BENSON
(Edward Frederick, 1867-1940, Novelist & Scholar, Author of ‘Mapp & Lucia’)
Small Archive of Six Autograph Letters Signed to Ronald Riggs (’R.R.’, ‘Mr Riggs’ and ‘Ronald’)
the first saying that “Bournemouth seems to be a very lively p lace, & if I ha time I would certainly come down to see the Alderman & perhaps borrow one of his ships for a bathe. Let me hear more of his doings sometime; perhaps he lends himself to what may be called ‘literary treatment’. I’m sorry you’ve given up writing; does other work interferre with it? Or tennis? Off in a few days to Rye when I shall have a great deal of work to do, & also I hope sun-bathe in. my watered garden. Excuse the scrappiness of this!...”, 2 sides 8vo., 25 Brompton Square headed paper, 31st May 1932, the next says he has “just disinterred a letter of yours that I’m afraid was written weeks ago, & there’s the photograph for which you held out hope? I haven’t seen it. There’s a very silly book of verse just out, but the reviews say it’s flippant, when I though it profound and edifying and all the rest of it... And there’s a gale sweeping across my garden, & it’s cold, and so I lit a. firer & must now go and dress for dinner. And yesterday I was sun-bathing & found it almost too hot...”, 2 sides 8vo., Lamb House, Rye headed paper, 24th July 1932, the third returns “the photograph you sent me, you look a very happy party & I hope you had a pleasant bath before or after or perhaps both. But telephoning - I am the worst telephoner in the world for I never can think of anything to say & you would sit before the instrument only to receive the information that it is hot (or probably cold)...”, 2 sides 8vo., Brompton Square headed paper, 10th December 1883, the fourth congratulates him “upon getting into print; c’est le premier pas qui conte. Now you’ve got to make good your first step, & put the second down solidly. Your first note about the motor-coach is quite a good item & I like Mr Lewis’s glass music stool (only it ought to be chameleon). Go on with picturesque things...”, 2 sides 8vo., Lamb House headed, 6th May 1934, the fist encloses his “cuttings, which I read with renewed admiration for people who can tell me All About It in a few lines,. But I should have liked to hear more of Kate...”, 2 sides 8vo., Lamb House headed, 5th July 1935 and the final letter is “Delighted to hear that you have expanded - Remember to be always slightly indiscreet; that is what those who read like and it is more fun. No; no sun yet at Rye but I’m told that the moon is all right...”, 2 sides 8vo.,Lamb House headed, 1st March
Item Date:
1936
Stock No:
43616
£975
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[BERESFORD
(Admiral Lord Charles, 1846-1919, M.P. for Portsmouth, Lover of ‘Darling Daisy’, Frances, Countess of Warwick)]
Unsigned original carte de visite photo
showing him head and shoulders in uniform, 4” x 2½”, no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43621
£25
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BESANT
(Mrs. Annie, 1847-1933, née Wood, Freethinker, later Theosophist, Women’s Rights Activist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr GIMSON
(Sydney Ansell, 1860-1938, from 1888 President of the Leicester Secular Society) saying that she will “not be in England on any of the dates you mention. I am leaving next Saturday for American. So the debt, which I do not repudiate, & would have gladly paid had it been claimed sooner must stand down...” 1 side 8vo., 31 St James’s Place, London, 18th July
Item Date:
1909
Stock No:
43615
£125
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BIDDULPH
(Margaret Howard, 1880-1970, wife of Hon Claud William Biddulph, Builder of Rodmarton Manor)
Autograph Letter signed to Mrs Wood
asking if “a favour might be granted me by the County Educational Authorities - Miss Awdry advised me to write to you as being specially interested in Children’s Music. The position is this - for the last 18 months I have had a little class held here in my house (about 1 dozen children all from Rodmarton Elementary school) for Pipes & Percussion Band Music. Miss James inaugurated the class & since she left Miss Hamper L.R.A.M. of Cirencester continued the classes once a week - (She is a competent teacher having taken sold charge of the music, piano & singing at a Secondary School at Ramsgate County. She has also studied pipe making with Miss James & was at the Summer School this year at Oxford). My request is that the children, having now got past the stage of litter making & being able to use their pipes & instruments in a collective way, might I have permission for Miss Hamper to hold her class at the School for the last 3/4 of an hour of the School afternoon once a week - this would be a great convenience to the children & ensure regularity of attendance which is so difficult to arrange, especially in the winter months. I have ascertained that in the event of the Board of Education giving the necessary permission, the School Master, & the Manager’s of whom I am one, would be prepared to consider my suggestion not unfavourably... We find it such terribly heavy work training the adult boys & girls who wish to take part in the Musical Festivals for which there are so many opportunities now-adays, when they are totally unfamiliar with the elements of music. This it is that makes me anxious tha the children should make good use of Miss Hamper’s instruction which is given at considerable expense...”, 2 sides 4to., Rodmarton headed paper, 16th December
Item Date:
1933
Stock No:
43606
£175
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BUCHAN
(John, Lord Tweedsmuir, 1875-1940, Novelist, Governor General of Canada)
Typed Letter Signed “John Buchan” to V. T. Harlow
thanking him for his letter and saying that he thinks “it is quite right that Weiss should begin his work under the official cognisance of the Bodleian, and I hope Craster will get hold of him at once. I think the idea of your bringing Dudley North to Rhodes House to inspect the collection a very good one...”, 1 side 4to., Elsfield Manor, Oxford, 26th October
Item Date:
1932
Stock No:
43620
£150
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