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Richard Webster [ Richard Everard Webster ], 1st Viscount Alverstone (1842-1915), Master of the Rolls and three times Attorney General [ Sir Richard Harington (1835–1911) of Ridlington, 11th Baronet ] [ Richard Webster, Viscount Alverstone, as Attorney General. ] Four Autograph Letters Signed (all 'Richard E Webster') to Sir Richard Harington, regarding changes to a parliamentary bill [Legal Aid?]. With draft letter from Harington to Webster. Five items, in good condition, lightly aged and worn. Webster's four letters total 6pp., 12mo. The first letter (13 April) follows on from one of Harington's, forwarded to Webster by 'Digby', regarding the possibility of inserting in a parliamentary bill 'a provision that the State shall pay the...		£220.00
Ethel Smyth [Dame Ethel Mary Smyth DBE (1858–1944), composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement] [Ethel Smyth, composer and suffragist on holiday] Autograph Postcard Signed [Dame?] Ethel Smyth to Maurington Sayers. Italian Postcard, stamped 26.2.20, addressed to 'Maurington Sayers Esq. \| Northgate \| Totnes \| S Devon \| Inghilterra', good condition. Dear Sir \| Please accept my best thanks for y[ou]r charming collection of stories & still more generous appreciation of my book [presumably Impressions That...		£150.00
Alfred Parsons [Alfred William Parsons] (1847-1920), landscape painter, illustrator, and garden designer [Alfred Parsons, landscape painter and garden designer.] Autograph Letter Signed to 'Miss Lewis' See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once.Addressed to 'Dear Miss Lewis' and with good firm signature 'Alfred Parsons'. He will be very pleased to dine with her the following Friday, '& dance one set of Lancers after; I feel much complimented at...		£35.00
John William Struthers (1874-1953), Scottish surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh [Professor David Waterston (1871-1942) of St Andrews] [John William Struthers, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.] Autograph Letter Signed and two Typed Letters Signed to Professor David Waterston of St Andrews, discussing golf and other matters in a lightly-humorous style. Struthers served as a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War. He was a pioneer in the use of local anaesthetic, and wrote a well-regarded work on the topic. He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1941 to 1943. Waterston was Bute Professor of...		£150.00
Sir Charles Dundas [ Sir Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas ] (1884-1956), colonial administrator, Governor of the Bahamas, 1933-1940, and of Uganda, 1940-1943 [ Sir Charles Dundas and the British East Africa Protectorate. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('Charles Dundas') to his sister Hilda [ Whitaker ], sending news regarding his posting. Dundas and his sister Hilda Guilhermina Whitaker were children of the 6th Viscount Melville. See his entry in Who Was Who, and his obituary in The Times, 11 February 1956. The present item was written during his first posting, as Assistant District Commissioner in the British East Africa...		£180.00
W. Langdon-Brown [ Sir Walter Langdon-Brown (1870–1946), medical doctor ] [ W.Langdon-Brown; Regius Prof etc ] Autograph Card Signed "W. Langdon-Brown" "To the Editor of the Cambridge Daily News" [ Morley Stuart]] Card, 11 x 9cm, note on both sides,v estiges of tipping onto album page, very good condition. "As I have reason to believe that there will be an announcement in the Honours List to-morrow [his knighthood] which may be of interest to Cambridge people, I am enclosing some biographical detaiuls...		£35.00
Augustus Hare [ Augustus John Cuthbert Hare ] (1834-1903), English author; Sir Richard Harington (1835-1911) of Ridlington, 11th Baronet [ Samuel Smith (1765-1841), Dean of Christ Church, Oxford ] [ Augustus Hare, author. ] Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Richard Harington, with copies of two others, apologising for publishing an anecdote regarding Harington's relation Dean Smith of Christ Church. With autograph drafts of two Harington letters. Four items, in good condition, lightly aged and worn. An interesting correspondence, casting light on the proprieties of Victorian biographical writing. Hare's 'The Story of my Life' was published in six volumes between 1896 and 1900, and was described by the original DNB as ‘a long, tedious,...	Literature	£150.00
Frodsham Hodson (1770-1822), Principal of Brasenose College, 1809-22; Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, 1818-20 [ Rev. Richard Harington (b.1800), son of Sir John Edward Harington (1760-1831) ] [ Frodsham Hodson, as Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford. ] Matriculation Certificate of 'Ricardus Harington ex AEde Christi Baronetti Fil.', printed in Latin and completed and signed in autograph by 'F. Hodson, P. V.. Cancell:' Printed form, on one side of a 10.5 x 17 cm piece of laid paper. In fair condition, aged and worn. Reads, with autograph text by Hodson in square brackets: 'Oxoniae [Maii 5to] Anno Domini 1818. \| QUO die comparuit coram me [Ricardus Harington ex AEde Christi Baronetti Fil.] \| et subscripsit...		£120.00
Provincial Bank of Ireland, Old Broad Street, London [ George Robert Dawson, Chairman; James Marshall, Secretary; Thomas & Co., London stationers ] [ George Robert Dawson, Chairman, Provincial Bank of Ireland. ] Report by the Court of Directors of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, to the Proprietors Assembled at the Fifth Yearly General Meeting. 6 + [1]pp., 8vo. In fair condition, aged and worn, with slight damp staining at head. The report, by 'G. R. Dawson, Chairman', is on pp.1-5; p.6 carries resolutions 'Extracted from the Minutes, \| James Marshall, Secretary.' Much of the report is taken up with 'a Qui tam Action [...] brought by...		£180.00
[Laurence Olivier [Lord Olivier] and Vivien Leigh] W. J. Macqueen-Pope [Walter James Macqueen-Pope] (1888-1960), theatre historian; Barbara Proctor Beauchamp (1909-74), journalist and novelist [Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in Rattigan’s ‘Sleeping Prince’.] Duplicated typescript of article by W. Macqueen-Pope: ‘This is Real Theatre / The Oliviers Return to Town’, with carbon of covering TL, and commissioning ALS by Barbara Beauchamp. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. The occasion of the article was the forthcoming premiere of Rattigan’s play ‘The Sleeping Prince’, Olivier’s production of which, at the Phoenix Theatre in London, opened on 5 November 1953. The movie rights were bought by Marilyn Monroe, and the Hollywood film...		£150.00