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June 17, 1867. Octavo, 1page. To Dr. J.R. Wood: "I am too heavily burdened with responsibilities to comply with your request - claims resting on me which must be met & by me.". Wendell Phillips (1811-84), American reformer, abolitionist, President of Anti-Slavery Society (1865-70). Mailing folds, paper clip indentation, else very good..
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by PHILLIPS, Wendell.
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by PFEIFFER, Emily Jane.
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On stationery headed, Mayfield, West Hill, Putney, S.W., dated "Wednesday evening". Approximately 7" x 4 1/2", 2pp., about 100 words, to "Dear Mrs. Wood". Emily Jane Pfeiffer, (1827-1890), nee Davis, Welsh poet who wrote in English. Folded twice for mailing, light creasing, light foxing, mounting traces on second side, else very good..
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by REPPLIER, Agnes.
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On printed letterhead, Wallingford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Dated June 18th, (N.y). 2 pp. Thanking Mr. Allen for "your admirable little book, which I found awaiting my return. I read it with delight, - some passages being familiar, and some forgotten. I hope it will give pleasure to those who love the Diary, and that it will lead many a reader back to that masterpiece of gossip." Mailing folds, paper clip indentation, else very good..
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Autograph Letter in the hand of an amanuensis, signed.
by STREATFEILD, Noel.
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On personal stationery, headed" Miss Noel Streatfeildn O.B.E., Vicarge Gate Nursing Home, Vicarage Gate, Londom W.S. 41Q To: "Dear Mr. Griffin, Thank you for your letter and the appeal for funds to expand your library, something dear to my heart. I enclose a copy of my book [not offered here] "When the Sirens Wailed". I have chosen this book as many children write to me and tell me that they have been advised to read the book as they are studying the history of the last war. As you can see I now live in a Nursing Home & cannot even write my own letters, but I will try to sign the book, & this letter so that you may have my autograph. I should like to wish you, your staff and the children a very happy and successful 1985. Yours Sincerely, Noel Streatfield." Only the author's first name has been signed in her hand, and with some obvious difficulty. Mailing folds, slight soiling, else very good..
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Autograph Letter, signed. a receipt for copyright. for the
by WALKER, Mary Adelaide.
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193, Piccadilly, London, W. June 15th 1863. 8" x 5", written on the first side of four. "Received of Mess. Chapman & Hall the sum of One Hundred guineas for the Copyright and Sketches of my work Entitled "Through Macedonia to the Albanian Lakes" - Mary Adelaide Walker /15th June 1863 / 6 Grafton Square / Clapham". Affixed is a one penny Inland Revenue stamp initialled by Walker. Born as Mary Adelaide Curtis, she was the sister of missionary C. G. Curtis. Walker also wrote "Eastern Life and Scenery, with Excursions in Asia Minor, Mytilene, Crete, and Roumania" (1886). Mailing crease, else very good..
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by CURTIS, George W.
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New York, 6 Nov. 1856. Octavo, 1p. To editor Robert Carter, "I tasted Browning so strongly in the Count's book, that I could not say what would have been pleasantest to say - and Hurlbut will say it in - he tells me - the next no. of Putnam. Truly Yours, George Wm. Curtis" With typed transcript. Folded thrice for mailing, light paperclip mark at top, else very good..
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by HALL, Samuel Carter.
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2pp., approximately 150 words. On printed stationery addressed "Avenue Villa, 50, Holland Street, Kensington" dated "Mar 6 (no year)", "Dear Sir, I thank you much for directing me to Mr. I. Peel and to his works., He is an excellent artist and a courteous agreeable and well informed gentleman." The letter goes on to refer to the addresses of British artists and "30 years editor of the Art Journal". Signed " S.C. Hall". Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889), Irish Journalist; founder and editor of The Art Journal. Mailing folds and light creasing, else very good..
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Autograph Note, signed.
by HEPPENSTALL, (John) Rayner. [1911-1981].
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Aug, 31 [n.y]. 14c Ladbroke Tce/ W 11 /Park 4458. 1 page, 19 cm x 13 cm. To: "Dear Miss Hellman, I hope this may do. The moorhen is a cause I have as dear. Yrs sincerely, Rayner Heppenstall. Mailing and light creases, else good. Heppenstall was a friend of George Orwell, and wrote an account a beating from the same entitled "The Shooting Stick". Mailing and light creases, else good..
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by KNOWLES, Sir James.
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The Hollies, Clapham Common, S.W. July 8th, 1881. 7" x 4 1/2", one page on letterhead. Sir James Knowles, (1831-1908), English architect and editor. A close friend of Tennyson, Knowles designed Aldworth for him. A founder of the Metaphyical Society, Editor of the Contemporary Review and founder of The Nineteenth Century". Letter is to a Mr. Johnson, thanking him for forwarding a letter from Howell, an "old school fellow" of Knowles. Approximately 100 words. Folded twice for mailing, else good condition..
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by SCUDDER, Horace Elisha.
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Cambridge, Mass., March 16, 1885. Octavo, 2pp., written on 1st and 2nd pages of a double lettersheet. To Miss Susie B. Shelding. "My stock of printed verse is so small that I have no great difficulty in finding a poem to copy for you, but you do not give me any intimation as to the kind of use to which you wish to put my autograph. Are you preparing a flower volume like the other, or a miscellaneous collection? .You can use the whole or any part of it." With envelope addressed to the recipient. Horace Elisha Scudder (1838-1902), writer, editor of "Riverside Magazine for Young People" (1867-70), "Atlantic Monthly" (1890-98). Mailing folds, else very good..
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by MACAULAY, Fannie C., a.k.a. Frances Little.
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410 Belgravia, Louisville, KY, June 8, 1909. 17 cm x 13.5 cm, 1 p., approximately 30 words. Giving thanks for kind words about her "two little books" and enclosing her autograph. The works referred to are almost certainly "The Lady of Decoration" (1906), and Little Sister Snow, (1909), written under the pen name of Frances Little. These were popular novels with Japanese themes. Fannie Caldwell Macaulay, (1863-1941), born in Shelbyville Kentucky. Letter is folded for mailing, else very good. Uncommon signature..
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by MATTHEWS, James Brander.
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On printed letterhead, 121 East 18th St. New York. Jan. 16th, 1886. Octavo, pp. 1 3/4, written on 1st and 4th pages of a double lettersheet. Sending T.F. Hunt Esq., of Salem, Mass., the circular of the Dunlap Society [not present]. "I shall be very glad to enroll you and your friends. Mr McKee has now nearly ready for the press the first two issues; and Mr. Hutton's Anthology will follow them speedily." James Brander Matthews, (1852-1929). Professor of literature and dramatic literature at Columbia University. Mailing folds and mounting traces along inside edge, else very good..
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by BOTTOMLEY, Gordon.
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The Sheiling, Silverdale, nr. Carnforth, [N.d].. No Binding. Very Good. Gordon Bottomley, 1874-1948, English poet and dramatist, author of numerous verse dramas with themes inspired by Celtic and northern legend. President of the Scottish Community Drama Association and Vice President of the British Drama League. 7" x 5.25" leaf, written both sides, just shy of 300 words. To [William] Aiken, director of the Tate Gallery [from 1917-30], "You have made the Tate a treasure-house to me in many ways; but my thoughts return to it particularly often just now on account of your 60's exhibition, for all the passions of my youth are focused there, and even in memory the spectacle is incomparable. I feel that those years are, so far, the golden time English art - such a time as the years just four hundred years before in Florence - and that that unique efforescence can never be too much prized. Your instinct for marshalling its manifestations must come out of an inspiration not unlike the…
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Autograph Letter, signed
by (THEATRE). Starr, Frances.
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On Hotel Touraine, Boston letterhead, November 19, [N.y]. Octavo, 3pp. To "My Dear Sam - Please don't think I have forgotten you. I have not. I have been under such heavy pressure.in a financial way that I have been obliged to keep you waiting. I will finish up the payment for the portrait upon my return to New York and am arranging for it to be hung in the Lobby of the 'Academy of Music'.". Signed, "Frances". Frances Starr (1886-1973). American film and television actress. Films include "This Reckless Age", "Tiger Rose", etc. Television guest appearances included Philco Television Playhouse, Kraft Television Theater, Hallmark Hall of Fame, etc. Mailing folds, dusty thumbprint to first page, else very good..
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by DUNCAN, Sara Jeannette. (Cotes, Mrs. Everard).
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On Ladies' Empire Club letterhead, dated Monday (no month, no year) to: "Dear Lady [Mullin]? Thanks for your note. I hope dear A's things are now safely sailing through the Bay under my berth. Do come in to tea tomorrow, here, about five. I shall be in and expecting you; but if you can't, let me know. I am off on Thurs - and won't, I fear, have another chance of seeing you..." Signed S.J. Cotes. Sara Jeannette Duncan, (22 December 1861 - 22 July 1922), Canadian author and the first woman to be hired as a professional journalist in Canada. Mailing crease, else very good condition. .
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by (THEATRE). Sothern, Edward Hugh.
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Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, (no date). Octavo, 1p. To Mr. [Sol Smith] Russell. "Let me thank you very much for the box last night. I enjoyed the play very much - and passed a delightful evening. Worth giving up your Sundays rest for.". Edward Hugh Sothern (1859-1933), American actor. Tear and crease at bottom left blank corner, else good..
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Autograph Letter, signed,
by OLIPHANT, Laurence.
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14th [January?, No year] Written on the first side of a single lettersheet. "Dear Sir / Will you kindly have the accompanying photograph colored [sic]." and mentioning that he is about to go abroad. Approximately 40 words. Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888), British author, international traveller, diplomatist, mystic, and secretary to Lord Elgin on his mission to China and Japan. Pencil note on Oliphant in upper right corner of letter, mailing folds, else very good..
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by BOTTOMLEY, Gordon. [1874-1948].
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The Sheiling, Silverdale, nr. Carnforth, 6th June,. No Binding. Very Good. Gordon Bottomley, English poet and dramatist, author of numerous verse dramas with themes inspired by Celtic and northern legend. President of the Scottish Community Drama Association and Vice President of the British Drama League. 7" x 5.25" leaf, written both sides. To Mrs. Whale, regarding a Prize which Bottomley has been awarded. Bottomley discusses health matters and the difficulty of making travel plans to the ceremony. He mentions his play "Gruach", Mme de. Broutelles, and a portrait. About 400 words in the author's attractive hand. Very good condition.
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by ANSDELL, Richard.
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(No place). 1p., 18.5 cm x 11.5 cm, dated "19th of March 1848" to, "My dear George". Embellished with a small drawing of an artist's palette and brush beside a girl wearing a plumed hat. Signed, "Rich Andsell". Richard Ansdell (1815-1885), English painter, best known for his animal and sporting pictures. Mailing folds, slight soiling, else very good..
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Autograph Letter, signed.
by (HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel). Lathrop, George Parsons.
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80 Washington Sq., Dec 5 / 84. Octavo, 1 p., written on the first side of a double lettersheet. Offering to assist his correspondent with knowledge about Hawthorne. George Parsons Lathrop (1851-1898), poet, editor, and author of "A Study of Hawthorne" (1876). Mailing folds, paper clip identation, else very good..
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