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Lot 234
CHARLES II: (1630-1685) King of England, Scotland and Ireland 1660-85. Fine, dark ink signature ('Charles R') as King on a slightly irregularly trimmed oblong 12mo piece, evidently neatly clipped from the head of a document. With some light age wear and with a very minor, later paperclip rust stain, close to, but not affecting, the signature. About VG
Lot 246
VICTORIA: (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom Great Britain & Ireland 1837-1901. D.S., Appd. Victoria R I, one page, slim 8vo (a folded 4to sheet, with two red wax seals intact to the verso), Admiralty, 11th September 1862. The manuscript document approves the outcome of a General Court Martial relating to Charles Du Cane Williams, a Second Lieutenant, who was tried for insubordination and disorderly conduct and sentenced to be cashiered. Signed by the Queen at the foot. With overall dust staining and minor age wear. G
Lot 140
POETS: Small selection of T.Ls.S. etc., by various poets including Cecil Day-Lewis, Clifford Dyment (2; in the first referring to letters received from Joe Ackerley at the time he was editor of The Listener until a few years before his death and remarking 'I shall be most glad to let you see them and to print any of them you should wish. The only problem is: where are they?' and in the second sending eight letters (no longer present) of Ackerley's and providing some explanatory notes, particularly regarding his introduction to the writer, 'I was nervous and shy about Joe at first, but he had so much consideration, kindness and charm that it wasn't possible to be shy for long and soon….we were friends'), Charles Causley (A.L.S., in part, 'I don't think I ever had a letter from Joe Ackerley; just some rejection slips & some acceptances!....Was the book of mine you liked Figgie Hobbin? I've written a rhyming story for children, & am currently doing a book of poems with drawings by Barbara Hepworth. Exciting prospect! And intimidating…', 1971), Norman Nicholson (regarding Joe Ackerley and stating, in part, 'He published some of my very earliest verse - poems which I've now discarded. Then The Blackberry and Egremont, two of the first poems which might be described as typically Nicholson for that time. Often there were encouraging remarks or a line or two of criticism. Then, suddenly, just at the time I began to get my verse accepted everywhere, anything that I sent to The Listener came back by return post without any word of explanation. I never discovered the reason for this!' and also commenting on his own work and forthcoming publication, 1971) etc. All of the letters are written to Neville Braybrooke and date from the late 1960s - early 1970s. G to VG, 7 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher who edited The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975). Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic. J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC's weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law.
Lot 177
FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Selection of A.Ls.S. and T.Ls.S. by a variety of famous men and women, mainly religious leaders, politicians, historians, academics etc., including Chad Varah ('I am afraid the only books I read nowadays are 'thrillers' or 'shop''), Donald Soper, Basil Hume (3), Lionel Blue, Denis Healey, Shirley Williams (commenting on Basil Hume, 'I was delighted…to learn that his sense of justice and the quality of mercy revealed themselves so early in his life. We shall miss him. He was a great spiritual presence', 1999), Norma Major, Philip Mairet (commenting on his correspondent's essay on T. S. Eliot, 'You have done a wonderful and constructive piece of work. In the textual criticism you make a number of interesting points; and, as an account of the development of Eliot's mind and the history of his career, what you have produced will be of value as a work of reference', 1967), Asa Briggs, Alfred Ayer, A. E. Ellis, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Charles Petrie, Rupert Hart-Davis (3; referring to Hugh Walpole and Joe Ackersley), Conor Cruise O'Brien, Robert Skidelsky, Geoffrey Keynes (2; referring to his brother's letters to Joe Ackersley and a poem by Sassoon), G. Wilson Knight (mentioning the film of Death in Venice etc.), Arnold Lunn (2, one unsigned; referring to letters of Joe Ackerley and commenting 'I have a very vivid impression of him…I read his book with lively interest. His Mother regarded me, so he says, as an incarnation of the Devil. The mothers of some of my secretaries, two of whom became Catholics, regarded me with equal alarm as the incarnation of the Vatican') etc. The majority of the letters are written to Neville Braybrooke and date from the 1960s to 1990s. Some age wear and minor faults, generally G to about VG, 33 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher who edited The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975). Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic.
Lot 182
BRITISH SCIENCE: An unusual vintage 10 x 8 photograph depicting the ocean liner Euripides at sea, signed by twenty one individuals, some of them members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Commander and other crew members of the Euripides, including Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937, New Zealand-born British Physicist, the 'father of nuclear physics'. Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, 1908) and his wife Mary Rutherford (1876-1954), Joseph Petavel (1873-1936, British Physicist), Henry Tizard (1885-1959, English Chemist & Inventor), John Layard (1891-1974, English Anthropologist & Psychologist), W. H. R. Rivers (1864-1922, English Anthropologist, Neurologist, Ethnologist & Psychiatrist) Thomas Hudson Beare (1859-1940, British Engineer), Charles W. Kimmins (1856-1948, British Educational Psychologist) etc. All have signed in dark fountain pen inks to the photographer's mount, one adding the date 6th August 1914 in their hand. Some light foxing to the border of the image, otherwise VG In 1914 British scientists travelled to Australia for the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science which was to be held in several locations across the country. The event was meant to promote science, progress and empire but was somewhat overshadowed when, having travelled thousands of miles from home via sea, the members arrived to discover that war had broken out. Accompanied by a statement of provenance signed by the vendor explaining that the present photograph was signed for his grandmother, Winifred Van Praagh, who was travelling with her sister to New Zealand in order to visit their brother Cecil.
Lot 137
SPENDER STEPHEN: (1909-1995) English Poet & Novelist. A.L.S., Stephen Spender, one page, 8vo, St. John's Wood, 23rd June 1969, to [Neville] Braybrooke. Spender informs his correspondent, in part, 'I have letters from Jo[e] but will not be able to look them up till Sept 15 when I return from France…'Together with a second A.L.S., Stephen Spender, one page, 8vo, London, 30th April 1972, also to [Neville] Braybrooke, on the printed stationery of the Department of English, University College London. Spender writes, in full, 'I am glad these are not the only two as they seem purely business-like not (from me) complaining. Alas I can't answer you queries. I have forgotten'. With light age wear, otherwise VG, 2 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher who edited The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975). Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic. J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC's weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law.
Lot 53
VALENTINO RUDOLPH: (1895-1926) Italian-born American Actor, a sex symbol of the 1920s. Vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of the 'Latin Lover' in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by James Abbe. Signed by Valentino in blue fountain pen ink across a light area of the image, 'To Mary Parks, Sincerely, Rudolph Valentino'. Loosely inserted within the original folio presentation folder bearing a blind embossed logo above the printed caption 'Specialists in Cruising Photography'. Some heavy vertical and horizontal creasing to the left and lower edges and with a neat 2" tear to the lower edge (just affecting the R of the signature) and some further small corner creases and light stains and age wear, FR Provenance: The present photograph was obtained by the vendor's grandfather as a gift for his mother-in-law, a fan of Valentino. The vendor's grandfather was employed as a hairdresser by Cunard and it was whilst travelling on the RMS Samaria that he encountered Valentino on a transatlantic voyage.
Lot 242
GEORGE IV: (1762-1830) King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1820-30. D.S., George P R, as Prince Regent, at the head, one page, oblong Folio, Court at Carlton House 16th February 1813. The partially printed document, on vellum, is a military commission appointing Jonathan Brown to be a Major in the 75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot command by Sir Robert Abercromby. Countersigned by Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844, Home Secretary and British Prime Minister 1801-04). With blind embossed paper seal affixed. Some overall age ware and light blue staining to a few areas at the extreme edges of the document. FR
Lot 147
ACKERLEY JOE: (1896-1967)British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC's weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law. Collection of 24 A.Ls.S., both Joe and Joe Ackerley, fifty pages (total), mostly 8vo, Putney, London, 1953-67, to a variety of correspondents (most only identified by their first names). Ackerley writes on a variety of subjects ranging from reviews and troublesome publishers, his memoir and other works including My Dog Tulip to South Africa and shingles ('an unpleasant and painful & messy disease') and the staging of E. M. Forster's Howards End, in part, 'I am judging poetry this year for the Poetry Book Society, with Roy Fuller and Patric Dickinson, hard labour for a fee of 50 guineas' (8th August 1958), 'My book news is poor indeed. The Olympia Press rejected my novella….as far too mild and tame for their public, and Secker & Warburg have rejected it in its purified form as embarrassingly sentimental….I have now come to the conclusion that it is an unsaleable book in any form' (2nd June 1959), 'It seems that I misjudged Ram Gopal…a nuisance in a way, for now I suppose I shall have to re-write the flabby dialogue in his scenario after all, which I don't want to do, though cash is always an allure' (6th January 1964), 'The book has been sailing along fairly well….a rather troublesome chapter lies ahead, but the end is in sight….I mean as a first draft. Then it will need typing, to which I do not look forward….but it is too scandalous to hand over to anyone else….all this merely in the interests of Truth…I am quite sure of the impossibility of its complete publication at present….that is to say I wonder whether the whole truth, so far as it can be known about anyone is fit for general consumption, or, more important still, acceptable to others' (19th February 1964), 'I thought I would send you this to see. I doodled it for James Kirkup, who was Lit. Ed. then of this U.S.- Japanese magazine published in Tokyo….sometimes I think it is bosh; sometimes I think it has something to say. The Editor was frightened of it and thought it would "blow the lid off the United States"; I am sorry to have heard no explosion so far' (May 1965), 'I'm sorry to say I don't agree with you about this final version of Howards End. It doesn't seem to me anything like as interesting as the Cambridge version…..whatever its small gains, it has lost in character - and, of course, got further than ever from the novel…' (13th July 1966), '….it is highly unlikely that Morgan Foster himself could put in an appearance anywhere else, excepting the West End. For that possibility one can't plan…It so happens that he is to be in London next week for a couple of nights and I shall be keeping him company…' (8th December 1966), 'Yesterday I lunched with the two young proteges (American & Greek) of Stephen Spender, who have so much longed to meet Morgan. Charming boys, I will bring their photos with me' (14th April 1967). Also included amongst the collection is an A.L.S. (undated, and possibly a retained copy) from Ackerley to E. M. Forster ('Darling Morgan') stating, in part, 'Just a line of love to say I hope you are well. I expect you will have seen all the notices of your play, and sadly agreed with the general disappointment and occasional yawns they voiced. Not good box office notices, I fear; pretty intelligent on the whole in realising that a major novel had made a minor play….but the front page picture, in one of the more popular rags, of Lord Woodhare's new woman entering the theatre in a mini-skirt may sell a few more tickets….'. Some light overall age wear and minor staining to a few letters, G to about VG, 24 The present letters were collected by Neville Braybrooke in association with his research for his book The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975) and a number of them bear Braybrooke's pencil and ink annotations.
Lot 251
GEORGE V: (1865-1936) King of the United Kingdom 1910-36. D.S., George R I, as King, at the head, one page, large oblong folio, Court of Saint James's, 29th May 1934. The partially printed document appoints Arthur Edward Yapp to be Consul General for the Consular District of the Spanish possessions in the Gulf of Guinea and for Fernande Po and its Dependencies 'for the encouragement of Our Subjects trading to West Africa'. Countersigned at the foot by John Simon (1873-1954, British Politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1931-35; signature very slightly faded although perfectly legible). With blind embossed seal. Some overall strips of staining, only very slightly affecting the text and signatures, G Arthur Edward Yapp (1892-1954) British Diplomat who was appointed Consul to Rouen, France, in 1937 and Consul to New York, United States of America, in 1940
Lot 111
GRANT DUNCAN: (1885-1978) British Painter, a member of the Bloomsbury Group. A.L.S., Duncan Grant, on one side of a plain postcard, Lewes, Sussex, 14th July 1971, to Neville Braybrooke. Grant thanks his correspondent for their letter and adds that he has no letters from Joe Ackerley, remarking 'If I had they would only be notes with dates for meeting for a meal' and concluding 'I think you have done wonders to collect 1000'. Hand addressed by Grant to the verso. Together with a second A.L.S., Duncan Grant, one page, 8vo, Cascais, Portugal, 26th February 1972, also to [Neville] Braybrooke. Grant states that his correspondent's letter, which he has just received, 'revived many memories with (?) Clive's which I am glad to have' and further adds 'The two panels which survive are at present in the cellars of Agnew Bros'. Grant concludes by stating that he is looking forward to seeing the letters of Joe Ackerley which Braybrooke is editing. With blank integral leaf. One corner crease to the upper left corner of the postcard and a small area of paper loss to the upper edge of the letter, neither of which affect the text or signatures, VG, 2 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher who edited The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975). Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic. J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC's weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law. Clive Bell (1881-1964) English Art Critic, associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
Lot 238
GEORGE III: (1738-1820) King of the United Kingdom 1760-1820. Ink signature ('George R', as King) on a 12mo piece neatly and closely clipped from the head of a vellum document, annotated and dated 1798 in ink in a small hand to the lower right corner. Together with a second, bold ink signature ('George R', as King, a 'mad' example) on a small oblong 12mo piece, very slightly irregularly clipped and neatly laid down. G to about VG, 2
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Lot 318
[[BORIANI ARNOLFO]: An exceptional hardbound oblong 8vo autograph album containing over 350 signatures and previously belonging to the Italian Restaurateur Arnolfo Boriani, co-proprietor of the Pall Mall restaurant located in the Haymarket, London, and former employee at the Savoy and Carlton hotels. The album is attractively bound in dark leather with an elaborate gilt stamped decorative border, featuring four different motifs to the corners, with an identical design to the back cover, the spine with four raised bands and five identical gilt stamped motifs to the panels, the front cover further featuring the gilt stamped title Boriani’s Autograph Book from November 1903. All edges gilt. The album contains the signatures of a wide range of luminaries of the day, many of them associated with the theatre and opera, but also including writers, artists, political leaders, aviators, explorers and inventors etc. Most have added brief quotations and statements, some of them quite amusing and more often than not directly related to other signatures and statements on the same pages. Amongst the more prominent entries in the album are (in order of their appearance within the book) - Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) Italian Tenor – a good, original black pen and ink caricature by Caruso, of Boriani in a head and shoulders pose, signed at the base by Caruso and dated London, 1907 in his hand. Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) Italian Tenor – an appealing original black pen and ink self caricature by Caruso, the image depicting him in a profile head and shoulders pose, signed at the base by Caruso and dated London 1905 in his hand. F. Paolo Tosti (1846-1916) Italian-born British Composer – a boldly penned A.M.Q.S. with words beneath (‘Goodbye, Summer Goodbye…’) Richard Caton Woodville (1856–1927) English Artist & Illustrator. An excellent original black pen and ink drawing of Napoleon Bonaparte with a somewhat disgruntled expression on his face as he drinks from a tankard. Makkonen Wolde Mikael (1852-1906) Ras Makkonen. Shum of Harar 1887-1906, father of Emperor Haile Selassie I. Bold ink signature on an irregularly cut portion of an attractive colour menu from the Grill Room of the Carlton Hotel, 5th August 1902, neatly cornermounted to a page. John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) American Composer – A fine A.M.Q.S. of six bars which he identifies as being from Hands Across the Sea, 1903 J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish Novelist & Playwright, created Peter Pan – ink signature and date, June 1903, in his hand on a page also signed by other individuals associated with the playwright’s works including Pauline Chase (amusing A.Q.S. adapted from Peter Pan, in full, ‘To di(n)e will be an awful big adventure’) and Charles Frohman (theatrical producer responsible for the debut of Peter Pan at the Duke of York’s theatre in London, December 1904). G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) English Writer – ink signature (‘G. K. Chesterton of the Samurai’) alongside a small original drawing, on a page also signed by H. G. Wells (1866-1946) English Writer of Science Fiction novels, with a small original pen and ink self caricature (?) and English painter William Rothenstein who has also added a small drawing in his hand with the additional annotation ‘for H. G. W.’ Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Scottish Author, creator of Sherlock Holmes – an unusual and amusing pair of signatures, ‘How I ought to graph Arthur Conan Doyle’, immediately beneath adding, with a slightly larger signature, ‘How I do graph, Arthur Conan Doyle’ Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) French Chef & Restaurateur - A fine autograph menu signed, A Escoffier, penned in his hand beneath a colour illustration of the French and Italian flags and the word Pax above, the menu including dishes named after various composers and operas including Verdi, Rossini and Tosca, April 1904. Roland Garros (1888-1918) French Pioneer Aviator and Fighter Pilot of World War I – Ink signature (‘R Garros’) on a page also signed by other prominent aviators including Jules Vedrines (1881-1919) French Aviator, the first pilot to fly at more than 100mph, winner of the Gordon Bennett Trophy race in 1912 and Rene Vidart (1890-1928) French Aviator; the opposite page signed by three further aviators comprising Claude Grahame-White (1879-1959) English Pioneer Aviator, the first to make a night flight, ‘I’ll eat with you, I’ll drink with you/ I’d drink the ocean dry for you/ I’ll lie for you & possibly might die for you/ But I’ll de d----d if I could fly with you’, Gustav Hamel (1889-1914) British Pioneer Aviator, and Jean Louis Conneau (1880-1937) French Pioneer Aviator. Most of the signatures, some with additional sentiments in French, are dated 3rd July 1911 during the Calais-London stage of the 1911 Circuit of Europe air race. Dorando Pietri (1885-1942) Italian Athlete who controversially finished first in the marathon at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London but was subsequently disqualified – bold ink signature beneath a highly attractive pen and ink drawing honouring the Marathon Race of 24th July 1908 and featuring images of Windsor Castle (the starting point) and the stadium (the finishing point) as well as the English and Italian flags draped either side of the winner’s trophy.Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) French Actress – Ink signature and two additional lines of text in her hand, in French, 1904, on a page also signed by Leon Xaurof with a few additional words of shorthand and further signed by Eduard de Max (1869-1924) Romanian-born French Actor, Bernhardt’s leading man in many productions, with a few words in Italian in his hand, 1904. Boriani’s typed explanation to the signatures appears opposite, in part, ‘…Bernhardt, after a performance of “La Dame aux Camelias”, was apparently in a rather nervous state, and wrote the sentence….in characters which nobody has been able to decipher. When Signor Boriani asked her what it meant, she merely said “That is my language”. When Mr. Xaurof, the author of “His Highness the Prince” saw the contribution, he added some hieroglyphics of his own in shorthand. M. de Max….said that the contributions were not in writing at all, and added….”I also am a painter of pictures”’ OWING TO LIMITATIONS IMPOSED BY THE-SALEROOM WE ARE UNABLE TO DISPLAY THE ENTIRE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS LOT - PLEASE CONTACT IAA Ltd DIRECTLY FOR A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION ’.
Lot 128
AMIS KINGSLEY: (1922-1995) English Novelist. Brief A.L.S., Kingsley Amis, one page, 8vo, Hadley Common, Barnet, Hertfordshire, 11th October 1971, to [Neville] Braybrooke. Amis writes, in full, 'Sorry - no letters from poor J. R. A.[ckerley] You should have had them and welcome if they had existed'. Together with a T.L.S., Kingsley Amis, one page, 8vo, Kentish Town, London, 25th April 1985, also to [Neville] Braybrooke. Amis thanks his correspondent for their letter and continues 'I am very sorry, but I am afraid my present commitments are too heavy for me to entertain the idea of contributing to your book of 20th Century Juvenilia'. VG, 2 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher who edited The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975). Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic. J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC's weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law. The second letter was written in response to Neville Braybrooke's research, which extended over some thirty years, into an anthology of juvenilia by writers who would later become famous. The book was published with the title of Seeds in the Wind: Early Signs of Genius in 1989.
Lot 132
POST LAURENS VAN DER: (1906-1996) South African Author. T.L.S., Laurens van der Post, one page, 8vo, Chelsea Manor Gardens, London, 27th November 1971, to [Neville] Braybrooke. Post thanks his correspondent for their letter, adding, 'it was most generous of you to write and send me your dialogue between Jung and de Chardin. I thought it a most remarkable and imaginative confrontation.' Together with William Plomer (1903-1973) South African and British Author. A.L.S., William Plomer, two pages, 4to, Hassocks, Sussex, 8th March 1973, to [Neville] Braybrooke. Plomer responds to his correspondent's enquiries, informing him, in part, 'You must have worked extremely hard on Joe's letters, & it is good news that your task is almost done' Plomer continues to comment on Gloriana, providing the date of the first performance at Covent Garden in 1953 and Demetrios Capetanakis, giving Braybrooke brief biographical details of the poet, before further continuing, 'I can't imagine what “Bjarre Kalahari” means. “Bjarre” is such an unlikely looking word. We could have asked Laurens van der Post, but he is out of the country...' and concludes, 'I return the copy of Joe's letter to Gransden, & of course look forward much to the letters in print & to your introduction to them.' VG, 2 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher who edited The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975). Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic. J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC's weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law. Gloriana, an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) to an English libretto by William Plomer. Demetrios Capetanakis (1912-1944) Greek Poet, Essayist and Critic.
Lot 275
ROSEBERY EARL OF: (1847-1929) British Prime Minister 1894-95. A.L.S., with his initial R, one page, 8vo, Windsor Castle, n.d. ('Sunday'), to 'My dear St Luke'. The Earl thanks his correspondence for their letter, adding, 'I do not get up to London till 10 this evening & leave by the 10 train tomorrow. Would it be possible for me to see you for 5 minutes before then? If you sent me a line I shall come to you straight from the station.' VG
Lot 257
ELIZABETH II & PRINCE PHILIP: ELIZABETH II (1926- ) Queen of the United Kingdom 1952- & PRINCE PHILIP (1921- ) Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Vintage signed Christmas greetings card by both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip individually, the stiff cream 4to folding card featuring an image to the inside of the Queen and Prince Philip seated outdoors in a relaxed full length pose together on a rug, accompanied by their young children Prince Charles, Princess Anne and the infant Prince Andrew, as well as several corgis. Signed ('Elizabeth R') by the Queen and signed ('Philip') by Prince Philip, both in bold fountain pen inks to the lower border beneath the image and dated 1960 in the Queen's hand. With a printed greeting opposite and with two gold Royal cyphers to the front. Together with a second vintage Christmas greetings card featuring autopen signatures of both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the stiff cream 4to folding card featuring an image to the inside of the Queen and Prince Philip seated indoors accompanied by their young children Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and the infant Prince Edward, 1964. With two gold Royal cyphers to the front. With light creasing to the covers and minor age wear, about VG, 2
Lot 196
SECOND BOER WAR: A selection of signed pieces, signed postcard photographs, a few letters etc., by various military leaders and prominent figures associated with the Second Boer War 1899-1902, including Thomas Kelly-Kenny, Paul Methuen, Charles Warren (the head of the London Metropolitan Police,1886-88, during the Jack the Ripper murders), John French, Frederick Carrington, Redvers Buller VC (signed to the conclusion of a letter, evidently torn in two with one piece remaining, not affecting the signature, with discoloration to the paper, slightly affecting half the signature), Herbert Chermside, Francis Clery, Charles Cavendish, Neville Lyttelton, Herbert Plumer (2), Hubert Gough etc. Together with Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. An interesting collection of signed pieces, A.Ls.S., photographs, and newspaper cuttings regarding the formation of the 2nd Cadet Battalion, The King's Liverpool Regiment, including, T.L.S., R.S.S. Baden-Powell, one page, 4to, Zuurfontein, Transvaal, 18th January 1901, to Captain France, on the printed stationery of the South African Constabulary. Baden-Powell informs his correspondent, in part, 'I shall have great pleasure in accepting the Honorary Colonelcy of your Corps, provided that the idea is approved by the Commander in Chief' further adding, 'I can assure you I should in such case take the greatest personal interest in the development of your schemes, as I consider a well conducted Cadet Corps to be an institution of incalculable benefit to its members, and of great value to the Empire.' With clear tape repairs across the width of the horizontal creases to the verso, creasing and dust stains, about FR; an Odgens Cigarette Card, the image depicting Baden-Powell astride a white horse, signed in bold black fountain pen ink through the image, and further signed to the verso, dated 18th November 1904 in his hand; a small 12mo piece signed ('R. Baden-Powell') in black fountain pen ink with his name alone; a contemporary copy of the letter written by Mr France, to the 2nd Cadet Battalion, dated 31st December 1901, stating, in part, 'In anticipation of your nomination for me to become an officer in the position of Acting Quarter Master in the above proposed Cadet Battalion…'; A.L.S., J.C. Underwood, two pages, 8vo, Liverpool, 13th June 1903, to Mr France, on the printed stationery of the 2nd Cadet Battalion. Underwood enquires as to whether Mr France will be returning to the Battalion now that his leave of absence has expired and if not, 'I think it would be well for you to send in your resignation. We could then appoint someone else Q.M.S….'; a vintage unsigned sepia 12 x 8 photograph, the image depicting the 2nd Cadet Battalion on parade within the grounds of a park. With creases and tears to the photographer's mount, and light age wear to the image; an unsigned 'Rules and Regulations' for the 2nd Cadet Battalion The King's (Liverpool Regiment), the orange 12mo folding cloth covered booklet, featuring the text 'Hon.-Colonel Major-General Baden-Powell, C.B.' to its cover, within, on 2 pages, there is further explanation as to the character and conduct expected of members of the 2nd Cadet Battalion; several newspaper cuttings regarding the Cadets, Baden-Powell etc., from 1901-03. About FR to VG, 48
Lot 237
GEORGE II: (1683-1760) King of Great Britain and Ireland 1727-60. D.S., George R, as King, at the head, one page, folio, Court at St. James’s, 11th May 1731. The manuscript document, penned in a large, bold hand, states, in part, ‘Our Will and Pleasure is that the establishment of Our Guards Garrisons and Land Forces in Great Britain…do Commence and take place…a[nd] that no new charge be added thereunto without being first Communicated to Our High Treasurer or Commissioners of Our Treasury…’ Countersigned at the foot by George Oxenden (1694-1775) English Politician, William Clayton (1671-1752) 1st Baron Sundon, British Politician and William Yonge (c.1693-1755) English Politician. Neatly trimmed to the right edge, very slightly affecting a few words of text but not the signatures, and with a few neat splits to the edges of the folds, G
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JAMES II & VII: (1633-1701) King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII 1685-88. A good ink signature ('James R') as King on a small oblong 12mo piece evidently neatly clipped from the head of a document. Some very light uniform age toning and a very small area of paper loss to the lower right corner, about VG
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TENNIS: An exceptional autograph album containing over 120 signatures by various tennis players, each of the pages multiple signed in bold, dark fountain pen inks (most to the rectos only), including Agnes Morton (Wimbledon Singles finalist 1908 & 1909, Wimbledon Doubles Champion, 1914), Wilberforce Eaves (Wimbledon Singles finalist 1895, 1896 & 1897, Olympic Bronze medallist, 1908), Norman Brookes (Wimbledon Champion 1907 & 1914), Leslie Godfree (Wimbledon Doubles Champion 1923), Walter Cecil Crawley, Ruth Winch (Olympic Bronze medallist, 1908), Violet Pinckney, Charlotte Cooper Sterry (Wimbledon Champion 1895, 1896, 1898, 1901 & 1908, Olympic Gold medallist, 1900), Dora Boothby (Wimbledon Champion 1909, Olympic Silver medallist, 1908), Albert Prebble, Ernest Crawley, Blanche Hillyard (Wimbledon Champion 1886, 1889, 1894, 1897, 1899 & 1900), Arthur Gore (Wimbledon Champion 1901, 1908 & 1909, Olympic Gold medallist, 1908), Reginald Doherty (Wimbledon Champion 1897, 1898, 1899 & 1900 Olympic Gold medallist 1900 & 1908), Laurence Doherty (Wimbledon Champion 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905 & 1906, Olympic Gold medallist 1900), Herbert Roper Barrett (Wimbledon Singles finalist 1908, 1909 & 1911, Olympic Gold medallist 1908), Frank Riseley (Wimbledon Singles finalist 1903, 1904 & 1906, Wimbledon Doubles Champion 1902 & 1906), George Hillyard (Secretary of the All England Club 1907-25, Olympic Gold medallist, 1908), Toupie Lowther, George Ball Greene, Anthony Wilding (Wimbledon Champion 1910, 1911, 1912 & 1913, Olympic Bronze medallist, 1912), Theodore Mavrogordato (Wimbledon Doubles finalist 1914), James Cecil Parke (Wimbledon Mixed Doubles finalist 1913 & Doubles finalist 1920, Olympic Silver medallist 1908), Mabel Parton (Olympic Bronze medallist 1912), Bertha Holder, O. C. Johnson, J. D. Sturton, May Sutton (Wimbledon Champion 1905 & 1907), Kenneth Powell (Wimbledon Doubles finalist 1910), Alfred Beamish (Olympic Bronze medallist 1912), Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith (Olympic Gold medallist 1908), Winifred Longhurst, Edith Longhurst, E. R. Allen & C. G. Allen (identical twins), Charles P. Dixon (Wimbledon Singles finalist 1901 & 1911, Wimbledon Doubles Champion 1912 & 1913, Olympic Bronze medallist 1908 and Gold, Silver & Bronze medallist 1912), Maude Garfit, Elizabeth Ryan (Wimbledon Singles finalist 1921 & 1930, Wimbledon Doubles Champion 1914, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1930, 1933 & 1934, Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Champion 1919, 1921, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1930 & 1932), Kathleen Aitchison, Edith Boucher (Wimbledon Singles finalist 1911 and Doubles finalist 1914, Olympic Gold medallist 1912), Alice Greene (Olympic Silver medallist 1908), Jessie Coles, George A. Thomas (tennis, badminton & chess player, British Chess Champion 1923 & 1934), Dorothea Lambert Chambers (Wimbledon Champion 1903, 1904, 1906, 1910, 1911, 1913 & 1914, Olympic Gold medallist 1908), Robert Lambert Chambers, Constance Luard (Wimbledon Singles finalist 1905 & 1907), Winifred McNair (Wimbledon Singles finalist 1913 & Doubles Champion 1913, Olympic Gold medallist 1920), Helen Aitchison (Wimbledon Doubles Champion 1909, Olympic Silver medallist 1912), Charles Orpen Tuckey (husband of Agnes Tuckey), Major Ritchie (Wimbledon Singles finalist 1902, 1903, 1904 & 1909, Wimbledon Doubles Champion 1908 & 1910, Olympic Gold, Silver & Bronze medallist 1908), Frank Widdas, Percy Widdas, P. H. Stevens (inventor of tennis ball testing equipment used at Wimbledon in the 1920s), Ethel Larcombe (Wimbledon Champion 1912), Dudley Larcombe (Secretary of the All England Club 1925-39), Dora Armstrong, Vera Spofforth, Harry Scrivener, Frank Burrow (Wimbledon Referee), Alfred Dunlop, Rodney Heath (Wimbledon Doubles finalist 1919), Horace Rice, R. Norris Williams (Wimbledon Doubles Champion 1920, a survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster), Reginald Reid, Charles Frederick Scroope, Simon Frederick Scroope, Alex Drew, Leopold Maxse, Norman Kidson, James Sherrard, Albert E. L. Slazenger (co-founder of the British sporting goods manufacturer Slazenger, providers of tennis balls to the Wimbledon Tennis Championship tournaments since 1902) etc. The latter part of the album contains signatures of a few entertainers and other individuals including Nita Croft, John Stuart, Zena Dare, Victoria Hopper, Henry Hall, Derek Oldham, Anne Shelton etc. A truly remarkable collection of signatures including many Wimbledon champions, finalists and Olympic medallists. Binding very slightly loose, about VG The album bears the ownership signature and address of Jessie Green of Kenilworth Road in The Park, Nottingham, and it is likely that the signatures were obtained in person by her at various tournaments in Nottingham and Leicester. Indeed, George Hillyard and his wife Blanche Bingley, both of whose signatures appear in the album, proved a large factor in drawing many of the best English and foreign players to the Midlands at the time. The Wimbledon referee Frank Burrow was to write ‘the fine entry which Nottingham invariably received was largely due to the fact that the Hillyards always had a house-party for the meeting and brought lots of good players with them over from Thorpe Satchville’.
Lot 136
AUDEN W. H.: (1907-1973) Anglo-American Poet. T.L.S., W.H. Auden, one page, 4to, Kirchstetten, Austria, 8th June 1966, to [Neville] Braybrooke. Auden informs his correspondent, 'The Dryden lines quoted by Eliot are from A Secular Masque.' and proceeds to quote a stanza, 'All, all of a piece without (corrected to throughout by Auden)/ Thy chase had a beast in view/ Thy wars brought nothing about/ Thy lovers were all untrue/ 'Tis well an old age is out/ And time to begin a new.' Together with an A.L.S., W.H. Auden, one page, 4to, Kirchstetten, Austria, 2nd May 1969, also to [Neville] Braybrooke. Auden thanks his correspondent for their letter, and remarks, 'I'm afraid I don't have any letters from Joe Ackerley.' With some overall creasing and some tears to the edges, one particularly large to the central fold of the autograph letter. FR to G, 2 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher who edited The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975). Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic. J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC's weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law. John Dryden (1631-1700) English Poet and Playwright, England's first Poet Laureate, 1668. T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-born English Poet & Dramatist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1948
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GEORGE I: (1660-1727) King of Great Britain and Ireland 1714-27. Bold, dark ink signature ('George R') as King on a small oblong 12mo piece of vellum, evidently neatly clipped from the head of a document, with a slightly irregularly trimmed lower edge. Together with a larger irregularly trimmed portion of a vellum document, possibly that from which the signature was excised, featuring a blind embossed paper seal and several partial lines of manuscript text. G to about VG, 2
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BRITISH PLAYWRIGHTS: Small selection of A.Ls.S. (2) and T.Ls.S. (4) by various British Playwrights comprising John Osborne (2; in one quoting a brief statement made by 'a lady to whom I was once married' and remarking 'I wish I'd written it, I can't believe she did'), Tom Stoppard (stating, in part, '…I have no juvenilia to give you. I don't keep things and I never had anything published, of course, before I was 17.'), J. B. Priestley (recalling an incident at the BBC in the late 1930s, involving a misunderstanding caused by Joe Ackerley about which John Reith felt Priestley would be angry, '…but in fact I was rather amused'.), Arnold Wesker (discussing Olivia Manning and her involvement with an Arts Council tour which also included Margaret Drabble and Adrian Mitchell, 'I dimly recollect that Olivia had the reputation for being sour and difficult but no such qualities left their mark in my memory. I also dimly remember sharing a dinner table with her, perhaps at Maggie Drabble's, and again, though an acerbic tone lingers, it was that kind of tone which covers up an intelligence easily offended by humbug and nonsense. I think she expressed a certain bitterness that her work was being unjustly neglected but I can't recall that she was suffering any greater sense of neglect than we all do at critical stages in our career.') and David Hare (stating, in part, 'Unfortunately I've lost every piece that I wrote before I was 21. So as much as I would like to help you, I can't…'). All of the letters are written to Neville Braybrooke and date from between 1973-1992. Some light overall age wear and some damp staining to the upper left corner of Wesker's letter. G to VG, 6 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher. Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic. The present letters concern various works by Neville Braybrooke who edited The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975), researched an anthology of juvenilia by writers who would later become famous, published with the title of Seeds in the Wind: Early Signs of Genius in 1989 and also wrote, with his wife, Olivia Manning: A Life.
Lot 239
GEORGE III: (1738-1820) King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1760-1820. D.S, George R, as King, at the head, three pages, folio, Court at Saint James's, 30th April 1802. The manuscript document grants Isabella Frances Master, widow of Richard Master, former Consul at Algiers and Governor of Tobago 'who fell a sacrifice to the unhealthiness of the climate', a yearly pension of £200 and further grants Sir Abraham Hume a yearly pension of £100 in trust for the children of Master. Countersigned by Henry Addington (1757-1844, Viscount Sidmouth, British Prime Minister 1801-4) and several others. Extensive splitting to folds of third page and some minor splitting to other folds. G Sir Abraham Hume (1749-1838) Politician and one of the Founders of the Geological Society. Hume amassed a famous collection of minerals and precious stones and was a large purchaser of pictures by the old masters.
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VICTORIA: (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom Great Britain & Ireland 1837-1901. A fine, dark ink signature ('Victoria R I', as Queen) on a slim oblong 8vo piece. Neatly inlaid at three edges and with some light creasing. Together with a small, partial envelope wrapper addressed by Queen Victoria to Viscount Cranbrooke and signed ('The Queen') by her. Generally VG, 2
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LEE LAURIE: (1914-1997) English Poet and Novelist, famous for his autobiographical trilogy including Cider with Rosie (1959). A.L.S., Laurie Lee, to both sides of his personal printed correspondence card, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 24th September 1971, to [Neville] Braybrooke. Lee states 'I am afraid I knew J. R. Ackerley only slightly - well enough to salute in the street and perhaps exchange a few words with; but the only correspondence I had with him would have been in the late 40s, early 50s, in his capacity as literary editor of The Listener - where he would perhaps accept a poem of mine or reject one'. He continues to add that he possesses some letters, but that they would take some time to unearth, 'and being routine letters I doubt they would interest you. I regret not having known him better'. With one ink annotation by Braybrooke to a margin of the letter. About VG Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher who edited The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975). Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic. J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC's weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law.
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GEORGE IV: (1762-1830) King of the United Kingdom 1820-30. Dark ink signature ('George R', as King) on an oblong piece neatly clipped from the head of a document. One minor ink smudge only very slightly affects one letter of the signature. Together with a second ink signature ('George P R', as Prince Regent) on an oblong piece removed from the head of a document with several lines of printed and manuscript text relating to Mary Weston, widow of the late Major Richard Weston. Some very light dust staining and minor age wear, about VG, 2
Lot 247
VICTORIA: (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1837-1901. D.S., Victoria R I, as Queen, at the head, one page, oblong folio, Count at saint James's 3rd May 1873. The partially printed document approves the appointment of George Henry Fox to be Vice Consul at Falmouth following a commission issued by 'Our Good Brother the King of the Hellenes'. Countersigned by 2nd Earl Granville (1815-1891, Foreign Secretary). With blind embossed paper seal. A good, clean document featuring a fine and bold example of Queen Victoria's signature. VG
Lot 138
BETJEMAN JOHN: (1906-1984) British Poet Laureate 1972-84. T.L.S., John Betjeman, one page, 8vo, Cloth Fair, London, 30th September 1958, to N[eville] Braybrooke. Betjeman thanks his correspondent for their letter and continues to inform him 'The Marlburian and an ephemeral paper called The Heretick which we edited at Marleborough (sic) and The Draconian, the paper of The Dragon School, Oxford must contain verses by me', further stating 'I was at the Dragon School from about 1917 to about 1920 and at Marleborough (sic) from 1920 to 1925' before asking 'Am I to go through these back numbers if I re-visit my old schools? Or are you going to do that? It is a gruesome task you set me'. Together with a second T.L.S., John Betjeman, one page, 8vo, Cloth Fair, London, 1st October 1959, also to N[eville] Braybrooke. Betjeman writes, in full, 'My publisher John Murray does not want me to publish extracts from my verse autobiography until that work is finished and ready for the press. I must bow to his wishes'. Also including a third T.L.S., John Betjeman, one page, 4to, Cloth Fair, London, 10th November 1972, also to [Neville] Braybrooke. The poet informs his correspondent, in full, 'I did ask Mr. Miller, the gentleman who was collating my papers to keep a lookout for the Ackerley letters, but none came to light. So many of my manuscripts and letters have been lost over the years, and I fear the Ackerleys have gone that way too. I am sorry, but I did try'. Some age wear and creasing, particularly evident to the first two letters, one of which also has a few small tears to the edges. FR to G, 3 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher who edited The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975). Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic. J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC's weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law. Two of the present letters were written in response to Neville Braybrooke's research, which extended over some thirty years, into an anthology of juvenilia by writers who would later become famous. The book was published with the title of Seeds in the Wind: Early Signs of Genius in 1989.
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AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing over 150 signatures by a variety of famous individuals, mainly entertainers, ballet dancers and sportsmen, many on clipped pieces laid down to pages and other pages multiple signed, including John Gielgud, Ivor Novello, Oliver Lodge, Constant Lambert, Frederick Ashton, Alicia Markova, Ninette de Valois, Anton Dolin, Tamara Karsavina, Serge Lifar, Jean Borotra, Sophie Tucker, Pola Negri, Edna Best, Herbert Marshall, Cedric Hardwicke, R. E. S. Wyatt, George Gunn, K. S. Duleepsinhji, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, A. P. F. Chapman, Cambridge University Boat Race crew 1930 (nine signatures including David Haig-Thomas, later killed in action at the Normandy Landings on D-Day at the age of 35, Harold Rickett, Walter Prideaux, Farn Carpmael, Michael Warriner, an Olympic Gold medallist in 1928, Robert Egerton Swartwout etc.), Oxford University Boat Race crew 1930 (nine signatures including Hugh Edwards, Olympic Gold medallist in 1928, and Lewis Clive, Olympic Gold medallist in 1932), Cambridge University Boat Race crew 1931 (nine signatures including David Haig-Thomas, Walter Prideaux, Fran Carpmael, Harold Rickett, Charles Sergel and John Ranking), Oxford University Boat Race crew 1931 (eight signatures including Lewis Clive), Oxford University Boat Race crew 1932 (nine signatures including Gerald Ellison), Oxford University Boat Race crew 1933 (nine signatures including Gerald Ellison, John Couchman etc.), Cambridge University Boat Race crew 1933 (nine signatures including Tom Askwith, Charles Sergel, William Sambell etc.). A few pages loose, generally G
Lot 255
GEORGE VI: (1895-1952) King of the United Kingdom 1936-52. D.S., George R, as King, at the head, one page, large oblong folio, Court of Saint James's, 6th December 1949. The partially printed document appoints Abington Goodden to be an Officer of the Sixth Grade in the Foreign Service, with effect from 25th December 1947, and perform his functions 'at any of Our Diplomatic or Consular Establishments abroad or in the Department of Our Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs'. Countersigned at the foot by Ernest Bevin (1881-1951, British Statesman, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1945-51). With blind embossed seal. Some very light overall creasing and minor age wear, otherwise VG
Lot 114
FREUD LUCIAN: (1922-2011) German-born British Painter. A.L.S., Lucian Freud, one page, 8vo, Gloucester Terrace, London, 21st November 1971, to [Neville] Braybrooke. Freud states that his correspondent's letter has only just reached him and continues 'As far as I can remember I only received one letter from Joe Ackerley' and further remarks 'I did go down to Putney to try and draw Joe's dog but her behaviour was so unsettling that nothing came of this'. Rare. Some light overall creasing, otherwise about VG Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher who edited The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975). Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic. J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC's weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law.
Lot 282
ATTLEE CLEMENT: (1883-1967) British Prime Minister 1945-51. T.L.S., C R Attlee, one page, 8vo, London, 6th June 1945, to James Merchant, on the printed stationery of the House of Commons. Attlee states, in full, 'Thank you so much for sending me you interesting report, which I shall study as soon as I have leisure.' Together with Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) British Prime Minister 1957-1963. T.L.S., Harold Macmillan, one page, 8vo, Haywards Heath, 4th November 1975, to J.S. McCowan. Macmillan thanks his correspondent for their letter which interested him very much. With light age wear, very minor foxing and a small tear to the upper right edge to the Macmillan letter. Generally VG, 2 James Marchant (1867-1956) British Eugenicist, Social Reformer and Author. Marchant was leader of the National Vigilance Association, and Director of the National Council of Public Morals.
Lot 244
WILLIAM IV: (1765-1837) King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland 1830-37. L.S., William R, one page, 4to, Windsor Castle, 6th July 1835, to Viscount Melbourne. The Kings states that he, 'has received Viscount Melbourne's letters of this day and will be glad to see him here at twelve o'clock tomorrow.' With blank integral leaf. With light age wear, otherwise VG William Lamb (1779-1848) 2nd Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister 1834, 1835-41.
Lot 250
EDWARD VII: (1841-1910) King of the United Kingdom 1901-10. Vintage signed 5 x 7 photograph, the image depicting the King standing in a full length pose in traditional Scottish dress. Signed ('Edward R & I') in bold brown ink to the lower photographer's mount. With minor scratches to the mount, slightly affecting the signature, light silvering and small portions of card missing from the right corners. Together with George V (1865-1936) King of the United Kingdom 1910-36. Bold pencil signature with his initials, ('G. R. I.'), on a small piece neatly clipped from a larger document. Neatly laid down. G, 2
Lot 78
BRITTEN BENJAMIN: (1913-1976) English Composer. T.L.S., Benjamin Britten, one page, 4to, The Red House, Aldeburgh-on-Sea, 11th May 1971, to N[eville] Braybrooke. Britten apologises for not replying to his correspondent's letter sooner, continuing, 'We have looked out the letters which I received from Joe Ackerley, and I am sorry to have to tell you that although they are highly interesting and several of them quite long, they are of a very personal nature and also refer rather indiscreetly to some mutual acquaintances who are still alive' with the composer concluding, 'I cannot therefore agree to have them published, even in a bowdlerized version.' With minor creasing to the upper right edge, otherwise VG Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher who edited The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975). Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic. J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC's weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law.
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After N Lancert ''L'ete'', colour reproduction; together with further 18th century style engravings, R Reeves after C B Newhouse, ''A False Alarm of the Road to Gretna'' and ''One Mile From Gretna''; further 19th century engravings; mezzotints; various examples from Cries of London series; and other miscellaneous sporting and narrative prints including Steeplechase series and Herring's fox hunting scenes etc (a collection)
Lot 385
A Gallery of Welsh and Welsh - American poets, Large part colour print, depicting 127 male and female Welsh poets, named at the bottom and titled in English and Welsh, By D. R. Lewis and dated May 1893, printed by Printing and Publishing Co, Pittsburgh, 73cm H x 103cm W, In oak frame and glazed
Lot 304
A World War I pair and death plaque to 59588 Gnr J. R. T. Hunt R.A, comprising BWM, VM and death penny named for James Robert Hunt, with records office certificate of medals from the Records Office dated 11th June 1921, a black and white photograph of an un-named soldier and scroll commemoration (Qty)
Lot 373
EYTON (REV R), ANTIQUITIES OF SHROPSHIRE, 12 vols, limited to 300 copies, with numerous engraved plates and folding maps, full tan calf with gilt detailing, marbled edges, ex-libris of Vincent Corbet of Acton Reynald Hall, Shrewsbury, dated November 1856, bound by Sandford of Shrewsbury, London, John Russell Smith, 1854 (12)
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