AINSWORTH
(W. Harrison, 1805-1882, Novelist, Friend of Dickens)
Autograph envelope signed, addressed to Charles Kirkpatrick SHARPE
(1781-1851, Scottish Antiquary and Artist) at “19 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh”, marked as “Prepaid”, 1 side 4to., no place, postmarked 8th May
Item Date:
1842
Stock No:
42132
£35
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ALLEN
(Ralph, 1694-1764, Postmaster and Philanthropist, Squire Allworthy of Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’)
Autograph Letter Signed to “Dear Sister”
annotated in another hand as being Mrs Buckeridge, saying that “under this Cover I do send you the counterpart of the Lease to Price your Tenant in Herfordshire; the writing, are too many to be sent at one by the post so that I will either send them by degrees or bring them up when I go to London, therefore do reply you wil tel me which you do choose to have done. I order’d my clerk by the last post to (tell) you what hinder’d me from sending of the Lease sooner, our Services attend all my family...”, 2 sides 4to., Bath, October
Item Date:
1735
Stock No:
42143
£750
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ALLEN
(Ralph, 1694-1764, Postmaster and Philanthropist, Squire Allworthy of Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’)
Autograph Letter Signed to “Sis”
annotated in another hand as being Mrs Buckeridge, asking that she “cause the inclosed Letter to be safely deliver’d to Sister... on to Mrs Lewis...”, 1 side 4to., Bath, 21st October
Item Date:
1742
Stock No:
42146
£475
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BATTENBERG
(Prince Louis, 1854-1921, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, Admiral, assumed the surname Mountbatten in 1917)
Signature and subscription from end of an Autograph Letter Signed,
“Yours very sincerely”, 4½” x 2½”, no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
42133
£35
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A LETTER FROM ISABELLA BIRD
BISHOP
(Isabella Lucy, née Bird, 1831-1904, Traveller & Authoress)
Important Autograph Letter signed ‘Isabella L. Bird’ to Rev. Dr William Garden BLAIKIE
(1820-1899, Scottish Minister, Writer, Biographer and Temperance Reformer), saying that “On Friday or Saturday I hope to send you my first paper on the Sandwich Islands. I hope the sub-editor will not take this as any encouragement to put in unwarranted announcements for the future, and that you will regard it as a work of most meritorious supererogation! We were at Oban for nearly three weeks, as usual in drowning rain. I fear there will be a great division in the congregation. There is a very bad spirit among a Section of the people which did not spare their pastor even on his death bed. Mr Cameron’s quiet heroism during his illness and his bearing towards his people gave another proof of the greatness with which eternity often invests men who are not great by nature. One could not form a higher wish for one’s own death than that it should be as holy and serene as his was. It is perfectly warm and sultry in London. I don’t wonder that the heat of India makes... daughter in law feel as if she ‘must be lazy’. It is hotter by far than the tropical Sandwich Islands. I heard ‘Father Ignatius preach like a reformer and pray like a revivalist, and the Bishop of Carlisle preach a most childish sermon to a miniscule crowd in the nave of Westminster Abbey on Sunday. I hope to hear Mr Dykes next Sunday, but the London distances are enormous and I retain my prejudice against the employment of men or beasts on Sunday...”, ending by asking him to acknowledge receipt of her manuscript, 3 sides 8vo., 16 Oakley Square, London, N.W. no date but annotated as
Item Date:
1874
Stock No:
42144
£575
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