BRAY
(Caroline, 1814-1905, née Hennell, Author, friend of George Eliot)
Autograph letter signed to 'My dear Madam',
(Mrs Florence Horatia Nelson Suckling, 1848-1923, writer and anti-vivisectionist), admiring her "zeal in the good cause of teaching our young people to the duty & benefit of kindness to animals", she will forward her kind offer of "your lantern and slides" to "our elementary teachers", but "the terrible presence of influenza amongst the children & teachers" rules out any "'entertainments' or extra subjects", she sends her "our latest report ... to show how far the 'Band of Mercy' has taken root", but referring her "to Mr Colam & Mrs Phillips" for "more competent advice", she is sorry Partridges are "not more helpful" about "your proposed translation of 'the Duty'", Mrs Bray's book 'Our Duty to Animals', "I should have thought it would be in their interest", 4 sides 7" x 4½", Ivy Cottage, 16th February
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
53545
£125
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BREMER
(Fredrika, 1802-1865, Swedish novelist and social reformer)
Signature on piece,
with (in another hand) 'written for Margaret Howitt', no place, no date, c.
laid down
Item Date:
1850
Stock No:
24366
£55
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BRIDGE
(Ann, 1891-1974, wife of Sir Owen St. John O'Malley, Writer)
Autograph Letter Signed to Eileen Cond,
returning her bookplate "which I am most happy to inscribe ... You ought really to get 'The Light-Hearted Quest', as dear Julia Probyn makes her first appearance in that, & it explains her better", with a P.S. "I have added a ½d. stamp - postage is now 3d.!", 2 sides 8vo., Rockfleet, Westport, Co. Mayo replaced by 27 Charlbury Road, Oxford, 2nd August
Item Date:
1958
Stock No:
16823
£20
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BRIDGE
(Ann, 1891-1974, wife of Sir Owen St. John O'Malley, Writer)
Autograph Letter Signed to Eileen Cond,
returning her bookplate signed, and hoping she will "enjoy the book when you get round to reading it", 1 side oblong 8vo., 27 Charlbury Road, Oxford, 16th March
Item Date:
1967
Stock No:
16824
£20
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BRIDGES
(Robert, 1844-1930, Poet Laureate)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he “was moving house at Michaelmas, and your letter was mislaid, so that I do not now know what your request was. I shd not permit quotation without payment, which will probably not be in accordance with your publisher’s notion of business. If however he pays for his material my fee wd be a minimum of £1 and above that about 1/- per line. If this shd suit him please send particulars with stamped & addressed envelope for reply...”, 2 sides 8vo.,Whitebarn, Boars Hill, Oxford, 9th October
Item Date:
1909
Stock No:
42728
£125
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