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Author, Title, Summary Price
Samuel Phillips.

Autograph Letter Signed to W[illiam] Shackell, onetime owner, printer of "John Bull".

Glass manufacturer (1814-1854). 2pp., 8vo, good, admitting that he isinvolved with the Crystal Palace Company, but is not the secretary. Hesays that he has the interests of “Mr Woodfall” [the printer?] at heart, and his family is well. Phillips became literary diretor of the Crystal Palace Co....

£45.00
Thomas Phillips.

Autograph Letter Signed "Phillips", to “Cooper”.

Artist (1770-1844). 2pp., 8vo, good. “Clifford Holroyd” has asked him to put his case “before the Directors of The Artists G.B.[General Benevolent] Fund” at Cooper’s instigation. He requests information about Holroyd, and concludes by saying how useful this example proves the Fund.

£30.00
V.S. Pritchett.

Autograph Note Signed

Short story writer and essayist (1900-1996). 8vo, to “Mrs Biggs”, appreciating her enjoyment of “the Russian books”, mentioning an error in his review of them, and recommending that she read Leskov about whom he hopes to write.

£25.00
W.H. Weiss.

Autograph Letter Signed from “W.G. Weiss”, wife or other relative, to “G. Wood”,

(W.H. Weiss, vocalist and composer (1820-1867)). 2pp., 4to, torn, partly repaired crudely, discussing Willoughby Weiss’s current tour with “Miss Kemble”, the possibilities for a concert on the Isle of Man, his recent hectic tour (listing the many places he hasperformed at recently).

£35.00
[H] Evans Darby [Peace campiagner]

Letter Signed to Chevalier Dr Karl de Scherzen

(Peace Society (1893)). 2pp., 8vo, H.(?) Evans Darby to the Chevalier Dr Karl de Scherzer, He informs his correspondent that the last “universal Peace Congress” in Chicago decided to invite eminent jurists “to form a Committee for thepurpose of considering the question of an International Court...

£45.00
A.B. Cunninghame-Graham.

Autograph Letter Signed to “Maurice”.

Admiral. One page, 4to, tear not affecting text, discussing his travel plans and meetings.

£25.00
A.J. Warne-Browne

Autograph Letters, quantity, to “J.H. Roberts”,.

Painter. 4 ALSs, 2-3pp., 8vo, good. He asks for payment for a picture so that he can pay rent arrears, reports of his progress with his pictures, “the two Dartmoor streams”. He later talks of other pictures in which Roberrts has an interest (“Mermaid”, “Kennack Bay”, “Cadgwith [Cove]” and others...

£150.00
Alaric A. Watts.

Autograph Letter, third person, to “Mr Cawood”.

Poet and journalist (1797-1864). 2pp., 8vo, good. Watts accepts an invitation and gives his excuse for not responding earlier in rather more words than appear necessary.

£40.00
Algernon Borthwick

Autograph Letter Signed to “Yates”.

Ist Baron Glenesk, newspaper proprietor (1830-1908), 4pp., 8vo, stained but not obscuring text, giving his reason for not seeing Yates’s “representation”, and planning a pre-luncheon conversation about Napoleon, Palmerston and the like. He is pleased to be given a place in Yates’s “Gallery”.

£30.00
British Army.

A collection.

(British Army: Ist Volunteer Rifle Battalion (Devon) in 1901). A small collection of letters and printed ephemera relating to the Ist Volunteer Rifle Battalion, Exeter, comprising: ALS, 2pp., 8vo, William C.Richards to Colonel Sir Dudley Duckworth-King, 17 Sept. 1901, aboutthe use and payment of...

£100.00
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