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Stevenson, Robert Louis Autograph Letter Signed ("Robert Louis Stevenson") to Mrs Burgess, written during the midst of creative turmoil ("... I am just now literally off my head with work, trying to make up for my six months uselessness. I am writing a story against time; and correcting the proofs of another....") and explaining that her tale still lies unopened upon his table ("... The day has no more than sixteen hours; and my strength will hardly suffer me to work for five; but one this story done [ sic ], I shall draw breath for a day or two, and turn to the roll that now menaces me for my neglect...") and begging her meanwhile to "accept this scratch", one page, oblong 8vo, central crease, partly laid-down on a sheet signed by members of Labour's post -war government, Skerryvore, Bournemouth, 12 November 1885 Note: Robert Louis Stevenson corrects the proofs of 'Jekyll and Hyde'. This letter is addressed to Louisa Burgess, who had nursed him at Hyères in May 1884. He was at this time writing 'Olalla' and presumably reading proofs of Jekyll and possibly of 'Markham': see The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson , edited by Booth and Mehew, v. 1995, where a slightly inaccurate text, taken from an earlier transcript, is published. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was to be published on 9 January 1886.
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal (1475-1530) Document signed as Cardinal Archbishop of York ('T[homas] Car[dina]lis ebor[ac]i' being an An Account of the 'Sum of all thexpences of the diete of my lord Cardinalls grace & other of the kynge our Sov[er]aigne Lordes most honorable Councell in xxxviii den[er]s at Westm[inster] in Easter time & Trinitie terme' in 1522, prepared for audit by Thomas Tamworth, signed also by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk; Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (signed 'T. Surrey'); Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London, and another, one page folio, including, on the verso, accounts for wine and other items Note: An autograph of great rarity, alongside those of other high ranking nobles in the reign of King Henry VIII. As a record of the dining expenses of the King's Council, the document bears the autographs of some of King Henry VIII's close advisers, the inner ring, sometimes known as the privy council. Cardinal Wolsey (1475-1530) attained a position at the Court of King Henry VIII more powerful than any minister of the Crown since Becket. Retaining the King's confidence, and supporting his absolute monarchy at home, Wolsey controlled England's foreign policy, and amassed huge estates in England. His downfall came as a result of his failure to negotiate an annulment of the King's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Wolsey, mindful of his own aggrandisement and the power and dignity of the church, is said to have asserted that a cardinal should have more dishes at table than a lord of parliament.
A Continental porcelain rectangular plaque, late 19th/early 20th century, painted with a young maiden playing cards with a seated Cupid at a tripod table before a large lake, indistinctly signed, impressed 407 to the reverse, mounted in a gilt wood frame, the plaque 14.7cm x 10cm.
A Fulda jug and associated cover, c.1760, decorated with amusing scenes of family life in the manner of David Teniers, a child being spanked while others cry in the corner, the reverse with figures around a table while a child uses a pot, raised on three feet, blue crowned FF mark, 14cm. (2)
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