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Elizabeth Fitzgerald (nee Jones), Countess of Kildare (1665-1758), widow of John FitzGerald, 18th Earl of Kildare (1661-1707) Signed printed Exchequer Receipt, with Manuscript insertions. One page. Dimensions of paper roughly eleven inches by seven and a half. Aged, and with fraying to extremities, but text clear and complete. 'Received by me [Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Kildare] Of the Right Honourable Thomas Townshend, Esq; One of the Four Tellers of His Majesty's Receipt of... |
Women | £76.00 | |
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Elizabeth Frink [The Waddington Galleries] Elizabeth Frink. Sculpture and Drawings. 4th June-25th June 1959. 8vo: 4 pp. Wih four pages of illustrations on art paper, the first being a full-page photographic portrait of Frink by Peter Collins. Stapled. In original blue printed wraps. Good, on lightly-aged paper. No copy on COPAC. |
Women | £45.00 | |
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Elizabeth Hamilton. Autograph Letter Signed "Eliza Hamilton" to Mrs Losh, Jesmond. 1758-1816, miscellaneous writer (DNB). Two pages, 4to, tears on folds and chipping, but text complete. She had hoped to find out how her friends at Jesmond were oby a morning visit but cannot do so. She is forced to "make an unwarrantable demand upon [her] hospitality and invite herself and two... |
Women | £150.00 | |
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[The Coast Committee of Northumberland; Napoleonic Wars] An archive illustrating English coastal defence against French invasion, 1794 to 1796 121 signed bills and receipts from the accounts of the Trustees of the Northumberland Coast Committee (also described as 'Trustees for Guarding the Coast', 'The Honourable Coast Committee Alnwick', 'The Honnble. Coasting Committe [sic]'). Very little is to be discovered about this organisation,... |
History, Military and Naval History | £450.00 |
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Elizabeth Jane Oswald Autograph Letter Signed to 'Miss Graham'. Author (died 1905) of the Icelandic travel guide 'By fell and fjord'. Two pages, 12mo. In good condition although grubby and with traces of mount adhering to verso and stub adhering along one edge. 'I am glad to say that I find the tickets in the row we are in - for the Reid Concerts on Friday... |
Literature, Women | £33.00 | |
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Elizabeth M. Sewell Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent ("Madam") Religious, devotional and educational writer (1815-1906). Three pages, 8vo, light foxing not affecting clarity of text, laid down. A good letter about her relatively new educational venture in which she clarifies the status of the prospective pupil. "[The school] has not been established for the... |
Literature, Women | £100.00 | |
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Elizabeth M. Sewell. Autograph letter signed to Miss Buchanan. Religious and educational writer (1815-1906). Three pages, 8vo, good condition. She modestly thanks her correspondent for her letter and its contents. "God has been very good to me in granting His Blessing upon my efforts to be helpful by my writings . . . I am an old woman and my writing days... |
Literature, Women | £65.00 | |
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Elizabeth Murdoch Autograph Letter Signed, 2pp., 8vo (air letter), to Philip Connard, artist Mother of Rupert, but apparently distinguished in her own right. She sympathises with Connard's "dreadful" life, but her family "feel very troubled that we are so well off for everything and can do almost nothing to help". She goes on to discuss the portrait Connard painted of Rupert and Helen (... |
History, Women | £100.00 | |
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Elizabeth O'Neill (1791-1872) [married name Elizabeth Wrixon-Becher, Lady Wrixon-Becher; Lady Becher], Irish actress [Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke (1809-1898)] Autograph Letter in the third person to Mrs Cowden Clarke. 12mo, 2 pp. Thirteen lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged and creased paper, with small hole to one margin. The stub of the second leaf of the original bifolium attached to a leaf removed from an album, docketed in a contemporary hand 'Autograph of Lady Becher - formerly Miss O'... |
Music and Theatre, Women | £35.00 | |
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Elizabeth P. Peabody. American Educator, established first kindergarten in the USA (1860), sometime Boston bookshop owner, author, member of the Transcendental Club, etc. (see American DNB). A four-line poem in eight lines, one page, c.8 x 5", laid down on another stiffer paper, some ruckling, final word blotched,... |
Literature, Women | £200.00 |