FREEMAN
(Edward Augustus, 1823-1892, Historian)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Malleson
sending a "cheque for £20 at my daughter's request. I hardly know what to say about advertising. I have done the whole of my own work without advertising, publishing lists of subscriptions, or anything of the kind. I have always disliked it and thought it ostentatious. Yet some say that it practically pays, and that the advertised subscriptions attract others. I have no kind of notion what it would cost. At any rate the repeated mentions of me might be all rolled into one and it should be made plain that it is merely gathered by me - not all my own giving. Where would you advertise if you do? The Times, I suppose. I have no practise in such things ...", 2 sides 8vo., Somerleaze, Wells, Somerset, 9th November
Item Date:
1876
Stock No:
40800
£125
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FROST
(Sir David Paradine, b. 1939, Writer and Broadcaster)
Typed Letter Signed in blue crayon to R.K. Nicholls,
thanking him for his "comments and suggestions" and hoping "we may be able to incorporate some of your idea in one of the scripts but ... it is almost impossible to fit in all the items we would like as the show is only 25 minutes ... I do appreciate the thought", 1 side 4to, no place, May
Item Date:
1966
Stock No:
17180
£25
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FROUDE
(Ashley Anthony, 1863-1949, son of the historian)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Madam',
saying he is sending her letter about a quotation "to my sister, and if she knows ... I will at once let you know", 2 sides 8vo., Collapit Creek, Kingsbridge, Devon, 14th March
Item Date:
1904
Stock No:
19763
£15
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[FROUDE
(James Anthony, 1818-1894, English Historian)
Fine woodburytype photo by Walery,
showing him, three quarter length, sitting crossed legged in a chair, with facsimile signature, accompanied by a printed biography, 16½" x 12", no place, no date,
library stamp in top left hand corner
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
25684
£75
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FROUDE HOPES RUSKIN WILL STILL JOIN HIM IN IRELAND
FROUDE
(James Anthony, 1818-1894, Historian)
Autograph Letter Signed to John RUSKIN
(1819-1900, the Writer and Critic), written from Derreen, the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne's seat in Co: Kerry, asking if it is still possible for him "to come to us ... for here too you could draw as well as in France ... within a mile of us are 10 or 12 subterranean villages ... and chambers radiating and into which you creep & find yourself in a habitable cell ... what were the people that lived in them? ... and did the mountains look to them as they look to us ... did the sunsets that crimson the peaks seem beautiful to them - or do our own eyes make the beauty as they make the arch of the rainbow? I wish your eyes could see it all & make some enduring memory of it", Ruskin's letter "is extremely interesting for I see that you are hardening yourself and it is hard metals that cut deep - are you going into Parliament? ... if that body is to continue, a recollection will revive there that there is a difference between right & wrong, between truth & falsehood ... and you may perhaps be the instrument", they are staying "till November ... so there is a long locus poenitentiae [room for change of heart] ... if you think better of your resolution", and ending "As to the value of your work, past & to come - we value least that which we do best ... one of the most perplexing paradoxes of our condition", 4 sides 8vo, Derreen, Kenmare, 16th August no year but 1869 or
light mark (?cancellation on being answered) on side 1 touching one or two letters without loss, light trace of transparent guard in blank inner edges, light shadows and two small pen trials on side 4, otherwise good
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
56318
£225
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