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John E. Gorst.

Signature clipped from postcard addressed to R.L. Tawney, Hopetown, Wellington Coll.

Anglo-Egyptian Administrator. Part of postcard, 4.5 x 2", part of address surviving (one side), other side, urviving words "Yours truly / John E. Gorst / 3.10.10."

History £20.00
John Hullah [John Pyke Hullah] (1812-1884), English composer and music teacher

Autograph Signature.

Cut from a letter. On small rectangle of light-grey paper, roughly 2 x 4 cm. Fair, on aged paper with thin light strip of glue staining along top edge. Neat firm signature, underlined and overlined, reading 'John Hullah'.

Music and Theatre £20.00
John Prescott Knight

Autograph Signature on fragment of letter.

English portrait-painter (1803-81; DNB). Piece of paper approximately three inches by five. Slightly discoloured but in good condition, and attached to piece of brown card. Reads 'Remember me very kindly to the Ladies, and after to your Sons, and believe me | Every yours most sincerely | John P...

Art and Architecture £20.00
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

Part of Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent.

Lord Chancellor of England (1751-1838). Dimensions roughly four and a half inches square. Paper spotted and discoloured. Traces of previous blue-paper mount adhering to blank reverse. Unobtrusive archival-tape repair to closed tear. Reads 'May God support him in the Time of his great Calamity...

History £20.00
John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney

Autograph Signature on front of franked envelope.

Lords of the Admiralty, the Treasury and of the Bedchamber under George III (1764-1831). On front of envelope, cut down to roughly 4 1/2 inches by 3 inches. Good only: ruckled and with one closed tear not affecting signature. Blank reverse docketed in pencil and with remains of paper from...

History £20.00
John van Druten

autograph letter signed in stamped envelope addressed in autograph to L. E. Berman,

Anglo-American dramatist (1901-57). One page, 8vo. "How very, very nice of you to write - and thank you so much for seeing my play twice and liking it. / It was all very disappointing and sad - and I dont think there is anything else to say. But I did appreciate your letter: thank you so much...

Music and Theatre £20.00
Joseph Gulston (1744/5-1786), British book collector and connoisseur

Autograph Signature.

On a piece of paper cut from a letter, roughly 3.5 x 9.5 cm. On lightly aged and slightly grubby paper. Good firm signature, beneath which, in a contemporary hand, 'I knew his daughter Stepny'. Gulston's wife Bridgetta (1749/50–1780) was the second daughter of Sir Thomas Stepney.

Book Trade History £20.00
Joseph Hatton

Autograph Signature.

Piece of grey card, dimensions roughly 5 1/2 inches by 4 inches. In poor condition: grubby and discoloured, and crudely mounted on a piece of card. Novelist and journalist (1841-1907). Clearly in reply to a request for an autograph, Hatton has written, in a large hand, 'With pleasure - | Yours...

Literature £20.00
Julia Emilie Neilson

Autograph letter signed to an unnamed correspondent,

English actress (1868-1957), the wife of Fred Terry (1864-1932). 2 pp, 8vo, on blue paper. Intimate letter written in a large hand. "Darling - Yes the book arrived I do congratulate the way you've written & arranged the book. Delighted with it & everything about it: splendid / You would...

Music and Theatre, Women £20.00
Kate Josephine Bateman [Mrs George Crowe]

Autograph letter signed to Miss M[ary]. H. Folkard,

American-born actress (1842-1917). 2 pp, 12mo, on mourning paper, in matching stamped envelope addressed in autograph "Miss M. H. Folkard / Wigram Ward / Kings Coll. Hospital / Lincoln's Inn Fields". "I am more than grieved to hear of yr. illness. What a long, long weary time you have had! May I...

Music and Theatre, Women £20.00