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Lot 248
Various silver plated items, including matching cream jug and sugar bowl, lidded two-handled dish, small cruet set, with blue glass liners, tea strainer, the handle set with a blue Delft style china button, servers, wine coaster, glass lidded butter dish, salt cellars, cut glass and silver plate condiment stand, with two bottles and other items
Lot 6
A Charlotte Rhead for A.G. Richardson Crown Ducal large mug: of mildly tapering ribbed form tubelined in the Omar pattern with a seated figure before a blanket containing wine and bread, between lines of text, 11.5 cm high, black backstamp. * Provenance: From the Estate of Richard Harry Rhead Cronin, son of Marie Elizabeth Adolphine Rhead (Charlotte Rhead`s older sister)
Lot 335
DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. Lengthy, early A.L.S., Daphne, eight pages, 8vo, Cannon Hall, Hampstead, 1st December n.y., to Foy Quiller -Couch. Du Maurier writes a boldly penned letter in red fountain pen ink, for which she apologises ('Its not the effect of du Maurier cigarettes, but I cannot find any blue or black'), and continues 'Your letter was a wild success with me; but I'm so swollen headed because of the attentions paid to me coming to town from Fowey that I'm beginning to disbelieve in your own powers of royalty with the G. W. R. [Great Western Railway]. Not only was I surrounded by every porter in Cornwall, but the station master at Lostwithiel presented to me the flower in his button hole, exclaiming with a magnificent gesture - “The last rose of summer for you”. I was ushered from carriage to carriage (as soon as they filled up) by the ticket collector who enquired tenderly after “His Lordship” and the dining car attendant swept me into a first-class saloon! I am furiously beginning to doubt the advisability of socialism in our time.' Du Maurier further writes, in a somewhat intriguing tone, 'Yes, Mr. Hony is most mysterious. I had a letter from him saying “I perfectly derive your reason for departing” (!) and adding a sentence later “You will, I presume go abroad” !! Foy, what does he mean?? Does he insinuate that I really am Mrs. Hearn, and wish to escape justice, or does he infer that I am (in the words of Mrs Barker of Philleigh) “In Trouble”. As far as I am aware neither of these charges can be laid at my door. Anyway, if my name is bandied lightly in the streets of Fowey I hope you will produce the hell of the Royal, Bodmin, and say I was with you! I may wear strange dressing gowns but I am not, as yet, so poor as to become a lady of the town. Time, and the Daily Express will show of course….By-the-way I think sawing trees has improved my dancing!! Don't laugh. It probably makes me “sway from the hips” or something! Anyway, I was on a party the other night and received complements from the gentlemen present. One creature, a little gone in wine maybe, declared I was as “light as a feather”!' The author continues 'I've got a marvellous thing for changing in every night. Black evening trousers, cream satin shirt, and black velvet jacket! You can't beat that, princess. I rather fancy myself, and try to look like Shelley! I haven't had any Daily Express urges yet, and in spite of your suggestions I intend to keep the original person as a preventative' and concludes 'London is very rainy, and foggy, and cold. But I feel surprisingly cheerful', adding in a postscript, 'I've just read in the papers that Huntley + Palmers have produced a new biscuit - said to be amazing. Don't fail to tell your mother - to whom, incidentally, I send my sincere and loving homage.' A fascinating early letter. A couple of small, minor water stains to the final page, just affecting three words of text (which remain legible) but not the signature, otherwise VG Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she became inspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. Some years previously the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weather conditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor but were eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses. The present letter, written from Cannon Hall where the young Du Maurier grew up after her father purchased the property in 1916, would appear to date from the early 1930s, around the time that her first novel, A Loving Spirit was published (February 1931) to modest success.
Lot 336
DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S., Daphne, four pages, 8vo, Menabilly, Par, Cornwall, 6th February 1961, to 'My dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurier announces 'Honestly…Who but you and Oenone would sally forth today at the Porthcurno Theatre. There has just been a gale warning, force 9, for Cornwall. I had no idea the Minack players performed except at mid-summer, but I must confess myself enraptured at the thought of you and the Greek producer of plays sitting wrapped in rugs while the full force of the sou'westerly, or whatever force 9 brings, howls about your ears. I hope you take the warming Beaujolais and will not have packed the Chablis in error, but I don't recollect now what was in to be the wine box. Or possibly the expedition may turn out like the R.M. picnic, when, drenched by an accidental soaking, the shivering picnic party opened what they thought was the large lunch basket hamper, and found it full of the preceeding (sic) week's dirty laundry' and continues to recommend a new book by Owen Chadwick entitled Victorian Miniature, commenting 'It is a delightful true account (done from old diaries, etc) of the life of a squire and his parson and their little fallings out, etc, in the parish of Ketteringham in Norfolk in the mid nineteenth century. I am quite sure you would enjoy it. Very pleasant bed-time reading, and gives such a good picture of the life of the times.' Du Maurier further writes 'Re “Perette”, I've suddenly had a sobering thought. When, and if, it gets published, you don't think the Treasury people could suddenly say you should have declared the m.s. as part of your father's property when he died, and that your proceeds from it should now go to death duties? What an end to all the oil stoves! I can't believe it could be, but really financial wizardry is so tricky these days I am always prepared for anything….At any rate, I am sure Curtis Brown will find out for you, when the time comes.' VG Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she became inspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. Some years previously the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weather conditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor but were eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses.
Lot 340
DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S., Daphne, four pages, 8vo, Menabilly, Par, Cornwall, 18th October 1963, to 'My dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurier writes a social letter to her friend, announcing 'I am so gratified about the wine….They are not all so good, because on our journey from Suffolk we spent a night with Maureen and her husdand (G'[uard]sman's [her husband, Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning] one-time secretary) to whom I gave a similar Christmas mackeral (sic), and he produced a burgandy (sic) which was far too sharp for my taste….I am sure it is essential to get these wines room temperature before serving.' and continuing 'Our Suffolk trip was such a success. G'sman in tremendous form throughout, and looked up his old home, and grandfather's grace (sic; grave) etc, etc, which is the sort of thing I love doing. Of course the secret lay in having Kit's little flat, and (let it be whispered between ourselves), my dear, the weather was so good. You see, no doubt about it, that coast gets all the sun, and the air was very dry, and it was delightful to wake up to bright skies and brilliant sunshine pouring in at the windows every morning. I did the cooking (!) and by liberal use of butter, salt and pepper, might call my cuisine very French. Anyway, there was no complaint of indigestion from G'sman. So, one feels it is an experiment we can try again, and I hope Kits won't give up the flat. Its in a small Jane Austen type of house, with a bow window, looking bang on the sea, and the whole place is rather Jane Austen. We stayed also with Flave at her smart house near Henley, and looked in for a night with G'sman's sister near Sherbourne. All seems well. Kits now firmly engaged to his Olivia, and the wedding is threatened for end of January in Dublin. I rather wish I could have the flu, but I think we shall have to face it. G'sman is reading up his “Experiences of an Irish R.M” to get ourselves in the mood. Do you remember when the Major found himself at a wedding feast by mistake, with all his hounds eating up the wedding breakfast, and it was afterwards reported in the local paper “Major Yates had donned sporting attire for the occasion, and proposed the health of the bride's mother in felicitous terms.” I wish they would marry as we did at 8 in the morning and have done with it!' In concluding she refers to a cheque received from America and invites her friend to lunch next time she is in Fowey. A couple of small tape stains in the upper corners of some pages, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she became inspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. Some years previously the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weather conditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor but were eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses.
Lot 360
LITERATURE: Selection of autograph statements signed by various French writers, novelists and poets etc., each one page, folio, 1927-30, comprising Andre Maurois (in part 'A writer who speaks of a foreign country should have a deep sense of responsibility. Hate among nations, like hate among individuals, is often based on false, and even intentionally unfavourable imagery...Writers can help preserve peace by being accurate.'), Henri Barbusse (in part, 'War is not, as a few Force Theory crackpots would have us believe, a natural and inevitable phenomenon. It is an artificial cataclysm; it is an organised calamity. But neither should we say that war among nations is a sign of madness, because great scuffles between nations are, to the contrary, the result of very well thought out calculations: everyone now acknowledges this, since everyone allows that all war has economic causes...'), Georges Duhamel (in full 'Man's greatness lies in doing certain things which are not in the natural order. And peace is not part of the natural order.'), Paul Claudel, Jean Giraudoux (in full 'It is to the credit of our age that we have made of Peace sustenance for men, on the same footing as bread or wine'), Paul Fort (quoting his French ballad The Ring Around the World), Andre Salmon (in part 'War must be combatted with the patience and knowledge used in combatting all physical scourges. But it is a difficult undertaking and requires a lot of love....), Henri de Regnier (in full 'If you want peace, prepare for peace'), Jules Romains (in part 'I am not too sure that another thought in favour of peace is absolutely necessary. But perhaps many thoughts in favour of peace will help get something done. That must be the goal which the man who initiated this collection set for himself - because I do not want to believe that he dreamed of offering to the new and anxious Europe, as to a young girl, an album of autographs....') and Sibylle, Comtesse de Martel de Janville ('Gyp'; in full 'Peace? I don't believe in it!'). Some light age wear, G to VG, 10 The statements were prepared for publication in the Pax Mundi book; an anthology of sentiments on peace published in Switzerland by the World League for Peace. Between 1925 and 1932 many notable persons from around the world were asked to comment on the prospects of world peace and the volume included contributions from Marie Curie, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, Rabindranath Tagore and many others.
Lot 19
Madiran Plenitude from Producteurs Plaimont, 2001, twelve bottles (OWC) NOTE; Madiran is regarded as the great wine of Gascony. It was developed in the Middle Ages by a Benedictine Priory in the foothills of the Pyrenees to provide for the needs of pilgrims en route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. It is often said to resemble a classed growth claret and is good with red meat, game and cheese. These wines are also said to have beneficial effects on the heart.
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