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Peter Whalley

Autograph note signed to the Revd Mr. Lye (perhaps Edward Lye - see DNB)

Author and editor (1722-1791). Two pages, 4to. comprising a note and a list of questions, a tear but not affecting text. Whalley requests Lye's help in getting answers to these questions concerning the history of Easton (Northants), a history drawn "from Mr Bs [Bridges'] Collections". Whalley...

£100.00
Philip Pusey

Autograph note signed to unnamed correspondent

Agriculturalist (1799-1855). He is pleased that his correspondent's book is making its way (which is "a work of time"). He hopes it will be as useful as his correspondent "could wish".

£25.00
R.H. Bruce Lockhart

Autograph postcard signed to J.G. Wilson, Chairman of Bumpus's, booksellers

Author. Two sides of card used, thanking Wilson for obtaining for him an invitation from John Buchan to be a guest at the National Book Trade Dinner and for the "splendid showing" he arranged for his book (probably "British Agent") at Bumpus's.

£35.00
Rev. Edward Coleridge (1800-83), Assistant-Master at Eton College

Autograph letter signed to an unnamed archdeacon,

2 pp, 12mo. "My dear Archdeacon. / I thank God for your note. It is at least an anapneusis in one's deep anxiety at this moment. How very earnestly we ought to pray & long for our good & beloved Primate's recovery - if even but for awhile. I will write to the Bp. of Lichfield (is he in...

£45.00
Richard Everard Webster, Viscount Alverstone

Autograph letter signed to Mrs F[rederick W.] Hollams,

Lord Chief Justice of England (1842-1915). One page, 12mo. Marked "Confidential". "My sister told me of the letter. I have made some enquiries about the man who wrote to you and from what I hear I certainly think you ought not to engage him. You will of course treat this letter as strictly...

£40.00
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

one receipt signed,

One page, 12mo. On recto: "<...> 1797 of John Meheux the sum <...> / <... f>orty five Pounds for one <...> / me as one of the Commissioners <...> / <...> from Michaelmas to <...> / [signed] Hawkesbury". Docketted in pencil and in ink. On verso: "25 Decr...

£50.00
Robert Plumer Ward

Autograph letter signed to "Byham", of the Ordnance Office.

Novelist and politician (1765-1846). One page, 8vo. (He is writing to his former colleague in the Ordnance Office where he was a clerk from 1811 to 1823). He asks him to forward an important packet and recalls "pleasant remembrances of former intercourse".

£50.00
Ruby M. Ayres

Autograph postcard signed, to Kathleen Shackleton, dau. of the explorer, and autograph letter signed to Douglas Sladen.

Popular novelist. She announces to Kathleen Shackleton that they "go on to Cairo tomorrow. ALS, 2pp., 8vo to Sladen, regretting not being able to accept an invitation but inviting the Sladens to the "Authors Dinner" where she is to be a hostess. Two items,

£45.00
Rupert Hart-Davis

Autograph Letter initialled "R" to Daniel George, author and publisher's reader

Publisher. 2pp., 8vo. He discusses his reading which includes Blunden's "Cricket Country", some done for professional reasons.

£45.00
S.R. Crockett

Autograph letter signed to Frank George

Novelist (1860-1914). One page, 8vo. He excuses his delayed response by reference to illness and his travels "over central Europe with a knapsack". He is obviously sending a financial contribution of some sort despite not knowing where his bank account stands. In a postscript he says that he had...

£40.00 S.R. Crockett
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