BRIDGEMAN
(Sir Robert Clive, 1896-1982, from 1935 2nd Viscount)
Autograph Letter Signed to Leonard Kent,
Shrewsbury antique dealer, sending 7/6 for a badge, 1 side 8vo., 113 Sloane Street, S.W.1., 23rd October
Item Date:
1938
Stock No:
12225
£10
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A POWERFUL PLEA
BRIGGS
(Jeremiah, Attorney at Law, General Manager of the National Labour Alliance)
'The Labour-Advocate', No. 1, price one penny,
headed "Wages without Stoppages!!!", describing how piece-earnings of 4s to 13s a week have all but a few pence stopped as Frame-Rent, Charges and Fines, the misery that follows, and the need to establish by law "</i>Net</i> instead of Nominal Contracts", with verses and articles on the "fatal scourge" of competition and "truck", advertisements for "The Labour Hall, Park Street, Derby", its reading room, and nightly meeting at 8 p.m., 8 sides 4to., 28 Iron Gate, Derby, no date, c.
light damage at end with loss (?deliberate) of the printer's name and some text on the inside as a result
Item Date:
1855
Stock No:
19542
£75
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BRIGHT
(Jacob, 1821-1899, Radical M.P., brother of John)
Autograph Letter Signed 'J. Bright' to Mrs Scatcherd,
saying he does not know much "about the geography of your district" but will vote "in favor of Morley ... if a division is taken", 1 side 8vo., House of Commons, 4th April
laid down
Item Date:
1885
Stock No:
19582
£15
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[BRIGHT
(John, 1811-1889, Radical Statesman and Orator)]
Copy in another hand of his verses
"written in Visitors book at Drumnadrocket Inn, Glen Urquhart", saying that commonly "In Highland Glens ... man is chased away and game preserved", but that in "lovelier" Glen Urquhart, "deer and grouse have not supplanted men / Nor thousands here a wretched life course run / To buy a splendid luxury for one / Midst stifling walls and sweltering alleys thrust", and ending "Here Mules & Shoddy have not stunted men", 12 lines, 1 side folio, no date, c.
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
51198
£29
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BRIGHT
(John, 1811-1889, Radical Statesman and Orator)
Engaging autograph letter signed to the Revd Samuel Clarkson,
of Broughton, Manchester, thanking him for "the kindness which dictated the lines" accompanying "your note", unfortunately he is "in no way worthy of the compliments of Poets ... effusions of this nature" in the newspapers "make me blush", he cannot come up to "your standard of duty" and has "a nervous apprehension" about "the ordinary labour of Parl[iamentar]y life -- A few weeks will show", ending "In future, I must urge you to take a better subject when the poetic fit is on", 4 sides 16mo, Rochdale, 26th January
traces of former guard
Item Date:
1858
Stock No:
52905
£65
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