WHITTIER
(John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, American Quaker Poet and Abolitionist)
Autograph Note Signed to William Self Weeks (of Clitheroe, Lancashire),
saying he respectfully complies "with thy request and am truly thy friend", 1 side 8vo and conjugate blank, Oak Knoll, Danvers, Mass., 19th 1st month (January)
Item Date:
1884
Stock No:
50622
£375
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WHYTE-MELVILLE
(George John, 1821-1878, novelist & poet)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Chandos',
saying "A thousand thanks", he is "just back from Dorsetshire" but will be "out of town on Saturday", elaborate embossed heading, 1 side 8vo., 22 Onslow Gardens, S.W., 14th November n.y., watermark
traces of laying down on blank fourth side
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
19017
£25
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WHYTE-MELVILLE
(George John, 1821-1878, Scottish Novelist & Poet)
Autograph Letter Signed to his publisher ‘My dear Chapman’,
saying that he will “be on the move in about ten days. If they have printed all or any part o. ‘Roy’s Wife’ I had better correct it before I go...”, 1 side 8vo., 22 Onslow Gardens, S.W., 4th August, no year, circa
Item Date:
1878
Stock No:
42636
£75
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WIGHT
(Robert James Martin, 1913-1972, Historian and Pacifist)
Autograph letter signed 'Martin Wight' to Geoffrey F.A. Best, b. 1928,
Professor of History, Edinburgh University, 1966-1974, and later at Sussex, saying he is "delighted you can join us this weekend, and hope you will find it worth it. As Donald Mackinnon may have told you, we are an odd, chancy group ... never quite sure who will turn up, nor who will have provided papers for discussion", and looking forward "with keen pleasure to meeting you at John's on Friday evening", 2 sides 6¾" x 4½", Harwarton, Speldhurst, Tunbridge Wells, 25th March
Item Date:
1971
Stock No:
53543
£30
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WILDE
(Oscar, 1854-1900, Irish Poet & Dramatist)
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
later Edition of the First Edition (7th printing of June 1899), 31 pages, original hardcover, quarter vellum with mustard boards, Leonard Smithers
very slight fraying on spine but tight copy in very good condition
Item Date:
1899
Stock No:
39285
£475
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