KINGSLEY
(Charles, 1819-1875, Novelist, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 1860-1869)
Unsigned Autograph postscript, not signed,
asking to be allowed "one word more? I should earnestly warn him against those anapestic metres", the next sentence is written with the metre displayed "I love / to gaze / on the trackless deep /", continuing "which in our language must by filled up with iambic instead of spondees, and so go lilting on three legs, like a yankee trotting mare, to the destruction of all grace & dignity. The small ... of the day all affect them - pray save him from the infection, & keep hin to iambs, dactyls, & above all to trockees ...", 1 side 8vo., no place, no date
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39505
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KINGSLEY
(Charles, 1819-1875, Novelist, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 1860-1869)
Autograph letter signed to an unnamed corrrespondent
headed at the top “Nat. Loan Port Ex” asking “has Ld Willoughby deEresby been asked for pictures from Grimsthorpe Castle? There is one there which we ought to have. A very beautiful portrait of Ld Clinton, High Admiral...”, 2 sides 8vo., Eversley Rectory, 18th December
Item Date:
1865
Stock No:
42845
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KINGSLEY
(Charles, 1819-1875, Novelist, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 1860-1869)
Autograph letter signed to an unnamed correspondent,
sending a "cheque for Qu[een] Anne's Bounty with my apologies for the strange oversight...", 1 side 8vo., Eversley Rectory, Winchfield, 30th October
Item Date:
1858
Stock No:
36803
£55
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KINGSLEY
(George Henry, M.D., 1827-1892, Traveller & Author)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Sir',
lending him "the book", saying "I am about to leave for a few months tour in North America", and asking him, if he has finished with it "before my return", to "communicate with Lord Ellesmere", 2 sides 8vo., Southwood Lane, Highgate, 22nd June, year added
Item Date:
1872
Stock No:
19911
£45
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KINGSLEY
(Charles, 1819-1875, Novelist, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 1860-1869)
Signature and Autograph envelope front to Dr Paget,
St Peter's Terrace [Cambridge], (Sir George Edward Paget, 1809-1892, from 1872 Regius Professor of Physic), 2¾" x 4¾", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1865
Stock No:
54947
£20
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