RARE LETTER FROM LADY NOEL BYRON
BYRON
(Anne Isabella Noel, née Millbanke, 1792-1860, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron, wife of Lord Byron)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Crabb Robinson
saying that “Mr Follen, who has now vanished from our sight I fear for ever, had not any opportunity of giving you a message from me - Instead of repeating it I will ask you if you can bestow upon me any hour next Sunday, & come so far as this place to see yours very truly...”, with a postscript that she leaves “London this morning, but shall hope I find your answer on my return on Saturday & will observe the time named by you...”, 2 sides 8vo., ‘Great Western Hotel’, Paddington Station, 6th July no year
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
42710
£775
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CAINE
(Sir Thomas Henry Hall, 1853-1931, Manx Novelist and Playwright)
Typed Letter Signed to the Rev. E. Lloyd Morris,
(Minister of Hutchesontown Congregational Church, now the Lloyd Morris Memorial Church, Glasgow), sincerely wishing "it were in my power to avail myself of your kind invitation, but I have been more than usually out of health lately, having had a rather serious and perhaps even slightly alarming attack partly brought on by an effort to speak at the City Temple ... I dare not at present undertake any public speaking, which at the best is to me a rather exhausting experience", ending "With best wishes for your work", 2 sides 10" x 8", Greeba Castle, Isle of Man, 29th October
Item Date:
1909
Stock No:
54276
£125
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CALDER-MARSHALL
(Arthur, b. 1908, Author)
Brief Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Cond
hoping "this will be suitable as the eighteen hundred and eighth", 1 side A4, New Stories, Oxford headed paper, 27th March no year.
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0
Stock No:
5401
£12
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CANTÙ
(Cesare, 1807-1895, Italian Historian and Poet)
Autograph Letter Signed, in Italian with translation, to 'Sig. Giuseppe',
recalling another Christmas "that I spent with you and your delightful family, in times so different from these", he longs to know "what particular woes you endured among the common woe, and if a memory of me still remains", he himself was "upside down in the whirlpool ... in exile several times ... most recently ... in Geneva, where six years before I last saw your delightful Nina", he now looks to see "if in some place common sense is being reborn, if some reason is returning to people's minds, some respect to their hearts", 1 side 4to., Milan, 21st December
laid down on an album leaf
Item Date:
1849
Stock No:
51728
£275
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CAPOTE
(Truman, 1924-1984, American Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright and Actor)
Autograph Postcard Signed to his friend Boris Groudinko in Leningrad
saying "How long it has been since I heard from you! I am spending the summer hre in Spain, and have a house on this beach. Please send a line and I will write you a long letter ...", 1 side postcard with black and white picture of the beach on the verso, Playa de Aro, Costa Brava, Spain. 19th July
stamps removed without loss of text
Item Date:
1960
Stock No:
40434
£1275
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