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John M. Morton [John Maddison Morton] (1811-1891), English playwright specialising in one-act farces, the most famous of which was ‘Box and Cox’ [Benjamin Nottingham Webster, actor-manager] [‘I’m afraid the veteran farce writer’s “little game” is nearly up!’: John Maddison Morton, playwright.] Autograph Letter Signed to the actor-manager Benjamin Nottingham Webster, negotiating terms and discussing his present penury. The phrase ‘Box and Cox’ has entered the English language. See the OED, and the two men’s entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, landscape 12mo. Neatly inserted in a trimmed windowpane mount. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. Signed ‘John M Morton’. Begins: ‘Dear Webster. / As Mr Anson...		£50.00
John William Calcraft [stage name of John William Cole (c.1793-1870)], actor, dramatist and lessee of the Theatre Royal, Dublin [Theatre Royal, Dublin: John William Calcraft [stage name of John William Cole], actor-manager and dramatist.] Autograph Letter Signed to a playwright, setting out the arrangements for a production. 2pp, 12mo. On first leaf of grey-paper bifolium, the blank second leaf carrying a thin strip of tape from the mount. In good condition, folded once. Signed ‘John W. Calcraft’. The recipient is not named. Thirty-four lines of text, in a somewhat difficult hand. After a reference to ‘Mrs. Cook’s...		£50.00
Lord Alfred Paget [Lord Alfred Henry Paget] (1816-1888), Liberal politician, Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal to Queen Victoria [Charles Manby (1804-84), Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers [Lord Alfred Henry Paget, Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal to Queen Victoria.] Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Manby, Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers, regarding a planned trip ‘to Barnaby’, with a reference to Thomas Brassey. See his entry and Manby’s in the Oxford DNB. 4pp, 12mo. On bifolium with mourning border. In good condition, lightly aged, folded, with thin strip of tape from mount adhering to reverse of second leaf. Addressed to ‘My dear Manby’ and signed ‘Alfred Paget’. He begins by saying that there seems...		£45.00
Lord Granville [Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville] (1773-1846), Whig statesman and diplomat, British Ambassador to Paris on three occasions, covering most of the period between 1824 and 1841 [Lord Granville [Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville], Whig statesman and diplomat.] Autograph Letter in the third person to ‘Mr. Burke’, discussing ‘The King of the French’ and ‘the next Presentation at the Tuileries’. A noted beau, described by Pitt the Younger as ‘the counterpart of the statue of Antinous’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On the first leaf of a bifolium, the second leaf, within a trimmed windowpane mount, docketed in a contemporary hand on the reverse: ‘The Earl Granville /...		£50.00
Louis Haghe (1806-1885), Dutch lithographer and watercolour painter in London, partner with William Day (1797-1845) in lithographic printers Day & Haghe [David Roberts, 'The Holy Land'; Charles Manby] [Louis Haghe, Dutch lithographer of David Roberts’s ‘Holy Land’.] Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Manby, Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers, concerning the loan of a watercolour to a ‘conversatione’ (sic). Haghe features prominently in William Day’s entry in the Oxford DNB, in which their firm’s publication of Robert’s ‘Holy Land’ (1842-49) is described as ‘the most ambitious lithographic work ever published’, for which ‘Haghe, praised by Roberts for the faithful and artistic interpretation of his...		£85.00
Mary Anne CLARKE, (1776?-1852). Royal mistress. [Royal Mistress] Engraving, head and shoulders (slightly decolletage) SIGNED Mary Anne Clarke Circa 14 x 22cm, faintly stained, laid down on larger card, good condition. A bold signature. Note: Mrs Clarke, as she was known, had been the mistress of Frederick, Duke of York, and had used her influence with him to obtain preferment and promotion for those in her large circle for a...		£100.00
Mary Anne Keeley [née Goward] (1805-1899), English actress, wife of the actor Robert Keeley (1793-1869), with whom she managed London’s Lyceum Theatre [Mary Anne Keeley, actress and theatre manager.] Autograph Letter Signed, responding to a request for an autograph with ‘a Specimen of my calligraphy’ and date of birth. See her entry, and that of her husband, in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, in trimmed windowpane mount. Although a short letter, her expansive and elegant hand fills the whole page. Reads: ‘Dear sir / With great pleasure I comply with your request and send a Specimen...		£35.00
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934), late-Victorian and Edwardian playwright [A. M. Broadley [Alexander Meyrick Broadley] (1847-1916)] [Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, English playwright.] Autograph Letter Signed, inviting the journalist A. M. Broadley to a ‘plain breakfast’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient (‘Broadley Pasha’), at the time de facto editor of Edmund Yates’s magazine ‘The World’, was a scandalous figure, who richly deserves his own entry in the same work. 2pp, 16mo. Bifolium. Text on the outer pages, the inner pages carrying the remains...		£35.00
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (1786-1855), composer [William Watts (d.1850), Secretary of the Philharmonic Society of London] [Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, composer.] Autograph Note Signed to W. Watts, enquiring with regard to ‘the Principal Instrumental Solo performers for the Philharmonic Concert of Monday next’ See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded for postage. To ‘W Watts Esqre / &c &c &c’. With good firm signature, with flourish. Reads: ‘Dr Sir / Pray let me know who are the Principal Instrumental Solo performers for the Philharmonic Concert of...		£35.00
Sir William Wilson Hunter (1840-1900), Scottish historian and statistician in the Indian Civil Service, author of the monumental 'Imperial Gazetteer of India’ [Alexander Meyrick Broadley (1847-1916)] [Sir William Wilson Hunter, author of the monumental ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India’.] Autograph Letter Signed to A. M. Broadley, with signed portrait photograph, giving his reason for ‘resigning the Committee’ of the Welcome Club. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient (‘Broadley Pasha’), who does not have the entry he deserves in the same work, had been involved in homosexual scandals in India, in 1872, and in England (‘The Cleveland Street Affair’), in 1889. LETTER: 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition,...		£50.00