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Author, Title, Summary Price
Richard Garnett.

Autograph Note Signed to N. Shearing.

Librarian and author. "I shall be very happy to conduct the members of hte South Place Ethical Society over the Library, at any time that may be mutually arranged."

£35.00
Lord Carrington.

Autograph Letter Signed to Acton Chaplin.

Robert Smith, Ist Baron Carrington (DNB). Two pages, 4to, good condition. He welcomes news of a marriage, shows a disinclination to pursue a property for wwhich there is competition, and discusses the enclsure of Bledlow.

£35.00
Oscar Browning.

Signature and date.

Browning has signed his headed notepaper virtually in the centre.

£20.00
St John Ervine.

Typed Letter Signed ro S. Graveson.

Author and drama critic (DNB). One page, 4to, good condition. He thinks that "the man who alters the view of life of the world is a more important person" than the rose-grower "who makes his neighbourhood fragrant". Those who initiate are few. Hw would rather see wages increased, and the...

£45.00
Thomas Coutts.

Autograph Letter Signed "Thomas Coutts & Co" (Coutts's hand) to Thomas Steuart, The Secretary, Bank of Scotland.

Banker. Bank to Bank transaction. One page, 4to, good condition. "Sir/ Since our last of the 2[0]th Inst we are favour'd with yours of the 23d agreeable to which we have this day bought the undermention'd Bills (listed with numbers, description, date and amount, three "Victualling Bills" and one...

£250.00
E.A.Sothern.

Autograph Note Signed to unknown correspondent (name partly clipped off)

He has "stopped all orders at T.R.H. [Haymarket?]" and cannot, therefore, ask other managers for favours.

£20.00
Edna Lyall.

Signature.

Paper, c.4 x 3.5", good condition, at the top of which the authoress has signed her real name and her pseudonym "Ada Ellen Bayly. / Edna Lyall."

£20.00
F. Carruthers Gould.

Autograph Letter Signed to A. Edmund Spender.

Cartoonist. Four pages, 8vo, good condition. He is enthusiastic about the idea of a "Press visit to Devon" but thinks that the sort of journalist he calls the "boozy bounder" should not go. He names people who would help, including aristocrats and literary figures.

£45.00
George B. Rumbold.

Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Francis Vincent.

Diplomat. Three pages, 4to, poor condition but most of the text legible. "Private". Rumbold discusses the reception of a petition he sent to "Mr Fen[?]" saying that he is to get "immediate indemnification for the losses & expenses occasioned by the seizure of my Person, my imprisonment &...

£180.00
George Bubb Dodington.

Document Signed "Geo. Dodington".

Dodington, George Bubb, Baron Melcombe 1691-1762, a Lord of the Treasury, Pope's "Bufo". One page, folio, fold mark, tear, loss of text (including the full signatures formerly below Dodington's), rest of official countersigning, etc. surviving. An order (8 March 1736) to pay £300 from His...

£200.00
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