CHAMBERS
(Charles Haddon, 1860-1921, New Zealand Playwright, Journalist and Writer)
Autograph Letter in the third person to Sir William Treloar,
(1843-1923, Lord Mayor), about his invitation for 25th May, regretting he "will not be in England", 1 side correspondence card, 14 Waverton Street, Berkeley Square, W., 16th April
light traces of laying down in margins of blank verso
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
16883
£15
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CHARLES
(Elizabeth Rundle, 1828-1896, Historical Novelist, Hymn Writer and Translator)
Autograph Letter Signed 'Bessie Rundle Charles', with transcription,
to Miss Patteson, sister of John Coleridge Patteson, (1827-1871, first Bishop of Melanesia), explaining about her and her mother's illness, continuing "It is very pleasant to me that those verses touched you. They are from lines about my husband. The volume in which they are is called Songs new & old by the author of the Chronicles of the Schönberg Cotta Family ... I think I gave you the verses I enclose [not present] ... These also are in the volume. Very often I think of ... our conversation at which you said of your brother I wish when summer comes you would come to us for a night. Do if you can", with a P.S. "I have (by legal declaration) prefixed my father's to my married name; as his only child wishing to carry on his name a little longer", 3 sides 7" x 4½", Combe Edge, Hampstead Heath, N.W., 'Wednesday' no date, circa
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
54673
£175
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“THE SAINT” WRITES TO FELLOW AUTHOR DENNIS WHEATLEY
CHARTERIS
(Leslie, 1907-1993, Author of ‘The Saint’ Novels)
Remarkable Archive of letters to fellow author Dennis WHEATLEY
(1897-1977, Novelist) comprising 10 Typed letters signed ‘Leslie’ or ‘Leslie Charteris’, and one Autograph letter Signed, mostly from St George’s Hill, Weybridge but also, ‘D. Europa, between Southampton and Cherbourg’, Hotel Chatham, New York. and Reno, Nevada, 12 sides A4 with a 4 side Review of the Devil Rides Out and 2 sides 8vo., for the Autograph letter, 1934 to
Item Date:
1938
Stock No:
42764
£6750
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CHESTERTON
(G. K., 1874-1936, Writer, Creator of ‘Father Brown’)
Delightful original pencil drawing signed with his monogram, with autograph heading
“These.are not Infant Negroes being examined by the Inspector, but...” and underneath “only the Convalescent Home when the Dry Weather has stopped the Bath-Water” with an image of a row of blackened figures marching away from the sun, 9” x 6½”, no place, no date,
laid down
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
42489
£475
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CHESTERTON
(Gilbert Keith, 1874-1936, English Novelist, Poet and Critic)
Fine photograph by Speaight Ltd signed on the mouth
showing him seated looking slightly to his right, wearing a suit and waistcoat, holding his hat in one hand and his stick in the other, 7½" x 5" in photographer's mount, 12½" x 8¼", New Bond Stret, no date, but
very slight creasing on the mount
Item Date:
1920
Stock No:
41750
£375
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