"TOM FAGGUS WAS A ZUMMERZET MAN"
BLACKMORE
(Richard Doddridge, 1825-1900, Novelist, author of 'Lorna Doone')
Autograph Letter Signed on a card to an unnamed correspondent
thanking him for his "very interesting piece of news. It used to be said that Tom Faggus was a Zummerzet man, though Devon was fain to claim him, & he lived at one time in North Molton parish. The name sounds entirely foreign. Perhaps his coat of arms shows some light upon the problem...", 1 side on a correspondence card, Teddington, 20th November
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
38576
£575
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BLACKMORE
(Richard Doddridge, 1825-1900, Novelist, author of 'Lorna Doone')
Autograph Letter Signed to Dr Masters
(M. J. Masters, Editor of the Gardener's Chronicle) agreeing to "send my fructicultural phiz as a tribute to the great pomologist if only I can lay hold of a sample - wh. is very doubtful. There were never many ... only one wh. I sent to an Artist (who had some idea of 'doing' me) may be recoverable. If so I will send it to you, as soon as I get it ..." with a postscript that if it doesn't come it will be because he couldn't get it and good wishes for the coming year, 1 side on a correspondence card, Teddington, 24th December
Item Date:
1896
Stock No:
34712
£275
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BLACKMORE
(Richard Doddridge, 1825-1900, Novelist, author of 'Lorna Doone')
Autograph Letter Signed to R. W. Slater,
saying that when he "wrote this morning I had not seen the Editor's request, wh. has induced me to take this up at once ...", but asking that his "M.S. may be returned. I have long expected it ...", I side 8vo., Teddington, 6th July
Item Date:
1889
Stock No:
29934
£250
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BLATCHFORD
(Robert, 1851-1943, Socialist Journalist, founder of the Clarion, 1891)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Peacock,
saying "Certainly I will do the article ... I'm rather busy these days", 1 side 4to., The Firs, Horsham, 27th April
Item Date:
1927
Stock No:
24356
£20
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BLOUËT
(Paul, 1848-1903, French Author, Journalist and Lecturer under the pseudonym Max O'Rell)
Group of 4 autograph letters signed, in French with translation,
to 'Dear friend', his agent in England, saying "You may have learnt that I underwent a fearful operation in New York. They cut out 26 inches of my large intestine. I abandoned the whole trip ... If you could let me have say £10 of the ones you owe me (£17 15s 6d) you would remove a notable thorn in my flesh" (London, 10th April 1902), "The Sieur C. has been threatening me with the King's Bench for a year", but "his lawyer ... can do nothing ... It's a bluff, and I hope you will send him to the devil as I do", saying when he will be in England and suggesting two free dates "at six guineas for the Sunday League" (Paris, 25th October 1902), "The three contracts are very good" but wondering what to do about illustrations (Paris, 4th December 1902), with a letter in pencil, "Your letter found me bed-ridden. They are wondering if I will pull through", adding in English "Everything is cancelled" (Paris, 16th March, probably 1903), together 4 sides 8vo, 7 Park Place, St James's, London, and 9 Rue Freycinet, Paris, 1902 - (probably)
Item Date:
1903
Stock No:
52900
£175
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