GRATTAN
(Thomas Colley, 1792-1864, Author and Traveller)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Friend',
he has been intending a letter "during my stay in Antwerp and since my return to this equally ... wind-buffeted place. I have been going backwards and forwards with every breeze between here", where he has "a bachelor's den", and Worthing, where his wife is staying with their married son, he hopes the wind may blow his correspondent to see him, "I suppose you are as much worn out as any London fair lady ... by the fatigue of the season ... I hope to call on you to learn when that wicked cabinet has abandoned its bills ... and about that false promiser (not prophet)", the medium Daniel Home, 4 sides 8vo, 26 Cannon Place, Brighton, Friday 20th July
remains of guard over one letter (easily supplied)
Item Date:
1860
Stock No:
17275
£75
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GREEN
(Peter, b. 1924, pen-name 'Denis Delaney', British Professor of Classics at Austin, Texas, and Writer on Greek History, Winner of the Heinemann Prize for Literature)
Portrait Photograph by Edward Leigh of Cambridge,
signed and inscribed "For Molly Patterson [secretary of the R.S.L.] with affectionate regards", 6½" x 4½", no date, c.
a little creased, light water smear just touches top of hair
Item Date:
1970
Stock No:
19819
£40
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GREEN
(Peter, b. 1924, British Literary Critic, Professor of Classics at Austin, Texas, and Univ. of Iowa, and Writer on Greek History, Winner (1957) of the Heinemann Prize for Literature)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Joy P. Farley, of Bath,
saying "Your little nag about A.G.'s death exactly equalled mine when I first read the primary evidence ... but I don't feel justified in divulging my conclusions before they reach MS stage - and have been vetted by the executors ... But you may perhaps draw your own conclusions. 'First Whispers' owed a good deal to its author's vigorous imagination", adding, "I spent what was, I think, without exception the happiest month of my life" at Bath, 2 sides 8vo. and envelope, 19th April
Item Date:
1957
Stock No:
19851
£45
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GREEN
(Henry, 1801-1873, Author & Presbyterian Minister)
Autograph Letter Signed to William Bates
saying he has "looked over the remnant of the Whitney Plates ..." but cannot find no. 60, thanking him for "interesting yourself about my Shakespeare Emblems ..." but explaining that the work is now in the hands of Messrs Trubner and discussing the binding of the work, with which he is fully satisfied, 3 sides 8vo, Heathfield, Knutsford, 7th October
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
4342
£15
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“I AM NO GRAMMARIAN”
GREENE
(Graham, 1904-1991, Novelist & Playwright)
Typed Letter Signed to V. H. COLLINS
(Vere Henry, 1872-1966, Author) thanking him for his “letter and for your generous praise. I will go through the points you raise with the book as soon as I have an opportunity and if, as I expect, I agree with them all (for I am no grammarian) I will incorporate them in any reprint...”, 1 side 8vo., C6 Albany, London, 12th June
Item Date:
1953
Stock No:
42101
£750
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