Archived, autographs, letters, documents, manuscripts
A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z|ABERDEEN, 4th Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('dear Sir'), asking him to call, 1 page 8vo (somewhat spotted), Haddo House, 'Thursday', no date
ABERNETHY, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Clift at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1 page 8vo, 4 January 1815.
ABT, Franz Wilhelm (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of two bars from a four-part work for tenor and bass, with words, characteristally small and neat, 65 x 75 mm. (2½ x 3 inches), slightly foxed.
ADAMS, John Couch (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Hutton, 1 page 8vo (traces of former mounting on the reverse), Observatory, Cambridge, 19 June 1876.
ADAMS, Richard (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Ms and typescript of a short story entitled Argos, in all 12 pages folio together with a covering TLS to Selina [?Hastings], 1995.
ADDINGTON, Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Sidmouth') to Lord Nugent, 1½ pages folio, (remains of mount on verso, water-stain along two folds), Whitehall, 16 March 1818.
ADDINGTON, Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to J. Stockdale, sending an address where the 'History of the Island of Java' may be left for him, 1 page 8vo, Richmond Park, 11 Nov 1811.
ADDISON, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('Feb. 17 1707/8 / Jurat. coram me / Jos. Addison.'), 1 page folio.
ADDISON, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
LS and subscribed, as a Lord of the Treasury, to Mr Worsley, 3 pages folio (tipped to an album-leaf, an engraving hinged to page 3, Whitehall, 7 January 1717/18.
ADELAIDE, Queen (This is a link to the full description)
Large signature ('Adelaide R' with a flourish), ca 60 x 175 mm (2½ x 7 inches).
AGASSIZ, [Jean] Louis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to a collaborator, E Wood, 2 pages 8vo, no place, no date
AGASSIZ, [Jean] Louis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Mon cher Monsieur'), 1 page 4to (trimmed), Dublin, 'le 10 à 6 heurs', no date
AGRICULTURE (This is a link to the full description)
Correspondence of the Gibbs family, agricultural nurserymen, consisting of 16 letters to family members, receipts, and 3 letters to seedsman George Brigham.
AINLEY, Henry Hinchliffe (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Kennedy, 1 page 4to, 62 Regents Park Road, 21 December 1913.
AINLEY, Henry Hinchliffe (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to George Davidson, 1 page 8vo (oblong), Haymarket Theatre, 6 February 1924.
AINLEY, Henry Hinchliffe (This is a link to the full description)
4 ALsS ('Harry') to a woman variously addressed as Margaret and Madonna, in all 8 pages 8vo, 21 and 26 November 1930, where dated
AINSWORTH, William Harrison (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his daughter Fanny, 1 page 8vo, 'Club. Brighton' with the Club's coronetted blind stamp, 18 July 1853.
AINSWORTH, William Harrison (This is a link to the full description)
Good signature in blue ink with the words 'yours faithfully', from the foot of a letter, laid down.
AIRY, Sir George Biddell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Professor Gyldén at the Stockholm Observatory, 2 pages 8vo with envlope, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 19 July 1877.
ALBERT, Prince (This is a link to the full description)
Foreign Office docket (for attachment to official papers), addressed to 'The Queen' in the hand of Prince Albert, 16 December 1840.
ALBERT, Prince (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a fragment cut from a document, laid down on the remains of an album leaf, 10 November 1841.
ALBERT, Prince (This is a link to the full description)
The Prince's name ('Prince Albert') in his own hand on a fragment from a document with the printed heading 'The Foreign Office', tightly trimmed.
ALBERT, Prince (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive ALS to Lord Seymour, 1 page 8vo on black-edged writing paper, Windsor Castle, 30 November 1850.
ALBERT, Prince (This is a link to the full description)
LS in French to G Wappers, director of the royal academy of painting in Anvers, 3 pages 4to on black-edged paper, Buckingham Palace, 30 June 1840.
ALBERT, Prince (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Note headed 'April 13 / The Prince Consort to The Prince of Wales', ½-page 8vo on blue paper, Aldershot.
ALBERT, Prince (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, cut from the foot of a letter with 'Acting Great Master' appended in the Prince's hand, ca 40 x 100 mm (1½ x 4 inches).
ALBERT I (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page large folio with papered seal, partially printed and completed by hand, Brussels, 31 March 1912.
ALBERT I (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page large folio with papered seal, partially printed and completed by hand, Brussels, 1 November 1921.
ALBERT VICTOR, Duke of Clarence (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('Albert Victor') as Captain in the Regiment of Hussars, partially printed and completed by hand, 1 page 8vo (oblong), 14 February 1889.
ALEXANDER II (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Telegram Signed ('Alexandre'), in French with direction in Russian, to the Empress Maria Alexandrovna.
ALEXANDER, Harold Rupert, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Alexander of Tunis') on a card, laid down with a further card dating the signature 10 June 1949, in all 225 x 175 mm (9 x 7 inches).
ALEXANDRA, Queen €† €c »4'Õ (This is a link to the full description)
Cabinet photograph (three-quarter length) by Russell & Sons of Chichester, signed below the image and dated 1881.
ALLENBY, Edmund Henry, 1st Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS ('Edmund H H Allenby') to 'My dear Leader', written on a train 'on the Palestine front', 4 pages 8vo (some damp-staining), 30 July 1917.
ALLENBY, Edmund Henry, 1st Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Allenby / F.M. / 29th March 1931') on a postcard showing the SS Viceroy of India, an India mail and passenger service vessel.
ALLENBY, Edmund Henry, 1st Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss [Betty] Ross, 1 page 8vo, Grosvenor Hotel, London, 21 October no year
ALLENBY, Edmund Henry, 1st Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Savage, 2 page 8vo, Stanley Hotel, Stanley, Perthshire, 30 September no year
ALLINGHAM, Margery Louise (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Robert Thurston] Hopkins (d. 1958, author), 3 pages 8vo, D'Arcy House, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Maldon, Essex, 30 October 1952.
ALLINGHAM, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J A Langford, 1 page 8vo (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), Lane, Ballyshannon, 14 August 1855.
ALLINGHAM, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Richard] Garnett (1835-1906, man of letters and keeper of printed books at the British Museum), 1 page 8vo, 18 Neville Street, 12 February 1872.
ALMA-TADEMA, Sir Lawrence (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Farquharson', 1¼ pages 8vo on facing pages (a little soiled), Athenaeum Club (blind stamp), 1 November 1887.
ALMA-TADEMA, Sir Lawrence (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Howarth, 1 page 8vo, 34 Grove End Road, 20 May 1908.
AMELIA, Princess (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to her brother, Frederick, Duke of York, 1 page 8vo (trimmed), no place, 'Monday' (dated in another hand 5 June 1797).
AMPERE, André Marie (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Letter Signed, in French, to the Abbé de Régel, Rector of the Academy at Cahors, 2 pages 4to with address leaf, Paris, 10 September 1816.
ANDERSON, Mary (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph Signed of the seated actress in flowing gown reading a book.
ANGLESEY, Sir Henry William Paget, Marquess of of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [illegible], 2 page 8vo, Uxbridge House, 22 May 1827.
ANGLESEY, Sir Henry William Paget, Marquess of of (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Lord Melbourne, 1 page 4to, Dublin Castle, 19? February 1832.
ANNE (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('Anne R') at the head, 1 page folio on vellum, paper seal (damp stains at the foot, not affecting the text), Kensington, 6 March 1707/8.
ANNE (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('Anne R.') at the head, 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum (slightly faded, but readable), given at St James's, 7 July 1702.
ANNE (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S., 1 page folio on vellum (badly cut about, the signature removed and replaced, given at Hampton Court, 2 November 1710.
ANNE (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S., 1 page folio with papered seal (small splits in the folds, more so in the second leaf), given at St James's, 28 May 1702.
ANNIGONI, Pietro (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard reproduction of Annigoni's portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, signed in ink vertically on the left-hand side.
ANNIGONI, Pietro (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in broken English on both sides of a correspondence-card to Mr Harvey, Florence, dated 'XXIX-VII-LXXXVII' [29 July (19)87].
ANTARCTICA (This is a link to the full description)
Signatures of Shackleton and fifteen other members of the shore party of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909.
ANTIQUARIES (This is a link to the full description)
Document signed by eight antiquaries, 1 page folio, 22 February 1827 (small repair).
APPRENTICESHIP INDENTURE (This is a link to the full description)
The indenture of Josiah Stringer as apprentice to Samuel Hinton, druggist, of Newcastle, 1 page 4to on vellum with revenue stamps and seals, 1841.
ARGELANDER, Friedrich Wilhelm August (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent in England, 2 pages 8vo (mounted with note of identification), Bonn, 26 July 1864.
ARLEN, Michael (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Walter, 2 pages 4to, Villa Edgeroad, Cannes, 15 September no year [1928].
ARLINGTON, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Arlington') [to Sir Horatio, 1st Viscount Townshend], 2 pages folio with contemporary docket to second leaf, Whitehall, 13 June 1676.
ARLINGTON, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Richard Bulstrode in Brussels, 1 page 4to with integral address-leaf, (neatly inlaid), London, 3 January 1678/9.
ARNIM, Achim von (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to a friend, 4 pages 4to, Berlin, 28 May 1810.
ARNOLD, Sir Edwin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the author and journalist W[illiam] H[enry] Rideing, 2 pages 8vo, 31 Bolton Gardens, 'Friday Sept 7' no year
ARNOLD, Matthew (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Hornby, 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper (neatly laid down), Harrow, 10 March no year
ARRHENIUS, Svante August (This is a link to the full description)
Signed photograph by A Jonason of Goteborg, showing the chemist seated, holding a silver-handled cane, signed on the photograph and dated 1903.
ARTHUR, Duke of Connaught (This is a link to the full description)
Cabinet photograph by Maull & Fox, signed in the white margin at the foot and dated 1882, showing the Prince in full military uniform with sword.
ARTISTS (This is a link to the full description)
Signatures of 17 artists with their addresses, on membership forms laid down on two sides of an 8vo album leaf.
ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR, Henry, third Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir Richard Bulstrode, 1 page 4to with integral address-leaf, no place, 2 May 1687.
ASQUITH, Lady Cynthia (This is a link to the full description)
5 ALsS to MacDonald, discussing an article on patriotism for the young which she wrote as a contribution to his book, 6½ pages 8vo, Regent's Park, 1935-36.
ASQUITH, Herbert Henry, Earl of Oxford (This is a link to the full description)
Bold signature in dark ink (traces of mounting to the reverse), undated.
ASQUITH, Herbert Henry, Earl of Oxford (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Note (third person) to Sir Charles Matthews at the Treasury, in recognition of his service, 1 page 8vo, 10 Downing Street, 19 February 1916.
ASQUITH, Herbert Henry, Earl of Oxford (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to to Samuel (perhaps the young Herbert Samuel, who was already involved in Liberal politics), 1 page 8vo, 20 Cavendish Square, 2 July 1898.
ASQUITH, Herbert Henry, Earl of Oxford (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized signed photograph ('H H Asquith'), postmarked 7 November 1907.
ASQUITH, Herbert Henry, Earl of Oxford (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to Mrs Cash, in all 3½ pages 8vo on black-edged writing paper, Fitzjohns Avenue, 15 November 1891 and 6 February 1892.
ASQUITH, Margot (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS and a correspondence card (pencil) to Olive Temple with news of a proposed trip to Spain etc., 6 pages 8vo, 2 envelopes, 1923-25.
ATHLONE, A.A. Cambridge, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph Signed ('Athlone 1926'), showing the Earl seated at his desk, pen in hand.
ATHLONE, A.A. Cambridge, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
Fine photograph, three-quarter length in military uniform, 300 x 212 mm (12 x 8½ inches), boldly signed in ink 'Alexander of Teck'.
ATTLEE, Clement, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('Clem') with autograph salutation ('My dear Clorinda') to Mrs Christopher Attlee, 1 page 8vo (oblong) with envelope, Martin's End Lane, 23 Nov 1962.
AUBER, Daniel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Monsieur [Ernst] Paër, 1 page 8vo with address-leaf, 19 October 1837.
AUDEN, Wystan Hugh (This is a link to the full description)
Four ALsS to Miss Heyes of the University of Birmingham, 4 pages 4to and 8vo with three envelopes, Christ Church, Oxford, January and February 1973.
AUDUBON, John James (This is a link to the full description)
Large signature ('John J Audubon') from the foot of a letter, with most of fourteen words remaining, and the address - 4 Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square.
AURIC, George (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed on a small card, 105 x 90 mm (4 x 3½ inches), dated September 1953.
AUSTIN, Alfred (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph Signed in ink in white space at the foot, head-and-shoulders view of the older poet.
B (return to top)BABBAGE, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person), to Mr & Mrs William Prescott, 1 page 16mo, Dorset Street, 12 March no year
BABBAGE, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to R. Cooke, presumably Robert Cooke, John Murray's assistant, 1 page 16mo (some soiling), 4 June 1852.
BABBAGE, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the publisher John Murray, 1 page 8vo (extensive traces of mounting, with some weakness repaired), Dorset Street, 2 May 1856.
BABBAGE, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person), 1 page 16mo (old repair to lower left hand corner, traces of mounting on the reverse), Dorset Street, 8 June no year [before 1852].
BACK, Sir George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Campbell', 3 pages 16mo, 45 Great Marlborough Street, 'Friday' no date (watermark [18]37).
BACKHAUS, Wilhelm (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Musical Quotation, of 3 bars, dedicated to Mr Buckley, Birmingham, 19 October 1925.
BACKHAUS, Wilhelm (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Wilhelm Backhaus / Darlington, October 30th 1907') on a pink sheet, ca 180 x 70 mm (7 x 2½ inches), with note of identification.
BACKHAUS, Wilhelm (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Wilhelm Backhaus / 10.4.35.') in pencil on small white card, ca 50 x 90 mm (2 x 3½ inches).
BADEAU, Adam (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Major Sniffen, 2 pages 8vo (the blank leaf neatly inlaid), Consulate General of the United States, London 3 December 1877.
BADEN POWELL, Sir Robert, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Fine bold signature in black ink, dated 25 January 1905.
BADEN-POWELL, Sir Robert, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Early ALS to 'My dear Williams', 2 pages 8vo with integral blank, 8 St George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, 5 July 1899.
BADEN-POWELL, Sir Robert, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Stewart in Edinburgh, 2 pages 8vo on a folded sheet with address and postal cancellations on the reverse (torn in the centre), 25 June 1900.
BADEN POWELL, Sir Robert, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Splendid large photograph signed ('Baden Powell of Gilwell / Chief Scout'), laid down on card and measuring in all 400 x 320 mm (16 x 12½ inches).
BADEN POWELL, Sir Robert, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, on an album leaf, ca 95 x 160 mm (3½ x 6 inches), dated 8 March 1931.
BADEN-POWELL, Sir Robert, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink 'R Baden Powell MGenl', a little smudged (presumably by B.P. himself).
BADEN POWELL, Sir Robert, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Robert Baden Powell') on half a sheet of Mauldslie Castle, Carluke embossed writing paper, laid down on the remains of an album leaf.
BADEN POWELL, Sir Robert, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Fine, bold signature and date ('24.2.05'), ca 85 x 125 mm (3½ x 5 inches). Some traces of former mounting at the corners.
BADEN POWELL, Sir Robert, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Lord Ebury, 1 page 8vo (oblong), Pax Hill, Bentley, Hampshire, 9 December 1925.
BADEN-POWELL, Sir Robert, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Fine cabinet photograph by Elliott & Fry of London, signed and dated 3 May 1910.
BADER, Sir Douglas Robert Steuart (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard reproduction of an aerial card of 1911, signed by Bader and Wing Commander R.H. McIntosh, with cancellation stamp dated 9 September 1981.
BADER, Sir Douglas Robert Steuart (This is a link to the full description)
TLS with autograph salutation to Miss Barbara Kelsey, 1 page 4to, 5 Petersham Mews, 21 April 1982.
BADER, Sir Douglas Robert Steuart (This is a link to the full description)
First-day cover ('Return to Colditz' in aid of the Red Cross) signed by Bader, Dick Howe, Lady Airy ('Airy of Abingdon', widow of Airy Neave) and Pat Reid.
BAGNOLD, Enid (Lady Jones) (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink (slightly smudged) on white card, 40 x 75 mm (1½ x 3 inches).
BAIRD, John Logie (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Mrs Tweedie, 1 page 8vo (trimmed without loss of text, note of identification at the head), no place, 12 September 1930.
BAKER, Sir Samuel White (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to Messrs Dickens and Son, 1 page 8vo (rather dust-stained), Sandford Orleigh, Newton Abbot, 3 & 5 December no year
BALDWIN, Stanley, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'Dear Woods', 2 pages 8vo, Astley Hall, Stourport, 3 May 1915.
BALDWIN, Stanley, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Baldwin's calling-card, with printed address '10 Downing Street, S.W.'.
BALDWIN, Stanley, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'Dear Woods', 3 pages 8vo (a little creased), House of Commons (blind stamp), 19 November 1912.
BALDWIN, Stanley, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'Dear Woods, 1½ pages 8vo, 93 Eaton Square, 6 November 1914.
BALDWIN, Stanley, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Woods', 4 pages 8vo, 93 Eaton Square, 6 May 1914.
BALDWIN, Stanley, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
TLS with autograph superscript to the poet Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938), 1 page 4to (paper clip mark), 10 Downing Streeet, 18 June 1928.
BALFOUR, Arthur James, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
LS (dictated) to Mr [?Herbert] Samuel, 2 pages 8vo with blank leaf, 10 Downing Street, 5 December 1904.
BALFOUR, Arthur James, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, probably cut from the foot of a letter, ca 35 x 115 mm (1½ x 4½ inches).
BALFOUR, Arthur James, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
Large signature from the foot of a (secretarially written) letter.
BALFOUR, Arthur James, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
LS headed 'Private' to [Carl] Hentschel, 2 pages 8vo with integral blank, 4 Carlton Gardens, 20 August 1917.
BALFOUR, Arthur James, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
Fine cabinet photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, half-length, signed in ink on the lower border (some traces of mounting on the reverse).
BALFOUR, Arthur James, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a white correspondence card, Whittingehame, Prestonkirk, Scotland.
BALL, Sir Robert S. (This is a link to the full description)
Three ALsS to H[erbert] M[inton] Cundall (1848-1904, Senior Keeper at the V & A), 4½ pages 8vo, Cambridge, 30 August to 7 October 1904.
BALZAC, Honoré de (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('de B') to his friend Dutacq, 1 page 8vo (left hand margin slight uneven, not affecting the text), no date
BALZAC, Honoré de (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his lawyer Labois, 1 page 8vo with integral address-leaf and red wax seal, ?1 May 1833.
BAMFORD, Samuel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Revd Sir'), 1 page 8vo, (remains of backing-sheet), Blakeley [Blackley], 26 June 1846.
BAMFORD, Samuel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Francis Spencer, 1 page 8vo, Portland Town, 2 August 1854.
BANKS, Sir Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to a doctor (name not deciphered), 1 page 8vo (oblong), Soho Square, 1 December 1814.
BARBIROLLI, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Bold signature in black ink on white card, ca 60 x 90 mm (2¼ x 3½ inches), trimmed and laid down on a black leaf.
BARBIROLLI, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Miss [Elise] Gordon, 1 page 4to, on writing-paper of the Hallé Concerts Society, 2 May 1956.
BARBIROLLI, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Programme of a recital at Grange Park School, Lancashire on 22 October 1946, signed by Barbirolli, Laurance Turner, Clifford Knowles and Sydney Errington.
BARBIROLLI, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Self-caricature, signed, in pencil, head and shoulder, in profile, on an album leaf, ca 125 x 80 mm (4½ x 3 inches).
BARBIROLLI, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Signature cut from the foot of a letter ('as ever / John Barbirolli') and laid down on an album leaf, ca 125 x 80 mm (4½ x 3 inches).
BARING-GOULD, Sabine (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs ?Tromp, 1 page 8vo, Lew Trenchard, North Devon, 31 October 1907.
BARING-GOULD, Sabine (This is a link to the full description)
ALS probably to a bookseller, 1 page 8vo (slightly trimmed at the foot, and a little foxed), Lew Trenchard, North Devon, 1 November 1892.
BARING-GOULD, Sabine (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Gould in Campden Hill Gardens, London, 1 p. 8vo, Lew Trenchard, ['30 July 1891'].
BARKSTEAD, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Colonel Clerke, 1 page folio with address-leaf (rather browned), Tower of London, 3 December 1655.
BARNES, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Samson, 1 page 8vo, The Rectory, Winterborne Came, 14 March 1885.
BARRIE, Sir James Matthew (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Carl] Hentschel, 1 page 8vo, Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, 29 May 1903.
BARRIE, Sir James Matthew (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive short ALS to J C Dent of Westminster City School, 1 page 8vo with envelope (soiled), Adelphi Terrace House, 8 August 1934.
BARRIE, Sir James Matthew (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (written with the left and signed with the right?) to A J Pearse, ½-page 8vo with envelope, Stanway, Cheltenham, 1 January 1932.
BARROW, Sir John, 1st Baronet (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page large folio on vellum, partially printed and completed by hand, 26 April 1842.
BARROW, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, addressed at the foot to Rear Admiral G[raham] E[den] Hamond ('S America'), 1 page folio, partly printed, Admiralty, 21 December 1835.
BARRY, Edward Middleton (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Cuthill?, 1 page 8vo (laid down), 21 Abingdon Street, 5 December 1871.
BARTOK, Béla (This is a link to the full description)
Fine signature in ink on paper, 88 x 116 mm. (3½ x 4½ inches).
BARTOK, Béla (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph postcard (unsigned) to Adila Arányi with a short message inscribed on the picture of a rustic snow-covered barn, no place, 24 December 1902.
BATTEN, Jean Gardner (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a small white card, ca 40 x 75 mm (1½ x 3 inches), dated 1937 in her hand.
BAX, Sir Arnold Edward Trevor (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of four bars from the third Symphony (bassoon solo), signed and dated in ink 'Arnold Bax / June 1944 / Storrington. Sussex'.
BAYLY, Thomas Haynes (This is a link to the full description)
Six song verses, 3 autograph ('The song of the Dying Bard', 'They deem it a sorrow gone by' etc), 6 pages 4to on ruled paper, no date, unsigned.
BAZALGETTE, Sir Joseph William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to A. Vogue, 1 page 8vo, Engineer's Department, Spring Gardens, 10 February 1865.
BEATRICE, Princess (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (incomplete), last 1½ pages 8vo, no place, no date
BEATRICE, Mary Victoria Feodore (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to Lord De Ros, 2 pages 8vo, no place (embossed coronet writing paper), 14 May 1868.
BEATTY, David, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Signed Photograph, ca 185 x 235mm (7½ x 9½ inches) laid down on stiff card, undated.
BEATTY, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription from the foot of a letter, rather worn and laid down, no date
BEAUVOIR, Roger de (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to M. Molker of the Opera Comique, 1 page 8vo, no place, no date
BEAVERBROOK, Max Aitken, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('M.B.') with autograph postscript signed 'B', to Lady Anderson, 1 page 4to, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 28 September 1946.
BEAVERBROOK, Max Aitken, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Beaverbrook') and typed subscription cut from the foot of a letter and laid down on the remains of an album leaf, ca 1½ x 4 inches.
BECKETT, Samuel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on one side of a correspondence card to Joys Verhagen, with envelope, Paris 8 July 1966.
BEDFORD, John Russell, 6th Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
3 ALsS ('Bedford') to a clergyman, on spiritual matters, 10½ pages 8vo, (seal-tear), Woburn Abbey and Endsleigh, 31 Janaury, 17 May and 7 June 1839.
BEECHAM, Sir Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink on paper (closely torn at the bottom, some glue-stains showing through).
BEERBOHM, Sir Henry Maximilian (Max) (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss [Nona] Stewart, 2 pages 8vo, 48 Upper Berkeley Street, 8 May 1899.
BEERBOHM, Sir Henry Maximilian (Max) (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to Carl Hentschel, 2 pages 8vo, Savile Club, November 1902.
BEERBOHM, Sir Henry Maximilian (Max) (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) [to Carl Hentschel], ½-page 8vo, 48 Upper Berkeley Street, 16 November 1900.
BEETON, Samuel Orchart (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Doctor', 2 pages 8vo (some traces of mounting on the second leaf), 39 Bedford Street, 26 March 1876.
BELLOC, Hilaire (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Si Vales Valeo / Auctor'), 2 pages 8vo (card from former mounting adhering to the back), 104 Cheyne Walk, 10 January 1903 (foxed).
BELLOC, Hilaire (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph manuscript poem, heavily reworked, 1 page 8vo, undated.
BELLOC, Hilaire (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Christy, 1 page 8vo on grey writing paper, St German's, 1 March 1929. Recipient's date-stamp at top left (very faint).
BELLOC, Hilaire (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to 'Gentlemen', ½-page 4to on black-edged paper, Kings Land, Shipley, Horsham, 2 February 1934.
BENEDICT, Sir Julius (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Manuscript of a song 'The Earth is waking at the voice of May ...', 5 pages folio (very brittle and chipped in places), signed at the top, no date
BENNETT, Sir William Sterndale (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed woman ('Dear Madam'), 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper, 50 Inverness Terrace, Kensington Gardens, 4 November 1863.
BENNETT, Sir William Sterndale (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to Walter Joy, 4 pages 8vo on black-edged paper (traces of former mounting in the left hand margin), Terminus Hotel, Eastbourne, 22 July 1858.
BENNETT, William James Early (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo (laid down on card), St Barnabas, Pimlico, 26 July 1849.
BENNETT, Sir William Sterndale (This is a link to the full description)
Collection of 6 ALsS and an AL (third person), one in German, with transcriptions, bound in red cloth with gold title on the spine, with related ephemera.
BENSON, Arthur Christopher (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Bryant, agreeing to say a few words at his school, 2 pages 8vo, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 13 Feb 1925.
BENSON, Arthur Christopher (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Editor of the Times, 1½ pages 8vo, Eton College, 17 May 1902.
BENSON, Edward Frederic (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs [Lewis] Powles, a neighbour in Rye, 2 pages 8vo, Lamb House, Rye, 13 May 1937.
BENSON, Edward Frederic (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs [Lewis] Powles, a neighbour in Rye, 2 pages 8vo, Lamb House, Rye, 19 September 1934.
BENSON, Edward Frederic (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Lewis Powles in Rye, 1½ pages 8vo with envelope (postage stamp removed), Lamb House, Rye, 1 June 1934.
BENTHAM, Jeremy (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Southwood Smith ('My dear Doctor'), 1 page 8vo (trimmed), 21 May 1830 'at night'.
BENTHAM, Jeremy (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr Southwood Smith (1788-1861, unitarian minister and medical populariser), 1 page 16mo, 8 December 1830 ('Wednesday Night').
BENTHAM, Jeremy (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to M[atthew] D[avenport] Hill, 1 page 8vo with integral blank, Q[ueen] S[quare] P[lace], 22 September 1823 ('½ after 11 A.M.').
BENTHAM, Jeremy (This is a link to the full description)
Series of thirty-five letters to Leicester [Fitzgerald Charles] Stanhope (later fifth Earl of Harrington), 63 pages 16mo and 8vo, 1823-1831 and no date
BERESFORD, William Carr, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to Thomas Collins, 1 page 8vo with integral address-leaf and remains of a red wax seal, Bedgebury Park, 13 May 1842.
BERESFORD, Lord Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear George', 2 pages 8vo, HMS King Edward VII, Channel Fleet, 15 September 1908.
BERLIOZ, Hector (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to Krug, choirmaster of the ducal chapel in Carlsruhe, 3 pages 8vo with envlope (lacking stamp), Baden Baden, Monday, 9 August 1857.
BERLIOZ, Hector (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Camille [?Pal], 1 page 8vo (very slightly trimmed), slightly smudged where folded when the ink was wet, Paris, 12 October 1867.
BERNADOTTE, Jean Baptiste Jules (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, also signed by Talleyrand, 1 page large folio on a printed form, 17 Nivose, An II [7 January 1803].
BERNHARDT, Sarah (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph (head and shoulders), signed clearly in ink and dated, Berlin 6 November 1902.
BERNSTEIN, Leonard (This is a link to the full description)
Programme for the 'Homage to Stravinsky', concert at the Albert Hall, 6 April 1972, inscribed to Lina [Lalandi], 24 pages folio and cover in fine condition.
BERNSTEIN, Leonard (This is a link to the full description)
Menu from Maxim's, Paris, dated 1 November 1976, inscribed on a blank leaf to the Greek harpsichordist, Lina Lalandi, and signed 'Larry B'.
BERNSTEIN, Leonard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Greek harpsichordist, Lina Lalandi, 1 page 4to with autograph envelope with Bernstein's name and return address on the flap, 7 March 1972.
BERTRAND, Henri Gratien, Count (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person), in French, to Lieut-Colonel Downs, thanking him for his hospitality, 1 page 8vo, Knightstown, 9 August 1843.
BESSEMER, Sir Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J.C. Bayley, 2 pages 8vo, (facing pages, vertical crease), Denmark Hill, Surrey, 31 December 1871.
BESSEMER, Sir Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Henry Bessemer') to L. Loveland, 1 page 8vo, Denmark Hill, 2 December 1880.
BETJEMAN, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Ross, 1 page 8vo, The Mead, Wantage, 11 January 1954.
BETJEMAN, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Fine collection of five autograph Manuscripts and two typescripts.
BEWICK, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
Blank printed receipt for a 'Copy of Esop's Fables', issued by Bewick and his son, Robert, and 'signed' with Bewick's woodcut thumb-print.
BIRLEY, Sir Oswald (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to fellow-artist Flora Lion, 1 page 4to, The Corner House, 62 Wellington Road, 20 November 1933.
BISMARCK, Otto von (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('vBismarck') to an unnamed correspondent (probably his banker), 1 page 4to (margins slightly frayed), Frankfurt am Main, 30 June 1856.
BIZET, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Cher Monsieur'), 1 page small 8vo, no date
BIZET, George (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to his librettist Louis Gallet, 1 page 8vo with Gallet's addition on the last leaf, n.p,, no date [? May 1872].
BIZET, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to Doctor Blanche, 2 pages 16mo on conjoint leaves, with envlope, no place, no date. With the stamp of the Thorek Collection on a blank page.
BJÖRNSON, Björnstjerne (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent and an Autograph Postcard Signed to Johannes Marer, 1½ pages 8vo, Aulestad and no place, 21 April 1890 and no date [postmark 31 January 1892].
BLACKETT, Basil P. (This is a link to the full description)
Collection of 5 TLsS to N.P. MacDonald, discussing Blackett's contribution to a symposium on 'Patriotism', 5 pages 4to, Victoria, 1934-35.
BLACKMORE, Richard Doddridge (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to A G Ross, 1 page 12mo, Teddington, 24 February 1887.
BLACKMORE, Richard Doddridge (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription from a letter, in characteristic blue ink, no date
BLAKE, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed, 1 page folio (chipped at the edges), 15 November 1653, signed also by William Burton and Thomas Kelsey, Commissioners of the Navy.
BLANC, Louis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Herzen, 1 page 8vo (slight traces of mounting on the reverse), 'Vendredi soir', no date
BLANC, Louis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed lady ('Madame et amie'), 1 page 8vo, London, 24 June 1865.
BLESSINGTON, Marguerite, Countess of (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to "Maria Louisa" (the Countess's quotes), 2 pages 8vo with coronetted gold monogram, Gore House, Kensington, 13 May no year (watermark 1841).
BLESSINGTON, Marguerite, Countess of (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('M Blessington') and valediction from a letter.
BLISS, Sir Arthur Edward Drummond (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink dated 10 August 1944 on the upper part of a sheet of 'Pen Pits' writing paper.
BLONDIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('J.F. Blondin'), dated 1895 on a small piece, laid down (a little foxed).
BLOOMFIELD, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Isaac Bird in Bury, 1 page 4to, with address-leaf, City Road, London 25 July 1811.
BLOOMFIELD, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and a few words cut from the foot of a letter to one of his children, 45 x 105 mm (ca 2 x 4 inches).
BLOUET, Lëon Paul (Max O'Rell) (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, 2 Lime Grove, Uxbridge Road, 16 June 1884.
BLOUET, Lëon Paul (Max O'Rell) (This is a link to the full description)
3 ALsS to an unnamed correspondent, 4½ pages 8vo, St James's and Paris, 1901-1902.
BLUNDEN, Edmund Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Manuscript Signed of a poem, 35 lines on 2 separate pages 4to, no date
BLYTON, Enid Mary (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to her biographer, George Greenfield, 1 page 4to (irregular filing-holes only just touching the text), Green Hedges, Beaconsfield, 26 February 1948.
BLYTON, Enid Mary (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Mummy') to her second daughter, Imogen, 1 page 4to (slight traces of mounting) with envelope (trimmed), Green Hedges, watermark 23 November 1949.
BLYTON, Enid Mary (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on a picture postcard to the children at the Council Girls' School in Midsomer Norton, Old Hatch, Bourne End, ?1930 (slightly dust-stained).
BLYTON, Enid Mary (This is a link to the full description)
Long ALS to Mrs M. Bulleid, 4 pages 4to with envelope, Green Hedges, Beaconsfield, 21 February 1956.
BOER WAR DIARY (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph diary of Trooper F. Crook, 32 pages in a free booklet with an additional page from what appears to be a folded account book, 1900-1901.
BOITO, Arrigo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in Italian to 'Caro Tito', 2 pages 8vo, no place, no date
BOLINGBROKE, Henry St John, 1st Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 4to, (small hole affecting the year), no place, 7 June [17]25.
BONAPARTE, Jérome (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Le Gal Jerome Bonaparte'), 1 page 8vo (light attached by the blank leaf to the remains of an album leaf), Paris, 5 October 1848.
BONAPARTE, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to the Archchancellor [Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès], 1 page folio (some slight browning), Portici, 30 October 1806.
BONAPARTE, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('Joseph') as King of Naples, 1 page folio, Naples, 20 June 1807.
BONAPARTE, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Joseph'), as King of Spain, in French, to his uncle, ½-page 4to, Madrid, 6 August 1811.
BONAPARTE, Louis (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Louis Bonaparte') to the minister of war (Berthier), 1 page folio with engraved vignette, Paris, 12 Germinal An 12 [2 April 1804].
BONHEUR, Marie Rosalie (Rosa) (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed man ('Monsieur'), 2 pages 12mo, 29 July 1898.
BOOTH, William, 'General' (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph sentiment and signature, laid down on the remains of an album leaf, ca 120 x 135 mm (4½ x 5½ inches), 18 November 1898.
BOOTH, William, 'General' (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Faithfully yours / William Booth / London Feb 25.05') on red embossed Salvation Army writing paper, ca 90 x 135 mm (3½ x 5½ inches).
BOOTHBY, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J Phillips, 1 page 8vo on embossed writing paper of the Treasury Chambers, with envelope, Whitehall, 21 February [1928].
BORDEN, Sir Robert Laird (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to an unnamed woman ('Dear Madam'), Glensmere, Ottawa, 25 January 1927.
BORROW, George (This is a link to the full description)
Part of the galley-proof of Romano-Lavo Lil (1874), one side heavily corrected, together with the Autograph Manuscript of an eleven-line replacement section.
BORROW, George (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Notes on the Romany language, 1 page 4to (oblong), no date with two smaller autograph fragments.
BOSCAWEN, Edward ('Old Dreadnought') (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page folio on vellum (a little soiled and with a nibble from the foot, but in good condition), papered seal, 2 August 1758.
BOSCAWEN, George Evelyn, Viscount Falmouth (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed peer ('My Lord'), 1 page 4to, Tregothnan, 31 December 1805.
BOTHA, Louis (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink, tightly trimmed at the right-hand edge, undated.
BOURCHIER, John, third Earl of Bath (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('John Bathon') to his wife [Margaret], 1 page 4to with address-leaf, (some foxing, a few words blurred), Hengrave, 3 November 1550.
BOWERS, Henry Robertson (This is a link to the full description)
Bowers's autograph notebook used during his service on the Sladen on the Irrawaddy [Burma], 1907, ca 55 pages, small 8vo with blanks, cloth boards.
BOWLES, William Lisle (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('My dear Madam'), offering to lend her a book, 1 page 8vo (traces of former mounting), Calne, 21 Jul 1825.
BOWMAN, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'Dear Chepmell', 1 page 8vo (lightly soiled), 5 Clifford Street, 6 May 1873.
BOWRING, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Arminius] Vambéry at the Athenaeum, 1 page 8vo (some glue-stains showing through), Claremont, Exeter (blind stamp), 3 July 1865.
BOWRING, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr R.B. Hardy in Glasgow, 2 pages 4to (slight glue-stains), London, 3 August 1835.
BRAGG, Sir William Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Berridge, 1 page 8vo (unevenly torn at the right hand side, not affecting the text), Royal Institution, 25 April no year
BRAHMS, Johannes (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('J.Br.') to the music publisher Fritz Simrock, 4 pages 8vo, dated in another hand Vienna, 19 April 1884.
BRAHMS, Johannes (This is a link to the full description)
Brahms's visiting card with printed name and address and an autograph note on the reverse.
BRAHMS, Johannes (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS ('Johannes B') to his life-long friend, the composer [Julius Otto] Grimm, 3 pages 8vo (repairs to the folds), no date Editorially dated December 1890.
BRAZIL, Angela (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Pyke, 3½ pages 8vo (a little soiled), The Quadrant, Coventry [blind stamp], 5 March 1918.
BREWSTER, Sir David (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo (lightly hinged to a mount), St Andrews, 15 July 1840.
BREWSTER, Sir David (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [John] Murray, the publisher, 1 page 8vo, 111 Princes Street, Edinburgh, 17 April 1856.
BREWSTER, Sir David (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to William White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 1 page 8vo, Allerly Melrose, 25 July 1864.
BREWSTER, Sir David (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed (with his honours and degrees), in Latin, ca 450 x 550 mm (17½ x 21½ inches) on vellum with impressive green leather seal; 10 January 1846.
BRIAN, Havergal (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Peter Wiener, 2 pages 8vo in green ink with envelope (two small stains), The Marlinspike, Shoreham by Sea, 5 October 1966.
BRIGHT, Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the sculptor Francis Chantrey, 4 pages 8vo (some faint pencilling on the third page), 14 Bloomsbury Square, 7 June 1830.
BRITTEN, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Bolshaw, 1 page 8vo, Old Mill, Snape, 8 September 1944.
BRITTEN, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
Christmas card with the sketchy print of the Red House on the front, signed in ink on the inside with the 'New Address' printed below.
BRITTEN, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
Christmas card signed, with a detail from Anton Kern's Madonna & Child.
BRITTEN, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
Christmas card with inscription ('many greetings') and signature; the card illustrated with a drawing of a red house.
BRITTEN, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
Programme for the performance of the War Requiem by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic on 15 April 1967, 20 pages 8vo (rust marks from the staples).
BRITTEN, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Ronald Senator, 1 page 4to, The Red House, Aldeburgh, 9 August 1971.
BRODIE, Sir Benjamin Collins (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lord Monteagle, 6½ pages 8vo, Broome, Betchworth, Jersey, 5 November 1853.
BROOKE, Margaret (This is a link to the full description)
Fine collection of letters from acquaintances of the Ranee of Sarawak, mainly concerning her books about life in Sarawak, ca 1898-1934, ca 78.
BROOKS, Charles William Shirley (This is a link to the full description)
Good satirical ALS to W C Bennett, 4 pages 8vo with envelope marked 'Private', no place, 'Friday' no date
BROUGHAM, Henry Peter, Lord (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to Prescott, 2 pages 8vo, Piccadilly, 22 February 1840.
BROUGHAM, Henry Peter, Lord (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('H. Brougham') to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo with blank leaf (some traces of mounting on the reverse), Hill Street, 10 July 1828.
BROUGHAM, Henry Peter, Lord (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALS to the Rev Gilbert Elliot, 1 page 8vo and 1 page 16mo with envelopes, both undated but one postmark is 1845.
BROUGHAM, Henry Peter, Lord (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Dear Sir'), 1½ pages 8vo (the second, blank, page irregularly torn off), 'Friday' no date
BROWN, Ford Madox (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Mary] Carpenter, 1 page 8vo, 37 Fitzroy Square, 17 May 1881.
BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (This is a link to the full description)
Important working autograph manuscript of two sonnets, Two Sketches and The Poet, 2 pages 16mo (back to back), [ca 1847].
BROWNING, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Autograph Poetical Quotation Signed (from his poem De Gustibus), 1 page 8vo on blind stamped crested paper, London 13 July 1871.
BROWNING, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
Concluding five lines and signature from an ALS, perhaps to Mrs [Theodore] Martin.
BROWNING, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Duchess of St Albans, 1 page 8vo with integral second leaf, 19 Warwick Crescent, 25 January 1881.
BROWNING, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Rossetti (probably Dante Gabriel), 1 page 8vo (laid down by the blank), 29 Devonshire Place, 'Tuesday', no date
BROWNING, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Robert Browning') and subscription in a small hand on a tiny slip from the foot of a letter, laid down.
BROWNING, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [James Anthony] Froude, 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper, 19 Warwick Crescent, 9 February 1867.
BROWNING, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Flower [probably to Mrs W.H. Flower, wife of the president of the Zoological Society], 1 page 8vo, 19 Warwick Crescent, 13 May 1883.
BROWNING, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [?Alexander] Macmillan, 1 page 8vo (neatly laid down), 19 Warwick Crescent, 2 April 1871.
BROWNING, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Talfourd, 1 page small 8vo (a little worn, mounted beneath an engraving), [Hanover Cottage], New Cross, Hatcham, 'Friday Mg.', no date
BRUCH, Max (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Postcard Signed ('M. Bruch') in German to J[oseph] Joachim, [postmark Friedenau], 25 November 1897.
BRUCH, Max (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph note, signed with initials, on both sides of his printed visiting card, to Mrs Henschel, Breslau, no date
BRUCH, Max (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph note, signed in full, on both sides of his printed visiting card, to Mrs Henschel, Breslau, 31 December 1885.
BRUCH, Max (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of four bars on one stave from Das Lied von der Glocke, 1 page 8vo (oblong, a little brittle witha small split), dated 1918.
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Cheque Signed, on a brown and white cheque form of Drummond's Bank, uncrossed, the signature clear and unmarked.
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to E.K. Copleston, 3 pages 8vo (traces of mount on the reverse), 18 Duke Street, 17 November 1852 (docketed 'Devon & Dorset Rail').
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to C.W. Nixon, 1 page 8vo (laid down on the remains of an album leaf, with recipient's endorsement), 18 Duke Street, Westminster, 5 September 1856.
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the publisher J[ohn] Murray, 1 page 8vo (laid down on card), 7 May 1859.
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Cheque Signed, on a brown and white cheque form of Drummond's Bank, uncrossed, the signature clear and unmarked.
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Cheque Signed, on brown and white cheque form of Drummond's Bank, uncrossed, the signature clear and unmarked.
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (This is a link to the full description)
Correspondence mainly concerning Monkwearmouth Docks, including four ALsS, one LS and one secretarial letter from Brunel, with 20 related letters.
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (This is a link to the full description)
Fine series of 7 ALsS & 1 LS to Daniel Gooch, locomotive superintendent of the Great Western Railway, 20 pages 8vo, 1854-1858.
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Glennie, 1 page 4to, no place, 14 June 1839.
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, 18 Duke Street, Westminster, 19 July 1844.
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS ('I.K.B.') in pencil, to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo (trimmed, traces of former mounting on verso, identified in ink), no place, no date
BRUNEL, Sir Marc Isambard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Joseph] Bennett, his son's clerk, 1 page 8vo, no place, 25 May 1839, with integral address-leaf.
BRUNEL, Sir Marc Isambard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('affectionately yours M.I. Brunel') to his son Isambard, ½-page 8vo, no place, 19 May 1836, with integral address leaf (slight seal tear on second sheet).
BRUNEL, Sir Marc Isambard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Joseph] Bennett, his son's clerk, ½-page 8vo, no place, 16 January 1839, with integral address-leaf.
BRUNEL, Sir Marc Isambard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Lahee, a house agent, 1 page 8vo with address-leaf (stained strip of old mount adhering to the left hand side), 21 April 1826.
BRYANT, William Cullen (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs H Markell, 1 page 8vo (in very pale ink), Office of The Evening Post, New York, 23 May 1864.
BUCHAN, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Manuscript of an article or chapter headed 'Other Gods', closely written on 6 pages folio, numbered at the head by the author, undated.
BUCHAN, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Gill, 1 page 8vo, Cocoa Tree Club, St James's Street, 5 July 1900.
BUCHAN, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (This is a link to the full description)
Brief TLS to the illustrator Hugh Chesterman, 1 page 4to, St Stephen's House, 28 March 1935.
BUCHAN, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('Tweedsmuir') to the illustrator, Hugh Chesterman, 1 page 4to (some pencil jottings on the reverse), Government House, Ottawa, 5 March 1937.
BUCHAN, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('John Buchan') to [Hugh] Chesterman, illustrator, 1 page 8vo, Elsfield Manor, Oxford, 24 April 1931.
BUCHAN, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 page 8vo (very slightly soiled), 24 Queen Mary Avenue, Glasgow, 20 September 1898.
BUCKINGHAM, George Villiers, Second Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir Thomas Osborne, 1 page folio with integral address-leaf and red wax seal, written from the Court at Oxford, 'Sunday' no date [probably ca 1670].
BUCKLAND, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Philpot at Lyme Regis, 1 page 8vo (portion of address-leaf adhering to reverse), London, 28 January 1834.
BUCKLAND, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unidentified artist, 2 page 4to (mounting strip adhering to the reverse), Axminster, 4 October 1839.
BUCKLAND, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unidentified correspondent, 3 pages 8vo (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), Oxford, 14 April 1841.
BULL, Ole (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Autograph Music Quotation Signed inscribed 'Al Egregia Maestra Sig[norin]a Marchese', 255 x 167 mm. (6½ x 10 inches), Hanover, 27 February 1861.
BULLER, Sir Redvers Henry (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS & TLS to Lord Monkswell, invitations & discussing a new Aide-de-Camp, 5 pages 8vo, 1901, where dated.
BULLER, Sir Redvers Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Harvey', 2½ pages 8vo on writing paper of Ashton Court, Clifton, Bristol, as from Downes, Crediton, 8 January 1880.
BULLER, Sir Redvers Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss I.H. Montgomery, 1 page 8vo, Downes, Crediton, 16 December 1900.
BULLER, Sir Redvers Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear ?Marnie', 1½ pages 8vo, on writing paper of Danby Lodge, Grosmont, Yorkshire, as from Greystoke Castle, Penrith, 13 September no year
BULOW, Hans Guido von (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in German to [Mary Carmichael], 2 pages 8vo (slight splitting in the folds professionally repaired), London, 11 November 1873.
BULOW, Hans von (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in German to [Mary] Carmichael, 2 pages 8vo (split in the fold professionally repaired) with envelope, London, 18 February 1874.
BUNSEN, Christian Carl Josias, Baron (This is a link to the full description)
LS to John Poritton concerning some books lost on their way to the Royal Library, & ALS to an unnamed correspondent about Prussian prisons, 4 pages 8vo & 4to, 29 Apr 1843 where dated
BURDETT, Sir Francis (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS, 4 pages 4to, King's Bench [prison], 1822
BURGHLEY, William Cecil, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, as Lord Treasurer, 1 page folio (small nick not affecting the text, laid down on the remains of an album leaf), 6 July 1585.
BURNAND, Sir Francis Cowley (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and salutation dated 28 February 1905, mounted by the corners to an album leaf, with a press-cutting pasted in the corner.
BURNE-JONES, Sir Edward Coley (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his dwarf studio assistant Pendry, 1 page 8vo, Rottingdean, Brighton, no date
BURNE-JONES, Sir Edward Coley (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('EBJ') to Webb, 1 page 8vo (some smudging evidently original), The Grange, West Kensington, no date
BURNE-JONES, Sir Edward Coley (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Fitzgerald, 1 page 8vo, The Grange, West Kensington, no date ('1869' in another hand at the head).
BURNS, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Musical Manuscript of 'The German Lairdie', 16 bars on oblong slip, ca 1787-1796.
BURNSIDE, Ambrose Everett (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to O R Larned, 2 pages 8vo (the second leaf neatly inlaid), on board ship, 12 August 1870.
BURRITT, Elihu (The Learned Blacksmith) (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph quotation from Longfellow ('Life is real, life is earnest ...'), signed, 1 page 8vo, London, 19 April 1855.
BURTON, Sir Richard Francis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Thomas E. Sterry, 2 pages 16mo with the original envelope, Vaud, Switzerland, 11 July 1888.
BURTON, Sir Richard Francis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs ?Inglefield in Vevey (Switzerland), 1½ facing pages, oblong 4 x 5 inches) with envelope, Hotel (indecipherable), 24 December 1888.
BUSONI, Ferruccio Benevenuto (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to [Otto] Lessmann in Charlottenburg (1844-1918, critic, pianist, composer and owner and editor of the Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung).
BUSONI, Ferruccio Benevenuto (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to [Otto] Lessmann in Charlottenburg (1844-1918, critic, pianist, composer and owner and editor of the Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung).
BYNG, George, 1st Viscount Torrington (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page folio with part of address-leaf (with an engraved portrait) Exeter in Plymouth Sound, 11 Decemebr 1704.
BYRD, Rear-Admiral Richard Evelyn (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on an album leaf (somewhat browned), ca 95 x 160 mm (3½ x 6 inches).
BYRD, Rear-Admiral Richard Evelyn (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on an album leaf, ca 95 x 160 mm (3½ x 6 inches).
[BYRON, George Gordon, Lord] (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('Byron') by the poet's great-uncle, William Byron, 5th Lord (1772-1798, 'The Wicked Lord'), 1 page folio, red wax seal, 27 April 1752.
BYRON, George Gordon, Lord (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph envelope-front, signed in the lower left-hand corner and addressed to the Reverend F[rancis] Wrangham in Bridlington, London, 11 May 1813.
BYRON, George Gordon, Lord (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph address-panel, to G[eorge?] Leigh (cousin and husband of Byron's sister Augusta), signed 'Byron in the lower left, London, 30 June 1813.
BYRON, George Gordon, Lord (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('N.B.') to Captain [Daniel] Roberts, RN at Genoa, 1 page 8vo, 3 June 1823, with address on the reverse and the full signature 'Noel Byron'.
C (return to top)CAINE, Sir Thomas Hall (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Messrs Hughes Massie, thanking them for conveying the message of Elinor Glyn, 1 page 8vo, 62 Avenue Road, Regent's Park, 7 October 1913.
CAINE, Sir Thomas Hall (This is a link to the full description)
Signed postcard-sized photograph ('Hall Caine / Greeby / I of Man' on a white margin at the foot).
CALLCOTT, Maria, Lady (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Maria Graham', her first married name) to the novelist, Jane [Porter], 1 page 4to (irregularly cut from the second sheet), no place, 24 May 1824.
CALLCOTT, Maria, Lady (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('M Callcott') to 'My dear Agnes', 1 page 8vo, no place, 11 March 1841.
[CAMBRIDGE, Princess Augusta, Duchess of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS by H. Greville to Stephens, 2 pages 8vo on black-edged paper, on writing paper of St James's Palace, with coronet, 8 July 1878.
CAMPBELL, Sir Colin, Baron Clyde (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('CC') to [Major-General Henry] Eyre, 1 page 8vo, no place 'June 19th, no date (watermark [18]60.
CAMPBELL, Sir Colin, Lord Clyde (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Clyde'), to Mrs Townsend, 2 pages 8vo (rather stained), n.p, 29 August 1862.
CAMPBELL, Sir Malcolm (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink in the corner of a blue album leaf, no date
CAMPBELL, Mrs Patrick (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph (creased), full length in elaborate costume with separate signature on paper pasted at the foot, dated 1903.
CAMPBELL, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS [to Sir D Brewster], 1 page 4to (trimmed, traces of former mounting on thee reverse), 11 December 1815
CAMPBELL, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to James Cochrane of Cochrane and Pickersgill, 1 page 4to with address on the reverse, St Leonard's, 'Thursday Morning', 21 July 1831.
CAMPBELL, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Frederick De George at Holland House, Blackheath, 3 pages 4to with address, 10 Upper Seymour Street West, 12 November 1824.
CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, Sir Henry (This is a link to the full description)
Lengthy ALS to Lady Reay, 3½ pages 8vo, 10 Downing Street, 29 January 1908, in a rather shaky hand.
CANNING, Charles John, Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Important ALS to General Ashburnham, 10 pages 8vo with an autograph envelope, also signed, Calcutta, 19 May 1857.
CANNING, George (This is a link to the full description)
LS addressed to Anthony Barclay; a circular with printed text, 1 page folio, Foreign Office, 16 September 1822.
CANNING, George (This is a link to the full description)
Large signature and the valediction cut from the foot of a letter to Lord Moira, 1816 (according to the endorsement by Canning's secretary).
CANNING, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Marquis of Buckingham, 2 pages 4to (soiled, especially on the reverse, old repairs, seal adhering to the front), Foreign Office, 9 Sep 1809.
CANTOR, Eddie (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a small white card, ca 40 x 75 mm (1½ x 3 inches).
CARDIGAN, James Thos Brudenell, 7th Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Document Signed, ca 80 x 170 mm (3½ x 6½ inches) laid down on the remains of an album leaf, with an ink border added.
CARDIGAN, James Thos Brudenell, 7th Earl (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person), 3 pages 8vo (a few words enhanced in ink on the second page, traces of mounting on the blank), Deene [Park], 15 September 1856.
CARDIGAN, James Thos Brudenell, 7th Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (initials) to the Duke of Wellington, minuted and initalled by the Duke, 1 page 8vo with integral blank, 8 October [watermark 1830].
CARDIGAN, James Thos Brudenell, 7th Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink from the foot of a letter with an original minute in red ink in the background, dated 1839.
CARDUS, Sir Neville (This is a link to the full description)
3 ALsS to John [Rosselli], 4½ pages 8vo, National Liberal Club, London, 11 March 1963, 24 November 1964, 18 October 1966.
CAREW, Sir Benjamin Hallowel (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Ben Hallowell') to Captain G.O. Lempriere of the Trent, 1 page folio, on board the Trent in Cork Harbour, 15 October 1815.
CAREY, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J. ?Bickner, 1 page 4to, Serampore, 11 January 1821.
CARLETON, Sir Guy, Baron Dorchester (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive Document Signed ('Dorchester'), partially printed and completed by hand, 1 page folio, Quebec, 11 November 1788.
CARLETON, Sir Guy, Baron Dorchester (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lord Townshend, 1 page 4to, London, 9 May 1772.
CARLETON, Sir Guy, Baron Dorchester (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('Dorchester'), partially printed and completed by hand, 1 page folio, Quebec, 4 November 1793.
CARLYLE, Jane Baillie Welsh (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to Jane [Donaldson], 8 pages 8vo (rather brittle and with one small chip missing), 5 Cheyne Row, 2 April 1860 where dated.
CARLYLE, Jane Baillie Welsh (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'Beloved "Savage"!', ending 'God bless you my Child', 2 pages 8vo, 5 Cheyne Row, 'Wednesday', no date
CARLYLE, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
The lower half of an 8vo ALS, the recipient unknown, irregularly cut to accomodate the signature ('T. Carlyle').
CARNOT, Lazare (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('Carnot'), 1 page double folio with vingette of Bonaparte's first consulate, 19 Messidor An 8 [8 July 1800].
CAROLINE, Queen (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Elgin, 1 page 4to (small tears, and tipped to the remains of an album leaf), no place, no date [ca 1800].
CARPENTER, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Three ALsS to Miss [Edith Maurice] Vance (1860-1930, freethinker), 2 pages 8vo and two cards, 1913 and 1914.
CARPENTER, Mary (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, urging sympathy for a man who has recently been appointed headmaster of an Indian school, 4 pages 8vo, 22 Sep 1870.
CARPENTER, William Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir John Bowring, discussing his sister's plans to return to India, 4 pages 8vo, 17 Savile Row, 3 July 1869.
CARRODUS, John Tiplady (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Mary] Carmichael, 2 facing pages 8vo, 199 Camden Road, 17 January 1895.
CARSTARES, William (This is a link to the full description)
AL to Cusin, in cipher, 1 page 4to with red wax seal (neat repairs to the damp-stained paper, not affecting the text), 'At the headquarters at ?', no date
CARTE, Richard D'Oyly (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to George Page, 1 page 8vo (laid down on the remains of an album leaf, and a little browned), 11 Beaufort Buildings, Strand, 4 June 1879.
CARUSO, Enrico (This is a link to the full description)
Characteristic self-caricature in pencil, signed and dated London 1913, on an album leaf, 145 x 196 mm (ca 6 x 4 inches).
CARUSO, Enrico (This is a link to the full description)
Fine and characteristic self-caricature in dark ink, 1 page 8vo, 180 x 113 mm. (7 x 4½ inches), very slightly soiled and laid down on an album leaf.
CASELLA, Alfredo (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of three bars for piano in F minor, in light purple ink, inscribed with his Paris address, 62 x 111 mm. (ca 2½ x 4½ inches, closely trimmed).
CASTRIES, Charles, Marechal de (This is a link to the full description)
LS to M. Bertier, 1 page small 4to, no place, no date, with a letter from Castries' valet Baclet, 3 pages 4to (tipped to a backing sheet), Versailles, 1786.
CATESBY, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed, 1 page large folio on vellum in brown ink with calligraphic initial letter, 230 x 412 mm (ca 9 x 16 inches), mounted on card, 1 May 1594.
CATTERMOLE, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to ?Hewitt, 2 pages 8vo, Albany, '12 o'ck', no date
CATTERMOLE, Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to James Rennell, 1 page 4to, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 15 April 1825
CAUGHEY, James (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr [James] Ferrier, 3 pages 8vo, New Brunswick, N.J., 11 September 1887.
CAVOUR, Camillo Benso di (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to M de la Rive, Rector of the Académie de Suisse in Geneva ('Cher Auguste'), 3½ pages 4to with integral address-leaf, Leri, 3 September 1843.
CAYLEY, Sir George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Alfred Simpson in Maltby, 2 pages 8vo with address-leaf, 10 November 1846.
CHAMBERLAIN, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Mr Warr, 3½ pages 8vo (rather soiled), Colonial Office (blind stamp), 31 July 1902.
CHAMBERLAIN, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to Lord Reay, 4 pages 8vo, Highbury, Moor Green, Birmingham, 16 December 1885.
CHAMBERLAIN, (Arthur) Neville (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Professor William Augustus Tilden (1842-1926, chemist), 4 pages 8vo on writing paper of Elliott's Metal Company in Birmingham, 12 January 1900.
CHAMBERLAIN, (Arthur) Neville (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to the Editor of the Evening Standard, headed 'Private, for guidance not for publication', 2 pages 4to, Treasury Chambers, 30 June 1932.
CHAMBERS, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Hall, 3 pages 8vo (traces of former mounting on the reverse), Edinburgh, 18 October 1844.
CHAMBERS, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the novelist James Payn, 1½ pages 8vo, Edinburgh, 20 April 1854
CHAMIER, Frederic (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph list of his titles, signed, 1 page 8vo (neatly mounted), with an integral address-leaf to W.H. Ince 'with Capt Chamier's best Compliments'.
CHANTREY, Sir Francis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'Dear Barkham', 1 page 8vo, 1 December 1837.
CHANTREY, Sir Francis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir Martin [Archer Shee (1769-1850, President of the Royal Academy)], 1 page 8vo, Belgrave Place, 2 May 1833.
CHANTREY, Sir Francis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to C H Turner, 2 pages 8vo, with contemporary endorsement to conjunct leaf, Belgrave Place, 31 July 1841.
CHANTREY, Sir Francis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the publisher John Murray, 1 page 8vo (glue-stains on the reverse), Belgrave Place, 1 August 1826.
CHAPLIN, Charles Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
Enigmatic ALS to an unnamed correspondent 1 page large 4to (small split in central fold), Golden-Park Apartments, Los Angeles, 2 May 1915.
CHAPLIN, Charles Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and the words 'Best wishes', hastily written on an album leaf (trimmed and laid down), no date
CHAPMAN, Frederic (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Alderman Herbert J Waterlow, 1 page 8vo, 11 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 28 April 1885.
CHARLES I (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to his nephew Prince Rupert ('Nepueu'), 1 page 4to , contemporary endorsement showing through, Newport, 24 July 1645.
CHARLES I (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('Carolus R') at the foot, 1 page folio on vellum (slightly discolored, neatly inlaid) with the King's red wax signet, Newcastle, 4 January 1646/7.
[CHARLES I] (This is a link to the full description)
Contemporary manuscript list of the procession to Parliament, 4 columns on 2 pages double folio, (tattered, minimal loss of text, old repairs), April 1640.
CHARLES I (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Sir William Pennyman (1607-1643), 1 page folio with docketed second leaf, Oxford 19 January 1642/3.
[CHARLES I] (This is a link to the full description)
Document with a fine example of the Great Seal, 225 x 360 mm (9 x 14½ inches) on vellum, dated at Westminster, 1 April, 4 Charles I [1628].
CHARLES I (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, ('Charles R' at the head), 1 page large folio, 272 x 430 mm. (10½ x 17 inches) with papered seal, Given at Westminster, 17 May 10 Charles I [1634].
CHARLES I (This is a link to the full description)
LS to William Howard, 1 page folio with address-leaf (a little foxed and worn), Given at Oatlands, 31 July 1638.
CHARLES I (This is a link to the full description)
Important LS (text in the hand of George Digby) with autograph postscript, to Sir Edward Nicholas, 3 pages folio, Hereford, 14 September 1645.
CHARLES II (This is a link to the full description)
LS to [Lord Belasyse], 1 page 4to, address-leaf, (some small holes, repaired, part of a word affected, slightly faded), Fuentar[r]abia, 14 November 1659.
CHARLES II (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Robert Heath, High Sheriff of Sussex, 1 page folio with address-leaf, given at Whitehall, 12 November 1672, countersigned by Henry Coventry.
CHARLES II (This is a link to the full description)
LS addressed at the foot 'To the Clerke of Our Signett attending', 3 pages folio, countersigned by the Earl of Arlington, Whitehall, 28 October 1670.
PRIVY COUNCIL DOCUMENT OF CHARLES II (This is a link to the full description)
Important warrant addressed to Viscount Camden, then Lord Lieutenant of Rutland, 1 page folio with integral address-leaf, Whitehall, 30 September 1678.
CHARLES II (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Note Signed ('Charles R'), ordering two hundred and seventy pistols, twelve words on 1 page folio, Jersey, 13 February [1650].
CHARLES II (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S, addressed to the Earl of Arran, deputy governor of Ireland, 5 pages folio with address-leaf, Whitehall, 27 February 1683/4.
CHARLES II (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS in French, to Cardinal Azzolin[o], 1 page 4to with address-leaf bearing a small red wax armorial seal, Anvers, 31 July 1658.
CHARLES II (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. 'Charles R', during his exile, 1 page on vellum, ca 75 x 190 mm. (3 x 7½ inches), with a fine papered seal bearing the royal arms.
CHARLES II (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed, addressed at the foot to 'Our Atturney or Sollicitor General', 1 page folio, Whitehall, 30 September 1684/5.
CHARLES II (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, addressed to Heneage, Lord Finch, Keeper of the Great Seal, 1 page folio, with integral second leaf and papered seal, Whitehall, 13 December 1675.
CHARLES II (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed, addressed at the foot to Sir Stephen Fox, paymaster-general of the land forces, 1 page folio with endorsed leaf, Whitehall, 6 April 1670/1.
CHARLES II (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S., 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum (lacking the papered seal), Given at Whitehall, 16 July 1664.
CHARLES II (This is a link to the full description)
LS to James, Duke of Ormond, Lieutenant General & General Governor of Ireland, 1 page folio with address-leaf, Whitehall, 29 November 1684.
CHARLES V (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Carol' with paraph) to Ferdinando de Gonzaga, governor of Milan, 1 page folio with papered seal and address on the reverse, Brussels, 12 November 1548.
CHARLOTTE, Queen (This is a link to the full description)
Charming ALS to the Countess of Harcourt, 1 page 16mo on decorative paper, with address leaf (traces of mounting on the latter), 6 November 1813.
CHARPENTIER, Gustave (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Madame Herbinet, 1 page 8vo on a folded letter-card, Rochechouart [near Limoges], postmark 30 October 1907.
CHATEAUBRIAND, Francois R de (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Marquis Hirbonville, 1 page 8vo, integral address leaf and red wax seal, no place, 'Samedi Soir' no date (watermark 1816).
CHATEAUBRIAND, Francois R. de (This is a link to the full description)
AL (unsigned) to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, (irregularly trimmed at edge, slit in upper portion, affecting one word of text), no place, no date
CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley George Benet (This is a link to the full description)
Picture postcard signed on the reverse by Cherry-Garrard (in pencil) and by Edward Wilson's widow, Oriana and seaman T S Williamson (all in pencil).
CHERUBINI, Luigi (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Pierre] Baillot (1771-1842, French violinist and composer), 1 page 16mo (irregular at left hand edge without loss of text, no place, no date
CHERUBINI, Luigi (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'Monsieur Gide Père' in Paris, 1 page 8vo with integral address-leaf, Paris, 8 March 1834.
CHERUBINI, Luigi (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 4to (a little damp-stained but legible), Conservatoire de Musique, Paris, 13 January 1832.
CHERUBINI, Luigi (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (initials) in French to his wife ('Ma chere Cecile'), 1 page 16mo, addressed 'Madame Cherubini') on the second leaf, ca 1840.
CHESNEY, Sir George Tomkyns (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS and 2 TLsS to W[alter Raleigh] Browne, in all 8 pages 8vo and 2 pages 4to, Royal Indian Engineering College, 1876 to 1880.
CHESTERFIELD, P.D. Stanhope, 4th Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Chesterfield') in French to an unnamed correspondent ('Monsieur'), 1 page 4to, Whitehall, 28 November 1747.
CHOATE, Joseph Hodges (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS to Lord Alverstone, sending letters of introduction & inviting Alverstone to address the American Bar Association, American Embassy & London, 1904.
CHORLEY, Henry Fothergill (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 4 pages 8vo, 13 Eaton Place West, 7 August 1861.
CHRISTIAN IX (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page large folio with papered seal and vignette, Copenhagen, 28 January 1896.
CHRISTIE, Agatha (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to Wendy Anne Parrott, 1 page 8vo with envelope, Greenway House, 17 April 1972.
CHRISTIE, Agatha (This is a link to the full description)
Bookplate, with stylised illustration of a bird and foliage, inscribed and signed in a white disc 'Best Wishes from Agatha Christie'.
CHURCH, Arthur Harry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, sending money for the F. Wedmore Testimonial & dinner, 1 p. 8vo, Penzance, 12 Nov 1906.
CHURCHILL, Clementine, Baroness (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Goodden with autograph superscript, 1 page 4to (somewhat creased, a couple of what may be ?cigarette burns), 10 Downing Street, 27 October 1940.
CHURCHILL, Clementine, Baroness (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, cut from the foot of a letter, ca 35 x 110 mm (1½ x 4½ inches).
CHURCHILL, Lord Randolph (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper (a little creased and worn), Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, 21 October 1883.
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
Menu for a dinner given by the Chingford Conservative and Unionist Association on 28 January 1925, signed on the back by Churchill and Clementine.
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
Very early ALS to his nanny, Mrs Elizabeth Everest ('Darling old Woom'), 4 pages 8vo (dust-stained and a little worn), Harrow, no date [?September 1891].
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
Brief TLS to B[asil] E.P. Gregg at Cheltondale, Cheltenham, 1 page 4to, 105 Mount Street, 13 March 1901. In fine condition.
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in pale ink with the words 'yours faithfully', evidently cut from a letter. Irregularly trimmed and laid down (extensive traces of mounting).
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
Fine late photograph showing Churchill seated in casual yachting attire, with cigar, boldly signed in ink, ca 1961. The signature quite legible.
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
TLS (slightly smudged) to Mrs J Porch, 1 page 8vo with envelope (filing hole, traces of mount on the reverse), 10 Downing Street, 12 July 1952.
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph showing Churchill in middle age seated at a desk, half-length, signed in ink in the lower right-hand corner (slightly faded).
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
Printed programme for the El Alamein anniversary celebrations at the Albert Hall on 23 October 194v, signed by both Churchill and Montgomery.
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ball-point pen on lined paper (laid down on the remains of an album-leaf), [21 February 1950].
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
Wartime Signed Photograph by Walter Stoneman, 7½ x 5 inches, dated 1945.
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
Significant archive of fourteen letters to his friend and collaborator, (Sir) William Deakin, 16 pages, mostly 4to, 1938-1963.
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed to [Sir Norman] Lamont (1869-1949, PPS to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman & to Churchill), 2½ pages 8vo, 105 Mount Street, 4 November 1904.
CLARE, John (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription from the foot of a letter (tipped to a backing-sheet), no date
CLARE, John (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink on paper (glue stains on the reverse and to one side, not affecting the signature).
CLARK, Kenneth Mackenzie, Baron (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Peter Wiener, 1 page 8vo, Saltwood Castle, Kent, 24 May 1966.
CLARK, Mark Wayne (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to H J Anthony French, 1 page 4to with envelope, on writing paper of the Army Field Forces, Office of the Chief, Fort Monroe, Virginia, 3 October 1950.
CLARKE, Sir Charles Mansfield (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, promising his & others' votes, & explaining that his wife's imminent confinement keeps him in London, 2 pages 4to, Savile Row, 17 Jun 1823.
CLAUSEN, Sir George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, 61 Carlton Hill, 19 June 1910.
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Mark') to F H Skrine, 1½ facing pages 8vo with original envelope, Tuxedo Park, New York 27 May 1907.
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ("Saml. L. Clemens / Mark Twain"), to Arthur E Bancroft, 2 facing pages 8vo, Cunard Steam Ship Batavia, 'At Sea/30 October' (watermark 1871).
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Mark Twain') on an album leaf, laid down on a larger leaf with a note of identification, date of 1905 and a printed biography.
CLODD, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Geoffrey] Besant, 1 page 8vo, (filing-hole), Aldeburgh, 23 May 1923.
COBBE, Frances Power (This is a link to the full description)
Four ALsS and a signed printed order form to Reginald Blunt, the letters, in all, 8 pages 8vo, South Kensington & Chelsea, undated except the form (1900).
COBBE, Frances Power (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS [to Edward Walford (1823-1897)], the editor of Once a Week, 7 pages 8vo, 26 Hereford Square, no date
COBBETT, William (This is a link to the full description)
Amusing ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('My dear Sir'), 1 page 8vo (oblong, trimmed), Guildford, 20 December 1832.
COBBETT, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Halliwell in Oldham, ½-page 8vo (neatly inlaid), Bolt Court, 24 June 1833.
COBDEN, Richard (This is a link to the full description)
Two good ALsS to John Crawford, 7 pages 8vo, tipped to an album leaf, Paris 21 and 25 October 1859.
COBHAM, Sir Alan John (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to the Mayor of Colchester, 1 page 4to (filing holes), 150 New Bond Street, 10 September 1928.
COCKBURN, Sir Alexander J.E. (This is a link to the full description)
4 ALsS (1 with initials) to Lady Scott, alternately scolding, cajoling, & flattering her, 12 pages 8vo, undated (1 w.m. of 1868).
COCKBURN, Sir George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [John] Backhouse, Canning's secretary, 1 page 8vo, no place, 'Thursday Night 3 Jany [1833 in another hand]'.
COCKERELL, Sir Sydney Carlyle (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mary [Hughes, née Benson, his neighbour in Grantchester], 1 page 8vo, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 8 February 1935.
CODRINGTON, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr ?Fryer, 1 page 8vo (oblong, laid down), Harewood Lodge, 'Friday 27th Oct' no year
COLENSO, John William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Jno. Natal') to an unnamed correspondent, making an appointment to see a picture, 1 page 8vo, Kensington, 18 January 1865.
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, cut from the foot of a letter and including the date (18 May 1832) and place ([The] Grove, Highgate) in Coleridge's hand.
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (This is a link to the full description)
Part of a Document Signed, as Public Secretary to His Majesty's Civil Commission, ca 70 x 190 mm (3 x 7½ inches), La Valette [Valletta, Malta], Feb 1805.
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and conclusion of an ALS, possibly to George Canning, (slight glue-stains to the reverse with some show-through), 19 July 1817.
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, Samuel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [John E.] Borland, 1 page 8vo with integral blank, 30 Dagnall Park, South Norwood,'Tuesday', no date
COLLIER, John (This is a link to the full description)
3 ALsS to Ernest Marshall, the London Editor of the New York Times, giving permission for the reproduction of his 'Brotherhood of Man' etc, 3½ pages 8vo.
COLLINGWOOD, Cuthbert, Lord (This is a link to the full description)
ALS [to Sir Hew Dalrymple (1750-1830)], 4 pages 4to, [on board] Ocean, 12 June 1807. Contemporary docket on the fourth page next to the signature.
COLLINGWOOD, Cuthbert, Lord (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to [Henry] Reay, 3 pages 4to, closely-written, Queen, 4 April 1806.
COLLINS, Rt Hon Godfrey P. (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to John Ewen, declining to open the fete in aid of Lord Airlie's Training Scheme for Unemployed Boys, 1 p. 4to, Scottish Office, Whitehall, 1935.
COLLINS, William Wilkie (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J.H. Addison, 1 page 8vo, 90 Gloucester Place, 28 March 1879.
COLLINS, William Wilkie (This is a link to the full description)
Good early ALS to David Roberts RA, 2 pages 8vo, 1 Devenport Street, Hyde Park Gardens, 16 September 1848.
COLLINS, William Wilkie (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Joseph Pritchard, 1 page 8vo, 90 Gloucester Place, 17 January 1883.
COLLINS, William Wilkie (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the publishers Williams and Norgate, 2 pages 8vo (small nibble from one corner), 90 Gloucester Place, 19 December 1877.
COLUM, Padraic (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on a postcard to Bethel Solomons in Dublin (rather browned and with traces of mount on the address side), Naas, 20 December 1911.
COMBE, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Duncan Maclaren, concerning a boy of 13 whom a charitable lady wishes to educate, but who cannot read, 2 pages 8vo, Edinburgh, 8 Jan 1855.
COMMONPLACE BOOK. (This is a link to the full description)
In total ca 105 pages 12mo (155 x 95 mm. / ca 6 x 4 inches), contemporary calf very worn.
CONRAD, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
Signed offprint of a preface ('Joseph Conrad/26' on the cover), 4 pages 8vo, no date With an ALS by Jessie Conrad, 1½ pages 8vo, Bishopsbourne, 17 April 1924.
CONRAD, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Robert Singleton Garnett, 3 pages 8vo with envelope (addressed to 'Richard' Garnett), Trosley, West Malling, 9 August 1909.
COOK, Eliza (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph manuscript Signed, of the poem 'Castle Lea', 6 pages 4to, (sewn together in upper left corner), no place, no date [watermark 1851].
COOK, John Parsons (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to T. Marshall, clerk of the course at Northampton, 1 page 8vo with integral blank, Lutterworth, 1 January 1855.
COOLIDGE, Calvin (This is a link to the full description)
White House Card, signed in ink, 71 x 110 mm (ca 3 x 4 inches), very slightly soiled.
COOPER, Sir Astley Paston (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph testimonial signed, 1 page 8vo (rather soiled, with notes and calculations on the reverse), Conduit Street, 29 July 1839.
COOPER, James Fenimore (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph cheque signed, made out to Harry Clark for $21.65, Cooperstown 5 June 1841.
COOPER, Susan (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on a picture-postcard to J P Brown, posted from Maine and postmarked 21 November 1976.
CORELLI, Marie (This is a link to the full description)
Extensive series of ALsS to Lady Anna Chandos Pole, comprising ca eighty-six letters, mostly with envelopes, 1894-1913 where dated.
CORELLI, Marie (This is a link to the full description)
Splendid ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 4to on separate leaves headed Private, Avon Croft, Stratford-on-Avon, 9 November 1900.
CORELLI, Marie (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription ('Yours faithfully') cut from the foot of a letter.
CORELLI, Marie (This is a link to the full description)
Large bold signature written diagonally on a sheet of Mason Croft writing-paper, no date (slightly trimmed at the foot not affecting the text).
CORELLI, Marie (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS [to Carl Hentschel], 4 pages 4to on separate leaves, Stratford-on-Avon, 11 May 1903.
CORELLI, Marie (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink on card.
COROT, Camille (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to M Richomme in Paris ('Mon cher ami'), ½-page 8vo, no date (postmarked 4 January 1854).
COROT, Camille (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, in French, to an unnamed correspondent, ½-page 8vo, Paris, 22 September 1872.
CORSO, Gregory (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph poetical notebook with manuscript sketches and drafts on 20 pages (reminader blank, signed and dated 1963 on the front endpaper.
CORTOT, Alfred (This is a link to the full description)
Bold signature in ink, dated 1932, with a reproduction photograph.
CORTOT, Alfred (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph musical quotation signed, dated Dublin 1936, on paper with wide margins.
CORTOT, Alfred (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on an album leaf, ca 70 x 110 mm (2½ x 4½ inches), dated in pencil in another hand, 29 September 1923.
COSWAY, Maria Cecilia Louisa (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALs (third person) 'au Citoyen Perregaux, requesting that her £20 be forwarded, 1 p. 8vo & 1 p. 4to with address-leaf, both undated.
COVENTRY, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir Robert Clayton, then Sheriff of London, 1½ pages folio with integral address-leaf (part missing, inlaid), Minster Lovell, 31 July 1675.
COWARD, Sir Noël (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Gertrude] Jennings, 1 page 8vo, 111 Ebury Street, 1 September no year
COWARD, Sir Noël (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Gertrude [Jennings], 2 pages 8vo, 111 Ebury Street, 11 November no year
COWARD, Sir Noël (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Noel (Coward)') to author Ewan [Butler], 2 pages 4to, on writing paper of the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, 4 March [1964].
COWARD, Sir Noël (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Yours / Noël'), ca 85 x 111 mm (3½ x 4½ inches) (traces of former mounting on the back).
COWARD, Sir Noël (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Noel') to 'Dear Sybil', 1 page 4to (split at central fold professionally repaired), Ebury Street, 29 March ['1925' in another hand].
COWARD, Sir Noël (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to William Turnbull, 1 page 4to on blue airmail paper, Blue Harbour, Port Maria, Jamaica, 10 January 1961.
COWARD, Sir Noël (This is a link to the full description)
Typically theatrical signature in blue ink on a stiff grey card, ca 90 x 140 mm (3½ x u½ inches).
COWARD, Sir Noël (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph (head), signed in ink vertically on the left hand side, lightly mounted on a piece of Coward's writing-paper, in turn mounted on an album leaf.
COWPER, William (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S., 1 page 4to (some weakness, old repairs) with conjoint leaf, 13 July 1762.
COX, David (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to R. Hills, 1 page 8vo with address-leaf, no place, no date, postmark 1836.
CRABBE, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to John Robinson at Allington, 1 page 4to with address-leaf, postmark 15 October 1800.
CRAIG, Edward Gordon (This is a link to the full description)
Corrected typescript of an article Play-making: Goethe's "Faust", 4½ pages 4to, the last page signed in ink and dated 1932.
CRAIGIE, Pearl Mary Teresa (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS to Lady Reay, 2 pages 8vo, Lancaster Gate, 11 March 1899 and Isle of Wight, 9 December 1900.
CRANE, Walter (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss [Nona] Stewart, 1 page 8vo on his decorative Holland Street writing paper, 27 October 1898.
CRESWICK, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Thomas Cubitt, 2 pages 8vo, Linden Grove [Bayswater], 18 May 1852.
CRIMEAN WAR (This is a link to the full description)
Extensive and informative archive of letters written by Christopher Edward Blackett (1826-1904), Captain in the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders in Crimea.
CROMPTON, Richmal (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Arthur Martin, 2 pages 8vo with envelope (a few drops of ?coffee at the top), Chislehurst, 23 November 1965.
CROMPTON, Richmal (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, underlined, on a small white card, ca 50 x 90 mm (2 x 3½ inches).
CROMPTON, Richmal (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to Elizabeth Dandridge, a young admirer, 2 pages 8vo with envelope, Beechworth, Orpington Road, Chislehurst, Kent, 29 September 1959.
CROMPTON, Richmal (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to Elizabeth Dandridge, apparently a young child, 2 pages 8vo with envelope, Beechworth, Orpington Road, Chislehurst, 23 May 1959.
CROMPTON, Richmal (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Richmal C. Lamburn') to Mrs Marshall, 2 pages 8vo, 11 Stafford Road, Sidcup, 8 November 1960.
CROMWELL, Oliver (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('O Cromwell' at the foot), 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum (a little worn and scuffed), 1 July 1650. With a good impression of Cromwell's seal.
CROMWELL, Oliver (This is a link to the full description)
Fine LS addressed at the foot in general to his officers, 1 page 4to with red wax seal at the head and integral blank, [Edinburgh] 14 March 1650/1.
CROMWELL, Oliver (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S, with a bold signature ('O Cromwell'), 1 page folio (oblong, very small nick at the foot) on vellum with red wax papered seal, 30 June 1651.
CROMWELL, Oliver (This is a link to the full description)
Fine LS (a very large 'Oliver P' at the head) addressed to the Commissioners of Admiralty and Marine, 1 page folio, Whitehall, 27 January 1654/5.
CROMWELL, Oliver (This is a link to the full description)
Early Doc S ('Oliver Cromwell') at the foot of the second side, 2 pages oblong folio, 230 x 290 mm (ca 9 x 11 inches) on vellum, 14 November 1626.
CROOKES, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Coronio, 1 page 8vo, (laid down on an album leaf), Kensington Park Gardens, 26 March 1859.
CROOKES, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
Signed photograph showing the chemist seated at a table, in court dress of breeches, stockings and sword, signed on the mount and dated 22 June 1911.
CROSSLEY, Ada (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and the words 'Kind Greetings', dated 7 April 1905, on a piece of her writing-paper (trimmed at the sides, slight traces of mounting).
CROTCH, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS and an AL (third person), 2 pages 8vo (torn corner) and 1 page 4to, no place and Kensington Gravel Pits, no date and 23 February 1830.
CRUIKSHANK, George (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Messrs Shaen, Roscoe & Massey, 1 page 8vo (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), 263 Hampstead Road 14 January 1875.
CRUIKSHANK, George (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph on card with his signature in the white space beneath the head-and-shoulders portrait.
CRUIKSHANK, George (This is a link to the full description)
Pencil sketch of two gentlemen (or one gent and a non-gent, or a tramp and a fop), irregularly trimmed and inlaid, clearly signed in ink.
CRUIKSHANK, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [illegible], 1 page 8vo (neatly inlaid), 263 Hampstead Road (blind stamp), 8 October 1868.
CRUIKSHANK, George (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page small 8vo (inlaid), 26 June 1841.
CUI, César Antonovich (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS in French to his publisher, Heugel, 3 pages small 4to, 25 November no year (ca 1909). With a translation.
CUI, César Antonovich (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to his publisher, Heugel, 3½ pages 8vo, no place, 22 September [1909].
CUNNINGHAM, Allan (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, blank leaf neatly inlaid, 27 Belgrave Place, Wednesday, no date
CUNNINGHAM, Allan (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Hughes, 1 page 8vo, Belgrave Place, 3 January 1840.
CURZON, George Nathaniel, Marquess (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Canon Sheppard], 6 pages 8vo, 1 Carlton House Terrace, with embossed Foreign Office seal, 12 April 1920.
CURZON, George, Marquess (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sanderson (probably Thomas Henry, Baron), 1 page 8vo, 1 Carlton House Terrace, 17 June 1906.
CUST, Henry John Cockayne (This is a link to the full description)
Page proofs of Occasional Poem, Jerusalem, 1918, uncut, inscribed by Ronald Storrs to 'Anne', 24 January 1919.
CUVIER, Baron Georges (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Davies Gilbert, President of the Royal Society, 1 page 4to (small printed identification slip), 'au jardin du roi à Paris', 28 June 1830.
D (return to top)D'ALBERT, Eugene Francis Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of three bars from his opera Tiefland (composed 1903), 82 x 106 mm. (ca 3¼ x 4½ inches), dated at Deresden, 1906
DALHOUSIE, George Ramsay, 9th Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent (ending 'We beg to offer our Comp[liment]s to Mrs C.'], 1 page 8vo, Coulstoun [Colstoun, East Lothian], 18 January 1815.
DALTON, John (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink dated 25 December 1838, with wide margins.
DALTON, John (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('John Dalton, D.C.S. F.R.S. etc') on an attractive embossed card of the British Association, Manchester, measuring 55 x 75 mm (2½ x 3 inches).
DANBY, Francis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sam [?Redgrave], 1 page 8vo (laid down on an album leaf), Exmouth, 4 January 1858.
DANCE, George, the younger (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to his daughter Isabella, 2 pages 4to with part of address-leaf, Upper Gower Street, 9 September 1817.
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Large Signature, in bold strokes, on a piece of writing paper, ca 45 x 125 mm (2 x 5 inches).
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription ('With my sincere thanks / yours truly obliged / Charles Darwin') cut from the foot of a letter, the text secretarial, undated.
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
LS (text in the hand of Emma Darwin) with autograph postscript [to William Walmisley] Baxter (d.1900), 4 pages 8vo, Down, Beckenham, 4 September 1873.
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Ch Darwin') to Mr Dallas, 1 page 8vo (laid down on thick card), Down, Beckenham, Kent, 25 January 1881.
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Fine unpublished ALS to [Walter Raleigh] Browne (1842-1884), 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper with integral blank, Down, Beckenham, Kent, 28 November 1881.
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent (a publisher, almost certainly Williams and Norgate), 1 page 8vo (laid down on an album leaf, Bassett, Southampton, 26 January no year
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph envelope addressed to J[onathan] Peel in Clitheroe, unsigned, postmark from Beckenham, 10 December [18]73.
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Important ALS [to Jonathan Peel (1806-85), a barrister who bred Lonk sheep on his estate], 4 pages 8vo, 6 Queen Anne Street [London], 6 March [1868].
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed to [William Ralston Shedden-]Ralston (1828-89, Librarian and Russian schollar), 1 page 8vo, Down, Beckenham, Kent, 20 December 1875.
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Charles Darwin') [to William Robertson (1838-1935)], 1 page 8vo with integral blank (a little dust-stained), Down, Beckenham, Kent, 4 January 1876.
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS [to Friedrich Max Müller], 2 pages 8vo (a few stains, small repair to bottom of second leaf), Down, Beckenham, Kent, 5 January 1875.
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS [to William Robinson, 1838-1935], 2 pages 8vo with integral blank (some stains and soiling), Down, Beckenham, Kent, 10 January [?1876].
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Letter Signed (but incomplete) to Lady Drysdale, 1 page 8vo (repairs to weak spots), Wells Terrace, Ilkley, Otley, Yorkshire, 'Saturday', no date
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Fine full signature ('Charles Robert Darwin / September 21 1852') on paper, 40 x 123 mm (ca 1½ x 5 inches).
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Important Autograph Letter Signed to the Revd F Howlett, 3 pages 8vo with envelope front adhering to the back, Down, Beckenham, Kent, 21 September [1878].
DARWIN, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS ('C. Darwin') to an unnamed correspondent [probably John Murray], 1 page 8vo (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), Down, Bromley, Kent, 14 April no year [?1865].
DARWIN, Sir Francis (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to R[obert] Morton Middleton, 6 pages 8vo on black-edged paper, Down, Beckenham, 11 July and 2 October 1882.
DARWIN, Sir Francis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, Down, Beckenham, 30 September 1875.
DAUDET, Alphonse (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('mon cher Confrère'), 1 page 8vo, Paris, 6 October 1891.
DAUMIER, Honoré (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph draft letter, unsigned, to an unnamed correspondent ('M'), 1 page 4to, no place, no date
DAVIES, Sir Henry Walford (This is a link to the full description)
ALS with a small autograph quotation to [John E.] Borland, 4 pages 8vo, Segenbalm, 21 Fawley Road, 19 December 1906.
DAVY, Sir Humphry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J[ohn] G[eorge] Children (1777-1852, secretary of the Royal Society), 2 pages 8vo with integral address-leaf, no place, no date (watermark 1824).
DAVY, Sir Humphry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo (strengthened in the folds), 'Sunday Morg', no date
DAY LEWIS, Cecil (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 4to, 73A Bedford Gardens, 22 June 1953.
D'AZEGLIO, Massimo Taparelli, Marchese (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to 'Mon cher Emanuel', 1 page 16mo, no place, 26 June no year
DEBENHAM, Frank (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('Deb') to a colleague, Colin [Harrison], 2 pages 8vo, 19 Millington Road, Cambridge, 8 November 1951.
DEBUSSY, Claude (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on a letter-card to [Régine] Dansaert, 1 page 8vo (a little soiled), 17 September 1899.
DEBUSSY, Claude (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink with the inscription 'Londres - I.III./ 09', with wide margins and accompanied by a small reproduction photograph (head).
DEBUSSY, Claude (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Albert Carré [director of the Opéra-Comique, Paris], 1 page 8vo, Sunday 23 December 1906.
DEBUSSY, Claude (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Madame Debat-Ponsan at Auteuil (redirected to Nazelle, Indre et Loire), 1 page 8vo on a letter-card, 80 Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, 22 June 1914.
DEBUSSY, Claude (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his close friend René Peter, 1 page 8vo (small paper-clip stain), 'Samedi', no date but 1899 to 1904 since it mentions Madame Debussy.
DE FOREST, Lee (This is a link to the full description)
Correspondence with the Royal Society of Arts, Adelphi, London, consisting of a TLS from de Forest, one from Mrs de Forest and copies of letters to him.
DE GAULLE, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Wartime TLS to Mr C Winter, 1 page 4to, London, 15 July 1940 (received date and note of change-of-address in another hand).
DE GAULLE, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Wartime TLS to Mrs C W Biscoe, 1 page 4to with envelope, 3 Carlton Gardens, London, 18 February 1943.
DE HAVILAND, Sir Geoffrey (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Isabel Edge, 2 pages 8vo with envelope, The Cottage, Crux Easton, nr Newbury, 6 January 1940.
DEJAZET, Pauline Virginie (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Matthews at the Vaudeville Theatre, making elaborate arrangements about a box, 2 pages 8vo with envelope, 3 October 1869. With a translation.
DELACROIX, Eugène (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Eug. Delacroix') to an unnamed correspondent ('Monsieur'), 1 page 8vo, Paris, 'Samedi Soir', no date
DELAFIELD, E.M. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Elizabeth M Dashwood') to Mr Ratcliffe, 2 pages 8vo, Croyle, Cullompton, Devon, 29 June 1937.
DE LA MARE, Walter John (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to [H.M.] Tomlinson, inviting him to supper with J.C. Smith and MacNeil Dixon, 1 page 8vo (oblong), Thornsett Road, 14 April 1923.
DELAND, Margaret (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Leighton Braunell describing the time it took for her to write 'John Ward Preacher' and 'Philip and His Wife', 1 page 8vo, Boston, 29 September 1894.
DE LESSEPS, Charles Aimée Marie (This is a link to the full description)
Three ALsS to Lady Anna [Chandos-Pole], 12 pages 8vo (one rather soiled), Paris and Ismailia, 1899 and 1913 (2).
DE LESSEPS, Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte (This is a link to the full description)
LS to H. Darondeau, 1 page 4to on headed paper of the 'Canal Maritime de Suez', Paris, 17 September 1867.
DE LESSEPS, Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French [to the Baron de Beyens, the Belgian Minister], 1 page 8vo, Paris, 30 June 1876.
DE LESSEPS, Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to the Baron de Beyens, the Belgian Minister, 1½ pages 8vo, La Chénaie, par Vatan (Indre), 29 September 1876.
DE LESSEPS, Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to de Ferre, 2 pages 8vo (slight staining, small hole at the head, not affecting the text), 21 Avenue Montaigne, 3 November 1889.
DELIBES, Léo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ['Chère Madame'] on both sides of a correspondence-card (a little soiled), 22 Rue de Rivoli [Paris], 'Dimanche' no date With translation.
DELIBES, Léo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to an unnamed lady ('Chere Madame'), on two sides of a correspondence card (filing holes at the top, affecting two words on the second side).
DELIUS. Frederick (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of the opening theme of Appalachia, on an album page, 180 x 210 mm. (ca 7 x 8½ inches), dated 22 November 1907.
DE MORGAN, Augustus (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, 91 Adelaide Road, 7 September 1865.
[DENIS, Marie-Louise Mignot] (This is a link to the full description)
Letter written for her by Wagniere, 1 page 8vo, no date
DEPEW, Chauncey Mitchell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'Sir William' mentioning the cable he contributed to the Jubilee which was 'read by at least sixty millions of people', 1½ pages 8vo, London, 1897.
DE QUINCEY, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, ('Yours ever, my dear Sir, Thos De Quincey') cut from the foot of a letter, with three lines from the text on the reverse.
DE QUINCEY, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his younger brother, Henry, 1 page 8vo (oblong, lightly laid down), Grasmere, 20 December 1812.
DERBY, Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Stanley') to the Marquis of Westmeath, noting his wishes but not holding out much hope of success, 1½ pages 8vo, C[olonial] O[ffice], 28 Sept. 1841.
DEWAR, Thomas Robert, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Carl Hentschel, 2 pages large 4to (facing), Dewar House, Haymarket, 11 December 1914.
DIBDIN, Thomas John (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to his friend and fellow-actor John Bannister, with a poem addressed to Bannister in his wife's hand introducing one letter, in all 6 pages 8vo.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Cheque completed and signed in favour of Mr Holt for £8 6s, drawn on Coutts & Co, London, 19 November 1861.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph envelope to George Hogarth [his father-in-law], signed in the lower left hand corner, no date Slightly soiled, black wax seal (worn) to the flap.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph envelope signed in the lower left-hand corner, addressed to Miss Ely, the back of the envelope bearing an embossed blue 'D' enclosed in a circle.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Fine early signature and subscription ('Faithfully Yours / Charles Dickens') perhaps from the foot of a letter, lightly mounted.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Letter Signed to Dr Percy, 1 page 8vo, Gadd's Hill, 28 December 1868.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and inscription 'Faithfully yours' dated 'Thursday Fourth February 1864', on Gad's Hill Place writing paper.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on an envelope-front addressed to his son, Charles Dickens, 3 May 1870, penny-red stamp (traces of tape on the lower margin).
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Arthur Ryland (1807-1877), 1 page 8vo lightly tipped to a card by the second leaf, Tavistock House, 'Thursday Twenty Fifth May 1854'.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Early ALS to George Cattermole (1800-1868, watercolour painter), 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper 48 Doughty Street, 'Tuesday Morning', no date [?1837].
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Rev Theodore Buckley, 1 page 8vo with integral blank, Tavistock House, 'Christmas Day', 1852.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Thomas] Longman, 1 page 8vo, Devonshire Terrace, 14 February 1844.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('CD') to his valet and dresser, [Henry] Scott, 1 page 8vo (slightly dust-stained), Gad's Hill Place, 19 July 1869.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive ALS to Miss [Marion] Ely, 1 page 4to with address-leaf, Piazza Coffee House [Covent Garden], 2 December 1844.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the artist E[dward] M[atthew] Ward, 1 page 8vo, Tavistock House, 31 May 1854 ('5 o'Clock afternoon').
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, probably cut from an envelope, in his characteristic blue ink (original smudge), 65 x 32 mm (ca 2½ x 1¼ inches).
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph envelope-front, signed in the lower left hand corner, to Mr Sly in Lancaster, laid down on the remains of an album-leaf, postmarked 1 October 1869.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph cheque signed, made out to George Brunt [head gardener at Gad's Hill] for £10, (very slight wear), 11 April 1870.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Albany Fonblanque, 1 page 8vo (glue-stains showing through, trimmed on both sides, but clearly legible), Tavistock House, 28 January 1860.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to John Hardwick, 2 pages 8vo (separate leaves, trace of mounting on reverse only) with original signed envelope, Tavistock House, 8 February 1855.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive 1-page 8vo Autograph Letter Signed to Joseph Crook, Tavistock House, London, 10 December 1856.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to Mr Hammond, ½-page 8vo, Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, 'Tuesday Nineteenth April, 1859'.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Cheque on a green form of Coutts Bank, completed in favour of Messrs Davison and Newman for £36 10s 6d., and signed by Dickens, 4 February 1867.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the publisher Thomas Longman, 1 page 8vo, Devonshire Terrace, 14 February 1844.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph envelope signed, addressed to Mark Lemon (name only, no address), with red wax seal.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss (sic) Dora Hoskyns, 1 page 16mo with autograph envelope, Office of All the Year Round, Thursday 17 September 1868.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph fragment evidently from a letter, 50 x 113 mm. (ca 2 x 4½ inches).
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph cheque signed, made out on the bank form of Messrs Coutts & Company, for £5 to 'Self', 26 July 1864.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page on writing-paper of the Office of All the Year Round, 20 February 1885.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page on writing-paper of the Office of All the Year Round, 16 December 1884.
DICKENS, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to a contributor, 1½ pages 8vo on black-edged paper, Office of All the Year Round, 28 July 1870.
DISRAELI, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph envelope-front, signed in the lower left hand corner, addressed to William Lovell in Charles Street, St James's, no date
DISRAELI, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('D') to W Lowndes, 3½ pages 8vo (a little soiled on the last page), Grosvenor Gate, 7 November 1857.
DISRAELI, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('B. Disraeli') to H[enry] Glassford Bell (1803-1874, miscellaneous writer and Sheriff), 3 pages 8vo on black-edged paper, Glasgow, 21 November 1873.
DISRAELI, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
Brief Autograph Note Signed ('D') to Aug[ustus Stafford] O'Brien (1811-1857), 1 page 8vo (oblong) with addressee's name on the reverse, no date
DISRAELI, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
Envelope front addressed to Joseph Lovegrove in Gloucester and signed ('B. Disraeli') in the lower left-hand corner, laid down on an album leaf.
DISRAELI, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [William Leader] Maberly (1798-1885 secretary of the Post Office), 4 pages 8vo, House of Commons, 'Friday', no date but ca 1840.
D'ISRAELI, Isaac (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to Thomas Crofton Croker, 1 page 4to, closely-written, with address on the reverse (traces of old mount), Bloomsbury Square, 'Saturday', no date
DISRAELI, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to the Minister of Greece, 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper with blank leaf, 10 Downing Street, 16 February 1875.
DIXIE, Lady Florence Caroline (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Postcard Signed to Ernest Bell, (remains of mount), Glen Stuart, no date [postmark 1 August 1904].
DOBSON, Henry Austin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Sterry', ½-page 8vo (a little dust-soiled), 24 June 1881.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('C.L. Dodgson') to a child friend, Mabel Burton ('My dear Mab'), 3 pages 8vo, Ch[rist] Ch[urch], Oxford, 13 June 1880.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('C.L. Dodgson') to Mrs Baly, mother of his child-friend Gladys, 1 page 8vo, 7 Lushington Road, Eastbourne, 7 August 1893.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (This is a link to the full description)
Miniature ALS to a child friend, Gladys Baly, 1 page ?32mo, 80 x 50 mm (3 x 2 inches) with matching miniature envelope, Ch[rist] Ch[urch], 17 Dec 1892.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (This is a link to the full description)
Printed circular letter addressed by Dodgson in purple ink to [Charlot M?] Yonge, and signed at the end, 2 page 8vo, Ch[rist] Ch[urch] Oxford, 19 June 1889.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('C L Dodgson') to Mrs Poole, wife of the historian Reginald Lane Poole, 1 page 8vo (oblong) with envelope, Ch[rist] Ch[urch], 13 March 1897.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (This is a link to the full description)
Signature (Sincerely yours, / CLD') evidently from the foot of a letter (slight traces of former mounting), no date
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('C.L. Dodgson') to 'My dear Ogle, 3 pages small 8vo (5½ x 3½ inches, slight traces of old mount on third page), Ch[rist] Ch[urch], 1 May 1888.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to W J Johnson, 1 page 8vo (oblong), Ch[rist] Ch[urch], Oxford, 26 October 1890.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Dear Sir'), 1 page 8vo (oblong, glue-stains to the reverse, worn in the fold), Ch[rist] Ch[urch], 25 October 1897.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Lewis Carroll') to a child friend, Mabel Burton ('My dear Child'), 1 page 8vo, Ch[rist] Ch[urch], Oxford, 23 December 1886.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('C.L. Dodgson') to a child friend, Mabel Burton, 3 pages 8vo, Ch[rist] Ch[urch], Oxford, 21 October 1879.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive ALS ('C.L. Dodgson') to a child friend, Mabel Burton ('My dear Mab'), 1 page 8vo, Ch[rist] Ch[urch], Oxford, 20 June 1880.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('C.L. Dodgson') to Florence Burton, sister of his child friend, Mabel, 4½ pages 8vo with autograph envelope, Ch[rist] Ch[urch], Oxford, 22 October 1883.
DODINGTON, George Bubb, Baron Melcombe (This is a link to the full description)
The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington, London 1784, full calf, hinges a little weak, extra-illustrated with ca 40 contemporary documents.
DONALDSON, John (This is a link to the full description)
Lengthy ALS to H[enry] E[dward] Dibdin (1813-1866, musician), 6 pages 8vo (traces of glue on first page, small hole in final, blank leaf), Marchfield, no date
DONAT, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a small white card, ca 40 x 75 mm (1½ x 3 inches).
DONLEAVY, James Patrick (This is a link to the full description)
4 TLsS and 1 Typewritten Postcard ('Mike' or 'Mike D') to John Rosselli, 4 pages 8vo and 4to, London, Isle of Man, and Connemara, 1957-58.
DORFMANN, Ania (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph (head), 180 x 135 mm (ca 7 x 5 inches), signed and inscribed to Mrs Solomons, and dated 2 February 1931.
D'ORSAY, Count Alfred (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Albert Smith (1816-1860, Author and lecturer), 2 pages 8vo, Gore House 'Saturday', no date
D'ORSAY, Count Alfred (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir John Macdonald, 2 pages 8vo, Gore House, 24 August 1846.
DOUCE, Francis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Rodd, 1 page 8vo, (tipped to a backing-sheet), no place, 'Saturday 12 O'Clock', no date
DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred Bruce (This is a link to the full description)
Three revealing ALsS to Mrs Edge, in all 11 pages 8vo and 1 page 4to, 16 Drayton Place and Wiltcher's Hotel, Brussels, June 14 and 20 and October 21 1924.
DOWNING, Sir George (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed, an exchequer receipt on a narrow vellum strip, 65 x 340 mm (ca 2½ x 13½ inches), dated 17 February 1665/6.
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to General Enesy in Budapest, 2 pages small 4to, 15 Buckingham Palace Mansions, 8 March 1926.
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Manuscript Signed of 'Three of Them', 13 pages 4to, with a letter mentioning Sherlock Holmes and another in the hand of Arthur Wood.
[DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan] (This is a link to the full description)
A small collection of pieces relating to Conan Doyle, including four autograph envelopes (unsigned), two photographs, and letters of his wife and daughter.
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on correspondence-card to General [Enesy in Budapest], Windlesham, Crowborough, 30 January no year (small chip from one corner).
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph (head and shoulders), signed in ink on the (slightly irregular) white border, and inscribed 'With best regards').
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to General Enesy in Budapest, 2 pages small 4to, Windlesham, Crowborough, 18 May [1926].
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to General Enesy in Budapest, 2 pages small 4to, Windlesham, Crowborough, 'May 20', no year
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to General Enesy in Budapest, 2 pages 4to with autograph envelope (postage stamp removed), 15 Buckingham Palace Mansions, 'Dec 4', date stamped 1929.
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS on a postcard to W Roughead c/o A Peters (traces of former mounting on the address side), 15 Buckingham Palace Mansions, postmarked 1929.
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (This is a link to the full description)
Conan Doyle's visiting card (with the address of Windlesham and the Athenaeum Club), with an autograph note signed with initials on the reverse.
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph envelope (unsigned) addressed to Carl Hentschel jnr. with the postmark of 16 September 1914 (a little soiled overall).
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (This is a link to the full description)
Fine full signature 'Yours sincerely / Arthur Conan Doyle', dated 17 October 1923, on a large piece of cartridge paper.
DOYLE, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to ?Thomas (small hole in the paper) Cubitt, 2 pages 8vo on black-edged paper, C[ambridge] T[errace], 'Friday P.M.', dated in another hand 12 December 1848.
DOYLE, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Alexander Mitchell, 4 pages 8vo, 17 Cambridge Terrace, 10 March 1857.
DOYLE, Richard (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to J[ohn] Leech, written on the inner flap of an envelope address to Leech on the front, neatly inlaid, no date
DRAGONETTI, Domenico (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, in English, to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 4to, Leicester Square, 25 January 1828.
DRINKWATER, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Wheeler, 1 page 8vo (browned in the folds), 260 Mary Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, 12 April 1914.
DRINKWATER, John (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph (head and shoulders), signed and dated London 1923 in a very small hand (traces of old mounting on the reverse only).
DRUCE, George Claridge (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2½ pages 8vo, Yardley Lodge, Oxford, 9 March no year
DU BARRY, Comtesse (Marie Jeanne Bécu) (This is a link to the full description)
Cheque Signed ('La Comtesse du barry') in the form of a letter to her banker, 1 page 8vo (oblong), 18 April 1781.
DUMAS, Alexandre (père) (This is a link to the full description)
ALS [to his friend and lawyer, Duverdy], 1 page 8vo with blank leaf, no place, no date
DUMAS, Alexandre (fils) (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to 'Ma chère Marthe', ½-page 8vo, no place, no date
DU MAURIER, Daphne (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Mrs Malpass, 1 page 8vo (slight traces of former moutning on the reverse), Kilmarth, Par, Cornwall, 18 April 1977.
DU MAURIER, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lucas Ionides in Notting Hill, the 'G' as a sketch of a face, 1 page 8vo with envelope, 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington, 8 February 1870.
DU MAURIER, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Mary] Carmichael, 1 page 8vo, New Grove House, Hampstead Heath, 11 October no year
DU MAURIER, Sir Gerald (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized signed photograph showing du Maurier at full length as The Hon Ernest Woolley [in Barrie's The Admirable Crichton], signed in ink.
DUNDAS, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Melville') to Rear Admiral Sir T[homas] Graves, 1 page 4to, Admiralty, 24 February 1805.
DUNDAS, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Melville') to Sir Thomas B. Thompson, 1 page 4to (tear near the top not affecting the text), Cleveland Row, 25 March 1807.
DUNKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS to Mr Spelman, 5¼ pages 4to, making inquiries about the Spelman family for his 'History and Antiquities of Dartford', Dartford, 18 August 1844.
DUNSANY, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to Dr [Bethel] Solomons, 3½ pages 8vo (some light soiling and traces of mounting), Dunsany Castle and Cadogan Square, 27 November 1932 and no date
DUSE, Eleanora (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Eleanora') to 'Cara, Cara Laura', 2 facing pages 8vo on elaborate writing paper of the Grand Hotel Brun in Bologna, no date With a full translation.
DUTILLEUX, Henri (This is a link to the full description)
ALS and ANS (initials) to Lina Lalandi of the English Bach Festival Trust, 1 page 4to (letter), Paris, 27 January 1988, with autograph envelope.
DVORAK, Antonin (This is a link to the full description)
Requiem Mass, opus 89, piano score, Novello's original octavo edition, 1891, signed on the titlepage 'Antonin Dvorak' in ink.
E (return to top)EASTLAKE, Sir Charles Lock (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [?David] Roberts, 1½ pages 8vo, 7 Fitzroy Square, 28 June 1853.
EASTMAN, George (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Sir Henry Trueman Wood, 1 page 4to, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, 19 May 1913 (received stamp of the Royal Society of Arts).
EDDINGTON, Sir Arthur Stanley (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to an unnamed correspondent enclosing a page from 'The Nature of the Physical World', 1 page 8vo, Observatory, Cambridge, 6 July 1935.
EDEN, Sir Anthony, 1st Earl of Avon (This is a link to the full description)
Good signature in ink on a small piece (wide margins), together with a letter from his secretary transmitting his refusal to grant an interview.
EDGEWORTH, Maria (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and valediction ('ever yours sincerely') from a letter dated 16 August 1831.
EDGEWORTH, Richard Lovell (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Richd Lovell Edgeworth') and last two lines from a letter, undated.
EDISON, Thomas Alva (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and date (in another hand '24 June 1930', the year before he died), laid down on an 8vo album leaf with a newspaper photograph and biography.
EDISON, Thomas Alva (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink on a small card (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), no date
[EDWARD VI] (This is a link to the full description)
Document with the rare Great Seal and initial letter portrait, 1551.
EDWARD VI (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Edward' at the head) to the dean and chapter of Exeter, 1 page folio with address on the reverse, Westminster, 10 February II Edward VI [1548].
EDWARD VII (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Albert Edward') to Lady de Clifford, 2 pages 8vo, Marlborough House, no date
EDWARD VII (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('A.E.') to 'Lady C.', 2 pages 8vo on black-edged paper, Turf Club, 'Wednesday' no date
EDWARD VII (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('A.E.') to an unnamed duchess, both sides of a black-edged correspondence-card, Sandringham, 3 December, no year
EDWARD VII (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page large folio with papered seal (some slight offsetting), given at St James's, 3 July 1908.
EDWARD VII (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Albert Edward') to the Hon. G. Cardwell, M.P., 4 pages 8vo on black-edged paper with envelope, Abergeldie Castle, Aberdeenshire, 24 September 1872.
EDWARD VII (This is a link to the full description)
Series of thirteen ALsS to Victor, Count Gleichen (1833-1901 admiral and sculptor), 16 pages 8vo and 1 card, Osborne and London, 1861-1891 where dated.
EDWARD VIII (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Lord Rootes (1894-1964, William, 1st Baron), 1 page 4to (filing holes), Ednam Lodge, Sunningdale, with blue embossed coronet, 18 October 1946.
EDWARD VIII (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph by Hugh Cecil, Signed ('Edward P / 1924'), in original black leather frame with gold Prince of Wales feathered crest (slightly worn).
EDWARD VIII (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Edward / Duke of Windsor') on an embossed, coronetted card, together with that of the Duchess ('Wallis / Duchess of Windsor').
EDWARD VIII (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('Edward') to Commander Sir Jameson Boyd Adams ('Dear Bill'), 1 page 4to with envelope, 85 rue de la Faisanderie, Paris XVI, 4 October 1951.
EDWARD VIII (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to the Chairman of Messrs Helbert, Wagg & Co, 1 page 8vo (received stamp), St James's Palace, April 1935.
EDWARD VIII (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Edward P' as Prince of Wales) to Lady Oxford (presumably Margot Asquith), 2 pages 8vo, St James's Palace, 'Friday', no date
EDWARD VIII (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Edward') in ink on a small page with royal arms at the head and red-ruled borders, no date
EDWIN, John, the younger (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to his mother-in-law Mrs Richards at the Theatre, Margate, 3 pages 4to with integral address-leaf and red wax seal, Wakefield, 25 September 1796.
EGERTON, Thomas, 1st Viscount Brackley (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Nathaniel Bacon (1546?-1622), ½-page folio with address leaf (old repairs in the fold), 'At yorkhouse', 15 June 1600.
EGG, Augustus Leopold (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Charles Manby, 1 page 16mo, The Elms, Kensington, no date, [endorsed by recipient 'Ans[wer]ed Sept 9. 1860'].
EGG, Augustus Leopold (This is a link to the full description)
Long ALS to [Henry Nelson] O'Neil (1817-1880, painter), 4 pages 8vo closely written, Algiers, 29 November 1862.
EINEM, Gottfried von (This is a link to the full description)
ALS incorporating an Autograph Music Quotation Signed to J Ferntree, 1 page 8vo (oblong) with envelope, Vienna, '28 (I believe) 1.65'.
EINSTEIN, Albert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in German ('Papa') to his son Hans Albert, 1 page 4to, Princeton, 4 August 1948.
EINSTEIN, Albert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in German ('Papa') to his son Hans Albert, 1½ pages 4to, Christ Church College, Oxford, 30 May 1933.
EINSTEIN, Albert (This is a link to the full description)
TLS, in German, to Jacob Barr, 1 page 4to, 112 Mercer Street, Princeton (blind-stamp at the head), 10 December 1938.
EINSTEIN, Albert (This is a link to the full description)
Lithograph portrait by Josef Charl, signed by Einstein in the lower left hand corner and by the artist in the lower right hand corner, 500 x 430 mm (20 x 17 inches).
[EISENHOWER, Dwight David] (This is a link to the full description)
Christmas card for 1960, (slightly soiled on outside), containing printed message of greetings from President and Mrs Eisenhower, unsigned.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Ed. Elgar') to [Alfred] Littleton of his publishers, Novello's, 4 pages 8vo, Westerton, Cults, Aberdeenshire, 23 October [1909].
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Edward Elgar') to Harold Brooke, 1 page 4to, Queen Anne's Mansion, 10 October 1910.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Large bold signature in blue ink on an album leaf, together with a letter from Albert Sammons sending it as a gift.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Carl] Hentschel, 1 page 4to, from his office as Master of the King's Musick, St James's, 27 October 1926.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Alfred Littleton, 1 page 4to, Hereford, 15 March 1911.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to his publisher Leslie [Boosey], 2 pages 8vo, Grand Hotel, Eastbourne, 9 November 1926.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Henry Clayton, 1 page 4to, Hereford, 11 January 1911 (a few small pin-holes), together with small quantity of related correspondence.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Ed. Elgar') to Alfred Littleton of the publishers Novello's, 3½ pages 8vo, Langham Hotel, London, 'Thursday am' [8 July 1909].
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Ed Elgar') to Alfred Littleton, 1 page 8vo, 22 Old Queen Street, no date [?1909].
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Ed Elgar') to his publishers, Novello & Co. ('Dear Sirs'), 1 page 8vo, Hereford, 11 October 1908.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Ed E') to Alfred Littleton, 2 pages 8vo, (small tear in the fold), Langham Hotel, London, ['8 March 1911' in pencil at the head in another hand].
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in red ink to Harold Brooke [of Novello & Co, Elgar's publishers], 1 page 4to, (slightly creased), 7 March 1911 [recipient's ink stamp].
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Ed Elgar') to Henry Clayton [of Novello & Co, Elgar's publishers], 1 page 4to, (slight folds and pin-holes), Hampstead, 30 October 1912.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr John E. Borland (organist and composer), 3 pages 8vo, 38 Via Gregoriana, Rome, 30 April 1908.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr [John E. Borland, organist and composer], 1 page 4to with integral blank, Plas Gwyn, Hereford, 31 May 1908.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr J[ohn] E. Borland (organist and composer), 1½ pages 4to (a little soiled on the reverse), Brinkwells, Fittleworth, Sussex, 24 November 1918.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'Dear Gertrude', 3 pages 8vo (inner pages a little browned from framing), Brooks's, St James's Street, 18 March 1922.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Lengthy ALS to [Alfred] Littleton of the publishers, Novello, 4 pages 4to, Plas Gwyn, Hereford, 30 August 1908.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of the opening four bars of The Dream of Gerontius (marked 'Mistico'), dated at Great Saughall, Near Chester, 18 August 1902.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Nicholas] Kilburn, 3 pages 8vo, Forli (crossed through), Malvern, 17 November 1898.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Henry Clayton, 1 page 4to, Than yr allt, 9 May 1917. Returning a letter from Cologne and hoping for better terms.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Harold Brooke, 1 page 4to on black-edged paper, Hampstead, 8 March 1921, with typwritten copy. Apologising for the delay in sending an enclosure.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Three ALsS to Novellos, 3 pages 4to, Worcester, 31 August, 10 and 19 September 1932, with related duplicate typescript correspondence from Novellos.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Harold Brooke [of Novello & Co, Elgar's publishers], 1 page 4to (with typewritten transcript), Hampstead, 6 October 1914.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph, head and shoulders, signed horizontally on a dark part of the image.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Ed. Elgar') to [Alfred] Littleton of his publishers Novello's, 3½ pages 8vo, Plas Gwyn, Hereford, 'Wednesday' [14 July 1909]
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his publishers, Novello and Co., 1 page 4to, Plas Gwyn, Hereford, 23 August 1908.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to T.D. Hawkins, 1 page 4to, (filing-holes at left margin, trace of mount), Worcester, 11 September 1933.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to his publisher, Leslie [Boosey], 2½ pages 8vo, Worcester, 9 January 1931.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
The Dream of Gerontius, vocal score, Novello's Octavo edition, paper covers a little foxed and worn, boldly signed on the title page.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Ed Elgar') to his publisher, Novello & Co. ('Dear Sirs'), 3 pages 8vo (recipient's endorsement stamps in two places), Lymington, 20 November 1908.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Ed Elgar') to Alfred Littleton, 3 pages 4to, Hereford, 7 October 1910.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Edward') to 'My dear Norman', 1 page 4to, Worcester (on his 'Master of the King's Musick' paper), 29 November 1931.
ELGAR, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Henry] Clayton, Company Secretary for Novello's and Elgar's Concert Agent, 2 pages 8vo, Hereford, 13 August 1909.
ELIOT, George. Mary Ann Lewes (This is a link to the full description)
Receipt Signed ('Marian Lewes' over a one penny revenue stamp), 1 page 8vo (oblong on blue paper), 17 June 1862.
ELIOT, George. Mary Ann Lewes (This is a link to the full description)
Receipt Signed (with the unusual late signature 'Mary Ann Cross' over a one penny revenue stamp), 1 page 8vo (oblong, a little worn), 15 December 1880.
ELIOT, George (This is a link to the full description)
Receipt Signed ('Marian Lewes'), 1 page 8vo (oblong)
ELIOT, Thomas Stearns (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph picture postcard signed ('Tom') to Miss [Meg] Nason, from the Mid-Ocean Club in Bermuda, postmarked 26 April 195?8.
ELIOT, Thomas Stearns (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('Tom') to 'My dear Meg' [Nason], 1 page 4to, 24 Russell Square, 5 October 1962.
ELIOT, Thomas Stearns (This is a link to the full description)
TLS with an autograph alteration, to [Donald Coggan], the Bishop of Bradford (later Archbishop of Canterbury), 1 page 4to, Faber & Faber, 7 April 1960.
PRIVY COUNCIL DOCUMENT OF ELIZABETH I (This is a link to the full description)
Warrant addressed to Lord Burghley as Lord Treasurer, 1 page folio, Greenwich, 29 June 1598, countersigned by Burghley at the foot.
PRIVY COUNCIL OF ELIZABETH I (This is a link to the full description)
Letter to the Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1 page folio with address-leaf, lightly tipped in a binding, ½-leather (worn), November 1584.
ELIZABETH I (This is a link to the full description)
Royal Warrant Signed ('Elizabeth R'), 1 page oblong folio on vellum, (slight stains, but in good condition), Westminster, 30 November 8 Elizabeth [1565].
ELIZABETH I (This is a link to the full description)
Fine early Document Signed, 1 page oblong folio on vellum (some soiling especially on the reverse, lacking the original seal), Given at Greenwich, 7 September 1562.
ELIZABETH I (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S (a bold 'Elizabeth R' at the head), 1 page folio with second leaf bearing a contemporary endorsement, given at Richmond, 10 March 1567.
ELIZABETH II (This is a link to the full description)
Christmas card signed by both the Queen and Prince Philip, folded ivory card with gilt crest on the front, ca 1951.
[ELIZABETH I] (This is a link to the full description)
Document under the Great Seal, 155 x 355 mm (6½ x 14 inches) on vellum, dated at Westminster, 2 March, 28 Elizabeth [1586].
ELIZABETH, Princess (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady de Grey, 1½ pages 8vo, St James's Palace, 20 May 1835.
ELLIOTSON, John (This is a link to the full description)
Four ALsS, at least two and possibly all to Charles Dickens, in all 4 pages 12mo, no place, no date
ELLIOT, Walter (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Sir Stephen Tallents, 1 page 4to, House of Commons, 6 April 1934.
ELLIS, Henry Havelock (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr Laing, 2 pages 4to with envelope, 14 Dover Mansions, Canterbury Road, Brixton, 22 November 1919.
ELLISTON, Robert William (This is a link to the full description)
Printed ticket for two to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, signed and with autograph additions of date and name of the production.
ENGLISH MUSICIANS (This is a link to the full description)
Collection of letters, testimonials, etc. to the organist and composer Dr John E. Borland.
EPSTEIN, Sir Jacob (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [John] Scott-Taggart, 2 pages 8vo (some browning), 18 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, 17 October [1951].
ESPOZ Y MINA, Francisco (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in Spanish to Lord Fitzroy Somerset (later Lord Raglan), 1 page 4to, 3 Upper Park Place, Blackheath, 6 November 1828.
ESQUIROL, Jean Etienne Dominique (This is a link to the full description)
Contemporary copy of an ALS in French to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages folio, Paris, 4 May 1827.
ETTY, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Rigby, 1 page 8vo, (laid down and a little dust stained), Buckingham Street, Strand, 28 March 1844.
EUGENE OF SAVOY (This is a link to the full description)
LS as Counsellor of State, President of the Aulic Council of War, Field-Marshal, etc., 2 pages folio with papered seal, 22 January 1711.
EVANS, Sir Arthur Evans (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to Cryil A Munro, on a small card, Oxford, 25 June 1920.
EVANS, Sir E.R.G.R., Lord Mountevans (This is a link to the full description)
Cheque Signed ('E.R.G.R. Evans') on a pre-printed form of the Westminster Bank, with two pence revenue stamp and the usual bank cancellations.
EVANS, Sir E.R.G.R., Lord Mountevans (This is a link to the full description)
Cheque Signed ('E.R.G.R. Evans') on a pre-printed form of the Westminster Bank, with two pence revenue stamp and the usual bank cancellations.
EVANS, Sir E.R.G.R., Lord Mountevans (This is a link to the full description)
Signed photograph, postcard sized, undated.
EVANS, Sir E.R.G.R., Lord Mountevans (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Antarctic explorer [Edward Adrian] Wilson (1872-1912), 1 page 4to on writing paper of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910, 'Saturday' no date
EVANS, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Edward] Whymper (1840-1911, artist and mountain climber), 1½ pages 8vo, Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, 23 October 1897.
EVELYN, John (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed, 1 page folio (corner of bottom right missing, probably the seal), 7 November 1653.
EVEREST EXPEDITION, 1953 (This is a link to the full description)
Signatures in an autograph album of Hillary and Hunt (inscribed 'leader') together on one page, and of Tenzing Norgay ('Tenzing') on a separate leaf.
EWING, Juliana Horatia Orr (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Newman, 1½ pages 8vo, no place, 25 October 188?1.
F (return to top)FAIRBANKS, Douglas (This is a link to the full description)
Fine photograph (half-length, with his wife, Mary Pickford), 245 x 195 mm (9½ x 8 inches), signed and inscribed by each 'To Eddie from Mary and Douglas'.
FAIRBAIRN, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent [name scratched out at foot], 1 page 8vo, the Polygon, 16 June 1866.
FAIRBAIRN, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Nunnelly, 1½ pages 8vo, Manchester, 26 November 1862.
FAIRCHILD, Lucius (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed Major, 1½ pages 8vo, New Bond Street, London, 29 April 1883.
FALLIERES, Clément Armand (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, as President, 1 page large folio with embossed seal, Paris, 20 December 1908.
FARADAY, Michael (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Chantrey [probably the widow of Sir Francis Chantrey], 1 page 8vo with integral blank, The Green, Hampton Court, 26 July 1860.
FARADAY, Michael (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Fox, 1 page 8vo, R[oyal] Institution, 5 December 1832.
FARADAY, Michael (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to M.C. Tupper, 1 page 8vo on embossed paper of Royal Institution of Great Britain, 3 July 1862.
FARADAY, Michael (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (correspondent's name not deciphered), 1 page 8vo (a little soiled), R[oyal] Institution, 12 April 1839.
FARADAY, Michael (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Millicent [Bence-Jones], 1 page 12mo, R[oyal] I[nstitution], 26 December 1856
FARADAY, Michael (This is a link to the full description)
Ticket of admission to lectures at the Royal Institution, on card 85 x 60 mm. (3½ x 2½ inches), completed and signed by Faraday in ink, May 1833.
FARADAY, Michael (This is a link to the full description)
Ticket of admission to Weekly Evening Meetings at the Royal Institution, on yellow card 90 x 60 mm. (3½ x 2½ inches), signed by Faraday in ink, 1839.
FARJEON, Eleanor (This is a link to the full description)
Collection comprising two ALsS and an autograph poem of Eleanor Farjeon, letters written to her, and some by or to her brothers.
FARNESE, Alessandro (This is a link to the full description)
Fine LS in Italian (with translation), with three lines in Farnese's hand, to Ottavio Farnese (1524-1586), 1 page folio, Rome, 30 November 1571.
FAURE, Gabriel (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Autograph Music Quotation Signed of four bars on two staves from the Barcarolle for piano, (Allegretto), 85 x 195 mm., ca 3¼ x 7½ inches), no date
FAURE, Gabriel (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Monsieur'), 2 pages 8vo on black-edged paper with blank leaf, Paris, 24 February ['1888' in pencil in another hand].
FAWCETT, John (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS to B. Bellamy and Mr Kennett, 2 pages 4to with integral address-leaves, (two tears not affecting the text), London 1826 and Royal Pavilion 1831.
FERRIER, Kathleen (This is a link to the full description)
Programme for a concert at Ashington Methodist Central Hall, 4 March 1945, signed on the inside by Kathleen Ferrier and the bass, Nowakowski.
FERRIER, Kathleen (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Leigh, 2 pages 8vo, 2 Frognal Mansions, Hampstead, 30 January 1946.
FERRIER, Kathleen (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph by Fayer of Vienna, 131 x 85 mm. (5¼ x 3¼ inches), signed 'With best wishes' at the foot, and with an autograph message on the reverse.
FERRIER, Kathleen (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Baker, 2 pages 8vo, on printed writing paper of 2 Frognal Mansions, London, marked 'In train', 22 December 1948.
FERRIER, Kathleen (This is a link to the full description)
Programme of a concert at Grange Park School, Lancashire, 26 October 1945, 1 page 8vo (single sided), signed vertically in the margin.
FERRIER, Kathleen (This is a link to the full description)
Programme for a concert at Grimsby Central Hall, 16 November 1950, signed in ink beneath of small portrait picture on the first page.
FERRIER, Kathleen (This is a link to the full description)
Fine collection of signed memorabilia and related material, the collection of a devoted enthusiast.
FERRIER, Kathleen (This is a link to the full description)
Programme of a concert given at the Victoria and Albert Museum 5 October 1952, boldly signed (in pencil) on the front cover, 10 x 7½ inches.
FIELD, Cyrus West (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Theodor Linde, 1 page 4to on black-edged writing paper (traces of former mounting on verso), Gramercy Park, New York, 23 May 1867.
FIELDS, Dame Gracie (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in pencil, laid down on a blue album leaf, in all ca 70 x 110 mm (2½ x 4½ inches).
FISHER, John Arbuthnot, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Signed Photograph ('F'), 1 page 4to, 11 August 1916.
FISHER, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('J. Sarum') to an unnamed correspondent ('Sir'), 4 pages 4to, (remains of former mount), Seymour Street, 25 July no year [watermark 1813].
FISHER, John Arbuthnot, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and salutation from the foot of a letter on black-edged paper, 31 January 1901.
FISHER, John Arbuthnot, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (initials) to a Subdean, 1 page 4to with embossed seal of the Admiralty, Whitehall, no place, 28 April 1909.
FITZBALL, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to I.L. Hunt, 1 page 4to with integral address-leaf, (two tears not affecting the text), Manchester Street, 7 January 1842.
FITZGERALD, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Important series of 14 ALsS (variously signed 'E Fitzgerald', 'Littlegrange', 'E Fitz-Littlegrange' and initials), in all 47 pages 8vo, 1876-1883, where dated
FITZHERBERT, Maria Anne (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person), to Mr Corbett, 1 page 4to, Pall Mall, 'Wednesday Morng', no date
FITZJAMES, Edouard, Duc de (This is a link to the full description)
AL in French to 'Mon cher Eduard' (probably Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, father of Queen Victoria), 4 pages 4to, Paris, 9 September [1815].
FLAGSTAD, Kirsten (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Neil] Tierney, 1 page 8vo (creased and worn in the folds), London 20 September 1952.
FLAGSTAD, Kirsten (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph, head and shoulders, 230 x 180 mm (9 x 7 inches), signed and inscribed to Neil Tierney in ink (signature touching to bottom of the image).
FLAUBERT, Gustave (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Letter Signed, in French, [to Dr Pennetier of Rouen], 1 page 8vo on blue writing paper, , no place, no date
FLEMING, Alexander (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink on paper ('Alexander Fleming') on paper, mounted on the remains of an album leaf, no date
FLEMING, Alexander (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Signed Photograph by Jarche, 160 x 210 mm (ca 6½ x 8 inches), showing Fleming seated at a table in his laboratory at St Mary's Hospital.
FLEMING, Alexander (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Professor Robert Charr in Philadelphia, 1 page 8vo, Wright-Fleming Institute of Microbliology, London, 18 November 1953.
FLEMING, Sir (John) Ambrose (This is a link to the full description)
Three ALsS to Menzies at the Royal Society of Arts, 3 pages 4to and 1 page 8vo, University College, September 1918 - January 1919.
FLEMING, Sir (John) Ambrose (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir Henry Wood at the Royal Society of Arts, 1 page 4to, East Heath Road, 12 February 1916.
[FLETCHER, Asaph] (This is a link to the full description)
The certificate of Fletcher's completion of his apprenticeship with Thomas Green, 1 page 4to, Leicester [Massachusetts], 6 September 1768.
FLINT, Sir William Russell (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and inscription in ink, dated 19 June 1944.
FLINT, Sir William Russell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Swan, 1 page 8vo, Bedford Gardens, 28 April 1924.
FLINT, Sir William Russell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lt Commander Davis, 1 page 4to, Peel Cottage, 80 Peel Street, Campden Hill, 4 January 1946.
FLINT, Sir William Russell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('W. Russell Flint') to his 'kind neighbours', thanking them for birthday wishes, 1 page oblong 8vo, Peel Cottage, Campden Hill, 4 April 1968.
FLINT, Sir William Russell (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to 'The Publisher', ½-page 8vo, Profeit's Hotel, Dinnet, Aberdeenshire, 7 May 1927.
FLOTOW, Friedrich von (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo (notes in ink in another hand written below the signature), no place, no date
FLOTOW, Friedrich von (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of five bars from his opera 'Indra', dated 12 May 1882, 57 x 94 mm. (ca 2¼ x 4 inches), on a black card mount.
FLOWER, Sir (Walter) Newman (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS and 1 TLS to Sir James and Lady Marchant, 7½ pages 4to, Sevenoaks, 13 June 1938, London, 18 November 1954 and Dorset, 6 December 1961.
FLOWER, Sir William Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Druce (Professor of Zoology), 1 page 8vo, British Museum (Natural History), 18 February 1887.
FOCH, Ferdinand (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('F. Foch') to an unnamed lady ('Madame'), 1 page 8vo, Paris, 27 April 1926.
FONTEYN, Dame Margot (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph of Fonteyn and a male dancer talking to two admirers, signed and inscribed on the mount, 110 x 158 mm (ca 4½ x 6 inches excluding the mount).
FONTEYN, Dame Margot (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph, full-length in ballet pose, signed in a white area below the image (slightly irregular in shape).
FORBES, Archibald (This is a link to the full description)
3 ALsS to Dr Morell-MacKenzie, 3 pages 8vo (two on grey paper), London, undated.
FORBES, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Edward Wood, 1 page 8vo with envelope-front (both laid down), G[eological] S[urvey], 17 April no year
FORBES, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Edward Wood, 1 page 8vo Mus[eum of] Prac[tical] Geol[ogy], 2 March 1852.
FORMBY, George (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a small white card, ca 40 x 75 mm (1½ x 3 inches), dated 1937 in his hand.
FORSTER, Edward Morgan (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to [Sir Michael] Sadler, 2 pages 8vo (facing), 27 Brunswick Square, 15 June 1925.
FORSTER, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Julian Young, 4 pages 8vo (very slight traces of former mounting), Palace Gate House, Kensington, 2 November 1872.
FORSTER, John Cooper (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS to Mr Pinches, 7 pages 8vo, Upper Grosvenor Street, 13 June and 19 October no year
FORSTER, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Chief Baron', 3 pages 8vo (laid down), Palace Gate House, Kensington, 28 October 1864.
FORSTER, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Chesterton', 1 page 16mo (slight glue-stains on the reverse only), 58 L[incoln's] I[nn] F[ields], 10 April 1848.
FORSTER, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Frank] Stone, 3 pages 12mo, 58 L[incoln's] I[nn] Fields, 14 August no year
FOSTER, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Reverend M. Morris, 3 pages 8vo, Stapleton, Tuesday, no date
FOX, Elizabeth Bridget Armistead (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Matilda', 2 pages 4to, (worn in the folds, small portion torn away), St Anne's Hill, 11 July, no year
FRANKLAND, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to Lady Reay, 6½ pages 8vo, South Kensington and The Athenaeum Club (blind stamps), 25 November 1880 where dated.
FRANKLIN, Jane, Lady (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to Mr P.L. Simmonds, 1 page 16mo on black-edged paper, 5 Park Place, St James's, 18 November 1862.
FRANKLIN, Jane, Lady (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr Gray, 1½ pages 8vo with integral blank, Upper Gore Lodge, 8 October 1860.
FRANKLIN, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription (Believe me ever yours sincerely / John Franklin'), cut from the foot of an ALS, with several incomplete lines on the back.
FRANKLIN, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, partially printed, as governor of Van Diemen's Land, 1 page folio (oblong, two small tears, a little faded) with papered seal, 1 January 1842.
FRANKLIN, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land, 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum with embossed paper seal, countersigned by John Montagu, 14 July 1841.
FRANKLIN, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir (William) Edward Parry, 1 page 8vo, Admiralty, 25 February 1845.
FRANKLIN, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent (possibly George Canning), 1 page 8vo (glue-stains to the reverse with slight show-through), 21 Bedford Place, 20 June 1835.
FRAZER, Sir James George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs [Lucy] Clifford (1846-1929, writer), 1 page 8vo, Trinity College, Cambridge, 7 January 1925.
FREDERICK II, The Great (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('Fr' with a flourish), 1 page folio (a little worn and foxed) with red-wax seal, Potsdam, 25 April 1777.
FREDERICK II, The Great (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Fr' with a flourish) to General Major von Kreytzen, 1 page 4to with a separate signed postscript also 1 page 4to, Camp near Tzirna, 7 October 1744.
FREDERICK II, The Great (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Fr' with a flourish) to the Heredity Marshal Baron von Pallandt, 1 page 4to in characteristic pale ink with blank leaf, Potsdam 5 November 1751.
FREDERICK II, The Great (This is a link to the full description)
LS to the Duke of Sachsen at Gotha, 1 p folio with integral blank, Berlin, 27 December 1751. Sending best wishes for the new year.
FREDERICK IX (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Sir William (later Lord) Rootes, 1 page 4to.
FREDERICK, Duke of York (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('Approved by His Majesty / Frederick F.M.'), 1½ pages folio, (browned, trace of mount), no place, [5 March 1795].
FREDERICK, Duke of York (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('Approved by His Majesty / Frederick F.M.'), 1½ pages folio, (splits in folds), no place, [5 March 1795].
FREELING, Sir Francis (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Archdeacon Singleton, 1 page 4to, General Post Office, 28 February 1829.
FREEMAN, Edward Augustus (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss ?Tricoapi, 4 pages 8vo (address-stamp excised, top somewhat tattered, with no loss of text), therefore no place, 7 November 1878.
FRENCH, John D.P., 1st Earl of Ypres (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('French') to Meredith, 1 page 8vo (attached to the remains of an album leaf), Drumboyne, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, 21 october 1921.
FRENCH, John D.P., 1st Earl of Ypres (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Vicomte Louis de la Panouse, 1 page 4to (filing-holes, not affecting the text), War Office, Whitehall, 17 July 1913.
FRENCH, John D.P., 1st Earl of Ypres (This is a link to the full description)
Brief TLS ('JDP French') to Captain Greenly DSO, ½-page 4to, Government House, Farnborough, 30 January 1906.
FRENCH, John D.P., 1st Earl of Ypres (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('French') to Colonel Archer-Shee, 1 page 8vo, Kensington, 27 May 1921.
FREUD, Anna (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to Dr Bowlby, 1 page 4to (a little worn and soiled), as from 20 Maresfield Gardens, 29 April 1966.
FREUD, Sigmund (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive ALS to Miss Murature, in English, on one side of his correspondence card printed with his name and address in Vienna, 13 October 1935.
FRIML, Rufolph (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, two bars from the Indian Love Call, on grey card, ca 85 x 130 mm (3½ x 5 inches), Hollywood, California.
FROUDE, James Anthony (This is a link to the full description)
Concluding two lines and signature from an ALS.
FRY, C[harles] B[urgess] (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph of Fry at the wicket, with a signature on paper attached at the foot, undated.
FRY, C[harles] B[urgess] (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription ('Yours faithfully / C.B. Fry') cut from the foot of a letter and mounted on the remains of an album leaf.
FRY, C[harles] B[urgess] (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription from the foot of a letter.
FULTON, Sir (James) Forrest (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Balfour Browne, 1 page 8vo, Central Criminal Court, London, 28 May 1918.
FURNISS, Harry (This is a link to the full description)
Self-caricature, in profile, showing a stout Furniss smoking a cigarette, inscribed to F H Prosser and signed, 3 March 1905.
FURNISS, Harry (This is a link to the full description)
Caricature ('From "The Humour of Parliament"') Signed on an 8vo sheet of writing paper (traces of tape in the left hand margin)1902.
FURNISS, Harry (This is a link to the full description)
Fine self-caricature in characteristic purple ink, showing a rain-swept Furniss under an umbrella encompassing the printed address on his writing paper.
FURNISS, Harry (This is a link to the full description)
Fine series of 14 ALsS, including a sketch of Hentschel, a typewritten 'Manifesto' signed, with additional correspondence, October 1900 - February 1912.
G (return to top)GADE, Niels Wilhelm (This is a link to the full description)
Printed notice signed with a few autograph words at the foot, 1 page 8vo, 12 November 1882.
GADE, Niels Wilhelm (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in English to an unnamed correspondent, 3 pages 8vo (a little worn in the fold), Copenhagen, 21 February 1876.
GALLI-CURCI, Amelita (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, on an album leaf, ca 95 x 160 mm (3½ x 6 inches), dated 1932 in her hand.
GALSWORTHY, John (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS and four LsS to Miss Betty Ross, in all 7 pages 8vo, The Grove, Hampstead & St Moritz Hotel, New York, 1926 to 1932, where dated.
GALSWORTHY, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Sir'), 1 page 8vo, Addison Road, 6 July 1901.
GALSWORTHY, John (This is a link to the full description)
Brief LS (text in the hand of Ada Galsworthy), to Miss Pugh, propbably a typist, 1 page 4to, Wingstone, Manaton, Devon, 30 September 1914.
GALSWORTHY, John (This is a link to the full description)
LS to an unnamed correspondent ('Dear Madam'), 1 page 8vo (filing holes on the left), Bury House, Pulborough, 21 January 1932.
GALSWORTHY, John (This is a link to the full description)
LS (text in the hand of his wife, Ada) to an unnamed correspondent ('Dear Madam'), 1 page 8vo, Grove Lodge, Hampstead, 9 June 1928.
GALTON, Sir Francis (This is a link to the full description)
Three ALsS, [one to Walter Raleigh Browne], two to Mrs Browne, in all 9 pages 8vo, 42 Rutland Gate, 15 May 1868, 13 December 1884 and 19 January 1900.
GAMBIER, James, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Important ALS to Sir Rupert George, 1 page 4to, aboard the Prince of Wales off Copenhagen, 8 September 1807.
GAMBIER, James, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 4to, (mounted on card, repair marks visible, some loss of text at left margin), Iver, 5 July 1830.
GAMBIER, James, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Ayre, 1 page 8vo, (remains of mount, tear on second leaf), Iver Grove, 22 May no year
GANDHI, M.K. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('M.K. Gandhi') to J Barnes in Delhi, 1 page 4to with envelope (hand-delivered), no place, 1 January 1935.
GANDHI, M.K. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Bapu') to Shanta, on two sides of his customary coarse buff paper, small 8vo, no place, 20 June 1937.
GANDHI, M.K. (This is a link to the full description)
Signed copy of his Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule, paperback third edition (small corner missing from the cover, some soiling).
[GANDHI, M.K. (This is a link to the full description)
Printed acknowledgement of a message of sympathy on the death of Gandhi from Devadas Gandhi 'and family', postcard sized, New Delhi, 1 March 1948.
GANZ, Wilhelm (This is a link to the full description)
Two Autograph Musical Quotations Signed to Miss Octavia Susman, 1 page 4to, Harley Street, 12 September 1903.
GARDINER, Evelyn (This is a link to the full description)
Signed photograph, head and shoulders in costume, 1932, laid down on an album leaf.
GARDINER, Samuel Rawson (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS to Mr Rogers, 2 pages 8vo, Sevenoaks and Gordon Square, 1899 where legible.
GARDNER, Alan, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Captain Bedford, 3 pages 4to, Cool House, 29 May 1804.
GARIBALDI, Giuseppe (This is a link to the full description)
LS in French to ?Lampany, 1 page 8vo, Caprera, 1868.
GARNETT, Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Fulleylove, 2½ pages 8vo (traces of former mounting on blank), Hampstead, 1 November 1903.
GARNETT, Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2½ pages 8vo, Walberswick, Southwold, 28 August no year
[GARRICK, David] (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Statement by Garrick's widow, Eva Maria [Veigel], 5½ pages 4to, Adelphi, 16 November 1798.
GARSON, Greer (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, underlined, on a small card, ca 50 x 90 mm (2 x 3½ inches).
GARSON, Greer (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Mrs Ray, 1 page 4to, 24 September 1974, with an unaddressed envelope from Forked Lightning Ranch, Pecos, New Mexico, which may not be related.
GASKELL, Elizabeth Cleghorn (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph manuscript, one 4to page from Sylvia's Lovers, on blue paper, with a signature glued to the foot of the page.
GASKELL, Elizabeth Cleghorn (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir Rutherford [?Alcock], 1 page 8vo, (slight glue-stains), Rue du Bac, 21 February no year [?1855].
GASKELL, Elizabeth Cleghorn (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and a few words from the conclusion of a letter, laid down on the remains of an album leaf, 'Sunday' (this word trimmed), no date
GATTY, Margaret (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Madam'), 1 page 8vo, Ecclesfield, 7 February 1870.
GEEHL, Henry (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, 3 bars ('An extract from "Your Favourite Song"') with words, on white card, laid down on a black background.
GEOLOGY: AUSTRALIA (This is a link to the full description)
Four small 8vo paper-bound manuscript notebooks listing minerals and stones to be found in Australia, 84 pages, 1857 where dated, in a clear hand.
GEORGE I (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('George R') at the head, 2 pages folio, given at the Court of St James, 2 February 1720.
GEORGE I (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S to the Earl of Lincoln, 2 pages folio, (some old repairs to folds, trace of mount), St James's, 23 December 1719. Also signed by George Ireby.
GEORGE I (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S., 1 page folio (slightly trimmed at the left hand side), Given at Kensington, 7 August 1724.
GEORGE II (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum) with blue revenue stamps, Kensington, 19 July 1756.
GEORGE II (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum with remains of papered seal (wax only) and blue revenue stamps, given at Kensington, 30 September 1746.
GEORGE II (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('George R') cut from a document, ca 55 x 75 mm (2 x 3 inches).
GEORGE II (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum) with blue revenue stamps, St James's, 10 February 1755.
GEORGE II (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum) with blue revenue stamps, St James's, 6 December 1755.
GEORGE II (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, at the head, 2 pages folio, Hampton Court, 12 August 1737.
GEORGE III and Connecticut. (This is a link to the full description)
Important Document Signed, addressed to Henry Fox, Paymaster General of the Forces, 2 pages folio with integral docketed second leaf, undated [1761-62].
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum), paper seal and blue revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 16 December 1782.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum), paper seal and blue revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 8 February 1779.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Fine early Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum), blue revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 13 June 1768.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum), paper seal and blue revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 23 July 1772.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S., 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum, St James's, 7 February 1799.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum), blue revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 25 March 1768.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum), paper seal and blue revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 14 June 1775.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S. ('Mad' signature 'George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum), blue revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 12 September 1808.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to his son, Frederick, Duke of York, 1 page 4to, Queen's House, 22 January 1799 [and timed exactly at '55/m pt. 6. P.M.']
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page large folio (oblong, on vellum), blue revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 14 March 1766.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page large folio (oblong, on vellum), paper seal and blue revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 29 August 1777.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS ('George R') to Mrs Howe, 1½ pages 4to with integral blank, Weymouth, 2 September 1799.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page large folio (oblong, on vellum), blue revenue stamps (lacking paper seal), partly printed, St James's, 7 October 1775.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S. ('mad' signature 'George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum), blue revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 21 June 1809.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum), papered seal and revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 15 November 1794.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person, unsigned) to William Pitt, 1 page 4to (in perfect condition with integral endorsed leaf), Queen's House, 8 May 1787.
GEORGE III and New Jersey. (This is a link to the full description)
Important Document Signed, addressed to Henry Fox, Paymaster General of the Forces, 2 pages folio with integral docketed second leaf, undated [1761-62].
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed, 1 page folio, partially printed, St James's 25 July 1806.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink on vellum cut from a document, laid down beneath an engraved portrait (a little soiled, with facsimile signature), no date
GEORGE III & William Pitt the Elder (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed by both ('George R' at the head, 'W Pitt' at the foot), 1 page large folio (oblong) on vellum, given at Saville House, 27 October 1760.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page large folio (oblong, on vellum), papered seal and revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 28 December 1777.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Fine early Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum), papered seal and revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 27 October 1760.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph list of the titles of three works, in French, on a small slip cut from the foot of a page, later note of identification on the reverse ['1820'].
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. (with the late 'mad' signature), 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum, St James's, 13 April 1809.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription ('My Dear Frederick / your most afffectionate Father / George R') cut from a letter, note of identification at the foot.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 3 pages large folio (torn in the folds of the second leaf), St James's 30 April 1802.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Signature cut from the head of a vellum document, the date 1779 added in another hand.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Early Doc S., 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum with papered seal, the text partly printed, St James's, 8 October 1762 (the second year of the reign).
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S (a 'mad' signature at the head), to the Lord Chief Baron and the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, 2 pages folio, 5 April 1809.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive Doc S ('George R.') at the head, 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum (paper seal and blue revenue stamp), given at St James's, 5 March 1794.
GEORGE III and Rhode Island. (This is a link to the full description)
Important Document Signed, addressed to Henry Fox, Paymaster General of the Forces, 2 pages folio with integral docketed second leaf, undated [1761-62].
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum (a little creased), countersigned by four others, Given at St James's, 27 January 1796.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page large folio on vellum (lacking the papered seal), given at St James's, 6 January 1769.
GEORGE III (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S. ('George R.' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum), papered seal and revenue stamps, partly printed, St James's, 2 August 1769.
GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
Fine signature and valediction from the foot of a letter to the King of Sweden and Norway (probably not sent), 1828.
GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on vellum from the head of a document, closely trimmed at the foot, a note in ink on the reverse in another hand.
GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive Doc S, ('George P') as Prince of Wales at the head, 1½ pages folio, with embossed paper seal, given at Carlton House, 3 May 1784.
GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to George Canning, ½-page 4to, Carlton House, 13 December 1820.
GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('George PR.' at the head), 1 page large folio (oblong, on vellum), blue revenue stamp, partly printed, Carlton House, 20 October 1813.
[GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
Engraved and embossed pass to Westinster Hall for the Coronation, 190 x 132 mm. (7½ x 5 inches, small traces of mount on the reverse only.) [1821].
GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('George R') at the head, countersigned by George Canning, 4½ pages folio, embossed paper seal, blue ribbon, gilt edges, given at Windsor, 4 Nov 1823.
GEORGE IV, as Regent (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive signature ('George P.R.' with flourishes) cut from a document, ca 50 x 90 mm (2 x 3½ inches). A note of identification in another hand.
GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, as Prince Regent ('George PR' at the head), to David Cathcart, 4 pages folio (slight staining, small tears in folds, mark & small hole where seal removed),
GEORGE IV, as Regent (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('George PR' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum, given at Carlton House, 11 June 1813, countersigned by Lord Mulgrave.
GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('George P') to the Earl of Holderness, 2 pages 4to with autograph address and seal on reverse (seal-tear and glue stain), London, 10 February 1775.
[GEORGE IV] (This is a link to the full description)
Document signed in the name of the King by Frederick, Duke of York, Henry Addington ('Sidmouth'), and others, 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum.
[GEORGE IV] (This is a link to the full description)
Medical bulletin issued from Windsor Castle in the names of Henry Halford and Matthew Tierney, 1 page 8vo, 4 June 1830.
GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('George P.R.') as Regent, 5 pages folio, given at the Palace of Carlton House, 25 December 1815.
GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('George P R') at the head, 2 pages folio (traces of former mounting), embossed paper seal, given at Carlton House, 19 August 1811.
GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
Warrant Signed to the Lord Chancellor, 2 pages folio with paper seal, sewn together with Gordon's instructions, 5 pages folio, Carlton House, 16 March 1822.
GEORGE IV, as Regent (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('George PR'), 1 page folio on vellum, (missing original paper seal, browned), with revenue stamps, Carlton House, 25 October 1814.
GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed as Prince Regent ('George P R'), 5 pages folio with blanks and papered seal, 26 October 1811.
GEORGE IV, as Regent (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('George PR'), partially printed, 1 page oblong folio on vellum, with paper seal and revenue stamp, (faded, some spotting), Carlton House, 4 May 1815.
GEORGE IV (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('George R' with a flourish) irregularly and tightly cut from a document, ca 65 x 110 mm (2½ x 4½ inches).
GEORGE IV, as Regent (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('George PR' at the head), 1¼ pages folio, Carlton House, 11 April 1816. Countersigned by the Foreign Secretary, Viscount Castlereagh.
GEORGE IV, as Regent (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum with embossed royal and revenue seals, countersigned by Henry Addington ('Sidmouth'), Carlton House, 4 August 1814.
GEORGE V (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page large folio (slight soiling) with embossed seal, given at St James's, 10 October 1921.
GEORGE V & QUEEN MARY (This is a link to the full description)
Photographic reproductions by Vandyke of drawings of the King and Queen (head and shoulders), signed by each in ink and dated 1930.
GEORGE V (This is a link to the full description)
Fine cabinet photograph by Gunn and Stuart, signed in ink ('George'), no date
GEORGE V (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S in fine clean condition, 1 page large folio with embossed seal, given at St James's, 10 August 1933.
GEORGE V (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S in fine clean condition, 1 page large folio with embossed seal, given at St James's, 14 December 1934.
GEORGE V (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S in fine clean condition, 1 page large folio with embossed seal, given at St James's, 9 October 1926.
GEORGE V (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S in good clean condition, 1 page large folio with embossed seal, given at St James's, 21 July 1913.
GEORGE V (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page double folio (a little soiled in the central fold), St James's, 27 July 1933.
GEORGE V (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page large folio with embossed seal, given at St James's, 12 February 1922.
GEORGE V (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S ('George R.I.' at head), 1 page double folio, partially printed, embossed seal, Saint James's, 1 April 1935. Also signed by Sir John Simon.
GEORGE V (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S in good clean condition, 1 page large folio with embossed seal, given at St James's, 10 May 1912.
GEORGE V (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (as King 'George R.I.') to Mrs Arthur [Sassoon], 2 pages 8vo, Balmoral Castle (gold initial surrounding crown and 'V'), 5 September 1911.
GEORGE V (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Selbourne, 2½ pages 8vo, Didlington, Norfolk, embossed crest, 30 October 1902.
GEORGE VI (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Albert') to Mrs [Godfrey] Faussett, 2 pages 8vo (two filing-holes touching one word only, some traces of glue), Windsor Castle, 3 May 1916.
GEORGE VI (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Albert') to Godfrey [Faussett], 1½ pages 8vo (small tape stain at the left-hand side), Buckingham Palace, 18 March 1916.
GEORGE VI (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S in fine clean condition, 1 page large folio with embossed seal, given at St James's, 30 September 1947.
GEORGE VI & Clement Attlee (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Minute ('Appd. GR') at the head of a TLS by Attlee, 1 page 4to, (filing-hole), 10 Downing Street, 3 May 1951.
GEORGE VI (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Albert') to Captain [Godfrey] Fawcett, on card (filing holes, traces of former mounting), December 1915.
GEORGE VI (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Albert') to [Godfrey] Faussett, 3 pages 8vo, (filing holes), York Cottage, Sandringham, 9 January 1916.
GEORGE VI (This is a link to the full description)
Early signature ('Albert / 1904. Please come to see us') on the front of a postcard addressed to Major Rose of the 42nd Black Watch Royal Highlanders.
GEORGE V & Sir Winston Churchill (This is a link to the full description)
Document signed at the head by George V and at the end by Sir Winston Churchill, 1½ pages folio, the text printed, St James's, 13 November 1921.
GEORGE VI (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 3 pages folio with embossed papered seal, St James's, 23 Feburary 1938.
GEORGE VI (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 3 pages folio with embossed papered seal, St James's, 18 February 1949.
GEORGE VI (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Albert') to Godfrey [Faussett], 1½ pages 8vo (traces of mounting tape), Buckingham Palace, 13 March 1916.
GEORGE VI & Clement Attlee (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Minute ('Appd. GR') at the head of a TLS by Attlee, 1 page 4to, (filing-hole), 10 Downing Street, 18 March 1948.
GEORGE VI (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Albert') to Lancelot, 2 pages 4to, embossed blue crest, Buckingham Palace, 22 April 1923.
GEORGE VI and Queen ELIZABETH (This is a link to the full description)
Christmas card for 1943, signed by both the King and Queen, with embossed gold coronet on the front.
GEORGE II (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS and 3 Christmas Cards ('George IIR') to [Philip Armstrong] Tilden, the letters 3 pages 8vo, Brown's Hotel, London and the Royal Palace, Athens.
GEORGE, Duke of Kent (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('George') to F G Miles, 1 page 4to, embossed coronetted writing paper, autograph superscript & subscription, Buckinghamshire, 5 September 1940.
GERMAN SCIENTISTS (This is a link to the full description)
Over 100 letters to Heinrich Wehner, an engineer in the Frankfurt city buildings department, more than 200 pages, Berlin, Vienna, Beirut etc, 1896-1909.
GERMAN, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription cut from a letter.
GIBSON, Edmund (This is a link to the full description)
LS to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, 1 page 4to with integral address-leaf and remains of a red wax seal, Whitehall, 25 September 1744.
GIELGUD, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('John Gielgud / best wishes 1937') on a small white card, ca 40 x 75 mm (1½ x 3 inches).
GIELGUD, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph by Dorothy Wilding, Signed, 1934, showing the head and shoulders of a young actor in a check suit and spotted tie, arms folded.
GIELGUD, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('John Gielgud / best wishes 1921'), laid down on the remains of an album leaf, ca 115 x 78 mm (4 x 3 inches).
GIGLI, Beniamino (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph postcard signed to Walter H. Kaye, the reverse showing a picture of St Paul's Cathedral, London 27 March 1954.
GIGLI, Beniamino (This is a link to the full description)
Signed (reproduction) photograph in a concert programe for a recital in the 1934-35 season (signs of mounting on the reverse, some wear).
GILBERT, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to Mr Henderson, 6 pages 8vo (foxed), Blackheath, 27 June and 1 September no year
GILBERT, Sir William Schwenck (This is a link to the full description)
Series of three ALsS to [Carl] Hentschel (one of the 'Three Men in a Boat'), 3 pages 8vo in fine condition, (Grim's Dyke, Harrow Weald), 1907 and 1908.
GILBERT, Sir William Schwenck (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Quotation Signed from Act 1 of Iolanthe, 13 lines on 1 page 8vo (two small stains).
GILBERT, Sir William Schwenck (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Randall, an admirer, 1 page 8vo, Grim's Dyke, 27 November 1910.
GILBERT, Sir William Schwenck (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the editor of a periodical, 1½ pages 8vo (on facing pages, some original smudges and stains), 24 The Boltons, 26 April 1877.
GILBERT, Sir William Schwenck (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Wilfred] Bendall, Sullivan's secretary, 2 pages 8vo (on facing pages), Grim's Dyke, 14 November 1899.
GILLETTE, William Hooker (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph (head and shoulders), signed in ink on a dark portion and dated December 1901 (rather rubbed and with extensive traces of mounting to the back).
GINSTER, Ria (This is a link to the full description)
Programme for a Schubert recital at the Grotrian Hall, signed beneath her photograph on an inside page, 4 February no year
GISBORNE, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Revd Mr Joyce, 1¼ page 4to with integral address-leaf (laid down), Temple, 15 July 1807.
GIUGLINI, Antonio (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in Italian to Maggioni, 1 page 8vo, 81 Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square, 30 June no year
GLADSTONE, William Ewart (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription cut from the foot of a letter.
GLADSTONE, William Ewart (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Rev T W Percy, 3 pages 8vo, as from Hawarden, 3 September 1867.
GLADSTONE, William Ewart (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lord Reay (Donald James Mackay, 1839-1921, 11th Baron Reay), 2 pages 8vo with blank leaf, 10 Downing Street, 8 March 1884.
GLADSTONE, William Ewart (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lord Reay (Donald James Mackay, 1839-1921, 11th Baron Reay), 2 pages 8vo with blank leaf, 10 Downing Street, 11 March 1891.
GLADSTONE, William Ewart (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his cousin Robert Gladstone, 3 page 8vo on black-edged paper (remains of mount on the reverse), 11 Downing Street, 27 March 1862.
GLADSTONE, William Ewart (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on a postcard addressed to R G Lundy in Stoke Newington, postmarked Chester Station Office, 27 May 1895.
GLADSTONE, William Ewart (This is a link to the full description)
ALS probably to a bookbinder, ?Westell, of New Oxford Street, 1 page 8vo (a little soiled and foxed), 10 Downing Street, 26 May 1884.
GLAISHER, James Whitbread Lee (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Dunkin, 2 pages 8vo, Blackheath, 20 January 1880.
GLAZUNOV, Alexandr Konstantinovitch (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of the opening two bars (two staves) of the first piano sonata, inscribed to Madame Paderewski, and dated St Petersburg, 17 January 1904.
GLYN, Elinor (This is a link to the full description)
Collection of six ALsS (3 with initials, 2 in pencil) and three Christmas cards to Betty Ross, 3 envelopes, Christmas 1934 to 26 December 1938.
GODOLPHIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to the Earle of Lauderdale, 1 page folio with integral address-leaf and red wax seal, Doctors Commons, 23 February 1664.
GODOLPHIN, Sidney, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Godolphin') on a corner removed from a treasury warrant, ca 1708.
GODOLPHIN, Sidney, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed, a warrant appended to a 3-page folio document signed by Travers as Supervisor General, given at Whitehall, 28 March 1704.
GODOLPHIN, Sidney, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on fragment of a Treasury document, 85 x 154 mm, (ca 3½ x 6 inches), Whitehall, 16 May 1710.
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed, with autograph subscription, 2 pages 4to (weak in the folds, some browning), no place, no date [probably Weimar, June 1831].
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S., 1 page small folio, the text printed in gothic type, with red wax seal (traces of mounting or framing at edges), no date [ca 1783].
GOLDING, Louis (This is a link to the full description)
2 TLsS to Harold Mortlake, 2 pages 4to, 12 Cambridge Street, London, 17 & 20 October 1933.
GOLDING, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Bill') on a correspondence-card to Catherine, Ebble Thatch, Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, no date
GOLDING, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to [Brian] Pearce, 1 page 8vo (oblong), on embossed writing paper from Ebble Thatch, Bower Chalke, Salisbury, 24 March no year
GOLDING, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Hans] Roest, 1 page large 4to, Bowerchalke, 14 December no year
GOLDMARK, Karl (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed, of one bar of words and music (eight repetitions of F), 1 page 8vo (oblong, one vertical crease), dated 23 November 1896.
GOMME, Sir [George] Laurence (This is a link to the full description)
Two good ALsS to North, in all 8 pages 8vo, writing paper of the Archaeological Review and The Folklore Society, 2 January 1889 and 13 March 1893.
GOOCH, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Travers, 1 page 8vo, no place, 'Sunday' no date
GORDON, Charles George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J[ohn] Fowler at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1½ pages 8vo, Dara, Darfur [Sudan], 10 May 1879.
GORDON, Charles George (This is a link to the full description)
Curious collection, including two Autograph Letters Signed and numerous family photographs, contained in a hessian-lined leather-covered wooden box.
GORDON, Charles George (This is a link to the full description)
Khartoum Banknote for 5 Piastres, signed in ink by Gordon in the lower left-hand corner, 62 x 103 mm. (2½ x 4 inches), dated 25 April 1884.
GORDON, George, 1st Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir James Jones, 1 page 4to, integral address-leaf, Gordon Castle, 18 May 1708.
GORDON, Lord George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lord North, 1 page 4to with second leaf bearing a contemporary endorsement and an engraved portrait, Welbeck Street, 30 October 1783.
GORDON, Seton (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Francis, 2 pages 8vo, Isle of Skye, 3 April 1936.
GOSSE, Sir Edmund (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to W. Lavers, 2 pages 8vo on conjoint leaves (not facing), 1 Whitehall, 13 January 1882. A small press photograph of Gosse pasted to the first page).
GOSSE, Sir Edmund (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Rev Mardy Rees, 3 pages 8vo with envelope, 17 Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, 20 March 1915.
GOSSE, Sir Edmund (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Herr H.J. de Backer, 2 pages 8vo with envelope, 17 Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, 16 January 1926.
GOSSE, Sir Edmund (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [?Alec or Aleck] Ross, 1 page 8vo, 29 Delamere Terrace, Westbourne Square, 23 November 1889.
GOSSEC, François-Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
Document dated Paris, 25 Nivôse an 2 [24 January 1794], partly printed and signed by Gossec, Luigi Cherubini and Bernard Sarrett on the recto.
GOUGH, Sir Hugh, 1st Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page large folio (oblong), partially printed and completed by hand, with red wax seal, 27 April 1849..
GOULD, Sir Francis Carruthers (This is a link to the full description)
Pen-and-ink drawings of 8 well-known gentlemen, head and shoulders, in evening dress on card ca 290 x 125 mm (11½ x 5 inches) (damaged at the edges).
GOUNOD, Charles François (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Berthe, 1 page 8vo, 1 December 1888 ('1er Xbre /88').
GOUNOD, Charles François (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Mon cher ami'), 2 pages 8vo with integral blank, no place, 27 October 1890.
GOUNOD, Charles François (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Manuscripts of the openings of 10 cantiques for voice and organ, each on a separate leaf, folio, no date [ca 1870].
GOUNOD, Charles François (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Henriette, 2 pages 8vo, Monday 31 March 1884.
GRACE, William Gilbert (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph of the portly Grace taking guard, signed in ink in the lower white border, undated.
GRACE, William Gilbert (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a decorative album leaf with printed picture of a rural bridge, ca 85 x 120 mm (3½ x 5 inches), fold mark.
GRAHAM, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to William Crookes, 1 page 8vo, R[oyal] Mint, 15 July 1862.
GRAHAM, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to H W Field, 1 page 8vo, no place, no date
GRAINGER, Richard Dugard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Toulmin Smith, 4 pages 8vo with envelope, Marlborough, 8 January 1847.
GRANT, Ulysses S. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Pope, 1½ pages 8vo, Hotel Bristol, Paris, 7 November 1877.
GRAVES, Alfred Perceval (This is a link to the full description)
The Autograph Manuscript Signed of the third verse and chorus of 'Father O'Flynn', 1 page 8vo, dated 14 April 1926.
GRAVES, Alfred Perceval (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Arthur Bryant, 2 pages 8vo, Harlech, North Wales, 2 August 1927.
GRAVES, Alfred Perceval (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Field, 3 pages 8vo, Red Branch House, Lauriston Road, Wimbledon Common, 26 June 1894.
GRAVES, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Anthony Forster, 1 page large 4to (rather creased), Deya, Mallorca, 11 April 1961.
GRAVES, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to P B Eldridge, 1 page 4to on flimsy paper, with envelope, Deya, Mallorca, 1 June no year
GRAY, Asa (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs ?James, 1¼-pages 8vo, no place, 10 June 1867.
GRECHANINOV, Aleksandr Tikhonovich (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Musical Quotation Signed ('A. Gretchaninoff') of two bars in D major on a small card, 52 x 90 mm (2 x 3½ inches), dated 20.5.37.
GREENAWAY, Kate (This is a link to the full description)
Interesting pencil studies of a young woman, from the back resting her head on her up-raised arm, in a melancholy pose, two versions of the pose on one
GREENAWAY, Kate (This is a link to the full description)
Three pencil studies of the right hand of a child, holding a stick.
GREENAWAY, Kate (This is a link to the full description)
Delicate pencil drawing of the rear view of a young mob-capped girl looking out of a window, with two other sketches of an old woman & the outline of a
GREENE, Graham (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Philip Dossé (1925-80, founder of Books and Bookmen), 1 page small 4to, La Résidence des Fleurs, Antibes, 18 October 1976.
GREENWELL, Dora (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to Mrs Barclay, 6 pages 8vo, North Bailey, Durham 10 and 19 May no year
GREET, Sir Phillip Barling Ben (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Ben Greet') to an unnamed correspondent ('Dear Sir'), 2 pages 8vo, on writing paper of The Ben Greet Company, 3 Bedford Street, WC, 23 July no year
GREGORY, Olinthus Gilbert (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph paper on 'Reasons why I decline to sign the paper now in circulation in this vicinity to enforce the better observance of the Lord's Day'.
GRENVILLE, George (This is a link to the full description)
Fragmentary Document Signed, ½-page folio (upper portion missing), ca April 1753.
GREY, Charles, Second Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J[ohn] Backhouse, 1 page 8vo (slight glue-stains to the reverse), Howick, 5 January 1835.
GREY, Charles, Second Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo, Howick, 20 October 1826.
GRIEG, Edvard Hagerup (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink on a small card, undated.
GRIEG, Edvard Hagerup (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to [Wilhelm] Börresen, 1 page 8vo, Hotel Phönix [Copenhagen], 20 April 1901.
GRIEG, Edvard Hagerup (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Wilhelm] Börresen, 1 page 8vo, Copenhagen, 20 December 1899.
GRIEG, Edvard Hagerup (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed [of the opening three bars of the Ballade for piano, opus 24], signed also by his wife, Nina, and dated London 1889.
GRIEG, Edvard Hagerup (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in German to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo on conjoint leaves ('repaired' right across the centre with adhesive tape), Voksenkollen Sanatorium, 11 February 1903.
GRIMALDI, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'D[ea]r Charlotte', 1 page 4to (laid down on an album leaf with an engraving on the reverse), 8 Exmouth Street, 8 July 1828.
GRINDALL, Richard (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page 4to (closely trimmed), on board the Ramillies at Spithead, 22 January 1800.
GROVE, Sir George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in a shaky hand to John E. Borland, 1½ pages 8vo on conjoint leaves, 27 July [1899].
GUILMANT, Alexandre (This is a link to the full description)
Cabinet photograph signed, head an shoulders portrait by Aimé Dupont of New York, 22 July 1903.
GULL, Sir William Withey (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr [Robert Leamon] Bowles (1834-1913), 1 page 8vo, on 74 Brook Street writing-paper, as from Tullymit, 26 August 1884.
GURWOOD, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to G E Frere, 2 pages 8vo, 70 Lowndes Square, 7 May 1844.
GUSTAVUS VI (Gustav Adolf) (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page folio with papered seal, partially printed and completed in typescript, Stockholm, 24 November 1961. With a translation into French.
GYROWETZ, Adalbert (Vojtech Jirovec) (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Autograph Music Quotation Signed of 22 bars on two staves, signed and dated 24 November 1845, 1 page 4to (oblong), 160 x 210 mm. (ca 6¼ x 8¼ inches).
H (return to top)HACHETTE, Jean Nichola Pierre (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Monsieur le Prefet, 1 page 8vo (ink stain - original - on the date), no place
HACK, Maria (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Lloyd, 1 page 12mo, 'Friday morning', no date
HADOW, Grace Eleanor (This is a link to the full description)
Good, long ALS to Mrs Fox, 8 pages 8vo, Fyfield Road, Oxford, 12 March 1932.
HAGGARD, Sir Henry Rider (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription from the foot of a letter, six lines of text on the reverse.
HAGGARD, Sir Henry Rider (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'Dear Amyand', 2 pages 8vo (most of second leaf cut away), Ditchingham House, Bungay, 24 September no year
HAGGARD, Sir Henry Rider (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Scott, 2 pages 8vo, Ditchingham House, Norfolk, 29 September 1894.
HAGGARD, Sir Henry Rider (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Oswald Crawfurd (1834-1909, author), 3 pages 8vo (slight traces of mount on the reverse only), 27 Duke Street, St James's, 6 May 1895.
HAGGARD, Sir Henry Rider (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dear [?Alec or Aleck] Ross, 2½ pages 8vo, Ditchingham House, 16 August 1888.
HAGGARD, Sir Henry Rider (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'Giles', 3 pages 8vo (somewhat browned), Ditchingham House, Nortolk, 6 October 1914.
HAIG, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig (This is a link to the full description)
Menu for a banquet in Liverpool, 5 July 1919, signed in pencil at the top 'D. Haig F.M.'
HAIG, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood ('My dear Sir Evelyn'), 1 page 4to, General Headquarters, British Armies in France, 25 November 1918.
HAIG, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig (This is a link to the full description)
Final page of an ALS, ½-page folio on embossed writing paper, no place, no date
HAIG, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to William J Hay, librarian at Edinburgh, 1 page 4to (laid down on card), Fairfield House, St Peter's-in-Thanet, 15 June 1920.
HAIG, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig (This is a link to the full description)
Important military ALS [to General Reginald Talbot], 12 pages 8vo, Berber [Sudan], 30 June 1898.
HAITE, George Charles (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS to fellow-artist Silvanus Thompson, 5 pages 8vo, Bedford Park, 27 September and 17 October 1895.
HALEVY, Jacques Fromental (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS, 1 page small 4to, Paris, 9 May 1859.
HALIFAX, Sir Charles L Wood, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Sterling, 4 pages 8vo, St Marys, Bovey Trace, South Devon, 11 June 1923.
HALIFAX, Edward F L Wood, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('Halifax') to J S Dodd, MP, 1 page 4to, embossed writing paper of the British Embassy, Washington, 3 March 1945.
HALLAM, Henry (This is a link to the full description)
Calling slip for 'Newman's Lectures on prophetical office ... 1835', completed and signed by Hallam.
HALLE, Sir Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Receipt signed over the purple penny revenue stamp, 1 page 8vo (slightly foxed), Greenheys, Manchester, no year
HALLE, Sir Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Gye, 2 pages 8vo, 20 Linden Gardens, Bayswater, 30 December 1890.
HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS, James Orchard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent (perhaps the librarian of the London Library), 1 page 8vo with blank leaf, Hollingbury Copse, Brighton, 21 November 1885.
HAMBOURG, Mark, Jan & Boris (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph Signed by all three, showing the trio in profile, dated by Jan 1908.
HAMBOURG, Mark, Jan & Boris (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph Signed by all three brothers (Mark's signature on the photograph and somewhat obscure, the other two in the lower white margin).
HAMBOURG, Mark (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph Signed ('Yours truly / Mark Hambourg / 30/1/07'), showing a head-and-shoulders profile view of the young musician.
HAMILTON, Emma, Lady (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph transcript of an important diplomatic letter to the Queen of Naples from her ambassador in Spain, 7 pages 4to.
HAMILTON, Emma, Lady (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS [to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville], 3 pages 4to on black-edged paper, 23 Piccadilly, 14 April 1803.
HAMILTON, Emma, Lady (This is a link to the full description)
Emma Hamilton's copy of Charles Wesley's Air for Key'd Instruments with Variations, signed at the head ('Lady Hamilton / Merton').
HAMILTON, Emma, Lady (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to Puleston, 3 pages 4to, integral address and black wax seal, 12 Temple Place, Blackfriars Road, 3 August no year (watermark 1810, probably 1813).
HAMILTON, Sir Ian Standish Monteith (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Kempthorne, 3 pages 8vo (note of identification in red ink at the head), Bloemfontein, 1 April 1900.
HAMILTON, James, 1st Viscount Claneboye (This is a link to the full description)
Lengthy ALS to his brother, 3 pages folio (tipped to an album leaf, repairs to the central fold), Killeleagh, 12 April 1642.
HAMMERSLEY, James Astbury (This is a link to the full description)
Lengthy ALS to H B Peacock, 3 pages 8vo (laid down on card), Cromer Villa, Redland Park, Clifton, 22 March 1863.
HAMMERSTEIN, Oscar II (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Albert Deane [of Paramount Picture], 1 page small 4to, New York, 4 May 1951.
HAMPDEN, John (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('Jo Hampden' across a seal-tag), 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum, signed also by Thomas Lane, 26 June 13 Charles I [1637].
HANBURY, Daniel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to E J L Simmonds, 4 pages 8vo (soiled), Clapham Common, 21 April 1865.
HANNAY, James Owen (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to C H StL Russell, 1 page 4to, Mells Rectory, Frome, 31 December 1930.
HARDIE, James Keir (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard reproduction of a photograph of Hardie, signed in facsimile on the front and in ink ('Yours faithfully / J. Keir Hardie') on the reverse.
HARDING, George Perfect (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J J Smith, 1 page 4to (with a portrait mounted to the reverse), 38 Strand, 1 November 1815.
HARDINGE, Sir Henry, 1st Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Colonel Sir John M. Wilson, 1 page 4to, Horse Guards, 8 September 1854.
HARDY, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Daisy] 'Margaret' [Gifford], 1 page small 4to, Max Gate, 26 July 1922.
HARDY, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('T.H.') to an unnamed correspondent on one side of a correspondence-card, Max Gate, 29 March 1906.
HARDY, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('T.H.') to [?William] Fisher, 1 page 8vo (repairs to the reverse in old adhesive tape, split in the folds), Max Gate, Dorchester, 22 December 1895.
HARDY, Sir Thomas Masterman (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink from the foot of a ruled naval document, a little soiled an trimmed, laid down.
HARLEY, John Pritt (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to B[enjamin] Webster, 3 pages 8vo (biographical extract lightly attached beneath the signature, some wear), Bedford Square, 26 July 1853.
HARLEY, Robert, 1st Earl of Oxford (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Oxford') and the last five lines cut from a treasury document, dated 21 July 1712.
HARRINGTON, Maria Foote, Countess of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lumley (possibly Benjamin Lumley, author and manager of the opera in London), 4 pages 8vo, no place, 'Friday the 12th, no date
HARRINGTON, Wm Stanhope, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed, 1 page 4to (right-hand margin torn away), Whitehall, 18 July 1738.
HARRIS, Arthur T. (This is a link to the full description)
Menu for the dinner in honour of 'Bomber' Harris's 90th birthday, signed by him in ink on the front.
HARRIS, Arthur T. (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Arthur T Harris / A.C.M. R.A.F.') on a small card, ca 50 x 90 mm (2 x 3½ inches).
HARRISON, Sir Reginald Carey ('Rex') (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a small slip of paper, possibly cut from a letter, ca 25 x 70 mm (1 x 2½ inches).
HART, Solomon Alexander (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Richard Redgrave RA, 2 pages 8vo on separate conjunct leaves, 16 Russell Place, 6 March 1851.
HARTE, Francis Bret (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (initials) to his son ('My dear Frank'), 74 Lancaster Gate, 15 May 1901.
HARTE, Bret (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Andrew Chatto of the firm Chatto & Windus, 1 page 8vo, (traces of mount on verso), Upper Hamilton Terrace, 16 January 1882.
HARTE, Francis Bret (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to a Doctor, 1 page 8vo, 15 Upper Hamtilon Terrace, London, 2 November 1885.
HARWOOD, Ronald (This is a link to the full description)
Typescript of his award-winning play The Dresser, signed on the title page by Harwood and date-stamped 1981.
HASTINGS, Selina, Countess of Huntingdon (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to English, 2 pages 4to with address-leaf tipped onto the second blank sheet (traces of former mounting in the margin), Bath, 28 March no year [ca 1789].
HASTINGS, Warren (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his nephew, The Revd T.B. Woodman, in Ewell, Surrey, 1 page 4to with address-leaf, D[aylesfor]d House, 10 June 1803.
HASTINGS, Warren (This is a link to the full description)
Important archive of 12 Autograph Letters Signed ('Warren Hastings' & 'W.H.') to his secretary, George Nesbitt Thompson, in all 25 pages 4to & 1 page 8vo.
HASTINGS, Warren (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to G[eorge] A[lexander] Thompson, 1½ pages 4to, Daylesford House, 4 November 1807.
[HASTINGS, Warren] (This is a link to the full description)
Ticket of admission to the sixty-seventh day of the trial of Warren Hastings, 185 x 112 mm (ca 7½ x 4½ inches, trimmed as usual) with red wax seal.
HAVERFIELD, Francis John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Goddard, 2 pages 8vo, Christ Church, Oxford, 13 December 1897.
HAVILAND, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [John Stevens] Henslow (1796-1861, botanist), 3 pages 8vo, Cambridge, 25 October 1847.
HAWKER, Mary Elizabeth (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to Miss Bramston, 1 page 8vo and a postcard, Hurstbourne, 28 February and 29 October 1892.
HAWKER, Robert Stephen (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo on lined paper, Morw[enstowe], 16 August 1873.
HAWKESWORTH, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to R[obert] Dodsley (1704-1764, bookseller and writer), 1 page 4to with address-leaf (a little worn and trimmed, but the text intact), Bromley, 3 November 1757.
HAWKINS, John Sydney (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Cadell, 2 pages 8vo with integral address-leaf with free frank, Lower Grove, Brompton, 1 May 1838.
HAY, James, 1st Earl of Carlisle etc. (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('James Hay'), 1 page folio (rather soiled and torn, with old repairs), 7 October 1617.
HAYDON, Benjamin Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to W. Harvey, probably William Harvey (1796-1866, wood-engraver and book illustrator), 1 page 4to, 14 Burwood Place, 23 March 1846.
HAYDON, Benjamin Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Alfred] Elmore, 1½ pages 8vo with address, seal, and stamp on second leaf, (small seal-tear not affecting the text), no place, no date [after 1840].
HAYDON, Benjamin Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 16mo, London, ?1843.
HAYDON, Benjamin Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his close friend the judge (Sir) T[homas] N[oon] Talfourd (1795-1854), 1 page 4to with integral address leaf, London, 30 March 1830.
HAYDON, Benjamin Robert (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to [Dominic] Colnaghi (1790-1879, printseller), 1 page 8vo with integral blank, 4 Burwood Place, Connaught Square, 2 November 1839.
HAYDON, Benjamin Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr ?Bankes, 1½ pages 8vo (spike filing hole in the centre without loss of paper), 12 February 1835.
HAYDON, Benjamin Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Benjamin West (1738-1820, historical painter), 1 page 8vo (some slight stains), 'Saturday', no year
HAYTER, Sir George (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, no place, 6 July no year
HAZLITT, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Dear Sir'), 1 page 4to (lacks address-leaf, lightly laid down on the remains of an album leaf), Winterslow Hut, 'Sunday, October 5' [?1817].
HEAD, Sir Francis Bond (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to the Committee of the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund, 1 page 8vo, 2 Upper Hyde Park Street, 27 March 1843.
HEATH, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a white card embossed with the House of Commons portcullis, ca 90 x 140 mm (3½ x 5½ inches).
HEATH, Sir Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Fine TLS to A.J. Goldstaub, 2 separate pages 4to (filing holes in the margin), House of Commons, 19 February 1968.
HELENA VICTORIA (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Mrs de Rothschild with autograph super- and sub-script, 2 pages 4to, on writing paper of the Housing Association for Officers' Families, 21 April 1917.
HELENA VICTORIA (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Leigh, 1 page 8vo, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, 5 December 1899.
HENLEY, William Ernest (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Mary] Carmichael, ½-page 8vo on writing paper of The National Observer, Edinburgh, 1 December 1890.
HENLEY, William Ernest (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph poem signed, two quatrains on a card, Worthing, 19 December 1895.
HENLEY, William Ernest (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on two sides of a correspondence card to Barwick S Browne, St George's Lodge, Chesswood Road, Worthing, 3 May 1900.
HENRIETTA MARIA (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('henriette marie R') to Mother Anne Marie de ?Golin, 1 page 4to with address-leaf and seal, (small hole, slight loss of text), London, 30 January 1665.
HENRIETTA MARIA (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS in French ('henriette MarieR') to Henry Rich, Lord Holland, her High Stewart and favourite, 1 page 4to with address-leaf, no place, no date but ca 1633.
HENRIETTA MARIA (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('henriette marie R') in French to her son, Charles II, 1½ pages 4to (somewhat faded ink, old repair to the fold), Paris, 30 April 1655.
HENRIETTA MARIA (This is a link to the full description)
Important LS ('Henriette Marie R') in French, to the Marchese Crescenzio, 1 page folio with address-leaf and red wax seals, St Germain, 17 June 1647.
[HENRY III] (This is a link to the full description)
Document from the reign of Henry III, on vellum, ca 60 x 140 mm (2¼ x 5½ inches), Oxford, 17 January [1217].
HENRY VII (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, (initials, as usual), addressed at the foot to Sir Robert Litton, 1 page 4to, 103 x 177 mm. (4 x 7 inches) on vellum, 7 December 14 Henry VII [1498].
HENRY VII (This is a link to the full description)
Handsome large document bodly signed ('HR') at the head and written and sealed at Calais, 220 x 310½ mm. (ca 9 x 12½ inches), in English, 16 November 1492.
HENRY VII (This is a link to the full description)
Important Doc S ['HR'] confirming the pardon of two of the Cornish rebels, 1 page 4to (oblong) on vellum with papered seal, 187 x 278 mm. (7¼ x 11 inches).
HENRY VIII (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S. (twice), on vellum, irregularly shaped, ca 325 x 310 mm. (13 x 12 inches), dated at Windsor, 14 December 5 Henry VIII [1513].
HENRY VIII (This is a link to the full description)
Handsome large Doc S. (with a large version of his mature signature), 405 x 555 mm. (ca 16 x 22 inches) on vellum, about 1541.
HENRY, Prince of Wales (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, (enormous signature 'Henry P' at the head), 1 page folio on vellum (rather damaged at the edges with a little loss of text, laid down), [1612].
HENSCHEL, Sir George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Hewlett, 3 pages 8vo on black-edged paper, 45 Bedford Gardens, Kensington, 8 June 1901.
HENSLOW, John Stevens (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Manuscript headed 'In re Starch', 4 pages 8vo, signed at the foot, no date. Together with 4 ALsS and an A.N.S. from George Henslow.
HERBERT, Sir Alan Patrick (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('All good wishes / from / A.P. Herbert.'), ca 55 x 105 mm (2½ x 4 inches).
HERBERT, John Rogers (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to his fellow painter [Richard] Redgrave, 3 pages 8vo (lightly laid down), Norwich (as from Great Yarmouth), dated in another hand 1850.
HERDMAN, Sir William Abbott (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Norman Thomas, 1 page 4to on writing paper of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (crossed out), 14 January 1897.
HERKOMER, Sir Hubert von (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Flower, 1 page 8vo on a flimsy sheet from a sketch book, no place, 28 April 1910.
HERSCHEL, Sir John Frederick William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1½ pages 8vo (a little worn, but professionally strengthened), endorsed by the recipient and dated by him ink 2 June 1827.
HERSCHEL, Sir John Frederick William (This is a link to the full description)
Fragment of a letter, Signed, 2 pages 8vo, no place, no date
HERSCHEL, Sir John Frederick William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Sir'), 2 pages 8vo, (remains of mount on verso of second leaf), Collingwood, 10 January 1868.
HERSCHEL, Sir John Frederick William (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription from a letter.
HERTFORD, Richard Seymour-Conway (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2½ pages 8vo (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), no place, 'Friday', no date
HERTFORD, Richard Seymour-Conway (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to the Comte de Morny, 2 pages 8vo with envelope, no place (presumably Paris), no date
HERVEY, Lord Arthur Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Group of 4 ALsS, in all 12 pages 8vo, Ickworth and 48 Eaton Place, 28 May 1864 to 10 February 1868.
HERVEY, Thomas Kibble (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS to Watts, in all 5 pages 8vo (laid down), Athenaeum & 65 Oakley Square, no date
HESS, Dame (Julia) Myra (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and inscription ('With all my good wishes') in ink on a page taken from a recital programme, Dublin 1935.
HESS, Dame (Julia) Myra (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('Myra' with the surname added in another hand) to 'Dear Daisy', 1½ pages 8vo (creased), 8 Carlton Hill, St John's Wood, 1 October 1934.
HESS, Dame (Julia) Myra (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and inscription in ink ('With all my good wishes / Myra Hess') on paper mounted on the remains of an album leaf.
HEWETT, Sir Prescott Gardner (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph testimonial signed, 1 page 8vo, 1 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, 18 June 1877.
HEWITSON, William Chapman (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2½ pages 8vo, 15 Southwell Street, no date
HILL, Octavia (This is a link to the full description)
Collection of five ALsS (one incomplete) to women, probably related, in all 17½ pages 8vo, 1870-1910.
HILL, Rowland, 1st Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, 2 pages 8vo, Horse Guards, 16 July 1841.
HILL, Sir Rowland (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Nelly, 1 page 12mo with decorative blind stamp, Hampstead, '3rd Wed', no date
HILL, Sir Rowland (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to E[dwin] W[ilkins] Field (1804-71), 1 page 8vo, Downing Street, 5 July 1841.
HILL, Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Roderic Hill / Air Marshal') on a small white card, ca 65 x 110 mm (2½ x 4½ inches).
HINDENBURG, Paul von (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S with characteristic large signature, 3 pages folio with embossed seal (split in central fold), 25 June 1933.
HITLER, Adolf (This is a link to the full description)
Document signed in blue-black ink, 3 pages folio with embossed seal in the second leaf, Berlin, 12 october 1934.
HOBHOUSE, Arthur, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Merivale, 4 pages 8vo (traces of glue), Calcutta, 6 December 1872.
HOBHOUSE, John Cam, Baron Broughton (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J M Phillipps, 1½ pages 8vo, War Office, 15 January 1833.
HODGSON, Ralph (This is a link to the full description)
Poems, London, 1917, first edition, inscribed to C.M. Hopkins 'from W.B.H.' on the free front endpaper, bookplate of Peter Scupham.
HOGARTH, William (This is a link to the full description)
Large etching signed in ink, a subscription ticket for two prints, 265 x 395 mm. (ca 10½ x 15½ inches), dated 14 May 1751.
HOGBEN, Lancelot Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
Two fascinating TLsS to Winckworth, 2 pages 4to with a page of autograph notes from Winckworth, University of Birmingham, 15 October and 1 November 1943.
HOGG, James (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Brackie? a merchant in Selkirk, 1 page ca 5 x 7 inches, laid down with the address-panel (small hole), Altrive Lake, 23 March 1835.
HOGG, James (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph manuscript of a preface and containing a scathing attack on Andrew Picken, 1 page 4to, signed at the foot (lightly laid down).
HOLL, Francis Montague (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to George Cubitt MP, 4 pages 8vo, The Three Gables, Fitzjohn's Avenue, 24 November 1883.
HOLLAND, Cornelius (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('Cor: Holland'), ½-page folio with second leaf bearing a contemporary endorsement, 4 April 1650.
HOLLIDAY, Francis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 4to, West Markham, Near Tuxford, Notts, 26 September 1776.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Oliver Wendell Holmes / Boston, January 10th 1890') on white card, ca 45 x 95 mm (2 x 4 inches).
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, Boston, 2 April 1892.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Jeremiah Colburn, 1 page 8vo, (remains of mount, portrait and news cutting tipped to second leaf), Charles Street, 4 October no year
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, Boston, 7 May 1860.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Alexander Denham, 1 page 8vo, 296 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 4 December no year
HOLST, Gustav Theodore (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, 32 Gunterstone Road, Barons Court, 20 April no year
HOLST, Gustav Theodore (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive Autograph Music Quotation Signed (the 'Amen from the Hymn of Jesus), on a page removed from a birthday book, 172 x 130 mm. (6½ x 5 inches), no date
HOLST, Imogen Clare (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to Dr Bachner, 2 pages 8vo (oblong) and a postcard, as from Millands, Kilve, Bridgwater, 4 March 1941, where dated.
HOOD, Samuel, first Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Captain Henderson, 1 page 4to with blank leaf (reference number in ink added at the foot), Greenwich, 30 June 1813.
HOOD, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Cooke', 1 page 8vo (slightly smudged), no place, no date
HOOD, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to ?Trolkard, 1 page 8vo, no place, no date (watermark 1840).
HOOK, Theodore Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, Athenaeum, 'Saturday' no date
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to ?Hendricks, 1 page 8vo, Sunningdale, 13 May 1891.
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Thomas] Woolner (1825-1892, sculptor), 1 page 8vo, Royal Gardens, Kew (blind stamp), 22 March 1868.
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Jos. D. Hooker') to Thompson, 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper, The Camp, Sunningdale, 1 August 1888.
HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Walther, 1 page 8vo on embossed writing paper of the Royal Gardens, Kew (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), 23 May 1857.
HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (initials) to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, Athenaeum, 27 March no year
HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 4to (inlaid in the remains of a mount), Glasgow, 10 May no year
HOOVER, Herbert Clark (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Mrs Francis Hackett, 1 page 4to (rust marks from paper clips), 11 July 1933.
HOPKINS, Edward John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to W W Ingall, 4 pages 8vo (tape adhering to top and bottom, not affecting the text), St Augustines Road, Camden Square, 10 December 1896.
HOPKINSON, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Crowdy, 3 pages 8vo (laid down), Manchester, dated in another hand February 1871.
HOPPNER, John (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Receipt Signed, in the format of a cheque, 9 August 1806.
HOROWITZ, Vladimir (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink on a small card (apparently the visiting card of Walter Wiener, whose name is printed on the reverse), no date
HORSLEY, Sir Victor Alexander Haden (This is a link to the full description)
ALS [to Dr Robert Leamon Bowles (1834-1913)], 4 pages 8vo (slight traces of mounting on last page), 80 Park Street, Grosvenor Square, 23 June 1887.
HOUDINI, Harry [born Erik Weisz] (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph of Houdini in his Voisin biplane, signed and inscribed 'Best wishes Harry Houdini 4/1/11' (a little trimmed, traces of mounting to the reverse).
HOUSMAN, Alfred Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Edge, 1 page 8vo, Trinity College, Cambridge, 24 March 1923.
HOUSMAN, Alfred Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Brian Finn, 1 page 8vo, Trinity College, Cambridge, 25 April 1927.
HOUSMAN, Laurence (This is a link to the full description)
3 ALsS (two 'L.H.') to [Hugh] Chesterman, 6 pages 4to & 8vo, closely-written, Longmeadow, Street, Somerset, 1930, 1932 and 1934.
HOWARD, Sir Robert (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a fragment of an exchequer receipt, laid down and identified at the head, in all 155 x 140 mm (6 x 5 inches), 30 September 1673.
HOWE, Richard, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Vice-admiral Groves, 2 pages 4to with blank leaf, London, 17 June 1793.
HOWE, Richard, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Vice-admiral Lord Keith, 2 pages 4to with address-leaf, Buxton 15 August 1797.
HOWE, Richard, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Earl Temple, 1 page 4to with second leaf bearing a contemporary endorsement, Grafton Street, 17 April 1783.
HOWITT, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Madam'), 1 page 8vo, Clapton, 26 March 1847.
HOYLE, Sir Frederick (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in black ink on white card (slight creasing), 53 x 90 mm (2 x 3½ inches), with note of identification at the head.
HUGHES, Arthur (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Ralli, 1 page 8vo (traces of former mounting on the reverse), 2 Finboro Road, Fulham Road, 'Thursday morning' no date
HUGHES, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Lord] Reay, 2 pages 8vo (facing), 7 October 1883.
HUGO, Victor (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph sentiment of five lines, boldly signed, 1 page 8vo (oblong on grey paper), no date
HUMBOLDT, Alexander von (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph testimonial, signed, 1 page 8vo with integral blank leaf (small splits in the horizontal folds), Potsdam, 20 August 1849.
HUMOROUS VERSES (This is a link to the full description)
The Bathing Machine / A Legend of Box Hill, 17 pages 4to in a neat legible hand.
HUNT, James Henry Leigh (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Cowie at Mr Bonnsall's, 1 page 4to (trimmed and glued to an album leaf with the the envelope-front), 4 Upper Cheyne Row, 10 June 1835.
HUNT, James Henry Leigh (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Leigh Hunt') to Edward Wood, 1 page 4to (neatly laid down, some glue-stains showing through), Chelsea, 26 February no year
HUNT, William Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo (a note of identification in ink beneath the signature), 62 Stanhope Street, 22 July, no year
HUNT, William Holman (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Thomas Morgan, 2 pages 8vo (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), Draycott Lodge, Fulham, 5 May 1885.
HUNT, William Holman (This is a link to the full description)
Carte-de-visite photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, inscribed at the foot in ink 'With W Holman Hunt's kind regards'.
HUNT, William Holman (This is a link to the full description)
ALS trimmed at the top and bottom with the loss of first few lines and the name of the recipient, 2 pages 8vo, no place, no date
HUNTER, Sir Archibald (This is a link to the full description)
Personal archive of Sir Archibald Hunter, comprising letters addressed to him and related material.
HUNTER, John (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person), 1 page 8vo (trimmed and laid down), 'Wednesday', no date
[HURD, Michael John] (This is a link to the full description)
Incoming correspondence, partly of a literary or non-musical nature, one box-file, ca 1950 to 1988, with a few related items.
HUSKISSON, William (This is a link to the full description)
Long ALS to J. Bolton, 4 pages 4to, Whitehall Place, 29 January 1823.
HUSKISSON, William (This is a link to the full description)
Series of 13 ALsS to J C Herries, 30 pages 8vo and 4to, London, Earlham, and Somerset Place, 1823-1826. With an LS of Carr to Herries, 1826.
HUXLEY, Aldous (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on a postcard to M Spencer Edge, San Cristobal, New Mexico, 20 June 1937.
HUXLEY, Aldous (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription ('Yours faithfully'), cut from the foot of a letter, ca 45 x 75 mm (2 x 3 inches).
HUXLEY, Sir Julian Sorell (This is a link to the full description)
Huxley's copy of 'Drugs and the Mind' by Robert S de Ropp, Victor Gollancz, London, 1958, cloth bound.
HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the publishers Williams and Norgate, 2¼ pages 8vo, (filing-hole in second leaf, not affecting the text, recipient's stamp), Eastbourne, 15 July 1893.
HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Rev Thomas L. Montefiore, 3 pages 8vo with envelope-front (last page laid down), Royal School of Mines, 17 April 1863.
HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Pater') to his son-in-law, the painter John Collier ('My dear Jack'), 3 pages 8vo, 4 Marlborough Place, 14 May 1862.
HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr J H Gladstone, 3 pages 8vo, on embossed blue writing-paper of the Athenaeum, 11 May 1888.
HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Reay, 2½ pages 8vo in purple ink, 4 Marlborough Place, Abbey Road, 24 February 1880.
HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to E Wood, 2 pages 8vo (second leaf laid down), Museum of Practical Geology, 22 December 1855.
HYMN WRITERS (This is a link to the full description)
Superb collection of 22 autograph manuscripts signed of 19th century hymns, each mounted on card, identified at the foot (some slight foxing).
I (return to top)INDENTURE - Kingston upon Hull, 1696 (This is a link to the full description)
Indenture on vellum ca 260 x 420 mm. (10 x 16½ inches), dated in the eighth year of the reign of William III, 1696.
INOCULATION (This is a link to the full description)
Early 19th-century manuscript poem of 19 lines: Verses / Composed upon that Sublime Subject the Cowpock Preached by Mr Lyons', 1 page folio.
IRELAND, John Nicholson (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Manuscript Signed of the song 'Weep you no more, sad fountains', 3 pages folio (a little spotted on the first page), [1906].
IRELAND, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [William] Upcott, 3 pages 4to with integral address-leaf and red wax seal, Croydon, 25 May 1807.
IRVING, Sir Henry (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph Signed in the lower white margin, head and sholders half-turned pose, complete with pince-nez.
IRVING, Sir Henry (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph of the statue of Irving as Hamlet by E Onslow Ford in the Guildhall, Signed in the lower white margin.
IRVING, Sir Henry (This is a link to the full description)
LS (the text probably not by Stoker) to Louis Roche, 1 page 8vo, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 28 April 1903.
IRVING, Sir Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, 2 pages 8vo, Bond Street, 5 January 1880.
IRWIN, Margaret (This is a link to the full description)
Doggerel verse of 14 lines, 1 page 8vo with note of identification at the head, 66 Holland Road, no date (somewhat creased).
ISHERWOOD, Christopher (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Hans Roest, 1 page 4to on blue air-mail writing paper, Santa Monica, 15 December 1971.
ISLE OF MAN (This is a link to the full description)
Eighteenth Century copy of a famous letter from the Earl of Derby to General Ireton, 4 pages folio, the original dated 12 July 1649.
ISMAY, Sir Stanley (This is a link to the full description)
ALS [probably to Theobald], 1 page 8vo, Caerlaverock [Ootacamund, India], 25 February 1914, with identifying notes at the head in another hand.
J (return to top)JACKSON, John Hughlings (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (with initials) to Dr [Robert Leamon] Bowles (1834-1913), 1 page 8vo, 3 Manchester Square, no date [watermark 1878].
JACOBS, William Wymark (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and salutation on blind-stamped paper of The Outlook, Upper Park, Loughton, laid down on an album leaf.
JACOBS, William Wymark (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Sir'), 1 page 8vo, Loughton, Essex, 14 July 1906.
JAMES I (This is a link to the full description)
LS as James VI of Scotland addressed to Lord Gray, 1 page folio with address on the reverse and traces of red wax seal, 21 November 1590.
[JAMES I] (This is a link to the full description)
Document with the Great Seal, 220 x 460 mm (9 x 18 inches) on vellum, in a clear chancery hand, dated at Westminster, 22 June, 11 James I [1613].
JAMES I (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('James R', as James VI of Scotland) to the Laird of Barnbarroche, ½-page folio with address on the reverse, Stirling, 27 September 1585.
JAMES I (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Thomas [Egerton] Lord Ellesmere (1540-1617, Lord Chancellor), 1 page folio with address-leaf, given at Westminster, 24 July 2 James I [1604].
JAMES I (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, in the name of his Queen, Anne of Denmark (1574-1619), and signed also by her ('Anna R'), 1 page folio on vellum, April 1603.
JAMES II (This is a link to the full description)
AL ('signed' with a paraph sometimes interpreted as 'J') to his niece Charlotte Fitzroy, Countess of Lichfield, 2 pages 4to, with address-leaf, Edinburgh [1681].
JAMES II (This is a link to the full description)
AL ('signed' with a paraph sometimes interpreted as 'J') to his niece Charlotte Fitzroy, Countess of Lichfield, 2 pages 4to, London, 19 July 1683.
JAMES II (This is a link to the full description)
AL ('signed' with a paraph sometimes interpreted as 'J') to his niece Charlotte Fitzroy, Countess of Lichfield, 2 pages 4to, London, 27 September [1683].
JAMES II (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS, in French, to the Pope [Clement XI], 2 pages 4to with blank, uniformly browned all over, St Germain en Laye, 19 February 1698.
JAMES II (This is a link to the full description)
Important ALS in French ('J R') to Comte Lauzun, 1 page 4to with integral address-leaf and red wax seal, Brest, 20 July 1690.
JAMES II (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS in French ('Jacques') to Vice-Admiral Comte d'Estrées, 1½ pages 4to with integral address-leaf (seal-tear repaired), London, 24 August 1673.
JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Giacomo R'), in Italian, to his cousin the Prince of Montemiletto, 1 page 4to, separate address wrapper bearing red wax seal, Rome, 4 February 1725.
JAMES, Henry (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to [George H.] Boughton, 2 pages 8vo, 34 De Vere Gardens, 5 March 1897.
JAMES, Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Lawrence, 4 pages 8vo, 3 Bolton Street, but on United Service Club paper altered to 'Athenaeum' by James in ink, 'Sunday noon', no date
JAMES, Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Oswald Crawfurd, 3 pages 8vo, 34 De Vere Gardens, 'Monday a.m.' ['1896'] added in pencil in another hand.
JAMES, Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Sir William Jackson] Hooker, 1 page 8vo, Southampton, 30 August 1867.
JAMES, Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Santley, 1 page 8vo, 3 Bolton Street, Piccadilly, 7 November no year
JAMES, Montague Rhodes (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Talbot Rice, 1 page 8vo (trimmed, traces of former mounting on the back), The Lodge, Eton College, 3 February 1919.
JAMES, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to William Jerdan, 2 pages 8vo, red wax seal, 12 Chapel Fields, Lambeth, 6 June 1826.
JAPAN (This is a link to the full description)
Series of 5 letters written to Professor Ernest Foxwell of St John's College, Cambridge, 1898 to 1915.
JEKYLL, Gertrude (This is a link to the full description)
Illustrated ALS to her life-long friend, the garden writer, William Robinson, 1½ pages 4to (small split in fold), Munstead Wood, 11 october 1924.
JEKYLL, Gertrude (This is a link to the full description)
Early notebook on colours with one section on gardening matters, ca 50 pages including five pages of watercolours of flags, in limp calf (worn).
JEKYLL, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs [Sarah] Siddons, 1 page 8vo, endorsed by Mrs Siddons on verso, (partially laid down), Spring Garden, 15 July 1815.
JELLICOE, J R, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
TLS with autograph salutation to Captain Dicker, 1 page 4to with envelope, HMS Iron Duke, 28 February 1916.
JELLICOE, J.R., 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and inscriptions ('with compliments / Jellicoe / AF') on a sheet of blue writing paper from 80 Portland Place (trimmed).
JELLICOE, J R, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Three ALsS to [Vice-Admiral Sir (Arthur) Thomas] Pridham, in all 4 pages 8vo (traces of mounting on the reverse), St Lawrence Hall, Isle of Wight, 1934.
JENKINS, Herbert (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to L. Bolton, 1 page 4to with envelope, 12 Arundel Place, 24 July 1912.
JENNER, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to his close friend T[homas] Pruen in Cheltenham, 3 pages 4to with address-leaf, Berkeley, 15 March 1813.
JENNER, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Conclusion and signature from an ALS to Sir Thomas Bernard (1750-1 July 1818 philanthropist), most of 1 page 4to with address on the reverse, 3 June 1818.
JENNER, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Neale, 1 page 8vo (browning), 63 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 9 February 1878.
JENNER, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr Fox, 2 pages 8vo with envelope, 18 Harley Street, 27 February 1868.
JENNER, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr Chesnell, 1 page 8vo (laid down and slightly trimmed at the foot), 63 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 25 February 1874.
JENNER, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph prescription, signed with monogram, 1 page 8vo (trimmed and laid down on an album leaf), 14 July 1876.
JEROME, Jerome K. (This is a link to the full description)
Collection of letters to Carl Hentschel, 13½ pages 8vo with one envelope, England and Germany, and ephemera.
JESSOP, Augustus (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to McClure, 2 pages 8vo with blank leaf, Scarning Rectory, East Dereham, 28 February 1895.
JOACHIM, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lichtenberg, 1 page 8vo, no place, 23 October 1880. With a full translation.
JOACHIM, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ANS ('J.J.') 1 page 8vo, 23 Queen Street, 'May:Fair', no date (a little worn at the edges).
JOACHIM, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Sir Arthur'), 1 page 8vo, Campden Hill, 21 March no year
JOACHIM, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
LS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, Berlin, 30 January 1898.
JOACHIM, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of four bars for solo violin in G minor, marked 'Allegro', on his headed card, dated 1 August 1904. 90 x 114 mm. (3½ x 4½ inches).
JOHN, Augustus (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink dated 9 April 1929 on a page below a magazine picture of himself in military uniform (slight damage at the edges not affecting the text).
JOHN, Augustus (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink on a complete sheet of John's writing-paper (33 Tite Street), dated 1944.
JOHN, Augustus (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph manuscript entitled 'Fragment of an Autobiography VII', 1 page 4to, signed at the foot. In a marbled-board folder.
JOHN, Augustus (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('John') and autograph address ('39 Southampton St / Fitzroy Sq / W') on small slip of paper, ca 90 x 115 mm (3½ x 4½ inches).
JOHN, Augustus (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Maurice Cosner, 1 page 8vo, 14 Percy Street, 24 October 1950. With a draft of the reply in pencil on the reverse.
JOHNS, William Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Typescript (carbon) of an article The Road to Timbuctoo with one ink deletion which might be authorial, 6 pages 4to on separate leaves.
JOHNS, William Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'Dear Christopher', 1 page 8vo (oblong), the new address in Hampton Court stamped over the previous address, 22 June 1953.
JOHNSON, Amy (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a small slip of paper, possibly cut from a letter, ca 40 x 110 mm (1½ x 4½ inches).
JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith, the elder (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 3½ pages 4to, 19 Great Cumberland Place, 31 January 1823.
JOHNSTONE, John Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Charles] Matthews (1776-1835, comedian), 1 page 8vo (trimmed), no place, no date, together with a small engraving showing Johnstone as Apollo.
JOMARD, Edme François (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to Lady Rodd-Rennell, 2½ pages 8vo with integral address-leaf (seal tear), Paris, 6 June 1859.
JONES, David (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to David Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, 2 pages 4to, no place, no date
JONES, Daniel (This is a link to the full description)
Sizeable Autograph Music Quotation Signed, the first fifteen bars of the opening of the slow movement of his String Quartet of 1957, inscribed to Hans Roest.
JOURNAL LETTERS (This is a link to the full description)
Copies of the journal letters of Harry Fox, 28 pages 8vo, from 23 July to 14 August 1888, with an envelope addressed to C D Fox in New Zealand.
JOWETT, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [William] Rogers (1819-1896, educational reformer and chaplain to the Queen), 3 pages 8vo (small tear), on black-edged paper, no place, undated.
JOWETT, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), Balliol College, 27 January 1874.
JOWETT, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
Group of Four ALsS to various correspondents, 11 pages 8vo, 1864, 1882 & 1890 where dated
JOWETT, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Stanley, 1 page 8vo (remains of former mounting on the reverse), on embossed writing-paper of Balliol College, 14 May no year
JOWETT, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 4 pages 8vo, Oxford, 6 July no year
JUKES, Joseph Beete (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Edward Wood, 4 pages 8vo (inlaid in a mount, with the envelope-front), Geological Survey of Ireland, Dublin, 23 July 1861.
JUNG, Carl Gustav (This is a link to the full description)
Fine TLS in English, with autograph corrections, to Patrick Evans, 2 pages 4to (separate sheets), Zurich, 1 September 1956.
JUVENILIA (This is a link to the full description)
Charming collection of Alice Parker, including a tale of blood and thunder entitled Colonel Sahaufren written for her father's birthday, 1896.
JUXON, William (This is a link to the full description)
Signed title page of Mount Calvarie, The Second Part, together with the table of contents page, 8vo, London, 1597.
JUXON, William (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('Guil: London') with autograph insertion, ½-page folio, (small tears at edge), London House, 28 December 1636. From the Rawlins Collection.
JUXON, William (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Guil: London') as Bishop of London and Lord Treasurer, to the Auditor of the Counties of Somerset & Dorset, 1 page folio, London House, 7 March 1637/8
K (return to top)KAFFIR WARS (This is a link to the full description)
LS from Henry Elliot, the name of the recipient excised, 1 page 4to, Office for Military Boards, 2 November 1855.
KAI-SHEK, Madame Chiang (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('Mayline Soong Chiang') to Yui, 1 page 4to on writing-paper of the Headquarters of the Generalissimo, Nanking, with embossed sun, 25 September no year
KANE, Sir Robert John (This is a link to the full description)
Biographical form filled in and signed by Kane, 1 page 4to, undated.
KARAJAN, Herbert von (This is a link to the full description)
TLS in German to Boosey ('Boosie') & Hawkes, music publishers, 1 page 4to, Vienna, 22 June 1948. With extensive annotations in pencil by the recipients.
KARG-ELERT, Sigfrid (This is a link to the full description)
Two lengthy TLsS (signed on his behalf) to Novello's, 3½ page 4to, Leipzig, 23 March and 20 April 1909.
KASTNER, Erich (This is a link to the full description)
Brief autograph sentiment signed with best wishes, dated at Munich October 1966, 1 page 8vo (oblong, two slight vertical creases).
KEAN, Edmund (This is a link to the full description)
Ticket of admission signed, admitting two to the boxes for Othello at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 21 January 1820.
KEAN, Edmund (This is a link to the full description)
Ticket of admission to Othello at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, signed in ink by Kean, 21 January 1820.
KEBLE, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Leigh, 1½ pages 16mo on blue paper, Otterbourn, 27 February 1854.
KEBLE, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Heathcote, 4 pages 16mo, H[ursley] V[icarage], 17 November 1854.
KEBLE, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr Lowe, 3 pages 12mo, Hursley Vicarage, 19 July 1861.
KEBLE, John & PUSEY, Edward Bouverie (This is a link to the full description)
An ALS from each, both 1 page 12mo, Keble's letter from Hursley, 17 September 1865, Pusey's with no place, no date. Rather distressed overall.
KEITH, Sir Arthur (This is a link to the full description)
Two related ALsS, to Legg and Wakeley of King's College, 2 pages 4to, Royal College of Surgeons, February & March 1927.
KEITH, George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to Erskine, ½-page 4to, (trimmed, tear at left margin), no place, 'Sunday', no date
KEITH, George Skene (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to George Chalmers, (1742-1825, Scottish antiquary and historian), 1 page 4to with address-leaf, Aberdeen, 4 December 1800.
KELLER, Helen Adams (This is a link to the full description)
First edition of her Midstream: My Later Life with a signed pencilled dedication to Captain Claret on the first blank, October 1929 (spine rubbed).
KELLER, Helen Adams (This is a link to the full description)
Lengthy and flamboyant TLS to Captain Frank H Claret aboard the S.S. Minnewaska, 2½ pages 4to with envelope, 93 Seminole Avenue, Forest Hills, 25 October 1929.
KELTIE, Sir John Scott (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Innisson, 2 facing pages 8vo (some foxing) on elaborate writing paper of the Sheringham Hotel, Norfolk, 28 August 1904.
KELVIN, William Thomson, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('W. Thomson') to Sir Edward [?Reed], 1 page 8vo, The University, Glasgow, 25 March 1886.
KEMBLE, Adelaide (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Adelaide Sartoris') to an unnamed correspondent ('Dear Sir'), 1 page 8vo, Eaton Place, Monday, no year
KEMBLE, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Wilson, 1 page 4to (traces of former mounting on the left-hand edge), no place, 8 July 1819.
KEMBLE, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to D[ominic Paul] Colnaghi, 1 page 4to with integral address-leaf, C[ovent] G[arden] Theatre, 9 April 1823.
[KEMBLE, John Mitchell] (This is a link to the full description)
Facsimile copy of an ALS to J W Donaldson at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1 page 4to with an autograph address-leaf, signed with initials, 22 March 1839.
KEMBLE, Priscilla (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Honorable ?Le Grand Phipps, 1½ pages 12mo, neatly inlaid, Great Russell Street, 'Saturday October 13' no year
KEMPENFELT, Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Captain Marshall of HMS Emerald in Gosport, 1 page 4to with address-leaf (very weak and split in the fold), Greek Street, Soho, 12 January no year
KENDAL, Madge and William Hunter (This is a link to the full description)
Small collection of 4 ALsS (three on postcards) from Madge Kendal and an ALS from W H Kendal, all to Mrs Alec Tweedie, 1914-1935, where dated.
KENDRICK, James (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to T[homas] J[oseph] Pettigrew (1791-1865, surgeon and antiquary), 4 pages 8vo, Warrington (vignette of the 'Travellers' Rest'), 27 January 1860.
KENNEDY, Geoffrey Anketell Studdart (This is a link to the full description)
TLS (' G.A. Studdert Kennedy / Woodbine Willie') to J Ellis Wells, 1 page 4to (oblong), Industrial Christian Fellowship, 13 January 1926.
KENNEDY, Joseph Patrick (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on the cover of a 4-page menu card for a dinner in honour of the Rt Honourable Malcolm MacDonald, at this time Secretary of State for Colonies.
KENNEY, James (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to William Grant at the Theatre, Blandford, 3 pages 4to with integral address-leaf (seal tear, ragged upper edge, text unaffected), London, 6 June 1811.
KENNEY, James (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the actor, Robert William Elliston at the Drury Lane Theatre, 1½ pages 4to with integral address-leaf, Versailles, 20 October 1824.
KENT, E.A., Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Edward') to Mrs Vesey, 4 pages 4to, 11 August 1813
KENT, Edward Augustus, Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
LS to George Canning, 2 pages 8vo (glue-stain to margin of second side), Kensington Palace, 25 April 1818.
KENT, Edward Augustus, Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Edward') to Mrs Vesey, 2 pages 8vo (a little trimmed, not affecting the text), Kensington Palace, 3 November 1819.
KENT, Edward Augustus, Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Edward') to Mrs Vesey, 6 pages 4to some wear to the third sheet and traces of former mounting, Kensington Palace, 14 June 1813.
KENT, Edward Augustus, Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Edward') to Mrs Vesey at Hampton Court, 4½ pages 4to with autograph address-leaf with seal (traces of old mount), Kensington Palace, 4 August 1812.
KENT, Edward Augustus, Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Edward') to Kirkland, 2 pages 8vo (the first page rather dust-soiled), Brussels, 28 February 1818.
KENT, Edward Augustus, Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Edward') to David S. Curling, 2 pages 8vo, Kensington Palace, 29 June 1816.
KENT, Edward Augustus, Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Edward') to Mrs Vesey at [Hampton Court] Pavilion, 3 pages 8vo, Kensington Palace, 1 October 1814.
KENT, George Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALs (third person) to Messrs Hugh Rees, 3 pages 4to (one page rather soiled), 18 Seeptember and 29 October 1921.
KENT, William (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('Wm Kent') to the Treasury Commissioners, 1 page 4to, (trace of mount, small tears at the edges professionally repaired), Whitehall, 30 May 1738.
KENYON, Lloyd, First Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Part of an Autograph opinion Signed, appended to written questions, 1 page folio (oblong), Lincolns Inn Fields, 12 March 1784.
KEPPEL, Augustus, first Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Lord Shuldham, Vice-admiral of the White, 1 page folio (a little worn), Victory, St Helens Road [Portsmouth], 2 July 1778.
KEROUALLE, Louise, Duchess of Portsmouth (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French ('L. Duchesse de Portsmouth') to 'Mon Seigneur' (?the Duke of Orléans), 3 pages 4to, endorsed at head, no place, no date [about 1717].
KEROUALLE, Louise, Duchess of Portsmouth (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('La duchesse de Portsmouth') in French to 'Monsieur le grand Tresoryer' [Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and Lord High Treasurer], 2 pages 4to.
KERR, Mark (This is a link to the full description)
Collection of 8 TLsS to MacDonald, in all 7 pages 8vo and 1 page 4to (pin-hole marks in the corner), 13 October 1934 to 23 May 1935.
KES, Willem (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS to an unnamed correspondent, 3½ pages 8vo, 25 Carnarvon Street and writing paper of the Scottish Orchestra, Glasgow, 28 January and 2 February 1897.
KEY, Charles Aston (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 3 pages 8vo, no place, no date
KEYES, Roger John Brownlow, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to the Mayor of Colchester, 1 page 4to (filing holes), Admiralty House, Portsmouth, 13 September 1930.
KEYES, Roger John Brownlow, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Vice-admiral Sir (Arthur) Thomas] Pridham, 3 pages 8vo (glued together at the top, traces of mounting on the back), House of Commons, 3 April 1935.
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to Ashford, 2 pages 4to on writing-paper of The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, 27 September 1964.
KIENZL, Wilhelm (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed ('Dr Wilh. Krienzl'), 1 page 8vo (oblong), Bad Aussee, 31 July 1935.
KIMBERLEY, John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
Important ALS headed 'Private', to Lord Reay, discussing the 'Ilbert Bill' and the Zulu king, Cetewayo, 8 pages 8vo, 10 October 1883.
KINGSFORD-Smith, Sir Charles Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, on an album leaf, ca 95 x 160 mm (3½ x 6 inches).
KINGSLEY, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo, Eversley Rectory, Winchfield, 26 October 1869.
KINGSLEY, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Cowley', 2 pages 8vo (facing), Eversley Rectory, Saturday 22 August no year
KINGSLEY, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Note Signed to an unnamed correspondent ('Madam'), ½-page 8vo, Chester, 29 July 1870.
KINGSLEY, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Williams, 1 page 8vo, Bideford, 3 November 1854.
KINGSLEY, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 4 pages 8vo on black-edged paper (some stains and traces of mounting), Eversley Rectory, 27 July 1861.
KINGSTON, Evelyn Pierrepont, Second Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('Kingston'), 3 pages folio with contemporary docket, 11 December 1738.
KINKEL, Gottfried (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, 1 page 8vo, 5 January 1872 (with a translation).
KIPLING, Rudyard (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to [George Earle] Buckle (1854-1935, editor and biographer), 1 page 8vo (a couple of small stains), Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex, 22 December 1920.
KIPLING, Rudyard (This is a link to the full description)
Early ALS to Oswald Crawfurd (presumably the writer and diplomat, [pseud. John Dangerfield], 1834-1909), 1 page 8vo, Arundell House, Tisbury, 15 June 1894.
KIPLING, Rudyard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Bird, 1½ pages 8vo, Bateman's, Burwash, 27 April 1914.
KIPLING, Rudyard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Bennett, 1 page 8vo (a little worn and creased), Bateman's, Burwash, 29 August 1923.
KIPLING, Rudyard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Allhusen, 1 page 8vo (a little foxed), Rottingdean, 7 December 1897.
KIPLING, Rudyard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Mary] Carmichael, 1 page 8vo, 15 Villiers Street, Strand, 'Monday' no date
KIPLING, Rudyard (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Mrs Trotter, 1 page 4to, Bateman's, Burwash, 6 June 1903.
KIPLING, Rudyard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr King, 1 page 8vo, no place, Sunday, no date
KISLING, Moise (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, in French, to M. Vauxcelles, 1 page 4to, Paris, 3 June 1917, with a translation.
KITCHENER, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Pass Signed, on a slip of paper ca 70 x 200 mm (2½ x 8 inches), laid down on an album leaf with a portrait and explanatory note, 16 October 1883.
KITCHENER, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Kitchener') to Lady Playfair, 2 pages 8vo (reproduction photograph of Kitchener attached to the blank leaf), Bauchory, 12 August no year
KITCHENER, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Kitchener') to 'Dear Joe', 2 pages 8vo, Glen Muick, Ballater, 7 July ['1899'].
KITCHENER, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Charles [Beresford], 4 pages 8vo (soiled with one rather crude repair), Sirdarieh, Cairo, 17 October no year
KITCHENER, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lord Egerton, 3 pages 8vo, Sirdarieh, Cairo, 7 October no year
KITCHENER, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page 4to (soiled, traces of tape at the top), on embossed writing paper of the War Office, 16 October 1914.
KITCHENER, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Series of 7 ALsS with 6 ALsS of his Aide-de-Camp Captain O.A.G. FitzGerald and one of Captain Learmouth of his staff, in all 33 pages 8vo and 9 pages 4to,
KLEMPERER, Otto (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of four bars from Zuleika's song (words by Goethe), 92 x 142 mm. (3½ x 5½ inches), inscribed and dated Hamburg, 19 June 1917.
KNELLER, Sir Godfrey (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('G Kneller'), 1 page folio, partly printed and completed by hand, 15 September 1707.
KNELLER, Sir Godfrey (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Receipt Signed ('G Kneller') 1 page 8vo (oblong), 1 April 1714.
KNIGHT, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [?Peter] Cunningham, 2 pages 8vo, 39 Albion Street, Broadstairs, 9 September 1851.
KNIGHT, Dame Laura (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink on a small piece, mounted on the remains of an album leaf, no date
KNOWLES, James Sheridan (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to James Thomson, 1 page 4to, laid down on an album leaf with the envelope-front, no place, 17 October 1841.
KNILL, Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Lee, 3 pages 16mo, Chester, 21 November 1849.
KNOWLES, James Sheridan (This is a link to the full description)
Long ALS to the novelist John Galt (1779-1839), 2½ pages folio (seal tear) with integral address-leaf, no place (postmarked Glasgow, 8 December 1823).
KNOX, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed colleague ('My dear sir'), 4 pages 8vo, Edin[burgh], 'Monday 9 Oct' no year
KOKOSCHKA, Oskar (This is a link to the full description)
Picture postcard of his painting Die Küste bei Dover, rather creased and worn, signed in ink, no date
KORAIS, Adamantios (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, in Greek, to Phrankiadis, written on a scrap of what appears to be another letter, ca 75 x 180 mm (3 x 7 inches), no place, 30 October 1826.
KORNGOLD, Erich Wolfgang (This is a link to the full description)
Caricature of Korngold in Pencil (head only), signed 'Tabor' and signed in pencil by the composer beneath the image, no date
KOUSSEVITZKY, Serge (This is a link to the full description)
Programme for a concert in the Symphony Hall, Boston, 1934/35 season, signed by Koussevitzky in ink across an inner page (some folding at the edges).
KOUSSEVITZKY, Serge (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized reproduction of a portrait of Koussevitzky, bodly signed in ink in the lower white margin, no date
KRENEK, Ernst (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of five bars on two staves incorporating the notes of a twelve-tone motif, 92 x 160 mm. (ca 3½ x 6¼ inches), undated.
L (return to top)LABLACHE, Luigi (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page 4to, partly printed, with manuscript insertions, Paris, 31 December 1838.
LAFAYETTE, Marie Joseph, Marquis de (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent ('Chére Amie'), 1 page 4to (trimmed), 'la grange 11 Novemb.' no year
LAFAYETTE, Marie Joseph, Marquis de (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS ('Lafayette'), in French, to General de Marcay, 1 page 4to with integral postmarked address-leaf, La Grange, 20 October 1826.
LAMARTINE, Alphonse (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Lamartine') to an unnamed correspondent ('Monsieur'), 1 page 8vo, Paris, 1 May 1857.
LAMB, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('from C. Lamb') in the lower left-hand corner of part of an autograph address-leaf, addressed to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine.
LAMB, Henry Taylor (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir Stephen Tallents, 1 page 4to, 3 Vale Hotel Studios, Hampstead, 2 Mar 1921.
LAMBERT, Constant (This is a link to the full description)
Fine bold signature in ink, dated 1944, on paper mounted on an album leaf.
LAMOND, Frederic (This is a link to the full description)
Large signature in ink on paper.
LANCHESTER, Elsa (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a small white card, ca 40 x 75 mm (1½ x 3 inches).
LANDOR, Walter Savage (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs West, 1 page 8vo, no place, no date
LANDOR, Walter Savage (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, Bath, 31 May 1855.
LANDSEER, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to George Cubitt MP, 1 page 8vo, Royal Academy (but on Athenaeum writing-paper), 2 May no year
LANDSEER, Sir Edwin (This is a link to the full description)
Ticket of admission to view Landseer's collection of pictures at 50 Pall Mall, 60 x 90 mm. (2½ x 3½ inches), signed in ink by Landseer, 17 June 1847.
LANDSEER, Sir Edwin (This is a link to the full description)
Collection of 17 ALsS to Henry Atkinson, and 1 to his father William Atkinson, 3 pages 4to, 20 pages 8vo, 6 pages 16mo, various places, 1836-1841.
LANDSEER, Sir Edwin (This is a link to the full description)
Brief, but large, autograph note signed to Mr or Mrs Cubitt, 1 page 4to with autograph and franked address on the reverse, 30 April 1851.
LANDSEER, Sir Edwin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Cheney, 1 page 8vo with integral blank and remnant of a black wax seal at the top, 11 July 1854.
LANG, Andrew (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALS to Mr Steel, 3 pages 8vo (a little soiled), 1 Marloes Road, 24 and 31 May, no year
LANG, Andrew (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Butcher, 2¼ pages 8vo, 8 Gibson Place [St Andrews?], 16 November no year
LANGTRY, Emilie Charlotte, 'Lillie' (This is a link to the full description)
Fine postcard-sized photograph, head and shoulders, in profile with her wavy hair held back in a comb, a diaphanous collar framing her face [postmark 1905].
LANGTRY, Emilie Charlotte, 'Lillie' (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Lillie de Bathe') to [A J] D'Albani, 2 pages 4to, Cornwall Lodge, Allsop Place,Regents Park, 18 March no year [?ca 1914].
LANGTRY, Emilie Charlotte, 'Lillie' (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Lillie de Bathe') to 'My dear Louis', 2 pages large 4to (10½ x 8½ inches a little worn in the folds), Le Lys, Monaco, 12 February no year
LANGTRY, Emilie Charlotte, 'Lillie' (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Lillie de Bathe') to A J D'Albani in Dieppe, 2 pages small 4to on black-edged paper with envelope, Le Lys, Monaco, 21 July, postmark 1927.
LANKESTER, Sir Edwin Ray (This is a link to the full description)
Fine series of eight ALsS to Mrs Lucy Clifford (née Lane, 1846-1929, writer), 33 pages 8vo with two envelopes, 1905-?1927.
LANKESTER, Sir Edwin Ray (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to Pollock, 4 pages 8vo, (traces of former mounting, some staining on the last page), 42 Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, 6 November, no year
LANKESTER, Sir Edwin Ray (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Freelove, 2 pages 8vo, Chinehead, Westcliffe Road, Bournemouth, 17 August 1918.
LANKESTER, Sir Edwin Ray (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Ethel [Clifford], 2 pages 8vo, 11 Wellington Mansions, North Bank, 26 January no year
LANSDOWNE, Henry C K Petty-Fitzmaurice (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Reay [Donald James Mackay, 11th Baron Reay (1839-1921)], 4 pages 8vo, Quebec, 5 June 1884.
LASCELLES, Sir Alan Frederick (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [A.L.] Ball, 1 page 8vo on writing paper of Buckingham Palace (note of identification at the head), 23 October 1951.
LAUD, William (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('W: Cant:'), 1 page folio with embossed seal, (some small holes repaired, remains of mount), Whytehall, 8 June 1635.
LAUDER, Sir Harry (MacLennan) (This is a link to the full description)
Self-caricature in ink, signed beneath. A hastily-drawn picture with his characteristic tam-o-shanter and pipe.
LAUDER, Sir Harry (MacLennan) (This is a link to the full description)
Self-caricature Signed and dated 1929, on an album leaf, a little cockled, ca 95 x 160 mm (3½ x 6 inches).
LAUREL, Stan & HARDY, Oliver (This is a link to the full description)
Signatures of both, in ink, on a piece cut from writing-paper of the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, no date
LAWRENCE, D.H. (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Poem Signed, entitled 'Eden', in a copy of his Love Poems and Others, (Roberts A3. 1913), probably written early in 1917.
LAWRENCE, D.H. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (pencil, initials) in German on a postcard to [Baroness Anna von] Richtofen, his mother-in-law, Le Lavandu [8 October 1928].
LAWRENCE, Frieda (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS ('Frieda' and 'F') to a friend ('Dear Grace'), 4 pages small 4to on monogrammed paper, Kingsley Hotel, Hart Street etc., ca 1930-1932.
LAWRENCE, T.E. (This is a link to the full description)
Engine test sheets, signed at the end 'T.E. Shaw A/C', 3 pages folio on separate leaves with filing holes in the margins, dated 11 September 1933.
LAWRENCE, T.E. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('T E Lawrence') [to Lloyd's Bank], 1 page 8vo (nicked in the folds, paper clip mark at head, recipient's stamp) on Colonial Office writing paper.
LAWRENCE, T.E. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('T E Shaw') to Dorothy [Chamberlain], 1 page small 4to on light-brown deckled paper with (blank) envelope, M[otor] Y[acht] Varis, 19 September 1934.
LAWRENCE, T.E. (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('T E Shaw A/c 338171'), 1 page 4to (small nibble from upper right hand corner, and light soiling), Hythe, Hampshire, 5 October 1933.
LAWRENCE, T.E. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('T.E. Shaw') to General Sir Neill Malcolm, 1 page 8vo (oblong), 14 Barton Street, Westminster, 21 September 1929.
LAWRENCE, T.E. (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph cheque signed ('J.H. Ross'), drawn on Martin's bank in favour of Alfred Imhof Ltd for £10, on a blue printed form, dated 11 July 1929.
LAWRENCE, T.E. (This is a link to the full description)
Important and significant ALS ('T.E. Shaw') to Mordaunt, 2 pages folio (a little dust-soiled and worn in the folds), Felixstowe, 12 November 1933.
LAWRENCE, T.E. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('T.E.S.') to Flight Sergeant A.E. Clarke, 1 page 4to (slightly rumpled), 3 April 1933.
LAWRENCE, T.E. (This is a link to the full description)
Two exceptionally fine and revealing ALsS ('T E Shaw') to B[ill] B[ugg], in all 4 pages folio, East Cowes, Isle of Wight and Southampton, 18 & 30 July 1933.
LAWRENCE, Sir Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to Davies, 1 page 8vo (note of itentification at the head), 'Friday' no date
LAWRENCE, T.E. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('T E Shaw') to [John G] Wilson, Manager of Bumpus Bookshop, 1 page 4to (slight foxing), Plymouth, 8 February 1933.
LAWRENCE, T.E. (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph cheque, signed ('J.H. Ross'), payable to John Bartholomew & Son Ltd for £65, 6 October 1926.
LAWRENCE, T.E. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('TE Shaw') to Flight Lieutenant W.E.G. Beauforte-Greenwood, 2 pages 4to, Hythe, 15 January 1932.
LAWSON, Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Moore, 1 page 8vo, 34 Princes Mansions, St James' Road, 17 April 1902.
LAYARD, Sir Austen Henry (This is a link to the full description)
Long ALS to Lord Reay, 3½ pages 8vo on thinly black-edged paper, Venice, 6 October 1888.
LAYARD, Sir Austen Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Robert] Cook, John Murray's assistant, 1 page 8vo, 130 Piccadilly, 'Friday', no date
LEAR, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Decie, 2 pages 8vo, 15 Stratford Place, Oxford Street, 24 October 1865.
LEAR, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Beadon, 3 pages 8vo (some weakness in the folds professionally repaired), 8 Duchess Street, Portland Place, 13 September 1895.
LEAR, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Illustrated ALS to Mrs Beadon, 2 pages 16mo, with three sketches on the second leaf (lower portion removed, small tear in first page repaired), no place, no date
LEAR, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS with a thumbnail sketch to Charley [Beadon], 2 page 8vo (the first a little dust-soiled), Villa Tennyson, Sanremo, 11 March 1884.
LEAR, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Ford, 2 pages 8vo (very slight age-toning to first page), 15 Stratford Place, 30 June 1865.
LE CARRÉ, John (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ball-point pen cut from the top of a deckle-edged card.
LECKY, William Edward Hartpole (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr Clarke, 1½ pages 8vo on black-edged writing paper, 38 Onslow Grdens, 15 October 1877.
LECKY, William Edward Hartpole (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, 38 Onslow Gardens, 19 January 1902.
LE CORBUSIER (C.-E. Jeanneret-Gris) (This is a link to the full description)
Large bold signature on paper, 150 x 176 mm. (ca. 6 x 7 inches) dated at Paris 13 May 1950.
LEES, Florence Sarah (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to R Wigram, 8 pages 8vo with envelope, The Lindens, St Leonards on Sea, 16 July 1875.
LEE, Laurie (This is a link to the full description)
Typewritten Poem Signed, 1 page 4to on flimsy paper (slightly wrinkled along the right-hand edge), undated.
LEE, Laurie (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Bennett, 1 page 8vo, Slad Village, Stroud, 8 July 1965.
LEE, Laurie (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Laurie) to the writer and broadaster Gilbert Phelps ('Dear Gil') 2 pages 8vo (oblong, a little creased), Slad, Stroud, 17 November 1962.
LEECH, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to George ?Hodder ('Dear George'), 1 page 8vo (remains of old mounting on the reverse), 14 January 1845.
LEECH, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to William Bradbury, 1 page 8vo (oblong), Nottingham, 20 April 1852.
LEFEBVRE, François-Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
Document signed, 2 pages folio, Headquarters at Rumelen, 17 fructidor III (3 September 1795).
LE GALLIENNE, Richard Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Dear Madam'), Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, no date
LEHAR, Franz (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Carl Hentschel, 1 page 8vo with original envelope, 14 January 1909.
LEHAR, Franz (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink on a small card, ca 55 x 95 mm (2 x 4 inches).
LEHMANN, Elizabetta Nina Mary (Liza) (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph Signed, a three-quarters view of the singer in a feather-covered cape.
LEHMANN, Lotte (This is a link to the full description)
Programme Signed, on the cover on her photograph; the event was a subscription concert held at the Queen's Hall, Langham Place on the 28th of April [1936].
LEHMANN, Rosamund (This is a link to the full description)
Proof copy of an article written for Postscript with extensive autograph corrections, undated [after 1976].
LEIDER, Frida (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph of Leider as Brunhilde, signed and inscribed in English to Miss Gordon, Covent Garden, 1934.
OLIVIER, Sir Laurence & LEIGH, Vivien (This is a link to the full description)
Signatures of both, in blue ink, on an album leaf, ca 95 x 160 mm (3½ x 6 inches).
LEIGH, Vivien (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph (head and shoulders, in a broad-brimmed hat), signed in blue ink at the top, no date
LEIGH, Vivien (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph (head only), signed in blue ink across the neck, no date
LEIGHTON, Frederick, Baron Leighton (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [William Powell] Frith, 1 page 8vo, 2 Holland Park Road, no date
LEIGHTON, Frederick, Baron Leighton (This is a link to the full description)
Brief but flamboyant ALS to an unnamed firm ('Gentlemen'), 1 page 8vo with large 'painted' signature, Athenaeum Club (blind stamp), no date
LEIGHTON, Frederick, Baron Leighton (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to Mrs [Leonora Blanche] Lang (essayist and wife of the poet Andrew Lang), 2¼ pages 8vo with envelope, the Athenaeum, 16 July 1884.
LEITCH, Charlotte Cecilia P (Cecil) (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph (full length without golf equipment) signed and dated 1914.
LEMON, Mark (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Francis Fuller, 3 pages 8vo (traces of old mounting on the last page), 31 Bedford S[quare], 26 October 1869.
LENDENFELD, Robert Lendimayr von (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS in English to Professor [Thomas George Bond] Howes (1853-1905), 4 pages 8vo, Zoological Institute, Prague, 6 August 1902.
LENNOX, Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed, 1 page folio (laid down on an album leaf, some soiling), no place 1 January 1805.
LEONCAVALLO, Ruggero (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph (head and sholders), with an Autograph Music Quotation Signed of two bars from Pagliacci, dated at Montecatini, 20 June 1912.
LEOPOLD I (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Leopold') to [Charles] Grey (2nd Earl, 1764-1845, Prime Minister), 2½ pages 8vo, Marlborough House, 15 July 1831.
LEOPOLD I (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page large folio with papered seal, Brussels, 25 October 1854.
LEOPOLD II (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page large folio with papered seal, Brussels, 6 January 1887.
LESSING, Doris (This is a link to the full description)
2 TLsS and an ALS to Hans Roest, ½ pages 4to, one autograph envelope, Charrington Street, April - November 1966.
LEVER, Charles James (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription clipped from the foot of a letter, mounted below an engraved portrait, no place, no date
LEWIS, Clive Staples (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to [Dr Neville Julian] Carlile, 1 page oblong on a small slip (stained and soiled), Magdalen College, Oxford, 3 Ap[ril 1946.
LEWIS, Clive Staples (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Donald Coggan], the Bishop of Bradford (and later Archbishop of Canterbury), 1 page 8vo, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 4 February 1960.
LEWIS, Clive Staples (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to the headmaster [of Harrow], 2 pages 8vo closely-written, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 6 October 1955.
LEWIS, Clive Staples (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Jones, 1 page 8vo, Magdalen College, Oxford, 24 July 1948.
LEWIS, Matthew Gregory (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription from the foot of a letter (rather soiled, mounted), York Buildings, 30 January 1809.
LIEBIG, Justus von (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS ('Just Liebig') to [Sir Lyon] Playfair (1818-1898, chemist), 2 pages 8vo, Giessen, 10 February 184?1.
LIEBLING, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Duke of Norfolk, 4 pages 8vo, 74 Lancaster Gate, 25 July 1906.
LIGETI, György (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS on a card to the Greek harpsichordist Lina Lalandi, Hamburg 18 May 1974, with autograph envelope.
LINCOLN, Abraham (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S., 1 page double folio with green paper seal and elaborate vignettes, 1 March 1864, in remarkably fine and clean condition.
LIND, Jenny (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) as 'Madame Goldschmidt' to Mrs Bolton, 2½ pages 8vo, Oak Lea, Wimbledon Park, 1 February 1871.
LIND, Jenny (This is a link to the full description)
Early LS in German ('Jenny Lind') to the artistic director of the Hoftheater in Stuttgart, 1 page 4to, Frankfurt, 6 ?October 1846. With a translation.
LINDLEY, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (initials) to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo (a few small stains), Acton Green, Turnham Green, 'Saturday' no date
LINDLEY, John (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS to [Sir Charles Wentworth] Dilke, 4 pages 8vo (slight traces of mounting), Horticultural Society, dated in another hand 1855 and 1856.
LINDSEY, Theophilus (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Revd G[ilbert] Wakefield in Dorchester Goal, 2 pages 4to with integral address-leaf (detached), London, 14 April 1801.
LINGNER, Karl August (This is a link to the full description)
TLS in German to Octavia Susman in Cannes, 1 page 4to, Dresden, 23 April 1912.
LINNAEUS, Carl (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed, in Swedish, 1 page 8vo (oblong), Uppsala, Sweden, 10 October 1757.
LINNELL, John (This is a link to the full description)
Carte-de-visite photograph by Elliott & Fry, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount.
LISTER, Joseph, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Carless, 1 page 8vo on black-edged writing paper of 19 Park Crescent, Portland Place, as from Lyme Regis, 14 May 1895.
LISTER, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Rücker' (evidently a colleague), 1½ pages 8vo on black-edged paper (traces of mounting on the blank leaf), York House Hotel, Bath, 14 October 1899.
LISTON, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('My Dear Lady'), 2 pages 16mo (laid down by the remains of the second leaf), 5 Clifford Street, 25 March 1846.
LISZT, Franz (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in German [to Professor Ernest Rietschel], 3 pages 8vo (a little faded and with some professional strengthening), Weimar, 6 July 1858.
LISZT, Franz (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in German to 'Hochwürdiger, lieber Cousin', 3 pages 8vo (splitting in the folds professionally repaired), Budapest, 11 March 1882.
LISZT, Franz (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to 'Monsieur le Baron', 1 page 8vo with blank leaf, no place, 17 February 1868.
LISZT, Franz (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French [to Mrs Harriet Grote, wife of the historian George Grote], 3 pages 16mo, [London], docketed by the recipient F.Liszt / May 1841.
LISZT, Franz (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 3 pages 8vo in purple ink, Bayreuth, 17 July 1882. With a full translation.
LISZT, Franz (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo (browned, torn in the folds, second sheet detached, evidence of tape), Pest, 19 January 1871.
LISZT, Franz (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Letter Signed to a music publisher, in German, 1½ pages 8vo (some old mount adhering to the first page), Weimar, 17 May 1852.
LISZT, Franz (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in German to the publisher, Kistner, 2 pages 8vo (some soiling and splitting repaired), Eilsen, 22 June 1851. With a transcript and translation.
LISZT, Franz (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in German, to Wilhelm Posse in Berlin. 1 page 8vo, with original envelope. Tuesday evening, 20 May 1884.
LISZT, Franz (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive early ALS in French to 'Monsieur le Comte', 2 pages 8vo (small split professionally repaired), 30 January 1840.
LIVERPOOL, R.B. Jenkinson, Second Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [George] Canning, 1½ pages 8vo (glue-stain at foot of second page), Fife House, 24 April 1825.
LIVINGSTONE, David (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to John Laird, 4 pages 8vo with endorsements on the last page, Edg[e]hill [Liverpool], 3 March 1858.
LIVINGSTONE, David (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Arthur] Mills, 4 pages 8vo on black-edged paper (slight remains of hinge not affecting the text), 48 Euston Square, 28 July 1865.
LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN (This is a link to the full description)
ALS 'El Butler & S. Ponsonby', in the hand of Sarah Ponsonby, to Mrs ?Mytton, 1 page 4to with integral address-leaf, Llangollen, 11 January 1817.
LLOYD, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and sentiment ('With pleasure / Yours very truly, Edward Lloyd').
LLOYD, Marie (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph Signed ('Yours always / Marie Lloyd'), seated in a chair almost as elaborately decorated as her hat.
LLOYD-GEORGE, David, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on embossed card of the House of Commons, ca 90 x 115 mm (3½ x 4½ inches) together with Lloyd-George's compliments slip.
LLOYD-GEORGE, David, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive Signed Photograph by Whitefields, showing the Prime Minister in his later years, seated on a chair outside an elaborate door.
LLOYD-GEORGE, David, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Fine large signature and date, 29 June 1916, on a page of writing-paper with the blind stamp of the Ministry of Munitions, laid down on an album leaf.
LOCKHART, John Gibson (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to Robert Southey, 1½ pages 4to with address-leaf, London, 16 July 1827.
LODGE, Sir Oliver Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Simon, 1 page 4to, Mariemont, Edgbaston, 23 September 1915.
LODGE, Sir Oliver Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph of Lodge in academic robes and hat (three-quarter length), signed in ink on a dark part of the image.
LODGE, Sir Oliver Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph by Lafayette, signed on the mount beneath the picture, showing Lodge seated in half-profile, hand pensively held to his chin.
LODGE, Sir Oliver Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Signed photograph by Elliott & Fry, ca 21 x 19½ mm (8½ x 7½ inches), paper and card mount, signed below the image on the paper mount.
LODGE, Sir Oliver Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
LS to J Walter Robson, 1 page 8vo, The University, Birmingham, 14 December 1901.
LONDONDERRY, Robert, 1st Marquis (This is a link to the full description)
AL [unsigned, but almost certainly the 1st marquis and probably to Sir Thomas Lawrence], 2 pages 8vo, Pulteney Hotel [Bath], 'Sunday' no date [ca 1820].
LONDON ZOO (This is a link to the full description)
Series of ca twenty admission tickets for the Zoological Gardens, various sizes, all but one 1833 where dated.
LONG, Sir Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS apparently to Prince Rupert, 1 page 4to (professionally repaired and laid down), no place, 3 January 1649 (new style).
THE LORDS JUSTICE (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed by the Lords Justice appointed during the absence of George I, 3 pages folio (worn in the folds), given at the Cock Pitt, 28 May 1719.
LOTHAR, Mark (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of six bars on one stave from his opera 'Tyll' (1928), inscribed and dated in Munich, March 1979, 90 x 142 mm. (ca 3½ x 5½ inches).
[LOUIS XVI] (This is a link to the full description)
Part of a document with secretarial signature, 1 page folio on vellum (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), Versailles, 1 January 1785.
LOUISE CAROLINE ALBERTA (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Charlemont, 3 pages 8vo, on embossed paper of Windsor Castle, 19 March no year [watermark 1869].
LOUISE VICTORIA ALEXANDRA DAGMAR (This is a link to the full description)
Cabinet photograph by G G L'Ange, Signed in a light part of the photograph, head and shoulders view of the Princess in a high-necked, striped blouse.
LOUISE VICTORIA ALEXANDRA DAGMAR (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Arthur [Sassoon], 3 pages 8vo on monogrammed, black-edged writing paper, 15 Portman Square, 13 March 1912.
LOUISE CAROLINE ALBERTA (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Louise') to Mrs Martin, 4 pages 8vo on writing paper bearing a gold coronet (glue stains), no place, 6 June 1872.
LOUISE CAROLINE ALBERTA (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to General Dillon, 2 pages 8vo on writing paper of Kensington Palace, 1 March 1881.
LOUISE MARGARET, Duchess of Connaught (This is a link to the full description)
Cabinet photograph by Bassano, signed and dated 1882.
LOUIS-PHILIPPE (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('L.P. D'Orléans') in French, to an unnamed duke, 1 page 4to, Portsmouth, 5 September 1800.
LOVAT, Simon Fraser, 12th Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Lovat') to Donald Fraser, 1 page 8vo, red wax seal, integral address-leaf, Beaufort, 10 November 1739.
LOVAT, Simon Joseph Fraser, Lord (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Fraser, 2 pages 8vo with integral address-leaf, 29 September 1716.
LOVELL, Sir Bernard (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph manuscript of a book review published in The New Scientist in 1965, 4 pages 8vo with numerous corrections.
LOWE, Sir Hudson (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Admiral Sir (William) Sidney Smith (1764-1840), 2 pages 4to with blank leaf, Passy, 8 November 1825.
LOWELL, James Russell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Tennant, 1 page 8vo, Hyde Park, 22 May 1888.
LOWELL, James Russell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Arthur Hervey, 1 page 8vo, Hyde Park, 18 October 1887.
LOWELL, James Russell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Drummond, 2¼ pages 8vo, (traces of mount on verso of second leaf), Legation of the United States, London, 9 June 1882.
LOWELL, James Russell (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Cheque Signed, on the Charles River National Bank, 5 January 1877. Two cancellation-holes affecting only the printed heading.
LOWELL, James Russell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed firm ('Gentlemen'), 1 page 8vo on black-edged writing paper, Legation of the United States, London, 1 May 1885.
LOWELL, James Russell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lord Reay [Donald James Mackay, 11th Baron Reay (1839-1921)], 1 page 8vo, Legation of the United States, London, 5 February 1884.
LOWRY, L.S. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Shaberman, 1 page 8vo, The Elms, Stalybridge Road, Mottram-In-Longdendale, 9 April 1953.
LUBBOCK, Sir John, first Baron Avebury (This is a link to the full description)
4 ALsS to various correspondents, 8 pages 8vo, various places, 1907-1911.
LUBBOCK, Sir John, first Baron Avebury (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS and an LS to Lord Monkswell, 5½ pages 8vo, London and Farnborough, 1888 and 1900.
LUCAN, George Charles Bingham, Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Lucan') to his agent, W[illia]m Brocklehurst, 4 pages 8vo with postscript written across the first page, Castleham, 7 November 1842.
LUCAN, George Charles Bingham, Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Lucan') to his agent W[illiam] Brocklehurst, 1 page 8vo, Castleham, 23 October 1845.
LUCAN, George Charles Bingham, Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Lucan') to his agent William Brocklehurst, 1 page 8vo, Castleham, 21 December 1843.
LUCAS, Edward Verral (This is a link to the full description)
2 ALsS to 'Dear Harry', 3½ pages 8vo, 41 Sloane Street, 15 and 21 February 1922.
LUCAS, (John) Seymour (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to H B Hyde, 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper with envelope, New Place, Woodchurch Road, West Hampstead, 2 November 1898.
LUMLEY, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
LS to John Caple, 1 page 8vo (small chunk missing from the upper left hand corner), Her Majesty's Theatre, 18 May 1848.
LUSHINGTON, Edmund Law (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph certificate signed, 1 page 8vo (oblong, laid down), Glasgow College, 3 March 1864.
LUSHINGTON, Edmund Law (This is a link to the full description)
Archive of Lushington's correspondence including many letters from members of the Tennyson family.
LUTOSLAWSKI, Witold (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of two bars from the Concerto for Orchestra (composed 1954), 57 x 223 mm. (ca 2½ x 8½ inches, irregularly trimmed), no date
LUTOSLAWSKI, Witold (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Witold') in English to an unnamed correspondent ('Mon très cher Ami'), 2 pages 8vo, Warsaw, 28 December 1988.
LUTOSLAWSKI, Witold (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Ronald Senator, ½-page 4to (A4), Warsaw, 4 May 1978.
LUTYENS, Sir Edwin (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Mrs Whiteman, 1 page 4to, 5 Eaton Gate, 25 April 1939.
LUTYENS, Sir Edwin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the portrait painter [Sir Gerald] Kelly (1879-1972), 2 pages 4to, as from 7 Apple Tree Yard, York Street, St James's, 21 February 1923.
LUTYENS, Sir Edwin (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to the philanthropist and industrialist Lord Wakefield (1859-1941), ½-page 4to, 5 Eaton Gate, 16 December 1932.
LYELL, Sir Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J[ohn] Murray, the publisher, 1 page 8vo (laid down), 11 Harley Street, 17 February 1853.
LYELL, Sir Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Sir'), 1 page 8vo, (remains of former mount on verso, small hole), Norfolk Street, 26 November no year
LYON, George Francis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Sir William Edward] Parry, 1 page 8vo (slight splitting, remains of former mounting on the reverse), no place, no date
LYONS, Joseph Aloysuis (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Lord Wakefield, 1 page 4to on Prime Minister's writing-paper, Canberra, 17 August 1932.
LYSONS, Samuel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 3½ pages 8vo (remains of mounting on the blank), Hempsted Court, 6 September 1861.
LYTTON, Edward George Bulwer-, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph genealogical notes, 2 pages 4to (oblong, a little dust-soiled) incorporating a sketch for a coat of arms, no date
LYTTON, Edward George Bulwer-, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 4 pages 16mo (a little soiled), 21 Park Lane, 3 February 1865.
LYTTON, Edward George Bulwer-, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Blake', 1 page 8vo (a little stained), Knebworth, 7 August 1868.
LYTTON, Edward George Bulwer-, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Concluding two lines and signature ('Edw Lytton Bulwer') from an ALS (traces of mounting on the reverse).
M (return to top)MacARTHUR, Douglas (This is a link to the full description)
Wartime TLS to George FitzPatrick, Public Relations Consultant for the Government of Tasmania, 1 page large 4to with envelope, 29 October 1943.
MACAULAY, Dame Rose (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Middleton ('a friend of such long standing'), 2 pages 8vo (oblong), 20 Hinde House, Hinde Street, Manchester Square, 15 June 1947.
MACAULAY, Dame Rose (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to [Horace Annesley] Vachell (1861-1955, novelist), 1 page 8vo on yellow paper, 7 Luxborough House, Northumberland Street, 25 April 1933.
MACAULAY, Dame Rose (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Ward, 1½ pages 8vo on yellow paper, 7 Luxborough House, Northumberland Street, no date
MACAULAY, Dame Rose (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Rose M.') to Mrs Roberts, 4 pages 8vo (traces of tape at the left hand margin), Hedgerley End, Beaconsfield, 22 April 1919.
MACAULAY, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Reverend T L Montefiore, 3 pages 8vo with envelope front (both laid down on separate sheets), Holly Lodge, 27 June 1859.
MACAULAY, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Malkin, 2 pages 16mo, no place, no date
MACAULAY, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo (blank leaf attached to the remains of an album leaf), Richmond Hill, 18 July 1855.
MACAULAY, Zachary (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My Dear Marianne', 1 page 8vo, Clapham, 3 August 1816.
McCARTHY, Justin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir John Arthur Roebuck, 1½ pages 8vo (traces of former mounting on the left-hand margin), Mallon, 3 April 1847.
McCLINTOCK, Sir Francis Leopold (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to A. ?Mugford, 1 page 8vo, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1 November 1874.
McCLINTOCK, Sir Francis Leopold (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('F.L. McClintock') with valediction from the foot of a letter.
McCLINTOCK, Sir Francis Leopold (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Charles W. Schofield, recommending that he ask the Royal Geographical Society for Sir Henry Barth's address, 1 p 8vo (laid down), Oban, 24 Aug 1863.
McCLURE, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to Washington (evidently the hydrographer John Washington, 1800-1863), 4 pages 8vo (small tear), Esk, Singapore, 3 May 1860.
McCLURE, Robert John Le Mesurier (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, 13 Salisbury Street, Strand, 23 October 1854.
MacCormack, John (This is a link to the full description)
Menu for a reception and dinner given in honour of the boxer Gene Tunney in Dublin, 23 August 1928, signed in ink by McCormack and in pencil by Tunney.
MacCORMACK, John (This is a link to the full description)
Menu for a reception and dinner given in honour of the boxer Gene Tunney in Dublin, 23 August 1928, signed in ink by McCormack and in pencil by Tunney.
MacDONALD, George (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to his sister Phoebe, 8 pages 8vo (one a little soiled), Arundel, 17 October 1851 and Newport, 10 December 1858, with related material.
MacDONALD, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('My dear Madam'), 2 pages 8vo with blank leaf, Hillfield, Hampstead, 5 October 1889.
MacDONALD, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Herr Paul Apfelstedt, 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper (laid down, Porto Fino, Riviera di Levante, 7 May 1879.
MacDONALD, James Ramsay (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Mrs E Phillips Edge in Vancouver, Canada, 1 page 4to, on 10 Downing Street paper, with envelope, 9 January 1932.
MacDONALD, James Ramsay (This is a link to the full description)
ALS with no superscript, 1 page 4to on writing paper of the Daily Herald Editorial Office, undated (pin holes in upper left hand margin, wrinkled).
MACFARREN, George (This is a link to the full description)
Series of 11 ALsS to J. Glossop of the Royal Coburg Theatre, in all 11 pages 8vo and 6 pages 4to, all with address-leaves, 1820, where dated.
MACKAIL, John William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Emily] Faithfull, Headmistress of Cheltenham Ladies' College, 1 page 8vo (received notes at the head in red ink), Whitehall, 19 September 1910.
MACKENZIE, Alexander Campbell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sabilla Novello (daughter of Vincent Novello) in Genoa, 3 pages 8vo with envelope, Dunedin House, Sydenham, 14 January no year
MACKENZIE, Alexander Campbell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J. Dibden, 2 facing pages 8vo on writing paper of the Royal Academy of Music, as from 15 Regents Park Road, 20 December 1893.
MACKENZIE, Sir Compton (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to [?Hugh] Chesterman, 1 page 8vo, Eilean Algas, Beauly, Inverness-shire, 22 March 1932.
MACKENZIE, Sir Compton (This is a link to the full description)
TLS with autograph subscription to Rendel, 1 page 4to (slight tear to right hand margin), Suidheachan, Island of Barra, Outer Hebrides, 3 December 1939.
MACKENZIE, Sir Compton (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Miss Gordon, 1 page 8vo, Eilean Aigas, Beauly, Invernesshire, 10 October 1931.
MACKENZIE, Sir Morell (This is a link to the full description)
Important ALS to the Registrar of the General Medical Council, 1 page 8vo (laid down), 19 Harley Street, 28 November 1888.
MACKENZIE, Sir Morell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed firm ('Gentlemen'), 2½ page 8vo, 19 Harley Street, 25 July 1888.
MACKENZIE, Sir Morell (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [?William Mcneill] Whistler (1836-1900, physician and brother of the painter), 2 pages 8vo (traces of former mounting), 19 Harley Street, 2 December no year
MACLISE, Daniel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to fellow painter Charles Eastlake, 1 page 12mo (laid down, a small tear at the top), no place, 6 November no year [1866].
MACLISE, Daniel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to fellow painter Alfred Elmore, 3 pages 8vo, letterhead excised (by Maclise), no place, no date
MACLISE, Daniel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, 14 Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, 28 May 1852.
MACLISE, Daniel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed woman ('My dear Madam'), 1 page 8vo, no date
MACLISE, Daniel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Clarkson] Stanfield, 1 page 8vo (laid down on the remains of an old album leaf), 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 23 December 1860.
MACMILLAN, Alexander (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to W.J.C. Miller, 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper, on writing paper of Macmillan and Co., 11 September 1891.
MACMILLAN, Alexander (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the art critic and literary editor, William Michael Rossetti, 1 page 12mo, on writing paper of Macmillan and Co., 11 June 1867.
MACMILLAN, Harold, Lord Stockton (This is a link to the full description)
TLS with autograph additions to J.L. Garvin, 1½ pages 4to on separate leaves, (rust-mark in top left corner), St Martin's Street, 30 June 1927.
MACMILLAN, Harold, Lord Stockton (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Harold Smith, 1 page 8vo, 4 Little Essex Street, London, 22 February 1978.
MACMILLAN, Harold, Lord Stockton (This is a link to the full description)
Fine black and white photograph, 162 x 120 mm. (6½ x 4½ inches), signed ('Harold Macmillan') in the lower margin, undated.
MACMILLAN, Harold, Lord Stockton (This is a link to the full description)
Signed postcard of the Brian Organ portrait, signed in the lower white border ('Stockton').
McNEILE, H.C. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo (filing holes at the head), Hotel Rosat, Chateau-d'Oex, Switzerland, 22 February [1922].
MACQUARIE, Lachlan (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to Dr Arnold, 1 page 8vo (oblong), H.M.S. Dromedary, 29 August 1908.
MACREADY, William Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to G. Pryne, 2 pages 8vo (traces of former mounting), 5 Clarence Terrace, Hyde Park, 2 March 1842.
MACREADY, William Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Henning, 1 page 12mo (slightly trimmed, laid down), Sherborne House, 8 January 1857.
MACREADY, William Charles (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 12mo, 5 Clarence Terrace, Regent's Park, no date
MAETERLINCK, Count Maurice (This is a link to the full description)
Printed contract between Maeterlinck and The Century Company of New York, signed, 2 pages folio, remains of a red wax seal, 22 December 1922.
MAETERLINCK, Count Maurice (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to an unnamed lady ('Madame'), 1 page 8vo, Nice, 18 May 1915.
MAETERLINCK, Count Maurice (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed woman ('Chere Madame') in French, 1½ pages 8vo, Menton, 2 March no year
MAGINN, William (This is a link to the full description)
Series of 4 ALsS (initials) to 'W', in all 5 pages 8vo, no place, no date
MAHONY, Francis Sylvester (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph verses, unsigned, 1 page 8vo with integral blank (small stain, a note of identification in ink at the top), 25 May 1856.
MAHONY, Francis Sylvester (This is a link to the full description)
ALs to Mrs Gibbons, 2 pages 8vo on thin paper, 12 Regent Street, 1 July no year
MAHONY, Francis Sylvester (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr Elliotson, 1 page 8vo (slight traces of mounting), 16 Great Marlborough Street, 'tuesday morning nine oclock' [sic], no date
MALCOLM, Sir Pulteney (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page 4to, Royal Oak in the Chesapeake, 11 October 1814.
MALIPIERO, Gian Francesco (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed, three bars from the prelude to San Francesco d'Assisi on a single stave, 85 x 145 mm. Asolo, 16 December 1924.
MALTA (This is a link to the full description)
ALS from Petrus Pace, Bishop of Malta, to Sir ?Linton, 1 page 8vo, Malta, 19 July 1893.
MALTHUS, Daniel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the bookseller [John] Stockdale, 1 page 4to with integral address-leaf (a little dust-stained), 18 March [1793].
MANBY, George William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Robert Cole, 1 page 4to with vignette, Southtown, Great Yarmouth, 25 November 1843.
MARCHESI, Blanche (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph Signed in ink at the head (slightly smudged), showing the singer in peasant dress with shawl and head-scarf.
MARCONI, Guglielmo (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and salutation ('Yours very truly'), dated April 1923, on a sheet of writing paper from the R[oyal] Y[acht] s[quadron] Castle, Cowes.
MARCONI, Guglielmo (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink ('yours truly / G Marconi') written obliquely on a small card, undated.
MARCONI, Guglielmo (This is a link to the full description)
TLS, in English, to Sir Henry Trueman Wood, Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts, 1 page 4to, Marconi House, Strand, 16 April 1915 (received stamp).
MARDYN, Charlotte (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Smith at the Theatre, Ipswich, 2 pages 4to with integral address-leaf and red wax seal, London, 2 January 1817.
MARGARET, Princess, of Connaught (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS ('Margaret') to Miss Gladys Thomson in Dublin, 6 pages 8vo with two envelopes, Malta and Stockholm, 12 March 1905 and 9 February 1906.
MARIA THERESA (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Carl Wilhelm Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg, 1 page folio with address-leaf, 23 March 1744.
MARIE LOUISE, Princess (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [John Charles] Dollman (1851-1934), 2 pages 8vo, Ambassadors' Court, St James's Palace, date indicipherable.
ALBONI, Marietta, Contessa Pepoli (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of four bars with words (voice only) from the aria 'Voi che sapete' from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, 1 page 8vo (oblong), London, 1862.
MARINA, Princess (This is a link to the full description)
Christmas Card signed ('with my best wishes / Marina'), 1 page 8vo, Christmas 1957.
MARKHAM, Sir Clements Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Norris, 1½ pages 8vo, 21 Eccleston Square, 23 October 1907.
MARLBOROUGH, John Churchill, 1st Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page folio with second leaf bearing a contemporary endorsement, Office of Ordnance, 14 February 1718/19, signed also by Thomas Frankland.
MARLBOROUGH, John Churchill, 1st Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent ('My Lord'), 1 page 4to (nicks in the edges, a little worn and creased), no place, 25 February 1718/19.
MARLBOROUGH, Consuelo, 9th Duchess of (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Consuelo Marlborough') cut from the foot of a typed letter.
MARLBOROUGH, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('S Marlborough') cut from the reverse of a printed document, signed also by Godolphin, ca 40 x 90 mm (1½ x 3½ inches), no date
MARRYAT, Frederick (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Chamin, 3 pages 16mo, laid down on the remains of an album leaf, no place, no date
MARRYAT, Frederick (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 4to (trimmed, and repaired in the centre fold), no place, dated on the reverse in another hand 30 September 1827.
MARSHALL, J L (This is a link to the full description)
3 ALsS to H. Lynge, 2½ pages 8vo and two postcards, Weymouth and Torquay, 1888. With a list by Lynge annotated by Marshall and customs documents.
MARTINEAU, Harriet (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and date, 1 page 8vo with vignette of The Knoll, Ambleside, 12 June 1862.
MARTINEAU, Harriet (This is a link to the full description)
Incomplete AL (last page(?s) with signature missing) to Mrs Robinson, 4 pages 8vo, Ambleside, 15 February 1869.
MARTINEAU, Harriet (This is a link to the full description)
Partial ALS, 6 pages 8vo, no place, no date
MARTINEAU, Harriet (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person), 1 page 8vo (neatly inlaid), no place, no date
MARTINEAU, Harriet (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Hickson, 2½ pages 8vo, Ambleside, 31 December 1856.
MARTINEAU, Harriet (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS on a small slip of blue paper addressed 'Mr T. Bell' on the reverse, n.p, 30 March, no year
MARTINEAU, Harriet (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 16mo (roughly trimmed, and laid down), Ambleside, 20 April 1864.
MARTINEAU, James (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Walter R[aleigh] Browne, 3½ pages 8vo, 35 Gordon Square, London, 26 November 1881.
MARWOOD, William (This is a link to the full description)
Marwood's card, with the stamped inscription on one side (traces of mounting and slight crease), and his signature, 'Wm Marwood / Horncastle' on the other.
MARY I (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Marye' with autograph subscription), in French, to the Queen Dowager of Hungary, 1 page folio (oblong) with address on the reverse, 10 April 1554.
MARY I (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('Mary the quene' at the head), 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum, Dated at Oatlands, 18 June [1554].
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS (This is a link to the full description)
LS with autograph subscription to Sir George Bowes (1527-1580), 1 page folio with address on the reverse, Sheffield Manor, 7 June 1579.
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Letter Signed to the Earl of Bothwell, 1 page large folio, no place, 15 August 1566.
MARY OF MODENA (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Cardinal Crescentio in Rome ('Mon Cousin'), 1 page 4to with address-leaf bearing two black wax armorial seals (some soiling and small splits).
MARY OF MODENA (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Maria'), in Italian, to Giulia Londi Cassuoli in Parma, 1 page 4to with integral address-leaf and red wax seal, London, 16 November 1682.
MARY, Queen (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph note (unsigned) on two sides of an embossed correspondence card of Windsor Castle, addressed 'fr the Queen', 19 June 1919.
MARY, Queen (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Mary R' with a flourish) on an 8vo sheet of crested writing paper from Marlborough House.
MARY, Duchess of Gloucester & Edinburgh (This is a link to the full description)
Charming pen-and-ink drawing of a rustic cottage with the floor plan and further drawings on the reverse, 1 page 12mo (oblong), no place, no date, unsigned.
MARY ADELAIDE, Princess (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Stephens, 3 pages 8vo on black-edged paper, Kensington Palace, 8 July 1878.
MASEFIELD, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Strong, 1 page 8vo, 30 Maida Hill West, 14 June 1910.
MASEFIELD, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Tuke, 1 page 8vo, 30 Maida Hill West, 17 April 1910.
MASEFIELD, John (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to Captain E N Hale on active service in France, 2 pages 8vo with envelope, Boar's Hill, 17 June 1917.
MASEFIELD, John (This is a link to the full description)
LS and 3 TLsS to the illustrator [Hugh] Chesterman, 2 pages 8vo and 3 pages 4to, 1927 and 1928 where dated.
MASSENET, Jules (This is a link to the full description)
Massenet's visiting card with an autograph message signed with a squiggle, no date
MATISSE, Henri (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed printer or publisher, 1 page 4to, Nice 5 January 1942, with a translation.
MAUDE, Aylmer (This is a link to the full description)
Four lengthy ALsS (one unfinished) to Mrs Edge, in all 22 pages 8vo and 2 pages 4to (the latter torn), Great Baddow, Chelmsford, 1921.
MAUGHAM, William Somerset (This is a link to the full description)
Two TLsS to Mrs Whitemore, in all 2 pages 8vo, Villa Mauresque, St Jean, Cap Ferrat and The Dorchester, London, 25 February and 9 December 1952.
MAUGHAM, William Somerset (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Major', 1 page 8vo (filing holes, slightly ragged left-hand edge), 5 Portland Place, 'Monday', no date
MAUGHAM, William Somerset (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Mrs Whitmore, 1 page 8vo (slightly creased), Villa Mauresque, St Jean-Cap Ferrat, 7 February 1958.
MAUGHAM, William Somerset (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Frau Hagebocker, 1 page 8vo, Villa Mauresque, 4 April 1962.
MAUND, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2½ pages 12mo, Bromsgrove, 5 January 1855.
MAUND, Benjamin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, Bromsgrove, 27 October 1845.
MAXIM, Sir Hiram Stevens (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard, showing the Maxim-Schutze gun being fired by a soldier, signed in black ink vertically on the white border, postmarked 25 January 1905.
MAXIMILIAN (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('Maximiliano'), 1 page double folio, given at the Palace of Mexco, 30 January 1865.
MAXWELL, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (This is a link to the full description)
Nine ALsS to Lady Anna Chandos Pole, mostly with envelopes, 19 pages 8vo, from Lichfield House, Richmond, and Kisseleffstrasse, one date stamp 1906.
MAZZINI, Giuseppe (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to William Malleson in Holborn Hill, 1 page 16mo with envelope, 'Friday' [postmark 1 February 1862, a Saturday].
MAZZINI, Giuseppe (This is a link to the full description)
Long ALS to W. Malleson in Holborn Hill, 11 pages 16mo with envelope (split in one fold), 11 November 1865 (postmark).
MEDIEVAL DOCUMENT - Yorkshire 1367 (This is a link to the full description)
Quitclaim by William Hendeselagh of Snaith (Yorks) and his wife to John Smalwood of Cowick and his wife in all legal matters, 55 x 255mm (ca 2 x 10 inches)
MEDIEVAL DOCUMENT - Canterbury Cathedral (This is a link to the full description)
Grant from the monks of Canterbury Cathedral to Godfrey Fyneux of Ickham, 10 June 6 Henry IV [1405], ca 120 x 295 mm. (4½ x 11 inches) on vellum. Seal tag.
MEDIEVAL DOCUMENT - YORKSHIRE 1362 (This is a link to the full description)
Letter of attorney, on vellum, ca 25 x 273 mm. (ca 2½ x 11 inches) with seal tag (lacking seal), 4 December 1362.
MEDIEVAL DOCUMENT, ca 1250 (This is a link to the full description)
Fine and attractive grant with the original seal in excellent condition. Latin.
MEDTNER, Nicolai (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Nicholas Medtner') to the concert agency of Ibbs and Tillett, 2 separate pages 4to (small filing tears), 43 Belsize Avenue, 26 February 1930.
MEDTNER, Nikolai (This is a link to the full description)
Fine signature in purple ink ('Nicolas Medtner / 12/VI/1944') on paper mounted on the remains of an album leaf.
MELBA, Dame Nellie (This is a link to the full description)
Lovely postcard-sized photograph signed, head and shoulders view of the singer with an elaborate coiffure and corsage.
MELBA, Dame Nellie (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive postcard-sized photograph of Melba with signature on paper pasted at the foot, dated 1905.
MELBOURNE, William Lamb, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J[ohn] Backhouse, 1½ pages 8vo (glue-stain down right hand edge on the reverse), Windsor Castle, 29 August 1840.
MELBOURNE, William Lamb, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S on the reverse of a petition (not complete), 1 page 8vo (oblong), Whitehall, 23 November 1832.
MELBOURNE, William Lamb, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J[ohn] Backhouse, 1 page 8vo (trimmed at the foot, glue-stain on the reverse), South Street, 11 July 1837.
MELLON, Harriet, Lady Beauclerk (This is a link to the full description)
ALS without superscript, 1 page 4to, including a ticket to her box dated 23 June 1827.
MENDELSSOHN, Felix (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Herr and Frau Seydlitz and Frau Verkenius [in Cologne], 1½ pages 4to with fine signature, Leipzig, 20 June 1846.
MENDELSSOHN, Felix (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS ('Dein F.') to [Karl] Klingemann in London, 1 page 4to closely-written with address on the reverse, Paris 9 January 1832.
MENDELSSOHN, Felix (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in English to Mrs [Elizabeth] Horsley, 2 pages 8vo with the central panel of the address leaf remaining, 103 Great Portland Street, 19 June 1832.
MENDELSSOHN, Felix (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive Document signed, 1 page 8vo (oblong, browned), no place, April no year
MENDELSSOHN, Felix (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy') to 'Herr Präsident Verkenius' in Cologne, 1½ pages 4to with integral address-leaf, Düsseldorf, 25 March 1835.
MENU (This is a link to the full description)
Menu for the Fine Arts Dinner, held at the Lyceum Club on 11 June 1923, 4 pages 8vo, signed in pencil on the back by nine of the attendees.
MENUHIN, Yehudi (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on an album leaf, ca 95 x 160 mm (3½ x 6 inches), dated 1935 in his hand.
MENUHIN, Yehudi (This is a link to the full description)
Good photograph, 180 x 115 mm. (7 x 4½ inches), signed in ink in the lower white margin and inscribed to J.H. Bolshaw, 1944.
MEREDITH, George (This is a link to the full description)
Large bold signature in blue ink from the foot of a letter, irregularly trimmed.
MEREDITH, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to John Kidd in Stoke Newington, 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper with envelope, Box Hill, Dorking, 6 January 1891.
MERIMEE, Prosper (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to Colonel Claremont, 1 page 8vo with envelope, also signed, no place, 6 June 1861.
MESSIAEN, Olivier-Eugène-Prosper-Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph specification of the orchestration for Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum, 1 page 8vo in pencil, unsigned.
MESSIAEN, Olivier-Eugène-Prosper-Charles (This is a link to the full description)
Programme of the concert given at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, 25 February 1968, with a lengthy message, signed, on the back cover (lightly soiled).
MEWS, Peter (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Reverend Mr Mathews, Vicar of Alton ('To be Communicated to ye Rest of ye Clergy of that Deanery'), 1 page 4to with address-leaf
MEYERBEER, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French, to an unnamed correspondent ('Cher & illustre Maitre!'), 1 page 8vo (embossed crown and initials), no place, 'dimanche' no date
MEYERBEER, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'Henri' [?Henry Stuart], 1 page 8vo, [Paris], 'Samedi matin' no date
MEYERBEER, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to an unnamed lady ('Madame!'), 1½ pages 8vo, on writing paper with his elaborately embossed initials, 'Mardi', no date, but probably 1849.
MEYERBEER, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed Doctor, 1 page 8vo, no place, Tuesday, no date
MEYNELL, Alice Christiana (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph poem The Wind is Blind, 1 page 4to (worn, laid down on card, slightly trimmed, just touching the signature at the foot), undated.
MICHAEL NICHOLAIVICH, Grand Duke (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Bright with autograph superscript, 3 pages 8vo, Ken Wood, Hampstead, 6 April no year
MICHELET, Jules (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Madame'), 1 page 8vo, S. Gervais (Savoie), 9 April 1865.
MIDDLETON, Charles, second Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to the Marquis de Forcy, 1 page small 4to, St Germains, 21 October 1710.
MILDMAY, Sir Walter (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink ('Wa: Mildmay') on a small piece of paper mounted beneath an engraved portrait.
MILHAUD, Darius (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in English to H[ans] Roest, 1 page 8vo with envelope, Paris, 25 September 1967.
MILHAUD, Darius (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in English to H[ans] Roest, 1 page 8vo with envelope, Paris, 17 October 1967.
MILHAUD, Darius (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph, signed and inscribed to [Hans] Roest on the reverse, with a bar of music, and an autograph envelope.
MILHAUD, Darius (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph, a close-up in profile, signed and inscribed with an autograph musical quotation of 3 bars on the reverse.
MILHAUD, Darius (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in English to H[ans] Roest, 1 page 8vo with envelope, Paris, 11 November 1967 (postmark).
MILL, John Stuart (This is a link to the full description)
Conclusion of an ALS to James Martineau, the last page on the reverse of the address-leaf, red wax seal torn in half, no place, no date (watermark '183...').
MILL, John Stuart (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Note (unsigned), ½-page 8vo, no date With an attestation by the Secretary of the London Library that it was sent with some books in April 1866.
MILLAIS, John Guille (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, Comptons Brow, Horsham, 15 September 1919.
MILLAIS, Sir John Everett (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on a card to an unnamed correspondent, 2 Palace Gate, Kensington, 7 August 1887.
MILLAIS, Sir John Everett (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Stewart, 1 page 8vo, 2 Palace Gate, Kensington, 19 February ?1884.
MILLAIS, Sir John Everett (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the publishers Macmillan & Co., 2 pages 8vo with blank leaf, Perth, 15 September 1862.
MILLAIS, Sir John Everett (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to ?Edward Salomons, 1 page 8vo on blue paper (slight traces of former mounting), Annat Lodge, Perth, 7 July 1856.
MILLAIS, Sir John Everett (This is a link to the full description)
Brief but interesting ALS to Huish [possibly Robert Huish, miscellaneous writer], 1 page 8vo, 2 Palace Gate, Kensington, 26 May 1893.
MILLAND, Ray (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, in purple ink on a small card, ca 45 x 75 mm (2 x 3 inches).
MILLER, Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, in French, [to Dr Gaston Ferdière], 1 page folio, Berlin, 16 May 1962.
MILLER, Hugh (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Alec Ingram, 1½ pages 8vo, Edinburgh, 11 December 1847.
MILLER, Josiah (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Charles Reed ('M.P.F.S.A.'), 4 pages 8vo, Newark, 21 April 1869.
MILLER, Max Riley (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a small white card, ca 40 x 75 mm (1½ x 3 inches).
MILLES, Jeremiah (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Rivington, 1 page 8vo (oblong) with integral address-leaf, Harley Street, 24 March no year
MILLIN, Sarah Gertrude (This is a link to the full description)
Two frank and outspoken letters to (Sir) Arthur Bryant, 6 pages 8vo and 4 pages 4to, 15 Rutland Gate and Johannesburg, 15 July 1962 and 29 October 1965.
MILLOCKER, Karl (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of nine bars with words, probably from Der arme Jonathan (1890), dated 20 February 1892, 85 x 115 mm. (ca 3½ x 4½ inches).
MILNE, Alan Alexander (This is a link to the full description)
The Autograph Manuscript of his "Introduction" to the American edition of Four Plays, 10 separate pages 8vo with numerous corrections [1932].
MILNE, Alan Alexander (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr ?Winchele Smith, 1 page 8vo (a note by the recipient in the margin), 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea, but on Garrick Club writing paper, no date
MILNER, Alfred, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph by Elliott & Fry, Signed ('Milner') in the white margin at the foot (rather worn and creased).
MINOR, William Chester (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the lexicographer [James] Murray, 2 pages 8vo, Broadmoor, Crowthorne, Berkshire, 1 September 1887.
MISTRAL, Frédéric (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to M. ?Ignard, 1 page 8vo (torn in the folds), 1 August 1898, together with a letter-card bearing Mistral's portrait, inscribed, 27 January 1905.
MITFORD, Mary Russell (This is a link to the full description)
Small collection comprising four letters, an autograph manuscript poem signed, an autograph list of books and a fragment from a letter.
MITFORD, Nancy Freeman (This is a link to the full description)
Good collection of 17 ALsS and 8 postcards signed variously 'Nancy Mitford', 'Nancy Rodd', 'Nancy' & 'NM', to Brian Pearce, primarily from Paris, 1967-1972.
MODJESKA, Helena (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in English to Mrs Lewis, on two sides of a card with elaborate, coronetted monogram, 70 Finchley New Road, 'Monday' no date
MOIR, James Reid (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Chandler, 1 page 4to, One House, Ipswich, 20 October 1930.
MOLESWORTH, Mrs Mary Louisa (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Stevenson, 3½ pages 8vo, 85 Lexham Gardens, Kensington, 20 April no year
MOLESWORTH, Mrs Mary Louisa (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Prior, 3 pages 12mo, 43 Grand Parade, 21 December no year
MOLESWORTH, Mrs Mary Louisa (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Du Cane, 1½ pages 8vo, 85 Lexham Gardens, 16 May no year
MOLESWORTH, Mrs Mary Louisa (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to St Leger, 2 pages 8vo, 155 Sloane Street, 15 December 1911.
MOLESWORTH, Mrs Mary Louisa (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Marriott, 2½ pages 8vo, Ashfield House, West Malvern, 10 November no year
MOLESWORTH, Mrs Mary Louisa (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Walford, 3½ pages 8vo, 19 Sumner Place, Onslow Square [blind stamp], 27 June no year
MOLESWORTH, Mrs Mary Louisa (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sichel, 3½ pages 8vo, 85 Lexham Gardens, 5 December no year
MOLESWORTH, Mrs Mary Louisa (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription ('with pleasure') on a sheet of 8vo writing-paper, 155 Sloane Street, 27 April 1903.
MONCK, George, 1st Duke of Albemarle (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed ('Albemarle'), 1 page folio with integral address-leaf and red wax seal, no place, 9 October 1660. Also signed by two others.
MONCK, George, 1st Duke of Albemarle (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Albemarle') to Samuel Pepys, ½-page folio with address-leaf and remains of red wax seal (some wear and staining), Cockpitt, 9 October 1665.
MONCK, George, 1st Duke of Albemarle (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('Albemarle') to Sir Stephen Fox (1627-1716, paymaster general), 1 page folio, 14 August 1667.
MONCK, George, 1st Duke of Albemarle (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Albemarle') on a fragment of a document addressed to Thomas Johnson and dated 18 August 1663, laid down with a note of identification.
MONET, Claude (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Letter Signed in pencil to 'Cher ?Monet', 1½ pages 8vo (conjunct leaves), Giverny, 24 December 1920.
MONET, Claude (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Letter Signed to G[ustave] Geffroy, 1 page 8vo in purple ink with the original envelope, Giverny, postmark 27 April 1891.
MONET, Claude (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Gustave Geffroy, 1 page 8vo in characterstic purple ink, with envelope, Giverny, 28 June 1909.
MONET, Claude (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Gustave Geffroy, 1 page 8vo in characterstic purple ink on black-edged paper (slightly chipped), with envelope, Giverny, 19 September 1911.
MONMOUTH, James Scott, Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('Monmouth'), as Chief Justice of Forests South of the Trent, 1 page large folio with papered armorial seal, 31 March 1674.
MONMOUTH, James Scott, Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S., 1 page 4to with red wax seal, 21 July 1673/4.
MONMOUTH, James Scott, Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed to the Earl of Oxford, Colonel of the Horse Guards, ½ page folio with integral address-leaf (browned, repairs to the margins), 13 May 1676.
MONSARRAT, Nicholas John Turney (This is a link to the full description)
Amusing typescript poem signed, 1 page 4to on writing paper at San Lawrenz, Gozo, Malta, dated 11 June 1972.
MONSIGNY, Pierre-Alexandre (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Vinit, secrétaire général of the Paris Conservatoire, 1 page small 4to, with integral address-leaf, 5 February 1807.
MONTAGU, Edward (This is a link to the full description)
LS addressed to William Lord Roberts, Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, 1 page folio (a little worn, and laid down), 26 January 1658/9.
MONTAGU BUTLER, Henry (This is a link to the full description)
Series of 9 ALsS with 3 of his wife Agnata, to Mr & Mrs [Walter] Sichel (1855-1933, biographer & lawyer), in all ca 42 pages 8vo.
MONTGOMERY, Sir Bernard Law, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Field-Marshal Montgomery's Personal Messages to 21 Army Group, 6 June 1944 - 8 May 1945, folio, Full calf, spine worn and covers warped.
MONTGOMERY, Sir Bernard Law, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
El Alamein to the River Sangro, first edition, printed in Germany by the British Army of the Rhine, January 1946.
MONTGOMERY, Sir Bernard Law, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Normandy to the Baltic, privately-printed first edition, British Army of the Rhine, April 1946, full red calf gilt, rather worn.
MONTGOMERY, Sir Bernard Law, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Page from Montgomery's visitors' book, 1 page 8vo (oblong), 23 November to 1 December, no year, with Montgomery's autograph annotations.
MONTGOMERY, Sir Bernard Law, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Monty') to [Sir Edward] Crowe, 2 pages 8vo, Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine, 20 April 1946.
MONTGOMERY, Sir Bernard Law, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Normandy to the Baltic, first edition, April 1946, printed for private circulation, full red morocco, gilt lettered to cover and spine.
MONTGOMERY, Sir Bernard Law, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Norton, 1 page 8vo, on writing-paper of the Trianon Palace Hotel, Versailles, as from Isington Mill, 20 January 1959.
MONTGOMERY, Sir Bernard Law, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Montgomery of Alamein') to Lloyd-Jacob, 1 page 8vo (a little worn), Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe, Paris, no date
MONTGOMERY, Sir Bernard Law, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Montgomery of Alamein / Field-Marshal') on a 4to sheet of lined paper, dated in Montgomery's hand 17 May 1947.
MONTGOMERY, Sir Bernard Law, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
'Some Notes on High Command in War', second edition, 21 pages and paper covers, ca 7 x 5 inches, privately printed in Italy, September 1943.
MONTGOMERY, James (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Rev Joshua Marsden 'Wesleyan Minister / Shrewsbury', 3 pages 4to with integral address-leaf and red wax seal, Sheffield, 6 February 1827.
MOORE, George Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph testimonial, 1 page 4to, 86 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, 24 April 1935.
MOORE, G[eorge] E[dward] (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph testimonial signed, ½-page 4to, 86 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, 24 April 1935.
MOORE, G[eorge] E[dward] (This is a link to the full description)
Typewritten testimonial signed, with a few autograph words, 1 page 4to (some small tears professionally repaired), Cambridge, 13 May 1935.
MOORE, George Augustus (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Curtis, 2 pages 8vo (oblong), 121 Ebury Street, 'Tuesday night', n.y
MOORE, George Augustus (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Green, 1 page 8vo, Kings Bench Walk, Temple, 21 January 1898.
MOORE, Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dyson Lister, 2 pages 8vo, Hotel de Paris, St Peter Port, Guernsey, 5 December 1894.
MOORE, Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Ellis, 1 page 8vo with address-leaf, 'Monday', no date
MORE, Alexander Gordon (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 4 pages 8vo, 74 Leinster Road, Dublin, 4 May no year
MORE, Hannah (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Rev Daniel Lysons (1762-1834, topographer), ½-page 4to (trimmed down, with address on the reverse), Barley Wood, 12 March, no year.
MORE, Hannah (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir Thomas B Lethbridge in Bath, 3 pages 8vo on black-edged paper with address, Barley Wood, 14 February 1820.
MORE, Hannah (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent (endorsed by 'F Ford'), 1 page 8vo (laid down by the second leaf), no place, no date ?1823.
MORE, Hannah (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Leeves?, 3 pages 16mo (rather worn and tattered, affecting a few words only), no place, undated.
MORE, Hannah (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1 page 4to (worn and weak, printed catalogue entry pasted near the top, notes in ink at the head), Barley Wood, no date
MORGAN, John Pierpont, Jr (This is a link to the full description)
Two TLsS and an ALS from Belle da Costa Greene (Librarian at the Pierpont Morgan Library), to Frank Salisbury, 1 page 4to and 4 pages 8vo.
MORGAN, Lady Sydney (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink cut from a letter.
MORRIS, Francis Orpen (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unknown lady ('Dear Madam'), 2 pages 8vo, Nunburnholme Rectory, Hayton, York, 16 May 1892.
MORRIS, Francis Orpen (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Bolston, 3½ pages 12mo, Nunburnholme Rectory, Hayton, York, 22 January 1878.
MORRIS, William (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to his friend and publisher F S Ellis, 4 pages 8vo, one (from Burne-Jones's house) in pencil, undated. Spike-filing holes.
MORRIS, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the booksellers H Grevel, 1 page 8vo with a printed slip attached, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, 18 February no year Number '712' in another hand.
MORRIS, William (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to an unnamed woman ('Dear Madam'), 5 pages 8vo, Kelmscott House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, 24 July 1882.
MORRIS, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on a postcard to Mary Carmichael, Kelmscott House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, 18 July 1884.
MORTIER, Edward Adolph Casimir (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 4to (small split in central fold), no place, no date
[MORTIMER, (Charles) Raymond (Bell)] (This is a link to the full description)
Archive of letters to Mortimer, including five unpublished letters of Virginia Woolf, with related material.
MOSCHELES, Ignaz (This is a link to the full description)
A.MusQ.S. of five bars for piano on two staves, dated at Leipzig, 22 August 1847, 108 x 178 mm. (4¼ x 7 inches).
MOSCHELES, Ignaz (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to E. Schulz, 1 page 8vo with integral facing address-leaf, 3 Chester Place, 25 January 1836. With translation.
MOSLEY, Lady Diana (This is a link to the full description)
Five ALsS to Sir Arthur Bryant, in all 10 pages 8vo, Temple de la Gloire, Orsay, France, 1977-1978.
MOSLEY, Sir Oswald (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('O.M.') on one side of a correspondence card, to an unnamed correspondent, Rue des Lac, Orsay, 7 May 1968.
MOSS, Sir Stirling (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('Stirling') to Peter Miller, 1 page 4to, 20 William IV Street, 5 October 1954.
MOSS, Sir Stirling (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Very best wishes / Stirling Moss') on small white card, 45 x 90 mm (ca 2 x 3½ inches).
MOSZKOWSKI, Moritz (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1½ pages 8vo, no place, '18/11' no year
MOSZKOWSKI, Moritz (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Autograph Music Quotation Signed of three bars on two staves from the third act of his opera Boabdil, der letzte Maurenkönig (composed 1892), undated.
MOSZKOWSKI, Moritz (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to an unnamed correspondent ('Chère Mademoiselle'), 1 page 8vo (a little soiled, slight traces of former mounting), no place, no date
MOTTRAM, R.H. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to ?Leon Lion, 1 page 4to, Gullane, East Lothian, 5 August 1935.
MOUNTBATTEN, Lord Louis, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Series of 3 TLsS to Ronald Duncan, in all 1 page folio and 3 pages 4to, First Cruiser Squadron, Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, 1958 to 1963.
MOUNTBATTEN, Lord Louis (This is a link to the full description)
TLS with autograph salutation and subscription to Mr Cooper, 1 page 4to, Broadlands, 9 December 1969.
MOUNTBATTEN, Lord Louis, Earl (This is a link to the full description)
2 TLsS to [Frank] Salisbury, 2 pages 4to, green ink and ribbon on green writing paper, Admiralty, 13 February 1957 and 16 May 1958.
MOUNTBATTEN, Lord Louis, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Two TLsS to Commander M.G. Evans, including the eight-page folio letter sent by Mountbatten to senior retired officers on his leaving the Admiralty.
MOUNTBATTEN, Lord Louis, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to John [Harding] ('Yours ever Dickie'), 1 page 8vo, Broadlands, 16 May 1975. With correspondence between Harding and Mountbatten's archivist.
MOUNTBATTEN, Lord Louis (This is a link to the full description)
Signature cut from the foot of a letter, a typewritten address to Rear Admiral A F Pridham at the Ordnance Board, ca 111 x 175 mm (4½ x 7 inches).
MOUNTBATTEN, Lord Louis, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Good TLS with autograph salutation to [Brigadier] Peter Young, Ministry of Defence, 2 February 1962.
MUNNINGS, Sir Alfred James (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink ('Alfred J. Munnings PRA / June 26, 44') on paper, mounted on an album leaf.
MUNTHE, Axel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Ollivant, 4 pages 8vo (spike hole), Stockholms Slott, 'Sunday', no date
MURCHISON, Sir Roderick Impey (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Smith, 2 pages 8vo (note of identification in another hand at the top), no place, 22 December 1862.
MURCHISON, Sir Roderick Impey (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Smith, 1½ pages 8vo, no place, 22 December 1862.
MURCHISON, Sir Roderick Impey (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 3 pages 8vo, Museum of Practical Geology (blind stamp), 26 February 1864. With an envelope front to Edward Wood, perhaps the recipient.
MURCHISON, Sir Roderick Impey (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to James Martin, 1 page 8vo, 16 Belgrave Square, 'Christmas Day 1868'.
MURCHISON, Sir Roderick Impey (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to the Duke of Sutherland, 1 page 8vo, 16 Belgrave Square, no date
MURDOCH, Dame Iris (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on a postcard to E. Randell, postmarked Oxford, date smudged and unreadable.
MURDOCH, Dame Iris (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph by Studio Edmark of Oxford, signed on the reverse and inscribed, together with an ALS of 1½ pages 8vo, Steeple Aston, Oxford, 1 November no year
MURDOCH, Dame Iris (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Lindsay, 1 page 4to (oblong), Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire, no date
MURDOCH, Dame Iris (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Pippa ?Uce, 1 page small 4to on blue paper, 30 Charlbury Road, Oxford, 18 September no year
MURDOCH, Dame Iris (This is a link to the full description)
ALS [to Brian Pearce] on two sides of a correspondence card, no salutation, no place, no date
MURRAY, Sir George (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Document Signed, 1 page folio, Headquarters, 16 May 1813.
[MURRAY, John] (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Murray's son Alexander Henry Hallam Murray from R H B Larkin, 6 pages 8vo, Clapham Park, 9 May 1908, with a reply form letter from Murray.
MURRAY, John Samuel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J.L. Adolphus, 2 pages 8vo, Albemarle Street, 11 October 1825.
MURRAY, John Samuel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his son, John Murray III (1808-1892), 1 page 4to with address-leaf (bearing traces of mounting), Albemarle Street, 10 March 1834.
MURRAY, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Cuthbert Collingwood (presumably the naturalist, 1826-1908), 2½ pages 8vo, 50 Albemarle Street, 'April', no date
MURRAY, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS and TLS to the Rev C. Haldon, 2 pages 4to, 50 Albemarle Street, 2 March and 21 July 1922.
MURRY, John Middleton (This is a link to the full description)
Poignant ALS to an unnamed woman ('Dear Madam'), 2 pages 8vo on writing paper of The Athenaeum, 8 March 1920.
N (return to top)NABHA, Hira Singh (This is a link to the full description)
LS in native alphabet to 'My dear Friend, 1 page 8vo on gold embossed writing paper (border added later), Nabha, 1 January 1902.
NANGLE, The Rev Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Stuart, 1 page 8vo, Achill, 26 March 1840.
NANSEN, Fridtjof (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph note signed, 1 page 8vo (oblong) on the reverse of a piece of writing paper from 6 Bentinck Villas, Newcastle-on-Tyne, no date
NANSEN, Fridtjof (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on an 8vo sheet of Royal Societies Club, St James's Street writing paper, laid down on an album leaf with a printed biography of the explorer.
NAPIER, Sir Charles James (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to Hogarth, 3½ pages 8vo, Newport, Isle of Wight, 18 March 1851.
NAPIER, Sir Charles James (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to ?Newbolt, 1 page 8vo (stain on right hand margin, recipient's note at the head), no place, 1 October 1852.
NAPIER, Sir William Francis Patrick (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his publisher [John] Chapman, 3 pages 8vo, Scinde House, April 1852.
NAPIER, Sir William Francis Patrick (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Wilson, 1 page 8vo, no place, no date ['1841' in another hand].
NAPOLEON I (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S ('Bonaparte'), to Songis de Courbon, 2 pages folio, (traces of former mount, ink stain) Tortone, 28 prairal an IV [16 June 1796].
NAPOLEON I (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Doc S ('Bonaparte') with an autograph sentence written from Malta, 1 page folio with vignette heading, Malta, 30 prairial an VI [18 June 1798].
NAPOLEON I (This is a link to the full description)
Unpublished LS ('Np') to the Duc de Feltre, Minister of War, 1 page 4to, Paris, 18 January 1813.
[NAPOLEON I] (This is a link to the full description)
Important Document Signed by General Martin Vignolle (1763-1824), 1½ pages folio, 'Armée de Batavie en Camp d'Utrecht', 3 Prairial an 12 [23 May 1804].
NAPOLEON I (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed ('Nap' with an (original) ink spot) in French to his stepson, Prince Eugène, Viceroy of Italy ('My fils') 2 pages 4to, Bayonne, 16 May 1808.
NAPOLEON I (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed ('NP') in French, to the Duc de Feltre, Minister of War, 1 page 4to, Saint Cloud, 8 April 1813.
NAPOLEON I (This is a link to the full description)
LS (a bold 'Nap' at the foot) to Monsieur le Comte Collin, 1 page 4to with integral blank, Trianon, 4 August 1810.
NAPOLEON I (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Endorsement Signed ('Accorde N') on a letter addressed to him by his cabinet secretary, 1 page folio with integral blank leaf, 10 April 1809.
NAPOLEON I (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('N' with a flourish), 3 pages large folio (a few light repairs, slight soiling), Fontainebleau, 24 October 1810.
[NAPOLEON I (This is a link to the full description)
Important letter from Dr Archibald Arnott to his wife in the month of Napoleon's death, 4 pages 4to including address panel (splitting repaired), cross-written.
NAPOLEON I (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('Np' with a flourish), 1 page folio with integral blank, Porto ferrajo [Portoferraio], 12 August 1814.
NARES, Sir George Strong (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to a bookseller, 2 pages 8vo with integral blank leaf, HMS Alert, Portsmouth, 24 May 1875.
NASH, John (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to the Earl of Caledon, 2 closely-written pages 4to with address-leaf, Dover Street, 25 November 1815.
NASMYTH, James (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Samuel?] Smiles, 4 pages 8vo, Penshurst, Kent, 22 November 1887.
NASMYTH, James (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person), 1 page 8vo on paper with the headed vignette of his home, 'Hammerfield', Penshurst, but from Cambridge, 2 October 1862.
NASMYTH, James (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to T[homas] O[ldham] Barlow (1824-1889, mezzotint engraver), 1 page 8vo, Penshurst, Kent, 1 April 1869.
NEAGLE, Dame Anna (This is a link to the full description)
2 TLsS to Miss [Elise] Gordon, 1 page 4to & 1 page 8vo, Park Street and the Adelphi Theatre, 13 August 1957 and 18 July 1969.
NEEDHAM, Joseph Terrence Montgomery (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to R.L. Ager of the Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society, 1 page 8vo (oblong), Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, 30 May 1949.
NELSON, The Rev Edmund (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent 2 pages 4to (note of indentification in ink at the head), Bath, 25 April 1779.
NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS ('Bronte Nelson of the Nile'), to Sir Alexander John Ball, 1 page 4to with blank leaf and an endorsement on the second page, Gozo, 22 May 1800.
NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS (with the right hand, 'Horatio Nelson'), to John Udney at Bastia, 1 page 4to with address-leaf, Captain, Leghorn Roads, 3 September 1796.
NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Fine bold signature ('Nelson & Bronte'), dated, in another hand, 3 April 1804, ca 50 x 95 mm (2 x 3½ inches).
NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Nelson from James Schaw, surgeon of the Madras, 3 pages 8vo, Malta, 7 August 1803, with two endorsements by Nelson.
NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('Nelson & Bronte') from a letter dated from the Victory, 10 October 1805, rather browned, split in the centre and laid down on old card.
NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed ('Horatio Nelson') with his right hand to Rear Admiral Robert Linzee, 1 page 4to, Agamemnon, Mortello Bay, 2 February 1794.
[NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Letter concerning the grant of an earldom to Nelson's brother, William, immediately after Trafalgar, no date (1805-1806).
NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ['Nelson & Bronte'] to Captain [(Sir) William] Hoste (1780-1828), 1 page 4to with integral blank leaf, on board the Victory (off Cadiz), 9 October 1805.
[NELSON, Horatio, Viscount] (This is a link to the full description)
Near-contemporary copy of Nelson's Memorial to the King (George III), 2 pages folio with second leaf (detached, splits in the folds), October 1797.
NELSON, The Rev William, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1½ pages 4to, London, 14 May 1810.
NESSELRODE, Count Karl Robert (This is a link to the full description)
Four ALsS in French (one incomplete, dust stains on one), to Loftus and 'My Lord' (?Strangford), 5½ pages 4to and 8vo, St Petersburg and Peterhoff, 1828 and
NEUKOMM, Chevalier Sigismund (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), 17 Charlotte Street, Portland Place, [1837].
NEVILLE, Richard Cornwallis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 4 pages 8vo, Audley End, 3 September no year
NEWBOLT, Sir Henry John (This is a link to the full description)
Five ALsS to Miss Farrar, his typist, 8 pages 8vo, Netherhampton House, Salisbury, 1915 to 1917 where dated.
ST MARY'S CATHEDRAL, NEWCASTLE (This is a link to the full description)
Volume of correspondence relating to the early history of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Newcastle, ca 1842, with later material up to ca 1890.
NEWCASTLE, 1st Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Sharpe, 2 pages 4to with annotation on the third page, Newcastle House, 14 June 1754.
NEWMAN, Ernest (This is a link to the full description)
Signature cut from the foot of a typewritten letter and laid down on an album leaf, ca 125 x 80 mm (4½ x 3 inches).
[NEWMAN, John Henry] (This is a link to the full description)
Letter signed by seventeen members of the Oxford Union, 1¼ pages 8vo, presenting 'Parochial Sermons' to the Union Library, no place [Oxford], 25 February no year
NEWMAN, John Henry (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and conclusion cut from the foot of a letter (notes of identification in another hand in ink).
NEWMAN, John Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Rev Thomas L. Montefiore, 1½ pages 8vo with envelope-front (small glue spots on the reverse of the blank leaf only), Birmingham, 15 April 1863.
NEWMAN, John Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('John Henry Card. Newman') to Dr T. Colcott Fox, 1 page 8vo with envelope (the latter dust-soiled), Birmingham 28 September 1882.
NEWMAN, John Henry (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph note 'with Card. Newman's compliments', no date
NEWMAN, John Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the publisher [Basil Montagu] Pickering (1836-78), 3 pages 8vo on black-edged paper, The Oratory [Birmingham], 3 June 1875.
NEWMAN, John Henry (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to an unnamed potential donor, 3 pages 8vo (some corners damaged), the Oratory, Birmingham 4 August 1850.
NEWMAN, John Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Rev R A Armstrong, 2 page 8vo with second leaf laid down, 23 March 1887.
NEWTON, Alfred (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Professor [Richard] Owen, 2½ pages 8vo, Magdalene College [Cambridge], 8 March 1868, a note of identification at the head.
NEWTON, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his friend John Ryland, 1 page 4to with address (name only) and endorsements on the reverse, worn in the folds, ['May 10 (1773)'].
NICHOLSON, Benjamin Lauder ('Ben') (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Ackroyd, 1 page 4to, Chy an Kerris, Headland Road, Carbis Bay, St Ives, 8 July no year
NICHOLSON, Norman (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Norman') to Joan Forman, 7 pages 8vo (oblong), Millom, 17 January 1955.
NICOLAS, Sir Nicholas Harris (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 4to, Kew, 20 June 1825.
NICOLSON, Sir Harold George (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Dr Madol, 1 page 4to, House of Commons, 5 January 1938.
NICOLSON, Sir Harold George (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Miss Everett, 1 page 8vo (oblong), 10 Neville Terrace, Onslow Gardens, 27 October 1949.
NIEBUHR, Barthold George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo (small split in one fold and some marginal annotations), no place 1 December 1830. With transcription and translation.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
LS, on a printed form with thirty autograph words, 1 page 8vo, London, 8 July 1878.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph envelope-front to Miss Eleanor Martin, and signed in the lower left hand corner with the date '27/6/88', (tattered at the top and a little soiled).
[NIGHTINGALE, Florence] (This is a link to the full description)
Eight telegrams to Dr De'ath from Florence Nightingale and others (received copies only - in the hand of the telegraph clerk), 1892/8
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, probably cut from the foot of a letter, closely trimmed (affecting two letters), with the remains of former mount on the reverse.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph note signed, from Scutari, 1 page 8vo (oblong), 25 July 1856.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to William Martin Wood of the East India Association, 2 pages 8vo with envelope (re-addressed in another hand), 10 South Street, Park Lane, no date
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Constance, Marchioness of Lothian, 1 page 8vo (some traces of mounting on the reverse only), 10 South Street, Park Lane, 13 July 1879.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink with subscription evidently from the foot of a letter (one vertical crease, laid down), no date
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
Signature cut from the foot of a letter with a few words ('when we meet / Yours sincerely / F Nightingale'), laid down on the remains of an album leaf.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
Fine long ALS to Mr Hayward at Lea School, 7 pages 8vo with envelope, 10 South Street, Park Lane, 2 July 1881.
[NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
ALS from Florence Nightingale's mother, Frances, to an unnamed correspondent, Embley, Romsey, 11 December 1860.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to W. Martin Wood, 3 pages 8vo, 10 South Street, 15 May 1883.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Florence Nightingale') in pencil to Dr John Elliott, 3 pages 8vo on black-edged paper (small rust stains), 35 South Street, Park Lane, 5 June 1874.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Messrs Caldesi, 2 pages 8vo on black-edged paper with blank leaf, 27 Norfolk Street, Park Lane, 25 February 1865.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS (name of the recipient scored out), 4 pages 8vo, 35 South Street, Park Lane, 16 February 1867.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (This is a link to the full description)
Good, long ALS to John Laird Mair Lawrence (1811-1879, first Lord Lawrence), 4½ pages 8vo on black-edged writing-paper, 32 South Street, 26 April 1864.
NIKISCH, Arthur (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Musical Quotation, signed in ink and dated London 22 May 1909. ½-page 8vo.
NILSSON, Christine (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, in French, to an unnamed Countess, 1½ pages 8vo, no place, 'Lundi' no date
NILSSON, Christine (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, in French, to Lady Malmesbury, 2 pages 8vo, 'Ce Mardi', no date
NIXON, Richard Milhous (This is a link to the full description)
TLS (secretarial signature) to Eric Underwood, ½-page 4to, United States Senate [Washington, D.C.], 12 February 1951.
NOEL, Baptist Wriothesley (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1½ pages 8vo (blank leaf tipped onto the remains of an album leaf), Hornsey, 17 July no year
NOEL, Baptist Wriothesley (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 3 pages 8vo (small piece missing from the third page), Walthamstow, 2 December [1840].
NORDENSKJOLD, Nils A Edward, Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('A E Nordenskjold') in Swedish, to his brother, 2 pages 8vo, Eukopring, 18 May 1886.
NORTH, Frederick, Second Earl of Guilford (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum, partially printed, with blue revenue stamps, Whitehall, 1 August 1777. Signed also by two others.
NORTH, Frederick, Second Earl of Guilford (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum, partially printed, with revenue stamps, Whitehall, 1 September 1778 (a little soiled). Signed also by two others.
NORTH, Frederick, Second Earl of Guilford (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum, partially printed, with blue revenue stamps, Whitehall, 3 June 1772. Signed also by three others.
NORTH, Frederick, Second Earl of Guilford (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum, partially printed, with revenue stamps, Whitehall, 3 June 1772 (rather foxed overall). Signed also by three others.
NORTH, Frederick, Second Earl of Guilford (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum, partially printed, with revenue stamps, Whitehall, 28 June 1768 (North's signature rather faint).
NORTON, Caroline (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) to the sculptor, [Sir Richard] Westmacott (1775-1856), 1 page 8vo, 6 April no year
NORTON, Caroline (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to Parker, 3¼ pages 8vo (somewhat tattered, what looks suspiciously like a cigarette burn in one corner), 3 Chesterfield Street, 22 December 1856.
NORTON, Caroline (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1½ pages 12mo, no place, 'Sunday January', no date
NORTON, Caroline (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Collier, 3 pages 8vo on decorative writing-paper (very slight damage to one edge), 3 Chesterfield Street, no date
NORTON, Caroline (This is a link to the full description)
Important ALS apparently to the Dutch ambassador, 4 pages 8vo on gilt-edged writing-paper, 'Sunday' ca 1856.
NOTTINGHAM, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S. ('Notingham'), 1 page 4to (oblong), 1615.
NOVELLO, Ivor (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('All good wishes / Ivor Novello') on a small white card, ca 40 x 75 mm (1½ x 3 inches).
NOVELLO, Ivor (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph boldly signed in ink (very slight marks on the image). With the original autograph envelope to Miss Mary Grundy in Southport.
NOVELLO, Ivor (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('My best wishes to you / Ivor Novello') in pencil, ca 85 x 11 mm (3½ x 4½ inches.
NOVELLO, Ivor (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('All good wishes / Ivor Novello') on a small white card, ca 40 x 75 mm (1½ x 3 inches).
NOVELLO, Vincent (This is a link to the full description)
The English Musical Gazette: or, Monthly Intelligencer, January to July 1819, Novello's copy inscribed and signed inside the front cover.
NOVIKOFF, Olga (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs A Merrillers, 1 page 8vo with envelope, 23 April 1892.
NUREVEY, Rudolph (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph of Nurevey at full length in costume, 245 x 197 mm (ca 8½ x 9 inches), signed in ball-point pen at the foot (on the stage area).
O (return to top)OATES, Lawrence Edward Grace (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, in ink, ('L E G Oates') to his mother, 3 pages 8vo with envelope, Gestingthorpe Hall, Castle Hedingham, Essex, 19 November 1901.
OATES, Lawrence Edward Grace (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs W.H. King of Cardonagh, County Donegal, 2 pages 8vo with envelope Gestingthorpe Hall, postmark 28 August 1909.
OBERLIN, John Frederick (This is a link to the full description)
Short autograph homily signed, in French, 1 page 8vo with a pencil outline of Oberlin's profile, Waldbach au Bain de la Roche, 12 June 1820.
OBERON, Merle (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a small white card, ca 40 x 75 mm (1½ x 3 inches).
O'BRIEN, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Frank ?Jones, 1 page 8vo on embossed writing paper of the House of Commons Library, 15 January 1916.
O'CASEY, Sean (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on a postcard to Bethel Solomons, 2 sides (two vertical creases and some wear), Hillcrest, Chalfont St Giles, 4 March 1934.
O'CONNELL, Daniel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to James ?Ingram (O'Connell's hand is very difficult), 1 page 4to with address-leaf (the latter torn, not affecting the text), Cork, 18 August 1822.
O'CONNELL, Daniel (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph envelope-front bearing the name 'Thomas Hutton Esq / etc etc etc', signed in the lower left-hand corner.
O'CONNOR, Thomas Power (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Hutton, 2 pages 8vo, 38 Grosvenor Road, Westminster, 28 November no year
O'CONNOR, Thomas Power (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Wilde (1821-1896, poet, mother of Oscar Wilde), 4 pages 8vo, 3 Barnards Inn, Holborn, 11 December no year
O'CONNOR, Thomas Power (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to the editor of Time, 1 page 4to (rough at the edges), on embossed writing paper of the House of Commons, 2 April no year
ODELL, Noel Ewart (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Bushell, 2 pages 8vo (some traces of former mounting on the back), 182 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, 13 December 1932.
O'DUFFY, Eimar Ultan (This is a link to the full description)
Lengthy ALS to Straus, 4 separate pages 4to, 65 King's Road, Byfleet, 24 July 1933.
OERSTED, Hans Christian (This is a link to the full description)
AL (third person) in English, to Parkes, ½-page 8vo (trimmed), no place, 22 May 1827.
OFFENBACH, Jacques (This is a link to the full description)
Large fine Autograph Music Quotation Signed of five bars from his opera Orphee aux enfers, 230 x 310 mm. (ca 9 x 12 inches), inscribed and dated at Berlin 21 January 1863.
OFFENBACH, Jacques (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph music manuscript, written on 3 staves at the top of a folio leaf (remainder torn away, presumably by the composer), no date
OFFENBACH, Jacques (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to a friend and musical collaborator, 4 closely-written pages 8vo, Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, ca 1864.
OISTRAKH, David (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Mr R Shaberman, 1 page 4to, 28 February 1961.
OLGA CONSTANTINOVNA OF RUSSIA (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Olga'), no superscript, in French, 1 page 8vo with coronetted monogram (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), Petersburg, no date
OLIVIER, Sir Laurence and Vivien Leigh (This is a link to the full description)
Programme for the production of Antony and Cleopatra at the St James's Theatre, first performance 11 May 1951, signed by both and by Robert Helpman.
O'MEARA, Barry Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Roy, 1 page 4to (repaired, small piece missing, not affecting the text), Montague Square, 3 March no year [postmarked 1827].
O'NEILL, Eugene (This is a link to the full description)
Brief TLS to Albert Deane of the Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, 1 page 8vo, Hotel Wentworth, New York, 20 January 1928.
ONIONS, Charles Talbut (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to C.E. Williams, 2 pages 8vo (oblong), on writing paper of the Oxford English Dictionary, Old Ashmolean, Broad Street, Oxford, 8 April 1925.
ONSLOW, George (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to Baron de Fremont, 3 pages 4to with integral address-leaf (some discolouration from former mounting), Chalandrat, 1 September 1834.
OPIE, Amelia (This is a link to the full description)
Part of an autograph manuscript, 2 pages 4to (a note of identification written across the text), no place, no date
OPIE, Amelia (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, valediction and last five lines from a letter.
OPIE, Amelia (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('young friend'), 2 pages 16mo on grey writing paper, 14 January ?1842.
OPIE, Amelia (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear creature' (identified as Mrs Reynolds, traces of former mounting on the back, irregularly cut margin), 1 page 8vo, no place, 'Monday' no date
ORCZY, Emma Magdalena, Baroness Orczy (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Tyrwhitt-Drake, on a correspondence card, Snowfield, Bearsted, Maidstone, 19 July 1911.
ORD, Bernhard ('Boris') (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Boris') to Noel, 1 page 8vo, King's College, Cambridge, 18 December 1936.
ORD, William Miller (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to F.G. Parsons, 1 page 8vo (oblong), 37 Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 19 December 1898.
ORDNANCE OFFICE (This is a link to the full description)
Attractive Doc S by Hargrave, Bridges and Ousley, 1 page 4to, Office of Ordnance, 17 April 1713.
ORDNANCE OFFICE (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S by Hargrave, Powther and Ja[mes] Craggs (the elder, 1657-1721, postmaster general), 1 page folio, Office of Ordnance, 14 June 1707.
ENGLISH ORGANISTS (This is a link to the full description)
Fine collection of twenty-two letters largely from organists, principally to Joshua D. Horwood, an organist and collector of musical memorabilia.
ORME, Robert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Wingrave, 1 page 4to, Great Ealing, 12 December 1794.
ORMEROD, George (This is a link to the full description)
Group of five ALsS to various correspondents, 8 pages 4to, mostly with address-leaves, Chorlton [House] (1, 1814) & Barnesville / Sedbury Park (4, 1826).
ORMONDE, James Butler, 1st Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
Beginning and conclusion of a LS, joined together, ca 150 x 185 mm (6 x 7½ inches), Derby, 9 February 1673/4.
ORPEN, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
Three ALsS to 'Raymond', 4 pages 4to, (some tears in the folds), 8 South Bolton Gardens, February 1929.
ORTON, Arthur (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS to Mrs E ?Hamnett, 3 pages 8vo (one slightly damaged and laid down), Court of the Queen's Bench and 34 Bessborough Street, 13 and 31 January 1874.
ORWELL, George (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to F D Barber together with correspondence from Barber, 1 page 8vo (oblong), on writing paper of The Tribune, 29 February 1944.
OSBORNE, Dorothy (This is a link to the full description)
Dorothy Osborne's copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses, signed by her ('D Osborne') on the frontispiece. Oxford, 1632.
OSBORN, Sherard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Captain [John] Washington (1800-1863, hydrographer), 3½ page 8vo, neatly inlaid, 24 Clifton Villas, Warwick Road, 'Wed', no date
O'SULLIVAN, Maureen (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a small card, ca 45 x 75 mm (2 x 3 inches).
OUIDA (This is a link to the full description)
Collection of Autograph Letters Signed ('Ouida') to Lady Anna Chandos Pole, comprising thirty-nine letters, mostly with envelopes, 1883-1886 where dated.
OUSELEY, Sir Frederick Arthur Gore (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to William Joyce, 1½ pages 8vo, Tenbury, 'Christmas Eve 1858'.
OUSELEY, Sir Frederick Arthur Gore (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Alderson, 2½ pages 8vo, London, 9 May 1879.
OUTRAM, Sir James (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Frere, 1 page 8vo (laid down, note of identification in the lower left hand corner), no place, no date
OWEN, Sir Richard (This is a link to the full description)
A fine example of the iconic photograph of Owen by Barraud, 235 x 175 mm. (ca 9 x 7 inches), mounted on card with printed inscription.
OWEN, Sir Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent (perhaps Dr Robert Clarke of Settle), 1 page 8vo, British Museum 15 November 1864.
OWEN, Sir Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Cope, 3 pages 8vo, College of Surgeons, 31 March 1845.
OWEN, Sir Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2½ pages 8vo, British Museum, 5 October 1872.
OWEN, Sir Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'The Committee of the Amicable Society of Lancaster', 1 page 8vo, Royal College of Surgeons, 12 December 1842.
OWEN, Sir Richard (This is a link to the full description)
Signed photograph, a formal portrait by Elliott & Fry of the scientist seated in a chair reading a newspaper, wearing his characteristic cap.
OWEN, Sir Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Edward Wood, 2 pages 8vo (laid down with the envelope-front), postmark Cirencester, 25 September 1864.
OWEN, Sir Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Rev T[homas] L. Montefiore in Charmouth, 4 pages 8vo on black-edged paper with envelope-front (mounting on fourth page), British Museum, 31 January 1862.
OWEN, Sir Richard (This is a link to the full description)
Signature with several words, cut from the foot of a letter, probably to his publisher, ca 50 x 110 mm (2 x 4½ inches).
OWEN, Sir Richard (This is a link to the full description)
3 ALsS to members of the Behrens family, 5 pages 8vo and 5 pages 16mo, Sheen Lodge and British Museum, ca 1865 - 1885.
OWEN, Sir Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Willis, 2 pages 8vo, Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park, Mortlake, 8 October 1880.
OWEN, Sir Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs [E Ray?] Lankester, 3 pages 8vo, British Museum, 5 May 1866.
OWEN, Sir Richard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Robinson, 4 pages 8vo, Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park, 19 January 1875.
P (return to top)PADEREWSKI, Ignace (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of four bars (one stave) from Variations and Fugue in Eb (this the opening of the Fugue - in E flat minor), opus 23.
PADEREWSKI, Ignace (This is a link to the full description)
Good signature ('in kind remembrance of I J Paderewski') on a piece of blue writing paper.
PADEREWSKI, Ignace (This is a link to the full description)
Signed Photograph, half-length, the pianist resting his chin in his hand, ca 175 x 130 mm (7 x 6½ inches), dated 22 October 1931.
PADEREWSKI, Ignace (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, with a flourish, and several lines (in French) irregularly torn from the foot of a 4to letter.
PAGANINI, Nicolo (This is a link to the full description)
Curiously bilingual autograph inscription 'Alla Signora Chatterton / avec les compliments de / Nicolo Paganini', on 1 page 8vo (oblong), no date
PAGANINI, Nicolo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in Italian to an unnamed correspondent ('Pregiatissimo Signore'), 1 page 4to (small photograph lightly attached), 98 Regent Street Quadrant, 20 June 1831.
PAGET, Sir James, 1st Baronet (This is a link to the full description)
Signature cut from the foot of a letter ('Very truly yours / James Paget').
PAGET, Sir James, 1st Baronet (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Parsons, 1 page 8vo, Hanover Square, 13 March 1886.
PAGET, Sir James, 1st Baronet (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Hastings, 1 page 8vo, Harewood Place, 20 October 1876.
PAGET, Sir James, 1st Baronet (This is a link to the full description)
Four ALsS to Walter R[aleigh] Browne, in all 6 pages 8vo, 1 Harewood Place, Hanover Square, 21 February 1881 to 9 December 1882.
PAISIELLO, Giovanni (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S ('Caver Paisiello') on headed paper of the Società Reale di Napoli, to the Minister of the interior, 1 page folio, Naples, 28 August 1811.
PALEY, William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his son Edmund (1782-1850 - his father's biographer) at The Queen's College, Oxford, 1 page 4to with address-leaf, Lincoln, 23 March 1805.
PALMERSTON, Henry Temple, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to John Ellis, 1 page 8vo, Carlton Gardens, 25 June 1850.
PALMERSTON, Henry Temple, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Grote, 2 pages 8vo, 94 Piccadilly, 21 June 1861.
PALMERSTON, Henry Temple, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to W[illiam] C[harles] Ross, 1 page 8vo (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), Stan[hope] Street, 13 December 1836.
PALMERSTON, Henry Temple, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
LS, partially printed and completed in a secretarial hand, to W P Mark, Her Majesty's Consul at Malaga, 1 page 4to, Foreign Office, 22 October 1850.
PALMERSTON, Henry Temple, Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS in French to Count Sebastiani, the French Ambassador, 2 pages 4to, Carlton Terrace, 11 January 1840, enclosing a list of the French Mediterranean f
The Archive of Cecil Palmer (This is a link to the full description)
Substantial group of ca 265 letters addressed to the publisher Cecil Palmer, ca 1905-1930.
PANKHURST, (Estelle) Sylvia (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Foot, 1 page 8vo (oblong), on writing paper of the New Times and Ethiopia News, 31 December 1937 (torn in the left-hand margin, one file hole).
PARNELL, Charles Stewart (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Thomas W. Johnson, 3 pages 8vo on black edged writing paper, London (blind stamp of the House of Commons), 17 August 1877.
PARNELL, Charles Stewart (This is a link to the full description)
Signature cut from a letter and mounted on a small piece of card, undated.
PARR, Samuel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Richard Brinsley Sheridan, ½-page 8vo (lower panel removed), with address-leaf, 1 February 1892.
PARRY, Sir Charles Hubert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Dr John E.] Borland (organist and composer), 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper, Royal College of Music, 8 July 1908.
PARRY, Sir Charles Hubert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [?Percy] Buck, 2 pages 8vo (a little soiled), Royal College of Music, 6 February 1917.
PARRY, Sir Charles Hubert (This is a link to the full description)
Testimonial signed for John E. Borland, 3 pages 4to on black-edged paper, Royal College of Music, no date
PARRY, Sir Charles Hubert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Dr John E.] Borland (organist and composer), 2 pages 8vo on black-edged paper (lightly soiled), Royal College of Music, 1 April 1898.
PARRY, Sir Charles Hubert (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Carl] Hentschel, 2 pages 8vo on black-edged paper, Royal College of Music, 16 May 1916.
PARRY, Sir William Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sir John Franklin, 1 page 8vo, Admiralty, 31 October no date
PARRY, Sir William Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('My dear Friend'), 3 pages 8vo, Admiralty (but giving his address as 6 Devonshire Place), 12 September 1844.
PARRY, Sir William Edward (This is a link to the full description)
ALS identified by a pencilled note as to the Rev Mr Sherer, 2½ pages 8vo (a little foxed on the first page), Stamford Hill, 23 October 1823.
PARTRIDGE, Bernard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Robt Barr, 3 pages 8vo, 29 April 1896
PASCO, John (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription from the foot of a letter, dated in another hand 23 February 1841.
PASSPORT (This is a link to the full description)
Passport issued to George Blogg, 1 page folio with crest, given at the Foreign Office, London, 19 May 1879, with facsimile signature of Salisbury.
PASTEUR, Louis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, in French, to 'Mon cher directeur', 1 page 8vo, Arbois (Jura), 30 September 1887.
PASTEUR, Louis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS [to Walter Raleigh Browne], 1 page 8vo (small repairs to the folds), Paris, 16 May 1882.
PATEY, Madame Janet Monach (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Mary] Carmichael, 2 pages 8vo, The Lodge, Blindley Heath, Redhill, 12 June 1881.
PATMORE, Coventry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Richard] Garnett (1835-1906, man of letters and keeper of printed books at the British Museum), 1 page 8vo, Battle, 14 June 1888.
PATMORE, Coventry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to James Speirs, 1 page 8vo, Lymington, Hampshire, 26 July 1892.
PATTI, Adelina (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a Church of England Temperance Society souvenir card. 10 x 13 mm (4 x 5¼ inches), with some traces of former mounting, no date
PATTI, Adelina (This is a link to the full description)
Full signature ('Adelina Patti / Baroness Cederström'), dated 4 January 1905 (closely trimmed at the top).
PATTI, Carlotta (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS in Italian on monogrammed paper to Maggioni, 1 page 16mo, no date
PAXTON, Sir Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 3 pages 8vo (splits in the second leaf professionally repaired), Chatsworth, 9 March 1850.
PAXTON, Sir Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to B.W. Hawkins, 1 page 8vo on writing paper of The Crystal Palace Company, (Sir Joseph Paxton's Office, Penge Place, Sydenham), 13 April 1855.
PAXTON, Joseph (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink from the end of a letter, no date
PEARY, Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('R.E. Peary, U.S.N.') to R F Wormwood, Editor of The Daily Journal, ½-page 4to, 2014 12th Street N.W., Washington, D.C., 5 November 19
PEEL, Sir Robert, 1st Baronet (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to F[rancis] Freeling, 1 page 4to, 16 Upper Grosvenor Street, 3 May 1805.
PEEL, Sir Robert (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph envelope-front addressed to Major-General Sir H Taylor ('Private & Immediate'), signed in the lower left-hand corner (tightly trimmed on left).
PEEL, Sir Robert (This is a link to the full description)
LS to James Orr of Paisley, 1 page folio (a little soiled, extensive mounting on the reverse), Whitehall, 4 February 1829.
PEEL, Sir Robert (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and valediction from the foot of an ALS.
PELHAM, Henry (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed, 1½ pages folio (portion torn from the right-hand side as usual for cancellation but neatly replaced), 11 April 1750.
PELHAM, Henry (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page folio (?cut down), St James's, 26 March 1750.
PELLEGRINI, Carlos (This is a link to the full description)
Two Signed attached admission tickets to the Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park, printed and dated Sunday, December 12, 1875.
[PEPYS, Samuel (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S by William, second Viscount Brouncker, Sir John Mennes and Colonel Thomas Middleton, 1 page 4to (oblong), Navy Office, 13 February 1667/8.
PEPYS, Samuel (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, probably cut from a document, ca 45 x 37 mm (1½ x 1½ inches).
PEPYS, Samuel (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, addressed at the foot to the Clerk of the cheque and stores at Chatham, 1 page folio, with endorsement, 15 April 1672.
PEPYS, Samuel (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed, addressed at the foot to the Clerke of the Cheque of his Majesty's yard at Chatham, 1 page folio, Navy Office 6 January 1671/2.
PERCEVAL, Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to J. Markham, attorney at Northampton, 1½ pages 4to with address-leaf (some glue-stains from former mounting), Warwick, 21 March 1796.
PERCEVAL, Spencer (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lord Sidmouth, 1 page 4to, Ealing, 3 August 1810.
PERRY, Fred (This is a link to the full description)
Signature, on an album leaf, ca 95 x 160 mm (3½ x 6 inches).
PETO, Sir Samuel Morton (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to E.H. Stanley (later 15th Earl of Derby), 2 pages 4to, Somerleyton Hall, 6 November 1838.
PETRI, Egon (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a Wigmore Hall programm for a recital held on Friday 27 November [1936].
PHILIP II (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed ('Yo El Rey') to the nobility, judiciary, knights, clergy, governor, and local officialdom of Alcántara, 7 pages folio, 5 July 1565.
PHILLIPS, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS [probably to Edward Wood], 1 page 8vo, Marham [Yorkshire], 23 March 1849.
PHILLIPS, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, incorporating a rough sketch, 1 page 8vo, Oxford, 17 July 1866.
PHILLIPPS, Sir Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
Characteristically slovenly and curmudgeonly ALS to Mr Collett, 2½ pages 16mo (rather soiled), 'Th' [Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham], 2 September 1870.
PHILLIPPS, Sir Thomas (This is a link to the full description)
A group of deeds relating to property once owned by Phillipps in Gloucestershire, including two documents signed by Phillipps, 1819-1896.
PIATIGORSKY, Gregor (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink on a 8vo page from a programme for a recital at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 5 September 1948.
PICKFORD, Mary (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription ('Very sincerely / Mary Pickford / 1927') in purple on stationary of the Mary Pickford Studios in Hollywood (trimmed).
PICKFORD, Mary (This is a link to the full description)
TLS ('Mary') to Maybelle and Clifton Webb, blue type and blue ink on ½-page 4to blue-edged writing paper, no place, 30 January 1936.
PIERSON, Henry Hugo (This is a link to the full description)
Fine long ALS in German to the director of the Royal Theatre in Darmstadt, 4 pages 4to, closely-written, no place, no date With a full translation.
PISSARRO, Camille (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (in French) to his doctor, 1½ pages 8vo, 62 Bath Road, Bedford Park, London, 15 July 1897.
PISSARRO, Lucien (This is a link to the full description)
Three ALsS, two to Brown and one to 'Mon cher Fra Pippo Pippi, in French and english, 7 pages 8vo roughly inlaid, one with a sketch, 1918 and 1943.
PISSARRO, Lucien (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Pierre] Dauze, 1 page 8vo on squared paper with postscript on a facing page, Paris, 26 May 1910.
GEORGE III & William Pitt the elder (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed by both ('George R' at the head, 'W Pitt' at the foot), 1 page large folio (oblong, some foxing), given at Saville House, 27 October 1760.
PITT, William, the younger (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS, as Prime Minister, to his mother, 1½ pages 4to with blank second leaf, Downing Street, 22 August 1798.
PIZZETTI, Ildebrando. (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Ildebrando') to a conductor, on both sides of a correspondence-card, Florence, 10 January 1919.
PLUMER, Herbert C O, 1st Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Colonel Grubb, 1½ pages 8vo (traces of former mounting on the back, note of identification at the head), Aldershot, 3 November 1902.
PLUMER, Herbert C O, 1st Viscount (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Wakefield, 1 page 4to on writing paper of the Boy Scouts, 3 November 1911.
POLE-CAREW, Sir Reginald (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Symons, 3 pages 8vo, Government House, Cape Town, 7 November 1899.
POLLOCK, Sir George (This is a link to the full description)
Long ALS to Sir Peter (?Lawrie), 4 pages 4to, Cape of Good Hope, 25 August 1846.
POPE, Alexander (This is a link to the full description)
Printed Receipt Signed with autograph insertion, 1 page 8vo (oblong), no date
POPE, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to R[utherford] B Hayes, President of the United States, 3 pages 8vo (the second leaf inlaid), Fort Leavenworth, 16 February 1878.
PORTEUS, Beilby (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('B London'), 1 page 4to with fragment of second leaf endorsed 'Mr Mayo's appointment to a Whitehall Preachership', 30 April 1799.
PORTER, David Dixon (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to C C Sniffen, 1 page 8vo (neatly inlaid), 1710 'H' Street, Washington, 16 October 1876.
PORTER, Fitz-John (This is a link to the full description)
Important ALS to Major C C Sniffen, 1 page 4to (neatly inlaid), Commssioner's Office, Police Department, New York, 22 September 1886.
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY (This is a link to the full description)
Good collection of sixty-seven letters addressed to William Walker, concerning his photographic business.
POTTER, (Helen) Beatrix (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Beatrix Heelis') to Barbara Rolfe, 4 pages 8vo (rather soiled and faded, old tears professionally repaired), Castle Cottage, Sawry, 6 June 1934.
POULENC, Francis (This is a link to the full description)
Fine early TLS ('Poulenc') to [Georges Jean-]Aubry (1882-1949, French writer on music), 1 paqe 4to, Paris 19 January 1920.
POULENC, Francis (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed on a picture postcard, with inscription, no date
POUND, Ezra (This is a link to the full description)
Two large sheets of Chinese pictograms executed with a brush by Pound and later inscribed and signed by him in red ball-point [1959].
POWELL, William (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a small card, ca 45 x 75 mm (2 x 3 inches).
POWYS, Llewelyn (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Bethel] Solomons, 1 page 8vo (traces of mount on the reverse), Chaldon Herring, Dorchester, 14 September ?1936.
POWYS, Llewelyn (This is a link to the full description)
Heavily-corrected typescript of a short story, Shakespeare's Fairies, 9 pages 4to on separate sheets, signed at the end.
PRIESTLEY, John Boynton (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Christy, 1 page 8vo, (recipient's date-stamp and pin-holes in upper right corner, remains of mount on verso), Hampstead, 13 March no year
PRIESTLEY, John Boynton (This is a link to the full description)
Three TLsS and an ALS ('Jack' & 'JBP', one in pencil) to 'Peter' (his agent?), 5 pages 4to and 3 pages 8vo (some wear), September and October [1931].
PRIME MINISTERS OF QUEEN VICTORIA (This is a link to the full description)
Bound volume, full brown morocco, 4to, 295 x 225 mm (ca 11½ x 9 inches), spine a little worn, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover.
PRIMROSE, William (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of two bars from the opening of Brahms's Sonata for Viola (or Clarinet), Opus 120 No. 2 in E flat major.
PROBYN, Sir Dighton Macnaghten, VC (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Hewett, 2 pages 8vo, Sandringham, Norfolk, 13 April 1879.
PROCTER, Bryan Waller (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph verses, headed 'Song', comprising four four-line stanzas, signed 'Barry Cornwall' and dated 1851.
PROCTER, Bryan Waller (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [W C] Macready, 1 page 16mo, 5 Grove End Place, 11 September no year
PROCTER, Bryan Waller (Barry C (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Countess of Blessington, thanking her for a volume of verse, 2 pages 8vo with address-leaf, (remains of former mount), Grays Inn Square, 9 November 1837.
PRUDHOMME, René François Armand Sully (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Sully Prudhomme') to an unnamed correspondent ('cher ami'), 2½ pages 8vo, no place, no date ('Mercredi').
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, in Milan, 4 pages 8vo with envelope (small splits professionally repaired), Holy Saturday [11 April] 1903.
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Postcard Signed ('G Puccini') to his favourite sister, Ramelde Franceschini, postmarked 28 ? 1904.
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the journalist Arnoldo Fraccaroli ('Fraccarolissimo!'), 1 page 8vo on a folded correspondence-sheet with the address on the reverse, Milan, no date
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Photograph (head and shoulders) by Frank C Bangs, signed and inscribed on the mount to Josephine Jacoby and dated New York, February 1907.
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (initials) on a picture postcard (view of Montagna Pistoiese) to Carlo Clausetti, Pistoia, 7 September 1913.
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Carlo [Clausetti], 2 facing pages 8vo, Bagni di Montecatini, 9 August 1919.
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS on a postcard to Carlo Clausetti in Naples, Milan, 15 February 1895.
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (initials) on a postcard reproduction photograph of the composer, to Claudio Clausetti in Milan, Viarettio, 22 November 1917.
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
AL (unsigned) to Carlo Clausetti in Naples, 1 page large 8vo on a letter-form (tears repaired on the verso, barely visible on recto), Milan, 11 January 1911.
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (initials) in red ink, to Claudio Clausetti in Naples (but forwarded to Milan), 1 page 8vo, with address on the verso, Torre del Lago, 4 August 1908.
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (initials) to Carlo Clausetti in Naples, 1 page large 8vo on a letter-form with address on the reverse, Torre del Lago, 1 July 1911.
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sybil Seligman, 1 page 8vo on a folded letter-form with address on the reverse, Via Verdi 4, Milan, 23 December 1909. With a translation.
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Puccini) on a picture-postcard (informal portrait of Puccini standing ona beach) to Carlo Clausetti, Viareggio, 28 August 1913.
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Sybil Seligman, 1 page large 8vo (on a folded letter-form with address on the reverse), Torre Del Lago, 30 August 1908. With a translation.
PUCCINI, Giacomo (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (initials) on both sides of a correspondence-card, with envelope, to Carlo Clausetti, Torre del Lago, 7 November 1913.
PUGIN, Augustus Welby Northmore (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the postmaster of Ramsgate, 1 page 4to on blue paper (a little worn and laid down), St Augustine's, 3 February ['circa 1850'].
PUGIN, Edward Welby (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Messrs Haigh and Co, 1½ pages 8vo, Gordon Square, 8 July 1858.
PUSEY, Edward Bouverie (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription cut from the foot of a letter, Christ Church, 12 September no year
R (return to top)RABBITS (This is a link to the full description)
Humorous sketches by the Daily Mirror cartoonist H.A. Selden, depicting 'The Conjuror's Escaped Rabbit', 1 p 8vo, 1 Pelham Place, no date
RACHMANINOFF, Sergei (This is a link to the full description)
Fine bold signature on a large (4to) green album leaf, no date
RACHMANINOFF, Sergei (This is a link to the full description)
Fine large studio portrait photograph, signed and inscribed on the mount, 430 x 295 mm overall (17 x 11½ inches, the photograph 9 x 7 inches), 1918.
RACHMANINOFF, Sergei (This is a link to the full description)
Programme Signed, beside his biography in the programme for 7th Series of the Concert Club Courtauld-Sargent Concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra,
RACHMANINOFF, Sergei (This is a link to the full description)
Bold signature in ink, dated at London 27 May 1908, closely-trimmed at the foot but other wise with good margins.
RAGLAN, Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Fitzroy Somerset') to Colonel Sir John Moryllon Wilson, 2 pages 8vo with envelope also signed by Raglan, Horse Guards, 17 June 1851.
RAGLAN, Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Fitzroy Somerset') to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo (split in vertical fold), Horse Guards, 24 January 1848.
RAGLAN, Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('Fitzroy Somerset') to Dighton, 2 pages 8vo, Horse Guards, 25 December 1847.
RAMSAY, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
Signed photograph by Lafayette, an oval portrait, head and shoulders, enclosed in a green folder (small pin-hole on the top of the mount).
RAMSAY, Sir William (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Bennett, 2 pages 8vo with blank leaf, rather faintly written as usual, 21 Ashton Terrace, Glasgow, 8 September 1896.
RANJITSINHJI, Jam Saheb of Nawanagar (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph of Ranjitsinhji at the wicket, with a signature on paper attached at the foot, undated, (a little worn).
RANSOME, Arthur (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and inscription to Joanna Thompson on a printed bookplate.
RAVEL, Maurice (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Dr Abel Desjardins in Paris, 1 page 8vo on his monogrammed paper, with address on the verso, Montfort l'Amaury, 18 July 1923.
RAVEL, Maurice (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Pierre de Bréville, 3 pages 8vo (weak in the centre fold from former mounting), 'jeudi', 10 August 1905.
RAVEL, Maurice (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed comprising the first three bars of the violin part of his Quatuor for strings, 1902-1903, [London] 27 April 1909.
RAVILIOUS, Eric William (This is a link to the full description)
Two ALsS and related material to Sir Stephen Tallents, 2 pages 4to and 2 pages 8vo, Bank House, Castle Hedingham, 16 September and 1 October [1937].
READ, Sir Herbert Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Series of 2 ALsS, 4 TLsS, and 2 Autograph Postcards Signed to Otto or Mrs Fürstner, 7 pages 4to and 8vo, (filing-holes), various places, 1936-1962.
REDDING, Cyrus (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Rev H Caunter, 1 page 8vo with address-leaf, no place [London], no date 'thursday' [postmark 19 April 1832].
REDDING, Cyrus (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Reverend Dr Beard, 3½ pages 8vo, St John's Wood, 4 April 1863.
REGER, Max (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Message Signed, addressed at the head to the Association of German Composers, 1 page 8vo, Meiningen, 20 September 1912.
REJANE, Gabrielle (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph Signed ('Rejane') in a light part of the picture, the seated actress in a feather hat and heavily embroidered dress.
REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Receipt Signed, ½-page 4to (mounting strip to the left, not affecting the text, and in good condition), 6 May 1771.
REZNICEK, Emil Nikolaus von (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of eight bars from his opera Donna Diana (composed in 1894), 80 x 145 mm. (ca 3¼ x 5½ inches) inscribed and dated from Berlin 3 May 1943.
RHODES, Cecil John (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS to Carter, 1 page 8vo, (remains of mount on verso), The Sanatorium, Kimberley, no date [watermark 1899].
RHODES, Cecil John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Will', 2 facing pages 8vo (some slight staining) , Groote Schuur, no date
RHODES, Wilfred (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph of Rhodes at full length holding a cricket ball, signed in ink in the lower white border (a little soiled), undated.
RICARDO, David (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph envelope front, Signed, addressed to Miss Musgrave in Portland Place, free frank stamp (laid down on the remains of an album leaf).
RICARDO, David (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and subscription clipped neatly from a letter, 22 x 64 mm, (ca 1 x 2½ inches), no date
[RICHARD II] (This is a link to the full description)
Document with Great Seal, 1381.
[RICHARD III] (This is a link to the full description)
The original grant of the the lieutenancy of Guînes to Sir James Tyrell, dated 22 January 1485, 1 page folio (oblong) on vellum with the Great Seal intact.
RICHARDSON, David Lester (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Manuscript poem, 1 page 4to (a little soiled, some splitting in the folds), no date [after 1825].
RICHARDSON, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to a bank ('Gentlemen'), 2 pages 8vo with second leaf bearing endorsements, Lancrigg, Grasmere, 21 November 1855. With two related letters.
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolay Andreyevich (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, in Russian, to the Parisian musicologist and translator Mikhail Osipovich [Delin], 3 pages 8vo, St Petersburg, 30 January 1907.
ROBERTS, David (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his fellow academician Richard Redgrave RA, 2 pages 8vo on black-edged paper, 7 Fitzroy Street, 15 April 1861.
[ROBERTS, David] (This is a link to the full description)
Eight ALsS from [John William] Monson (7th Baron Monson), in all ca 30 pages 8vo, Carlton Gardens, Gatton Park and Brighton, 19 March - 29 August 1841.
ROBERTS, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lady Symons, 4 pages 8vo (some slight foxing), Mackellar's Hotel, 17 Dover Street, Piccadilly, 22 October 1899.
ROBERTS, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph signed ('Roberts. FM'), showing him seated at his desk, pen in hand.
ROBERTS, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Important ALS as commander-in-chief in India to Lord Reay, Governor of Bombay, discussing the options for Afghanistan, 3½ pages 4to, 19 March 1886.
ROBERTS, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2½ pages 8vo, Englemere, Ascot, 15 September 1913.
ROBESON, Paul (This is a link to the full description)
Programme of a concert tour, probably for the performance in Liverpool, 24 March 1949, signed in ink beneath a reproduction caricature on the third page.
ROBEY, Sir George Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a small white card, ca 40 x 75 mm (1½ x 3 inches).
ROBEY, Sir George Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph of Robey in costume as a Dame, signed in ink in the lower right-hand corner.
ROBEY, Sir George Edward (This is a link to the full description)
Signed photograph showing the comedian in bowler hat, with cigarette and cane, ca 110 x 70 mm (4 x 3 inches).
ROBINSON, Lennox (This is a link to the full description)
Collection comprising some twenty-nine letters to Robinson, two letters and an autograph article by him, various dates.
ROCHESTER, Laurence Hyde, Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
Fragment of a Treasury document, signed ('Rochester'), ca 150 x 145 mm (5½ x 6 inches), Treasury Chambers, 17 April 1683.
RODIN, Auguste (This is a link to the full description)
Rodin's visiting card with a brief message in another hand signed by Rodin, (slight creasing), no date
RODIN, Auguste (This is a link to the full description)
LS to Mademoiselle Fenella, 1 page 8vo (slightly soiled), 77 Rue de Varenne [Paris], 1 April 1913.
RODNEY, George Bridges, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 4to, Sandwich, Spithead, 12 December [1779] 'at Noon'.
RODNEY, George Bridges, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Padget, 2 pages folio with address-leaf (two tears in the address repaired with tape, not affecting text), no place, no date
[RODNEY, George Bridges, 1st Baron] (This is a link to the full description)
Contemporary copies of three documents consequent to Rodney's defeat of the French under De Grasse off Dominica, 1782.
RODNEY, George Bridges, 1st Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Grenville, presumably George Grenville, the former prime minister, 2 pages 4to, endorsed as received 23 July 1765.
ROGET, Peter Mark (This is a link to the full description)
Signature and notes ('September 1864 / P.M. Roget / Member of the British Association. Bath'), on a slip laid down on the remains of an album leaf.
ROGET, Peter Mark (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to John Brockedon, 1 page 8vo (some soiling at the top), Berners Street, 15 May 1832.
ROGET, Peter Mark (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Charles Manby (1804-1884, engineer), 2 pages 8vo (slight trace of mount), 18 Upper Bedford Place (on Athenaeum writing paper), 4 November 1854.
ROGET, Peter Mark (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the Rev J J Smith, 1 page 8vo, Trinity College, 24 June (dated in another hand '1845').
ROHAN, Louis, Prince de (This is a link to the full description)
Document Signed ('Le Card de Rohan'), in French, 2 pages folio (somewhat soiled), 6 December 1787, with an engraved portrait laid down on the second leaf.
ROHMER, Sax (This is a link to the full description)
Humourous ALS ('The lady of the blue mist') to 'Dear little Mrs', on his writing paper with pierced monogram, Braemar House, no date
ROLLAND, Romain (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph signed in the lower white margin and again on the reverse where it is dedicated to 'Mai' Spencer Edge, Villeneuve, 22 August 1937.
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor (This is a link to the full description)
Brief TLS to [Albert] Deane, 1 page small 4to with envelope bearing a stamped signature with the word 'FREE', New York, 5 March 1953.
ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano (This is a link to the full description)
White House Card, signed in ink ('Franklin D Roosevelt'), no date
ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano (This is a link to the full description)
Bold signature in blue ink on a White House card, 70 x 150 mm (ca 3 x 4 inches), together with a similar card signed by Eleanor Roosevelt.
ROOSEVELT, Theodore (This is a link to the full description)
TLS with autograph correction to R T Kelley in Dublin, 1 page 4to on personalised writing paper from the Metropolitan in New York, 2 November 1917.
ROOSEVELT, Theodore (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink on a White House card, 68 x 103 mm. (ca 2½ x 4 inches), undated.
ROOT, Elihu (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 4to (oblong, traces of mounting to reverse), United States Senate, 26 July 1912.
ROSENTHAL, Moriz (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of two bars on one stave, probably for piano, dated Vienna May 1893, 140 x 116 mm. (4½ x 5½ inches, in a mount).
ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Miles, 1 page 8vo with blank leaf (a little age-soiled), 30 Torrington Square, 4 February 1892.
ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Greenwell (probably Dora Greenwell, 1821-1882, poet and essayist), 1¼ pages 8vo (traces of mounting on the reverse), 166 Albany Street, no date
ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Miss Davies, 1 page 12mo (5½ x 3½ inches), 45 Upper Albany Street, 1 January 1864.
ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('My dear Sir'), 1 page 8vo (neatly laid down), 16 Cheyne Walk, 5? April 1864.
ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS almost certainly to Edward Matthew Ward RA, 1 page 8vo, 'Wednesday', no date
ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to John C[amden] Hotten (1832-1873, publisher), 2½ pages 8vo (first page rather stained, and roughly repaired), 16 Cheyne Walk, 8 July 1867.
ROSSETTI, William Michael (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to [Mary] Carmichael, 3 pages 8vo, 5 Endsleigh Gardens, 6 January 1889.
ROSSINI, Gioacchino (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, in Italian, to 'Carlino', 1 page 8vo, no place, no date
ROSSINI, Gioacchino (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph notes on food, on the blank side of part of a printed document, mounted together with a small card bearing the signature 'G. Rossini'.
ROSSINI, Gioacchino (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph signed and inscribed to Léo Delibes, overall 162 x 102 mm. (6½ x 4¼ inches), 10 February 1868.
ROSSINI, Gioacchino (This is a link to the full description)
Bank draft in the format of a cheque on blue paper, elaborately engraved, signed in full, Paris, 18 February 1863.
ROSTROPOVICH, Mstislav (This is a link to the full description)
Photograph of Rostropovich in a concert programme, signed by him in blue ink, in good condition.
ROTHES, John Leslie, 1st Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed to the Lord of Call[the rest unreadable], ½-page folio with integral address-leaf (somewhat soiled), Holyrood House, 30 January 1666/7.
ROUAULT, Georges (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, on a letter-card, to M. Vauxcelles, 77 rue Blouet XVe, no date, anxiously requesting the return of his little albums. With a translation.
RUBBRA, Edmund (This is a link to the full description)
Signature on a pink album leaf, ca 50 x 110 mm (2 x 4½ inches).
RUBINSTEIN, Anton (This is a link to the full description)
Fine Autograph Music Quotation Signed of four bars (two staves) marked 'Moderato', 1 page 4to (oblong) in a printed decorative border, Venice, 6 December 1873.
RUBINSTEIN, Anton (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Manuscript Signed of Rapelle-toi, of Ten Songs, op 83, no. 1, 4 pages folio (oblong) including title, ca 1869.
RUBINSTEIN, Anton (This is a link to the full description)
Large signature in ink from the foot of a letter in French, no date
RUPERT, Prince (This is a link to the full description)
LS to an unnamed correspondent, in French, 1 page 4to, with light collection stamps and later endorsements, no place, no date, [1655].
RUPERT, Prince (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Letter Signed to Sir John Kempthorne, ½-page folio with address-leaf in another hand, 'on board the R[oya]l Soveraigne', 13 August 1673.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to his doctor, George Parsons, 2 pages 8vo with envelope annotated in Ruskin's hand 'To be opened by Mrs Parson, if the Doctor is out', 'Monday', no date
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
Charming series of 15 ALsS, eleven of them unpublished, to Lily Armstrong, one of his Winnington child-friends, ca 30 pages, 1864 to 1877 where dated.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
Early ALS to R. ?Hutton F.G.S, 3 pages 16mo, no place, no date, dated in another hand in pencil 'June 1847'.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
Fine series of 13 ALsS (11 'J Ruskin', 1 'John Ruskin', 1 'JR') to Charles H L Woodd, in all 20 pages 8vo with 8 envelopes, 1857-1879 where dated.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
Brief ALS ('JR') to [William] Ward (?1829-1908 - Ruskin's assistant), 1 page 8vo with note of identification in ink at the foot dated 'about 1870'.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
Six ALsS to Caroline Bowles, one of three daughters of Dr Robert Leamon Bowles of Folkestone, 12 pages 8vo, November [1887] and January 1888 where dated.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph cheque signed, made out to Mr McKay for £50 on purple bank form of the Union Bank of London, 19 October 1869.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to William Ward (1829-1908), 3 pages 8vo with envlope (slight splitting in the folds), Canterbury, 26-27 September 1879.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
The conclusion of a letter, containing four lines and signature, addressed to the Reverend R W Dixon.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('JR.') to 'Dear Ward' (Ruskin's assistant, William Ward?), 1 page 8vo, Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, undated.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
Fine ALS to Samuel Palmer, 1 page 4to with integral address-leaf and red wax seal in a mount with a pen and pencil drawing, no place, 'Wednesday' no date
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
Admission ticket to the Royal Horticultural Society, printed for completion by hand, signed by Ruskin but otherwise blank, 50 x 82 mm. (ca 2 x 3 inches).
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('J. Ruskin') with the names of his correspondents and the superscription and first line in Ruskin's hand, 2 pages 8vo, Denmark Hill, undated
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the artist H[enry] Stacy Marks (1829-1898), 1 page 8vo with integral blank, Peppering, Arundel, 9 January 1876.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
Envelope in Ruskin's hand (unsigned) addressed to W.C. Bennett in Greenwich, dated in another hand 6 July 1861.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed lady ('My Dear Madam'), 2½ pages 8vo, no place, undated.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to John Wodderspoon (perhaps the author of John Crome and his Works, 1876), 2 pages 8vo, Denmark Hill, 6 November 1856.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Halsted' (apparently, but unidentified), 1 page 8vo, no date but watermarked 1858.
RUSKIN, John (This is a link to the full description)
Good ALS to an unnamed lady ('Dear Madam), 4 pages 8vo (traces of glue at the top margin), Denmark Hill, 1 April 1869.
RUSKIN, Margaret (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Margaret', 1 page 8vo (rather faded), Denmark Hill, 27 July 1860.
RUSSELL, Bertrand, third Earl (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to H Huxley, 1 page 4to, Telegraph House, Harling, Petersfield, 20 August 1936.
RUSSELL, Lord John, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph envelope addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury and signed in the lower left-hand corner.
RUSSELL, Lord John, 1st Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 4to, Rodborough, 29 December 1855.
RUSSELL, Sir William Howard (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to 'My dear Walter', 3½ pages 8vo, The Grand Hotel, Dover, 29 January 1900.
RUTHERFORD, Charles Smith (This is a link to the full description)
Signature of the last remaining Canadian holder of the Victoria Cross ('Captain CS Rutherford V.C. M.C. M.M., / 5th C.M.R. Canada / August 26 1918').
RUTHERFORD, Ernest, Baron (This is a link to the full description)
TLS to Menzies, 1 page 8vo, Newnham Cottage, Queen's Road, Cambridge, 19 July 1928 (received stamp of the Royal Society of Arts).
RUTHERFORD, Ernest, Baron (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, Newnham Cottage, Queen's Road, Cambridge, 2 February 1925 (received stamp of the Royal Society of Arts).
RUTHERFORD, Ernest, Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Menu for the Cavendish Dinner, Cambridge, 1923, signed in pencil by Rutherford and 35 others, mostly physicists, some rather faintly, a little soiled.
RUTHERFORD, Ernest, Baron (This is a link to the full description)
Menu for the Cavendish Dinner, Cambridge, 1924, signed in pencil by Rutherford and 33 others, mostly physicists, a few in ink, drink-stain.
S (return to top)SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita (This is a link to the full description)
TLS (signed with the usual brown ink) to Mrs Everett, 1 page 8vo, Sissinghurst Castle, 27 September 1949.
ST VINCENT, John Jervis, Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Madam'), 1 page 8vo (one very slight stain), Rochetts, 23 May 1821.
ST ALBANS, Charles Beauclerk, Duke of (This is a link to the full description)
LS with one autograph correction to the Keeper of Bestwood Park, ½-page 4to, (remains of mount), no place, 9 April 1700.
ST ALBANS, Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
Letter Signed, 1 page folio (traces of former mounting on integral address leaf, portrait of St Albans tipped onto blank leaf), no place, 10 October 1671.
SAINT-BEUVE, Charles Augustin (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent ('Chère Mademoiselle'), 1 page 8vo, no place, no date
SAINT-SAENS, Camille (This is a link to the full description)
ALS in French to 'Mon cher ami' on two sides of a correspondence card with embossed monogram, Paris, 29 November 1909.
SAINT-SAENS, Camille (This is a link to the full description)
Autograph Music Quotation Signed of nine bars from the first act of Samson and Delilah, with words, 80 x 155 mm. (3 x 6 inches), dated 1921.
ST VINCENT, John Jervis, Earl (This is a link to the full description)
ALS ('St Vincent') to George Rogers, 1 page 4to with autograph address-leaf signed, Torr Abbey, 14 December 1800.
ST VINCENT, John Jervis, Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('St Vincent') to John Lempriere, 1 page folio, 'Ville de Paris in the Tagus', 13 March 1798.
ST VINCENT, John Jervis, Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS [to Frederick, Duke of York], 1 page 8vo, (oblong; originally 4to, but trimmed with no loss of text), Rosier House, Gibraltar, 26 July 1799.
ST VINCENT, John Jervis, Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
LS ('St Vincent') to John Lempriere, 1 page folio, 'Ville de Paris in the Tagus', 13 March 1798.
SALA, George Augustus Henry (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Maxwell [?Miss Braddon], 1 page 8vo in a small calligraphic hand, 46 Mecklenburg Square, 10 June 1884.
SALISBURY, Robert Cecil, third Marquis of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mr Miller, 1 page 8vo, Hatfield House, 'Monday morning', no date (endorsed by the recipient '10 Octr. 92').
SALISBURY, Robert Cecil, third Marquis of (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lord Ampthill, 3 pages 8vo, Hatfield House, 23 July 1895.
SAMBOURNE, Edward Linley (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to the artist and actor Weedon Grossmith, 2 pages 4to, 18 Stafford Terrace, 20 May 1894.
SAMMONS, Albert (This is a link to the full description)
Postcard-sized photograph (head and shoulders), signed in ink and dated 1944. Attached to the remains of an album leaf.
SANDWICH, John Montagu, 4th Earl of (This is a link to the full description)
Doc S, 1 page large folio on vell