LUCE
(Henry Robinson, 1898-1967, Founder of 'Time', 'Fortune' and 'Life' magazines)
Typed Letter Signed 'Harry' to Ronald Bodley,
saying "I can understand your incredulity over TIME's assertion that "merde" could be a good luck wish ... but ... that's the way it is in operatic circles ... due to a backstage superstition that it is bad luck to wish any one good luck in so many words", he explains the corresponding wishes in German and Italian, adding "I was fascinated to learn [this lore] when the striking quote occurred in the Callas story. and I hope I have allayed your alarm over Mr. Meneghini's sentiments towards La Callas. It was thoughtful of you to ask about Clare", his wife Clare Boothe LUCE, 1903-1987, congresswoman and US Ambassador to Italy 1953-1957, who "has made a fine recovery", 1 side folio, Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Centre, New York 20, 2nd November
Item Date:
1956
Stock No:
17767
£225
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LYALL
(Sir Charles J., 1845-1920, F.B.A., Judge and Chief Commissioner in Assam, then Central Provinces, translator of Arabic poems)
Signature and address taken from Autograph Letter Signed,
"53 Harley Street, London" April 24th
Item Date:
1865
Stock No:
27066
£25
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LYTTON
(Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer, 2nd Earl, 1876-1947, Governor of Bengal, Writer)
Typed Letter Signed with autograph salutation and subscription to Mr Windsor-Garnett
thanking him "for the kind things you say ... about my book ... I hope you will look me up, if you ever come to my part of the world. I should like to have the pleasure of showing you Antony's home ...", 2 sides 8vo., Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, 24th May
Item Date:
1937
Stock No:
12865
£20
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LYTTON
(Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1831-1891, 1st Earl, Viceroy of India, 1875-1880, during the Afghan Wars, Poet)
Final page of a long autograph letter signed ‘R.B. Lytton’
starting “have had any very deeply laid designs against the Laws of the land - that they themselves prevented her peaceable departure by sending 8 gendarmes into her bedroom, with muskets, and lodging her forthwith in gaol. That, at the speediest her trial cannot come on before the end of November... when if found innocent she will have been unjustly detained in prison for 3 months, and if found guilty is, under the present law, liable to imprisonment of from 5 to 10 years with labour in the Casa de Forza! Is not this taking a spear to stab a butterfly? The Gd Duke has been personally applied to both by Scarlett (who has been, it is just to say, most energetic and active) as well as by his own Ministers, (who disapprove of this proceeding) and others, but all in vain. I think it not improbable that the Legation will be withdrawn. I have been, for a short time, at the Baths of Lucca, and you would be astonished to know the number of Protestant Italians there. I believe more than half the inhabitants to be - not merely anti-priest-and-pope-ists but professing Protestants. All going on well at the Umbra Mina [?]. Mrs Wilson not so well, indeed, as I could wish to see her - she is thinner & eats little or nothing - I think change of air would have done her good had she been able to take it. Both Guido and the Baby, however, grow apace and are picture children. Your mother I think is looking very well, & always cheerful - write to me, my dear Arthur, when you have an idle hour and make me very happy by doing so...” ending with the Latin phrase “vive vale et tis memor mei” (Long live and remember me), and a postscript that “Your Anacreon... is guarded like the apple of my eye...”, 2 sides folio
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43261
£375
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LYTTON
(Lady Rosina Bulwer, 1802-1882, Novelist, wife of Edward)
Signature from an Autograph Letter Signed
with some text on the verso “before she went to Brighton, I enclosed her a letter from Mrs Woodhouse of Hertford to Mrs Clarke, which I should be glad to have back. I do hope you are feeling...” and ending with the subscription and full signature, 3½” x 2”, no place, no date
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0
Stock No:
43160
£175
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