Typed Letter Signed to Mr Bright

One page, 12mo (ish), poor condition, some reinforcement of edges, text by an eccentric typewriter faint but readable, minor corrections by Mannin's pen. I didn't know VENETIAN BLINDS was out of print. I will ask Jarrolds about this. Most of my books were blitzed in 1940 and the typed [Typescripts?] competely destrpoyed. I am getting them reprinted gradually, but had evidently overlooked V.B. | I too think RED ROSE is a good picture of poor old Emma - in fact I know[underlined] it is. But in my own view my last novel THE DARK FOREST is my best book, and I don't think I shall do better. Since you have done me the honour of reading my other books, or some of them, perhaps I may without seeming to be self-boosting, hope you will read this one.~75~WOMAN FEMALE NOVELIST AUTOGRAPH~ ~0~OL33~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 9695~16/08/2010~False~Henry Gibbons, M.D.~[Pamphlet] Tobacco. An Essay~London (Printed from the American Edition) James Burns, 15 Southampton Row, WC.~23pp., 8vo, orig. brown wraps. sl. grubby, sl. chipped at corners, mainly good.~45~TOBACCO NICOTINE PAMPHLET~ ~0~Eph 7~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 9711~20/08/2010~False~His Holiness Pope Pius XI [Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (1857-1939)]~Photograph of Pope Pius XI, mounted and framed together with his signature beside the Vatican seal.~Undated.~An attractive item, in fair condition, well mounted within a worn glazed gilded black frame, c. 38 x 26 cm. Both photograph and signature feature beneath the same mount, with the photograph, within a square c. 22 x 17, in black and white, showing the bespectacled Pope, shot from the knees upwards in light robes against a dark background, offering a blessing with his right hand directly to the camera. The photograph was slightly creased before mounting, but this is not overly apparent. Beneath the photograph, on lightly-foxed paper, within a rectangle c. 5.5 x 14 cm, is the bold, firm, attractive signature, c. 4 x 8 cm, reading 'Pius pp. XI', to the left of the blind-stamped seal of the Vatican, c. 5 cm in diameter. Image provided blurred perhaps because the phot is under glass. In reality it's not blurred.~125~PHOTOGRAPH THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH HIS HOLINESS POPE PIUS XI AMBROGLIO DAMIANO ACHILLE RATTI CHRISTIANITY RELICS PAPAL PAPACY THE VATICAN~~0~Above burke's~~~0~~ 9722~19/08/2010~False~House of Commons Select Committee on the Hudson's Bay Company, 1857 [Indian Territory, Canada]~[Printed volume relating to the Indian Territory] Report from the Select Committee on the Hudson's Bay Company; together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index. [With the 'Plans referred to in the Report'.]~Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 31 July and 11 August 1857. [Plans by 'Henry Hansard, Printer'.]~Two items bound together. ONE: 'Report': Folio: [ii] + [ii] + xviii + 547 pp. TWO: 'Plans referred to in the Report from the Select Committee on the Hudson's Bay Company', 'Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 31 July and 11 August 1857.' Three coloured fold-out maps, wrapped in a bifolium consisting of a first title leaf and last leaf carrying a packet title on its reverse: 'Map of North America' (c. 43 x 55 cm); 'Aboriginal Map of North America, denoting the Boundaries and the Locations of various Indian Tribes' (c. 50 x 60 cm); 'Map of the North West Part of Canada, Hudson's Bay & Indian Territories, Drawn by Thomas Devine, by Order of the Honble. Joseph Cauchon, Commr. of Crown Lands, Toronto. March 1857' (c. 60 x 47 cm). Both 'Report' and 'Plans' clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, in original grey boards, with blue cloth spine carrying worn printed label. Half title for the first item, within the series of 'Reports from Committees' (11, Vol. XV, Session 30 April-28 August 1857). The first three leaves carry the stamp of the Incorporated Law Society of the United Kingdom. The Committee was convened to consider 'the State of those British Possessions in North America which are under the Administration of the Hudson's Bay Company, or over which they possess a License to Trade', at the 'near approach of the period when the license of exclusive trade, granted in 1838 for 21 years, to the Hudson's Bay Company over that north-western portion of British America which goes by the name of the Indian Territories, must expire'. Highly detailed, and containing much first-hand testimony from notable figures (J. H. Lefroy; John Rae; Sir George Simpson; William Kernaghan; Sir John Richardson; Rear-Admiral Sir George Back; Edward Ellice). Nineteen appendices, containing transcripts of documents and other material. Scarce: the plans often being found separately. Apart from microfiche and other reproductions on COPAC, the only copies are at the British Library, University of London, and Southampton.~850~PRINTED HOUSE OF COMMONS PARLIAMENTARY SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY 1857 CANADIAN NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN TERRITORY ABORIGINE BRITISH EMPIRE UNITED KINGDOM VICTORIAN NINETEENTH CENTURY~~0~Box 23~~~0~~ 9701~16/08/2010~False~Lawrence Scobie, Secretary of the Scottish Artists' Benevolent Association~Typed Letter Signed, to Mrs Henley, widow of W.E. Henley, poet.~[Headed] Scottish Artists' Benevolent Association, Glasgow, 12 November 1914.~Two pages, 8vo, fold marks, some marking, clear and complete. Mr Macdonald and Mr Brown handed me a cheque for £179 7 6, being the proceeds of the sale of Mr MacBride's pictures, which you kindly gave as a donation to the Artists' Benevolent Association. He conveys thanks from the President and mentions the paragraph he put into a newspaper about it.~28~SCOTTISH ARTIST AUTOGRAPH~ ~0~OL33~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 9698~16/08/2010~False~Sir Albert Kitson and others~[Printed] Geological Notes on St. Helena, by various writers, with Remarks on teh Economic Geology of that Island, and Geological Map~London: Printed and Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office . . . 1931.~22pp., folio, printed boards, ex lib (with stamps and other evidence on front cover, its verso, and the titlepage, sone staining and wear, contents mainly good.~85~ST HELENA NAPOLEON GEOLOGY~ ~0~Box 17~ ~ ~ ~ ~