HOOD
(Thomas the Elder, 1799-1845, Poet & Humorist)
Autograph Draft of a Reply to an Invitation of the Manchester Athenaeum,
unsigned, saying "my humble name ... is at your service, with my best wishes ... and warm approval of the objects of that institution", repeating "his deep obligation to Literature - that a natural turn for reading & intellectual pursuits probably preserved me from the moral depravity so apt to befal those who are deprived in early life of paternal pilotage", keeping him "aloof from the ring, & the dog pit, the tavern & the saloon, with their degrading orgies", and that "the closet associate of Pope & Addison ... of the silent discourse of Shakspere & Milton will hardly ... put up with low company & slang", top half of a quarto sheet but complete in itself, 17 Elm Tree Place, St John's Wood, no date, circa
a little wear at folds including one small hole touching one letter (easily supplied)
Item Date:
1840
Stock No:
55501
£225
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HOOD
(Thomas the Elder, 1799-1845, Poet & Humorist)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that his "father's autographs are very scarce, & so many friends have a right to claim the very few I have, you must forgive my sending you such a mere scrap. I have very few indeed myself most especially with signatures. I annex a voucher for its authenticity. I should have answered your letter before but a literary engagement, which you may have seen advertised, has taken up all my time ...", 1 side 8vo., no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
40941
£175
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HORLER
(Sydney, 1888-1954, Author)
Fine signature with inscription "Yours sincerely," and date, 31st December
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
7687
£12
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HOTTEN
(John Camden, 1832-1873, Publisher & Writer)
Autograph Letter Signed to the Revd. George Percy BADGER
(1815-1888, Arabic Scholar and Missionary), in Hotten's interesting hand, saying he "omitted to return to you the cuttings from the Standard ... The liberty taken in mounting them as a small vol. I hope you will forgive", an early copy of "Heuchlin's great work (the Prussian Expedition) ... will reach me tomorrow, and I would like to show it to you, as I have some idea of translating it if it appears of special interest to English readers at the moment", decorative monogram at head, 74 & 75 Piccadilly, London, 14th November
very light traces of two tabs in blank top margins
Item Date:
1867
Stock No:
55932
£95
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HOUGH
(Charlotte, 1924-2008, Author of over 30 Illustrated Children’s Books)
Fine long Typed Letter Signed in her very emphatic style, to her friend Josephine PULLEIN-THOMPSON
(1924-2014, Writer known for her Pony Books, Leading member of International PEN) thanking her for her “LOVELY letters! V sorry about your house; one wants an ORDERED return to one’s own home, but think how lovely it’s just about to be!! And the curtain rail working! I’ve been battling with my books and going QUITE MAD carrying my step-ladder first to the east and then to the west with an M or a sudden Y which mean that the WHOLE LOT have to be moved yet again. But that is nothing! Though I still insist... with that awful desk in the middle of it all covered in unopened brown envelopes and requests for me to look up papers... it’s pretty bad! On the bright side the cottage path is no more!!!!! Thanks to you!!!! and it all looks lovely!!!! I’m So sorry about the virus, what a rotten thing to happen to YOU. It seems a tiresome dragging sort of thing that’s going about. Have just returned from Hay-on-Wye with Janet, who had a terrible time... rather a bad hotel where she kicked her heels while I wrestled with the telephone finding the only starter-motor in Worcester, and a garage with a ramp, and a man prepared to do it on Saturday so long as poor BRYONY (who had the car) could get them all together by 10.30am! She did it by dumping her 2 children on the lady next door in return for LOOKING AFTER HER TWO CHILDREN ALL DAY FOR THE NEXT THREE WEEKS! We got to HoW just in time to hear a young man reading his novel about grinding corpses so hard into the mud that they became indistinguishable from it... Janet fantastic in all this! As we drew up outside her house on the second for Noel Coward she leapt out of the car, key at the ready, took no notice of Mike chasing her cat.. with fearful shrieks, sat me down in front of TV with That Drink and dashed over to shop opposite for frozen fish and chips!...”, 2 sides folio, 1a Ivor Street, London, 6th June
Item Date:
1991
Stock No:
43002
£75
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