ROBBINS
(Lionel, 1898-1984, Professor of Economics at the LSE 1929-1961, Life Peer)
Remarkable letter to Lord Waverley
(Sir John Anderson, 1882-1958, war-time Chancellor of the Exchequer), expressing his "sympathy and indignation at the infamous treatment you have received from the Socialists - including by omission the late Prime Minister [Attlee] ... I am disgusted with Gaitskell [Hugh, leader of the Labour Party 1955-1963] who was a pupil of mine [at New College, Oxford] and a friend of long standing", he sends a copy of his letter to Gaitskell (present) "which I have no doubt will end that relationship. These people will reduce everything to a common degradation if no protest is made" (2nd March 1952), to Gaitskell he writes "I know the victim of your shabby triumph ... During the war I watched him settling disputes between ministers of all parties ... Since the abolition of the University Franchise ... he has refused safe conservative seats on the ground that as a public servant he received confidences which he would not ... had it ever been thought that he would ever fight on a party ticket ... Are only mediocrities who have no views on anything, henceforward, to be in charge of our public inquiries? Is the stuffed shirt their idea of the just man made perfect?", with further scathing comments, " 'Ne'er look ... the eagles are gone; crows and daws, crows and daws ...' Yours with very deep regret", 2 sides 8vo and 2 sides folio, 10 Meadway Close, N.W.11, 1st - 2nd March
Item Date:
1952
Stock No:
18784
£475
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ROBERTSON
(James Patrick Bannerman, 1845-1909, M.P. for Bute, Rector of Edinburgh University, Lord President of the Court of Session, 1891, Lord of Appeal and Life Peer, 1899)
Autograph letter signed to Professor Granger Stewart,
the pathologist, thanking him for "yr kind & gratifying letter of congratulation" on becoming Lord Advocate, 19 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, 23rd October
Item Date:
1888
Stock No:
54184
£35
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ROBERTSON
(Archibald, 1853-1931, Bishop of Exeter 1903-1906)
Signed postcard photo,
14th October
Item Date:
1904
Stock No:
50332
£35
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ROBINSON
(John Arthur Thomas, 1919-1983, Dean of Chapel, Bishop of Woolwich)
Fine Typed Letter Signed with Autograph Postscript to Aubrey Hodes
concerning his review of “a book for the JOURNAL OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES called GOD AS PERSON IN THE WRITINGS OF MARTIN BUBER. It provided the opportunity after a long gap of being able to read your own biography of him. I greatly enjoyed this, and found it much more interesting than the other book! I therefore sent a short notice into the J.T.S. in case they would like to publish that as well. I have no idea whether they will... but conceivably a library might take note of it. Anyhow, I enclose a copy of what I said about both... I hope sometime that we shall make contact again, and I still look forward one day to visiting Israel. I don’t know whether I told you, but I made a passing reference to your DIALOGUE WITH ISHMAEL in my CHRISTIAN FREEDOM IN A PERMISSIVE SOCIETY... in the course of a sermon there reproduced that I originally gave in the Channel Islands on ‘Liberation and Reconciliation’. If you don’t have a copy I should be happy to send you one. I don’t know also whether you ever saw my wife’s little book SEVENTEEN COME SUNDAY, which was written for our daughter Catherine for her seventeenth birthday very much under the influence of a re-reading of I AND THOU. I am grateful, if for nothing else, in your book for the letter from Buber to Gandhi. I thought it was fascinating...” with an autograph postscript “Will Israel ever learn the lesson of its history?!...”, 2 sides oblong 4to., Trinity College, Cambridge headed paper, 1st October 1971 together with an Autograph Letter Signed from Aubrey HODES sending “copies of the letters I can offer you. The prize one here is from John Robinson, the former Bishop of Southwark, whose book Honest to God created such a storm. His handwritten note at the end about Israel is very important, as he never criticised Israel publicly, but did so to me... These are the last letters I will offer you. I have lots more, but they are about my own books and also personal and I want to keep them in our family archives...”, 2 sides 8vo., no place, no date, lacking the top of the first sheet, the Robinson letter
Item Date:
1971
Stock No:
41961
£75
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ROBINSON
(Joseph Armitage, 1858-1933, Dean of Wells 1911-1933)
Signed postcard photo
as Dean of Westminster, postmarked 9th March
Item Date:
1904
Stock No:
50333
£30
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