin 1834'. 12mo 4 pp. Bifolium. Good on lightly aged paper. Addressed to 'Monsieur et Confrère'. He replied to de Monglave's last letters a couple of days previously and he has addded 'deux ou trois propositions que je vous <fais> de traduire en bon François et de lire à notre comité au Conseil'. He wants to get to know 'quelques uns de mes voisins dans ce village où j'ai l'intention de passer six mois' and asks for letters of introduction. Lists four families he wishes to get to know and names some individuals with whom he is a little acquainted. In 1833 Bannister published in Paris an anonymous pamphlet entitled 'Appel en faveur d’Alger et de l’Afrique du Nord par un Anglais'. 'Au Mai, Jouy, Près Versailles, 23 Juin 1834'. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 7605
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Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925), English caricaturist, politician, and assistant editor of 'The Westminster Gazette'; tempe
Autograph Letter Signed 'F Carruthers Gould' to 'Mrs Whyte'.
23 April 1908. On letterhead of The Westminster Gazette. 12mo: 2 pp. On the rectos of the two leaves of a bifolium. Good on lightly aged and spotted paper. Her letter has been handed to him by 'Mr Spender'. He would be 'very pleased to have the temperance cartoons circulated as post cards' and has asked 'the manager here' for a costing. 'Some of the cartoons I believe are being produced as posters by the Liberal Publication Department and by Temperance organisations.' 23 April 1908. On letterhead of The Westminster Gazette. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 7616
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George Cruikshank (1792-1878), English engraver, illustrator and caricaturist:
Cruikshank's Autograph Signature 'Geoe Cruikshank' on a slip of paper cut from the minutes of meetings of a 'Society'.
June 1827. On both sides of a piece of wove paper dimensions roughly 8.5 x 20 cm. Cruikshank's signature is approximately 9 cm long with the final letter of his Christian name in superscript. Paper aged and creased with central vertical fold and wear to one edge not affecting text. Recto reads '<.> in the interim - That 2 door Mats be ordered for the use of the Society Adjourned till Thursday 7th June - signed Geoe Cruikshank Monday June 4. General Meeting of the Society Mr Parsonage in the Chair. The Requisition for calling the General Meeting was read by the Secretary'. Reverse reads first line cropped '<.> Thursday 7 June 1827 Mr G. Cruickshank sic in the Chair. Present Messrs Voelker Parsonage Davenport Reynolds. Boulter Muston Burrowes G. R Cruickshank Welmore Clark & Webster. The Minutes of the last meeting were read & confirmed. The Minutes of General Meeting on Monday June 4th. were read The Subscriptions & Disbursements were read by the Secretary.' The identity of the Society to which this item relates is not clear. Cruikshank was an enthusiastic proponent of temperance but the London Temperance Society was not founded until 1831. See IMage. June 1827. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 7354
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Sir Austen Chamberlain [Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain] (1863-1937), English politician, Rector of the University of Glasgow:
Austen Chamberlain Signed Typescript 'Austen Chamberlain' an address of thanks for his re-election as Rector of the University of Glasgow.
'Geneva Sept. 14. 1926.'. On one side of a foolscap 32.5 x 20 cm page. Eighteen lines. On aged and foxed paper with chipping at head and foot. Chamberlain was Rector between 1925 and 1928. Begins: 'Amidst the preoccupations which assail the delegate of one Nation in an Assembly of nearly forty-seven my thoughts turn lovingly to the simpler duties of a Lord Rector who deals only with Four Nations and has the honour to be the chosen representative of them all.' The 'privilege' is 'doubly dear' to Chamberlain when he recalls 'the fact that more than twenty years ago the choice of the students of that day fell upon my father' who 'valued the honour which your predecessors conferred upon him'. Ends 'May the University flourish for ever!' 'Geneva, Sept. 14. 1926.' unknown
书商的参考编号 : 8064
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Joan Hassall (1906-1988), English wood-engraver:
Joan Hassall wood-engraver Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mr Disspain'.
Undated. On letterhead of 88 Kensington Park Road London W.11. 12mo: 1 p. Eight lines of text. Good though creased. Letterhead printed with the words 'Joan Hassall' and a 5 cm short rule decorated with a tiny dove. She apologises for the delay in sending 'this signature': 'I lost your nice little piece of paper and then I broke my pen.' Disspain's 'letters of appreciation' give Hassall 'very real pleasure' and she is 'most grateful' for his 'good opinion'. See IMage. Undated. On letterhead of 88 Kensington Park Road, London W.11. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 7862
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C J Mathews [Charles James Mathews] (1803-1878), son of Charles Mathews, English actor and playwright [John Hollingshead (1827-1
C. J. Mathews Autograph Letter Signed 'C J Mathews' to Hollingshead.
23 November 1865; 25 Pelham Crescent London. 12mo 1 p. Fair on aged paper with traces of previous mount adhering to the corners of the blank reverse. Of course Hollingshead should 'wait till the last night of "used up" ' before writing to Mathews who has 'hunted up Buckstone - hunted up Turpin - but in vain. Not a box to be had'. He has sent 'the best I could get': '3 Dress Circle to Mrs Smiles with "Mr Hollingshead's best compliments." '. In a postscript states that if Hollingshead wants 'a box for the "Overland Route" before the last night' he will be 'too happy'. 'There is always a run on last nights.' 23 November 1865; 25 Pelham Crescent, London. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 8197
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R Brimley Johnson [Reginald Brimley Johnson] (1867-1932), English author and editor [Swan Sonnenschein, London publishers]:
R. Brimley Johnson authoer Autograph Letter Signed 'R. Brimley Johnson' to Swan Sonnenschein proposing a work for publication and outlining his literary achievements.
19 February 1893; on embossed letterhead of Llandaff House Cambridge. 12mo 4 pp. Bifolium. Good on lightly-aged paper. He was introduced to the recipient 'by Mr. Philip Malleson of Croydon when I wanted to send an Essay to The Albemarle'. Asks if he 'might be disposed to let me write a volume on Jane Austen or Leigh Hunt for your Dilettante Library' Austen being 'specially before the public just now'. He has edited Austen's novels and two 'well received' volumes of selections from Hunt for 'Mr. Dent's Temple Library'. 'If you do not care to arrange for either of these authors I would suggest Miss Burney Hazlitt or T. L. Peacock. I have now in the press a reprint of Evelina and a volume of selections from Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age for both of which I have studied these writers in all their works.' Lists material he is sending relating to his work. 'I may mention that I have also edited the Poems of Prior and Samuel Butler for the Aldine reissues which are in these cases practically new editions and have contributed to the Academy The Speaker and other literary papers. Johnson's proposal was accepted: Swan Sonnenschein published his selection from Leigh Hunt in their Dilettante Library in 1896. 19 February 1893; on embossed letterhead of Llandaff House, Cambridge. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 7959
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Sir Daniel Lysons (1816-1898), English army officer:
Sir Daniel Lysons English army officer Autograph Note Signed 'D. Lysons.' to unnamed publisher.
11 January 1893; on letterhead of 22 Warwick Square London S.W. 12mo 1 p. Good on lightly-aged paper. Large bold signature. He has 'no present intention of publishing any book on his career'. It may be that the correspondence planted a seed as three years after the writing of this note Lysons published 'Early Reminiscences' John Murray 1896. 11 January 1893; on letterhead of 22 Warwick Square, London S.W. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 7948
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Martin Armstrong [Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong] (1882-1974), English novelist and poet [Thomas Thorp, Guildford bookseller]:
Martin Armstrong novelits and poet Autograph Letter Signed 'Martin Armstrong' to Thorpe.
15 January 1933; Sutton Pulborough Sussex on cancelled letterhead of 37 Great Ormond Street London. 12mo 2 pp. Good on lightly-aged and creased paper. Giving the details of three titles from Thorp's 'large catalogue' which he hopes are still available one is ticked in pencil and the other two marked as sold. 'Also can you let me have a cheap copy of John Masefield's "Sea Life in The Time of Nelson" and J. R. Hutchinson's "The Press Gang Afloat & Ashore." Publishers and prices of both items are noted in pencil with 'Cheque Noted' in margin. 15 January 1933; Sutton, Pulborough, Sussex, on cancelled letterhead of 37 Great Ormond Street, London. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 7958
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Peggy Ramsay [Margaret Ramsay] [Margaret Francesca Ramsay, nee Venniker] (1908-1991), English theatrical agent [Jonathan Goodman
Peggy Ramsay theatrical agent Four Typed Letters Signed three 'Peggy Ramsay' and one 'Peggy R.' to Goodman giving her characteristically forthright opinion of his plays.
29 May 1955 and 5 and 12 March and 19 April 1956. All on letterheads of Margaret Ramsay Ltd Play Agent. All four items good on lightly aged paper. Two of the five leaves have small dog-ears to corners. Goodman has done his accounts on the blank reverse of one leaf. An important collection in which the most important British post-war play agent reveals in entertaining and increasingly-brusque terms the criteria by which she judges scripts. Goodman was hailed by Jacques Barzun as 'the greatest living master of true-crime literature' but his first love was as his obituary in the Daily Telegraph 16 January 2008 states the theatre. He began his career in 1951 'working at the Richmond Theatre first as a stage manager and then as a producer' before finding jobs in the West End. LETTER ONE 29 May 1955: 4to 2 pp; 8vo 1 p. A hundred and twenty lines of hurriedly-written text with autograph additions and corrections. She has read Goodman's play 'Willow Weep For Me' sent to her by Bill Roderick. She begins by outlining her method. 'My clients are so used to the bitter truth about their plays that I am inclined to think that everybody is prepared for it - clearly I must warn you as I don't suppose Bill did! Away with compliments! If I didnt think you had real talent I wouldnt bother to tell the truth but simply return you your script with a polite non-commotal sic phrase. I will move on to criticism immediately as its the only thing which will get you produced.' Goodman is 'obviously a writer who writes from within himself - very right and proper but as you know play writing exacts every kind of talent - involvement subjectivity objectivity planning creation etc etc.' There follows a detailed critique of Goodman's play with particular reference to Tennessee Williams's 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'. '. I must skip saying a hundred thing sic because I have no time to write and you havr sic no time to read'. She urges him to decide 'what "great truth" you wish to rest your play upon . Your bridge-party at the end of act one is very bad technically - why should the husband leave his guests downstairs to follow him up - simply because you wanted the husband in first - you cant do this kind of thing. You must let one of them have a car and be parking it or any excuse you like - but tax yourself be ingenious! Really nothing is too good for a play! My advice to you is to put this play in a bottom drawer and forget it. Managers arent interested in potential talent they want a play - and you dont want flattery surely You want a play on the highest level not a piddling little try-out which is all your play could possibly get and I doubt if that would be possible without influence. . Ive no doubt Liverpool has ben sic nice because its always something of a miracle when a friend can write at all or a fellow actor - but you are undertaking the most difficult form of writing there is - where planning discipline creation objectivity subjectivity are all mixed up and none of these things can be neglected.' She will be 'coming up to see Stokers musical' and will return his script then. LETTER TWO 5 March 1956: 4to 1 p. The play he has sent 'Chopsticks in Waltztime' is 'an improvement but I expect you know that it isn't good enough for London'. Goodman still seems to have 'dialogue diarrhoea' and should try and 'discipline' himself more 'or else turn to writing novels . You wrote to me about a plot which I thought rather dank - this is one of your failings all your plots seem a bit dank! That no doubt is your youth. . Don't be depressed. This is only my opinion and please seek opinions elsewhere before taking mine as gospel.' LETTER THREE 12 March 1956: 4to 1 p. Explains what she means by 'dank': 'sordid without being exciting - a sort of dreary realism'. 'I'll read your new play with interest but I hope the title doesn't mean it's about a woman changing into a man or vice versa because if so you may be sure hat I shall detest it. This kind of social problem is quite unsuited to dramatic treatment - but I hope I'm maligning you and misconstruing the title!' LETTER FOUR 19 April 1956: 4to 1 p. She has 'taken a long time' over Goodman's play 'chiefly because the title was so awful I couldn't bring myself to read it!' Suggests he 'try submittinng this to some other agent' as 'it may be that I am too tough on you.' Goodman has talent and the play is 'in some ways rather amusinng but all those sex jokes are to me not funny but smutty. Try some theatre or other agent and see how you fare and do please let me know how you are getting on.' 29 May 1955, and 5 and 12 March and 19 April 1956. All on letterheads of Margaret Ramsay Ltd, Play Agent. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 8178
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George R Sims [George Robert Sims] (1847-1922), English journalist and writer:
George R. Sims Typed Note Signed 'Geo R Sims' to F. Leslie Moreton.
24 March 1900; on letterhead of 12 Clarence Terrace Regents Park. N.W. London. 4to: 1 p. Text complete and clear on aged spotted and lightly-creased paper. He has exchanged letters with 'Mr Morell' 'with reference to "Faust up to Date" ' but does not believe any contract has yet been arranged. He does not have a copy of 'the Score and Band Parts': 'I should say Mr Geo. Edwardes or Mr Meyer Lutz has these.' Sims co-wrote 'Faust up to Date' with Henry Pettitt. The music was by Lutz. It was produced by Edwardes and first performed at the Gaiety Theatre London on 30 October 1888. 24 March 1900; on letterhead of 12, Clarence Terrace, Regents Park. N.W. [London]. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 7642
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John Hopkinson (1844-1919), English geologist [Alfred Reginald Pryor (1839-1881); Royal Geological Society]:
John Hopkinson geologist Autograph Letter Signed to Pryor's mother.
5 March 1888; St Albans Hertfordshire. 12mo: 3 pp. Good on lightly-aged paper. Concerns Pryor's posthumous 'Flora of Hertfordshire' 1887 which contained an introduction co-written by Hopkinson. Four copies of the book are being presented to Mrs Pryor 'by our Society'. 'This is partly the cause of the delay in sending them to you for we had to wait for authority from the Council of the Society to present them.' The rest of the letter concerns the large paper edition of the book a copy of which Hopkinson offers to procure for Mrs Pryor 'at the subscription price'. 'As only 50 of these have been printed we decided at the first not to give a single copy away except the one we were bound to send to the British Museum . There is not one of these large paper copies in your family for Mr. Marlbrough Pryor has only taken a small paper copy & Mr. Robert Pryor has not subscribed at all.' 5 March 1888; St Albans, Hertfordshire. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 8124
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'Barry Cornwall' [Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874)], English poet and friend of Charles Lamb [William Jerdan, editor of the Lite
'Barry Cornwall' Autograph Note to Jerdan.
Date and place not stated London; circa 1820. On upper half of a piece of quarto paper unevenly torn to make a piece roughly 11 x 18.5 cm. Fair: on aged paper. Part of address from previous letter to 'W. Jerdan <.> 267 Strand <.>' on reverse which is docketed 'Procter Miss Proby Cornwalls poems'. Reads 'I inclose you a note left here for you George says he will review the book for you next week - in the meantime give a flourish in your notice - 'The time does not admit of doing just to the vol. &c &c We are all a Party in this success -'. Jerdan acquired the premises at 267 Strand with his purchase of 'The Satirist' from George Manners and retained them during the early days of his editorship of the 'Literary Gazette' beginning circa 1819. Date and place not stated [London; circa 1820?]. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 8144
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Sir George Grove (1820-1900), English writer on music, best-known for 'Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians' [Crystal Palac
Autograph Letter Signed 'George Grove' to 'Mr Friend'.
27 September 1856; on letterhead of the Crystal Palace Sydenham. 12mo 2 pp. On grey paper. Twenty lines. Text clear and complete. Aged and with chipping to extremities and traces of mount on reverse. He is 'so cruelly busy just now with the investigations into the frauds lately perpetrated on the compy and with the anxieties & worries consequent thereon' that he can only forward 'the testimonial rewritten to the present date'. All the gentlemen he names - 'Paxton Laing &c are out of town just now'. Concludes: 'My support is a very poor one but I can really do no more just now.' On 1 November 1856 William Robson was found guity of frauds on the Crystal Palace Company amounting to around £28000 and transported for twenty years. 27 September 1856; on letterhead of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 8516
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H A L Fisher [Herbert Fisher; Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher] (1865-1940), English historian and Warden of New College, Oxford [W
Two Autograph Letters Signed both 'Herbert Fisher' to 'My dear Gore' the first conferring upon him an honorary fellowship and the second containing an assessment of Ormsby-Gore's son David.
7 October 1936 and 12 March 1937; both on letterheads of 'The Warden's Lodgings New College Oxford'. Both items good on lightly-aged paper. Letter One: 4to 1 p. Begins 'The College today at its Special General Meeting did itself the honour of electing you to an Honorary Fellowship. We trust that it may not be unacceptable to you to be thus associated with our Society. There are no duties save that of wearing a surplice in Chapel on Sundays and Feasts of the Church.' He thanks Gore for his 'generous words' of the previous day. Letter Two: 4to 2 pp. He thanks him for his 'helpful letter about David' Gore's son the Conservative politician William David Ormsby-Gore 5th Baron Harlech 1918-1985 and consequently raises no objection 'to his being out of College in the Autumn' which 'may well prove to be the best thing for him'. The previous day David told Fisher 'that he was anxious to go into the House of Commons as soon as possible'. Fisher 'can see from his appreciation of Thucydides and de Tocqueville which is obviously genuine that his mind is taking a political shape.' He sees 'gleams of unusual promise about the boy' and thinks that 'As his physical strength improves and as the memories of those shocks to which you allude fade into the background . he will gain in confidence and concentration'. Characterises him as being at that time 'wayward elusive casual rather than idle decidedly <> with occasional touches of brilliance extremely sensitive and reserved' and with 'a certain distinction of nature'. He 'gave up the Hebdomadal Council' after his illness the previous year and does not know 'what is afoot about Honorary Degrees'. 7 October 1936 and 12 March 1937; both on letterheads of 'The Warden's Lodgings, New College, Oxford'. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 8477
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Bernard Partridge [Sir John Bernard Partridge] (1861-1945), English cartoonist and illustrator, best-known for his work for 'Pun
Autograph Letter Signed 'Bernard Partridge.' to 'Miss Smith'.
24 January 1897 'M.dccc.xc.vij: jan: xxiv.'; on letterhead of 11 Marlborough Road St John's Wood London N.W. 12mo 3 pp. Bifolium. Good on lightly-aged paper. Attractive red letterhead in the Arts and Crafts style. The writings she referred to in a previous letter have not come. 'You probably forgot to enclose them. I expect to read some of the papers in the days when I look in the Pall. Mall. Gazette.' He asks her to give him 'an idea of what the publisher proposes to spend on the illustrations and also the size of them and the style - pen & ink or "wash".' He has heard news of her 'from Welsh Ethel Johnson's husband who is with me at the Haymarket'. COPAC does not appear to provide any information regarding a work on which Patridge collaborated with a Miss Smith during this period. 24 January 1897 ('M.dccc.xc.vij: | jan: xxiv.'); on letterhead of 11 Marlborough Road, St John's Wood, [London] N.W. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 8267
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Anna Swanwick (1813-1899), English author, translator and social reformer [Reginald Bosworth Smith (1839-1908), Housemaster of H
Autograph Card Signed to unnamed male correspondent the headmaster of Harrow School.
20 March no year but after 1892; on letterhead of 23 Cumberland Terrace Regents Park N.W. On both sides of the gilt-edged card which is roughly 9 x 11.5 cm. Aged but in fair condition. 'Mr Bosworth Smith' has informed her that her book 'Poets the Interpreters of Their Age' 1892 'will be acceptable to the pupils of Harrow School' and she has 'great pleasure in presenting a copy to your library & hoping that a kind welcome will be accorded to my little offering'. A postscript explains that the volume 'will be forwarded by an early post'. 20 March [no year, but after 1892]; on letterhead of 23 Cumberland Terrace, Regents Park, N.W. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 8264
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'Helen Mathers' [pen name of Ellen Buckingham Mathews (1853-1920); Helen Reeves; Mrs Reeves], English popular novelist:
'Helen Mathers' Autograph Letter Signed 'Helen Mathers. Helen Reeves' to unnamed male correspondent.
1 December 1879; on letterhead of 6 Grosvenor Street London W. 12mo 3 pp. Bifolium. Spike hole through both leaves not affecting text. Fair on aged paper. She states that 'The story would be ready to commence the 2nd. week in March.' She then gives a list of her five 'other works besides Comin' thro the Rye'. The first two in the list are said to have passed through '3 editions' and of the second in the list 'a further is in preparation'. 1 December 1879; on letterhead of 6 Grosvenor Street, [London] W. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 8259
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[ENGLISH CIVIL WAR]
The late proceedings of The Scottish Army: As also the taking of Cannon Froome. Certified By an Expresse from his Excellencies Quarters the Earle of Leven Lord Generall. Dated at Ludbury the 23. of July 1645. Together with other Letters from the Kings Quarters to the Generall and Lieutenant-Generall and Answers thereunto
London: Printed by M. B. for Robert Bostock 1645. 2 6pp. Modern navy morocco lettered in gilt to spine T.E.G. Marbled endpapers early alternate manuscript pagination to upper corners. With a loosely inserted letterpress receipt from bookseller Frank Hammond addressed to Lord Cottesloe acknowledging payment of £12 for the book in 1961. The sole edition of a decidedly uncommon news-book account of the actions of the Army of the Solemn League and Covenant - led by veteran Scottish Army officer Alexander Leslie 1st Earl of Leven c.1580-1661 - in the summer of 1645 reporting most particularly on their taking of a royalist garrison within the moated house at Cannon Froome Herefordshire. Following the defeat of a Royalist rebellion against the Covenanting-led Scottish Government in the Spring of 1645 the Scottish army of the Solemn League and Covenant - named after the 1643 treaty between the reforming parliaments in England and Scotland- led by the Earl of Leven marched south to assist their allies. As this news-book reports a 'party of 4500 Horse Foot and Dragoons' en route to Hereford became aware of a Royalist garrison led by 'Governor Colonell Barnold' in the small Herefordshire village of Castle Froome. After the Royalist commander refused to surrender the moated house which had been reinforced with Irish volunteers after the battle of Newark Leven the 'Lieut. Generall.gave order for storming the place'. The heat of the battle is described thus from a purely Roundhead perspective: 'The Grasses were about nine foot deep and as broad and in most places full of water; The Works above the Grasses were so high that all the Ladders we could get were too short; the Enemy behaved themselves valourously but it pleased the Lord to give our Souldiers to much courage that after a hot dispute they were beate from their works after which they fled to the house where they fought desparately till a great part of them were killed. We lost about 16. and 24. are wounded; of the Enemy were killed about 70. Colonell Barnold deadly wounded Captain Briskoe Capt. Houke & thirty others taken Prisoners.' ESTC records copies at just seven locations in the British Isles Advocates Library BL Hereford Cathedral Newcastle NLS Oxford Trinity College Dublin and just three further elsewhere California State Harvard Texas and Yale. Provenance: Recently dispersed from the Cottlesloe Military Library 'probably the most extensive private collection of early printed books focused on military matters'. ESTC R200176 Thomason E.294 Wing L557. First edition. Quarto. Printed by M. B. for Robert Bostock unknown
书商的参考编号 : AQ22725
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William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857), English playwright and theatre manager [Thomas Simpson Cooke, Irish singer and composer]:
William Thomas Moncrieff English playwright and theatre manager. Autograph Letter Signed inviting to the Irish singer and composer Tom Cooke to collaborate on a production at the Victoria Theatre.
3 November 1835; Victoria i.e. the Victoria Theatre London. See the two men’s entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 12mo. Bifolium. Aged and a little worn with short closed tear at head of the first leaf repaired with tape and the second leaf having a discoloration at one edge from tape used in mount. Signed ‘W. T. Moncrieff’. Casting interesting light on the production of melodramas in the ‘Surrey-side’ theatres. In an effort to induce him to collaborate with him on a production at the Victoria Theatre he begins: ‘My dear Cooke / Without wishing to interfere with any arrangement you may have made or may be contemplating to make - there can be no harm in my dropping a hint that the Proprietors here would be most happy to secure your Services at any time on your own terms - if at all within their means’. Such an arrangement would also please Moncrieff ‘as I have the idea of a Drama that I think very likely to prove quite as attractive as ever “My Poll and my Partner Joe†may prove.’ That play by J. T. Haines and with music by Jolly was a great success at the Royal Surrey Theatre in the same year. He ends by asking Cooke to ‘turn this over in hyour mind at your leisure and favor me with a line on the subject’. 3 November 1835; Victoria [i.e. the Victoria Theatre, London]. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 26448
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John Coates (1865-1941), English tenor, and Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940), Italian coloratura soprano, opera singers:
John Coates English tenor and Luisa Tetrazzini coloratura soprano opera singers. Autograph Signatures on leaf from album.
No place or date. The two signatures are written one on top of the other close together on a leaf extracted from a printed diary with the bottom of the 'C' of 'Coates' touching the top of the 'e' of 'Tetrazzini'. In good condition on lightly aged and foxed paper. No other manuscript text. The page 163 has printed on it the dates ‘June 29’ and halfway down ‘June 30’ and the signatures are beneath the former. On the reverse is a printed poem by ‘Louise Chandler Moulton’ ‘A maiden sits in her bower and sings’. Image on application. No place or date. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 26431
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Lawrence Hyde (b1894, fl 1954), English journalist and spiritual philosopher [Herbert George Wood; Quaker; Society of Friends;
Lawrence Hyde b.1894 fl. 1954 English journFour Autograph Letters Signed two in full and two as 'L. H.' to the biblical scholar and Quaker theologian Herbert George Wood 1879-1963 first Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham.
Between 1930 and 1931; all four on letterhead Rosedean Cottage Shipley Sussex. All items very good on lightly aged paper. Four closely written and interesting communications on his writings and philosophy. LETTER ONE 16 June 1930 2 pages 12mo: On the question of 'that misunderstanding regarding our last visit' the rest of the month is 'booked up' but 'perhaps the postponement - I hope it is no more than that! - of our coming may not be a bad thing'. Since their last meeting he has been 'passing through a phase of extensive internal adjustment the physical aspect of which has taken the form of very bad health'. He has 'hardly written a line' and it is 'a time for me of extreme introversion and apathy and I am really not fit to appear in society!'. Although 'friend Halliday would probably be sceptical regarding the fact' 'it is one of the things to be expected on the rather curious path which I am following'. When he emerges hopes to 'dash off in fairly rapid succession' essays on humanism and religion. Is on friendly terms with Hugh Fausset Hugh l'Anson Fausset 1895-1965 English poet and religious writer 'whom I admire greatly and whose religious development is I think going to be remarkably interesting'. Asks how Wood and his colleagues 'got on with Rabindranath' Tagore 1861-1941 Indian poet: 'I gather that he was a bit of a nuisance!' LETTER TWO 28 October 1930 2 pages 12mo: Responding to an invitation from Wood he is looking forward to a visit to the Quaker educational settlement at Woodbrooke: 'I might have the delightful experience of posting off the MS and then stepping into the train for Woodbrooke for a badly needed rest'. Discusses possible itinerary. Referring to Wood himself hopes that he and his wife Lorna will 'see something of the Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religion at the Selly Oak College'. LETTER THREE 14 March 1931 three pages 12mo: Announces the publication of his 'Prospects of Humanism'. 'I shall of course be very interested to hear what impression it makes upon you.' Hopes Wood will review it. He is 'far from satisfied' with the book which 'bears the marks of having been written during a period of strain'. His thoughts 'have already turned to Op. III by which I shall stand or fall in the end'. Three paragraphs discuss the 'Kosman Church' on the subject of which Hyde can 'quite sympathise' with Wood's 'uneasiness': 'My aim . is to define the conditions which in my opinion will have to be complied with by a truly modern Religion'. Asks if Wood has seen Geoffrey Heard's 'Ascent of Humanity': 'in a large measure it expresses the same type of consciousness with which Fausset John Middleton Murry 1889-1957 and myself are so directly concerned in our different ways'. LETTER FOUR 2 April 1931 three pages 12mo: Is pleased with Wood's 'favourable verdict on the Prospects'. 'You are one of the few whose judgement I trust in these matters and your appreciation is one of the things that helps me to go on'. Is happy that Wood considers his book better than its predecessor and discusses the two books. Is glad that Wood feels that he has 'sounded the Quaker note': 'this brings us together'. Feels that the author of 'that extraordinarily hostile notice in the Times. Literary. Supplement. 'at least did me a service by taking two columns to dismiss me!' Enjoyed Hoyland's essay and asks how Wood's own book is progressing. He 'will not anticipate' the arguments in his 'Opus III': 'I am philosophically a resolute Occidental!' He refuses to 'entertain the idea that matter is evil' and believes 'firmly' in progress. Discusses some recent essays by Middleton Murry. Discusses the 'Nation' and 'Everyman' the editor of the latter having 'asked me to give him some of my new book in the form of articles'. Also included is a Typed Note Signed to Wood from Horace Fleming Honorary Warden on the letterhead of the Mary Ward Settlement 20 March 1931 sending Hyde's book. Between 1930 and 1931; all four on letterhead Rosedean Cottage, Shipley, Sussex. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 5655
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Joseph Parker (1830-1902), English nonconformist divine, preacher, theologian and miscellaneous writer:
Joseph Parker nonconformist divine Two Letters Signed the first in a secretarial hand and the second in Autograph to Rev. Joseph Lucas.
16 November 1827 and 7 March 1873; both on letterhead The Rosstrappe Highbury New Park London. Both items one page octavo and on aged and creased paper. Regarding Lucas's selection from Parker's works 'Detached links; extracts from the Writings and Discourses of Joseph Parker' Richard D. Dickinson 1873. LETTER ONE: Thanks Lucas for his 'kind note' but does not 'see how the suggestion it conveys can be realized. I am afraid you would find it difficult to get a publisher.' Advises Lucas 'not to pursue the idea any further'. LETTER TWO: In a shaky hand explains that he is 'so poorly just now that I cannot give any photographer. a sitting. Let me advise you to issue the first edition without a likeness. I believe you will do well to omit it @ the outset'. 16 November 1827 and 7 March 1873; both on letterhead The Rosstrappe, Highbury New Park [London]. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 5654
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Tom Gallon (1866-1914), English novelist, dramatist and humourist [George Routledge & Sons, Ltd]:
Tom Gallon Autograph Letter Signed 'Tom Gallon' and Typed Letter Signed to Ernest Pertwee.
TLS 16 July 1903; ALS 13 August 1903; both on embossed letterhead 190 Adelaide Road St. John's Wood N.W. London. Both items quarto. On worn discoloured paper with a couple of closed tears to the folds. Pertwee was the author of numerous anthologies for recitation and these letters presumably relate to his 'Reciter's treasury of prose and drama: serious and humorous' Routledge 1904. TLS: 'Provided of course that Messrs. Routledge have actually agreed with you to publish the book of humorous prose recitations I shall be very willing to allow you to reprint any one of the stories the titles of which I give below. . The stories I would recommend are as under and I give them in the order of value from the popular point of view.' ALS: He encloses a letter from Cassell & Co. 'containing the permission you desire. There is no necessity for you to write to them; I have already done so.' TLS, 16 July 1903; ALS, 13 August 1903; both on embossed letterhead 190, Adelaide Road, St. John's Wood, N.W. [London.] unknown
书商的参考编号 : 5804
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Laurence Housman [The Street Library, The Crispin Hall; Somerset; English libraries]:
Laurence Housman; Disraeli Handbill headed 'Souvenir. Street Library Book Fund.' consisting of a monologue entitled 'Lord Beaconsfield speaks before the curtain'.
'Crispin Hall July 8th 1931.'. One one side of a piece of laid paper 26.5 x 21 cms. Aged and creased with chipping to extremities and staining on reverse from repair to one of two closed tears. Thirty-six lines with facsimile of Housman's signature at foot. An appeal for 'money for the Library - your Library'. Somewhat poignant considering the present neglected state of the British library service. '. The question is - do you want to give money to your Library . But for my own part I ask - why why Libraries What are they for What there do you read . Today your Librarian wants to buy for you a hundred of today's best books. That requires only Twenty Pounds. . keep your sixpences in your pockets for sixpence will no longer buy a book; and you are here to give books to your Library.' Concludes with an eight-line poem beginning 'A Library a kingdom is That crowns the common need. A double recompense is his Who gives that all may read.' As of 2004 the Laurence Housman Collection was housed in the Crispin Hall but with the Hall's future under threat due to lack of funding. 'Crispin Hall, July 8th, 1931.' unknown
书商的参考编号 : 5688
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Joseph Ashby-Sterry (c1836-1917), English painter and author [Punch, or the London Charivari]: c 1
Joseph Ashby-Sterry Two Autograph Letters Signed and two Autograph Notes Signed all four 'J. Ashby-Sterry' to Edward Draper.
1871 1872 1873 and 1880; the first three from 3 Plowden Buildings Temple and the last from 4 Marine Parade Dover. ITEM ONE note one page 12mo 3 December 1871 remains of grey paper mount adhering to verso of blank second leaf of bifolium: Apologises for sending a undated note: 'I daresay you can manage to fix at about what period it was written'. ITEM TWO note one page 8vo 12 December 1872 on creased aged paper: Declining a dinner invitation. ITEM THREE letter one page 8vo 21 November 1873 on aged paper heavily chipped at head and foot: He has just described Draper's paper to Blanchard who 'thinks it just the very thing they want. They like to have dates. If you have the original bill I would think that might go in.' Blanchard wants Draper to send it 'to Edward Leigh Era Office as soon as you can'. 'He is not quite sure whether they are full or not. But I think it would be worth trying. It is much too good a <> to be thrown away.' ITEM FOUR letter one page 8vo 13 October 1880 good in purple ink on lightly aged paper docketed second leaf of bifolium a little grubby and with traces of previous mount adhering: It is good of Draper to say he will send the 'Mathematical Song': 'It is one of the very best comic songs I know of.' He 'will take good care no one has a copy'. Draper's letter 'with regard to bookbinding brought many replies'. 'The "monsters" came in shoals & I shall probably have some difficulty in making a selection.' He was amused to hear about Ledbury 'and will get the paper'. Says he has 'been doing the "Lays of a Lazy Minstrel" in Punch lately. "Le Sportsman" in the current number is mine.' On his return hopes to have 'a smoke & a chat' with Draper at his 'place'. Assumes that Draper knows about the states of Hogarth's plates. Addresses of three recommended London bookbinders in Ashby-Sterry's hand on second leaf together with directions to Carter Draper's Hampshire home in Drapers hand. 1871, 1872, 1873 and 1880; the first three from 3 Plowden Buildings, Temple, and the last from 4 Marine Parade, Dover. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 5766
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Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839), English poet and song writer:
Thomas Haynes Bayly Autograph Letter Signed to the poet journalist and editor Alaric Alexander. Watts 1797-1864.
Friday no date; 5 Wyndham Place London. Two pages quarto. Very good on lightly aged and creased paper. He is sorry that he has not been able to 'become personally acquainted with' Watts since coming to town but will 'very soon make another attempt' hoping to find him at home. 'As I before told you I wish to contribute to the Souvenir 'Literary Souvenir' an annual edited by Watts & as you said you wished a tale somewhat in the style of my "Legend of Killarney" I send you one.' Asks the 'usual rate of remuneration & what you can afford to give me for it I dare say I shall feel disposed to accept without reference to or comparison with the amount offered by other Periodicals'. Friday [no date]; 5 Wyndham Place, London. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 5717
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Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865), English painter and President of the Royal Academy:
Charles Lock Eastlake Autograph Letter Signed 'C. L. Eastlake' to Miss Rogers.
15 May year not stated; 13 Upper Fitzroy Street London. Two pages 12mo. On gray paper. Good though lightly ruckled and aged. He thanks her for the 'information about the silk' and accepts her invitation. He had intended to call on her the day before but was prevented by the weather. He 'consoled' himself 'by supposing that I should meet you at Mr Rogers's where I dined but where you were not.' Comments that his correspondent's note 'is not in your handwriting moreover it is written by an inexperienced secretary for she began "My dear Mr E" & then scratched out the my finding it was an innovation in the official form.' He has received a letter 'from the new Director of the 'school of design' who is to be in town on Friday. Mr Ker will think himself privileged to give you an account of the invitation of his new protege'. 15 May [year not stated]; 13 Upper Fitzroy Street [London]. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 5627
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Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), English poet and wit [Sir George Grove]:
Charles Stuart Calverley Autograph Letter Signed 'C S.Calverley' to Mrs Lewis of Ickleton.
Bishopsbourne Rectory Canterbury; 19 August year not stated. Three pages 12mo. Very good. The blank verso of the second leaf of the bifolium laid down on remains of leaf detached from autograph album. Begins 'At length by certain Proofs 'tis plain to quote a hymn familiar to my childhood but forgotten now all but that first line that the readers of Macmillan will know all that is to be known about the mistletoe thanks to your labours before Christmas.' He hopes she has received the proofs and says that 'Grove the Editor writes to me that they are in type & he is forwarding them to Ickleton'. 'Grove' is Sir George Grove 1820-1900 editor of Macmillan's Magazine between 1868 and 1883. Quotes short passage from Grove declining another piece 'The Sword'. He has asked Grove the name of the present editor of the Cornhill Magazine 'It used to be Leslie Stephen and I know him or did know him well enough at Cambridge.'. 'Bell the publisher will be looking in upon us next week for a day or two and I dare say he will be able to suggest something.' In the meantime Calverley will 'keep the MS in my Custody'. In a postscript Calverley expresses his disappointment that the two pieces could not be placed together: 'I thought the Sword was the better of the two and had no doubt as to its acceptance. . Grove says that he and all Editors are in a hideous stateof overworkedness in the last /and the next/ few months .'. Bishopsbourne Rectory, Canterbury; 19 August [year not stated]. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 5595
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Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet, English Benedictine monk and historical scholar (1846-1929) [George Routledge & Sons, Ltd]:
Cardinal Gasquet Autograph Letter Signed 'A. Cardinal Gasquet' to the publishers Messrs George Routledge & Sons Ltd. together with typed copy of their reply.
21 June 1913 for 1915; on letterhead Palazzo San Calisto Trastevere Roma'. Vatican Librarian; Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archive; subject of Shane Leslie's biography;Three pages octavo. Good on lightly aged and spotted paper with crease to second leaf of bifolium. Regarding Rev. J. R. McKee's translation of Arnold Oskar Meyer's 'England and the Catholic Church under Queen Elizabeth'. He has received McKee's letter. 'When I promised this to the Professor more than two years ago I did not contemplate having to leave England altogether & still less had I any dream of the war which has interrupted all relations with German friends'. He has written to McKee and to explain that he cannot write the introduction 'especially in view of the way the German Professors had treated the war question'. McKee does not think the book will be published till after the war. If Routledge do publish the book Gasquet 'will ask you to do so without any "foreword" from me at all'. He is writing to them directly 'as McKee tells me that he is going as chaplain to the troops & his whereabouts is quite uncertain'. Replying one page quarto on 1 July 1915 the firm state that they understand Gasquet's objection. 'Father McKee has we believe now started for the Front so that we cannot at the moment communicate your decision to him.' 21 June 1913 [for 1915]; on letterhead Palazzo San Calisto, (Trastevere) Roma'. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 5798
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Dame Laura Knight (1877-1972), English impressionist painter [The Artists' General Benevolent Institution]:
Cyclostyled signature 'Laura Knight' on receipt.
2 June 1937; 5 Vigo Street London W.1. printed by Vacher & Sons Ltd. Westminster House S.W.1. On blue paper 10 x 18 cms. Good with trace of previous white paper mount on reverse. Printed receipt filled in in manuscript. Reads 'No. 32 5 VIGO STREET W.1. June 2nd 1937 Received a DONATION of One Guinea from The Misses Ruck for the ARTISTS' GENERAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. £1 : 1 - next word deleted Secretary next two lines cyclostyled in purple ink most gratefully Laura Knight'. See Image. 2 June 1937; 5 Vigo Street, London, W.1. [printed by Vacher & Sons, Ltd., Westminster House, S.W.1] unknown
书商的参考编号 : 5989
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John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater (1623-1686), English aristocrat who acted in the first performance of John Milton's masque
Earl of Bridgewater; Milton's Comus Autograph Signature 'J Bridgewater.' on fragment of document.
Without date or place but docketed on reverse '1679'. On piece of paper roughly 2 x 3.5 cm. Discoloured and with traces of glue from previous mounting on reverse. Slight loss to one corner and tiny closed tear at head. Attractive calligraphic signature with tall closely-spaced vertically elongated letters. Top loops of initial 'J' trimmed. See Image. Without date or place (but docketed on reverse '1679'). unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6020
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Whitwell Elwin (1816-1900), English journalist, editor of the 'Quarterly Review':
Whitwell Elwin; Quarterly Review Autograph Letter Signed 'Whitwell Elwin' to 'Miss Mayne'.
29 September 1856; Booton Rectory Norwich. 12mo 1 p 17 lines. Very good. He has been 'from home visiting here & there' and has returned to 'a mass of correspondence which is perfectly appalling'. He is sorry she 'sent back the book' as he meant her 'to keep it in perpetuity'. 'The recent work which finds most favour with the public is Lord Cockburn's Memorials. It is entertaining but not in all respects accurate. It is however worth reading & will serve to beguile a winter's evening. I dare sayy the autumn & Christmas which are the great publishing seasons will produce something tolerable.' Ends by thanking her for the account she gives of her 'travels'. The recipient of this letter may have been the author under the pseudonym 'Leslie Gore' of the Bentley three-decker 'Annie Jennings' 1870. 29 September 1856; Booton Rectory, Norwich. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6089
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Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889), English journalist of Irish extraction, editor of the Art Journal [Art Union]:
S.C. Hall Autograph Letter Signed 'S C Hall' 'To Mrs G. Barrow'.
19 May 1883; Sussex Villas 3 Sussex Place Victoria Road W. Kensington London. 8vo: 1 p. Good with slight wear to outer edge and strip from previous mount neatly adhering to reverse. With name of recipient at head and docketed on reverse. He has 'seen some charming & <novel> useful Leaflets advocating Humanity to Animals' and has been 'led to understand they may be obtained through' his correspondent. He would like a hundred of the leaflets to be sent to him 'for which I will gladly send stamps'. Hall was a sanctimonious figure supposedly the model for Dickens's Pecksniff. 19 May 1883; Sussex Villas, 3, Sussex Place, Victoria Road, W. Kensington [London]. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6051
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Henry Kater (1777-1835), English physicist of German descent:
Henry Kater physician Autograph Letter Signed to the English mineralogist and geologist William Phillips 1775-1828.
23 May 1823; Union Place Regent's Park London. 12mo: 2 pp. Very good. Addressed to 'Mr. W. Phillips' on otherwise-blank second leaf of bifolium which carries traces of previous mount. Acknowledges 'the obliging present' of Phillips's 'valuable work on mineralogy' the influential 'Outline of the Geology of England and Wales' 1822 written with William Conybeare. 'I have been for some time anxiously expecting the appearance of this new Edition an earlier version had appeared in 1818 as I had given my last copy to a friend.' He is 'sorry the authorities are not sufficient to warrant the publication of the list I did myself the pleasure of sending you as an extensive table arranged in the order of specific gravities is I imagine still a desideratum.' 23 May 1823; Union Place, Regent's Park [London]. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6066
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Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901), English novelist and historian of London:
Walter Besant; Fulham Autograph Notes relating to the London district of Fulham.
Undated; on three letterheads of 'Frognall End Hampstead N.W.' London. The notes on three 12mo bifoliums cover three pages with a few lines on a couple of others. In excess of eighty lines. Very good. Brief chronology and list of notable residents presumably an outline for the description of the district in Besant's 'London' 1892 or another of his many writings on the city. Undated; on three letterheads of 'Frognall End, Hampstead, N.W.' [London]. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6055
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Dorothy Black (Delius) (1899-1985), English romantic novelist, travel and short-story writer [Ladies' Home Journal; Eimar O'Duff
Dorothy Black Delius romantic novelist Typed Letter Signed 'Dorothy Black' to Kathleen Cruise O'Brien O'Duffy the wife of the Irish writer Eimar O'Duffy.
26 June 1925; La Chaumiere Shillong Assam. 4to: 3 pp. Text clear and entire on creased chipped airmail paper. A chatty vivacious and entertaining letter casting light on the state of mind of an English colonial wife. Thanks her for her 'kind remarks about my stories. May I say in return that I also like your story very much and it appears to have what all the Editors are clamouring for all the time - a happy ending!' Congratulates O'Duffy on her marriage 'You say they told you that you were mad to get married and without a certain amount of madness I do not see how any of us would ever take that awful step!' But you were not half as mad as people who marry for money or position or a shooting in Scotland or a motor car or a diamond tiara'. The Blacks 'live as a rule in Rangoon Burma a very hot place indeed where beads of honest sweat decorate every brow all the time.' Finds 'the opportunity of giving a description of herself a rare and glorious one!' Gives a physical description she has 'the slightly wilted appearance of all women who have to live in the Tropics for any length of time' and describes her career as a journalist before marriage. 'I used to look down from the tops of busses into motor cars where the Really Wealthy sat and think how nice life must be from the back seat of a Rolls. And when last I was in England I sat in the back seat of a Sunbeam and looked up onto the top of the passing busses and thought what fun life could be on 2d all the way. If you are still fairly poor remember that. I am not sure one does not get a great deal more pleasure on 2/6d saved up than on trips to Paris when expense is no object. I have tried both and this is my candid opinion.' Explains how 'the only story I ever more or less lived is Marcia's'. 'For last summer I had been working very hard and one day I put a suit case into the back of my two seater Standard and threw my children to the Nurse and went off into the blue.' She has no photograph to send 'I have as I already said one of those Noses.' but says that there is a photograph of her in the June number of the Ladies' Home Journal. As for her age her seven-year-old son says she is twenty-one 'or at the very most . she may be twenty-two'. 'Shall we leave it at that It is so much kinder.' Wishes she could visit O'Duffy at Daffodil Cottage. 'Here we are perched so to speak upon the kettle lid of the world.' Mentions earthquake jungle jackals. 'And it rains rains rains and the newspapers say "The Monsoon is progressing satisfactorily in Assam."' Short autograph postscript. 26 June 1925; La Chaumiere, Shillong, Assam. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 5920
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Whitwell Elwin (1816-1900), English journalist, editor of the 'Quarterly Review':
Whitwell Elwin; Quarterly Review Three Autograph Letters Signed all three 'W. Elwin' to historian Alexander William Kinglake 1809-1891.
1875 1883 1887; all three from Booton Rectory Norwich. All three letters 12mo and closely written. All three with rusted pinholes at head. A valuable correspondence in which one of Victorian England's leading critics describes his response to the work of one of the age's foremost historians. LETTER ONE 1 page 26 lines good: He thanks Kinglake for sending his 'new volume' of 'The Invasion of the Crimea'. 'I am reading it with great delight. The work to me is unique both in military & literary history. I never read a book before which gave a description of a battle in all its parts so as to convey a true picture of what a battle really is.' Continues in the same vein laying on the praise. 'Many of the passages are full of pathos & grandeur & when I read them aloud in our domestic circle thehy stirred the hearts of old & young alike.' Concludes 'If the work were far less distinguished for its intellectual beauties it would deserve immortality for its fearless honesty. An author who loves nothing better than truth is rare.' LETTER TWO 2 pages 33 lines good: Another paean of praise beginning 'I find your new preface delightful for its contents & the vigour & felicity of the language. Newspapers write more & more in superlatives & exaggerate everything for the sake of effect. I suppose we have all felt this in the accounts of the Egyptian Campaign .'. Discusses Lord Bury and 'one of the most comical instances on record of a man digging a pit for another & falling into it himself. I never saw Lord Bury but once & then only for an instant but I know his father & the family calibre. With sundry good qualities to be a little weak a little vain & a politician for what you can get runs I think in the blood.' Returns to Kinglake's 'volume' in the last paragraph with yet more praise. LETTER THREE two pages 27 lines with some wear at foot affecting a couple of words of still-decipherable text: He has read Kinglake's letter 'with a pride & pleasure greater than you yourself probably feel at the completion of your masterly work. The modes of treating history were hacknied & did not seem capable of much novelty. I know scarce anything inn fiction more original than yours & the originality has everywhere tended to one end . I look upon your history as absolutely unique . <If> it had been a war far less memorable in its consequences it would have been rendered memorable by its historian .'. 1875, 1883, 1887; all three from Booton Rectory, Norwich. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6090
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Sir William Job Collins (1859-1946), English ophthalmic surgeon and Liberal politician:
Sir William Job Collins Two Autograph Letters Signed and two Autograph Card Signed all 'W J Collins' to Sir Henry Trueman Wood with offprint of lecture to Royal Sanitary Institute: 'The Chadwick School of Thought."'
The letters and cards 1914 1915 and 1916; the offprint 'Excerpt from Vol. XXXIV. No. 7 1913 of the Journal of The Royal Sanitary Institute.'. The collection is in good condition. Three of the communications bear the stamp of the Royal Society of Arts of which the recipient Wood was the Secretary. Letter One 28 October 1914; letterhead of 1 Albert Terrace Regent's Park N.W. 12mo 2 pp 18 lines mourning border: He does not 'see a chance' of lecturing 'on the Ambulance Question at the Society of Arts': 'My plea for Motor Ambulances which fell on deaf ears for some 12 or 14 years has now suddenly "boomed." Letter Two 8 October 1915; letterhead of Meads End Eastbourne; 12mo 1 p 11 lines: Thanking him for the 'kindly renewed invitation to lecture at the R.S.A.' He is 'too much engaged at present to put together any thing worthy of so august a body. I am collecting material & perhaps at that indefinite date - "after the war" - I may be able to put it into shape.' Card One 15 September 1916; letterhead of Meads End Eastbourne Sussex; 6 lines: 'I am collecting a lot of matter on history & evolution of ambulances - which some day I may have time to put together for a lecture'. Card Two 27 October no year; letterhead of 1 Albert Terrace Regent's Park N.W. 4 lines: He has noted a date on which to 'preside for the Master of Christ's at R.S.A. as requested by you'. In the first three communications Collins notes that Wood is missed at 'the Chadwick' the subject of the accompanying offprint which is 8vo 23 pp paginated 315-337 in original grey printed wraps. Presentation copy inscribed at head of front wrap 'With the Authors compts'. The letters and cards, 1914, 1915 and 1916; the offprint, 'Excerpt from Vol. XXXIV., No. 7 (1913) of the Journal of The Royal Sa paperback
书商的参考编号 : 6295
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'Eric Broad' (Frederic E Wright), English poet [W Kineton Parkes; John Ruskin; William Marwick; the Ruskin Reading Guild]:
'Eric Broad' Frederic E. Wright poet Three Autograph Letters Signed two 'Eric Broad/Frederic E Wright.' and one 'Frederic E Wright/Eric Broad.' to W. Kineton Parkes assistant editor of the journal of the Ruskin Reading Guild 'Igdrasil'
20 and 22 January and 3 March 1890; all from Scarsdale Great Malvern. All three items in very good condition. Interesting series of letters by an obscure 1890s poet. Letter One 12mo 7 pp: Although he realises that some are 'rather poor' he is sending through his brother possibly the artist Alan Wright 1864-1959 'all the lyrics I have by me': 'I have not had time to "weed" yet being veryy busily engaged writing lyrics for a Comedy-Opera 'Ethelinda or a Philanthropic Fad' 1890 on which he collaborated with Hamilton O. Wylde - & a libretto for Operetta; also been trying my hand at very sensational prose'. He has 'quite forgotten' the poem 'Yesterday': 'There is a lyric in the brown-paper-covered book "But Yesterday" - but I do not know if that is the one.' He will 'submit a Sonnet or something to "Igdrasil" shortly'. He misses 'Comus' a magazine edited by Parkes 1888-9: 'as there was always something to attract one in it - more than can be said for most mushroom-papers do forgive the epithet - it was not intended of this era'. He has been 'rather shakey' 'suffering with nicotine poisoning of the lower lip'. He is sending Parkes the 'last collection of my verses' entitled 'In Idle Hours' no copy on COPAC. 'It is coverless - Pardon that - I trust the inside will gain your favour. It is out of print - & only 12 copies were printed. Three on rough-edged paper - others as this one. It is I regret one of the follies of a year past. Cavil not therefore O Critic - but pity the poor deluded youth!' Letter Two 12mo 1 p: Parkes's 'friend may like to see the enclosed lyrics not present - which I have just written.' Letter Three 12mo 4 pp: Apologises for asking for the return of his lyrics 'safe to hand to night'. 'The Composer I sent to however was hard to please: in fact I was unable to do business with him'. He has a 'little collection of Sonnets . in the press' nothing on COPAC under either Broad or Wright. Wonders whether Parkes will 'put the Sonnet "Igdrasil" in the magazine of that name'. 'I suppose "Comus" will appear again "pro bono publico" - I have been writing short stories lately for which I seem to have a slight gift.' In fact my first was well received by a large firm & I am awaiting further hearing from them.' Hopes he may send 'anything in the poetry-line for insertion in "Igdrasil" as I shall submit nothing but what is worthy of my best attempts'. In a postscript reports that the libretto on which he has been collaborating see above is 'now musically complete' and 'on the eve of printing prior to copyrighting. It is of novel & original plot & action.' 20 and 22 January and 3 March 1890; all from Scarsdale, Great Malvern. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6299
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Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952), Ivy St Helier (1886-1971); Joyce Carey (1898-1993); English actresses associated with Noel Coward
Gertrude Lawrence; Joyce Carey Autograph Signatures 'Gertrude Lawrence.' 'Ivy St. Helier' and 'Joyce Carey'.
Dates and places not stated. On a leaf of cream paper 8.5 x 12 cm part of a bifolium taken from an autograph album. Very good. All three signatures are bold and clear. The signatures of Lawrence and St Helier are on one side of the leaf and that of Carey is on the other. Lawrence's signature is in ink and the other two in pencil. Three signatures Dates and places not stated. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6233
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Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807-1880), English architect:
Thomas Henry Wyatt architect Autograph Letter Signed 'Thos. H. Wyatt' to the connoisseur and print collector the Rev. Charles Henry Middleton 1828-1915; with manuscript 'resolution'.
19 May 1881; on embossed letterhead of the Art Students' Home 4 & 5 Brunswick Square London W.C. 12mo 2 pp letter of 8 lines resolution of 9 lines. Good on lightly spotted paper with small pin holes to top inner corner. He is appending 'a copy of a resolution agreed to at a Meeting of Committee held this afternoon at No 1 Station St. the Baroness Burdett-Coutts presiding'. The resolution on the recto of the second leaf of the bifolium thanks Middleton 'for services rendered to the Art Student Home & for the constant interest he has displayed in advancing its welfare'. 19 May 1881; on embossed letterhead of the Art Students' Home, 4 & 5 Brunswick Square, London W.C. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 6311
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