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Robert Southey, Lake Poet [Rafael del Riego y Fl?rez]

[Robert Southey, Lake Poet; apparently unpublished and unrecorded] Autograph Manuscript Poem signed S. entitled On the Death of Riego [Captain-General Rafael del Riego y Fl?rez (1784 ? 1823) Spanish Army officer and politician]

Part of a cr. 8vo page, 18 x 14cm, aged but clear and complete, over-writing a letter on verso (part of) signed B Gooch [perhaps a relative of Southey's friend Robert Gooch]. SEE SCAN for full text. Title On the Death of Riego. Four stanzas, 4 lines each. First lines [He?] is gone the life of...

£1,250.00
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), English Conservative politician, signatory of Locarno Treaties, winner of Nobel Peace Prize

[Chamberlain] Secretarial Letter in his first person Signed 'Austen Chamberlain' to Dear Mr President (later revealed as Humphrey D. Barnard) declining a fresh engagement [Cambridge Univ. Union Centenary.]

2pp.,8vo, black-bordered, bifolium, good condition. I am at the present time so tied by public work that I should hesitate to take any fresh engagement, but in addition to this I feel that the times are unsuitable [First World War] for anniversary celebrations for which none of us can have much...

£95.00
John Leighton, artist and illustrator

[John Leighton, artist and illustrator; Royal Academy] [DRAFT?] Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Knight [John Prescott Knight, portrait painter, secretary of the Royal Academy]

One page, cr. 8vo, fold marks, good condition. There's a brief note at the top saying Ist draft of a letter regarding a 'Lay' Secretary for the Royal Academy probably Leighton but a smaller hand thanin the Letter. Text of letter: Here we have had a case somewwhat akin to yours - Dr Bence Jomes F...

£80.00
Hans Richter [Johann Baptist Isidor Richter (1843 - 1916), Austro-Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor.]

[Hans Richter, conductor] Autograph Letter Signed flamboyantly Hans Richter to Mr. Morley in English [[Harp maker John Morley]

One page, 4to, fold marks and a bit battered but text clear and complete, as follows: At my next visit in London I shall come to you and we shall talk about your harp at the Covent Garden Theatre. I was very sorry for my not having been able to call at your house, but you must excuse me and you...

£120.00
Fanny Kemble, actress [Frances Anne Kemble (1809 -1893) actress from a theatre family, well-known and popular writer and abolitionist]

[Fanny Kemble, actress] Autograph Note Signed Fanny Kemble to unnamed male correspondent

One page, 11 x 14cms, trimmed but apparently complete, residue of tipping in a reverse (four corner glue dabs), good condition. Text: My dear Sir - I intend leaving London by the 9-55 Express train on Monday - I think it reaches Brighton about half past eleven[...].

£35.00
David Hume [David Hume, Baron Hume of Ninewells (1757?1838) Scottish advocate, judge and legal scholar; nephew of the philosopher]

[David Hume, Advocate, nephew of philosopher] Part of Autograph Letter Signed David Hume to his friend from university days, James Currie, physician [see note below]

Incomplete (probably missing initial bifolium of four pages!), Two Pages, 4to, bifolium, damage around removed seal area, fold marks aged, small closed tears, but clear text as follows: to make any complaints. Mrs H and myfour children (two boys and two girls) are also upon the whole in good...

£220.00
Charles Keene [Charles S. Keene; Charles Samuel Keene] (1823-1891), English illustrator, known for his work for 'Punch' [Frank Walton (1840-1928), artist]

[Punch illustrator Charles Keene ('Charles S. Keene') to Burgess.

12mo, 1 p. Fair, on aged paper folded twice. I'm awfully busy this week but I'll try to come on Friday. You don't say the hour - is it 7. I'll understand it so, that you need not trouble to write again, if that will do.

£45.00
Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith [Ordre de Temple; French Freemasonry; President of the Knights Liberators of the Slaves of Africa]

[Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith; Ordre de Temple; Slavery; French Freemason] Two Manuscripts, one Holograph, relating to Admiral William Sidney Smith's involvement with the (French) Ordre de Temple (see Notes)..

See John Barrow, The LIfe and Correpondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, Chapter XIII, pp.406-424 (Knights Templars etc.). ITEM 1: Holograph, one page, 18 x 23cms, aged but good condition double column, some additions and corrections, apparently a draft for a formal document giving...

£500.00
Victor Caillat and Alfred Lance [Marshall Sisson, RA (1897-1978), British architect; George Pymm, London bookbinder]

[Libraries; bibliotheques] 69 engravings, mostly of libraries, from 'Encyclop?die d'Architecture' of Victor Caillat & Alfred Lance, bound by George Pymm in a volume with 'BIBLIOTHEQUES' on the spine.

From the collection of English architect Marshall Sisson.. 69 engravings, in brown 4to quarter-binding, with 'BIBLIO- | THEQUES' in gilt at head of spine, and 'PARIS | 1855' at foot. In fair condition, on aged paper, in binding worn at hinges. All engravings in 4to, with 12 double-page and 57...

£350.00
C. K. Jaeger [Cyril Karel Stuart Jaeger] (1912-2008), fantasy and children's writer under the name 'Karel Jaeger', friend and landlord of Fitzrovia writer Julian Maclaren-Ross (1912-1964)

[C. K. Jaeger ('Karel Jaeger'), fantasy writer.] Unpublished typescripts of two fantasy novels, 'The Autobiography of a Flea or A Kind of Memoir' and 'Letters from an Oyster Bed'.~Both composed in Elmer, West Sussex, in 1955.~The colourful life of the 'de

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