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GASKELL (Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865, Novelist, Author of 'Cranford')

Fragment Signed 'E.C. Gaskell' from a letter, ending "... quiet evening. Given under my hand and Seal ...", mounted with an attractive reproduction of her chalk portrait by George Richmond (1851), 8¼" x 4¾", the fragment 1½" x 4½", together on stiff paper 11¾" x 8¼", no place, 13th January no year, circa

Item Date:  1850
Stock No:  56560      £425

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GASKELL (Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865, Novelist, Author of 'Cranford')

Signature from the end of an Autograph Letter Signed with some text on the verso "I am most desirous .... the advantage of seeing ... much as I can of you ...", inscribed "yours truly", 3¼" x 1¼", no place, no date

Item Date:  0
Stock No:  40279      £175

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GASKELL (Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865, Novelist, Author of 'Cranford')

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Scott saying she had “hoped to have been able to get over to Halliwell Lane today to call on Miss Bathurst, & explain to you that we are expecting some friends of Marianne’s tomorrow night, which will prevent our coming to you as we should much have liked; but I have been detained at home all day; and I must trust to our post being more speedy than usual in carrying this note out to Halliwell Lane. I heard of your return from Mrs James Heywood, & I should have called sooner for I wanted to see you: but I have been completely knocked up by the smell of house-painting. In great haste...”, 3 sides 8vo.,with some accounting notes on the blank 4th side, presumably by the recipient, no place, no date but the accounts dated September

Item Date:  1853
Stock No:  41760      £2500

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GASKIN (Catherine, 1909-2009, Irish-Australian born Novelist

Autograph Letter Signed to Eileen Cond, saying "It has been a great pleasure to inscribe your bookplate" and "good to hear you enjoyed 'Tilsit' - for once I had rather a lot of fun writing it", 1 side 8vo, 240 Central Park South, New York 19, 24th October

Item Date:  1963
Stock No:  17187      £30

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GASKIN (Catherine, 1929-2009, Irish-Australian-born Novelist)

Autograph Letter Signed to Eileen Cond, "gladly" signing and returning "your book plate - a very lovely one", and sharing Miss Cond's "feeling about the price of books - but if I ever say this to a bookseller, he points to the price of everything else", and hating "to see them driven up to ... where they appear to be a luxury", publishers are "caught just as everyone else is", she "was delighted that [The] Lynmara [Legacy, 1975] led you on to [The Summer of] The Spanish Woman [1977]", the writer feels "as if Lynmara made me a friend", hopes "she can continue to please , whether it's in paperback or hard cover", ending "What a writer needs is a reader - by what ever means", 2 sides folio, Ballymacahara, Wicklow, Ireland, 3rd December light marks from water touching six words on side 1 and 4 letters of signature, otherwise excellent

Item Date:  1977
Stock No:  56493      £45

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