HOWITT
(William, 1792-1879, Author)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Alfred Ellis,
promising to send him "the infant Walnut tree ... which sprung up this last spring. I gathered the nut and two others which I sent down to Eleanor, but of the fate of which I have not yet heard - from the tree called Pascal's walnut-tree at Port-Royal in the Autumn of 1863 .. Pascal, the author of the beautiful Pensées and the vanquisher of the Jesuits, planted the tree ... Other mementos remain of Nieal Arnold and the rest. Pascal's tree stands between the cemetery - the scene ... where the Institution was so barbarously destroyed, and beautiful spring of La Mere Angelique. As a walnut-tree, independent of the associations ... it is the first walnut-tree I ever saw and bears fine, large fruit ..." and he continues at length about trees and his daughter, who will also bring "a little packet of birch seed collected at Årsten ... the native home of miss Bremer ....", 4 sides 8vo., Highgate, 9th November
Item Date:
1864
Stock No:
15464
£75
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HOWITT
(William, 1792-1879, Author)
Signature from Autograph Letter Signed
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
7699
£10
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HUGHES
(Thomas, 1822-1896, Judge, M.P., Author of ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays’)
Autograph letter signed to Mrs Macmillan
saying that “unluckily my morning order is given away for next Sunday, but I enclose one for the afternoon in case your cousins shd care to go then. I like the afternoon service best & prefer Ainger (the Reader who preaches there) to Vaughan but I know that popular100r prejudice is against me...”, 2 sides 8vo., 37 Park Street, 6th November
Item Date:
1872
Stock No:
41921
£135
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HUGHES
(Thomas, 1822-1896, Judge, M.P., Author of 'Tom Brown's Schooldays')
Autograph letter signed to "Dear Hawkins"
thanking him and saying that he fears "there is nothing you can do for me at Donnington. I envy your friend. When you are there if you want an intensely interesting occupation get Ludlow's memoirs & Clarendon & other's descriptions of the 2 battles of Newbury & try to work them out on the spot. The second battle (round Shaw House & in the cow meadows is a rare puzzle ...", 1 side oblong 8vo., no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
40392
£165
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HUGHES
(Richard Arthur Warren, 1900-1976, novelist, playwright, and poet)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed, signed with his nickname "Diccan",
to Vernon Watkins, apologising for being slow to answer, "but our plans have been in the melting-pot and I'm afraid the upshot is that, much as we'd love to see you, the beginning of May just isn't possible", he goes on to say that Francis is off to Canada to witness the birth of another grandchild, and he is going to London, he closes asking if it is possible that he writes again, with original autograph envelope, 1 side 4to, Mor Edrin, North Wales, 27th April
Item Date:
1961
Stock No:
29380
£75
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