Autograph Collection.- Incl. Theatre, Art, History Letters and cards, 18th-20th century

A large collection of letters and cards signed by artists, art patrons, authors, historians, politicians, officers, etc, including: Horatio Walpole; Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry (to Stephen Fox, assuring him correspondent of her good intentions towards "our ready inclination to agree to yr exceeding reasonable request", and sending her respects to Lady Mary, 2 July 1770); Frederick Pollock (signed envelope); Princess Augusta of Cambridge; Caroline Norton (autograph letter but signature has been clipped); Sir John Williams; Leon Burgeois (autograph postcard, in French); Cardinal François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (letter signed); Charles Yoysey (two letters regarding a work's publication, 1884); John Martin; Copley Fielding; David Cox (autograph letter to Mrs Spiers, sending some drawings for her children, and congratulating them on the arrival of a new daughter", 26 December 1851); Augustus Callcott; John Collier; Abrahm Rees (to an unnamed correspondent, sending plans (no longer enclosed) for warming a chapel and asking that his correspondent consult the gentleman concerned, 6 February 1819); William Archibald Spooner (two letter to Luigino Franchetti, sending a stern warning that Franchetti is to promise not to lead his visiting brother astray and congratulating Franchetti on his first and wishing him a successful musical career, 26 April and 26 June 1913); George Grossmsmith; Trebelli Zelia; Ernst Pauer (letter in the third person, to Mrs Darrock, offering her three tickets to his "last historical Concert" and asking that she collect him after the concert to discuss lesson terms, 8 March 1862); Rudolf Schwarz; Bayard Taylor; Edwin Waugh; Alberto Randegger (to an unnamed woman ('Madame'), agreeing to set a poem to music 2for the occasion mentioned in your letter", 28 June 1869); Irene Vanbrugh; Eva Turner; Anna Neagle, Nellie Melba (letter split in two halves, to Lady Sheffield, thanking her for the loan of a handkerchief "so badly needed', and enthusing about the advantages of Scotland, n.d.); William Dunelm; Evelyn Wood; John Bruce; Charles Bradlaugh; Eleanor Florence Rathbone (typed letter N.P. Macdonald, declining to contribute to Macdonald's book on patriotism, though wishing it well "... I am just starting off for a visit to Palestine ... After that I shall be fully immersed in the work of the new Parliamentary Session in which several of the Bills likely to be brought forward will concern me particulaly", 6 Septmebr 1934); Richard Tattersall; Alexander Robert Reinagle; Noel Coward (signed photograph); Stephen Price; Rustem Pasha, Ottoman Ambassador to London; Sir Harold Scott; Charles Alfred Cripps; Herbert Fisher; Johns Sydney Hawkins (letter offering for publication his book on the history of Mary, Queen of Scots, containing new, important and proven facts,1 May 1838); Joseph Goodall; Justin McCarthy; Charles Selby; Henry Richards (letter to Mary Carmichael, saying " you write so well, as to lead me to think you are capable of still greater efforts. The manner in which you write is admirable & evinces no ordinary study & thought & I therefore may well congratulate you", n.d.); Sir Neigel Playfair; Charles Santley; Henry Russell; Luisa Tetrazzini (signed card); Marie Rambert 9signed ballet programme); John Simon (signed cabinet card); Walter Parratt; Robert Nicholson Scott; Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury; William Pett Ridge; Hermann Venzin (signed photograph); Rebecca West (autograph note replying to a request "for a specimen of my handwriting", 16 September 1978); Malcolm Sargent (typed letter regarding the Liverpool Orchestra and Liverpool Society of Music "I read the announcement of Rignold's resignantion with great regret, but I must admit with little surprise. For weeks I have had to do my best to placate orchestral representatives who have spoken to me of their troubles", 23 March 1949); Saint -Saens (music bar with autograph note "Je prefere la premiere version"); and others, v.s., late 18th-early 20th century (qty)

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