LANSDOWNE
(William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, 1737-1805, Prime Minister)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he is “very glad to hear that a most worthy Father & Mother with 7 or 8 children have escaped all the perils by sea & land... I must do justice to the inhabitants of Tenby to say that we found them in great anxiety - the least you and Mrs Smith can do is to return there next summer & make good the engagements you have fail’d to fulfil this year, among which I hope Bowood will not be omitted a second time. I have had some indirect communication about Dr Crawford’s Epitaph, & am taught to expect that I shall find a Lady at Bath, with whom I can finally settle it - my own opinion is decidedly in favour of the simplest but I know by experience how difficult it is to persuade my family to adopt that taste, and I shall certainly conform to their wish. All accounts both foreign & domestic preclude all idea of peace on the part of this country, as long as the War can be protracted. It is provoking that the people of this country should be branded with the reputation of boundless avarice & ambition, when we all know that the War is contrived from quite different motives. Miss Vernon & Miss Fox desire their compliments to Mrs Smith...”, 2 sides 4to, Bowood Park, 26th October
Item Date:
1800
Stock No:
42642
£2250
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LEHMANN
(John Frederick, 1907-1987, English Poet and Man of Letters)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Hamilton
saying that he has “only just got back fro abroad (last night), so I hope you will excuse me for not answering your letter before. I did have a word... with Dr Klopstock before I left, and he promised to ring me to arrange a meeting this month. Meanwhile, of course, no agreement about the last seven years of ‘The London Magazine’ is valid without my signature. As for the Cheltenham Festival, I am honoured that you should invite me. Dates are, however, important. I have to go abroad for a short trip - Venice/Vienna - between September 15th and October 11th, so an exact commitment is essential. If you can now say definitely that it will be October 4th I think I can come...”, 2 sides 4to., 85 Cornwall Gardens headed paper, 12th July
Item Date:
1967
Stock No:
42641
£55
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SIGNATURE OF ‘ALICE’
LIDDELL
(Alice Pleasance Hargreaves, neé Liddell, 1852-1934, the little girl that Lewis Carroll used as the model for ‘Alice in Wonderland’)
Fine signature on card
3½” X 2½”, no place, dated in another hand 16th April
Item Date:
1928
Stock No:
42683
£375
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‘HOPE
(Anthony’, Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, 1863-1933, Author of ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’)
Fine signature and inscription
“Yours very truly” on a card, 3½” x 2½”, no place, dated in another hand 17th September
Item Date:
1925
Stock No:
42696
£100
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