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Sally Salminen [Sally Alina Ingeborg Salminen (1906 -1976), author from Simskäla, the Åland Islands, Finland, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.] [Sally Salminen, Finnish author] Typed Letter Signed Sally Salminen to the Rev. Cornelius Greenway of NY, showing appreciation for his comments on her first publication, Katrina (1936). One page, 4to, fold marks,good condition. Text: [...] My late answer does not indicate lack of appreciation, although it must seem so. I am on the contrary deeply and sincerely grateful for your kindness of writing to me. Your letter reached me at a time when I needed encouragement and...		£280.00
Richard Doyle [Richard Dickie Doyle, illustrator of the Victorian era] [ Richard Doyle, illustrator ] Autograph Letter Signed R Doyle to unnamed correspondent about work for him. One page, 12mo, bifolium, good condition. Since I saw you last I hve not neen well, and have in consequence not been able to make progress with the work, on the completion of which depended my being able to undertake and illustrations for you book. \| I regret that it is so, but am obliged to say...		£280.00
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley (1766 – 1851), politician, long-serving Chancellor [Monrovia], Vice-President American Colonization Society. [Baron Bexley; repatriation of freedmen (USA); map] Autograph Letter Signed Bexley to Capt. Rosenberg R.N. about his Prospectus involving corrections to a Map (see Note below - coast of Africa/Liberia Two pages, 12mo, bifolium (second leaf blank), good condition. I return the Prospectus with your proposed corrections which appear to me very proper. The alteration of the Map [see Note 2 below] will be an improvement as it will give us less the appearance of a branch of the American Society...		£280.00
M. Goldschmidt [Meïr Aron Goldschmidt (1819 – 1887), Danish publisher, journalist and novelist.] [Meier Aaron Goldschmidt, publisher and author] Autograph Letter Signed M. Goldschmidt to My dear Madam (Mrs Bensusan), establishing social contact in light hearted way. Three pages, 16mo, bifolium, last page laid down and slightly larger paper, good condition. Text: When I was at your door some time back and left my card, I thought: Well, Mrs. Bensusan has, no doubt, completely forgotten, that there exists in the world such a being as I, for how can any one...		£280.00
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714-1794) judge and politician. [Charles Pratt; America; Plantations] Section only of MS. Document (Secretarial text) Signed C. Pratt, memorialist as Attorney-General, concerning the Commissioners of Prizes and Plantations in America Surviving section 20 x 10cm, closed tears 2.5cm, edges sl. ragged, foxing but text fully legible. See images. Surviving text (secretarial): (Verso) in succession with the Office to the Memorialist he [presents?] himself well warranted to Charge the Accounts of Prizes - now under examination with...	History	£280.00
William Osler [Sir William Osler (1849–1919), Canadian physician, Father of Modern Medicine] [William Osler Father of Modern Medicine] Autograph Postcard Signed W. Osler addressed to Maltby & Son \| 30 St Michaels St \| Local [Oxford bookbinders]. Postcard, 11 x 9cm, some scuffing of an edge (perhaps formerly tipped into an album or similar), good condition, saying simply Re Speculum Morale \|\| Yes - leave in the same binding - mend the clasp. \| Wm Osler. Note: Speculum maius (greater Mirror) was a major encyclopedia of the Middle Ages,...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£280.00
Ethel Snowden, Viscountess Snowden [née Ethel Annakin] (1881-1951), Fabian socialist, suffragist, temperance and peace campaigner, wife of first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden [Ethel Snowden, Fabian socialist and suffragist.] Seven Typed Letters Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed, to Rev. A. H. Sayers, regarding a talk by her to the League of Nations Union, Monmouth; with one after her husband’s death. She her entry, and that of her husband, in the Oxford DNB. Throughout her life she inspired a range of responses. The ‘Labour Leader’ described her as a ‘second Annie Besant’, while Manny Shinwell dismissed her as ‘the would-be Sarah Bernhardt of the party’; to Lord Reith, during her time as a...		£280.00
'Theresa Pulszky [Terézia Pulszky; née Walter] (1819-1866), Austro-Hungarian wife of the Hungarian nationalist Count Ferenc Pulszky (1814-1897) [Sabilla Novello; Clara Novello [Countess Gigliucci] [Countess Theresa Pulszky, wife of Hungarian nationalist Count Ferenc Pulszky.] Autograph Letter Signed, in English, to Sabilla Novello, describing her ‘Dante festivals’ and artistic activities in Florence. The Pulskys had fled Austria-Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and while in London the Countess had published her well-received ‘Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady’. They would only be allowed back under an imperial amnesty in the year after this letter in 1866. The recipient, Sabilla...		£280.00
E.F. Benson, novelist Autograph Letter Signed to B.[?] about Mapp and Lucia and satirical remarks involving Income tax. Four pages, 8vo, foxed but text clear and complete. I am so forgetful for I have no recollection of saying I would send for Mapp & Lucia. But here it comes to you, with many regrets that I did not send it before. I hope it may amuse you (this is the American edition) and I haven't got an...		£280.00
Sir Stratford Canning [Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe] (1786-1880), diplomat and politician. Here Ambassador to Constantinople [Ottoman Empire]. [Stratford Canning; Pasha of Janina; Mediterranean Fleet] Autograph Letter Signed Stratford Canning to Lt. General Sir George Berkeley about negotiations with the Pasha of Janina. Two pages, 4to, in narrow frame of stiffer paper. I am happy to learn from yr correspondence with the Admiral that your negotiations with the Pasha of Janina have been quite successful. I felt that a letter from the Great Vizier expressed in general terms would answer every practical purpose;...	History	£280.00