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[Donovan [Donovan Philips Leitch], Scottish musician associated with the hippy movement.] Autograph Signature 'Donovan', cut from an autograph album.

Author: 
Donovan [Donovan Phillips Leitch] (b. 1946), Scottish musician who influenced the Beatles, and was associated with the hippy movement and the swinging sixties
Publication details: 
No date or place.
£35.00

Sprawling but not unattractive signature, with curled flourish, on piece of wove paper which has been cut into an irregular 9.5 x 6 cm oval to match the curve of the signature. In good condition, lightly aged. The recipient has noted the singer's name on the reverse, which carries traces of glue and brown paper from mount. See Image.

[Eric Kennington, artist and sculptor.] Three Autograph Letters Signed to Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd, Lord Mayor of London, concerning a commission for an oil painting. With carbons of three replies including one from Vice-Admiral T. B. Drew.

Author: 
Eric Kennington [Eric Henri Kennington] (1888-1960), artist and sculptor who illustrated T. E. Lawrence’s ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ [Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd (1892-1973), Lord Mayor of London]
Publication details: 
Kennington’s letters: 11 June, 26 [September] and 7 October 1956; all on his letterhead of Homer, Ipsden, Oxon. Replies of 20 June and 3 and 10 October 1956.
£500.00

See Kennington’s entry in the Oxford DNB. All six items in good condition, lightly aged. Previously pinned together, with Kennington’s letters folded for postage, and all three are 1p, 8vo, and signed ‘Eric Kennington’. ONE: Kennington ALS, 11 June 1956. Having conferred with Ackroyd’s clerk ‘Mr. Osborne’, he explains that he cannot give his attention to the portrait until September.

[Desmond Guinness, Anglo-Irish authority on Georgian architecture, son of Lord Moyne and Diana Mitford.] Autograph Note Signed to Philip Dosse, proprietor of ‘Books and Bookmen’, agreeing to do a review.

Author: 
Desmond Guinness [Desmond Walter Guinness] (1931-2020), Anglo-Irish authority on Georgian architecture, son of Bryan Guinness, Lord Moyne, and Diana Mitford [Philip Dosse (1925-1980)]
Publication details: 
6 December 1976; on letterhead of Leixlip Castle, Leixlip, County Kildare [Ireland].
£45.00

See the entries for his mother and father in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Philip Dosse (Guinness spells it ‘Dossé’) was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and ‘Plays and Players’. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once for postage. Large signature, underlined. Reads: ‘Thankyou! [sic] I should be glad to review “Lost Demesnes” and “Classic Irish Houses” by Craig (see the enclosed) if it is sent to you.’

[Donovan [Donovan Philips Leitch], Scottish musician associated with the hippy movement.] Autograph inscription to ‘Clare’, made at the time of his 1968 concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

Author: 
Donovan [Donovan Phillips Leitch] (b. 1946), Scottish musician associated with the hippy movement and the swinging sixties
Publication details: 
‘ROYAL ALBERT HALL [London] / March ’68’ [1968].
£45.00

It was around the time of this autograph that Donovan travelled with the Beatles to India to see the Maharishi, during which he gave Lennon and McCartney tips on guitar playing. A couple of months later he would release one of his biggest hits, ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’. On 14 x 10.5 cm piece of grey paper, extracted from an album. In good condition, lightly aged. Large flowing inscription in red ink, diagonally down from top left: ‘love / To Clare / from / Donovan’. Also in red ink, in another hand at top left: ‘ROYAL ALBERT / HALL / MARCH ’68’.

[Dame Margaret Lloyd George, wife of Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George.] Autograph Letter Signed, asking George Robey (comedian, singer and actor) for his assistance with a Downing Street concert for the Electrical Industries Association.

Author: 
Dame Margaret Lloyd George [née Owen] (1864-1941) wife of Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George [George Robey [Sir George Edward Wade] (1869-1954), music hall comedian]
Publication details: 
25 May 1919. On embossed notepaper of the Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, London.
£65.00

See her entry, and those of Robey and her husband, in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 4to. In good condition, lightly aged. With two folds. Addressed to ‘Geo Robey. Esq. C.B.E.’ and signed ‘Margaret Lloyd George.’ She gives details of a concert she is having at Downing Street the following month, ‘in aid of the Electrical Industries Association’, and has been asked by its committee to ‘invite your kindly assistance’.

[Dame Ruth Railton, musical director and conductor.] Autograph Card Signed to Philip Dosse of Hansom Books, regarding matters including his mother’s cancer treatment and a book by her husband Cecil Harmsworth King.

Author: 
Dame Ruth Railton (1915-2001), conductor, founder of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, wife of press baron Cecil Harmsworth King [Philip Dosse (1925-1980)]
Publication details: 
Irish postmark of 2 April 1975; on letterhead of The Pavilion, Greenfield Park, Dublin.
£56.00

See her entry, and her husband’s, in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Philip Dosse was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including ‘Books and Bookmen’ and ‘Plays and Players’. Postcard of 14 x 9 cm, with letterhead and no illustration. Monogram signature ‘RK’. In good condition, lightly aged, with slight smudging to a couple of words in one corner. Addressed to ‘Mr Philip Dossé. [sic] / Hansom Books. / Artillery Mansions. / 75, Victoria Street. / LONDON.

[‘Philippe Jullian’ [Philippe Simounet], French illustrator, author and aesthete.] Three Autograph Letters Signed and Autograph Card Signed to Philip Dosse, on reviews for ‘Books and Bookmen’, mostly concerning Violet Trefusis and Vita Sackville West

Author: 
‘Philippe Jullian’ [nom de plume of Philippe Simounet] (1919-1977), French illustrator, author, aesthete and dandy [Philip Dosse (1925-1980); Violet Trefusis; Vita Sackville West; Nigel Nicolson]
Publication details: 
All undated, but from 1973 and 1974. Three (including the card) on letterheads of 54 rue de Miromesnil, Paris.
£120.00

The recipient Philip Dosse was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including ‘Books and Bookmen’ and ‘Plays and Players’. Like Jullian, he would commit suicide. See ‘Death of a Bookman’ by Sally Emerson, Standpoint magazine, October 2018. The card is in good condition, lightly aged, while the four letters are in fair condition, with wear and creasing, one (Item Four) with a few small holes to the leaf caused by a paper clip. None of the items is dated. ONE: ACS. On both sides of a plain card with printed letterhead and no illustration.

[D'Arcy Power; R. P. Pott, son of the surgeon Percivall Pott of Bart’s Hospital, London.] Offprint of article on him by Edith Humphris, with 8 items including 3 Autograph Letters from her to Sir D’Arcy Power and Signed Autograph genealogy by Power.

Author: 
[Robert Percivall Pott (1756-1795), son of the celebrated surgeon Percivall Pott of Bart’s Hospital, London] Sir D’Arcy Power (1855-1941), surgeon and medical historian; Edith Mary Humphris, author
Publication details: 
Offprint article from 'Bengal: Past and Present' (Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society). Calcutta, 1936.
£250.00

Humphris wrote a number of books, including biographies of Fred Archer, Mathew Dawson, Adam Lindsay Gordon. See Power’s entry in the Oxford DNB. From Power’s library. The material is in good condition, lightly aged, in good tight green cloth binding made for Power, with ‘BOB POTT’ in gilt on spine. The printed article is 36pp, 4to, paginated 69-104, with two plates: black and white photographs of George Romney’s portraits of Pott and his wife Emily. A couple of minor manuscript emendations by the author at the start, and a few pencil annotations by Power.

[Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist.] Autograph Note Signed in Spanish.

Author: 
Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle (1923-2009), outstanding Spanish pianist and composer
Publication details: 
18 June 1975. No place.
£45.00

1p, landscape 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. In response to a request for an autograph: ‘Para Paul-Marcel como recuerdo afectuoso. / Alicia de Larrocha / 18. 6 – 1975’. See Image.

Copy of ‘Poems by C. Edmund Maurice / Edited by Emily Southwood Maurice’, with presentation inscription to Queen’s College Library, London, from ‘Mrs C. S. Maurice’., sister of the School's founder

Author: 
C. Edmund Maurice (1843-1927), historian, and his wife Emily Southwood Maurice [née Hill] (1840-1931), sister of the reformer Octavia Hill
Publication details: 
Book published in 1929 by Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street W.C., London. Inscription dated 1931.
£150.00

See the entries for Mrs Maurice’s sister Octavia Hill and their mother Caroline Southwood Hill in the Oxford DNB. Book: viii + 77 + [1]. 12mo. Errata slip between pp.56 and 57. In original green cloth, gilt. Good copy, lightly aged and worn, in original green cloth binding gilt. Bookplate of Queen’s College, London, on front paste-down, stamped ‘WITHDRAWN’. Presentation inscription on recto of front free endpaper: ‘Queens College Library / Presented by Mrs C. S. Maurice / 1931’.

[‘Yes, I suppose the name did come from the Church’: ‘Clemence Dane’ [pen name of Winifred Ashton, English novelist and playwright.] Typed Letter Signed (‘Clemence Dane’) to ‘Mrs. Bagnall’, thanking her for her kind words regarding ‘Broome Stages’.

Author: 
‘Clemence Dane’ [pen name of Winifred Ashton (1888-1965)], English novelist and playwright
Publication details: 
15 September [no year]. On letterhead of Hunthay, near Axminster, Devon.
£50.00

See her entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, landscape 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged, with curling to inner edge. Central vertical fold. She thanks her for writing about ‘Broome Stages’, and is glad she enjoyed it. ‘You are quite right, it is a pleasure and an encouragement to hear that a book makes friends.’ She concludes, ‘Yes, I suppose the name did come from the Church: it gave me the idea, but it was pure chance, there is no association.’

[‘Mr Flotsam and Mr Jetsam’ (musical duo B. C. Collingwood and Malcom McEachern).] Autograph Signature, with stylized self-portrait, of ‘Flotsam’ (Bentley Collingwood Hilliam), tenor, pianist and songwriter.

Author: 
‘Mr Flotsam and Mr Jetsam’ [Bentley Collingwood Hilliam [born Smailes] (1890-1968), English tenor, pianist and songwriter, and Malcolm McEachern (1883-1945), Australian bass]
Publication details: 
No date or place.
£50.00

‘Mr Flotsam and Mr Jetsam’ are regarded as precursors of Flanders and Swan. The present item is on a 14 x 13 cm leaf torn from an album. The high-acidity paper is discoloured, otherwise in good condition, with no chipping or wear. Entirely blank on both sides apart from the autograph ‘Flotsam’, with diagonal flourish, beneath a highly stylized and simplified portrait of flotsam seated at his piano. A nice and unusual item. See Image

[Benny Hill, English comedian famed for his television series ‘The Benny Hill Show’.] Signed Autograph Inscription to black and white publicity photograph, with Autograph Note Signed on reverse.

Author: 
‘Benny Hill’ [Alfred Hawthorne Hill] (1924-1992), English comedian famed for his television series ‘The Benny Hill Show’, and his use of slapstick, burlesque and double entendre
Publication details: 
No date or place, but the portrait of Hill apparently dating from the 1960s or early 1970s.
£45.00

Despite criticism for his supposedly sexist humour, Hill’s work was admired by men from the novelist Anthony Burgess to Michael Jackson and Burt Reynolds. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. In good condition, lightly aged, with light traces of glue from mount on reverse. An 8.5 x 14 cm photographic print, carrying an 8.5 x 10.5 cm black and white head and shoulders shot of a smirking Hill, staring fixedly at the viewer in black top. Inscribed in light ink in the blank patch beneath the image: ‘To Eric / Cheers! / Benny Hill’.

[The man responsible for the British bobby: Sir Robert Peel, two-time Prime Minister.] Autograph Signature cut from letter.

Author: 
Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Tory, Conservative, Peelite), founder of the Metropolitan Police (who were nicknamed 'bobbies' and 'peelers' after him)
Publication details: 
No date or place.
£20.00

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Loose flowing signature, reading 'R Peel'. On a rectangle of paper, roughly 4.5 x 2.5 cm. Lightly discoloured and creased, with traces of glue on blank reverse from mount. See Image.

[Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell, explorer and colonial official, brother of the founder of the Scouting movement Sir Robert Baden-Powell.] Autograph Signature cut from letter.

Author: 
Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell (1847-1898), explorer, author, commissioner in Victoria, Australia, the West Indies, Malta and Canada, and brother of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts
Publication details: 
No date or place.
£20.00

See his entry, and those of his father and brother, in the Oxford DNB. On rectangle of paper, roughly 8.5 x 3.5 cm. In good condition, lightly aged, with the 'Powell' of the signature slightly smudged, and traces of glue from mount on reverse. Reads '[...] and Love [...] / Yours truly / George Baden-Powell'.

[Sir Louis Blom-Cooper, barrister and campaigner for law reform.] Autograph Letter Signed to Philip Dosse, editor of ‘Books and Bookmen’, explaining his reservations with regards to writing a review.

Author: 
Sir Louis Blom-Cooper (1926-2018), barrister and campaigner for law reform, a founder of Amnesty International who played a prominent part in the Hanratty murder case [Philip Dosse (1925-1980)]
Publication details: 
17 January 1975; on letterhead of Goldsmith Building, Temple, EC4 [London].
£50.00

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Dosse was the proprietor of Hansom Books, publishers of ‘Books and Bookmen’ and six other arts magazines. 1 p, 8vo. In good condition, folded for postage. Addressed to ‘Mr. Dossé’ (Dosse did not spell his name with an accent) and signed ‘Louis Blom-Cooper’ (the hyphen, if hyphen it is, consisting of a tiny dot). He is flattered by the request that he ‘contribute occasionally to Books & Bookmen’, and ‘in principle’ he is ‘very willing to review appropriate books’, having written ‘one or two reviews way back in the 1950s’.

[Sir Oswald Mosley and his secretary Jeffrey Hamm; British Union of Fascists.] Typed Letter Signed from Hamm to Philip Dosse of Books and Bookmen, regarding a review by Mosley and Peter Liddle, with copy of Mosley letter on Boothby and Skidelsky

Author: 
Sir Oswald Mosley and his secretary Jeffrey Hamm [Edward Jeffrey Hamm] (1915-1992), Welsh fascist who succeeded him as leader of the Union Movement and edited ‘Lodestar’ [British Union of Fascists]
Publication details: 
Hamm's letter: 15 March 1979; on letterhead of the 'Sir Oswald Mosley Secretariat', 76A Rochester Row, London SW1. Copy of Mosley letter to Dosse: undated ('For June Issue' in 1975); on his letterhead, 1 Rue des Lacs, Orsay 91, France.
£60.00

See Mosley’s entry in the Oxford DNB. Hamm’s papers are in the University of Birmingham. The recipient Philip Dosse (1925-1980) was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and Plays and Players.ONE: Typed Letter Signed from ‘Jeffrey Hamm’ to ‘Mr. Dossé’ (Dosse did not employ an accent). 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged and folded once. Begins: ‘Sir Oswald dictated this review over the telephone today on to my recording machine.

[Sir David Young Cameron, Scottish painter and etcher.] Autograph Letter Signed D.Y.C, to ‘Lawrence’ (Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, RA), describing his wartime activities and praising the recipient's work.

Author: 
Sir David Young Cameron (1865-1945), Scottish painter and etcher [Alfred Kingsley Lawrence (1893-1975), RA]
Publication details: 
15 December 1940; on embossed letterhead of Dun Eaglais, Kippen, Stirlingshire.
£180.00

See his entry, and that of Lawrence, in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with slight nicking and damage at edges. Folded for postage. Signed ‘D. Y. C/’. Begins: ‘My dear Lawrence. / You are often in my thoughts & many a wondering I have as to you & what your life & work is in these grim and sinister days for each & all.’ He asks if his work is printed and his ‘two studios untouched’. ‘Here I am & my sister Katherine and I have much to do & many things to help & try to keep going when so many are away.

[Sir Arnold Wesker, British playwright, one of the 'Angry Young Men' of the 1950s.] Two Typed Letters Signed to Philip Dosse of 'Plays and Players', the second with reference to F. R. Leavis and 'standards', John Russell Taylor and John Tarter.

Author: 
Sir Arnold Wesker (1932-2016), British playwright whose early work drew on his experiences in the Jewish East End of London, one of the 'Angry Young Men' of the 1950s [Philip Dosse (1925-1980),]
Publication details: 
11 July and 26 September 1972; both from 27 Bishops Road, London N6.
£50.00

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Philip Dosse was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and Plays and Players. Both items 1p, 4to. ONE (11 July 1972): Signed 'A. Wesker'. In good condition, with short closed tear at one edge of central postage fold. He begins by explaining how to apply for permission to print his play 'The Old Ones', adding: 'But as for writing an introduction to it, I am afraid I would prefer not to. It is a very simple, straight-forward play and doesn't need a great deal said about it.

[Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury.] Two Autograph Letters Signed to ‘Mr. Cremer’ (Sir Randal Cremer, Liberal MP), the first regarding the lack of 'reforming direction' from the present government..

Author: 
Randall Davidson [Randall Thomas Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth] (1848-1930), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1903 to 1928 [Sir Randal Cremer (1828-1908), winner of Nobel Peace Prize]
Publication details: 
ONE: 21 January 1891; on letterhead of the Deanery, Windsor Castle. TWO: 7 February 1893; Bishops House, Kennington, on letterhead of the Athenaeum club, London.
£45.00

Davidson is the longest-serving Archbishop of Canterbury since the Reformation. See his entry, and that of Cremer, in the Oxford DNB. Both items in good condition, lightly aged, and each with a postage fold. The first with glue to margin from mount. ONE (20 January 1891): 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Signed ‘Randall T. Davidson’. He thanks Cremer for his ‘letter about Mr Phillips’, and will bear in mind what he has said.

[Philip Schaff, Swiss-born Protestant theologian who settled in America.] Autograph Letter Signed, in English, to ‘Mrs. Reynolds’, regarding the Pan-Presbyterian Council and his activities in London.

Author: 
Philip Schaff (1819-1893), Protestant theologian, born in Switzerland, educated in Germany, who settled in America; sympathetic to the Oxford Movement
Publication details: 
23 June 1888. 21 Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, on letterhead of the Hotel Metropole, London.
£50.00

See his entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2pp, 12mo. Closely-written in a neat and elegant hand, signed ‘Philip Schaff’. In good condition, on browned paper, folded twice for postage. Begins: ‘My dear Mrs. Reynolds: / Many thanks for your kind invitation in which Mrs.

[Miron Grindea, editor of the long-lived London literary magazine ‘ADAM International Review’.] Autograph Letter Signed (‘Adam’), advising Philip Dosse of ‘Books and Bookmen’ on the question of applying to Jean-Paul Sartre for a review.

Author: 
Miron Grindea [born Mondi-Miron Grimberg] (1909-1995), Romanian-born founder and editor of the London literary magazine ‘ADAM International Review’, published 1941-1995 [Philip Dosse (1925-1980)]
Publication details: 
‘Saturday’ [no year]. On letterhead of 1 Palmeira Square, Hove, Sussex.
£50.00

An interesting item, linking the editors of two prominent literary magazines. See his entry in the Oxford DNB, which states, without giving a date, that ‘Chaotic working conditions led to desperation: Grindea sold the title to Frank Cass and retreated to Hove hoping to write his memoirs, but quickly decided he didn't want to and “in agonies of self-flagellation begged Cass to sell back the magazine”’. The recipient Philip Dosse was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and Plays and Players.

[Nora Beloff, political correspondent of the Observer.] Autograph Letter Signed to Philip Dosse of 'Books and Bookmen', regarding the writing of a review.

Author: 
Nora Beloff [Leah Nora Beloff] (1919-1997), journalist with the Observer, the first female political correspondent of a British newspaper [Philip Dosse (1925-1980)]
Publication details: 
Undated. On letterhead of the Observer, London.
£45.00

See her entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Philip Dosse was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and Plays and Players. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. She thanks him for his note, adding 'Would this do?', and stating 'I will write my piece definitely by March 15th.' Signed 'Nora Beloff / NORA BELOFF'.

[John Christie, founder and proprietor of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.] Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mr Giles', about free tickets to a dress rehearsal.

Author: 
John Christie (1882-1962), founder and proprietor of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Publication details: 
28 April 1957; on letterhead of Glyndebourne, Lewes.
£45.00

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, small 4to. In good condition, lightly creased and with central vertical fold for posting. Signed 'John Christie'. He gives details of forthcoming performances: 'So far a week ago 11 performances were heavily booked including 3 sold out: you could let me know presently which dress rehearsal you would like to come to & I will give you 2 seats free.'

[Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician, author and broadcaster, presenter of the BBC radio panel show ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue’.] Autograph Signature written on flap of envelope.

Author: 
Humphrey Lyttelton [Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton, nicknamed ‘Humph’] (1921-2008), jazz musician, author and broadcaster, presenter of the BBC radio panel show ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue'
Publication details: 
No date or place.
£20.00

See the biography of this much-beloved figure in the Oxford DNB. Stylish signature ‘Humphrey Lyttelton’, on irregularly-shaped piece of paper, roughly 7.5 x 4.5 cm, torn from an envelope flap. Somewhat worn and a little creased.

[Friedrich Spielhagen, German novelist and literary critic.] Autograph Signature for collector on otherwise blank-piece of paper.

Author: 
Friedrich Spielhagen (1829-1911), German novelist and literary critic
Publication details: 
No date or place.
£25.00

See his entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Elegant signature, with final flourish curving backwards above the signature. Clearly in response to a request for an autograph, on 14 x 10 cm piece of cream paper. In good condition, lightly aged.

[Earl of Shaftesbury [Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury], Conservative politician, philanthropist and reformer.] Autograph Letter Signed to R. G. Laker, on the subject of 'penny banks', praising the management of the one at St Austell.

Author: 
Earl of Shaftesbury [Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury] (1801-1885), Conservative politician, philanthropist and reformer [R. G. Laker of Trevarrick, St Austell, Cornwall]
Publication details: 
14 January 1863; on letterhead of St Giles's House, Cranbourne, Salisbury.
£65.00

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. With regard to the subject of the letter, the 'penny banks' that were established in mid-Victorian England to encourage thrift among the working classes, see J. W. Dirring's thesis 'The Organization and Practice of Banking in Cornwall, 1771-1922', which states that ' the Penryn Penny Bank (founded in 1861), [...] was forced to stop payment in February [1879] with its funds inaccessible in the failed Cornish Bank'. 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged and creased, with postage folds, one of which has as short closed tear at edge.

[Eden Phillpotts, Devon novelist, poet and dramatist.] Autograph Note Signed, gently admonishing an autograph hunter for omitting to send a stamp.

Author: 
Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960), Devon novelist, poet and dramatist, friend of Agatha Christie and father of Adelaide Eden Phillpotts (1896-1993), latterly Ross, who accused him of incest
Publication details: 
14 January 1920; Tuscany.
£45.00

See his entry, and that of his daughter, in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 4to. In good condition, on lightly-worn grey paper. With two folds for postage. Reads: ‘My dear Scout [Silver?] / always send a stamp when you want an autograph / You will get more that way / Your friend, / Eden Philpotts’.

[Bruno Walter, German conductor, pianist and composer.] Autograph Signature on the cover of the programme for his Royal Command Performance with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival.

Author: 
Bruno Walter [born Bruno Schlesinger] (1876-1962), German conductor, pianist and composer, who fled the Nazis, first to France, and from 1939 to the United States [Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra]
Publication details: 
On programme for his performance at the Usher Hall, 8 and 9 September 1947, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama, 24 August to 13 September 1947, printed by Geo. Stewart & Co., Ltd, Edinburgh.
£50.00

See his entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica. The programme is 12mo, and consists of eight printed pages, stapled into covers printed in black on shiny paper, with a lion rampant on the front printed in red. The sprawling signature 'Bruno Walter' is written diagonally in the top-left quarter of the front cover. In good condition, lightly aged, but with the back cover damaged by removal from mount. Central vertical fold.

[Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and translator of Plato.] Two Autograph Letters Signed, one to ‘Bramston’ and the other to '[Shairp? Sherif?]'.

Author: 
Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893), Master of Balliol College, Oxford, translator of Plato and close friend of Florence Nightingale and contemporary of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll')
Publication details: 
First letter, to Bramston, ‘Aug. 21 [no year, on paper watermarked 1864] / Tummil Bridge [i.e. Tummell Bridge, Pitlochry]’, on embossed letterhead of ‘COLL DE BALL / OXON’. Second letter, no date or page.
£50.00

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Both letters signed ‘B Jowett’. ONE: Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My dear Bramston’. 2pp, 12mo. On bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, but with discoloration (probably deliberate, since he is writing from Scotland) to letterhead. Strip of paper from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded for postage. Begins by asking for his thanks, and those of ‘Lord Kerry’ (his student, see Abbott’s ‘Life and Letters’), to be sent to ‘Captain Egerton for his kind and hospitable invitation’.

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