PLUMB
(Sir John [Jack] Harold, 1911-2001, Historian, Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge)
Typed Letter Signed with autograph salutation and subscription to Professor Geoffrey BEST
(1928-2018, Historian known for his studies of Winston Churchill) thanking him for his “congratulations - it was kind of you to write. Quite obviously Un Souvenir de Solferino is a fascinating book and ought to be published in English but I am, however, afraid it will not do for us. We have given up the Classics series as they did not sell well enough and now one requires to sell over 25,000 of the first edition for a Penguin to pay and so I really do not think it is possible for us to have this translated and publish it...”, 1 side 4to., Master’s Lodge, Cambridge headed paper, 28th June
Item Date:
1982
Stock No:
42504
£35
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PLUMER
(Annie Constance, née Goss, d. 1941, Lady of Grace St John of Jerusalem, and wife of the 1st Viscount)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Madam, Your Highness',
requesting "two reserved tickets", 2 sides 8vo., 5 Egerton Gardens, S.W.3., 17th April
Item Date:
1919
Stock No:
18729
£15
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POLLOCK
(Bertram, 1863-1943, Bp. of Norwich 1910-1942)
Group of 9 Typed Letter Signed to the Revd. (Sir) James Marchant, 1867-1956,
about rapprochement between the Anglican and Free Churches, stimulated by 'The Church at the Crossroads' (1918, by J.H. Shakespeare, 1849-1930, Secretary of the Baptist Union), he thanks him for the book and looks forward to preaching at Eastbourne (18th October 1918), Marchant expects to find a vehicle for the sermon (8th August 1919), meanwhile a correspondence has started in The Times, "Yes, I have written to one or two ... and ... will ... send a letter myself. I see today that Carlisle [Bp. Diggle] is handling Gore [Bp. of Oxford] ... The long article [by the Editor] on Sep 7 was wonderfully favourable ... Would it be worth while to send the sermon itself ? ... I wish the big laymen would write ... Clutton Brock or Edmund Holmes ... wd carry weight", asking if Marchant could approach either of them (12th September 1919), "I hope you do not think I was hard upon Winchester [E.S. Talbot] ... for though he was of us he was not really with us. Now we have" to widen the support "of the Church of England and also on the Free Church side ... the position hitherto must have been very delicate and ... is so still and I should much like to have a talk with you" (25th September 1919), thanking him "for interesting the 'Daily News' ... it was well worth while to publish the correspondence" if only that "the Archbishop's [Randall Davidson's] cordial sympathy might be read ... the general atmosphere of the Lambeth Conference [of 1920] may be rather hampering", Pollock thinks "going over" to the C. of E. by a prominent Free Churchman "is probably just at the moment not the wisest policy" either as an individual or with his flock, giving reasons, he thinks of writing to the Times to substitute 'fellowship' for 'inter-Communion' and 'interchange' "which have got unfortunate connotations ... we need ... the presence of some great Free Church minister in some great central Church of England. Devout men at large know nothing about all these conferences and our secret diplomacy" (7th November 1919), sending the letter for Marchant to comment and sound out the Times (24th November 1919), forwarding a letter for J.H. Shakespeare (24th November 1919), and asking Marchant's help in bringing together Shakespeare and "three or four Bishops and three or four Free Churchmen", he has pruned the letter for the Times "along the lines you suggest" (29th November 1919), "You make little of what you have done for me", he wonders if "my words on the subject of Reunion are scarcely appreciative enough of what has been achieved at Lambeth", fearing his estimate is accurate "if one removes all the overlying ... friendship and eagerness to meet one another ... Mr. Griffith Jones, my friend who was once a Congregational minister here, and one of the best theologians in Norwich ... is going to think the whole question over" (6th October 1925), together 18 sides 4to or 8vo., The Palace, Norwich and Castle Forbes, Aberdeenshire, 1918 -
Item Date:
1925
Stock No:
20181
£275
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POOLEY
(Sir Ernest Henry, 1876-1966, Civil Servant & Captain of Industry)
Collection of 4 Autograph Letters Signed to Rowland
concerning share buying & selling, "The ordinary mug, like me, always seems to buy in the dearest market and sell in the cheapest ...", asking him to do transactions and for advice, 4 sides 8vo., Savile Club, 111 Dorset House & Westbrook House, 22nd February 1957 to 17th November
Item Date:
1960
Stock No:
2645
£20
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY BLESSED JOHN XXIII
POPE JOHN XXIII
(born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, 1881-1963, Pope from 1958, known as Blessed John XXIII since his beatification, called the Second Vatican Council in 1962)
Autograph Letter Signed ‘A. G. Roncalli’ in Italian with Translation, to a friend, probably from his home region of Bergamo in Northern Italy,
sending his “heartfelt thanks for the precious booklet ‘Bergamo in Numbers’ which reflects such honour on the Chamber of Commerce and its illustrious and dear President: Congratulatoins on the increasing number of mankind’s children in the land of Bergamo. I wish you continued growth without interruption in physical prosperity, and spiritual elevation. Would, perhaps, a retrospective glance be useful? At the time of St. Charles Borromeo, the apostolic visitor (1575), Bergamo city and suburbs numbered 19,950 and the diocese 139,232. Warm greetings...”, 2 sides correspondence card, headed “Mgr. Ange-Joseph Roncalli, Archevêque titulaire de Mesembria, Nonce Apostolique”, Paris, 21st July
Item Date:
1948
Stock No:
42262
£1750
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