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Clara Novello Davies, Welsh singer, teacher, composer, and conductor, mother of Ivor Novello.

[Clara Novello Davies, Welsh singer, teacher, composer, and conductor, mother of Ivor Novello] Bold Autograph Signature Clara Novello Davies.

Signature on verso of detached album leaf, 20 x 16.5cm, one edge frayed, aging but good condition. Other signatures on the recto, but not deciphered. See Image.

£50.00 Clara
[Ernest Marples, sometime Minister of Transport AND Harold Macmillan, sometime Prime Minister.]

[Ernest Marples, sometime Minister of Transport AND Harold Macmillan, sometime Prime Minister.] Election Slogans Marples Must Go and Mac Must Go.

Banners, paper, 50 x 10cm, fold marks, good condition. Perhaps intended to put in one's window unlike the brazen Marples Must Go that decorated a bridge on the MI in living memory, objecting to his policies (including the Beeching Railway butchery). Harold Macmillan had reached his sell-by date...

£100.00 Marples
Lydia Becker, suffragette and scientist

[Lydia Becker, suffragette and scientist] Final lines and signature ONLY clipped from Autograph Letter

Final lines and signature ONLY clipped from Autograph Letter, 11 x 6cm, good condition. Text: We beg that you will favour us with your presence and support on the occasion | I am| Yours faithfully | Lydia E Becker | Secretary. Note: In February 1867, she became secretary of the Manchester...

£56.00
Hilaire Belloc [Joseph Hilaire Pierre Ren? Belloc] (1870-1953), Anglo-French author and poet.

[Hilaire Belloc, author] Autograph Note Signed H. Belloc to The Manager. The Sunday Dispatch, declining what he thinks is an over-payment for something of his published. With envelope with address in his hand.

One page. 8vo, fold mark, sl.dulled but clear and complete. Text: By some error the enclosed [no longer] cheque for 5 guineas has been sent me in payment for my article in last Sunday's Weekly Despatch. There can, of course, be no question of my accepting remuneration in that scale. Perhaps you...

£80.00
Dorothy Macmillan, wife of Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister (1957-63)

[Dorothy Macmillan, wife of Harold Macmillan, P.M.] Typed Note Signed Dorothy Macmillan to Professor W.K. Stanton, organist, educationalist, and composer of sacred music.

One page, 12mo, very good condition, docketed (by Stanton prob.) Letter from [D] M. Macmillan. Text: I am so sorry that your most kind letter to me of the 11th of October has not been answered before this, but I feel sure that you will understand how very occupied my days have been during these...

£65.00
Bryan .B.W. Proctor (Barry Cornwall), Poet

[Barry Cornwall, Poet] Autograph Letter Third Person (Mr. Proctor will be obliged to Mr. Hogarth (Printseller) Haymarket (see Note below), somewhat heated.

Two pages, 16mo, bifolium (2nd leaf blank apart from address as above), good condition. Mr. Proctor will be obliged by knowing from Mr Hogarth whether he has received back the print of Mr Macready [William Macready, actor] as Werner, after a picture of Mr. Maclise. | As Mr Proctor never [...

£80.00
[The Death of Prince Albert] R.R.R. [author unidentified]

[The Death of Prince Albert; PRINTED LEAFLET] The Prince Consort

One printed page, 12mo, the first page of four in a greyish bifolium, fold marks, minor staining of fourth page, good condition. Verse, 5.5 x 11cm on Page 11 x 18cm. First two lines: There's silence fallen on the land, | Unwonted dread; [...]. Last two lines: And leaving on the dead its trace...

£200.00 albert
[Charles Dickens; Eliza Lynn Linton; Gadshill]

[[Charles Dickens; Eliza Lynn Linton; Gadshill] Photograph of Gadshill.

Contemporary Photograph, 15 x 10.5cm, good condition. Image compared with online (googled) images, and is a slightly different angle to the closest. See Image.

£50.00
Ronald Storrs [Sir Ronald Henry Amherst Storrs (1881 -1955) official in British Foreign Office, Oriental Secretary (Cairo), Military Governor (Jerusalem), Governor (Cyprus), Governor (N.Rhodesia)]

[Ronald Storrs of the Foreign Office; Egypt, Jerusalem, Cyprus, N. Rhodesia] Typed Letter Signed Ronald Storr to a Miss Calverley, mentioning his book Orientations and Coningsby Disraeli.

One page, 12mo, right edge frayed and stained, not affecting text, mainly good condition. Text: I am no less proud than touched by your letter about Orientations [underlined]. Exactly the sort of praise that encourages most. It was also very good of you to send me the book which once belonged to...

£120.00
Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950), Anglo-Italian author of romance and adventure novels

[Rafael Sabatini, Anglo-Italian popular novelist.] Autograph Letter Signed Rafael Sabatini to Mr. Gunter about residences in Wales..

1p, 12mo, blank area dusted, mainly in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Further on the subject of MAESHENDRE, which you offered me, if this is still available I think I should like to take it for 3 or 4 months from 14th March. Before definitely deciding I should like to view it & for...

£80.00
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