HUXLEY
(Leonard, 1860-1933, Schoolteacher and Author, son of the Zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley)
Autograph Letter Signed to Carpenter
saying that he hasn’t said when he would be in London but hoping that his invitation to “come & dine on Saturday at 7pm and we can discuss matters afterwards. Also bring your pipe if you like to smoke - for I have Russian tobacco at any rate for the present. No dressing - we shall be alone...”, 3 sides 8vo., The Athenaeum headed paper, 3rd December year illegible
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43735
£125
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ISMAY
(Hastings Lionel ‘Pug’, 1st Baron, 1887-1965, General, Chief of Staff to Churchill)
Autograph Letter Signed “Pug” to ‘Ava dearest’, Lady WAVERLEY
(1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) thanking her for her letter “Great minds think alike, as you and... I came to the simultaneous conclusion that I ought to get into touch with her, without delay. I have done so, and we are motoring to London tomorrow and looking at Chartwell next day. It is not yet decided whether I am to have an operation... I am so much much better as the result of having a badly poisoned tooth pulled out, but I am going to plead very hard to be left alone...” hoping she will visit them in Paris, 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, Wormington Grange, Broadway headed paper, 8th August postmarked
Item Date:
1955
Stock No:
43721
£75
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KEEL
(Harold Clifford, professionally Howard, 1919-2004, American Actor & Singer)
Typed Letter Signed ‘Harold Keel’ on yellow paper to Pamela Love
thanking her for her letter and saying that he “was pleased to hear you enjoyed our performance of ‘Oklahoma’ and have pleasure in sending you the inclosed picture...”, 1 side A4, ‘Oklahoma’ Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 20th October
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
43758
£75
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KEMBLE
(Frances Anne, Mrs Pierce Butler, 1809-1893, Shakespearean Actress as ‘Fanny Kemble’)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Mitchell
thanking her effusively for an invitation to visit “I shall hope to be able to do so about the third week in August when I expect to leave... for the Lower country - and while showing my little Yankee girl all the interesting places of that region loved of poets, it will be a very great pleasure to me to show her the pretty place where I have spent so many pleasant hours where your kind and obliging offer of hospitality makes me feel sure of the same friendly welcome that I have hitherto always found there. Dear Mrs Mitchell I will write to you... from Ambleside... when we are likely to come to Scotland... it will be a great pleasure to me to become better acquainted with the dear daughter of my dear friend Jane...”, 4 sides 8vo., 5 Wilton Place, Sunday 26th no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43766
£100
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KINGSLEY
(Charles, 1819-1875, Novelist, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 1860-1869)
Fine Autograph letter signed to Mr Townshend
saying that he is about to “leave Chester for Westminster - to my sincere regret... the post is such, that a poor man with a family & literary instincts could not refuse it. I trust... to see all Chester friends, & you among their number as often as possible. In matter of business - I presume that I receive this quarter’s value of my Canonry. Perhaps you wd kindly let me know whether it will be transmitted to me shortly... as getting into Westminster will - as you can guess cost some £100 in stamps & parchment, & I must regulate my banker’s... Pray remember, that whenever you may come to London, we shall be delighted to offer you hospitality, if not a bed. At present I am at Harrow, where also, hospitality is at your service but alas! no bed...”, 3 sides 8vo., 2 Woodside, Harrow, Middx, 20th March
Item Date:
1873
Stock No:
43762
£200
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