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C.H. Read Autograph Letter Signed to Fagan. Antiquarian and art connoisseur (1857-1929). 3pp., 8vo. He wishes to clarify the view he and his colleagues at the British Museum are taking on "the Thompson memorial", ignoring it since it is a British Academy matter not British Museum. |
Art and Architecture, Education | £35.00 | |
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C.M. Ingleby Autograph Letter Signed to "Allen" Shakespearian critic and author (1823-1886). 2pp., 8vo. He declines an invitation from the Lord Mayor of London on the grounds of ill health, and announces that he is off to Holkham Hall to visit the Napiers. "We must have a special no of the Reporter for reports of all the speeches". He would... |
Literature | £35.00 | |
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Captain George John Whyte-Melville (DNB), novelist and poet ALS, 1p, 16mo, to "My dear Harry" "No Bye day!" He saw Charles Payne the day before. "It is freezing here with Arctic severity & I tremble for Friday and Saturday". Signed "J W Melville". Mounted on a piece of card. |
Literature | £35.00 | |
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Cecil Day-Lewis, writer Autograph Postcard Signed "Cecil" to Kenneth Bredon, Brighton bookseller. Good condition. "Dear Kenneth / Many thanks for your congratulations - greatly appreciated. I hope all goes well with you & send best wishes for 1968." Day-Lewis had recently been appointed Poet Laureate. |
Book Trade History, Literature | £35.00 | |
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Charles Dibdin Autograph Letter Signed to Dr [?] Frazer. Charity administrator (1864-1938). Two pages, 16mo, on letterhead of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. 'This is the latest Chart published. It came out this month. We do not issue a larger copy or I would send it to you.' |
Social history | £35.00 | |
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Charles Giraud [Charles-Joseph-Barthélémy Giraud] (1802-1881), French jurist and historian Autograph Letter Signed ('Ch Giraud de l'institut'), in French, to an unnamed male correspondent. 12mo, 1 p, 12 lines. Good, on lightly aged paper. Drawing the recipient's attention to 'une demande qui a été adressée a M. le Prefet de la Seine, par M. Burnet [an inhabitant of Neuilly], homme infiniment estimable qui sollicite un emploi dans l'administration des pompes funèbres'. Giraud knows... |
French, History, Law | £35.00 | |
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Charles Higham (1846-1920), London theological bookseller [Hodder & Stoughton] Autograph Note to Messrs Hodder & Stoughton, publishers. One page. Dimensions of slip roughly four inches by five and a quarter wide. Somewhat aged, but entirely legible. Reads 'British Quarterly Review | Can you tell me what was the last part of this issued, if it is possible to get a title-page and index to vol 83. My last part is 166 April 1886'.... |
Book Trade History, Printing History, Religion | £35.00 | |
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Charles Kean English actor-manager (1811-68), the son of Edmund Kean. A piece of paper, 2½ by 4½ inches, mounted on a torn piece of grey paper. The note, written in pencil, gives directions: "Charles Kean / Key-Dell / Horndean / Hants / 9 miles from the Fareham Station on the Gosport line". Docketed in... |
Music and Theatre | £35.00 | |
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Charles Wentworth Dilke Autograph Note Signed to Dr [Edwin] Lankester. Antiquary and critic (1789-1864), editor of the 'Athenaeum'. For Lankester (1814-74) see the Dictionary of National Biography. One page, 12mo. In good condition, mounted on a larger piece of docketed pink card. Difficult handwriting, presumably making payment for magazine contributions. 'On... |
Literature | £35.00 | |
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Charles William de la Poer Beresford, Baron Beresford Telegram to [Charles?] Tarleton. Naval officer and Conservative politician (1846-1919), nicknamed 'the member for the navy'. Dimensions roughly 5 1/2 inches by 9 inches. In poor condition: browning and with several closed tears. Reads: 'From the older Charlie to the younger Charlie may all good luck attend you fighting for... |
History, Military and Naval History | £35.00 |