Autograph collection.-. Writers poets & the press; Music & Musicians, Theatre & the Stage 18-20th century

Wide collection of autographs, manuscript letters, clipped autographs, 18th-20th century, including:

Writers, poets, novelists, critics and journalists: a large assortment of letters, envelopes manuscripts and clipped signatures of the c.18th, c19th and c.20th etc, including:

Johnsoniana: letter from Henry Merrick Hoare (1770-1826), husband of Sophia Thrale (1771-1824), friend of Dr Johnson, to George Anthony Molteno, (1751–1816, print seller & publisher) plus Soame Jenyns (1704-1787, writer), epitaph on Johnson (manuscript);

George Moore (1852-1933, Irish novelist & playwright) ms note to actor Mary Brough (1863-1934) regarding her performance in his play ‘Esther Waters’ in 1913: “To Mary Brough with George Moore’s kind regards, Jan 24, 1913”;

Jonathan Odell (1737-1818, American poet); handwritten copy of his satirical poem “On a chamber stove”;

John Philpot Curran (1750-1817, Irish orator, politician etc), handwritten copy of his poem “To Sleep” (“Oh sleep awhile thy power expanding....”);

Amelia Opie (1769-1853, author), contemporary handwritten ms. of her Prologue and Epilogue to John Tobin's 1807 Gothic play ‘The Curfew’ (John Tobin 1770-1804);

Dr Jones Redman (fl.1765), ms of his poem “Peter Triumphant, or Split-Bottle Defeated: A Tale”, as published in the Gentleman’s Magazine of November 1765

Louisa Dorothea Holroyd (1776-1854, friend of Edward Gibbon (1737-1794); letter;

Manuscript poem sent to John Warburton (died 1808, London Timber merchant, father of Henry Warburton 1784–1858, scientist & radical politician.)

Manuscript including copies of poems by Thomas Hood (I remember, I remember), Julian Fane (1827-1870 - "To ______") and others

Sir William Howard Russell (1827-1907, war correspondent); Archibald Forbes (1838-1900, war correspondent); Sir Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972, author); George du Maurier (1834-1896, cartoonist, illustrator, novelist); André Maurois (1885-1967, French author); Richard Duppa (1770–1831, writer and a draughtsman – small archive); Nicholas Monsarrat (1910-1979, novelist – signed envelope); Lord David Cecil (1902-1986, biographer, historian, etc); Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (1865-1948, author & MP); William John Locke (1863-1930, novelist, etc); Joseph Hatton (1837-1907, novelist etc); Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894-1958, playwright & novelist); Trevor Leigh-Hunt (1867-1955, literary collector, correspondence regarding a portrait of his grandfather, Leigh Hunt 1784-1859); Mackenzie Bell (1856-1930, writer, poet etc); Samuel warren (1807-1877, writer & lawyer); Catherine Marsh (1818-1912, author); Georgiana Liddel (1822-1905, courtier & author); . Beatrice Harraden (1864-1936, novelist, playwright & suffragette); William Clark Russell (1844-1911, novelist); Lucy Clifford (1846-1929, novelist); Adeline Sergeant (1851-1904, writer); Archibald Alison (1757-1839, essayist); Henry Reeve (1813-October 1895, journalist etc – small collection); Thomas Twining (1806-1895, technical writer & editor, letters to- small qty); John Athelstan Riley (1858-1945, hymn writer); Francis Brett Young (1884-1954, novelist. Etc);

Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922, newspaper owner, note to journalist Lovat Fraser, 1871-1926), Arthur Fraser Walter (1846-1910 newspaper owner); Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868-1940, newspaper owner); Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson (1866-1921, newspaper owner); Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879-1964, newspaper owner); Sir John Merry le Sage (1837-1926, editor of the Daily Telegraph – qty of letters to); . Wilfrid Meynell (1852-1948, newspaper publisher, etc); Sir George Fenwick (1847- 1929, newspaper proprietor etc); Mowbray Morris (1818-1874, newspaper executive); Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898, first female salaried journalist in Britain); Ken Russell (1927-2011, postcard re a review, 1974); Elizabeth Longford, Countess of Longford (1906-2002, historian & writer); James Cotter Morison (1832-1888, essayist & historian); James Payn (1830-1898, novelist & editor – on Hohenzollern notepaper); George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906, newspaper editor etc); Joseph Knight (1829–1907, critic & historian- letter to); William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919, writer and critic); .Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (Grey Owl, 1888-1938, writer, public speaker & conservationist); Victor Canning (1911-1986, novelist); Rose Macaulay (1881-1958, novelist); Iris Morley (1910-1953, historian, writer & journalist); Janet Dunbar (1901-1989, biographer etc); .

Theatre and the Stage: a good assortment of letters, notes, signed photographs, clipped signatures etc, etc of the c.18th, c.19th and c.20th etc, including:

Dion Boucicault (1820-1890, actor & playwright); John Le Mesurier (1912-1983, actor); Arthur Riscoe (1896-1964, actor); John Orlando Parry (1810-1879, actor, artist, etc. ms poem etc); Sir Lewis Thomas Casson (1875-1969, actor); Sir Arthur John Gielgud (1904-2000, actor on a page with Flora Robson (1902-1984)); Weedon Grossmith (1854-1919, actor etc – signed photograph); May Lever Grossmith (1867-1929, actor & wife of Weedon Grossmith); Elsie Waters (1893-1990) & Doris Waters (1899-1978, actresses); Violet Vanbrugh (1867-1942, actress); Irene Vanbrugh (1872-1949, actress); Hermine Koerner (1878-1960, German actress); Dominick Murray (1838-1907, Actor); Arthur Bourchier (1863-1927, actor & manager); Charles Hayden Coffin (1862-1935, actor); James Fernandez (1835-1915, actor); Hattie Jacques (1922-1980, actor, on page with Gwendoline Catley (1906-1996, singer)); Ian Maclaren (1875-1952, actor); Beatrice Lillie (1894-1989, actor); John Laurie (1897-1980, actor); Tommy Trinder (1909-1989, actor); Anne Firth (1918-1961, actor); Anton Dolin (1904-1983, ballet dancer and choreographer); .

Music & musicians: an assortment of letters, notes, signed photographs and clipped signatures etc of the c.18th, c.19th and c.20th including: Anita Moór (1864-1922, wife of Emánuel Moór, pianist); Arthur Dulay (1891-1971-pianist); Mathilde Marchesi (1821-1913, singer); Sir Charles Hallé (1819-1895, pianist & conductor); Sir Charles Santley (1834-1922, singer): Sir George Alexander Macfarren (1813-1887, composer and musicologist); Wilhelm Ganz (1833-1914, pianist etc); Clotilde Kleeberg (1866-1909, pianist); William Dorrell (1810-1896, pianist & professor of music); Edward Bernard Hale Lewin (1810–1878, manager for Jenny Lind); Sir Herbert Oakeley (1830-1903, composer & professor); Frederick Adolphus Godfrey, better known as Fred Godfrey (1837-1882, bandmaster & music arranger); Allan James Foley (1837-1899, singer); Christopher Lonsdale (1795–1877, music publisher, seller, and musical librarian); Sir John Stainer (1840-1901, composer and academic); Sir Walter Parratt (1841-1924, organist & composer); Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890-1963, pianist, signed photo page); Lev Nikolaevich Pouishnoff (1891-1959, pianist etc); Gina Bachauer (1913-1976, pianist – signed photograph); Charles Furtado (1781-1830, music teacher, etc); John Goss (1894–1953, singer);