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Robert Williams. Inventor of a screw propeller (DNB). End of letter clipped, text "Yours very truly / Robt Griffiths", c. 3.5 x 1-1.5" (irregular), good condition. |
£20.00 | |
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A. Moncrieff, colonel and engineer Moncrieff, Sir Alexander 1829-1906, colonel and engineer (DNB). Bold signature and date on part of headed notepaper (Royal United Service Institution), paper, c.4 x 4", slightly stained from having been laid down but clear. |
£25.00 | |
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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 | |
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Oscar Browning. Browning has signed his headed notepaper virtually in the centre. |
£20.00 | |
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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 | |
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Thomas Coutts. 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 | |
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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 | |
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Edna Lyall. 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 | |
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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 | |
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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 |
