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[Max Beerbohm] John Drinkwater, Poet and Dramatist

[[Max Beerbohm] John Drinkwater, Poet and Dramatist] Apparently Unpublished humorous verse reported by Drinkwater as by Max Beerbohm about contemporaneous writers (Gibson, Lascelles Abercrombie, Sims, Clement Shorter) and others.

One page, 26 x 20cm, pronounced fold marks, small hole not affecting the text, card backing half the page, top edge stained with remnants of backing[?], text clear and complete. Entitled Lines Written in Depreciation, Commences: Just as a play by Aeschylus or Ibsen | Doesn't inspire one to...

£950.00 Beerbohm
Vera Dart (1892-1984), social worker and Labour Party politician, born in Liverpool [ Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence; London County Council ]

[ Vera Dart, social worker and Labour Party politician. ] Duplicated Typescript of unpublished autobiography titled 'My Six Lives in a Changing World'.

[3] + ii + 152pp., 4to. Perfect bound, with each page on a separate leaf. In fair condition, aged and a little dogeared. Title-page reinforced at fore-edge. Missing the last page or so of the 'Conclusion'. Describes, in a clear and straightforward style, her life 'from the last days of Queen...

£220.00
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), biologist, comparative anatomist, paleontologist, first Director of Natural History Museum, opponent of Charles Darwin

[Richard Owen, palaeontologist who coined the term ?Dinosaur?] UNSIGNED Draft Autograph Letter to your Lordship (prob. Lord John Russell (see note below; a covering letter), apparently about a controversial YMCA lecture.

About his Lecture On Some Instances of the Power of God manifested in his Animal Creation which was perhaps a side-swipe at Darwin?. Two pages, 12mo, some staining and edged with sellotape, but text is a scrawl and occasionally hard to interpret, including the loss of a couple of words under a...

£650.00 Owen
[Malcolm Campbell, racing motorist and motoring journalist] General Rubber Company Ltd and the Consolidated Rubber Manufacturers Ltd

[Malcolm Campbell's signature; Printed with MS. additions] An Agreement [...] Between the General Rubber Company Limited and the Consolidated Rubber Manufacturers Limited

[8]pp., fol., one blank leaf, fold mark down middle, good condition. The document gives the terms of the agreement, including (1a) the sale of The shares and interests of the Vendors of and in the Companies set out in the Schedule [...] and/or other interests of the Vendors in all other foreign...

£120.00
Queen Victoria [Military Rank; Land Forces]

[Queen Victoria [Military Rank; Land Forces]] Document Signed Victoria RI appointing Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart as an officer (2nd Lieut.) in the Land Forces.

Document, one leaf, fold marks, good condition, 40 x 30cm. See Image. Certificates illustrating Urquhart's military career in Inda are also available.

 £250.00 Victoria
[Edmond Becquerel & others; International Congress on Weights, Measures and Coins June 1867

[Becquerel & others; Weights, Measures and Coins] 36 Signatures of attendees at the International Conference of Weights, Measures and Coins

One page from an Album, 28 x 23cm, edges frayed, some staining but signatures clear. A vandal has however cut out and detached the signature of the President, Prince Napoleon and Mathiew[?], President of Committee, so lost. Thirty six distinguished signatories survive, led by Edmond Becquerel...

£420.00 Coins
William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857), English playwright and theatre manager [Thomas Simpson Cooke, Irish singer and composer]

[William Thomas Moncrieff, English playwright and theatre manager.] Autograph Letter Signed, inviting to the Irish singer and composer Tom Cooke to collaborate on a production at the Victoria Theatre.

See the two men?s entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Aged and a little worn, with short closed tear at head of the first leaf repaired with tape, and the second leaf having a discoloration at one edge from tape used in mount. Signed ?W. T. Moncrieff?. Casting interesting light on...

£50.00
William Blanchard Jerrold (1826-1884), journalist and author [Charles Manby, Secretary of the Institute of Civil Engineers; Sir John Rennie, engineer who built London Bridge]

[William Blanchard Jerrold, journalist and author.] Autograph Letter Signed, inviting Charles Manby of the Institute of Civil Engineers to work with him to erect a statue to Sir John Rennie, with cutting of letter by Jerrold on the subject.

Jerrold, Manby and Rennie all have entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On bifolium of grey paper. In good condition, lightly aged, with trace of tape from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded twice. Jerrold has tipped in a newspaper cutting of a letter by him to the editor of...

£60.00
Watts Phillips (1825-1874), playwright and novelist whose play ?The Dead Heart? inspired Dickens? ?A Tale of Two Cities? [Frederick Vining, actor]

[Watts Phillips, playwright and novelist.] Autograph Letter Signed from Paris to the actor Frederick Vining, discussing plans for writing his play ?The Huguenot Captain?, which will be ?my best piece?, and in which their interests ?are identical'.

See his entry, and that of the Vining family, in the Oxford DNB, as well as well as his sister Emma?s memoir. 3pp, 12mo, with the last page written lengthwise. Bifolium. Text clear and entire, but in fair condition only, on aged and worn paper, with strip of tape from mount adhering to blank...

£56.00
Walter de Soysa, son of Sri Lankan tea planter and philanthropist Charles Henry de Soysa of Moratuwa and Alfred House, Colombo, Ceylon

[Walter de Soysa, son of Charles Henry de Soysa, Sri Lankan tea planter and philanthropist.] Autograph Letter Signed from his wife Maria Albo de Soysa to ?Mr. Powell?, attacking his character and their divorce settlement. With Sinhalese document.

James Samuel Walter de Soysa (b.1880) was one of the children of the vastly wealthy Ceylonese tea planter and philanthropist Charles Henry de Soysa (1836-1890) of Moratuwa and Alfred House, Colombo. An Anglican, he was educated at Cambridge, and was a bencher of the Inner Temple. In 1904 he...

£60.00
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