
A collection of autographs, manuscript letters, clipped autographs, signed photographs, etc, comprising:
Writers, poets, novelists and journalists: a large assortment of letters, envelopes manuscripts and clipped signatures of the c18th, c19th and c20th etc, including: James Montgomery (poet and hymn writer, 1771-1854, manuscript poem / hymn “"A Sure and Tried Foundation Stone");
Ruth Pitter (poet, 1897-1992); Madame de Stael (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, novelist etc, 1766-1817); items linked to Lady Jane Shelley (1820-1899); Frances Mary Peard (writer, 1835-1923); Elizabeth Jennings (poet, 1926-2001); Peter Porter (poet, 1929-2010); Frederick Forsyth (writer, 1938-2025); Ernest Temple Thurston (novelist, 1879-1933); William Smith (editor & lexicographer, 1813-1893); Baroness Orczy (novelist, 1865-1947); Joseph Comyns Carr (critic and writer, 1849-1916); Margaret Louisa Woods (novelist, 1855-1945); Martie Belloc Lowndes (writer, 1868-1947); Elmer Rice (US playwright, 1892-1967); John Hastings Turner (novelist, dramatist, 1891-1956); Rev Charles Forster (priest & writer, 1789-1875); John Mackinnon Robertson (MP and writer, 1856-1933); George Croly (poet, novelist, priest, 1780-1860); Samuel J Davey (writer on autographs etc, fl.1870-1900); Harriet Fortescue (writer, 1825-1889); Anna Maria Hall (Mrs S C Hall, writer, 1800-1881) letter to Wilfred Hugh Chesson (journalist & reader 1870-1952); Henry Nevinson (journalist & writer, 1856-1941, small qty); Ralph Hale Mottram (writer & poet, 1883-1971); John Pye Smith (priest & writer, 1774-1851); Sir William Stirling-Maxwell of Kier (writer, academic, 1818-1878); Robert Vaughan (writer, editor & priest, 1795-1868); John Walter (editor, the Times, 1776-1847); Henry Morley (professor of English literature etc, 1822-1894); Daniel Berkeley Updike (editor & publisher, 1860-1941); (Richard Jefferies (writer, 1848-1887); F L Lucas (critic & scholar, 1894-1967); Thomas Holcroft (dramatist etc, 1745-1809); Watts Phillips (novelist, playwright etc, 1825-1874); Eric Linklater (writer, 1899-1974); Margaret Irwin (novelist, 1889-1967); Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (legal writer, 1803-1875); Rev William Adams (priest & writer, 1814-1848); Edwin Arnold (poet and writer, 1832-1904); Godfrey Winn (journalist 1906-1971); William Rathbone Greg (essayist, 1809-1881); John Cumming Nimmo (publisher, 1866-1899); William Black (novelist etc, 1841-1898); F C Burnand (editor, writer, 1836-1917); Henry Duff Traill (writer etc, 1842-1900); Frederick Wishaw (writer, 1854-1934); John Croker (writer, statesman, 1780-1857); John Jay Chapman (US writer, 1862-1933); Donald Justice (US Writer, 1925-2004); Edmond Gore Holmes (poet & civil servant, 1850-1936; James Bertrand de Payen-Payne (author and compiler, 1866-1945, small qty of letter to him); etc, etc (qty)
Music & musicians: an assortment of letters, notes, signed photographs and clipped signatures etc of the c19th and c20th, including: Sir John Blackwood McEwen (composer etc, 1868-1948); Sir Charles Santley (singer, 1834-1922); William Gardiner (composer, 1770-1853); Antoinette Sterling (singer, 1841-1904); Charles Hallé (pianist, conductor, 1819-1895); Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa (singer, 1836- 874); Julius Stockhausen (singer, 1826-1906); Theres Tietjens (singer, 1831-1877); George Jophn Bennett (organist and composer, 1863-1930); Bert Ambrose (bandleader etc, 1896-1971); Roy Budden (conductor, 1913-2009); Steve Race (musician, composer etc, 1921-2009); Oscar Beringer (pianist, 1844-1922); Frederick Bridge (organist and composer, 1844-1924) Sir Edward German (composer, 1862-1936); John Farmer (composer & teacher, 1835-1901); etc (qty)
Artists and architects: an assortment of letters, notes, sketches and clipped signatures etc of the c18th, c19th and c20th, including:
George Tinworth (ceramicist, 1843-1913), copy of “From Sunset to Sunset; our Saviour's last day of suffering represented in fourteen panels with illustrative texts of prophecy and fulfilment . The text compiled and the panels modelled by George Tinworth.” London 1907, 32 pages (ii + Title page + 29). Size 18.5 x 12cm approx., signed by Tinworth with laid in signed photograph Christmas card; intact but page block very loose
Thomas Collcutt (architect, 1840-1924); John Soane (architect, 1753-1837); John Shaw Junior (architect, 1803-1870); Sir Aston Webb (architect, 1849-1930); William Tite (architect, 1798-1873); Alfred Waterhouse (architect, 1830-1905); John Brown (architect, 1805-1876); William Railton (architect, 1800-1877);Malcolm Drummond (painter, 1880-1945); Francis Grant (painter, 1803-1878); Jacques Albaret (painter, 1920-1967); Philip Westcott (painter 1815-1878); Robert Martin (engraver, fl.1770s-1837); David Octavius Hill (painter, photographer, etc, 1802-1870); James Louis Weston (painter etc, 1865-1922); Charles Allen Duval (artist, 1810-1872); Daniel Macnee (painter, 1806-1882); Martin Archer-Shee (painter, 1769-1850); William Charles Thomas Dodson (painter, 1817-1898); Anthony Wishaw (painter, 1930-); Mikhail Trufanov (painter, 1921-1988); Francis Seymour Haden (etcher and surgeon, 1818-1910); George Clarkson Stanfield and Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (painters, 1793-1867 / 1828-1878); Marion Harry Spielmann (art critic etc, 1858-1948); George Aikman (painter etc, 1830-1905); Sylvia von Hartmann (artist, 1942-) etc, etc (qty)
Theatre, television, cinema and the stage: a good assortment of letters, notes, signed photographs, sketches and clipped signatures etc, etc of the c18th, c19th and c20th etc, including: Austin Brereton (theatre critic, 1862-1922) signed copy of an article on the Irving family of actor; Suzette Tarri (Susan Tarry, actor, 1881-1955); Vic Oliver (von Samek, 1898-1964); Tommy Trinder (1909-1989); Arthur Askey (1900-1982); Tommy Handley (1892-1949); Angela Rippon (1944-); Stratford Johns (1925-2002); Max Bygraves (1922-2012); Harry Secombe (1921-2001); Harry Worth (1917-1989); Turner Layton (pianist, 1894-1978); Frank Muir (1920-1998); Jill Balcon (1925-2009); Helen Faucit (actress, 1817-1898); Frank Benson (actor 1858-1939); Charles Wyndham (actor, manager 1837-1919); William Henry Betty (actor, Master Betty, 1791-1874); Arthur Bourchier (actor manager 1863-1927); Henry G Neville (actor etc, 1837-1910); Frank Wyatt (actor 1852-1926); Sarah Thorne (actor, 1836-1899); Viola Tree (actor, 1884-1938) Walter Lacy (actor, 1809-1898); Lionel Brough (actor, 1836-1909); Julia Neilson (actor, 1868-1957); James Sheridan (dramatist & actor, 1784-1862); Mary-Anne Keely (actor, 1805-1899); Madge Kendal (Grimston, 1848-1935); Richard Murdoch (actor etc, 1907-1990); Wilson Barrett (actor & playwright, 1846-1904); Alfred Wigan (Actor-manager, 1814-1878); small group of letters of c.1827 regarding The Drury Lane Fund; small quantity of letters Edwardian letters to a Mr Markby from actors such as Henry Kemble ((1848-1907), Lionel Brough (1836-1909, Frances Joseph (1842-1890) etc); Charles Galabert, director of the Theatre Dejazet, Paris (fl.1860-1890); Herman Vezin (actor, 1829-1910); and many others; etc, etc (qty)
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