CHRISTIE
(Agatha, 1891-1976, Detective Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed ("Agatha Mallowan") to Lady Stewart
saying that they “did enjoy our evening with you so much - It was a delightful party & all your guests were such fun to meet. I am still full of interest in your Italian home to be - Houses have always been my passion - usually acquiring interesting looking wrecks & having fun doing them up, living in them for a year or two, then selling & starting again; a pastime put a stop to by the discovery I’d have to pay War Damage Insurance on them all - & nobody wanted to buy - only the one we really wanted to live in was bombed! But I never got as far as building a house. I was entranced by Washington & hope to come again sometime. Your husband was extraordinarily kind in all the help he gave us... I hope we shall see you again in England...”, 2 sides 4to., Wade Park Manor headed paper, Cleveland, Ohio, 5th November the year added in another hand
Item Date:
1966
Stock No:
41931
£1500
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CLARK
(William George, 1821-1878, Shakespearean Scholar, Public Orator, 1857-1869, of Cambridge University)
Autograph Letter in the third person as Public Orator to Dr George Phillips, 1804-1892,
Vice-Chancellor, accepting for dinner on Monday the 9th June (following the conferring of honorary degrees), with autograph envelope, 1 side 8vo., [Trinity College], no date, c. May
Item Date:
1862
Stock No:
50057
£45
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CLARK
(William George, 1821-1878, Classical and Shakespeare Scholar, Public Orator, Cambridge, 1857-1869, Vice-Master of Trinity College)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs PAGET,
(Clara, 1825-1899, née Fardell), wife, 1851, of Dr (later Sir) George Edward Paget, (1809-1892, of Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, from 1872 Regius Professor of Physic), saying "You were so kind as to invite me to dinner of Tuesday next and still kinder in allowing me to return a dubious answer", his friends are not now coming, so "if you have a place for me will you be good enough to let me know the dinner hour?", with a P.S., "pray treat me as an old friend, and tell me frankly if you don't find it convenient ...", 2 sides 8vo, [Cambridge], 20th May, year added in faint pencil
Item Date:
1860
Stock No:
56382
£45
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CLARK
(Leonard, 1905-1981, Poet and Author)
Printed copy of his poem 'The Lion', signed with autograph subscription "Remembrances from" and address,
3 verses of 4 lines each starting "He comes suddenly into the peopled places, / A lion out of Judah, / With terrible visage and breath, / A voice life waterfalls. ...", 1 side 8vo., 6 Ashwood Villas, Leeds 6, Christmas
Item Date:
1945
Stock No:
39300
£75
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CLARK
(Leonard, 1905-1981, Poet and Author)
Typed Letter signed to "my dear Wood"
saying he is glad that he had "liked my Christmas poem. It is a far cry from that day in 1925 when I sent you my first slender book of verse. Since then I have published three books of poems and a biography and have edited the Essays and Addresses of Albert Mansbridge ..." continuing a length about his literary work and his work as a schools Inspector, and saying that he "came north in in January 1943, after, I am afraid, my marriage had gone phut. I don't want to go into the horrid details of this, only simply to say that I divorced my wife in 1943 and am now living in rooms in Leeds. It was a very great blow to me for it was so unexpected, and I am often lonely and bewildered, but I struggled through somehow, and now life is blossoming out again for me. I am very happy in my work and have some good and kind friends. One of them, our colleague Marian Hurford, is living in Cheltenham. Perhaps you have already run across her. She is a most delightful and forthright woman. You know Robin Tanner, of course; I saw him in London last week. ...", 1 side 4to., 6 Ashwood Villas, Leeds 6, 19th January
Item Date:
1946
Stock No:
39301
£150
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