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Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806), English author, translator of Epictetus, and member of the 'Bluestocking Circle'

Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed correspondent by the bluestocking Mrs Elizabeth Carter ('Eliz: Carter'). Together with stipple engraving by Mackenzie of 'Mrs. Carter'.

Letter: 8vo, 1 p. Twelve lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with slight damage at foot of page, and strip from previous mount adhering to blank reverse. Addressed to 'Dear Sir'. As she does not hold her correspondent responsible for the 'accident' no compensation is necessary,...

£350.00  ALS, bluestocking Mrs Elizabeth Carter
Frederica, Duchess of York [Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina; Princess Frederica of Prussia] (1767-1820), wife of Prince Frederick (1763-1827), Duke of York and Albany, 2nd son of King George III

Autograph Letter Signed ('F'), in French, by Frederica, Duchess of York and Albany, wife of King George III's second son Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany.

12mo, 1 p. 15 lines. Text clear and complete. Closely written in a difficult hand. Mention is made towards the beginning of the letter of 'l'Excellent G'. The recipient is going on a voyage, and Frederica hopes to see them at Oatlands on their return.

£165.00 Frederica, Duchess of York and Albany
John Wolcot (1738-1819), English satirical author under the pseudonym 'Peter Pindar' [Thomas 'Clio' Rickman (1760-1834), quaker, radical author and friend of Thomas Paine]

Autograph Signature of the satirist John Wolcot ('J: Wolcot'), made when 'entirely blind', with autograph note by quaker and radical author Thomas 'Clio' Rickman.

12mo, 2 pp, the autograph being on one side and Rickman's on the other. Fair, on aged paper, with traces of previous mounting on one side. Large bold signature 'J: Wolcot' with biographical note on one side, and the note, signed 'Clio Rickman', on the other: Written by the celebrated Peter...

£165.00 Signature of the satirist John Wolcot
[madness of King George III; George Eyre and Andrew Strahan]

[printed handbill] A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God, For His Majesty the King's Recovery from His late dangerous Sickness. To be used At Morning and Evening Service, After the General Thanksgiving.

Small 4to, 3 pp. Paginated [1]-4. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Formerly a bifolium, but with the two leaves now separated and attached by a thin strip. Part of mount adhering to second leaf. Subtitle reads: 'Throughout the Cities of London and Westminster, and elsewhere within the Bills of...

£145.00 [madness of King George III]
Anne Seymour Damer (1749-1828), sculptor and author, member of the 'Bluestocking Circle' [horology; clocks]

Autograph Letter Signed from the bluestocking sculptor and author Anne Seymour Damer to an unnamed male correspondent, concerning a 'favourite old Clock;'.

12mo, 3 pp. Bifolium. 28 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with a trace of the mount adhering to the reverse of the second leaf, which is docketed by the recipient. The letter concerns her 'favourite old Clock', about which she expresses anxiety: 'the Man you now send...

£350.00  ALS from the bluestocking sculptor and author Anne Seymour Damer
John Gregory [Gregorie(1724-1773), Scottish physician and writer [George, Lord Lyttelton (1709-1773), English statesman and co-author with Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800), 'Queen of the Bluestockings']

Autograph Letter Signed ('Jo. Gregory.') from the Scottish physician and writer John Gregory to George, Lord Lyttelton, including a reference to Mrs Elizabeth Montagu's smallpox innoculation.

4to, 2 pp. Bifolium. Eighteen lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged and creased paper. Having been presented with a copy of the first volumes of Lyttelton's 'History of the Life of Henry the Second', he has 'read the first Edition with the greatest Pleasure'. He praises the way...

£380.00 John Gregory to George, Lord Lyttelton
George William Coventry (1758-1831), 7th Earl of Coventry [the enclosure of Tooting Common]

Autograph Letter Signed by George William Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry, to Thomas Harrison, egarding the enclosure of Tooting Common. Together with franked envelope bearing Coventry's red wax seal.

4to, 1 p. Eleven lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He thanks him for having 'appriz'd' him 'of the proposed enclosure of Tooting Common, to which I am equally hostile with the Rector, & the other principal Gentlemen who have express'd their determination to oppose...

£145.00 Autograph Letter Signed by George William Coventry
[madness of King George III; George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, the King's Printers]

[printed handbill] A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God, Upon the Prospect of His Majesty the King's Recovery from His dangerous Sickness. To be used At Morning and Evening Service, After the General Thanksgiving.

Small 4to, 3 pp. Paginated [1]-4. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Formerly a bifolium, but with the two leaves now separated and attached by a thin strip. Part of mount adhering to second leaf. Subtitle reads: 'Throughout the Cities of London and Westminster, and elsewhere within the Bills of...

£145.00 [Madness of King George III]
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), Duchess of Portland [Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800), author, literary hostess and 'Queen of the Bluestockings'; William Bentinck, Duke of Portland (1709-1762)]

Unsigned Autograph Letter from Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, to her 'Dearest Friend' the bluestocking Mrs Mary Wortley Montagu; franked by the writer's husband 'Portland'.

4to, 2 pp. Bifolium, with letter on both sides of first leaf, and frank ('For Mrs Montagu at Mr Purdies in Orange Court, Bath'), with red wax seal (bust of a man), on reverse of second. 42 lines of text. Clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with strip of mount adhering to second leaf. Begins...

£450.00 Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
Prince Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex, sixth son of King George III [Sir William John Newton (1785-1869), artist and photographer]

Autograph Note in the third person from Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, to Sir W. J. Newton, regarding a sitting.

12mo, 1 p. Six lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Suggests a couple of alternative days on which he 'will be at liberty to give Sir W. J. Newton a sitting'.

£85.00 Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
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