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.
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 an unnamed correspondent ('Mon cher Monsieur'), 1 page 4to (trimmed), Dublin, 'le 10 à 6 heurs', no date
AGASSIZ, [Jean] Louis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to a collaborator, E Wood, 2 pages 8vo, no place, 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)
4 ALsS ('Harry') to a woman variously addressed as Margaret and Madonna, in all 8 pages 8vo, 21 and 26 November 1930, where dated
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)
ALS to Miss Kennedy, 1 page 4to, 62 Regents Park Road, 21 December 1913.
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)
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)
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, 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, 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)
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)
Attractive ALS to Lord Seymour, 1 page 8vo on black-edged writing paper, Windsor Castle, 30 November 1850.
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.
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)
ALS to Savage, 2 page 8vo, Stanley Hotel, Stanley, Perthshire, 30 September no year
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)
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)
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.
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 [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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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)
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.
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.
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, 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, 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)
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)
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)
Fine photograph, three-quarter length in military uniform, 300 x 212 mm (12 x 8½ inches), boldly signed in ink 'Alexander of Teck'.
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.
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)
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].
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.
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)
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)
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 / 10.4.35.') in pencil on small white card, ca 50 x 90 mm (2 x 3½ inches).
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)
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)
Fine bold signature in black ink, dated 25 January 1905.
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)
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)
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 ('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)
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)
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.
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.
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', 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', 2 pages 8vo, Astley Hall, Stourport, 3 May 1915.
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)
ALS to 'Dear Woods, 1½ pages 8vo, 93 Eaton Square, 6 November 1914.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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).
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.
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 to Mrs Gould in Campden Hill Gardens, London, 1 p. 8vo, Lew Trenchard, ['30 July 1891'].
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.
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 (written with the left and signed with the right?) to A J Pearse, ½-page 8vo with envelope, Stanway, Cheltenham, 1 January 1932.
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 to [Carl] Hentschel, 1 page 8vo, Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, 29 May 1903.
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, 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.
BEATRICE, Princess (This is a link to the full description)
ALS (incomplete), last 1½ pages 8vo, no place, 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)
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)
ALS to Miss [Nona] Stewart, 2 pages 8vo, 48 Upper Berkeley Street, 8 May 1899.
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)
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)
Autograph manuscript poem, heavily reworked, 1 page 8vo, undated.
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)
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, 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.
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.
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 in Rye, 1½ pages 8vo with envelope (postage stamp removed), Lamb House, Rye, 1 June 1934.
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.
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)
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)
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, 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 ('Henry Bessemer') to L. Loveland, 1 page 8vo, Denmark Hill, 2 December 1880.
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.
BETJEMAN, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
Fine collection of five autograph Manuscripts and two typescripts.
BETJEMAN, Sir John (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Ross, 1 page 8vo, The Mead, Wantage, 11 January 1954.
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 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.
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 to an unnamed correspondent ('Cher Monsieur'), 1 page small 8vo, no date
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 an unnamed lady ('Madame et amie'), 1 page 8vo, London, 24 June 1865.
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
BLESSINGTON, Marguerite, Countess of (This is a link to the full description)
Signature ('M Blessington') and valediction from a letter.
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).
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)
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)
Long ALS to Mrs M. Bulleid, 4 pages 4to with envelope, Green Hedges, Beaconsfield, 21 February 1956.
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)
ALS to her biographer, George Greenfield, 1 page 4to (irregular filing-holes only just touching the text), Green Hedges, Beaconsfield, 26 February 1948.
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, 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, 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)
Fine ALS to the Archchancellor [Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès], 1 page folio (some slight browning), Portici, 30 October 1806.
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)
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).
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.
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)
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.
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.
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 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)
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)
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.
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.
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)
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)
ALS to Mr Bolshaw, 1 page 8vo, Old Mill, Snape, 8 September 1944.
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)
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)
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)
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
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.
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)
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)
ALS to Miss Talfourd, 1 page small 8vo (a little worn, mounted beneath an engraving), [Hanover Cottage], New Cross, Hatcham, 'Friday Mg.', no date
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)
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 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 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)
Concluding five lines and signature from an ALS, perhaps to Mrs [Theodore] Martin.
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)
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)
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 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)
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 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)
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)
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)
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, 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, 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.
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 [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).
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 2 page 8vo (very slightly soiled), 24 Queen Mary Avenue, Glasgow, 20 September 1898.
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.
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 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.
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.
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)
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
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.
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.
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.
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 ('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 his dwarf studio assistant Pendry, 1 page 8vo, Rottingdean, Brighton, no date
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)
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 ('M Callcott') to 'My dear Agnes', 1 page 8vo, no place, 11 March 1841.
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.
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 Frederick De George at Holland House, Blackheath, 3 pages 4to with address, 10 Upper Seymour Street West, 12 November 1824.
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 Sir D Brewster], 1 page 4to (trimmed, traces of former mounting on thee reverse), 11 December 1815
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, 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)
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)
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)
Signature in ink from the foot of a letter with an original minute in red ink in the background, dated 1839.
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)
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.
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)
Document Signed ('Dorchester'), partially printed and completed by hand, 1 page folio, Quebec, 4 November 1793.
CARLETON, Sir Guy, Baron Dorchester (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Lord Townshend, 1 page 4to, London, 9 May 1772.
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, 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, 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Important LS (text in the hand of George Digby) with autograph postscript, to Sir Edward Nicholas, 3 pages folio, Hereford, 14 September 1645.
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 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, 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)
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 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)
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)
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., 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 Robert Heath, High Sheriff of Sussex, 1 page folio with address-leaf, given at Whitehall, 12 November 1672, countersigned by Henry Coventry.
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)
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 James, Duke of Ormond, Lieutenant General & General Governor of Ireland, 1 page folio with address-leaf, Whitehall, 29 November 1684.
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.
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 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).
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 (initials) in French to his wife ('Ma chere Cecile'), 1 page 16mo, addressed 'Madame Cherubini') on the second leaf, ca 1840.
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 to 'Monsieur Gide Père' in Paris, 1 page 8vo with integral address-leaf, Paris, 8 March 1834.
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.
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)
Signature, cut from the foot of a letter, ca 35 x 110 mm (1½ x 4½ inches).
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)
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.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Significant archive of fourteen letters to his friend and collaborator, (Sir) William Deakin, 16 pages, mostly 4to, 1938-1963.
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).
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
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)
2 ALsS [to Edward Walford (1823-1897)], the editor of Once a Week, 7 pages 8vo, 26 Hereford Square, no date
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).
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.
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.
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 and conclusion of an ALS, possibly to George Canning, (slight glue-stains to the reverse with some show-through), 19 July 1817.
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, cut from the foot of a letter and including the date (18 May 1832) and place ([The] Grove, Highgate) in Coleridge's hand.
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)
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)
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 J.H. Addison, 1 page 8vo, 90 Gloucester Place, 28 March 1879.
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.
COLLINS, William Wilkie (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Joseph Pritchard, 1 page 8vo, 90 Gloucester Place, 17 January 1883.
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)
ALS to Robert Singleton Garnett, 3 pages 8vo with envelope (addressed to 'Richard' Garnett), Trosley, West Malling, 9 August 1909.
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.
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)
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)
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)
Signature in ink on card.
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)
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 and subscription ('Yours faithfully') cut from the foot of a letter.
COROT, Camille (This is a link to the full description)
ALS, in French, to an unnamed correspondent, ½-page 8vo, Paris, 22 September 1872.
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).
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 to [Gertrude] Jennings, 1 page 8vo, 111 Ebury Street, 1 September no year
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.
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].
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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.
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 Letter Signed 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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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)
Brief ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page small 8vo (inlaid), 26 June 1841.
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)
ALS to [illegible], 1 page 8vo (neatly inlaid), 263 Hampstead Road (blind stamp), 8 October 1868.
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.
CUNNINGHAM, Allan (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to Mrs Hughes, 1 page 8vo, Belgrave Place, 3 January 1840.
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
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
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).
DALTON, John (This is a link to the full description)
Signature in ink dated 25 December 1838, with wide margins.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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, 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)
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)
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)
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)
Signature and subscription ('With my sincere thanks / yours truly obliged / Charles Darwin') cut from the foot of a letter, the text secretarial, undated.
DARWIN, Sir Francis (This is a link to the full description)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, 1 page 8vo, Down, Beckenham, 30 September 1875.
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.
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
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 Mrs C W Biscoe, 1 page 4to with envelope, 3 Carlton Gardens, London, 18 February 1943.
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 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)
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.
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.
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)
ALS to his younger brother, Henry, 1 page 8vo (oblong, lightly laid down), Grasmere, 20 December 1812.
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.
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)
ALS to [Thomas] Longman, 1 page 8vo, Devonshire Terrace, 14 February 1844.
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 Letter Signed to Dr Percy, 1 page 8vo, Gadd's Hill, 28 December 1868.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
Autogr