CLARK
(Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, 1903-1983, Art Historian, Life Baron)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed ‘K’ to ‘Dearest Ava’ LADY WAVERLEY
(1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) saying that he owes her “two letters of thanks for the most delightful evenings... adored the trip down the Avon & equally the ring of Valkyrie. It has always been my favourite of the Cycle... We had a most delightful day & evening with Mollie & Walter at Drumlanrig. I think the most beautiful house in Scotland with the most beautiful things in it... what possessions they have! It is incredible - where on can spend an evening with Queen Elizabeth sitting in chairs given by Charles II to Monmouth - in a room lit by sconces given to Monmouth by Charles II & so on ad infinitum - one is transported into another world... How sad it will be when Drumlanrig becomes a kind of Chateau of the Loire? That is the only sorrow about Chatsworth. Admirable as the arrangement is - how much better it would have been if Anconer could have gone on living there. Houses very quickly turn into Museums - & die. Mollie is really a genius at entertaining. To transport the whole household from Boughton to Drumlanrig & back & have 22 people to dinner every night - is a triumph! I put you, & Mollie & Diana Cooper as the three best hostesses in my generation. How happy I am to know & love them all! & enjoy such hospitality. I wish you and John weren’t going away in the summer & could have come either her - or to Glancomer for the Festival...”, 4 sides 4to., Harwood Bonchester Bridge, Hawick headed paper, 27th June no year
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43724
£125
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COLENSO
(Harriette Emily, 1847-1932, Christian Missionary in Southern Africa)
Autograph Postcard Signed to Mr Shearing (?)
Thanking him “much for the book Religious Systems of the World safely received this evening...”, 1 side postcard with autograph address on the verso, 8th September
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
43738
£125
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CONSTANTINE II
(1940-2023, King of the Hellenes) & his wife ANNE-MARIE (of Denmark, born 1946)
Black and White Photograph signed by both underneath
with a printed a printed message in Greek inside, the image shows the King and Queen with three of their children, two boys and a girl standing together in a garden, 6¾” x 5½” on folded white card, no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43763
£75
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DE MORGAN IS GRATEFUL FOR PRAISE FOR HIS WRITING
DE MORGAN
(William Frend, 1839-1917, Artist, Inventor and Author)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
thanking him for his letter and “its expression of approval of my books - My own feeling about the way they have been received is one of surprise and gratitude. Thank you also for so kindly copying for me the most interesting extracts from Bishop Westcott. The problems they touch on simply frighten me in my old age - In my youth I settled them off hand - of course! But I find on looking back that I have settled them in several different ways at different times and now I am simply waiting for an illumination which it appears to me must come - or else blank nothingness, which is to me inconceivable. I have however got one fixed idea - that when I catch myself appealing to a thing called Necessity, to help me out of the Insoluble, my finiteness has got the bit in its teeth and run away with me. I daresay Peggy’s ideas have varied too since those days - She was younger...”, 4 sides 8vo., 1 The Vale, King’s Road, Chelsea, 12th August
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
43784
£475
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DIETRICH
(Marlene, 1904-1992, German Film Actress)
Vintage postcard photo signed in silver ink and inscribed
“to John”, showing her half length, seated wearing a feathery hat and smoking a cigarette, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date, but
Item Date:
1940
Stock No:
43779
£175
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