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réf. 258807 March 1926. On letterhead of Plas Llanrhydd Ruthin North Wales. Weyman was as his entry in the Oxford DNB states ‘one of the most popular and skilled of the historical romance novelists of the cloak and dagger school’. Oscar Wilde recommended in all seriousness Weyman's novels as reading for convicts. 1p 16mo. In fair condition lightly creased and worn. Folded for postage. From the collection of Rosemary Barron autograph collector. Reads: 'Dear Miss Barron / I am sorry that your letter has remained unanswered so long but I have been laid aside by illness. I thank you for what you say and I send you with pleasure what you desire / & am / Sincerely yours / Stanley J. Weyman'. 7 March 1926. On letterhead of Plas Llanrhydd, Ruthin, North Wales. unknown
réf. 258559 August 1927. On letterhead of New Grove Petworth Sussex. Mason was according to E. V. Lucas ‘famous in both hemispheres’. His entry in the Oxford DNB ends with this assessment: ‘His books were best-sellers for fifty years and the films made from them notably The Drum 1938 for which he wrote his own scenario and The Four Feathers 1939 were among the most popular in their time.’ 1p 12mo. In good condition lightly aged. Folded twice for postage. The valediction is in Mason's autograph: 'Yours sincerely / A. E. W. Mason'. The rest of the note is typed: 'Dear Rosemary Barron / I am very happy to send you my autograph since you are kind enough to say that you would like to have it.' 9 August 1927. On letterhead of New Grove, Petworth, Sussex. unknown
réf. 2586723 April 1884; on letterhead of 27 Camden Square N.W. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. In good condition lightly aged. Folded for postage. Recipient not named addressed to 'Dear Sir'. Signed 'Joseph Knight' and neatly written. He is sending the 'cheque as promised' and asks whether a book was 'a very nice copy' since he was 'disposed to order it'. One of his purchases is 'a disappointing work. Its title presumes what is not found. If you can get any thing extra for it out of your customers you can have it back.' 23 April 1884; on letterhead of 27 Camden Square, N.W. unknown
réf. 258999 October 1982. On his letterhead 27 Bishop’s Road London. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 4to. In good condition lightly aged. Folded for postage and in stamped and postmarked envelope with Wesker’s address printed on it addressed to Furness in Battersea. One of a number of letters from British poets in response to enquiries from Paul Furness with regard to their pub memories. Addressed to ‘Dear Mr Furness’ and signed ‘Arnold Wesker’. Begins: ‘You must understand this about Jews: they descend from parents who fled pogroms which where sic usually lanched sic from the inns where peasants assembled and became drunk.’ Turning to his own experience he continues: ‘Neither I nor my family nor my circle of friends frequented pubs. The ignorant gathered there to realease sic their beery prejudices and hatreds to stimulate dutch courage & to give reign to a spurious imagination. / We gathered in our kitchens & shared tea sandwiches bread pudding matzos dipped in egg & fried & - if we were lucky - a little chicken-soup.’ He states that he still doesn’t ‘have the pub habit’ before turning to the ‘angry young men’ who ‘were never a group’ and ‘shared no social life’. ‘We weren’t very angry either. We simply had energy & that special joy which comes from recognition. I was rarely angry - except with fools idiot critics and I’m afraid drunks.’ He concludes: ‘David Mercer drank himself to death & was only ever maudlin when drunk as I find most people drunk become. Maudlin or self centred. Conversation is impossible. They only want to be heard.’ He ends with apologies that he ‘cant be more helpful’. 9 October 1982. On his letterhead, 27 Bishop’s Road, London. unknown
réf. 2620131 October 1931. On letterhead of 24 Holland Park Road Kensington W. London. See the two men’s entries in the Oxford DNB. In good condition on the first leaf of bifolium. There are extensive pencil annotations in a later hand on the second leaf. Very neatly written. Addressed to ‘J. G. Wilson Esqre.’ and signed ‘Anstey Guthrie’. He has ‘much pleasure’ in answering Wilson’s question. ‘‘Shut Out’ is a short story of mine which was published in Longmans Magazine about 1895 or 6 afterwards included in a volume of short stories under the title of “The Talking Horse”. I think published by Messrs. Smith & Elder - but now long out of print. “The Talking Horse” is included in “Humour & Fantasy” but not “Shut Out”.’ See Image. 31 October 1931. On letterhead of 24 Holland Park Road, Kensington, W. [London] unknown
réf. 261608 February 1848; London. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. In fair condition aged and worn with slight loss to two of the corners and a trace of paper from the mount adhering on the reverse. Addressed to 'Jas Thomson Esq'. Reads: 'Dear Sir / I have forwarded your list of names to the Land Tax Office / & remain Dear Sir / faithfully Yours / Richd Cobden'. Pencil note in a contemporary hand at the foot of the letter: 'The Great Anti Corn Law man. / Mr. Thompson sic to whom it was written was proposed by Cobden & seconded by Bright of the Free Trade Club. A Club in St. James Square London of 400 or 500 members. Thompson got Dr. Lingard to become an Anti Corn law man & he subscribed 2 Guineas.' 8 February 1848; London. unknown
réf. 26153‘Thursday’ undated between the publication of his second and third novels 1910 and 1911. ‘20 Glebe Place / Chelsea’ on House of Lords embossed letterhead. See Walpole’s entry in the Oxford DNB. He lived at 20 Glebe Place for two years between February 1909 and May 1911 in which period his first three novels ‘The Wooden Horse’ ‘Maradick at Forty’ and ‘Mr Perrin and Mr Trail’ were published and he began reviewing for the ‘Standard’ newspaper. 2pp 12mo. In good condition lightly aged. Folded once for postage. Addressed to ‘My dear Massie’ and signed ‘Hugh Walpole’. After thanking her for her letter regarding his second novel ‘Maradick at Forty’ ‘The papers have been very kind and although it is in no kind of way a selling book yet I think it is a little climb in reputation and I mean the next book to settle matters. I have every kind of confidence in Boon.’ Walpole’s third book and his first success ‘Mr Perrin and Mr Trail’ was published in 1911 by Mills & Boon. ‘Thursday’, undated (between the publication of his second and third novels, 1910 and 1911). ‘20 Glebe Place / Chelsea’, unknown
réf. 2615410 July 1935. On letterhead of Brackenburn Manesty Park Keswick. Of his activities around this time the Oxford DNB writes: 'he 'wrote film scripts in Hollywood in 1934–5 for classics such as David Copperfield MGM 1935 in which he played a bit part and Little Lord Fauntleroy 1936'. The subject of the letter may be his novel 'The Inquisitor' published by Macmillan in 1935. 1p 12mo. In fair condition lightly aged and worn. Folded once. Reads: ‘Dear Mr. Hunt / Here is a proof. The quotations are from the Version. to me the only last word underlined version. / Yours sincerely / Hugh Walpole’. 10 July 1935. On letterhead of Brackenburn, Manesty Park, Keswick. unknown
réf. 2615227 December 1937. On letterhead of 188 St. John’s Road Corstorphine Edinburgh 12 Scotland. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 12mo. In good condition lightly aged. Folded for postage. Reads: ‘Dear Miss Jennings / Thank you for your letter. There was however no half crown in the envelope. I searched carefully. / Yours sincerely / Hugh Walpole’. 27 December 1937. On letterhead of 188 St. John’s Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh 12 [Scotland]. unknown
réf. 26136Stated to have been sent from 'Aldworth / Oct 25 - 76'. 25 October 1876. An apparent forgery of a letter the text of which is quoted in Hallam Tennyson’s 1897 memoir of his father. 1p 12mo. On discoloured wove paper. Aged and with repair with archival tape at extremities on reverse. Folded twice for postage. Reads: ‘Aldworth / Oct 25 - 76 / My dear Mrs Gladstone / On Monday then - if all be well. As you are good enough to say that you will manage everything rather than lose my visit - you must manage that I may have my pipe in my own room whenever I like / Yours ever / A Tennyson/’. The supposed provenance is noted in pencil on the reverse: ‘This letter was written by Alfred Lord Tennyson to Mrs. Gladstone in 1876. Purchased from Noel Conway of New St Birmingham in 1900 by / Samuel Englefield / Henley on Thames.’ The present text differs from Hallam Tennyson’s version also in the third volume of Lang and Shannon by reading ‘you must’ rather than ‘will you’ - the latter reading also featuring in the facsimile of the letter in the Strand Magazine 1892 among the illustrations to J. Holt Schooling’s article on ‘The Handwriting of Alfred Lord Tennyson’ the caption stating that the letter ‘is in the possession of Messrs. Noel Conway 50B New Street Birmingham’. See Image. Stated to have been sent from 'Aldworth / Oct 25 - 76'. [25 October 1876] unknown
réf. 26157Postmark dated 15 April 1972 from Chichester Sussex. Letterhead ‘From Patrick Moore Farthings 39 West Street Selsey Chichester Sussex PO20 9AB’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Plain postcard. Lightly aged. Addressed to John Graham obscured by postmark The Willows Church Road Lowfield Heath Crawley Sussex. Reads: ‘Many thanks. I am terribly sorry to say that I am a broken reed at the moment because there are various conference dates I haven’t got. I’ll write when the situation clarifies. / Best wishes / in autograph P. M. / PS Last Wed. of each month is no good: BAA i.e. British Astronomical Association monthly meeting day!’ Image on application. Postmark dated 15 April 1972 from Chichester, Sussex. Letterhead ‘From Patrick Moore, Farthings, 39 West Street, Selsey, Chich unknown
réf. 2616425 March 1944. Garrick Theatre W.C.2. London. On his letterhead. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 12mo. Eighteen lines closely written. On creased grey paper with short closed tear at edge of central crease. The year 1944 has been added in another hand. Addressed to ‘Dear Mr. Macdermid’ and signed ‘Michael Redgrave’. He is grateful to him for the suggestion that he ‘should be an Hon. Associate Member of your Club to which I wish every success’ but feels ‘rather strongly that I must not put my name to anything more than I can actively take part in - even if activity is confined to letter writing etc. which is the case of my Presidency of the Bristol W.E.A. Players for example.’ He finds that ‘People with lively sympathies are apt to become the victims of their enthusiasm and are sooner or later in danger of being known as cranks. For that reason I most gratefully must refuse your offer.’ 25 March [1944]. Garrick Theatre W.C.2. [London]. On his letterhead. unknown
réf. 26124'B.B.C. / London'. No date Second World War. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 12mo. In poor condition aged worn and creased with damage to edges. Tape was previously present as a border along all the edges and the corners are still strengthened with tape causing discoloration that affects the end of Handley's signature. Reads: 'B.B.C. / London / Dear Pte Dean. / In reply to Yours. I would send you a ticket with Pleasure but I have no control over same. I'm afraid you will have to write direct to the B.B.C. / Best wishes. / Tommy Handley'. Scan available. 'B.B.C. / London'. No date (Second World War). unknown
réf. 26158The two letters from 1976 both on letterhead of The Red House Aldeburgh-on-Sea Suffolk. Printed programme: The Stone Gallery The Vyne nr. Basingstoke' 20 April 1958. See the two men’s entries in the Oxford DNB. The material is in good condition lightly aged except that the envelopes of the first two items are somewhat worn and grubby. ONE: TLS to Douglas C. Dorrington. 1p 12mo. The address to ‘Dear Mr. Dorrington’ and signature ‘Peter Pears’ are in autograph; the rest is typed. Written while Britten is dying. Reads: ‘Benjamin Britten wishes me to thank you for your kind message. He hopes you will understand that it is not possible for him to answer you himself.’ In envelope with Saxmundham postmark dated 22 November 1976 addressed in Pears’s autograph to ‘Douglas C Dorrington Esq / 9 Chatsworth Rd / Croydon / Surrey’. The envelope is annotated in another hand: ‘B. B. died 4/12/76’. TWO: TLS to ‘Ray Seaton’. 1p 12mo. No more than a note really. Written after Britten’s death. Reads as follows with typed section in square brackets and the rest in autograph: ‘Dear Ray Seaton / Thank you very much indeed for your most kind message. which I much appreciated / Sincerely / Peter Pears’. No place or date but in envelope with Saxmundham postmark dated 15 December 1976 and typed address to ‘Mr. R. P. Seaton / 28 Hollybush Street / PLAISTOW / LONDON E.13.’ THREE: Printed programme. Headed: ‘The Stone Gallery The Vyne nr. Basingstoke / by kind permission of The National Trust and The Hon. Antony Lyttelton / Peter Pears / Benjamin Britten / A Concert in aid of the Sandham Memorial Chapel Burghclere’. Dated on cover ‘Sunday April 20 1958 at 3.0 p.m.’ 4pp 8vo. Bifolium. Cover in grey with some red lettering. Illustration on cover of ‘The Resurrection Sandham Memorial Chapel by Stanley Spencer’. The reverse of the first leaf carries the programme the recto of the second a paragraph about the chapel itself the reverse of the second leaf the names of the ‘patrons of the concert’ committee and management. Loosely inserted is a stapled pamphlet 8pp 12mo with drophead heading ‘Peter Pears / Benjamin Britten / Text of the Songs’. Entirely composed of texts of 22 songs some in German and French with the last four ‘arr. BENJAMIN BRITTEN’. Also present is an envelope only with stamps and Saxmundham postmark of 20 July 1976 addressed to ‘GEORGE BEHREND / FLIQUET / JERSEY / CHANNEL ISLES.’ Not in Pears’s elegant hand and with a distinctive capital ‘Q’ dead vertical downstroke. Whether written out by Britten or not is unclear but annotated in another hand ‘Last letter of any sort from Ben on becoming Lord Britten.’ I stress that there is no letter surviving. See Image. Could the annotation be by a grief-stricken Peter Pears The two letters from 1976, both on letterhead of The Red House, Aldeburgh-on-Sea, Suffolk. Printed programme: The Stone Gallery, unknown
réf. 26213Letter dated 30 December 1932; on letterhead of 188 St John’s Road Corstorphine Edinburgh 12. Photograph by Elliott & Fry dated by Walpole to December 1932. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The two items were previously held together by a small dab of glue at the head of the letter. They are now separated and traces of the glue remain not affecting any text. Otherwise they are in good condition lightly aged. ONE: ALS 30 December 1932. 1p 12mo. Signed Hugh Walpole. He thanks him for his charming ‘Carol’: ‘I have been picking it out on the piano. And I send back the photo autographed. With every good wish for 1933’. TWO: Black and white head and shoulders photographic portrait of a balding bespectacled Walpole by Elliott & Fry on thickish paper around 11 cm square image 10 cm square. Inscribed by him below Walpole’s neck: ‘Hugh Walpole / Dec: 32’ And signed again in the thin white margin beneath the image: ‘Hugh Walpole -’. See Image Letter dated 30 December 1932; on letterhead of 188 St John’s Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh 12. Photograph (by Elliott & Fry) unknown
réf. 262129 January 1943; on letterhead of The Granary Little Chart Ashford Kent. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. At the time of writing Bates was employed in writing short stories as propaganda for the Air Ministry. 1p 12mo. In good condition lightly aged. Folded once. Signed ‘H. E. Bates’.He begins by thanking him for sending a print and is sorry he could not reply before: ‘like so many other people I have been ill & in bed’. He is keeping the print and enclosing five pounds. ‘Next time I come to Leicester I hope to have time to come in & make your acquaintance.’ He ends by asking him to look out for books on ‘collecting old silver’ for him. Docketed with date of reply at foot. 9 January 1943; on letterhead of The Granary, Little Chart, Ashford, Kent. unknown
réf. 26234No place and date but with two Malvern postmarks of 9 January 1875. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Ingram's biography of Poe was responsible for his reabilitation and his extensive collection of material relating to the writer is now in the University of Virginia. Entire small envelope roughly 12 x 7 cm self-printed with stamp. In good condition lightly aged with flap at back torn in opening of letter. With postmarks at front and back of the envelope both dated 9 January 1875; front postmark from Malvern and back one from West Malvern. Addressed by Swinburne to ‘John H. Ingram Esq. / Howard House / Stoke Newington Green / London N.’ Written up the left edge at the front of the letter: ‘Swinburne’s handwriting. / J. H. Ingram’. See Image. No place and date, but with two Malvern postmarks of 9 January 1875. unknown
réf. 26241LETTER ONE to Wolfestan: 2 June 1884; 19 St John's Wood Road. LETTER TWO to Mrs A'Beckett: 5 May 1898; on letterhead of Hougoumont 39 Broadhurst Gardens South Hampstead N.W. London. LETTER ONE to Wolfestan: 4pp 12mo. Bifolium. Damage to text including signature 'E. A. Storey' along inner edge of last page by clumsy removal from mount repaired with archival tape. Otherwise in good condition lightly aged. Folded. Wolfestan's letter is 'capital' and he hopes he will send it 'as it exactly backs up my own statement'. On thte previous day he saw and responded to 'the letter of G Roberts': 'the fact is that in the lecture itself I spoke of the scientific theories & said that although they were deeply interesting they were of little use to painters who had to deal with pigments or paints and not with those elements of light which cause the various sensations to the red-seeing or gree-seeing or violet seeing nerves'. He considers the 'report in the Builder' 'very imperfect and disjointed made by an utter ass' and he does not think there is 'a single sentence in it that I could fairly say is mine'. If he publishes the lecture he will send it to him. Returning to Wolfestan's letter he finds that it 'will go far to explain the difference between artists and scientists on the subject of colour'. LETTER TWO to Mrs A'Beckett': 3pp 12mo. Bifolium on grey paper. Damp staining on blank reverse of second leaf otherwise in good condition. He and his wife were looking forward to her 'at home' but could not attend because he had to write a memoir of his brother-in-law whose death took place the day after he saw her. 'It was for 'The Magazine of Art' and of couse was wanted immediately in fact almost by return of post and I could not get it finished till late last evening.' He exclaims 'What wretches printers are and even editors sometimes have no patience no mercy their only motto being "Hurry up" -'. LETTER ONE (to Wolfestan): 2 June 1884; 19 St John's Wood Road. LETTER TWO (to Mrs A'Beckett): 5 May 1898; on letterhead of Houg unknown
réf. 26242No place or date 1992. See her entry and his in the Oxford DNB. On the reverse of a colour postcard of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford from the Old Bodleian. In fair condition lightly aged and with slight creasing to one corner and at the head not affecting text. To the right in the section reserved for the address she writes: ‘Hardy / with all very / best wishes & love / from / Iris !’. Beneath this is a pencil note identifying Amies as the recipient. At top left in another hand her husband John Bayley’s is written ‘Born before all time: / a dispute over Christ’s origin / Karl Joseph Kuschel’. Kuschel’s book was published in 1992. See IMage. No place or date [1992?]. unknown
réf. 2626116 January 1897. On letterhead of 9 Earls Court Square South Kensington London. A successful member of an English artistic family. See the Oxford DNB entries on his father Joseph Severn who nursed John Keats in Rome in his final illness and sister Mary Newton. 1p 12mo. In good condition lightly aged with thin strip of glue from mount to inner margin and details typed at head. Folded once. Reads: ‘Dear Mrs FitzSimon / I have much pleasure in sending an autograph of my dear friend Sir F. Leighton. I send also the portrait of Keats. It is photogravure by Hollyer from one of my father’s pictures / Yours sincerely / Walter Severn’. 16 January 1897. On letterhead of 9 Earls Court Square, South Kensington [London]. unknown
réf. 2623615 June no year. On letterhead of 28 Herne Hill S.E. London. A successful member of an English artistic family. See the Oxford DNB entries on his father Joseph Severn brother Walter Severn and sister Mary Newton. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium on grey wove paper. In good condition lightly aged with traces of paper from mount adhering to the blank verso of the second leaf and details typed at head. Folded once. Addressed to ‘Dear Fulleylove’ and signed ‘Arthur Severn.’ He invites him to dinner on behalf of himself and his wife Joan a cousin of John Ruskin born Agnew: ‘dinner will be at 7.30 or 8 and I thought if you came out early enough we might have some bowls in the garden’. He gives directions from London adding: ‘Of course come in any dress. / I have asked and Linton’. He ends: ‘If it is bad weather I shall only expect you to be here at 7.30 but can do as you like about that welcome at any time’. 15 June [no year]. On letterhead of [28] Herne Hill, S.E. [London] unknown
réf. 26254ONE: 11 July 1874; Hotel de Lille et d’Albion Paris. TWO: 30 July 1890; letterhead of 28 Albert Gate S.W. London THREE: 5 November 1905; letterhead of Alnwick Castle. FOUR:13 August 1913; letterhead of 70 Addison Road Kensington W. London. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. All four items are signed ‘Edward J. Poynter’. The first is somewhat discoloured with cut corners not affecting text the others are in good condition lightly aged. ONE: ALS to ‘My dear Robin’ 11 July 1874. 1p 12mo. He has received ‘the four £10 notes’ and reports ‘the most tremendous thunderstorms’. TWO: ACS to ‘Mr. Gilkes’ 30 July 1890. He apologises for being unable to ‘attend the distributions of the School prizes’ that day. THREE: ALS to ‘Waterlow’ 5 November 1905. 1p 12mo. ‘Your letter gives me the key to the memorial. If I had known it was addressed to a fellow member I shd. have understood why the Academy was specially mentioned. I shall be glad to help it if I can.’ FOUR: ACS to ‘Percy Lovell Esq’ 13 August 1913. As he will have left London for abroad he will not be able to ‘accompany the members of the American Civic Assn. on the expedition to Hampton Court’. ONE: 11 July 1874; Hotel de Lille et d’Albion [Paris]. TWO: 30 July 1890; letterhead of 28 Albert Gate, S.W. [London] THREE: 5 unknown
réf. 26257No date. Postmark of 28 May 1817. On wove paper with watermark 'RUSE & TURNERS / 1814'. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 12mo. On recto of first leaf of bifolium the verso of the second leaf addressed with two postmarks to 'Mrs. William Smith / Park Street / Westminster'. In fair condition lightly aged and worn. Annotations in pencil in a modern hand. He begins by apologising for not being able to 'come to your party on Monday' as he was 'forced to go to Bed. I always knock up the 2d or 3d Week of London - There is nothing in this World so fatiguing and horrible as pleasure -'. He wonders whether it might not be possible that 'some persons for their Sins here will be doomed hereafter to four thousand Years of amusement last five words underlined namely 1000 of Morning Visits - 1000 Dining out - 1000 seeing pictures & Statues - 500 flirting and 500 routes - Total 4000 -'. Signed 'God bless you dear Madam / Sydney Smith'. No date. Postmark of 28 May [1817]. On wove paper with watermark 'RUSE & TURNERS / 1814'. unknown
2011réf. 319830Collegeville MN: Liturgical Press 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. 319p. A large hardcover book in fine condition. As new save for mild abrasion to the gilt design on the front cover. Pages clean and binding tight. Chants from the Missale Romanum translated into English with music. Measures approx. 11" x 8.75 Liturgical Press hardcover
1908réf. B70556New York: Rebman Company 1908. Hardcover. Very good. Gray cloth boards octavo illustrated with 71 mounted color illustrations. Book has two ink names on top front board spine ends worn and torn with some splitting to cloth at joints edgewear that includes small tears in cloth soil and rubbing binding tight but front joint cracked at top edge previous owner's signature to front flyleaf previous owner's signature to copyright page otherwise text clean and unmarked but gently age toned. Rebman Company hardcover
