TRISTRAM
(Henry Baker, 1822-1906, Canon of Durham, Traveller and Naturalist)
Autograph letter signed to 'Mr dear Bird',
saying he is returning home tomorrow from "a C.M.S. round via Market Rasen to keep my 'residence' ", and grieving to say he cannot "personally help you", he will see "Prof. Pearce", (Robert John, Professor of Mathematics at the University) "on my return ... but I fear he is tied to St Giles", 3 sides 7¼" x 4½", Church Missionary Society, London, 29th November
slight creasing without loss from laying down on blank fourth side
Item Date:
1881
Stock No:
54196
£45
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SWANS AND SWAN-UPPING
[TRUSCOTT
(Henry Dexter, 1861-1950, Swan Warden of the Vintners' Company, Master, 1922-1923)]
Amusing Reprints by him of three historical passages about Swans,
(1) 'Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth', ordaining "every Swanherde" to keep "any swannes or signettes ... in a pen or pit within xx foote of the common stremes ... or ... the Queenes highway ... so that the Quenes subiects ... may have syght of the said swannes, upon payne of xx s", (from the Bodleian Library) (2) 'The Case of Swans', a judgment about the ownership of swans and cygnets, remarking that "the cock swan is an emblem ... of an affectionate and true husband to his wife", and talking learnedly about the swan singing as death approaches, (from Coke's Reports, in the case of The Queen v. Lady Jane Young), and (3) 'Ye Swan Warden to ye Father of ye Vintners' Company', 20 lines of verse, beginning 'If you're anxious to retain my fond affection, Father dear', begging him to rise early for the Swan-Upping next morning, 'from a Sixteenth Century Broadsheet' but clearly a spoof, and saying the Vintners' Swans, if dying, have the King's permission to sing, but not the Dyers', 2 single sides 10½" x 8½", no place, 24th July
Item Date:
1919
Stock No:
56041
£95
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TURNER
(Charles Henry, 1842-1923, from 1898 Bishop of Islington)
Signed postcard photo,
19th August
Item Date:
1905
Stock No:
50349
£30
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TURNER
(Eleanor Frewen, née Clark, 1786-1879, wife of John Frewen Turner, 1755-1829, of Northiam, Sussex, and Cold Overton, Leicestershire)
Autograph Letter Signed to Alfred Ellis,
(1821-1879, second son of John Ellis, 1789-1862), saying she was "obliged by your courtesy in sending me twelve copies of the Owl, altho I can well dispose of them, I should not certainly not have asked for so many, had I known they were not to be bought. Honour is due to those who stand forward in defence of persecuted Birds & Animals & in their name I am glad to thank you for your benevolence", 2 sides small 8vo., Cold Overton, Leicestershire, 3rd September
Item Date:
1858
Stock No:
16428
£20
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TYMMS
(T. Vincent, 1842-1921, D.D., President (1896) of the Baptist Union of Great Britain)
Autograph Note Signed "with thanks for kind sympathy",
1 side 8vo. black-edged, Clapton, 8th December
Item Date:
1887
Stock No:
19000
£15
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