BENEDICT
(Sir Julius, 1804-1885, Conductor)
Incomplete Autograph Letter Signed with the address and correspondent’s name taken off
thanking her for “remembering your old friend. I should have been so happy to come to you but am unfortunately booked... at Lady Alexander Glenmore (Miss Toronelsy who was) for a Musical Soirée... I am really put out by this previous engagement but I fear there is no means to get out of it - principally as some Royalties are expected...”, 2 sides of ¾ sheet of 8vo., no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43687
£55
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BERESFORD
(Admiral Lord Charles, 1846-1919, M.P. for Portsmouth, Lover of ‘Darling Daisy’, Frances, Countess of Warwick)
Superb cabinet photo by J Heyman & Co., of Le Caire, signed and dated,
showing him three head and shoulders wearing uniform and his admiral’s bicorn hat, 6½” x 4½”, no place,
Item Date:
1898
Stock No:
43668
£145
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BLESSINGTON
(Marguerite, Countess, 1789-1849, Author, friend of Byron)
Unsigned Autograph Envelope
addressed to “W. R. Lloyd Esq,Corn Exchange, Birmingham”, 5” x 3”, postmarked Birmingham 24th October
Item Date:
1848
Stock No:
43691
£45
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BOND
(Michael, 1926-2017, Writer, Creator of Paddington)
Printed card signed and inscribed,
“For Mr Davie with all good wishes Padingtun” in capitals next to a printed paw print, with a nice picture of Paddington wearing a hat and with a paintbrush in his paw, 8” x 5”, no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43686
£275
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER AND LIMITED PRINTING OF HIS POEMS
BOTTOMLEY
(Gordon, 1874-1948, Poet)
Fine Long Autograph Letter Signed to Lady ANDERSON
(Ava, 1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley), the the arrival of her letter “was a very real pleasure - and I will own I felt relieved. I had often wondered about the book - for its alternative fates seemed certain to be either that it had been lost in the post (which does happen sometimes now) and that is a special anxiety as one’s books run out of print, or that it had reached you, and you did not like it and were too kind to say so! The real reason is too unkind - the Fates or Parcae or Norns had done too much at you previously, and I am deeply sorry to know that they have been at work on you again, a thing which I had not conceived. It was a specially unkind hardship, too, that it should have happened so exactly in time to prevent your putting a particularly beautiful feather in your hat and making a State Entry into 11 Downing Street. But I ought to be happy, as I am, that my book helped some of the unkind days to be rather more bearable; and also that you are safe again, and growing well steadily. I should like to tell you when I reach London again, as you very kindly say I may... The night before Lady Crewe’s party last year was the first in which I had slept away from my own village since the War began - and getting away from here grows more and more difficult. I cannot, indeed, hope that Lady Crewe will have another party for poets ready... At any rate, I shall be sure to remember when my wife and I are as venturesome again. In the meantime - saying again how glad I am to hear of your recovery at the same time as your terrible illness...” with an autograph postscript saying that “these years have taken most of the vitality out of stage-shadows for me; they have been lean ones for verses, and those which I enclose are almost all I have to show. They do not contain much for days of illness, but perhaps they will a little alleviate the ‘even tenour’ of convalescence...”, 3 sides 8vo., The Sheiling, Silverdale, Carnforth headed paper, together with a printed pamphlet of his recent poems, entitled ‘Before Daybreak’ signed and inscribed Lady Anderson, reprinted from the Durham university Journals of 1942, 21st January
Item Date:
1944
Stock No:
43690
£425
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