MARRYAT

[Florence Marryat, Victorian novelist, actress, spiritualist and magazine editor, daughter of Captain Frederick Marryat.] Autograph Letter Signed (‘F Marryat. Ross Church’) to ‘Mr Cork’.

Author: 
Florence Marryat [later Florence Church, and then Florence Lean] (1833-1899), Victorian novelist, actress, spiritualist and magazine editor, daughter of Captain Frederick Marryat
Publication details: 
3 November 1873; on letterhead of ‘London Society’, 8 New Burlington Street, W. [London]
£50.00

See her entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, with slight discoloration around edges caused by the show-through of glue from the reverse. As editor of ‘London Society’ she writes: ‘Dear Mr Cork - / The next Number is in the Press, & I should not have room for the Article in question until the subject was stale / Yrs faithfully / F Marryat. Ross Church’.

] Captain Frederick Marryat, novelist and friend of Charles Dickens. ] Autograph Signature ('F Marryat') to conclusion of letter to his mother and family.

Author: 
Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), Royal Navy officer, novelist, friend of Charles Dickens, inventor of Marryat's Code of signalling
Publication details: 
Without place or date.
£30.00

On one side of a slip of paper cut from a letter. In good condition, lightly aged. The conclusion of a letter, reading: '[...] also to get another Servant, so I shall put it off till my return & I have every thing in order. | My kind love to all of you & you my dear Mother ever truly | F Marryat'.

[ Florence Marryat, author and actress. ] Autograph Signature.

Author: 
Florence Marryat (1833-1899), English author and actress, daughter of the novelist Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848)
Publication details: 
Without place or date.
£25.00

Good, firm signature, on 5.5 x 14.5 cm piece of paper. In good condition, lightly aged, on card backing bearing traces of mount on reverse. Reads simply: 'Florence Marryat.'

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