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C. Lewis Hind [Charles Lewis Hind (1862?1927) journalist, writer, editor, art critic, and art historian.]

[C. Lewis Hind, journalist etc] Typescript of his introduction to The Daiiary of a Looker-On [pub.1908] Dedication To The Discouragement of Hesitancy with authorial annotations.

Typescript with MS add, 2pp., 4to, aging but text clear and complete. Hind adds a note in MS indicating that he has sent this text to his dedicatee , a man of mystery who adds in pencil (presumably returning the text) I put a pencil line through the lines I would omit-. (Pencil marks confirmed...

£120.00
4th Earl of Clarendon (1800 -1870) diplomat and statesman, sometime Viceroy in famine-stricken Ireland

[Clarendon, Viceroy Ireland; Irish famine] Substantial but Part only of significant Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Sydney Morgan, Irish Novelist concerning Irish Bill.

Substantial part of Letter, final three pages, bifolium, very good condition, final page laid in windowpane. Text: [missing a leaf] or a column & 1/2 to The Times 3 or 4 days before the Bill is introduced they wd insert them & the widest effect wd be produced at the right moment - Some...

£250.00
[W.B. Yeats; King Alfred School, Highgate; Sylvia Lynd]

[W.B. Yeats; King Alfred School, Highgate; Sylvia Lynd] Programme for End-of-Term Party which included early performance of Yeats's The Land of Heart's Desire

Four pages, 4to, fold marks, staining (part foxing), text clear and complete. Programme comprises: Page 1 the basic information about the play (characters etc); Page 2 a poetic prologue by E.R.; pp.3 & 4 school song, class songs and Call-over Songs. From the Papers of Sylvia Lynd, nee...

£120.00
[Astronomer] Leland E. Cunningham, American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets

[Leland E. Cunningham, American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets] Two Typed Letters Signed to a Richard Bateman (student who became expert on Celestial Mechanics) about course work. (Celestial Mechanics, etc).

Both letters one page, 4to, good condition. A. 13 August 1952, text: I have recently hired for the summer session several new computers, who will probably continue through the first semester as well. It is doubtful that I will have sufficient funds to add another before the second semester, and...

£50.00
[Admiralty; Mutiny; The Nore]

[Admiralty; Mutiny; The Nore; newspaper] The London Gazette Extraordinary, Wednesday, June 7, 1797

Four pages, bifolium, edges marginally damaged without affecting text, minor ink spray, aged, closed tear at halfway fold mark repaired. Statement concerning the mutiny on the Nore by HMS Sandwich etc with names of naval dignitaries (Given under our Hands, etc) and finally adding Evan Nepean's...

£220.00
Thomas Hughes QC (1822 ? 1896), author of 'Tom Brown's School Days, lawyer, judge, politician and author.

[Thomas Hughes; Tom Brown's School Days] Autograph Note Signed, Thos. Hughes to W. Bancroft about the latter's present of his book.~[Headed] County Courts | Circuit No. 9, 28 November 1893

One page, 8vo, minor defects, mainly good condition. Text: I hope your kind present of your lately published Vol has not been lying here without acknowledgment for many days. The fact is that I only found it here on my return home late last night - I shall read it with much interest & am...

£56.00
Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington (1699 ? 1747), Army officer and politician,sometime Paymaster-General of Ireland

[Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington, sometime Paymaster-General of Ireland] Part only of Printed Exchequer Receipt Signed Pattee Byng

Part of a Receipt, 13 x 11.5cm, an ancient smear on the verso, ow good condition. Receipt filled in in MS, "Received then of [Lord Onslow, one of the four tellers of his Majesty's Exchequer] the Sum of [Twenty one thousand three hundred Eighty Seven pounds] in further part of an Order, Dated the...

£50.00
Patrick Moore, amateur astronopmer and broadcaster

[Patrick Moore, amateur astronomer and broadcaster] Three Typed Letters Signed to three correspondents

A. TLS, one page, 4to, to Kevin, 17 May [no year given], good conditiopn, text; He has signed some papers, then apologises for the lateness of his TV programme. There isn't much I can do about this, alas. But I hope you enjoy them when you do get the chance to watch.Last weeks', with Carl Sgan,...

£60.00
Kingsley Amis, novelist [J.R. Ackerley]

[Kingsley Amis, novelist] Autograph Note Signed Kingsley Amis to a Mr. Braybrooke [?Neville Braybrooke, magazine editor and publisher in his youth, literary critic]

One page, 12mo, good condition. Text: Sorry - no letters from poor J.R.A. [J.R.Ackerley, author] You should have had them and welcome if they had existed. See Scan.

£56.00
Kate Douglas Wiggin ( 1856 ? 1923) American educator, author and composer.

[Kate Douglas Wiggin, author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, etc] Autograph Quotation Signed Kate Douglas Wiggin.

Paper, 12 x 7cm, remnants on verso indicating tipped on another surface previously. Text: 'God bless the brick house that was; God bless the brick house that is to be! | Kate Douglas Wiggin | From Rebecca'. See Scan.

£56.00
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