WAITING

[Lady Lyttelton; Joseph Hogarth] Autograph Note in the third person commencing Lady Lyttelton requests to [Joseph] Hogarth [leading British fine art print publisher, print seller, frame maker, art restorer [Wikipedia]] asking for drawing paper.

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Lady Lyttelton [Sarah Lyttelton, Baroness Lyttelton (née Spencer) (1787 – 1870), courtier, governess to Edward VII]
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[17 St James's Place] 10 August [docketed 1846].
£95.00

One page, 12mo, bifolium, fold marks, good condition. Addressed to Mr Hogarth | Hay Market | London on final page of bifolium, with docketed information and a penny red. Text: Lady Lyttelton requests Mr. Hogarth to send her a block of white drawing paper like the enclosed [bit?], to be sent as soon as possible to No. 17 St James's Place directed to her. | August 10th || The block to be like the one Captain Percy bought at Mr. Hogarth's.

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[Samuel Beckett; Peter Hall, director] Programme for the first production in English of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot

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[Samuel Beckett; Peter Hall]
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Produced at the Criterion Theatre, London, on Monday 12 September 1955 (first performed 3 August 1955).
£95.00

Theatre programme, 8pp., 12mo, slightly crumpled, with closed tear at spine. Vladimir is played by Hugh Burden not Paul Daneman, who started the run.

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18 Autograph Letters Signed from Captain Hon. Sir Seymour John Fortescue, Equerry-in-Waiting to the Prince of Wales [the future King Edward VII], to 'Lady Edith', filled with English high society and horse- racing news and gossip.

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Captain Hon. Sir Seymour John Fortescue (1856-1942), Equerry-in-Waiting to King Edward VII, 1893-1910
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On the following letterheads: 23 Dover Street, London (5); Royal Yacht Osborne; H.M.S. Renown, Mediterranean; The Grove, Watford; 22, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris; Place Vendôme, Paris; Hôtel Weimar, Marienbad; Turf Club, Piccadilly. 1894-1899.
£850.00

18 long letters, totalling 106pp., 4to, and 2pp., 8vo. Fourteen signed 'Seymour Fortescue' and four 'Seymour F'. Three with the year stated by Fortescue, ten others dated in pencil in another hand. In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. For biographical information about Fortescue, see the end of this entry.

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Autograph Letter Signed from Hon. Rosa Hood, Lady in Waiting to Queen Victoria, informing Mrs Gye of the Queen's response to her letter denying authorship of an article in the Church Journal. With autograph draft of response by Mrs Gye, signed 'Be'.

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Hon. Rosa Hood (d.1922), Lady in Waiting to Queen Victoria [Mrs Elizabeth Gye, wife of the manager of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Frederick Gye]
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Hood's letter: On letterhead of Osborne [Isle of Wight]. 8 January 1891. Mrs Gye's draft reply: without place or date.
£120.00

Both items good, on lightly-aged paper. Rosa Hood's sister Adelaide Fanny was the wife of Herbert F. Gye, and letter and reply are written informally. Hood's letter: 3pp., 12mo. She received Mrs Gye's letter that morning, 'and the Queen has read it' and is 'quite pleased with your reply'.

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