BALFOUR
(Clara Lucas, 1808-1878, Writer, Campaigner for Temperance and Women's Education)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr and Mrs HOOD,
with transcription, saying that "although it would have been a great delight to have shaken hands with you on Saturday - yet ... I am deeply grateful for your united kind wishes to my husband & myself - and of course, still more for the sweet poetic expression of thoughts & feelings sent us by Mr Paxton Hood", the Revd. Edwin Paxton HOOD, (1820-1885, Congregational Minister and Writer), "It is 37 years since I heard my old friend - a mere youth then - with all the glow of youthful eloquence speak for what I deemed the right. I bless God for him, & with him ... We have crossed each others path at Studley, at Ebley [Gloucestershire] - dear Ebley! in Cornwall - & elsewhere ... I can truly say I have even had a tear for his sorrows, and a throb of delight for his joys ... My husband unites with me in all kindly wishes ... that your path 'may shine more & more unto the perfect day'", with a P.S. saying she is staying with her daughter "[Cecile] Mrs D[awson] Burns", 4 sides 8vo., 99 King Henry's Road, London, N.W., 28th September
(Transcription)
99 King Henry's Road, NW
Sep. 28 / 74
Dear Mr and Mrs Hood,
Although it would have been a great delight to have shaken hands with you on Saturday - yet, as that could not be I am deeply grateful for your united kind wishes to my husband & myself - and of course, still more for the sweet [Side 2] poetic expression of thoughts & feelings sent us by Mr Paxton Hood. It is 37 years since I heard my old friend - a mere youth then - with all the glow of youthful eloquence speak for what I deemed the right. I bless God for him, & with him, that through all the changing scenes of life - his work has been earnest, and blessed.
[Side 3] We have crossed each others path at Studley, at Ebley [Gloucestershire] - dear Ebley! in Cornwall - & elsewhere, in the long track of years - I can truly say I have even had a tear for his sorrows, and a throb of delight for his joys - & sincere admiration of his genius. [Side 4] My husband unites with me in all kindly wishes that you both may have many many happy years before you & that your path "may shine more & more unto the perfect day".
Faithfully Yours
Clara Lucas Balfour
PS I am staying a few days at my daughters Mrs D Burns.
Item Date:
1874
Stock No:
55870
£125
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BALLAD
'The Countryman's Ramble to London',
verses beginning "At whoam a simple country lad" interspersed with a long monologue, describing how he gave as good as he got in London, with many dreadful puns, contemporary MS note "A fair sample of the ballads sold at Thirsk Fair, November 1857", thin ballad paper, 1 side 9½" x 7¼", no place,
Item Date:
1857
Stock No:
19544
£30
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BALLADS
2 on 1 sheet, 'The Mantle of Green' and 'I'm Seventeen Come Sunday',
beginning "As I went a-walking one morning in June ... she appeared like a queen ... and a mantle of green", she had lost her lover at Waterloo, whom the singer realises was his commanding officer, the second begins "As I walked out one May morning", and ends "Now I am with my soldier lad ... A drum and fife is my delight, And a pint of rum in the morning", thin ballad paper, 1 side 10" x 7", Thomas Yapp's Cheap Song Warehouse, 82 Digbeth, Birmingham, date in pen
Item Date:
1863
Stock No:
19547
£30
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[BALLANTINE
(William, 1812-1887, Serjeant-at-law)]
Fine unsigned carte-de-visite photo by W. & A.H.Fry,
showing him three-quarter length, sitting cross-legged in a chair with a book on his lap, 4½" x 2½", no place,
titled and dated on verso, slightly spotted
Item Date:
1892
Stock No:
29671
£55
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BANKES
(Sir John Eldon, 1854-1946, Appeal Judge)
Autograph Letter Signed to James Frederick Chance,
(1856-1938, Hon. Secretary to the Eton War Memorial Fund) ,saying he "will gladly look over your draft", 1 side 8vo., Soughton Hall, Northop, Flintshire, 18th April
tear along line of transparent slip in left margin without loss
Item Date:
1928
Stock No:
14711
£10
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