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Arthur Sidgwick (1840-1920), educationist and classical scholar, suffragist and proponent of women's education at Oxford, brother of the philosopher Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) [ Arthur Sidgwick. ] Autograph Card Signed ('A. Sidgwick') to 'Mrs Green'., regarding arrangements for her stay at his Oxford address, while he and his family are in Wales. Neatly and closely written on both sides of a 9 x 11.5 cm. card. In good condition, lightly aged. On his return from Cambridge the previous Saturday he 'found (as I expected) my family gone to Wales. Among their letters was the enclosed card. I assume it is from you.' He assures her that 'all is...		£40.00
Thomas Lawrence Yeoman, Clerk of the Peace for the North-Riding of Yorkshire [William Mauleverer; William Lockwood; J. V. B. Johnstone; Metcalfe, Printer, Northallerton] [Printed document.] North-Riding of Yorkshire. To wit. Orders made at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden at Northallerton, in and for the said Riding. [Including House of Correction and North and East-Ridings' Pauper Lunatic Asylum.] Folio, 4 pp. Bifolium. On laid paper. The drophead title (of which the start is quoted above) runs to 14 lines. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Printed in double column. Yeoman signs in type at the end of the document, which contains three reports, each signed in type by the chairman of the...	History, Law	£125.00
Sir John M. Wilson Autograph Letter Signed, 2pp., 8vo, to "Jones" Soldier (1783-1868). Stained and worn but contents intact and legible, responding to condolences on his wife's death. what it means to him, and what her last days were like.	Military and Naval History	£25.00
[British Army; Royal Artillery; Garrison Artillery; Victorian military history; the War Office] Manuscript 'Memorandum' of 1883 by 'H. B.', headed 'Confidential', dealing with 'the reasons why the Officers of the Garrison Artillery should be separated from the Field Artillery, and why they should be more highly paid'. With 'Supplementary Memo:' Texts of both items clear and complete. Both on grey paper, each leaf headed with an embossed governmental crest. The 'Memorandum' proper is of ten numbered folio pages, on ten leaves held together with a brass stud. The first page headed 'Confidential' and the last dated 'H. B. \| 19th. August...	Military and Naval History	£180.00
Sir John Murray (1884-1967, 'the fifth'), member of a notable London firm of publishers Autograph Note Signed ('John Murray') to 'my dear Williams'. 8vo: 1 p. Good, with creasing towards right-hand margin. 'Very many thanks, my dear Williams, for your most kind congratulations. I feel that my honour is some recognition of the publishing trade & I take it as such'. Murray was created KCVO in 1932, following his publication of the ninth...	Book Trade History	£45.00
Nursuppah [Nursuppa], Buckshee [Paymaster] to H.H. the Maharajah of Mysore [Mysore; Buckshee] Autograph Letter Signed Nursuppah [Indian language name also] to Major Brine, Royal Engineers [...] Bangalore. Three pages, 8vo, large handwriting, staining along fold marks, small closed tear at centre, text legible. Your welcome telegram to Dr [Renton?] here has been with much pleasure received by His Highness the Maha Rajah of Mysore.- In reply I am directed by His Highness the Maha Rajah, to...	History	£120.00
Sir John Newenham Summerson Six Autograph Letters Signed, to [G. E.] Mercer[, Deputy Secretary,] and [J.] Samson[, Assistant Secretary,] of the Royal Society of Arts. Together with manuscript syllabus of a course of lectures. Architectural historian (1904-92) and curator of Sir John Soane's Museum, 1945-84. Seven leaves, all very good, though some lightly creased and all with staple holes in top left-hand corner. The first three letters to Mercer and the last three to Samson. Three letters docketed. ITEM ONE (two...	Art and Architecture	£150.00
Sir John Pratt (1657-1725), Lord Chief Justice of England Autograph Signature on fragment of document. Dimensions of paper roughly five inches by three-quarters of an inch. Signed 'John Pratt' between writing in a seventeenth-century chancery hand. Docketed with biographical details in a minute nineteenth-century hand, and enclosed in a piece of paper with further biographical details in another...		£33.00
Sir John Sinclair, Bart. Autograph Receipt Signed to James Phillips of George Yard, Lombard Street, London. Scottish politician (1754-1835), President of the Board of Agriculture, opponent of William Pitt the younger and editor of Ossian. The recipient James Phillips was a bookseller and stationer. On piece of paper roughly eight inches by three inches. Grubby and lightly stained. Evidence of previous...		£30.00
Sir John Sinclair. Autograph Note, third person, to [William Godwin?]. Piece of paper, 3 x 4", sl. soiled,on which Sinclair has scrawled: Sir John Sinclair called.- Would be glad to see Mr Godwin to breakfast on Wednesday next at 9. or to dinner at 6."		£36.00