CHARLES
(Elizabeth Rundle, 1828-1896, Historical Novelist, Hymn Writer and Translator)
Autograph Letter Signed 'Bessie Rundle Charles', with transcription,
to Miss Patteson, sister of John Coleridge Patteson, (1827-1871, first Bishop of Melanesia), explaining about her and her mother's illness, continuing "It is very pleasant to me that those verses touched you. They are from lines about my husband. The volume in which they are is called Songs new & old by the author of the Chronicles of the Schönberg Cotta Family ... I think I gave you the verses I enclose [not present] ... These also are in the volume. Very often I think of ... our conversation at which you said of your brother I wish when summer comes you would come to us for a night. Do if you can", with a P.S. "I have (by legal declaration) prefixed my father's to my married name; as his only child wishing to carry on his name a little longer", 3 sides 7" x 4½", Combe Edge, Hampstead Heath, N.W., 'Wednesday' no date, circa
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
54673
£175
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“THE SAINT” WRITES TO FELLOW AUTHOR DENNIS WHEATLEY
CHARTERIS
(Leslie, 1907-1993, Author of ‘The Saint’ Novels)
Remarkable Archive of letters to fellow author Dennis WHEATLEY
(1897-1977, Novelist) comprising 10 Typed letters signed ‘Leslie’ or ‘Leslie Charteris’, and one Autograph letter Signed, mostly from St George’s Hill, Weybridge but also, ‘D. Europa, between Southampton and Cherbourg’, Hotel Chatham, New York. and Reno, Nevada, 12 sides A4 with a 4 side Review of the Devil Rides Out and 2 sides 8vo., for the Autograph letter, 1934 to
Item Date:
1938
Stock No:
42764
£6750
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CHESTERTON
(G. K., 1874-1936, Writer, Creator of ‘Father Brown’)
Delightful original pencil drawing signed with his monogram, with autograph heading
“These.are not Infant Negroes being examined by the Inspector, but...” and underneath “only the Convalescent Home when the Dry Weather has stopped the Bath-Water” with an image of a row of blackened figures marching away from the sun, 9” x 6½”, no place, no date,
laid down
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
42489
£475
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CHESTERTON
(Gilbert Keith, 1874-1936, English Novelist, Poet and Critic)
Fine photograph by Speaight Ltd signed on the mouth
showing him seated looking slightly to his right, wearing a suit and waistcoat, holding his hat in one hand and his stick in the other, 7½" x 5" in photographer's mount, 12½" x 8¼", New Bond Stret, no date, but
very slight creasing on the mount
Item Date:
1920
Stock No:
41750
£375
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CHRISTIE
(Agatha, 1891-1976, Detective Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed ("Agatha Mallowan") to Lady Stewart
saying that they “did enjoy our evening with you so much - It was a delightful party & all your guests were such fun to meet. I am still full of interest in your Italian home to be - Houses have always been my passion - usually acquiring interesting looking wrecks & having fun doing them up, living in them for a year or two, then selling & starting again; a pastime put a stop to by the discovery I’d have to pay War Damage Insurance on them all - & nobody wanted to buy - only the one we really wanted to live in was bombed! But I never got as far as building a house. I was entranced by Washington & hope to come again sometime. Your husband was extraordinarily kind in all the help he gave us... I hope we shall see you again in England...”, 2 sides 4to., Wade Park Manor headed paper, Cleveland, Ohio, 5th November the year added in another hand
Item Date:
1966
Stock No:
41931
£1500
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