HUNT
(William Holman, 1827-1910, Pre-Raphaelite Painter)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed 'W. Holman Hunt' to an unnamed correspondent
apologising for his date reply to his invitation to a banquet "in commemoration of Shakespeare. I have caught a bad cold and the doctors have had me in hand and still prevent me from regarding myself as a free agent, or I should ... have hastened to say how proud I should be to accept it. As it is I fear that the uncertainty about my condition would make it wrong for me to engage a place on an occasion when so many will desire to be present, but if in the course of a few days my physician's better assurances are confirmed I will write again to learn whether there is any possibility of coming in to fill a chair that chance may leave vacant for I should be sorry to give up the hope altogether till the last arrangements are concluded by the Urban Club for the forthcoming anniversary of our grandest Englishman ....", 2 sides 8vo., Draycott Lodge, 8th April
Item Date:
1888
Stock No:
39826
£375
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IMAGE
(Rev. Selwyn, 1849-1930, Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford, 1910-1916)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Kay-Shuttleworth,
saying that he will be "only too pleased if I can be of any service ..." and suggesting a convenient time for her to visit him, 1 side 8vo., 20 Fitzroy Street, 11th March
Item Date:
1916
Stock No:
18556
£35
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IMAGE
(Rev. Selwyn, 1849-1930, Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford, 1910-1916)
Autograph Letter Signed to Dewar
saying that he can’t tell him “how touched and delighted we both are by your kindness. What a beautiful book! What a beautiful edition! what a beautiful inscription! Again I can only say we are more pleased than I can tell - and with the inscription not least of all. Thank you most heartily. Surely the volume is a rare one? The Farmer’s Boy I know and possess. But I am ashamed to say that of this book I never heard. And how delightful it is! It reached us on Thursday night - but I delayed writing till we had both read it through. And we are both most charmed with it. It is a book everyway after our own hearts. I hope both you and Mrs Dewar have kept well during this tryig winter - which with its plague of Influenza has laid so many of us low - myself amongst the number. But thanks to the lavish care bestowed on me I’m now quite recovered. Again with our united thanks and kindest remembrances...”, 2 sides 8vo., 20 Fitzroy Street, 24th February
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
42157
£65
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JOHN
(Augustus, 1878-1961, Painter)
Brief Autograph Letter signed to Sydney Giles
saying that he has “no desire for interviews and so will not be able to make an appointment...”, 1 side 8vo., with original typed envelope, Fryern Court, Hants, 30th May
Item Date:
1958
Stock No:
42070
£125
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JOHN
(Augustus, 1878-1961, Painter)
Coloured caricature from the John Players series of 50 entitled "Straight Line Caricatures", signed,
with a small biography printed on the verso, 2¾" x 1¼", no place, circa
Item Date:
1926
Stock No:
41377
£150
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