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[Hilaire Belloc, author] Autograph Note Signed H. Belloc to The Manager. The Sunday Dispatch, declining what he thinks is an over-payment for something of his published. With envelope with address in his hand.

Author:

Hilaire Belloc [Joseph Hilaire Pierre Ren? Belloc] (1870-1953), Anglo-French author and poet.

Publication details:

[Headed] Tetton House, Taunton crossed out adding As from The Reform Club, Pall Mall, SW1, 21 Nov. 1936.

£80.00

One page. 8vo, fold mark, sl.dulled but clear and complete. Text: By some error the enclosed [no longer] cheque for 5 guineas has been sent me in payment for my article in last Sunday's Weekly Despatch. There can, of course, be no question of my accepting remuneration in that scale. Perhaps you will consult with those who arrange these things & let my know their conclusion.

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[ Henry Kemhle of Grove Hill, MP for East Surrey. ] Autograph Note Signed inviting James Hunt to dine as his guest at the Salters Company.

Author:

Henry Kemble (1787-1857) of Grove Hill, Camberwell, MP for East Surrey

Publication details:

Grove Hill, Camberwell. 19 January 1843.

£30.00

1p.,12mo. On aged and worn paper, with wear, and closed tear to one fold.. Reads: 'Dear Sir | The Salters Company dine together on Thursday the 9th of February, when I hope to have the pleasure of your Company as my Friend'.

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Autograph Letter Signed from Jane Hood, wife of the poet Thomas Hood, to 'Mrs Elliot', wife of the family doctor, Robert Elliot of Camberwell, containing news of the poet and his work, money troubles and family affairs, at the end of their lives.

Author:

Jane Hood [née Jane Reynolds], (1791-1846), wife of the poet and humorist Thomas Hood (1799-1845)

Publication details:

'Wednesday' [1844 or 1845); 'Devonshire Lodge | New Finchley Road | St Johns Wood'.

£280.00

4 pp, 12mo. Bifolium. 73 lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Hood returned to England from Ostend in 1840, moving into Devonshire Lodge after trying other lodgings. A fine letter, informative, energetic and moving. Jane begins by thanking Mrs Elliot for the 'kind present to my Tom [the couple's son Thomas Hood the younger (1835-1874)]': 'I only wish you could have seen the happy boy - how proud he was - and indeed is, of his new appearance - he sends his love & best thanks. I am sorry to say he does not yet write a readable letter'.

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CAMBERWELL

[Hilaire Belloc, author] Autograph Note Signed H. Belloc to The Manager. The Sunday Dispatch, declining what he thinks is an over-payment for something of his published. With envelope with address in his hand.

[ Henry Kemhle of Grove Hill, MP for East Surrey. ] Autograph Note Signed inviting James Hunt to dine as his guest at the Salters Company.

Autograph Letter Signed from Jane Hood, wife of the poet Thomas Hood, to 'Mrs Elliot', wife of the family doctor, Robert Elliot of Camberwell, containing news of the poet and his work, money troubles and family affairs, at the end of their lives.

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