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Henry Pymm [The Liberal Unionist Tea Party Scandal, Lambeth, 1893; Henry Morton Stanley]

Scrapbook, assembled and annotated by Pymm, containing newspaper cuttings, letters and other material relating to his wife's involvement in the 'Liberal Unionist Tea Party Scandal' of 1893.

The nature of this somewhat Pooterish 'scandal' is explained in one of the cuttings in the scrapbook: '[...] the Unionists of North Lambeth are making secret but strenuous efforts to insure the return of Mr. H. M. Stanley at the next election. To this end the working women of the constitutency...

History £225.00
Henry R. Potter [David Love, the Nottingham poet]

Autograph Letter Signed to E. J. Wheatley.

Possibly the Henry R. Potter, of the Office of Works, who corresponded with Gladstone in 1885 and 1894. 4 pages, 16mo. In good condition: neatly folded twice, with traces of stub along one edge of verso of second leaf of bifoliate. Apologises for 'the numerous omissions of which I have been...

Literature £50.00
Henry Reeve (DNB), editor of the Edinburgh Review

ALS, 2pp, 16mo, to unnamed correspondent

"I am laid up from the effects of an accidental blow on the leg." Is only writing to postpone the visit to 9 November.

Literature £20.00
Henry Reeve.

Autograph letter signed to Rev. W. Tuckwell.

Litterateur and Journalist, editor of the "Edinburgh Review" (1813-1895). Four pages, 8vo, foxing, text clear. Reeve has received an article by Tuckwell on "the Literature of the 18th Century . . . Its defect seems to me to be that in title, in spirit, & in substance, it is somewhat too wide...

Literature £100.00
Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (Lord Holland)

fragment of autograph letter signed, correspondent unnamed

Whig statesman. 'Sir | I find that some persons have been to see Colonel Fox's house in Addison road & objected that the number of bedsteads, & quantity of kitchen utensils & crockery were scanty - I <...> & effects [last word deleted] common ware goods with [last word...

£45.00
Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, statesman.

Autograph Letter Signed "Vassall Holland".

Three pages, 8vo, bifolium, small closed tear, remnants of tipping in,mainly good condition. He has received a letter and petition from his correspondent. He explains his confinement to home through gout, and also the procedure by which the petition would be presented ("as the petition of...

History, Religion £85.00
Henry Robinson, C.E., F.S.I. [sanitation; Victorian London sewers; silage; sewage; sewerage; cesspools]

Some Recent Phases of the Sewage Question, With Remarks on "Ensilage," As applied to the Storing and Preservation of Sewage-Grown Green Crops.

Octavo: 28 pp (paginated 203-230). Unbound and stitched. In original orange printed wraps. Fold-out lithographic plate (c.21 x 45 cms, containing figs. 2 to 6) by C. F. Kell of Castle Street, Holborn, and three illustrations in text: fig.1, a 'useful portable silo [...] made by Messrs. Reynolds...

Social history £30.00
Henry Rosehurst.

4 ALSs probably all to "Mr Smith" (addressed on two)

Bishop of Norwich. (1813) "The application of civil sanctions, of any kind, to religious opinion, has always appeared to me contrary to sound policy, to just reasoning, and to the revealed Word of God.". The Pope is his "Holy Brother". He says that he will vote for his correspondent's bill for...

Religion £200.00
[Iowa; Mid-West]

[Printed] Report. Iowa Land Company, Limited AND Report. Trust & Mortgage Company of Ioaw, Limited

Both 4pp., 4to, not bound, fold marks, good condition. Directors are listed (same for both companies, balance, dividend, purchase of debentures, balance sheet, profit and loss account (year ending 28 Feb.1893.

£56.00
Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837-83), English dramatist [THE SAVAGE CLUB]

Autograph Letter Signed to [Edward] Draper.

One page, 12mo. Very good, if a tad grubby. Thanks Draper for his 'amiable but unconvincing' note. 'Do you not know that I was irritated into bad language by being accused of "d - d impertinence? This, too, before I said a discourteous word. - Goodman [the writer Edward John Goodman], of course...

Music and Theatre £38.00