MARTIN
(Sir Theodore, 1816-1909, Parliamentary Solicitor, Verse Writer, Translator, Biographer of Prince Albert)
Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Eastlake,
saying "Do not let your natural horror at any brochure about Shakespeare keep you from reading the enclosed letters" written to an "excellent lady (now dead)" by Sir Theodore's wife, the famous Shakespearean actress Helen Faucit (1816-1898), "Lady Martin shrinks from the idea of ... herself ... as a writer, and most reluctantly let me have these letters printed ... I hope you will think I was not wrong", 2 sides 8vo., 31 Onslow Square, S.W., 14th November
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
17920
£40
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MARTIN
(Sir Theodore, 1816-1909, Parliamentary Solicitor, Verse Writer, Translator, Biographer of Prince Albert)
Signature and subscription from a letter,
no place, no date, c.
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
17935
£10
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MARTIN
(Sir Theodore, 1816-1909, Parliamentary Solicitor, Verse Writer, Translator, Biographer of Prince Albert) and his wife Helena FAUCIT(1817-1898, Actress)
Autograph Quotation from Longfellow signed and dated
"Not in the clamour of the crowded street / not in the shouts & plaudits of the throne / but in ourselves we triumph and defeat" with another autograph quotation, also signed, by his wife, she quotes from Herrick, "First wash thy hands in innocence, then bring Pure hands, pure habits, pure, pure everything", together on an album leaf 7½" x 4", no place, 19th and 20th May
Item Date:
1897
Stock No:
41053
£125
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MARTINEAU
(Harriet, 1802-1876, Writer on Political Economy and Human Nature)
Unsigned fragment of a letter, 4 lines,
with, on the recto, Miss Martineau's embossed 'M', and a note by F.H.S. explaining that Miss M. "forbade her relatives to give away her letters", but on James Martineau's intercession gave permission "since I read each Biography for the dates, it became of study", the fragment from Foxholes, 17th February n.y., c.
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
51122
£30
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THE PERSON WHO CAUSED THE OFFICIAL SECRET’S ACT TO BE PASSED
MARVIN
(Charles Thomas, 1854-1890, Writer on Russia)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
telling him that he is “not giving any regular lectures. When I have anything special to say the Balloon Society are good enough to assign me their platform & I say it. This has led to applications for lectures from variousl quarters & I have just acceded to a request made to me by a committee of gentlemen at Newcastle on Tyne to lecture there... But I imagine that... too far for you to attend. Perhaps I shall be invited to lecture in London... and in that case I will take care that you be informed...”, 2 sides 8vo., Grosvenor House, Plumstead Common, 30th March
Item Date:
1885
Stock No:
41818
£275
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