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2. ALLENBY, Edmund, Viscount (1861-1936). Field-Mashal. Autograph Letter Signed (“Edmund H.H. Allenby”) to “My dear Yardley” [his friend Col. John Watkins Yardley, Deputy Director of remounts with the Cavalry Corps]. 2½ pages 8vo, Palestine, 3 February 1918. £795 A letter written less than three months after Allenby’s capture of Jerusalem, in December 1917. Though Allenby does not give his exact location, at the beginning “THESE 5 YEARS OF CRUEL WAR” of February he was at Bir Salem, near Ramleh, on the Jaffa Jerusalem road, making preparations for an 1. ALEXANDRA (1844-1925). Queen Consort of attack on Jericho, which was captured on 21 February. Edward VII. After some setbacks in March his decisive victory at Autograph Letter Signed (“Alexandra”), as Queen Megiddo in September was followed by his capture of Damascus and Aleppo, which effectively ended Mother, to Mrs. [Charlotte] Sclater, Honorary Ottoman power in Greater Syria. Secretary of Queen Alexandra’s Field Force Fund which sent gifts to the troops on all fronts, about the winding up of the Fund at the end of the First World War. 4 pages 8vo with the original autograph envelope, written on black-edged paper with Queen Alexandra’s embossed monogram of silver entwined A’s beneath a crown at the top left, Marlborough House, 20 March 1919. £325 Queen Alexandra’s fund, which sent parcels of ‘comforts’ to the troops such as board games, cigarettes, books and handkerchiefs, was opened in October 1914, with the public invited to contribute. Charlotte Sclater, who had organised a similar fund during the Boer War, was the very efficient Honorary Secretary. Her work was honoured when in 1917 she was appointed one of the first Companions of the newly established Order of the British Empire. “As the time of closing and winding up of our Field Force Fund is now approaching – I cannot refrain from expressing my most deep felt appreciation and thanks to all the members for their wonderful and splendid work during these 5 years of cruel War – Indeed all our brave Soldiers and Sailors, can never be grateful enough to its hard working members for all the splendid benefits they have received, at their hands – And now, dear Mrs Sclater may I Allenby’s correspondent, Col. Yardley, had been at have no fears for the future, if we keep our heads & Sandhurst with him and became his closest friend in our courage up. . . Owing to pressure of politics, I fear, the Inniskilling Dragoons. The two men had served I shall not be able to go to the Sudan this Spring, so together in the Boer War, in which Allenby had we shall not be able to run away for the unpleasant rescued Yardley when he was badly wounded. months of January & February . . .” “Thanks for your welcome letter of 9 Jan[uar]y & for Early the previous year, elections in Egypt had your kind words of congratulation & good will. We had brought the nationalist Wafd Party to power. Anti- a good campaign; wh. went according to programme. royalist and striving for independence from British Now we are consolidating; N.[orth] of Jerusalem domination, this led to many tensions in the country, & Jaffa, & devolving by road & railways – wh. are which finally came to a head in November 1924 with backward – The rainy season is on – in 4 months the assassination of the sirdar [military commander] – December to March – as much rain falls as falls in Sir Lee Stack. Allenby, as High Commissioner for in 12 months; & roads & rails sink into the Egypt and the Sudan, imposed some order on the earth . . . I’m afraid the old Regiment [the Inniskillings] situation, but in June 1925 finally returned to England had a poor time at Cambrai [a recent indecisive battle and retirement. on the Western Front, with very heavy casualties on both sides] but they earned new laurels.” 4. ALENCON, Francois, duc d’Alencon et d’Anjou (1554- 1584). Youngest son of Henri II and Catherine de Medici; suitor of Elizabeth I. D o c u m e n t S i g n e d (“francoys”), c o n f i r m i n g the grant of a pension of 2000 livres to the Sieur de Droux, his chamberlain and lieutenant in the of Berry. 1 page oblong folio in French on vellum, with a calligraphic first line giving Alencon’s style 3. ALLENBY, Edmund, Viscount (1861-1936). and titles as “only [surviving] brother of the King Field-Marshal. [Henri III], of Anjou Alencon Touraine and Autograph Letter Signed (“Allenby”), as High Berry”, Plesis les Tours, 13 June 1580. £595 Commissioner for Egypt, to “My dear Gary” [the In August of the previous year, 1579, the 24-year-old American diplomat Hampson Gary, appointed French , puny and somewhat disreputable, Consul General at Cairo with responsibility for visited England to pay personal court to Elizabeth. For Palestine and Syria 1917-1919], thanking him for a time she appeared to consider marrying him, despite his New Year’s gift of a book on Washington, and the wide age difference. Her intentions are even now commenting on the situation in Egypt, “a troublous not clear, but it seems her apparent encouragement country”. of Alencon partly derived from her wish to punish 2 pages 4to on letterhead of the High Commissioner her favourite the Earl of Leicester, particularly after for Egypt, with autograph envelope [stamp she discovered he had secretly married. In any case, removed], Cairo, 20 January 1925. £275 marriage to a foreign Catholic would have been very unpopular in England, and the Queen realised that “I fear I have never thanked you & Mrs. Gary for “if I do [marry him] I shall not be able to govern the your kind thought in sending, at the New Year, the country with the freedom and security I have hitherto charming book descriptive of your Capital . . . Egypt enjoyed.” is much changed, since you left; but it remains a troublous country, and – as you know – we have had Alencon’s visit to England in 1579 was brief, but he tragic events. However, I am always hopeful; and I came for a longer period two years later, finally departing for the in late 1581, escorted (one may imagine with great pleasure) by his rival for He was eventually made a peer, which meant that his Elizabeth’s affections the Earl of Leicester. son had to relinquish his parliamentary career at his Documents signed by Alencon are rather rare. A father’s death. However, his wife, Astor’s daughter-in- vertical fold crease, and text very slightly faded, but law Nancy Astor, thereby gained the opportunity to legible. The signature is strong and clear. become Britain’s first woman MP.

5. ADDINGTON, Henry (1757-1844). , Prime Minister 1801-1804. Autograph Letter in the third person to the Dowager Countess Poulett, giving her carriage free access through “either of the Gates of Richmond Park”. 1 page 8vo, Richmond Park, 8 July 1823. £65 “Lord Sidmouth presents his Compliments to Dowager Countess Poulett, and trusts that He has effectually prevented any Interruption, or Enquiries, in future, when Her Ladyship may be disposed to pass in her Carriage, thro’ either of the Gates of Richmond Park. . . the Misses Addington entirely concur in the Wish, which Lady Poulett has done them the Honor to express.” When Lord Sidmouth became Prime Minister, George III offered him the deputy rangership of Richmond Park, and the residence of Lodge, within its 7. ASHTON, Sir Frederick (1904-1988). grounds. The gates of Richmond Park had been Choreographer. closed to the public for some years in the 1750s, whilst Princess Amelia lived at White Lodge. However, by Photograph Signed (“Frederick Ashton”), signed in the time of this letter, this was no longer the case. blue biro across his light-coloured shirt, a head and The Dowager Countess Poulett, to whom this letter is shoulders portrait of the choreographer standing in addressed, was the widow of the fourth Earl Poulett, profile in a garden with a statue of a nymph in the and the last Poulett to reside at Poulett Lodge in background. Twickenham. 4 x 5½ ins, n.d. £120 The letter has been laid down on an album leaf. An excellent image of the most quintessentially English of choreographers. 6. ASTOR, William Waldorf, Viscount (1848- 1919). Philanthropist and Newspaper Proprietor. 8. BADEN POWELL, Robert (1857-1941). Hero Autograph Letter Signed (“William Waldorf of Mafeking and Founder of the Scout Movement. Astor”) to “My Lord Mayor”, saying he is enclosing Typed Letter Signed (“Robert Baden Powell”) to a cheque for five thousand pounds in aid of the Major Tudor Craig, thanking him for allowing a fund of the Soldiers & Sailors Families Association visit to the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops. and expressing every wish for its success. 1 page 4to on letterhead of the Boy Scouts 1 page 8vo with integral blank leaf, Astor Gate, Association, London, 5 February 1917. £395 Victoria Embankment, 7 January 1901. £110 Thanking Major Tudor Craig for his visit to the Barely a month earlier, Lord Roberts had returned to Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops, Baden Powell England from South Africa, hailed as a hero. After a continues “It was a very satisfactory thing to see so year which had seen the British endure and overcome large a number of our crippled men at work and the great sieges of the Boer War, at Ladysmith and thereby enabled to earn . . . a good livelihood . . . It Mafeking, and the British annexation of the Transvaal, was still more satisfactory to recognise that the whole it appeared to many that the war was finally drawing scheme is on a solid and business like basis and that to an end. In fact, the war continued for another it will . . . be able to extend its benefits to some 5000 of eighteen months, which saw some of the most brutal our disabled soldiers. . .” events of the conflict. The Workshops had started at the instigation of Lord The American-born William Waldorf Astor settled in Roberts who had campaigned for more to be done England in 1890 and became a British subject in 1899. to provide employment for disabled ex-servicemen. After Lord Roberts’ death in 1914, the workshops were Asking his correspondent “not to fix on Saturday for named in his honour, and were expanded throughout the Tower visit. I have, I find, a duty to do at one on that the British Isles, producing items such as toys – some day which would of course interfere with the visit; if of which survive today – to baskets and furniture. it can be managed on any other day it will be a very The letter has been lightly pasted on to a decorative great convenience to me.” album page, with a long and interesting obituary of The witty clergyman R.H. Barham was for many years Baden Powell laid down on the verso of the album a canon of St. Paul’s , with his residence page. at Amen Corner. A contributor to periodicals and a founder of the Garrick Club, he was the author of the very popular Ingoldsby Legends, a collection of myths, legends, folklore and mystery, with elements of the grotesque and supernatual, written in both verse and prose. The best-known is the poem The Jackdaw of Rheims, about a jackdaw who steals a cardinal’s ring and is ultimately made a saint.

11. BARTHOLDI, Frederic Auguste (1834- 1904). French Sculptor of the Statue of Liberty. Card engraved with an image of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbour, signed boldly (“Bartholdi”) at the upper right. c. 3 x 6 ins, undated, c. 1886. £550 The colossal neo-classical copper sculpture, whose formal title is Liberty Enlightening the World, was dedicated in October 1886 by President Grover Cleveland in a lavish ceremony of celebration. A gift to the United States from the people of , the robed female figure represents Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking the law, on which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet. It was said that the face of the statue was modelled on Bartholdi’s mother Charlotte and the body on his wife Jeanne. The statue was constructed in France, shipped to America in sections, and then assembled on the already completed pedestal on what 9. BARNARDO, Thomas John (1845-1905). was then called Bedloe’s Island, now Liberty Island. Philanthropist; founder of Homes for children. An attractive image. Bartholdi appears to have signed Cabinet Photograph Signed (“Yrs. sincerely Tho.J. very few cards representing the statue. Barnardo”), showing Barnardo seated astride a chair, holding an open book. “Photographed at the Boys’ Home Studio, Stepney Causeway, E.” c. 6¼ x 4 ins, London, n.d. £475 Thomas John Barnardo opened his first home for destitute boys at 18 Stepney Causeway in December 1870. A clear, strong image with a very good signature.

10. BARHAM, Richard Harris (1788-1845). Humorist. Autograph Letter Signed (“R H Barham”) to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo with integral blank leaf, Amen Corner, Monday Morning, n.d. £85 , accompanied by Willoughby, but failed to take the capital. With Willoughby’s help, however, Henri took a number of fortresses before the end of the year, and Willoughby was not to return to England until after the taking of Honfleur in January 1590. Although Willoughby is not named in this letter, a previous collector’s note declares that it is to him, and the mention of “M. Stubs”, evidently Stubbe, Willoughby’s secretary, as well as the content of the letter, would indicate this assumption is correct. Trans: “. . . I believe that M. Stubs, your colleague and my great friend, will have told you how I gave my despatches to the courier Pieter Bron, because I believed . . . that he would 12. BEATTY, David, Earl (1871-1936). Admiral. arrive at Dieppe a little before you, and Photograph Signed (“David Beatty”), showing the that I was certain that the King . . . would be glad to be admiral standing on the deck of a ship, his hands advised of your arrival . . . in order to greet you, if not in his pockets, signed by him on a light portion of with the kind reception which he would like to give, the image. at least with a show of satisfaction . . . of your welcome Image size c. 6¼ x 8¼ ins., mounted and in a plain arrival . . .” black wooden frame, in all 10 x 11½ ins., n.d. £395 The writer of the letter, the Sieur Beauvoir la Nocle, was a French Protestant who had attended Henri’s A fine portrait of the man who commanded the British wedding to Marguerite de Valois in 1572. His lodgings Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, and who received the were outside the city wall, a happy circumstance surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of which saved him from the Saint-Barthelemy massacre. the First World War. He took refuge in , returning to France when matters seemed calmer, and again fleeing to 13. BEAUVOIR LA NOCLE, Jean de la Fin, Switzerland. He finally returned to France to serve Sieur (1559?-1600?). French Huguenot and Henri IV, who named him ambassador to England. Ambassador to England. A few minor holes, affecting one word of text, and Letter Signed (“Beauvoir la Nocle”) to an unnamed some fraying at the edges; however, the letter is in remarkably clear and legible condition throughout. English correspondent [Lord Willoughby de Eresby] expressing his vivid pleasure that Willoughby has arrived in France, and stating that “the King [Henri 14. BEAVERBROOK, Max Aitken, Lord (1879- IV] my master would be glad to be advised of your 1974). Newspaper Proprietor and SWAFFER, arrival . . . in order to greet you . . . with a good show Hannen (1879-1962). Journalist. of satisfaction”. Typed Letter Signed (“Beaverbrook”) to “Dear 1 page folio in French, London, 6 October 1589. Swaffer”, thanking him for his article on the General £395 Strike. When Henri III of France, died, assassinated, he named 1 page 4to, 23 St. Bride Street, EC4, 21 May 1926. the Protestant Henri of Navarre as his successor. The Together with a typed article (unsigned) by Hannen result was civil war. Attacked by the Catholic , Swaffer recounting his early days as a reporter in Henri retreated to Dieppe where the Duc de Mayenne order to “remind the world that without the Trade laid siege to the city. Unions, the working classes of England would be On 15 September 1589, Elizabeth I appointed in a sorry plight.” Peregrine Bertie, Lord Willoughby de Eresby to head 18 pages 4to, n.p., n.d. [but May 1926]. £250 the British troops sent to aid Henri. They arrived in “I read your manuscript on the General Strike early October, and on 6 October, the day of this letter, with great interest – and as far as the narrative was Mayenne was forced to abandon the siege. With concerned with actual excitement. It was when English support, Henri marched into the suburbs of you came to draw general conclusions that I parted company from you . . . None the less I heartily enjoyed your document.” Hannen Swaffer joined Beaverbrook’s Daily Express as drama critic in 1926. In this lengthy article, by turns amusing and horrifying, he presents a vivid picture of the life, and financial difficulties, of newsmen at the turn of the twentieth century. Describing his time at the Preston Herald, working a seven-day week – including the twice-weekly all-night proofreading sessions – Swaffer tells us he received for “this slavery” the sum of £1 a week. A dozen years later, the plight of the photographers he employed on the Daily Mirror was no better. “They went through the Balkan Wars, at the risk of their lives, for the salary of clerks. . . Their pictures of warfare shocked Europe. . .” There are rusty paperclip marks to the letter, and to the first three and last three pages of the article, but this is otherwise in good condition.

15. BEECHAM, Sir Thomas (1879-1961). Conductor. Printed Score of Puccini’s La Boheme, signed and inscribed on the front flyleaf (“Leeds Grand Theatre 23 Nov 1935 This book is a friend in need – thanks to my other friend Clifford Bowling / Thomas Beecham”) and below by the soprano Lisa Perli (“And to me also Clifford / Lisa Perli”). 16. BERNHARDT, Sarah (1844-1923). French 254 pages 4to, pictorial wrappers, Leeds, 23 Actress. November 1935. £195 Spectacular large Photograph Signed and inscribed (“a mon très Chéri Spendler / Sarah Bernardt 1911”) The English soprano Dora Labbette, born in Purley, on the mount, showing the great actress seated on Surrey, had taken the stage name Lisa Perli (the surname being a pun on her place of birth) when an elaborate chair, her elbow on the table next to she started her operatic career with a very successful her, in costume for her role as Theodora. performance as Mimi. She was for many years Notes on the back record that the photograph was Beecham’s mistress, with whom she had a son. taken on stage at the Coliseum in London on 24 The cover September 1911 and signed when she went to the is slightly photographer’s studio on Saturday 28 October b a t t e r e d 1911. though still In all, 15½ x 12¼ ins. £425 a t t r a c t i ve , and has the 17. BERTHIER, Louis Alexandre, Prince of ownership inscription Wagram and Neuchatel (1753-1815). French of “Clifford Marshal. Bowling / Document Signed (“Ml Al Berthier”) as Minister of Leeds” at the War, an extract from a ministerial decree setting out top right. the desired composition of battalions. 3 pages folio in French, Osterode, 26 March 1807. £225 An interesting document written at the time of the Polish campaign. Setting out ’s decree about the composition of military transport battalions, we find included not only [trans:] “one veterinary artist” but also “one master tailor” and “one master bootmaker”, minds, this indicates a psychological basis for her ill- as well as the officers one would normally expect. The health. Her books include The Hawaiian Archpelago document further sets out that the “men required to (1875), Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880), and Korea and make up . . . the battalion of . . . military transport will her Neighbours (1898). According to her doctor husband be recruited through conscription or volunteers”, etc. John Bishop, she had the appetite of a tiger and the A few months later, Berthier was to assist at one of the digestion of an ostrich. In 1892 she was elected the first most memorable encounters of the era, the meeting woman Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. between Napoleon and I of at Tilsit. The document is rather dusty and split at the fold. 20. BIZET, Georges (1838-1875). French Composer. 18. BERTHIER, Louis Alexandre, Prince of The printed score of his first opera Les Pêcheurs de Wagram and Neuchatel (1753-1815). French Perles [The Pearl Fishers], arranged by the composer Marshal. for piano and voices, paginated 1-210 [but in fact 214 Letter Signed (“alexandre”) to the Duc de Bellune pages, as the numbers 85-88 have been repeated]. [Marshal Victor], expressing his pleasure at a 4to, bound in roan backed boards, gilt title and show of harmony between French soldiers and the bands on spine. Published by Chaudens, Paris, n.d. Spanish population when celebrating Napoleon’s [c. 1863]. birthday. 1 page 4to in French, , 2 October 1810. £225 Trans: “I received . . . the letter which you sent me on 17 August recounting the festivities of the 15th by the first Corps of the army. I read the details with pleasure: the unity which reigned in this instance between the French troops and the Spanish people can only have produced the best impression.” The celebrations in question were evidently in honour of Napoleon’s forty-first birthday on 15 August. Marshal Victor had been in the Peninsula for well over a year, seeing action at several battles before being repulsed by British forces at Talavera in 1809. Although some Spaniards favoured the French as liberators from a corrupt monarchy, one can only speculate as to how much of this unity between French and Spanish was genuine and how much was staged.

19. BISHOP, Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904). Traveller and Writer. Autograph Correspondence Card Signed (“I L Bishop”) to Mrs. Barbour in Tatenhall, Cheshire, 1 page oblong 8vo with address and postal markings on the verso, 5 Howard Square, Eastbourne, 26 December 1893. £135 Signed and Inscribed on the dedication page in Thanking her for “the photograph of my father’s French to the tenor Francois Morini, who sang the church” [Isabella’s father Edward Bird had been a major role of Nadir in the first production: “A Nadir vicar] and explaining “I am within ten days of sailing Morini – faible témoignage de reconnnaissance, for Korea, and instead of sending Xmas cards am just d’estime et d’amitié Georges Bizet”. [a slight writing to let my friends know of this great move and testimony of my gratitude, esteem and friendship]. to ask them for their good wishes . . .” £1500 The adventurous Isabella, who had suffered from poor An important and evocative association copy. Les health, and especially migraine and a bad back, in her Pêcheurs de Perles had its first performance at the youth, discovered that only constant travel to far- Théatre Lyrique, Paris, on 30 September 1863, shortly flung places could alleviate her condition. To modern before Bizet’s twenty-fifth birthday. It was given 18 performances, regarded as respectable for a debut work, although it did not obtain lasting popularity until after Bizet’s death. Its great male friendship duet in Act 1, Au fond du temple saint, sung by Nadir and his rival in love Zurga, is one of the most famous in all opera. Front cover somewhat worn, with bumped corners. Some even browning on the interior pages, which remain clear throughout. The inscription is strongly written, with a large dark signature.

21. BLACKMORE, Richard Doddridge (1825- 1900). Novelist; author of Lorna Doone. Presentation copy of Perlycross, inscribed by him (“I hope you like this book / R.D. Blackmore / Aug. 1897”) on the title page. 465 pages 8vo, blue boards with gilt lettering, with the bookplate of Ralph M. Ward on the inside front cover, London, 1894. £50 Blackmore’s most famous novel, Lorna Doone, had appeared twenty years earlier. Like Lorna Doone, this romantic novel is set in Devon, opening with the line “In the year 1835, the Rev. Philip Penniloe was Curate- 23. BONAPARTE, Joseph (1768-1844). King in-charge of Perlycross, a village in the valley of the of , later King of ; elder brother of Blackdown Range.” Napoleon. A fresh, clean copy, many pages uncut. Autograph Letter Signed (“Joseph”) to “Monsieur le Maréchal” informing him that most of the greater 22. BLYTON, Enid (1897-1968). Children’s part of the Army of Portugal has already left Madrid Writer. and that he has so few resources left that he will be Autograph Postcard Signed (“Enid Blyton”) to unable to hold Placentia. Gillian Stacey in Wimbledon, congratulating her on 1 page 4to in French, Madrid, 20 August 1811. a well-run library. £1450 1 page small oblong 8vo, addressed on the verso, Trans: “I have received your letter of the 16th. The Green Hedges, Beaconsfield, n.d. [postmarked 8 greater part of the detachments . . . of the army of August 1953]. £275 Portugal which were still in Madrid have left to rejoin their Corps: the rest, with the baggage, munitions and “[Illegible damp-stained word] congratulate you on everything else with which we can furnish you, will your well-run library [“library” damp-stained and leave tomorrow, your aide de camp and the Artillery virtually illegible], Gillian! I am so glad to hear of a girl General will leave with it tomorrow. manning one, because most of the good ones I have heard about are run by boys. Yours seems excellent I have so few people left that it will not be possible for & you have good rules. You did not tell me how old me to hold Placentia; I suppose that you have alerted you are – are you as old as Ian Stuart, who runs “M: the Duke of Dalmatia [Soult] to the situation before Turnips Library”? He is 10. Give my love to all your us.” members.” Earlier that year, the French invasion of Portugal Enid Blyton was by far the most successful children’s had finally foundered, as Massena was forced to author of her day. Her young readers frequently retreat before Torres Vedras. The wily and capable proved to be enthusiastic correspondents, and received Massena was soon replaced by Marmont, who set a friendly and encouraging response. about reorganizing the army of Portugal. A year later, Wellington’s victory over Marmont at Salamanca, Damp staining (possibly from rain whilst originally soon followed by his entry into Madrid, would erase in transit) affects three or four words of the first two any doubts about the outcome of the war in the lines, and there are remains of mounting at the top left Peninsula. corner. The card is otherwise in good condition. It has been argued that French rule in Spain would have been considerably more successful if Joseph on the first day of the 1969 festival at the begining of had had his way and been freed from Napoleon’s June, leaving only the shell of the outer brick walls. interference. The rushed scrawl of this letter and the This image, most probably a press photograph, shows despairing tone clearly evoke a man who knows he is Britten and Pears inspecting the damage. For that facing defeat, not only from the British and Spanish, year the festival was moved to other local venues, but from his own side. but happily the Hall was rebuilt in time for the 1970 The letter has been inlaid, but is otherwise in excellent Festival. condition.

24. BRITTEN, Benjamin (1913-1976). English Composer. Photograph Signed (“Benjamin Britten”) a postcard- size head and shoulders image of the young composer, signed in blue biro across the white portion at the foot which reads “Benjamin Britten / Exclusive Decca Records Artist”. 5½ x 3½ ins., n.d. £210

26. BRITTEN, Benjamin (1913-1975). Composer and PEARS, Peter (1910-1986). Tenor. Printed Score for Britten’s Cantata Misericordium, signed by both (“Benjamin Britten” and “Peter Pears”) on the title page. 25. BRITTEN, Benjamin (1913-1976). Composer 72 pages 8vo, wrappers, in a specially-made green and PEARS, Peter (1910-1986). Tenor. box with the label “Benjamin Britten Cantata Informal Photograph Signed by both (“Benjamin Misericordium” on the cover, n.d. £295 Britten”, “Peter Pears”), depicting the two men Britten’s Cantata Misericordium was composed for and standing outdoors in front of a brick archway, first performed at the ceremony commemorating the looking in different directions as if unaware of the centenary of the Red Cross at Geneva on 1 September camera. 1963. The work is scored for tenor and baritone soloists, c. 10 x 7½ ins, laid down, signed by both on the wide mixed choir and string orchestra, with piano, harp, white border beneath the image, above the printed timpani and a string quartet. The text is a Latin version caption “Snape Maltings: 8 June 1969”. £475 of the parable of the good Samaritan. Peter Pears and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sang at the first performance, Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Suffolk is the the main which was conducted by Ernest Ansermet. venue of the Aldeburgh Music Festival, established by Britten and Pears in 1948. The Hall, converted from Also inscribed on the front fly-leaf “Peter Morrell from an an old malthouse, was largely destroyed by fire I.H. Summer 1963”. forth his views as to the mistakes made by the British. 2¼ pages 4to, n.p., n.y. [docketed 8 January 1794]. £3200 The three-month long siege of Toulon ended on 18 December 1793 with a capitulation of the British- backed Royalist rebels to the republican army. The republican victory was largely thanks to the brilliant tactics of a young artillery captain, Napoleon Buonaparte. For the British it was a humiliation, for the royalists a disaster. “Taking it for granted that Business of importance called you to Norfolk & 27. BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889) and his has kept you there I did wife Elizabeth Barrett BROWNING (1806- not choose to heap in upon your Business – or if you 1861). Poets. wished for a little repose did I choose to disturb your Both their signatures (“Elizabeth Barrett Browning” quiet. Alas! if I had done so, I could perhaps have done little myself, & perhaps you could not have done and “Robert Browning”), written on a narrow slip much more to prevent the disasters which are likely of paper, and dated by Robert “Casa Guidi. ‘57.” to fall upon Europe. Toulon is not only a calamitous, Window-mounted in dark green board beneath but in my Mind a most disgraceful affair. We really modern photographic images of the poets, glazed, stand in need of men of Capacity for Matters of the and in a narrow black and gilt wood frame, least difficulty. The whole stock of abilities in Europe measuring in all c. 8½ x 10½ ins. £875 perhaps is not equal to the demand; but we had The Brownings, who had married privately in London resolved not to profit of what there was. I have a strong in September 1846, left a week later for , living opinion that Frenchmen are best for French affairs. I at first in Siena. An appartment in the Casa Guidi, have an opinion too, which I dont know whether I can Florence, became their main residence from the make equally evident, it is, that the Emigrants have summer of 1847 intil Elizabeth’s death in 1861. There better parts than the people among whom they have they entertained artistic and literary friends from taken refuge. This I know would be reputed Heresy, England as well as many members of the continental Blasphemy, Madness ... But I am almost convinced intelligentsia. The fame of the two poets meant that that such is the fact & that we have suffered all that they were often asked for their joint autograph, and we have suffered in these two campains [sic], by they would usually write their names on narrow repelling them, & refusing to consult, & as much as slips of paper, as here. This much sought after joint possible in any way to use them, in their own affairs. autograph has now become rare. To this I attribute amongst other causes, but to this principally our shameful flight from Toulon. But if my An attractive presentation. speculation be false & unfounded, come to help me to make them better. You will soon be wanted; & I really “OUR SHAMEFUL FLIGHT FROM TOULON” wish you here before the Birthday [Queen Charlotte’s official birthday on 18 January] – the earlier the better 28. BURKE, Edmund (1729-1797). Statesman, – I am not very sanguine about the effect of anything Writer and Political Theorist. – but it is not our Hopes, but our duty, that is to call Autograph Letter Signed (“Edm Burke”) to “My forth our Exertion. I think, just in this bad state of our dear Sir [William Windham, MP for Norwich], affairs, – we are doubly bound to shew ourselves at discussing the fall of Toulon, “not only a calamitous, Court [contemporary newspapers report that Burke but . . . a most disgraceful affair”, and putting was indeed in the Drawing Room on the Queen’s Birthday]. . . I do not believe the Christian army yet 29. BUCKINGHAM PALACE PROGRAMME, 1887 Programme for a concert held at Buckingham Palace, printed in purple ink on white, the lion and unicorn royal crest embossed at the head in gold, red and blue. The text is surrounded by a lacy border of leaves. 9 x 7½ ins, Buckingham Palace, 3 June 1887. £150 The programme includes music by Wagner (Lohengrin), Weber (Der Freischutz), Rossini (La Cenerentola), and Auber (Fra Diavolo). Tennyson’s words for the opening piece, Stanford’s Carmen Saeculare, are printed inside the programme. The finest performers of the age accepted invitations to sing at Buckingham Palace; on this occasion they included Adelina Patti (here spelt ‘Patey’) and Emma Albani. was very fond of music and continued her singing lessons even after her accession to the throne. An attractive item.

30. CANNING, George (1770-1827). done up. But we do not make a movement towards Prime Minister 1827, and former them – we expect them to do everything for us – & resident of 50 Berkeley Square. then we will condescend to take the command of them Letter Signed (“”) as Under- & make them act under us & for our purposes.” Secretary for Foreign Affairs, his first government Writing at the time of the siege, in his Remarks On post, to Sir William Hamilton, the British Envoy the Policy of the Allies with Regard to France. Begun in at Naples, saying he is sending him “by Lord October 1793, Burke remarks that “If we wish to make Grenville’s direction [Lord Grenville was the an impression on the minds of any persons in France . Foreign Secretary] a Copy [not present] of the . . it is impossible that they should not be more easily Declaration which his Majesty [George III] has been led . . . [than] by those who speak their language, are pleased to order to be published respecting the acquainted with their manners, who are conversant abrupt termination of the Negociation at Lille.” with their usages and habits of thinking . . . than with 1 page folio with integral blank leaf, Downing a body congregated from all tongues and tribes.” Street, 28 October 1797. £525 Burke’s correspondent, William Windham, had been a supporter of the , and was an eye-witness In a little remembered episode in the long war with to its beginnings in 1789. He went to France again in Revolutionary and then Napoleonic France, a British 1791, and his opinion soon moved closer to Burke’s. delegation led by Lord Malmsbury met representatives By the time of this letter he was one of the leading of the led by Hughes Maret, Duc de advocates of military intervention in France to be Bassano to attempt to negotiate a peace treaty. The found in Parliament. Later in 1794 he was offered the negotiations took place at Lille from July to October cabinet post of Secretary at War, giving his support to 1797. The main reason for their failure was the the cause of an emigré army. British refusal to grant France territorial concessions, including the transfer of the Channel Islands. This letter has been published in The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, vol. 7. Sir William Hamilton had been the British Envoy at Naples since 1764; in 1791 he married the beautiful Emma Hart, who was to become the mistress of Lord Nelson. Together with two portrait engravings of Canning. “THE CONDUCT OF THE CAVALRY”

31. CARDIGAN, James Brudenell, 7th Earl (1797-1868). General; led the Charge of the Light Brigade. Autograph Letter Signed (“Cardigan”) to an unidentified correspondent, a strong letter of recommendation for Dr. [E.H.] Nolan, author of the History of the War with Russia. 4 pages 8vo, Portman Square, 20 April 1857. £750 “I beg to state that I became acquainted with Doctor Nolan in consequence of his being the Author of the History of the War with Russia, being anxious to point out to him that he had received erroneous information with regard to some details of the conduct of the Cavalry. The publication of the volume . . . written by himself is a proof of his literary acquirements, and I found Doctor Nolan remarkably courteous in his manner and very obliging. I believe therefore that he would be particularly well qualified to fill the situation which he is anxious to obtain.” E.H. Nolan’s two-volume illustrated history of the was published in 1857. There is no doubt that safeguarding the reputation of the cavalry was of paramount importance to Cardigan. Bitter accusations had flown between Cardigan and his brother-in-law Lord Lucan over the responsibility for the disastrous charge of the Light Brigade, the culmination of their enmity. Cardigan was later to 33. CARUSO, Enrico (1873-1921). Italian Tenor. challenge Lucan to a duel for supporting a writer Postcard Photograph Signed (“Enrico Caruso Berlin who cast aspersions on his courage; the duel never 1910”), a three quarter length portrait of the great took place due to a series of misunderstandings and tenor holding a cigar. missed encounters. Other writers on the Crimean war With an Autograph Message on the verso in Italian, endured numerous letters in Cardigan’s very difficult addressed to Linda D’Amata in West Kensington, hand. Doctor Nolan was evidently fortunate to have, thanking his correspondent and informing her that eventually, earned Cardigan’s approbation. he is about to depart for Bremen and thence to New York. £350 32. CARLYLE, Thomas (1795-1881). Essayist and Caruso’s departure for New York would have been Historian. for the first rehearsals for the world premiere of Receipt Signed (“T. Carlyle”), partly over a violet Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West, which took place at penny duty stamp, acknowledging that he has the Metropolitan Opera on 10 December 1910, with received £521.12s. from the publishers Chapman Caruso as Dick Johnson. and Hall, “being the amount due to me for the A good image, boldly signed and in very good royalty and use of the stereotype plates for my condition. works printed from Jany 1 to Decr 31 1859.” 1 page oblong 8vo, 5 Cheyne Row Chelsea, 3 April 34. CHARLES II (1630-1685). King of Great 1860. £225 Britain. The first two volumes of Carlyle’s Frederick the Great Letter Signed (“Charles R”), a warrant addressed to had appeared in 1858 to great critical (and financial) Sir Edward Walker [Receiver of the King’s Moneys, success. These royalty payments probably largely and later in charge of arrangements for Charles’s derive from immediate reprints of the work. coronation] ordering payment to “. . . our trusty & welbeloved servant George Barker Esqr our Avenor [chief officer of the stables], the summe of one thousand guilders towards the charge of Horsemeate for our stable since our last coming to Breda . . .” 1 page small 4to with integral address leaf, countersigned by Robert Long [member of Charles’s Privy Council in exile, later Chancellor of the Exchequer] and receipted by George Barker on the verso. Breda, 25/15 May 1650. £1950 After the defeat of the Royalist forces at Naseby, Charles found refuge first in France, and later was generously welcomed in the United Netherlands, where he received the news of his father’s execution. He then travelled to Jersey, but the proximity of the Parliamentary fleet caused him to return to a safe haven at Breda in February 1650. In June of that year, less than a month after signing this letter, he arrived in , where he had been proclaimed king soon after his father’s death. He endured a great many sermons, as well as rebukes about his way of life and his friends, and deep disapproval of his generously tolerant religious views, before finally swearing to the Covenant at his coronation at Scone in January 1651. By the summer of that year, the twenty-one year old King and his army were marching south, only to engage with Cromwell’s forces in what proved one of his greatest disasters. He was decisively routed at Worcester on 3 September, and would have to endure nine years of generally unhappy and impoverished exile before his restoration in 1660. Slightly torn at the lower left hand margin, and some traces of mounting on the verso, Commonwealth, the rivals had signed a peace treaty but overall in very good, clear condition. in 1674, seven years after the Dutch humiliatingly burned the British fleet in the Medway. The decades of conflict had invariably been prompted by commercial 35. CHARLES II (1630-1685). King of Great rivalry, a situation which was only fully resolved with Britain. the accession of William and Mary. Document Signed (“Charles R”), ordering that The Royal African Company, founded in 1660 as the the Great Seal be affixed to “an Instrument . . . Company of Royal Adverturers Trading to Africa, containing powers to . . . prince Rupert . . . John Earle was largely controlled by the aristocracy and the of Radnor . . . Henry Earle of Arlington” and others Duke of York rather than experienced merchants. One “to treat of & conclude a treaty of Comerce for the of the leading lights of the company, Prince Rupert, Coast of Africa between us & the States generall of had already visited Africa in the 1650s whilst still in the United Netherlands” exile from Britain. It dealt in ivory and gold as well 1 page folio with integral blank leaf and blind stamp as the most shameful commodity of all, slaves. The seal, countersigned by the Earl of Sunderland, company disappeared in 1698, leaving the way open Whitehall, 26 April 1680. £2950 to professional merchants in thriving ports such as Bristol, who exploited the trade even more ruthlessly Both the Dutch and the British were keen to exploit than their predecessors. the resources which Africa could offer. After a series Small wormhole at the seal at the top left corner of the of conflicts which had started at the time ofthe document. 36. CHARPENTIER, Gustave (1860-1956). French composer. Printed piano and vocal score for his opera Louise, signed and inscribed on the original cover (“à Madame Perret à l’artiste devouée et sincère en vive gratitude Gustave Charpentier, 2 fev 1900”), with a two-bar autograph musical quotation and the words “Voici le printemps!”. 430 pages large 4to, original wrappers re- bound in red roan, calf spine with “Charpentier / Louise” in gilt., Paris, 2 February 1900. £295 Charpentier’s most successful – indeed, only successful – opera had its premiere in Paris on 2 February 1900. Madame Perret, to whom Charpentier has inscribed this volume, sang the relatively minor role of La Laitière [the milkmaid] in the original production, and the musical quotation on the cover comes from her phrase in Act II scene 2 of the opera. Although the opera is seldom heard in opera houses today, its most popular aria “Depuis le jour” is a great favourite in operatic recitals.

“PLEASURES I THINK OF NO MORE . . .”

37. CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer privilege against them. In this situation you will easily Stanhope, 4th Earl of (1694-1773). Letter-Writer, suppose that I have no very pleasant hours, but on Wit, and Politician. the other hand, thank God, I have not one melancholy Autograph Letter Signed (“Chesterfield”) to “Dear one; And I rather think that my Philosophy increases Dayrolles” [his godson, the diplomat Solomon with my infirmitys. Pleasures I think of no more, let Dayrolles, the British Resident at Brussels], wryly those run after them who can overtake them, but I will describing his philosophy of life after his retirement not hobble and halt after them in vain. My comfort, and amusements must be internal, and by good luck from front-line politics. I am not afraid of looking inwards. Some reading, 2 pages 4to, Blackheath, 25 September 1754. £4500 some writing, some trifling in my garden, and some After a successful period as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland contemplation, concurr in making me never less alone, and a less successful one as Secretary of State for the than when alone. But this letter runs too much into the Northern [i.e. foreign] Department, Chesterfield moral essay of a Solitaire. retired into private life in 1748, largely because of his Changeons de These [Let us change the subject]. I poor health. In fact he had twenty-five years of life shall go to London in November; upon the account of left, which he was able to fill productively. The present Lady Chesterfield [his wife, the natural daughter of fine letter, written when he was sixty, describes his George I], and even of my servants, who not having pastimes and gives graceful expression to his stoicism, the resources that I have, would be very miserable with the reflection that “my Philosophy increases with here in the winter. The difference will be little to me, it my infirmitys.” Lord Chestefield was described by would be great to them, which in my mind makes it a Voltaire as “the only Englishman who ever argued for social duty . . .” the art of pleasing as the first duty in life.” Crease at lower left corner, and remnants of paper “Could my letters be less dull, they should be more mounting strip at inner edge of recto. Faint glue traces frequent; but what can a deaf vegetable write to amuse on verso. Nevertheless a pleasing letter in clear fresh a live Man with? Deaf and dull, are nearer related, condition throughout. than deaf and dumb . . . In truth all the infirmitys of an age still more advanced than mine crowd in upon me. I must bear them as well as I can; they are more or less the lot of humanity; and I have no claim to an exclusive THE FIRST SIR Arabella Churchill, the long-term mistress of James II before he ascended the throne. 38. CHURCHILL, Sir Winston (1620-1688). Letters and documents of the first Sir Winston Royalist officer, courtier, and historian. Father of the Churchill, the first member of his family to achieve Duke of Marlborough. public prominence, are rare. Document Signed (“W Churchill”) an Indenture by A little brittle, but clear and legible. There is anold which Sir Winston Churchill of ‘Glanfeild Wotton’ professional repair on the verso. [i.e. Wooton Glanville] in the County of Dorset grants to Roger Gardner of White Waltham in the “N0-ONE CAN FORESEE THE DURATION County of Berkshire “for and in consideration of OF THIS WAR” a competent summe of lawful money of England . . . all that Mannor house or Capitall Messuage 39. CHURCHILL, Sir Winston (1874-1965). comonly called the hill house or hill farme . . . in the Statesman. parrish of White Waltham aforesaid . . .” Letter Subcribed and Signed (“Yours v[er]y 1 page large oblong folio in English on vellum, with sincerely Winston S. Churchill”), as First Lord of decorated initial letters T and I (of “This Indenture”) the Admiralty two months after the outbreak of the in the first line. The original seal tag, across which First World War, to “My dear Hedworth” [Admiral Churchill has partly signed, is present, but the seal Sir Hedworth Meux, Commander-in-Chief, is lacking. 17 June 22 Charles II [1670]. £975 Portsmouth], asking him not to resign his position. Winston Churchill, of an old Dorset family, was a 1½ pages 8vo with integral blank leaf, Admiralty, Captain of Horse in the Civil War who fought at Whitehall, 3 November 1914. £2950 the siege of Taunton and the defence of Bristol, and “I hope you will not consider yr tenure of the was wounded. He lay low during the , Portsmouth Command terminated by yr promotion to working on his history of the kings of Britain, Divi Admiral of the Fleet in the Spring. No-one can foresee Britannici. After the Restoration he was knighted, sat the duration of this war, but it will be greatly in the as an M.P., and was given a valuable court position as public interest if you continue to be responsible for Clerk Controller of the Green Cloth [the Board of Green Portsmouth after you have hoisted your Union Flag, Cloth, which took its name from the baize covered until some much more favourable opportunity offers table at which the members sat, organised royal travel for releasing you than is at present in sight.” and audited the accounts of the royal household]. In Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1664 his wider intererests were recognised when he October 1911 until May 1915, when he lost his position was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In addition in the wake of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. to the Duke of Marlborough, he was the father of Deeply upset by being given the more junior post of regret that I am unable to accept your invitation to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, he resigned the Oyster Feast. Nevertheless I still hope for an from the coalition government and served on the opportunity to occur when I may come to receive the western front as Colonel of the 6th Battalion Royal Honorary Freedom of your Borough.” Scots Fusiliers. The loss of the Admiralty was the Three filing holes at the left blank margin of the page, greatest setback of Churchill’s career, and he was so far from the text. upset that for a time Clementine feared that he would actually die of grief. 41. COATES, Eric (1886-1957). Composer. The full score of his orchestral suite Four Centuries, 160 pages folio, grey paper wrappers, Boosey & Hawkes, n.d. Signed and inscribed on the title page “For Herman Lindars from his old friend Eric Coates”. £275 Four Centuries dates from 1941. Coates represents each century from the seventeenth to the twentieth with an appropriate dance – the seventeenth with a hornpipe, the eighteenth with a pavane and tabourin, the nineeenth with a waltz, and the twentieth with ‘rhythm’, which introduces saxophones and syncopation. Herman Lindars, to whom this score is inscribed, was a professionally trained musician as Sir Hedworth Meux, born Lambton (1856-1929), well as a successful industrialist. He was the founder became famous during the Boer War for having led of the Sheffield Symphony Orchestra. the Naval Brigade to the relief of Ladysmith. Shortly afterwards he met Valerie Lady Meux, a wealthy Eric Coates is particularly remembered for his valse widow with a colourful past, to thank her for her serenade ‘By the Sleepy Lagoon’ which introduces generous contribution to the war effort. She was so the BBC’s Desert Island Discs, and for his ‘Dam Busters impressed by him that she made him the heir to her March’. substantial fortune, the only condition being that he Old tape repair at head of front paper wrapper, and changed his surname to Meux. As Commander-in- some wear to spine. Chief, Portsmouth, Meux’s main responsibility was defending the lines of communication with the BEF 42. COCKERELL, Sir Sydney (1867-1962). in France. He stayed in the Navy until 1916, when he became the Conservative M.P. for Portsmouth. Collector; Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Autograph Letter Signed (“Sydney C. Cockerell”) 40. CHURCHILL, Sir Winston (1874-1965). to “Dear Mr. Norman” saying he is sending him Statesman. some autographs of [not present] as well as a “printed form of the same lecture, with Typed Letter Signed (“Winston S. Churchill”) to WM’s corrections.” the Mayor of Colchester, 1 page 4to, 28 Hyde Park 2 pages 8vo with integral blank leaf, Richmond, 11 Gate, 30 June 1951. £995 November 1900. £150 A letter written four months before Churchill became As a young man, Sydney Cockerell had been offered Prime Minister for the second time on the defeat of the post of secretary to the Kelmscott Press and Attlee’s Labour government. He declines an invitation became William Morris’ own private secretary until to the annual Colchester Oyster Feast, held every the latter’s death in 1896. He was eventually appointed October to celebrate the famous oyster fisheries at the his literary executor. It would appear that he had been mouth of the Colne. In this year, 1951, the planned invited by Mr. Norman to celebrate Morris’ life, and date of the Feast, 25 October, clashed with the General he writes here, in his neat and very beautiful hand, to Election, and so the Feast was postponed until 9 thank him. November. “I am sending you a lecture by Morris [not present] “Thank you for your letter of June 18 and invitation to . . . together with the first printed form of the same the Oyster Feast at Colchester next October. I fear that lecture, with WM’s corrections. An addition towards I am still unable to fix a date to come to Colchester, the end is so characteristic that I think you would as my Parliamentary and other commitments are rather have this sentence in his handwriting than extremely pressing now. In the circumstances I much some scrap of a letter containing nothing in particular. looked up to all my life – but you know my dear Sir I have enclosed two old cheques for the sake of the how difficult it is to answer a letter before you receive signatures. Let me thank you again for bringing us it . . . together last Thursday and for the perfect way in Though the deed was not done by myself in person, which you announced the occasion of our meeting. It I think you will be highly gratified at the success of is interesting to consider what varieties of upbringing Sr. John Duckworth – one of my Admirals whom I and of habits of thought were represented in that little detached from hence in quest of the Enemy – I knew gathering and what a bond of union we have in our him an officer of skill & perseverence and hehas love & veneration of the good and great man whose justified my opinion fully – those frenchmen my dear health you invited us to drink.” Reay must be content to fight onshore – I wish we could There is a slight stain at the top of the letter, perhaps provoke Bonaparte to hoist his flag – and try some of from a mug or glass, not affecting the text. his Grand Manoeuvres at sea – I do not wish a happier day than to get “I WISH WE alongside of COULD PROVOKE his Majestueux BONAPARTE” – Tell my dear Admiral I 43. COLLINGWOOD, congratulate him Cuthbert, Lord – for I know how (1748-1810). Admiral; much pleasure Nelson’s second-in- every one of command at Trafalgar. those affairs gives to his good A u t o g r a p h heart . . .” Letter Signed The letters of ( “ C o l l i n g w o o d ” ) congratulations to “My dear Sir” were no doubt [identified within for the honours the text as Mr. Reay], b e s t o w e d complaining that he upon him after has not received letters Trafalgar, when which he knows have he was promoted been sent to him, and to Vice-Admiral continuing that “I wish of the Red and we could provoke created Bonaparte to hoist his C o l l i n g wo o d . flag. . .” In spite of his hopes the he 3 pages 4to, Queen, 4 could provoke April 1806. £1400 B o n a p a r t e , “ . . . For the subject of after Trafalgar, your letter Mr. Richard, I C o l l i n g w o o d know him very well – his father was mate of my watch never again faced a French fleet. His efforts over when I was Lieutenant more than 30 years since . . the coming years would centre on diplomacy with . when his father died, I understood the family was the Ottoman Porte, stubbornly allied to France, not very well provided for and proposed to keep this and the protection of shipping routes in the eastern youngster with me, and take care of him – but his Mediterranean. friends provided otherwise for him . . . Duckworth’s success to which Collingwood refers My wife tells me that several letters have been written was no doubt his victory over the French in the West to me from my friends and townsmen of Newcastle, Indies, off the coast of Hispaniola on 6 February. of congratulation to me – from the Mayor – from Sr. This effectively ended French hopes of increasing its Mathew Ridley & the Trinity house, and I am quite power in the Western Hemisphere. Duckworth was provoked that not one of them has come to me – honoured with a promotion to Vice-Admiral of the they will naturally expect my thanks, and gratefull White in April 1806. acknowledgements for so great an honour – it is the approbation & regard of my countrymen, I have 44. COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS A large and impressive photograph. One of the major CONFERENCE, 1956 problems the leaders discussed at this conference was unrest in central Africa. The unwieldy Federation Photograph Signed of the Commonwealth leaders of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was soon to split into at the conference held in London in June 1956. The three separate countries; Northern Rhodesia became nine men are seated in a garden, with a large tree in Zambia; Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, and the background. Nyasaland became Malawi. The photograph 12 x 15 ins, laid on a cream mount, glazed, and and in a narrow black wood frame, 45. COPLAND, Aaron (1900-1990). American measuring in all 22 x 20 ins. Composer. The leaders, who have each signed on the mount Printed score of El Salon Mexico, signed and inscribed beneath their images, are, from left to right: (“For Peter Wedland Aaron Copland ‘80”) on the Solomon BANDARANEIKE, Prime Minister of title page. Ceylon; Jawaharlal NEHRU, Prime Minister of 68 pages 8vo, wrappers, in a specially-made green India; Sidney HOLLAND, Prime Minister of New box with the label “Aaron Copland / El Salon Zealand; Louis ST. LAURENT, Prime Minister Mexico / Popular Type Dance Hall in Mexico City”, of CANADA; Anthony EDEN, Prime Minister of n.p., 1980 £240 Great Britain; Robert MENZIES, Prime Minister of Australia; Johannes STRIJDOM, Prime Minister of Copland’s El Salon Mexico, a symphonic composition South Africa; Muhammad ALI, Prime Minister of in one movement, is a musical depiction of a Mexican Pakistan; and Godfrey Huggins, Lord MALVERN dance hall, which makes extensive use of Mexican folk music. It was first performed in 1937 by the Mexican Minister of External Affairs of the Federation of Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Carlos Rhodesia and Nyasaland. £800 Chavez. 46. CRANE, Walter (1845-1915). Artist and Book- John & his associated Justices of the Comon Bench illustrator. of the Terme of Easter”. Signed above the tag Autograph Letter Signed (“Walter Crane”) to an “Robinson”. unidentified correspondent, telling him he does 1 page large oblong folio on vellum, c. 18 x 27 ins, not know of anyone “likely for the cottage . . . at with elaborate pen and wash decoration to the first Stradbroke.” three words and their initials, as well as along the 1 page oblong large 8vo on his attractive writing left and right margins, with the major portion of the paper with the punning logo of a crane, 13 Holland Seal of the Court of Common Bench [of which an Street, Kensington, 9 November 1905. £145 indistinct impression only remains]. Westminster, 11 May 1657. £3500 “. . . I do not happen at present to know of anyone likely for the cottage with workshop & foundry you An elaborate and very beautiful document, with tell me of at Stradbroke but if I should happen to come the very rare Seal of the Court of Common Bench, across anyone in search of such, I will very gladly albeit in an indistinct impression on which only direct them to you. Mrs. Crane has not been troubled the recto, showing the House of Commons, bears a with the pains since she returned here. Thanks. . . “ distinguishable image. Crane, a prolific artist and convinced socialist, The document concerns a land dispute in which “. became one of the leading exponents of the Arts and . . Andrew Hilly & Nicholas Peryn in their proper Crafts movement. In November 1888, he was named persons doe demand against Edward Giles rent President of the newly-founded Arts and Crafts twelve messuages fifty gardens three hundred acres Exhibition Society, with premises in Regent Street. of land thirty acres of meadow one hundred & twenty acres of pasture thirty acres of wood & one hundred An attractive letter, in very good condition. acres of furze & heath with the appurtenances . . .”. Interestingly, the document further refers to the fact 47. [CROMWELL, Oliver (1599-1658). Lord that Andrew Hilly and Nicholas Peryn were resident Protector 1653-8.] in “. . . the tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances Document in his name, a plea concerning a land in their demesne as of fee & right in the time of peace dispute “inrolled at Westminster before Oliver St. in the time of Charles late king of England takeing thereof the profits to the value. . .” The judgement dear Sir” [the opthalmic surgeon and photography appears to have gone in favour of Hilly and Peryn, pioneeer Jabez Hogg, F.R.C.S.], responding to an as their opponent did not appear in Court when enquriy about “the arsenic question” and referring summoned “. . . but departed in contempt of the Court to his grandfather the physician, naturalist and poet & maketh default”. Erasmus Darwin. The Robinson who signed the document is most likely 1 page 8vo with integral blank leaf and the original Sir Thomas Robinson who “in Hilary term 1657 . . . postmarked envelope front, Down, Beckenham, was able to purchase the immensely lucrative office , 14 January 1880. £4500 of chief protonotary of the common pleas. This office usually changed hands for over £5000.” (DNB). “I am glad that you are calling attention to the arsenic question. I cannot answer your question positively, The justice presiding over the trial, Oliver St. John, but have hardly any doubt that it was my grandfather had been king’s solicitor to Charles I, but he was also Erasmus, as my father [the physician Robert Darwin] a supporter of Parliament and a key figure in bringing never published on medical subjects.” Archbishop Laud to trial for treason. In 1648 he was appointed Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, a Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) post which he only lost in 1660 with the Restoration. is best known for his medico-philosphical work Zoonnomia and his long didactic poem in heroic A magnificent document in excellent condition. couplets The Loves of the Plants. His correspondent Jabez Hogg (1817-1899) wrote A Practical manual of “THE ARSENIC QUESTION” Photography, as well as the first book in English on the opthalmoscope. The theory has been advanced that 48. DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Naturalist. Darwin’s chronic ill-health may have been caused by Letter Signed (“Ch. Darwin” – bold signature) to “My accidental arsenic poisoning, but lactose intolerance, combined with latent anxiety, is now thought more likely. Remains of guard on the verso of the integral blank leaf have been professionally removed under our direction.

49. DAY LEWIS, Cecil (1904-1972). Typed Letter Signed and Autograph Correspondence Card Signed (“C Day Lewis”) to “Dear Scott-James”, 2 pages 8vo in all, Box Cottage, Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire,10 July n.y. and Theo’s Cottage, Lyme Regis, 4 August n.y. [1938]. £175 In 1931 the newly married Cecil Day Lewis moved to Gloucestershire to teach at a Cheltenham preparatory school, and it was there that he began to write his detective novels under the name of Nicholas Blake. He gave up teaching in 1935, and in August 1938 moved with his family to a secluded thatched cottage in Devon; his ‘change of address’ notice is printed on the verso of the correspondence card. “I sent you some months ago a few poems, and your secretary said you would be writing to me about them. Will you let me know whether you will be using any this month or next, as they will be appearing in a book early in the autumn.” (Gloucestershire) “Thanks for your letter. Cape’s say they will be publishing my new book of verse (Overtures to Death, overshadowed by the prospect of war) somewhere about the middle of October. We shall be at above “Here is the review [not present] of Wilfred Gibson’s address till August 13.” (Devon) “Coming and Going”. I hope it’s not too long: and may In 1934 the journalist and critic Rolfe Arnold Scott- I have a proof?” (5 August) James (1878-1959) succeeded J.C. Squire as the editor The Georgian poet Wilfred Gibson (1878-1962) was of the influential literary journal the London Mercury, a close friend of De La Mare, Rupert Brooke, and which had been founded in 1919. It was the leading Robert Frost. Although once much esteemed, his work monthly literary journal of its time, publishing a fell out of favour in the 1920’s and he is now largely wide variety of serious contemporary literature. The forgotten. In 1939 he wrote sadly to Robert Frost that journal published poetry, fiction and essays, and also “I am one of those unlucky writers whose books have reviewed literature and the arts. It brought together predeceased him.” new and established writers, and under Scott- James’s firm guidance was able to survive in difficult 52. DE VALOIS, Dame Ninette (1898-2001). circumstances until April 1939. Dancer, choreographer and founder of the Royal See also numbers 51, 134, 179 and 182. Ballet.

50. DE GAULLE, Charles (1890-1970). French General and Statesman. Autograph Letter Signed (“Charles de Gaulle”) to “Ma chère Christiane” [Christiane Bignier], thanking her for her letters of support. 1 page 8vo in French with the original autograph envelope, n.p. [envelope postmarked Paris], 8 July 1968. £1100 Trans: “I was very touched by your letters, the first of which informed me that you were at the [Place de l’] Etoile on 30 May and the second sending me the first congratulations. Very many thanks! . . .” The tumultuous demonstrations of May 1968 virtually brought Paris, and much of France, to a standstill. On 30 May, after concessions by the government and Photograph Signed (“sincerely Ninette de Valois the resignation of the Education Minister, de Gaulle 1986”), a colour head and shoulders portrait of announced the dissolution of the National Assembly. ‘Madam’, evidently taken in a ballet studio. Several thousand supporters of de Gaulle and the 3¾ x 5 ins. £145 government marched from the Place de la Concorde Taken when she was in her late eighties, the photograph to the Place de l’Etoile to show their support for him. presents a smiling and still energetic grande dame. In subsequent elections, held at the beginning of July, left wing groups were soundly defeated. Perhaps the saddest comment on the events came from 53. DERBY, Edward George Stanley, Earl of the French communist leader, Georges Marchais, who (1799-1869). Prime Minister 1852, 1858-9, and castigated the young demonstrators as the “sons of the 1866-8. bourgeoisie who would soon dim their revolutionary Autograph Letter Signed (“E G Stanley”) in his first ardour in order to take over daddy’s business and Cabinet post as Chief Secretary for Ireland in Earl exploit the workers.” Grey’s Whig government, to Davies Gilbert, M.P., author, engineer, and former President of the Royal 51. DE LA MARE, Walter (1873-1956). Society, Two Typed Letters Signed (“W.J. de la Mare”) to 1½ pages 4to on gilt-edged paper with integral “Dear Scott-James”, each half page 4to on blue blank leaf, Irish Office, 28 October 1831. £265 paper, Hill House, Taplow, 20 July and 5 August Thanking Davies for his recommendation of “the late 1938. £125 Astronomer at Bombay” for a position, explaining why his appointment to the Board of Commissioners “I am very sorry not to be sending you the review; but, for Education in Ireland would not be suitable, and as I rather expected, it has proved simply impossible recommending that he should apply instead for the to get it in. I won’t fail to let you have it during the next post of Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope. week or two . . .” (20 July) The future prime minister was at this time much concerned with future of Irish education; in this same month, October 1831, he wrote the ‘Stanley letter’ to the Duke of Leinster which established a system of national education in Ireland. The letter remains today the legal basis for the predominant form of primary education in Ireland. One of its main provisions was the setting up of a Board of Commission of National Education, to which he refers here. “. . . The Board of Commissioners, who are to be appointed to superintend the System of Education in Ireland, are to be unpaid, & I fear, that there will not be any situation under them which it would suit this gentleman to accept . . .” A later autograph address panel Free Frank (1839), also to Davies Gilbert and signed (“Stanley”) is tipped onto the integal blank leaf. From the Enys collection, with a small printed label (“Lord Derby”) at the foot of the first page.

54. DELIUS, Frederick (1862-1924). English Composer. Printed Vocal Score of his cantata Sea Drift, Signed and inscribed (“To James D. Jamieson / With kind greetings / Frederick Delius / June 1909”) at the top of the title page. 40 pages plus covers, large 4to, n.p., 1909. £595 Delius’ cantata Sea-Drift, the text taken from Walt Whitman, had its premiere in 1906, a year before his postmarked envelope signed “Charles Dickens” at best-known opera, A Village Romeo and Juliet. the lower left corner. Office of All the Year Round, 11 Wellington Street, Tuesday 13 December 1859. £1400 Frank Stone, Dickens’ close friend and next door neighbour in Tavistock Square, who had made portraits of three of Dickens’ children and provided some illustrations for Nicholas Nickleby and The Haunted Man, had died suddenly a month previously. Dickens was teaching shorthand to the twenty-one year old Arthur in order to help him earn money by journalism while pursuing his legal studies. Arthur Stone later had a moderately successful career at the Bar. “Let us say tomorrow evening at half past 7, instead of tomorrow morning, as I must be at my desk This cover is somewhat dusty at the edges, and a small immediately after breakfast.” label appears to have been ripped off the bottom left 1859 was the year of the publication of Tale of Two Cities edge, but it remains a particularly elegant item with which appeared in serial form in All the Year Round striking typography of the period. The text itself is in from April to November, and was published in two very good condition. volumes at the end of November. Glue traces at the blank lower half of the page, when 55. DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Novelist. the envelope has been professionally removed from Autograph Letter Signed (“Faithfully CD” with where it was laid down beneath the letter. a flourish) to “My dear Arthur” [Stone, the son of Not in the Pilgrim Edition, and apparently the artist Frank Stone], half page 8vo with integral unpublished. blank leaf and the original autograph stamped and “I AM ALREADY A BELIEVER IN DESTINY” send, lest, if indeed you remember your kindness in having written to me, you should deem me insensible 56. DISRAELI, Benjamin (1804-1881). Statesman of what I felt, & shall always feel, a most friendly & and Novelist. gratifying recollection. I assure you it required not Autograph Letter Signed (“B Disraeli”) to “Dear the sight of your handwriting to remind me of your Mrs. Bulwer”, also named at the end of the letter as existence. I have never forgotten the agreeable hours I “Mrs Lytton Bulwer” [evidently Elizabeth Lytton have spent under your roof, or the many kindnesses I Bulwer, later Bulwer Lytton, mother of Disraeli’s have received from you. I hope we may yet & quickly meet again. friend the the novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton] assuring her of his continued regard and continuing It was odd that my electioneering struggles sho[ul]d that “it was odd that my electioneering struggles terminate in being M.P. for Maidstone. As I am already should terminate in being MP for Maidstone”. a believer in destiny, it required not this strange occurrence, & doubly strange from the manner in 8 pages 8vo, Bradenham, High Wycombe, n.d. which it took place, to confirm me in my oriental- [1837]. £1100 creed. The Wyndhams have paid us a visit here within A long and revealing early letter, written from these few days, of which the only fault was, that it was his parents’ home at Bradenham. After several too short. unsuccessful attempts at gaining a seat as a radical, I hope you have not forgotten that you are not a in 1837 Disraeli had been elected as Tory M.P. for stranger to any beneath this roof. It affords me sincere Maidstone. It was a two member constituency, and his gratification, that my family have had an opportunity fellow Tory M.P. was the wealthy Wyndham Lewis. of making your charming acquaintance . . . But we are Lewis died suddenly in March 1838, and the next year the children of the Gods & are never more the slaves Disraeli married his widow, the impulsive Mary Anne. of circumstances than when we deem ourselves their In this letter Disraeli is most probably referring to this masters. What may next happen in the dazzling farce couple when he writes of “the Wyndhams.” of life, the Fates only know. Perhaps in the rapid & “I have dedicated for the last fortnight the first hour unexpected change of the scene, it may allow me to to you, which should find me free from a continual express to Mrs. Lytton Bulwer how very sincerely & headache and all the ailments that flesh is heir to, heartily I am her obliged servant & sincere friend B except a pain in the heart; & now, in despair, I must beg Disraeli” you to pardon the stupidity of these lines, which I only with the autograph address and postal markings on the verso, Ch.[rist] Ch.[urch] [Oxford], 10 May 1893. £450 A formal reply to an invitation. “Mr. C.L. Dodgson, with many thanks for Mrs. Green’s kind invitation, begs her to excuse his absence from her party on the 23rd. He has for some years declined all invitations.” At the foot of the page Dodgson has written in capital letters “J.R.T.V.”, standing for “Je réponds très volontiers’, the response to the ‘R.S.V.P.’ which was doubtless on the original invitation. Although always shy and 57. DOMINIONS PRIME MINISTERS increasingly careful with his time as he grew older, it does not appear to be MEETING, 1946 strictly true that Dodgson declined all invitations in Formal group photograph of Clement Atlee, as the 1890’s, and he continued to see his child friends. Prime Minister, with four Dominion leaders and However he often felt uncomfortable at social events the Secretary of State for the Dominions, signed by and here he is evidently evading one as tactfully as all six on the wide cream border beneath the image. possible. The photograph, taken outdoors, portrays ATTLEE Some pale foxing not affecting legibility. An early seated in the centre, flanked on either side by owner, or perhaps the recipient, has written “Lewis William Lyon Mackenzie KING, Prime Minister Carroll” in ink in the space between the text and of Canada, and Jan SMUTS, Prime Minister of “J.R.T.V.” South Africa. Standing behind are Herbert Vere EVATT, Foreign Minister of Australia; Christopher 59. DREYFUS, Alfred (1859-1935). French Army Viscount ADDISON, Secretary of State for the Officer; the central figure in the ‘Dreyfus Affair’. Dominions; and Walter NASH, Finance Minister of Autograph Letter Signed (“A Dreyfus”) to “Chère New Zealand. Madame et amie” [most probably the widow of c. 16 x 23 ins, glazed, and in a simple black Emile Zola], discussing “la cérémonie du Panthéon” wood frame. Undated, but probably taken at the [the reburial of Zola in the Pantheon, the most Conference of Dominion leaders, London, May honoured resting-place in France]. 1946. £650 Half page 8vo in French with integral blank leaf, A dignified group photograph.The normally diffident 101 Boulevard Malesherbes, Tuesday, n.d. [1908]. Attlee looks quietly confident, with the hint of a smile. £1600 The others face the camera with serious expressions. Trans: “Today I met Madame de St. Prix (the daughter of Emile Loubet) who expressed the wish to be present 58. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898). at the Panthéon ceremony. Would you be kind enough The writer ‘Lewis Carroll’. to see she gets a card.” Autograph Letter (third peson) to Mrs. A.H. Green, Emile Zola had died mysteriously in 1902, from 1 page 8vo written on a pale green ‘Letter Card’, asphyxiation due to a blocked chimney flue in his bedroom. It is possible that he was murdered by a right-wing nationalist, incensed by his campaign to question open. The point of the story, to my mind, was establish the innocence of Dreyfus, wrongly convicted really that it was a study of jealousy. Both Ambrose in 1894 of selling French military secrets to Germany. and Philip were poisoned by jealousy . . . so in a sense President Emile Loubet pardoned Dreyfus in 1899, and the story is symbolic of what jealousy can do to a his innocence was finally fully established in 1906. personality. . .” Zola had originally been buried in Montparnasse In one of du Maurier’s best and most atmospheric cemetery, and his reburial in the Pantheon took place tales, the question of whether or not Rachel was guilty with great ceremony on 4 June 1908. Albertine Zola of poisoning Ambrose and attempting to poison gave her agreement with deep reluctance, knowing his ward Philip is left unresolved, and the reader’s that she herself would not be able to rest beside her sympathies are continually called into question. husband. Dreyfus escorted Madame Zola, to whom The letter is very slightly yellowed in the centre, from he was greatly attached, to the ceremony. Outside framing, and the verso shows the remains of mounting, the Pantheon Dreyfus was wounded in the arm, but it is otherwise in very good condition. fortunately not seriously, by two shots fired in an

61. DU MAURIER, George (1834-1896). Artist and Writer; Author of Trilby. Autograph Letter Signed (“George du Maurier”), enquiring about the purpose of the Hampstead Liberal Association, which he had been invited to join. 1 page 8vo with integral blank leaf, New Grove House, Hampstead Heath, “Monday”, n.d. [but after 1874]. £160 “I must apologise for not having answered your first note, but was so unfortunate as to mislay it almost immediately I received it. Before placing my name on the committee of the Hampstead Liberal Association I should much like to know what its object is, as I am entirely in the dark at present on that score – also kindly let me know what other Hampstead names you have.” George du Maurier lived in Hampstead for twenty- five years, as the more bucolic atmosphere suited him well. As a respected illustrator and cartoonist, with assassination attempt by Louis Gregori, a right-wing a keen eye for the absurdities of snobbery, one can journalist and convinced ‘anti-Dreyfusard’. Although understand why his presence in the Liberal Association Gregori was immediately seized and arrested, he was would have been considered desirable. later acquitted by a jury at the Paris Assize Court, demonstrating that the wounds opened in French society by the Dreyfus case had not yet healed. “I WILL EMBRACE VICTOR HUGO” 62. DUMAS, Alexandre, père (1802-1870). 60. DU MAURIER, Daphne (1907-1989). Author of The Three Musketeers. Novelist. Autograph Letter Signed (“A Dumas”) to “Mon Typed Letter Signed (“”) to cher Parfais” [probably the writer and republican “Dear Mr Kalata”, replying to his questions about activist and politician Noel Parfais], asking him the title character of her novel My Cousin Rachel. to send what he has of Les Compagnons de Jehu to 1 page 8vo, Menabilly, 26 February 1967. £395 Cassels in London, and saying that he is going to Du Maurier’s correspondent had evidently written to visit Victor Hugo in Guernsey. her hoping for a definitive judgement on the character 2 pages small 8vo in French with integral blank leaf of Rachel. on blue paper, n.p., n.d. [but 1857-70]. £650 “. . . What happened was that I so identified myself Trans: “You know that in the midst of Brussels as with the narrator in the story, the young Philip . . . that anywhere else I love and embrace you. Would you like my young hero, I could not make up my mind be good enough to send directly to Messrs. Cassels as to the guilt or innocence of Rachel, and left the in London everything you have which is published of 63. [EDWARD VI (1537-1553). King of England]. the Compagnons de Jehu – they are translating it into Letters Patent in the name of Edward VI, a English. Messrs. Petter et Galpin, La Belle Sauvage confirmation (inspeximus) of a decree of the Yard, Ludgate Hill, London. I leave day after tomorrow Court of Augmentations allowing the Bishops of for Guernsey and will embrace Victor Hugo on your behalf. . .” Worcester to continue to enjoy the pensions and revenues deriving from some of the possessions, Victor Hugo had taken up residence in Brussels after in the city of Worcester and elsewhere, of many the future Napoleon III’s coup d’état in 1851, as had dissolved monasteries and convents in several the ardent republican Noel Parfais. Hugo moved to Jersey, and eventually settled in Guernsey in 1855, counties. only returning to France after the Franco-Prussian 1 page large oblong folio on vellum, c. 14½ x 30 ins, War. Parfais returned to France in 1859, where he 46 lines in Latin in a good secretarial hand with a steered clear of politics, working for the bookseller large decorative initial ‘E’ (of the flourished first and publisher Michel Levy as proofreader until the word ‘Edwardus’). The official ‘duke’, evidently fall of the Third Empire. the scribe, has written his name at the end of the It is unclear from this letter whether Dumas was writing last line. to Parfais whilst the latter was living in Brussels, or, A fine impression of the rare Great Seal of Edward more likely, writing from Brussels to Parfais while he VI in brown wax, c. 4 ins in diameter, with on was working for Levy. Brussels provided a convenient one side the King on the throne and on the other haven for the French who encountered difficulties in the King on horseback, is attached by the original Paris, either political or, in Dumas’s case, financial. Les vellum tag. The seal is complete apart from some Compagnons de Jehu, an adventure tale set in the early minor loss at the upper and lower edges, and the , was published in 1857. detail on both sides is clear and attractive. Hugo and Dumas, born in the same year, were at once Westminster, 31 May 1 Edward VI [1547]. £3950 friends and rivals. A document issued only three months after There are a few minor yellow spots on the letter, not Edward VI’s accession to the throne. The Court of seriously affecting its appearance. Augmentations had been established by Henry VIII in 1536 to administer monastic properties and revenues at the dissolution of the monasteries. On the evidence of this document, the Bishopric of Worcester (now, of course, firmly Protestant) was being greatly favoured. Among the revenues of which they were to enjoy a share were those of Whitnuns, Evesham and Malvern in Worcestershire; Winchcombe and Tewkesbury (which was saved from destruction by becoming a parish church) in Gloucestershire; Bath in Somerset; Eynsham in Oxfordshire; Maiden Bradley in Wiltshire; and Sheen in Surrey. Apparently unrecorded; not in the Calendar of Patent Rolls. Some rubbing along original creases, and a little dusty, but a handsome document in clear condition, legible througout.

64. EDWARD VII (1841-1910). King of Great Britain and Ireland. Letter Signed (“Arthur Edward P”) to A[lexander] C[ampbell] Mackenzie, requesting his services for the Royal College of Music’s Annual Examination for 1887. 2½ pages 4to, Royal College of Music, Kensington Gore, 20 December 1886. £375 “As the end of the fourth year of the Royal College of runnning into any real danger, and he spent much of Music is approaching when several of the Scholarships the war visiting troops and acting as a general morale- expire, as President of the Council I . . . hope that you raiser. In this letter to a friend he seems resigned and may be able to render the College the aid of your weary. valuable services, in connection with the Annual Examination for 1887. . .” “Many thanks for your kind letter of good wishes for my birthday [Edward had celebrated his twenty-third The Prince of Wales had been instrumental in the birthday on 23 June] & all the nice things you said not establishment of the Royal College of Music in 1882. that I deserved them in the least!! Old Hansell [Henry The composer and conductor Alexander Campbell Hansell, Prince Edward’s former tutor] came up and Mackenzie was also a distinguished teacher and in lunched with me here about 10 days ago looking very 1887 he was appointed principal of the Royal Academy fit & he likes his job tho its a case of 12 hrs ofice work a of Music, the Royal College’s main competitor. day!! It is splendid of him having come out & taken on Old tape repair to the central horizontal fold has been the job of DADl [Deputy Adjutant General] Heaven removed under our direction. only knows when I shall get home again & I can only hope for the best; I fear this year is’nt going to see the end of it all!! We had it very hot a fortnight ago over (1894-1972). King of Great 65. EDWARD VIII 90 F in our huts in this camp tho I love the heat!! Since Britain and Ireland 1936; later Duke of Windsor. then we’ve had it wet & cold tho it wont last I dont Autograph Letter Signed (“Edward”) to Wilson thing [sic]. . . .” Taylor at the Bath Club in Dover Street, written as a Staff Officer attached to the XIV Army Corps “I LOVE YOU LOVE YOU MY SWEETHEART” commanded by General Lord Cavan. 1¾ pages pages 8vo in pencil, together with the 66. EDWARD VIII (1894-1972). King of Great original official On His Majesty’s Service envelope Britain and Ireland 1936; later Duke of Windsor. addressed by Edward in ink on which he written Autograph Letter Signed (“David”) to his first great “By Messenger” and which he has initialled at love Mrs. Freda Dudley Ward, whom he had met the lower left corner. H.Q., 14th Corps B.[ritish] in February 1918. E.[xpeditionary] F.[orce], 1 July 1917. £825 2 pages 8vo in pencil with the original autograph The young Prince Edward was genuinely anxious envelope, Windsor Castle, 16 June 1921. £1600 to take an active part in the First World War; the Edward’s attachment to Freda Dudley Ward authorities however who feared his capture by the turned into a long-standing and serious affaire. A enemy even more than his death prevented hin from sophisticated young married woman with two small daughters, she held an irresistible attraction for the mount, measuring in all c. 7 x 6 ins. Elgar has signed Prince, their relationship only ending after sixteen in dark ink across a light portion of the image across years with the arrival of on the scene. the arm. Undated, but from Elgar’s appearance c. There is reason to believe that he sought, and found, 1900, and certainly before 1904, the year before the a mother-substitute in strong women. At the time composer was knighted, as the caption beneath the he wrote this letter both the Prince and Freda were image reads “Dr. Elgar”. £475 twenty-six, although the tone of dependence certainly creates the impression that he is writing to someone Elgar, the quintessential English composer, here older. The Prince was always known as “David” to his presents the face of the Edwardian gentleman, with family and close friends. an imposing moustache and good tweeds. By 1900 he “Fredie my darling beloved Just a tiny line to say I love already written the Enigma Variations and The Dream you love you my sweetheart & how much I’m looking of Gerontius. forward to seeing something of you at Ascot to-day cutting everybody out with your divine lovely little 68. ELIOT, George (1819-1880). Pseudonym of the face under the green hat assisted by the white dress!!!! novelist Marian Evans. Bless you my angel & we’ll try & have a little talk wont Autograph Letter Signed (“ME Lewes”) to “Dear we? A bientot. Ever Mrs. Malleson” [the educational pioneer Elizabeth Your little David” Malleson] thanking her for the gift of a plant. Letters of the Prince to Freda written from March 1918 2½ pages 8vo, The Priory, Regents Park, 26 – January 1921 have been published in Letters from a December 1863. £1100 Prince, ed. Rupert Godfrey, 1998. This letter remains unpublished. “The bearer of a beautiful plant to my door did not leave word from whom he had brought it, but I feel persuaded that I am not mistaken in feeling grateful to you for that sweet attention. In any case I have reason to thank you, for if I owe that plant to some one else, I owe to you many other precious things – feelings such as spring up when kind deeds are done to me. All blessings that Christmas & the new year can bring wait on you & yours!” The new year was to bring an important development in Elizabeth Malleson’s life, with the founding of the Working Women’s College in Bloomsbury. Energetic and unconventional, she proved a good friend to George Eliot. Eliot and her partner G.H. Lewes, whose name she took, had moved to The Priory only a month earlier, and they were soon to host regular gatherings of some of the foremost thinkers and artists of the time. There is a spindle hole at the top left of the letter, not affecting the text.

69. ELIOT, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965). Poet. Typed Letter Signed (“T.S. Eliot”) to H. William- Olsson, the Swedish Programme Organiser at the BBC World Service, sending his regrets that he cannot take part in a series of broadcasts to . 67. ELGAR, Edward (1857-1934). English 1 page small 4to on Faber and Faber letterhead, Composer. London, 27 November 1953. £495 Postcard Photograph Signed (“Edward Elgar”), an A typically fastidious letter. attractive sepia head and shoulders image of the composer, arms crossed, wearing a tweed jacket “. . . I should have very much liked to be included and waistcoat. in a series of broadcasts to Sweden, and indeed, if I had had longer notice, and had accordingly been c. 5¼ x 3¼ ins, by Rotary, in a modern dark brown able to preserve enough time for the task, I should “I HAVE REALLY FINISHED THE BUST” have felt it a duty as well as a pleasure. But I simply cannot undertake any more tasks between now and 71. EPSTEIN, Sir Jacob (1880-1959). American- Christmas . . . Perhaps on some other occasion, with born Sculptor. longer notice . . .” Ten Autograph Letters Signed (“Jacob Epstein”) Eliot’s literary output after the war was dominated by to [David] Hardman, [Secretary of the Sir Stafford plays, essays and literary criticism. His Confidential Cripps Memorial Trust] discusing his work on Clerk had its premiere at the Edinburgh Festival earlier the bronze bust of Cripps, destined for St. Paul’s in this year, enjoying moderate success. Cathedral. Two filing holes at the left, not touching the text. 17½ pages 8vo in all, 18 Hyde Park Gate, 28 October 1953 – 10 June 1954. Together with two large glossy press photographs of the unveiling of the bust at St. Paul’s, one showing standing beside it. £1250 An interesting series of letters, in which Epstein discusses his anxieties about what turned out to be a very successful commission. Sir , the post-war Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer and apostle of austerity, had died in 1952. A sincere Christian and a man of the highest moral character, but of a rather prickly disposition, Cripps once drove Churchill to say of him “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” “. . . I would like your opinion on the lines on which I am conceiving the work . . . Now I am a little uncertain about showing it yet to Lady Cripps who of course will have a not unnatural anxiety about it . . . “ (28 October 1953) “. . . Tomorrow I am showing the bust to Lady Cripps, not without trepidation! I think I have interpreted Sir Stafford in the right spirit. I have worked onit since you have viewed it. It is now in plaster & the bust seems to say, ‘I hold fast to my conviction’” (3 November 1953) “I think the 2nd inscription “If man neglects the things of the spirit” etc the better of the two . . . I have been today to the foundry & the more I think of it the less I like the idea of glasses on the bust. After all God made Sir Stafford without spectacles.” (3 March 1954). 70. ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN MOTHER “I have really finished the bust, & all that will be (1900-2002). Consort of George VI. needed now is the pedestal which I have just put in Large Photograph Signed (“Elizabeth R 1943”), a hand, & the inscription which when I get it in its final head and shoulders portrait by Dorothy Wilding, form I will have inscribed on the base by my letterer signed on the cream border below the image, who will be quite competent I can assure you . . . (11 showing her wearing a diamond tiara and six March 1954). strands of pearls. “. . . The reception at the foundry was somewhat 10 x 7½ ins., mounted on cream card, 15 x 9¾ ins. in curious, I thought. The ecclesiastic talked as if we were all, 1943. £425 attempting a crime, when I asked about the site of the bust & Mr Attlee was like a frozen turnip. A somewhat The Queen is wearing the historic ‘diamond fringe’ chilling affair.” (27 March 1954) tiara, created from diamonds that were originally in the possession of George III. “Thanks for photographs of great event when we were shoved out after half an hour. Did you see Tom Driberg’s account in Reynolds? . . .” (10 June 1954) Generally in excellent condition. One letter worn “. . . I am so sorry to hear that you are obliged to take a cure at Bath, and hope it will be a cure. My own health keeps satisfactory considering my age [Forster was 77 at the time], though I have this afternoon been stung on the finger by a wasp, which makes my writing worse than usual. The nasty little creature was sitting on a tree and when I touched a twig in passing, it took action. However I am now much better. I have had some pleasant correspondence with Sir Richard Sykes. He says he would like to have (after my death) the picture of Mary Ann Sykes which you gave me. I hope by the way that you thought she reproduced well in my book about Aunt Marie.” “My book about Aunt Marie” is Marianne Thornton, Forster’s “domestic biography” of his great-aunt, published in this year, 1956. Marianne Thornton died at the age of ninety in 1897 leaving Forster enough money to attend Cambridge, travel, and pursue a literary career. The Sykes family were related to the Thorntons and therefore to Forster.

74. FOUCHE, Joseph, Duke of (1763-1820). Napoleon’s Minister of Police. Letter Signed (“fouche”) to the Minister of War [Marshal Berthier] regarding the surveillance of former General Rigaud in Tours. along fold, and another with a slight tear not touching the text. Three have annotations in Hardman’s hand 1 page folio in French with an attractive vignette at the head. of the Ministry of Police, Paris, 2 frimaire an 14 [23 November 1805]. £625

72. FAURE, Gabriel (1845-1924). French Trans: “I have received, Sir, the letter which you sent Composer. me on 16 Brumaire last, regarding the former General Rigaud, coloured man, under surveillance at Tours. Printed Score for his Vingt Mélodies for piano and His Excellency the Minister of the Navy [Decrès] had voice, signed and inscribed (“a Mademoiselle already passed on to me the information contained Maria Bourier souvenir d’affectueuse admiration in your letter, and the Councillor of State in charge de son dévoué Gabriel Fauré”). of the first arrondissement for the Police was to have 98 pages, 4to, pictorial wrappers, in a specially arranged for special surveillance on the part of the made box with the title and composer in gilt on the civil authorities on M. Rigaud.” spine, n.d. £325 General André Rigaud, son of a white father and black Each of the songs is a setting of a poem by a prominent mother, had travelled to Santo Domingo with General French poet, from Victor Hugo to Charles Baudelaire Leclerc [husband of Napoleon’s sister Pauline] on and Theophile Gautier. A number of pages are uncut. an expedition against Rigaud’s old rival, Toussaint l’Ouverture. Always uneasy with his parentage and of a volatile temperament, Rigaud had earlier proved a 73. FORSTER, Edward Morgan (1879-1970). brilliant soldier, but a poor politician. The expedition Novelist. failed and upon his return to France, Rigaud was Autograph Letter Signed (“E M Forster”) to “Dear briefly held prisoner. As we can see here, even after Gladys” [the name “Sykes” has been added in his release, he was kept under close surveillance by pencil, evidently by a former owner]. the police. 2 pages 8vo, King’s College, Cambridge, 6 August An attractive and interesting letter, in excellent 1956. £275 condition. Edward Fox, then lieutenant governor of , had served in several posts in the Mediterranean. Already ailing (he would remain in this post for only a year, before returning to Britain on health grounds), he delegated many of his responsibilities to his second in command and successor in the post, Sir John Moore. “All the formal instruments for recalling Elliot and accrediting you go by the same conveyance as this letter . . . Here I have brought you into a fine state of responsibility but it was absolutely necessary. . . The only instruction I can 75. FLEMING, Sir Alexander (1881-1955). give is to act according Bacteriologist; the discoverer of penicillin. to your own discretion, and to guard you against the Court is quite unnecessary. . . You must act from your Photograph Signed and inscribed (“To my friend own judgment. We shall send you more troops if we Arnold Sorsby with kind regards Alexander can, and, if War should take place in Dalmatia &c, it Fleming 1953”), an evocative image of Fleming, will be for you to judge how far it may be prudent facing the camera, seated in his laboratory, stacks of to detach, for the purpose of taking possession of petri dishes behind him. Clearly signed on a white any Island in the Adriatick or otherwise impeding or portion of the image. annoying the Enemy. Image size 6½ x 7¾ ins., mounted, framed and Sir John Moore is charged with this letter; when he glazed in a plain brown wooden frame, in all 11¼ x was first named, I had some apprehensions that a 12½ ins. £1250 Person with so great a reputation might not like going The photograph, signed a quarter of a century after second in command, but on conversing with him I the discovery of penicillin, is dedicated to another find he is much pleased with his appointment and scientist and researcher, Arnold Sorsby, the first editor declares there is no Officer under whom He would so of the Journal of Medical Genetics and author of well like to serve as you. I know him but little, but like Ophthalmic Genetics him very much. Sir James Craig seems to have a good opinion of Acton, how justly I know not, but any thing is better 76. FOX, Charles James (1749-1806). Politician. than the Queen. Sir James’ account tallies exactly with Autograph Letter Signed (“C.J. Fox”) as Foreign yours that the People in have no attachment to Secretary in Grenville’s Ministry of All the Talents, the Government. . .” to his brother, Lieut. Gen. Henry Edward Fox, John Acton, a confidant of Queen Maria Carolina was informing him of his appointment as Minister to effectively the First Minister of the Neapolitan state. Sicily, and of the appointment of Sir John Moore as The Queen, a close friend of Emma Hamilton, was second in command. fervently anti-French following the execution of her 3½ pages 4to, marked “Private”, Stable Yard, 9 June sister . It was largely her influence 1806. £795 which made her husband Ferdinand IV’s government one of the most repressive of the day, and inherently A long and remarkably interesting letter. distasteful to ’s liberal philosophy. Charles James Fox’s younger brother, General Henry if hot air or carbonic acid gas, were made to pass through the battery at the same time? It appears to me that in the case in question, the voltaic action may have occurred between the flange, & the metal of the boiler; they having a layer of chalk &c between them, but then, the effect was so great! What were the metals? Was the value lifted at the time? Ignorant as I am of the details, it is almost presumptuous to venture any opinion, & therefore it shd be considered as a suggestion merely, such as it is. It appears to me I confess that we cannot well consider the steam to have merely conducted the electricity from the interior of the boiler because in such case, why should the circuit be made through the mass’s body instead of more directly to the valve . . .?” Robert Were Fox the younger is best known for his work on the increase in temperature at the earth’s depths. His (presumed) correspondent, Thomas Sopwith, was a distinguished mining engineer, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society a few years after the date of this letter. The central fold has been repaired with tape, but the letter is otherwise in very good condition.

78. FRANCK, Cesar (1822-1890). Belgian Composer. Printed Score for his oratorio Les Béatitudes, The day after writing this letter, Fox spoke in inscribed and signed (“a mon vieil ami Lammoissier Parliament to propose a bill for the abolition of slavery, souvenir bien affectueux Cesar Franck”) on the title the last great achievement of his political career. page. An admirer of France and its revolution and a good 314 pages 4to, bound in red roan, the title in gilt on friend of the French Foreign Minister, Talleyrand, the spine, Paris, n.d. £350 Fox was nevertheless increasingly disturbed by Napoleon’s repression at home and war-mongering César Franck completed his largest choral work, the abroad. It seems utterly in keeping with Fox’s oratorio Les Béatitudes in 1879, but it did not receive character, however, that he writes not of defeating the its first performance until 1891, afrer his death. French but of “annoying the Enemy.” Because of its massive length and the huge musical forces required for its performance, it has never fully eestablished itself in the choral repertoire. 77. FOX, Robert Were (1789-1877). Geologist. A few white specks on the front cover, but this is Autograph Letter Signed (“RW Fox”) to “My dear otherwise a very clean, fresh copy of the score. Friend” [unidentified in the letter, but, according to the previous owner, addressed to Thomas Sopwith], discussing an experiment which his 79. FRANKLIN, Sir John (1786-1847). Arctic correspondent had evidently told him of, which Explorer, lost in search of the North West Passage. implied that “steam may be employed . . . to create Autograph Letter Signed (“John Franklin”) to James a voltaic battery”. Gibson, the Chief Agent in Launceston [Tasmania], 4 pages 8vo, Falmouth, 23 October 1840. £150 praising the arrangements which had been made for his visit there. “Many thanks for thy most welcome letter. The curious fact it communicates is . . . quite new, & may 2 pages 8vo with integral blank leaf, Melbourne, 16 be very important in its consequences. It seems to lead December 1843. £695 to the inference that steam may be employed instead John Franklin served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van of water to create a voltaic battery & apparently with Diemen’s Land for six years from 1837. His time there greater effect; & might not then be further augmented was controversial; he proved popular with the settlers and even the convicts, but less so with the Colonial Office who took a dim view of his and his wife’s attempts at reforms and improvements. When his term came to an end in November 1843, his appointment was not renewed. This letter was evidently written during his journey home to England. “There not being any vessel going from Circular Head to Launceston at the time of our departure I delayed writing to you until we should arrive at Port Phillip. Let me now have the pleasure of thanking you for the arrangements you had the goodness to make for our reception, which were carried out to your fullest desire. Nothing could be more warm and friendly than the attentions we received . . . I was much gratified with our visit and shall have pleasure in making known to the Directors the favourable impressions which I received from it. We secured every possible kindness from Mrs. Gibson and left her and her much cherished grand children quite well . . .”

80. FREDERICK II of (1712-1786). ‘Frederick the Great’. Letter Signed (“Federic”) to the King of the Two Sicilies [the Bourbon Charles VII, later King of Spain as Charles III], congratulating him on the birth of a son. 1 page folio in French with integral blank leaf and the original letter cover, the text in an attractive calligraphic hand, Berlin, 8 July 1747. £1450

Trans: “It is with great pleasure that We have received he developed Frederick’s theme into a more elaborate the news of the happy delivery by the Queen, Your Musical Offering. He sent the composition to Frederick Majesty’s wife, of a Prince . . . and as We are always with a dedication, dated 7 July 1747, to “a sovereign glad to share in all the happy events whch take place admired in music as in all the other arts of war and in the August House of Your Majesty, We cannot fail peace.” to congratulate You on the present increase to Your The page is evenly toned, but this is an attractive letter Royal Family, hoping that Divine benevolence will with a fine large signature. preserve the new Prince for the satisfaction of Your Majesty . . .” Charles VII (1716-1788) son of Philip V of Spain, “IN THE PRESENT WARS” seized Naples and Sicily from the Austrians in 1734. 81. A FRENCH PLAN TO INVADE Regarding himself as an ‘enlightened despot’, he ENGLAND, 1386 instituted some limited internal reforms. In 1759 he renounced Naples and Sicily in favour of his third Letter of receipt drawn up by Estienne Daulezy, son Ferdinand when he succeeded his half-brother escuier (squire) “in the present wars for the Ferdinand VI as King of Spain. The son whose birth is present journey to England, under the command the subject of this letter, Felipe, was excluded from the of monseigneur le mareschal de sancre” [Louis succession because of his weak health. de Sancerre, Marshal of France], for the sum of 75 Like Charles, Frederick II considered himself a livres tournois demanded from Jehan le Flament, proponent of enlightened despotism. A patron of the king’s [Charles VI’s] military treasurer, as the arts and a talented musician, he had invited wages due to himself and seven other squires on Johann Sebastian Bach to visit him in Potsdam in the expedition. May 1747, two months before the date of this letter. 1 small oblong page on velum, c. 3 x 9 ins, written in During his visit Bach improvised a fugue on a theme French in a gothic cursive hand. Lille [Flanders] 20 composed by Frederick, and on his return to Leipsig October 1386. £1100 In March 1386 Richard II formally recognised his uncle 83. FRY, Elizabeth (1780-1845). Quaker Prison John of Gaunt as King of Castile, and in July Gaunt Reformer. set sail from Plymouth with a large force to seek his Autograph Letter Signed (“Eliz. Fry”) to “My dear kingdom. His departure removed from England Friend” [the Quaker barrister and minister John her most experienced commander and 7000 of the country’s best troops. The young Charles VI of France Hodgkin], making arrangements for a trip to Essex (who 30 years later was to suffer the crushing defeat and advising him in a postscript to refrain from of Agincourt) saw his chance, and assembled a large action on a matter “until we meet again as I have something on my mind to express regarding it”. 2 pages 8vo with integral address leaf, Upton, 11 March 1838. £225 “Will it be convenient and agreeable to thee to accompany my sister[-in-law] Eliz. fleet and an army of 30,000 men led by himself and Fry & myself to Colchester next 3d day & to remain his three uncles for a projected invasion of England. with us until 6th day eve or 7th day morning attending The expedition ran into serious financial arrears in meetings in Essex. We shall probably go by the latest the autumn, and in October troops who had not Colchester coach. Please let me have as early an been paid for at least six weeks began to pillage the answer as possible. I hope to say that thou art willing Flemish countryside. By November most of the troops to accompany us. . . I have thought much of the subject had begin to disperse, and the delay in mounting the we conversed about & hope thou will take no fresh invasion led to the eventual destruction of the ships step in it until we meet again as I have something on by the English. my mind to express to thee respecting it.” This rather hopeful document is in fact a requisition In 1835, Isaac Crewdson had published A Beacon to the for the money owed to Daulezy and his colleagues, Society of Friends, which caused a serious rift in Quaker but due to lack of funds in the royal coffers it has been congregations. Hodgkin was prominent among those marked at the foot by a paymaster “Ceste quittance ne who sought to reconcile the two opposing views over doit valou que xv sous.” (This receipt has only a value the preeminence of emotion or law in doctrine. of 15 sous). This means that although the document as drawn up would have released the authorities from 84. FUAD PASHA (1815-1869). Ottoman the debt if Daulezy had been paid in full, it was in statesman. fact discounted, probably for one month, paying a no doubt disappointed Daulezy only a small proportion Autograph Letter Signed (“Fuad”) to “My lord” of the whole. [possibly Sir Stratford Canning, British Ambassador at Constantinople], informing him of Omer Pasha’s Somewhat creased, and some light browning, but clear and legible throughout. A rare document from plans. an important but little known campaign. 1 page 8vo in French with integral blank leaf, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 18 August 1855. £240

82. FRY, Christopher (1907-2005). Playwright. In the mid-nineteenth century, Fuad Pasha was one of the leading advocates of westernization in the Ottoman Typed Letter Signed (“Christopher Fry”) to the empire. When Turkey found herself allied with Britain Mayor of Colchester, regretting that he will be and France at the time of the Crimean War, Fuad Pasha unable to attend the Oyster Feast. led the Turkish troops on the Greek border. 1 page small 4to, 27 Blomfield Road, W9, 5 August Trans: “I told Your Excellency yesterday that Omer 1951. £35 Pacha’s departure was to be today, I saw him yesterday One might suspect a dislike of oysters, as Fry’s letter evening, he told me that, not having finished his is brief and slightly evasive. “. . . I regret that I will not preparations he would only be able to leave on be able to come as it comes at a time I will not be free.” Monday. Before his departure he will have the honour Filing holes at the left margin, not affecting the text. of seeing Your Excellency . . .” The Turkish General Omer Pasha, who together with Britain’s Lord Raglan and the French Marshal St. Arnaud led the Allies, began life as Croatian-born Michael Lattas. However, after some time in Bosnia, he converted to Islam and moved to Constantinople, where his outstanding military abilities were soon recognized.

85. GALTON, Francis (1822-1911). Founder of eugenics; cousin of Charles Darwin. Autograph Letter Signed (“Francis Galton”) to Professor Richard Norris in Birmingham, warmly thanking him “for the valuable volume you have sent me” [evidently Norris’s own Physiology and Pathology of the Blood]. 1 page 8vo with integral blank leaf and the original stamped and postmarked autograph envelope, 42 Rutland Gate, 4 July 1903. £495 “I hardly know how to thank you adequately for the very valuable volume you have sent me, which is clearly destined to be a classical work on the blood. The micro photographs are most beautiful & tell their stories with wonderful clearness, I can recall no work in which photography has done more service than in yours . . .” Guns are now firing for Peace with .” Galton is best remembered as the founder of eugenics, Garrow, who had achieved renown, while still a young based on his research into heredity, a subject brought to man, as an outstanding barrister, entered Parliament his notice by his reading of his cousin’s Origin of Species. in 1805 and was appointed Attorney General in 1813. He himself had created the word eugenics, based He made important contributions to the development on the greek roots for ‘beautiful’ and ‘heredity’. His of the advocacy system and introduced the phrase scientific reseach also covered less controversial fields; “innocent until proven guilty.” At one time a friend his Meteorographica laid the foundations of weather of Charles James Fox, he later aligned himself with forecasting, and he coined the term “anticyclone”. Burke and Pitt. Denmark had been in a state of war with Britain since the bombing of Copenhagen in 1807. The Treaty of 86. GARROW, William (1760-1840). Barrister. Kiel, signed in January 1814, brought peace, but with Autograph Letter Signed (“W. Garrow”) to “Dear terms severely unfavourable to Denmark. Madam” [evidently Mrs. Leyson], responding to Remains of mount on the verso have been removed her enquiry about the health of “poor little Samuel” under our direction. and commenting that “The Park Guns are now firing for Peace with Denmark”. “OUR ROYAL HOSPITAL NEAR CHELSEA” 1½ pages 4to, Great George Street, 25 January 1814. £495 87. GEORGE II (1683-1760). King of Great Britain “I have forwarded yours to Miss Leyson just received and Ireland. – I am much obliged by your kind enquiries and good Document Signed (“George R” twice), 2 pages of wishes – when I left Pegwell this day week poor little accounts written on either side of a large folio sheet, Samuel was somewhat better but he is most amazingly signed by the King at the head of each page. reduced and if it shall please God to spare him to us 2 pages folio, St James’s, 22 April 1741 and it will be very long before he recovers himself – My undated. £975 Daughter writes daily without fail but today I have no letter – the snow in some parts of the Road from The recto is a warrant directing that the customary Canterbury is 16 feet deep in the roads and quite annual one day’s pay should be deducted “out of impassable for carriages – such a Season has not been the Payments made to our Guards Garrisons and known in the Isle of Thanet for 30 years. . . The Park Land Forces in Great Britain . . . for the use of Our Royal Hospital near Chelsea [founded by Charles THE BIRTH OF A PRINCESS

88. GEORGE III (1738-1820). King of Great Britain and Ireland and FOX, Charles James (1749-1806). Politician. Letter Signed and subscribed (“Bonus Frater Consanguineus et Amicus Georgius R” and “C.J. Fox”) to Ferdinand IV of Naples, announcing the birth of a new prince [the Princess Amelia] the day before. 1½ pages folio in Latin with integral address leaf and paper seal, St. James’s, 8 August 1783. £1200 The short-lived Fox-North coalition caused George III tremendous anguish, to the extent that he considered abdication. Charles James Fox, the greatest of the Whig politicians, but also a gambler and a bon viveur was very likely the man most hated and despised by the King. There is a certain piquancy in the sight of their two signatures so closely juxtaposed. Princess Amelia, whose birth is announced, was the youngest and favourite of George III’s daughters. Despite his obvious affection, her brief life – she died in her mid-twenties – was as unhappy as that of her sisters, largely because of her mother’s unreasonable possessiveness. The recipient of the letter, Ferdinand IV of Naples, had married Maria Carolina, sister of Marie Antoinette. Fifteen years later, he was to be rescued from advancing French forces by Horatio Nelson. There is a seal tear at a blank portion of the address leaf, but the letter is otherwise in very good condition. II]. . . towards the better maintenance of such Super annuated and Disabled Officers & Men as shall be provided for therein . . .” Countersigned at the foot 89. GEORGE III (1738-1820). King of Great by the Lords of the Treasury Lord Sundon, Thomas Britain and Ireland. Clutterbuck, and Giles Earle. Document Signed (“George R” – blind signature), The verso, an undated list of military allowances in the a licence permitting “Messrs. Gordon and Murphy, Horse Guards and Grenadier Guards for subsistence Messrs. Reid, Irving and Co. and other British per day, gives the “Regulation of Subsistence to be Merchants . . . on board the Portuguese Ship paid to every Officer and Soldier on the Foregoing “Indiano” . . . to Export and Convey [various goods] Establishement”, from £1.7s. “To a Captain & Col[onel] from the port of Cadiz notwithstanding the present in lieu of his Servants”, to 5 shillings for a chaplain, 6 Blockade . . . to Vera Cruz in South America . . .” shillings for a surgeon and 4 shillings for a drummer. 3 pages folio with paper seal, countersigned by The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, home of the Chelsea Lord Spencer, St. James’s, 6 June 1806. £750 Pensioners, founded by Charles II in 1682 and designed The merchants in question were to transport British by Christopher Wren, was intended “for the sucour manufactured goods, as well as “quicksilver, paper and relief of veterans broken by age and war.” and Cards of spanish Manufacture, Wines, Brandies, Splits at the edges of the centre horizontal fold have and all other innocent articles . . . not being military or been professionally repaired under our direction. Naval Stores nor otherwise prohibited to be exported”. The present licence grants their vessels safe-conduct “without molestation by any of Our Ships of War or privateers, either on account of the existing War or of any other Hostilities . . .” In May 1806, Britain blockaded the ports of Europe from the Elbe to Brest. Known as Fox’s Blockade, after the great Whig politician Charles James Fox, this increased the pressure on France’s already precarious financial position. Later that year, when military success was followed by the subjugation of Prussia, Napoleon proclaimed the Berlin Decree, banning British imports to any countries under French control. Harsh as they appeared, these blockades and bans were in fact circumvented by smuggling and laxity bordering on corruption.

90. GEORGE IV (1762-1830). King of Great Britain and Ireland. Document Signed (“George PR” at head) as Prince Regent, “in the name & on the Behalf of His Majesty” [George III]. a Commission appointing Thomas Buck a Major in the Eighth Regiment of Foot. 1 page oblong folio on vellum, with royal paper seal and blue revenue stamp, engraved and completed in manuscript. Carlton House, 6 June 1811. £325 George, Prince of Wales, had been sworn in as Prince Regent at a formal ceremony in the grand saloon of Carlton House on 5 February 1811. However, George III’s physicians at Windsor continued to hint that he might yet recover from his mental instability, and for this have signed on the pale cream border beneath the reason the Regent delayed holding a grand fete to photograph, below the tiny pencilled signature of celebrate the inauguration. The fete was eventually the photographer Marcus Adams. held on 19 June, when the King’s condition was at Together with the original envelope addressed by last considered hopeless. It was probably for the the King to The Rev. F.J. Stone, M.V.O, Virginia same reason – the possibility of the King’s recovery Water Cottage, Windsor Great Park. The King has – that at the beginning of June, when this document initialled the envelope “GRI” at the lower left. was signed, official documents had not yet been £1100 prepared in the Regent’s name. Here, a line has been drawn through the engraved words “By His Majesty’s A very pleasing image by a noted photographer. Command”, and the words “By the Command of His The National Portrait Gallery holds forty-one Royal Royal Highness the Prince Regent in the name and on photographs by Adams, including a larger version of the Behalf of his Majesty” have been written in. this one. The Queen has linked arms with the King, and holds the hand of Princess Margaret, while the In sound condition; usual fold creases. King has an arm round Princess Elizabeth’s waist. The Princesses, aged 13 and 9 in 1939, wear identical 91. GEORGE VI (1895-1952), King of Great dresses and shoes. The dim backgound casts the Britain and Ireland; and his consort Queen figures into clear relief, frozen in a magical tableau. ELIZABETH (1900-2002). This portrait of the Royal family includes their pet corgi Dookie, who was lured into the composition Their 1939 Christmas card signed by both (“George with a biscuit. R.I. 1939” and “Elizabeth R”), a folded cream card with the crowned cipher “GRE” embossed in gold This photograph, issued at the beginning of the war, still radiates a sense of security and graciousness; the on the front. Inside is a loose folded sheet, with on King and Queen’s next Christmas card, for 1940, was the left a printed greetings message and on the right to be very different, showing them standing in the a laid down sepia photograph of the Royal couple rubble of the damaged wing of Buckingham Palace, with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in a which had been hit by a German bomb. Buckingham Palace interior. The King and Queen 94. GIBBON, Edward (1737-1794). Historian. Autograph Note Signed (“Edward Gibbon”) addressed to James Scott of Finch Lane, Cornhill, presumably a banker, requiring him to pay £100 to John Long at seven days sight. 1 page oblong 8vo, also signed by Scott on the recto, and signed on the verso by Long and six others, through whose hands it had presumably passed. Buriton, 9 December 1769. £375 A hastily written document, with several blots. Gibbon started to write his signature too near the right edge, and finding himself unable to go beyond the “G” of his surname, he crossed out the “Edward G” and wrote his full signature beneath, this time giving himself enough room. In 1769 Gibbon was thirty-two, and anxious about both the state of his father’s health and the family finances. His father, originally a prosperous landowner and M.P., died intestate in 1770 leaving his affairs in great confusion, and Gibbon, the only surviving child, spent three troublesome years settling the estate. He eventually decided to sell the family home at Buriton, near Southampton, and settled at 7 Bentinck Street, off Cavendish Square.

92. GEORGE VI (1895-1952). King 95. GIELGUD, of Great Britain and Ireland. John (1904-2000) Large Photograph Signed (“George and ASHCROFT, R. 1949”), a three-quarter length Peggy (1907-1991). portrait by Dorothy Wilding of the Actors. King in uniform, his baton tucked Photograph Signed, under his arm and hands folded in the front cover of Play front of him, signed on the cream Pictorial, showing border below the image. them holding hands 13½ x 9½ ins., mounted on cream as Trigorin and board, 16 x 12½ ins. in all, 1949. £425 Nina in a scene from The Seagull, clearly 93. GEORGE, Duke of Kent signed by each in (1902-1942). Fourth son of . black ink on a light Photograph Signed (“George 1936”), portion of the image a head and shoulders portrait by their heads. of the Duke, facing the camera, The image c. 7¾” x clearly signed across the lapel of his 6¾”, the entire cover jacket. An overlay surrounding the photograph, c. 11½” x 8½”. Undated, but 1936. £135 evidently intended to indicate the mount when the A lovely photograph from a landmark production. photograph was to be printed, has been signed by Produced by Komisarjevsky, whose sister had played the photographer, Dorothy Wilding. Nina in the original production, the cast included 10 x 7 ins., mounted on cream board, 15 x 10 ins. in Edith Evans as Arkadina and George Devine. all, Dorothy Wilding’s imprint sticker on the verso, The photograph is framed by the red border and indicating that the photograph is no. 07739, 1936. lettering of the magazine’s cover. In excellent £350 condition. 96. GLAZOUNOV, Alexander (1865-1936). 10 x 8 ins, signed on the white border of the Russian Composer. photograph, n.d. [but a pencilled note on the verso Postcard Photograph Signed (“Alexandre gives the date “5/4/54”]. £295 Glazounov 25/vi/1930 Paris”), a head and shoulders Although Isadora Duncan may be considered the portrait taken in profile, signed by Glazounov in trailblazer of modern dance, it was Martha Graham’s blue ink vertically across a mainly light portion of austere and starkly dramatic style which proved the image. the greatest influence on all modern dance which Image size 5 x 3½ ins, mounted and framed in a followed. Using an abstract form of movement, she plain black wooden frame, in all 8½ x 6½ ins, Paris, nevertheless depicted psychological depths which 1930. £200 earlier forms of dance had left unexplored. Slight crease at the top left of the picture, not affecting Glazounov, whose music seemed rather old-fashioned the appearance of the picture. even in his day, is now remembered as a link between two giants of Russian music, his teacher Rimsky- Korsakov and his pupil at the 99. GRIEG, Edvard (1843-1907). Norwegian Conservatory, Shostakovich. Perhaps his most Composer. frequently performed work is the ballet Raymonda. He Postcard Photograph Signed in a white portion at moved to Paris in 1929, allegedly for his health, and the foot of the card by the composer and also his died there seven years later. wife (“Mit herzlichen Gruss” “Edvard Grieg”, “Nina Grieg”), showing Grieg with the Norwegian 97. GOUNOD, Charles (1818-1893). French Composer. The Redemption A Sacred Trilogy, Written and Composed by Charles Gounod. The Pianoforte accompaniment arranged by Berthold Tours, the English Translation by the Rev. J. Troutbeck, M.A. The score 172 pages, with introductory commentary by Gounod, ‘Novello’s Original 8vo Edition’, scarlet cloth, gilt title on front cover and spine, n.d. [1882] With a printed dedication to Queen Victoria, and Inscribed and Signed in French in heavy pencil above the dedication to his daughter Jeanne: “A ma fille chérie Jeanne Gounod 30 aout /82 Ch. Gounod”. £475 A devoutly religious man, Gounod seriously contemplated entering the priesthood, but ultimately decided on composition and a family. He described The Redemption as “the work of my life.” The three parts portray the Passion and death of Christ, His life on earth, and the spread of Christianity. A choral work with soloists, it was intended for performance at the Birmingham Festival of 1882, but apparently did not have its first performance until a year later in America. Edges of spine a little worn. In sound condition.

writer and patriot, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, standing 98. GRAHAM, Martha (1894-1991). American dancer and choreographer. in front of Grieg’s house, the Villa Troldhaugen. The card has also been signed “Toni Maaskoff”, Photograph Signed and inscribed (“To Mrs Irene presumably the violinist Anton Maaskoff. Senrens with best wishes Martha Graham”), an 5½ x 3½ ins, n.d. £995 atmospheric image showing her head and shoulders in profile, her neck outstretched. An atmospheric image. Grieg’s cousin and wife, Nina, who has also signed here was a well-respected soprano in her own right. As well as a leading exponent of Grieg’s songs, Delius “WOMEN SHOULD HAVE VOTES” dedicated songs to her. 101. HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Novelist and Bjornstjerne Bjornson was one of Norway’s leading Poet. writers, poets and playwrights, as well as a leading patriot and author of the words of the Norwegian Autograph Letter Signed (“Thomas Hardy”) to national anthem. He and Grieg were good friends, Lady Grove [the essayist and women’s suffrage though the friendship cooled significantly when campaigner Agnes Geraldine Grove], expressing Bjornson’s failed to produce the libretto for Grieg’s his approbation of her volume of pro-suffrage unfinished opera Olav Trygvason on time. essays The Human Woman and stating that “I . . . The card has been attractively mounted on olive green have long held that in justice women should have card. votes”. 3 pages 8vo, Max Gate, Dorchester, 13 November 100. HARDY, 1908. £2750 Thomas (1840- 1928). Novelist and Poet. Autograph Letter Signed (“Thomas Hardy”) to “Dear Mr. Lane” (identified on the a c c o m p a n y i n g envelope as John Lane), making arrangements for a visit from Mr. Strang [the artist William Strang]. 1½ pages 8vo with integral blank leaf on black-edged paper, together with the autograph envelope, Max Gate, 29 July n.y. [postmarked 1892]. £1500 “It would be convenient to us to have Mr. Strang “I thought I would not write to thank you for your almost any day next week. I may be away Wednesday kind gift of “The Human Woman” & its pretty morning but only for a few hours. I suggest the train inscription, till I had read the book. This I have now leaving Waterloo at 2.20p.m. Wednesday, which done, & can only say that the whole is really a series of reaches Dorchester at 6.13. There will be nobody else brilliant & able essays, which all who favour woman staying here, & Mr. Strang can arrange his own times suffrage should be grateful for. I, of course, who have & do as he chooses.” long held that in justice women should have votes . . . have not needed convincing, though some of your The Scottish painter and engraver William Strang ingenious arguments had not occurred to me. That was responsible for a well-known portrait of Thomas women do not realize the ultimate effect of conceding Hardy, now in the National Portrait Gallery, which to them what they are entitled to, is natural enough, he produced the following year. Strang’s etching of & perhaps it is as well that they do not, or they would Hardy illustrated Lionel Johnson’s The Art of Thomas never combine in sufficient numbers to obtain it. . Hardy, published by John Lane. The subject, of necessity, does not allow you that scope The letter is in excellent condition. for your natural wit & fancy which was afforded by the previous volume (though this is by far the more valuable); but there is still enough of those qualities to entertain people who do not take much interest in the “On my Return to Eton on Saturday evening I found subject itself. . .” your beautiful Horace, for which I beg to return my Lady Grove had met Hardy a dozen years earlier at her best thanks to you and to Murray. I think it the most parents’ home in Dorset. They quickly formed a strong successful illustration of the most interesting of Roman friendship, maintained by lengthy correspondence, Poets that has ever been produced. Indeed this is little during which Hardy guided her work as an essayist, to say of it. The famous Editions of Sandby and Pine writing for some of the more important periodicals of touch on little but mythology . . . but give us nothing the day. Her “previous volume” was The Social Fetich, or next to nothing of Roman Life. . . I think the Life and a series of essays on topics such as Shopping, Smoking the biographical Sketches of Horace’s contemporaries Women, and the Art of Hospitality, which she had will interest younger Readers twice as much . . . all dedicated to Hardy. Her numerous causes included lovers of Horace must owe you infinite thanks for anti-vivisection and adoption reform. Lady Grove what you have given us: for more could not have been died in 1926, and is remembered in Hardy’s poem, comprized in the compass of one volume. . .” “Concerning Agnes”. Hawtrey proved a popular headmaster and later Shortly after this letter, the Men’s League for Women’s provost of Eton. His reforms led to a significant Suffrage published a list of well-known men who increase in the school’s size and he was particularly favoured women’s suffrage. Hardy’s name was popular with the boys. prominent on the list, alongside H.G. Wells and Arthur Henry Hart Milman, poet, dramatist and historian, Wing Pinero. was appointed Dean of St. Paul’s in November. The first page of the letter is very slightly browned, but it is otherwise in clear and very good condition. 104. HENRI III (1551-1589). King of France. The letter has been published in the Collected Letters of Letter Signed (“Henri”) to “Mon cousin”, identified Thomas Hardy, vol. 3. as M. de Luxembourg, evidently a member of the noble family descended from the de Brienne, 102. HAWKINS, Anthony Hope (1863-1933). ordering him to send fresh reinforcements to assist Author of The Prisoner of Zenda. “my cousin the duc de Mayenne”. Autograph Letter Signed (“Anthony Hope Half page large folio in French, Chattelerault, 28 Hawkins”) to his cousin Edith, responding to a June 1577. £825 request for a charitable donation. 1½ pages 8vo, Savoy Mansions, 2 October 1907. £65 Hawkins explains his modest response to her request by pointing out that “. . . I have so very many calls made on me . . . If I met all I should soon cease to belong to the class of men “who have a little spare cash”! . . . I am sorry to hear Archie has been seedy . . . Lots of oil of cloves is the best remedy . . .” Anthony Hope had already published five novels when the extraordinary success of his 1893 romance, The Prisoner of Zenda enabled him to abandon his work as a barrister to concentrate on writing. The bottom half of the second page of the letter has been cut away, directly under the signature, but the text is complete.

103. HAWTREY, Edward Craven (1789-1862). Provost of Eton College. Autograph Letter Signed (“EC Hawtrey”) to “My dear Milman” (Henry Hart Milman, later dean of St. Paul’s), thanking him for sending his new edition of Horace and discussing the work in some detail. 4 pages 8vo, Eton College, 15 January 1849. £95 A letter written at a crucial juncture in the very “OUR DEAREST SISTER complicated French wars of religion. A few months THE QUEEN MARGUERITE” earlier, the Estates-General had forced Henri to resume the war on the Huguenots, a conflict which 105. HENRI IV (1553-1610). King of France and had already seen the horrors of the St. Bartholomew’s Navarre. massacre and the 1573 siege of La Rochelle. The duc Document Signed (“Henry”) ordering his de Mayenne, brother of the powerful head of the exchequer officials to grant the sum of six hundred Catholic League, the duc de Guise, won a notable and twenty thousand livres tournois “to our dearest victory in the Huguenot stronghold of Poitou, only to sister the Queen Marguerite duchess of Vallois as be frustrated later that year by Henri’s more generous an exchange for the Auvergne title-deeds which she attitude towards the Protestants. has given up to us.” Trans: “Having earlier taken stock of a few companies 1 page oblong folio in French on vellum, also signed . . . in order to use them in Champagne and Burgundy by the official Brulart. Paris, 28 February 1609. should events require this, including the company £1700 of my cousin the duc de Mayenne which is currently employed near Luy . . . for my service in Poitou Henri of Navarre, later Henri IV of France, had where I have ordered that it remain. I do not however married Marguerite de Valois, the daughter of Henri wish the number of these companies to be lessened, II of France and Catherine de Medici in 1572, on the but rather increased in order to block the passage of eve of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew. Famous strangers should they present themselves. The reason for her beauty, learning, and self-indulgence, she was I have chosen your company which had been ordered the subject of scandal and rumour even before her to be with my brother the duc d’Anjou at the camp at marriage. However it was not her way of life but her Yssoire in order to hold the place of my said cousin the failure to provide Henri with an heir that led him to duc de Mayenne . . .” wish for a divorce. Marguerite refused to agree until Eleven years later, in 1588, the duc de Mayenne would after the death of Henri’s favourite mistress Gabrielle become leader of the Catholic League following d’Estrees, in order to prevent his marrying her and the assassination of the duc de Guise on the orders making her his Queen. They were divorced in 1599 of Henri III. He raised forces in his dominions in and Henri went on to marry Marie de Medici. He Champagne and Burgundy and entered Paris where and Marguerite remained on friendly terms; he often he was warmly welcomed. The situation changed consulted her on important affairs and, as can be seen yet again when Henri III was assassinated in August, from this document, she retained the title and status of stabbed by a young Dominican friar. a Queen. Formally, as a Queen, she also had the status of the King’s “sister.” Lightly toned, and slight fold creases, but in sound condition. The letter is lightly hinged to a pale green After her husband’s remarriage Marguerite spent board, but could easily be lifted off on request. some time in comfortable exile in the Auvergne, but after her re-establishment as an important figure at court she evidently gave up her Auvergne property, as recorded in this document, for a substantial sum of money. Fifteen months after the date of the document, Henri IV, the most able and popular of all French Kings, was assassinated by a Catholic fanatic. Henri’s signature, at the foot of the document, is somewhat light, but legible.

“I LIVE IN PRIVACY”

106. HOUSMAN, Alfred Edward (1859-1936). Poet. Autograph Letter Signed (“A.E. Housman”) to Charles Wilson, 1 page 8vo with integral blank leaf and the original autograph stamped and Julia Ward Howe wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic postmarked envelope, Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1862, and it soon became the favourite song of the 27 January 1926 [but actually 1927, as shown by the Union soldiers in the Civil War, sung to the tune of postmark]. £450 John Brown’s Body. Later, appalled by the horrors of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, she called for women in Housman, a distinguished classical scholar, was all countries to rise up and oppose war in all its forms. Professor of Latin at Cambridge from 1911 to his In 1872 she came to London to promote a women’s death, and usually published at least one major peace conference, and was helped and befriended by classical article a year. He was acutely sensitive and English reformers such as Mary Carpenter. As can be socially reserved, as this letter demonstrates, and was seen from her Prospectus, her idea of ‘peace’ went far described by Harold Nicolson as “shy, soft, prickly, beyond the resolution of international conflict. silent.” The volume of lyrics on which his fame rest, A Shropshire Lad, appeared in 1896. Letter: “I can only send you the written copyof my Prospectus, soiled by the Printer’s hand, who “Many thanks for the photograph of the Pantheon, but promised me the whole edition early this morning. you must excuse me if I do not respond to your request. Now, at 12 n[oon], I have seen nothing of it. I am going I live in privacy, and if once I began communicating to Argyll Lodge by invitation today, and must dress with the outside world, there would be no leaving off.” at once . . . I am sorry and ashamed to write to you so hurriedly, after the great kindness and hospitality “THE MOMENTOUS SUBJECT OF PEACE” you have extended to me. But I must not tell you how grateful I am for these . . .” 107. HOWE, Julia Ward (1819-1910). American Prospectus: “I have determined, in cooperation with Social Activist and Writer; author of the Battle some others, to hold a Congress in London, on the Hymn of the Republic. 1st & 2nd days of July next, with the twofold view of Autograph Letter Signed (“Julia Ward Howe”) to considering the momentous subject of Peace, and the the English educational and social reformer Mary proper and possible agency of women in its promotion Carpenter, saying she is sending her “the written . . . I propose . . . to give consideration to the following copy of my Prospectus, soiled by the Printer’s points of argument. Antagonism of sex. Antagonism hand” [for her proposed international women’s of Parentage. Between Capital and Labor. Between peace conference in London]. Authority and Intelligence. Between the individual 3 pages 8vo, 23 Norfolk Street, Strand, 13 June and society,. Between different nations . . .” 1872. In the event, Julia Ward Howe did not receive enough Together with the Autograph Manuscript Signed of funding or support for her proposed Congress, and the prospectus, 3½ pages 8vo on separate leaves, 11 it did not take place, but she always felt her efforts June 1872. £975 had been worthwhile. On her return to America, she did manage to establish an annual Mother’s Peace The portrait of and his wife Celia Birtwell, Day in June – an idea which eventually developed painted in 1970-71, is one of Hockney’s most famous into Mother’s Day, now celebrated in May. Her works, now in Tate Britain. correspondent Mary Carpenter (1807-1877) visited America in 1873. Both women were Unitarians with 110. ISHERWOOD, Christopher (1904-1986). developed social consciences, determined to leave the Writer. world a better place than they found it. Postcard Photograph Signed and inscribed (“Christopher Isherwood about 40 years earlier. 108. HOCKNEY, David (b. 1937). British Artist. for P.B. Dyson”), a National Portrait Gallery C o l o u r reproduction of Howard Coster’s head and P o s t c a r d shoulders photograph of the writer, taken c. 1936. Photograph 6 x 4¼ ins, n.d. [c.1976]. £550 S i g n e d ( “ D a v i d Howard Coster (1885-1959) was one of the few major photographers who specialised in portraits of men, Hockney”), and was able to bring out both the strength and a National sensitivity of his sitters. He is perhaps best known for P o r t r a i t his fine portraits of T.E. Lawrence. G a l l e r y p o s t c a r d “I AM A HERMIT IN A HERMITAGE” of Arnold N e w m a n ’ s 111. JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). Novelist. 1978 portrait Autograph Letter Signed (“Henry James”) to Miss photograph of Kingsley [most probably Mary Kingsley, the writer the artist in his and explorer, niece of Charles Kingsley]. studio, signed 3½ pages 8vo on grey-green paper engraved by Hockney with his De Vere Gardens address which he has on the lower crossed out. Point Hill, Playden, Sussex, Friday n.d. white border [probably 1890’s]. £1400 of the card. 6 x 4¼ ins, n.d. £210 An agreeable letter written in typically Jamesian convoluted style. A pencilled note on the verso reads “Please can you “I am not in London, but intensely out of it, & sign on the front / Thank you”. deprived of the pleasure of accepting your invitation In excellent condition. for Sunday. I am a hermit in a hermitage – a cottager in a cottage – & dont return to London till the autumn. 109. HOCKNEY, David (b. 1937). British Artist. I congratulate you much on your American successes [James is probably referring to the international Colour Postcard Reproduction of his painting Mr. success of Kingsley’s first book, Travels in West Africa]; and Mrs. Clark and Percy, signed by Hockney on the but am very sorry to hear of Mrs. Harrison’s renewed lower white border of the card. illness. Pease assure her of my sympathy & also of my c. 4¼ x 6 ins., n.d. £220 satisfaction that she is to be my Kensingtion neighour. . . “ [Mary Harrison, née St. Leger Kingsley, Mary Kingsley’s cousin, was a successful and controversial novelist under the name Lucas Malet].

112. JAMES II (1633-1701). King of Great Britain. Autograph Letter Signed (“Jacques”) to “Mon Cousin” [probably Louis XIV], assuring him of his gratitude and hoping for his correspondent’s continued marks of friendship. 2 pages 4to in French with integral blank leaf, Brussels, 23 September 1659. £2750 A year after the death of Oliver Cromwell, James was encouraged to hope Queen Christina for his brother Charles of Sweden for II’s restoration to the Charles I before throne by an uprising the war. After in Cheshire, led by assisting Charles Sir George Booth in I in his flight to August of 1659. He the Isle of Wight, travelled to Boulogne Berkeley fled to in anticipation of a France where he return to Britain, but became a close returned to Brussels confidant of the when the rebellion Duke of York, with was crushed. the designation James had fought for of “intendant des France under one of affaires de son their greatest military altesse royale”. leaders, Turenne, He served under whom he greatly Turenne alongside admired. However, James, and later when France signed a fought for the treaty with Cromwell, Spaniards. After he was forced to leave the Restoration, he and, much to his was granted part dismay, found himself ownership of New fighting his old Jersey. His house comrades, serving the on Piccadilly was Spanish in Flanders. later to result in By 1659, France’s the naming of the victory over the London square in Spanish brought peace which Maggs has and the possibility of its premises. the renewal of ties of friendship with France for James. Still uncertain, at this juncture, of his hopes for a A WEEK BEFORE WATERLOO restoration of the monarchy in England, one can sense in this letter his eagerness to ensure French support, 113. JOURDAN, Jean Baptiste (1762-1833). and a quite sincere desire to declare his own affection French Marshal. for his friends in France. Letter Signed (“Jourdan”) to the Minister of Trans: “I have received so many proofs of your War [Davout], informing him of the supplies he friendship whilst I was in France, that I have no reason has requested from civilian suppliers for army to doubt the assurances that some of my friends have pensioners, as these cannot be obtained from the given me since then that you still have [friendship] depleted military stocks. for me which has led me to hope that in this great 2½ pages folio in French, Besancon, 12 June 1815. moment of peace that you will continue thus and that £525 you will not forget someone whom you will find not ungrateful and who will be very pleased to owe you During the , Napoleon appointed yet more obligations, as I do not lose hope of one day, Jourdan governor of Besancon, in eastern France. As is with your help, being able to show you the depth of evident in this letter, he was conscientious in fulfilling my gratitude, and that I will never forget the kindness his duties, if somewhat lacking in the panache of some which you have shown me, which is why I send you of the other, less scrupulous, marshals. as my envoy Sieur de Berkley, Cap[tain] of my guards Trans: “. . . you authorized me to obtain whatever who will relay to you everything which concerns me. may be available in terms of clothing and equipment [I] beg you to believe everything he tells you from me, from the military stores for the army pensioners. Your as I only lacked the means to assure you that I value Excellency also ordered me to deal with the civilian your friendship above all other things and that I am authorities, should these stores prove inadequate . . in truth My Cousin your very affectionate Cousin... “ . I must inform Your Excellency that the stores have Sir John Berkeley was an ardent Royalist and had no resources, and in accordance with your intentions undertaken an important diplomatic mission to I had to invite the civilian authorities to provide for the needs of these elderly servicemen, but as the prefects are busy with the clothing and equipment of the national guards, I felt that it would be impossible to satisfy my requirements. I have therefore limited myself to the most indispensable items, a cloak, trousers, hat and two pairs of shoes for each man. The pensioners in the garrison . . . come to about sixteen hundred . . . “ After some confusion with the orders, Jourdan ascertained that it was unlikely that sufficient supplies would be found, and he eventually limited his request to 1100 cloaks and 1100 pairs of shoes, and ordered hats rather than schalkos, as these would be easier to find. In the chaos that was the Hundred Days, it is unsurprising that adequate provision of supplies of any kind would prove problematical. The implication here is that not only was there a shortage, but even where it might be possible to find the goods, suppliers were reluctant to risk selling to those who might ultimately be unable to pay. Soon after the defeat at Waterloo, Jourdan submitted monochrome head and shoulders portrait of Kern. to the restored Bourbon monarchy and four years 7 x 5 ins. on matt card, Beverly Hills, 1944. £595 later was called upon to serve in the upper house of Parliament. 1944 was the year of Kern’s successful film musicals Cover Girl and Can’t Help Singing. He had once written of himself “I am trying to do something for the future of 114. KENT, 1505 American music, which today has no class whatsoever Grant by John Waller senior of a nine acre piece of and is mere barbaric mouthing.” land in Speldhurst called Speldherstfield to John Jefferey, carpenter, William Waller, son of the “A BOLD BAD MAN” grantor, and others, the land to be held for the use of John Jefferey and his heirs. 116. KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Writer. 1 page small oblong folio on vellum, 17 lines in Autograph Letter Signed (“Rudyard Kipling”) to an Latin writen in an accomplished secretarial hand, unnamed correspondent (“Dear Sir”), evidently with a large decorative initial letter “S” (of “Sciant”). a young admirer, explaining the genesis of his The small red wax seal of John Waller, with a star character Terence Mulvaney, one of his “Soldiers decoration, is attached by the original vellum tag. 1 Three”. December 21 Henry VII [1505]. £495 2 pages 8vo in red ink, written on separate leaves, Speldhurst was (and is) a prosperous village dating Embankment Chambers, Villiers Street, Strand, from Saxon times. The Wallers were a leading local 6 March 1890. Laid down by the second leaf onto family, the most distinguished member being Sir the inside of the front cover of a somewhat worn Richard Waller, who was said to have captured second edition of Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills, Charles Duke of Orleans at the Battle of Agincourt, and 1890. £575 rebuilt the village church, St. Mary’s, with his share of “I am glad you like Mulvaney. The beginning part of the ransom money. him (he took a town naked and nearly slew an M.P.) A little crinkled at the left margin, but an attractive is in a book called Plain Tales from the Hills which is document in excellent condition. published by Thacker & Co 87 Newgate Street. E.C. Then there is another little book all about him, called 115. KERN, Jerome (1885-1945). American Soldiers Three and that ought to be on the bookstalls Composer. (Sampson Low & Co publishers) . . . I am afraid I have published a few books but that was in India. The Plain Portrait Signed and inscribed (“For Kenneth Tales will tell you what I have done. R. Seagood with the grateful regards of Jerome There are many things untold of Mulvaney (who was Kern Beverly Hills 1944”), a reproduction of a a bold bad man, but I loved him) and I hope that as they appear you will like them . . . P.S. If you’re a north German, thanking him for his kind wishes. country man there’s a Yorkshire tale in the Soldiers 1 page folio in German, , 3 June 1957. £925 Three – Jock Learoyd a dalesman like myself, tells it Korngold’s opera Die Tote Stadt, with the theme of and it’s all about dogs, of course.” a man obsessed by memories of his late wife, had The “Soldiers Three” – Mulvaney, Ortheris and its premiere in 1920, when the composer, already Learoyd – first make their appearance in “The Three an acknowledged musical prodigy, was only 23. In Musketeers”, one of the forty short stories portraying this large, handsome quotation, Korngold sends his many aspects of life in British India, published under correspondent the first four bars of Marietta’s aria. the title Plain Tales from the Hills in Calcutta in 1888, a Very slightly crumpled at the top corners, but month afrer Kipling’s twenty-second birthday. In the otherwise in very good condition. story, the first of many in which they were to appear, the soldiers, presented as tough and humorous, go to extraordinary lengths to avoid an extra parade. 119. KNIGHT, Dame Laura (1877-1970). Painter. Althought often workshy and insubordinate, the soldiers, are, when put to the test, always portrayed as ultimately brave and loyal and were counted among Kipling’s most popular characters.

117. KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Writer. Typed Letter Signed (“Rudyard Kipling”) to Dr. Morris Benoit in Paris, discussing the possibility of a new French translation of his first collection of short stories, Plain Tales from the Hills. 1 page 4to with the original envelope, Bateman’s, Burwash, Sussex, 27 January 1922. £525 “. . . I have now had time to investigate the matter of the French translation of “Plain Tales from the Hills” published by Nelson, and I find that these stories are in what is known as the “open domain”; that is, they were written before France joined the Berne Convention and before an English author had any rights over his books in France. I am taking the matter up with Nelson, the publisher; because, as he published some of my books over which I have control (as they were written since France joined the Berne Convention) I think that he may be interested to have a better translation made of “Plain Tales from the Hills”, but except through his courtesy I should have no control . . .”

118. KORNGOLD, Erich Wolfgang (1897-1957). Photograph Signed and inscribed (“To my dear Austrian-born friend Teddy Lyon from Laura Knight”), showing Composer. the artist, wearing cape and hat, pulling on her A u t o g r a p h gloves, going through a door, through to a kitchen. M u s i c a l She has drawn a sketch of a clown, in blue ink, on Quotation Signed the white panel of the door behind her head. (“Erich Wolfgang 9½ x 7 ins., mounted, n.p., n.d. £750 K o r n g o l d ” ) , Circus figures held an enduring fascination for Dame four bars from Laura, and this clown is a particularly attractive his opera Die figure. Tote Stadt, with the text written below, inscribed to Heinz Gruen in 120. KRASSOVSKA, Nathalie (1919-2005). prison for a fortnight, so the outlook is not too good. Ballerina; danced with the de Monte It seems an extreme measure to change my name at Carlo. short notice & if the change came to the knowledge of the Persians I’d probably stay there for life. However Photograph Signed and inscribed (“To Muriel if all goes well I hope to do a prospecting trip this and Dickie With all my love Tata Krassovska”), summer . . .” showing the ballerina posing, seated and in A.W. Lawrence, a leading authority on classical costume, possibly for . sculpture and architecture, had been very close to 5½ x 3¼ ins, boldly signed in blue, n.d. £160 T.E., but came to find his brother’s enduring fame One of the most engaging and effervescent of the something of a burden. He performed his duties as Ballets Russes stars, Krassovsky appeared in the 2005 literary executor faithfully and well, but his natural film Ballets Russes, still teaching, and coaxing a former shyness was increased by his embarrassment at being partner to mark their pas de deux from . regarded as someone else’s brother, rather than as a scholar of distinction in his own right. “IT SEEMS AN EXTREME MEASURE TO CHANGE MY NAME . . .” “HARRY HAD A REAL POETIC GIFT”

121. LAWRENCE, Arnold Walter (1900-1991). 122. LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930). Archaelogist; younger brother and literary executor Novelist. of T.E. Lawrence. Autograph Letter Signed (“D.H.L.”) to “Dear Autograph Letter Signed (“Arnold W. Lawrence”) Caresse” [Caresse Crosby, co-founder, with her to “Dear Mrs. Doubleday” [probably Ellen, wife of husband Harry Crosby, of the Black Sun Press], the publisher written just seven weeks after the suicide of Harry N e l s o n Crosby, enquiring about books, discussing his own Doubleday], health, and praising Harry’s talent. thanking her 2 pages 8vo, Bandol, 30 January 1930. £3200 for a book In early December 1929, the bodies of Harry Crosby and wryly and his young mistress were found in a friend’s studio. alluding to A gun in Crosby’s hand and bullet holes in the heads the problems of both victims testified to a suicide pact. which might For a decade, Harry and Caresse Crosby had led an arise in the extravagantly hedonistic, drug-fuelled life in Paris Middle East where they knew most of the leading artistic figures of for those with that extraordinary decade. Together they founded the the name Black Sun Press, publishing works by D.H. Lawrence Lawrence. and James Joyce among others, as well as Crosby’s 2 pages own poetry. large 8vo, “Thank you for the dream book. Harry had a real 11 Woburn poetic gift – if only he hadn’t tried to disintegrate Square, 29 himself so! This disintegrating spirit, and the tangled January 1938. sound of it, makes my soul weary to death. £1100 I shall be interested to read the diary, later, if you wish me to – or what of it you wish me to. And if I could “I did not go write a suitable foreword, I’d be glad to. – But for the to Cambridge till the other day, when term began next two months, I’m not allowed to do anything. again [A.W. Lawrence was a lecturer on classsical The doctor came from England & said I must lie in archaeology] & then I found your book. Last night, my bed for two months, & do nothing, & see no people first free evening, I read it straight through with great – absolute rest. Oh dear! – and Harry was really so interest & enjoyment . . . I have been trying to organise well, physically. And my nerves are so healthy, but my an excavation in Persia & have at last got it fixed chest lets me down. So there we are. Life & death in up at this end but we’re yet to see what the Persian all of us! Government will say. The Foreign Office tells me that people with even the Christian name of “Lawrence” Did Chariot of the Sun ever appear? I have never seen used to be arrested at the frontier, & once a German a copy. I should like very much to have one, if the book journalist who looked rather like T.E. was kept in exists. of Arabia was serving in the ranks. The Air Force, not relishing the publicity, dismissed him. After fruitless efforts to get himself reinstated he was allowed to join the Army Tank Corps in March 1923 as Private T. E. Shaw, a name he claimed to have chosen at random (rather than in homage to his friend ). He found army life in the ranks unpleasant, with its insistence on conformity, as distinct from the individuality he claimed to have found in the RAF. He did however make a few enduring friends, including L.H. Ingham, to whom this letter is addressed, and in particular Edward “Posh” Palmer, to whom he here refers. Lawrence had given Palmer financial help to enable him to leave the Tank Corps, find a civilian job, and live at home with his wife. Lawrence, after some difficulty, was ultimately allowed to transfer back to the RAF in August 1925. “Your letter pops out of a pile of 3444 letters inmy tray. It glares at me. God, what can I say? I have not sent a letter for years without apologising for writing so late. I fly in a Moth sometimes. Moths are small quiet machines, painted a hedge-sparrow blue. Forster [probably the writer E.M. Forster] told me And is it possible for you to send me a couple of that Posh was drawing less & less money from his imperfect copies of Escaped Cock, as you once reserve fund. So perhaps it is right. Can you give me suggested. I should be glad. his address? I have lost it, & have owed him a letter Oh yes, don’t you try to recover yourself too soon – it is for 18 months. I work & work & work at R.A.F. stuff, much better to be a little blind and stunned for a time & almost never go out, Would you come across some longer, and not make efforts to see or to feel. Work is week end . . .” the best, and a certain numbness a merciful numbness. A corner of the page, at the lower right on the recto and It was too dreadful a blow – and it was wrong.” lower left on the verso, with text on both sides, has been Lawrence’s The Escaped Cock, later reprinted as The torn away but preserved, and has been professionally Man Who Died had been published by the Black Sun and almost invisibly reattached under our direction. A Press the previous year. Harry Crosby’s Chariot of the small blank portion has been torn away from the top Sun was not published until 1931. right (top left on the verso) and remains missing. No Lawrence himself died only a month after this letter. text is lost, and the letter is overall in sound condition. Slight toning at the edges of the letter where it has evidently been framed, but it is otherwise in very 124. LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). good condition. ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. A Martins Bank Cheque filled in and signed by “I WORK & WORK & WORK AT R.A.F. STUFF” Lawrence as “J.H. Ross”, paying Twelve pounds twelve shillings to Gar Wood Motor Boats Ltd. 123. LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). 1 page narrow oblong 8vo on a pale blue cheque ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. form, London, 14 November 1930. £1100 Autograph Letter Signed (“TES.”) to “Dear Ingham” [L.H. Ingham, whom Lawrence had met while serving in the Tank Corps, 1923-5], 2 pages 8vo, n.p. [but evidently RAF Cattewater, near Plymouth], 29 July1929. £1650 In his attempts to lead an absolutely private life after the strains of the War and the Peace Conference, Lawrence had joined the RAF as an Aircraftman in August 1922 under the name John Hume Ross. He was happy and satisfied for four months, but unfortunately the Daily Express revealed in December that Lawrence Lawrence had joined the RAF as an Aircraftman in 4 AUGUST 1914 August 1922 under the name of John Hume Ross. He adopted his second pseudonym of Shaw in March 127. LIPTON, Sir Thomas (1850-1931). Grocer 1923, when he joined the tank corps. He kept the name and Yachtsman. of Shaw when he rejoined the RAF in August 1925; Typed Letter Signed (“Yrs Sincerely Thomas J. this name was legalised by deed poll in 1927, but as Lipton”) to Mrs. Edward Dewey in Pennsylvania, can be seen here, he continued at times to use the name giving her details of arrangements for bringing Ross. To add to the confusion over names, Lawrence’s friends to his yacht, the “Erin” for the race [the father’s original family name was Chapman. America’s Cup], and possible alterations to his plans Lawrence spent the last years of his Air Force service “if England should be engaged in war”. On the very testing, supervising and even designing high speed day this letter was, written, Britain declared war on and power motor-craft at Plymouth, and later on the Germany, in response to Germany’s invasion of Solent. Privately, he shared ownership of a speedboat, Belgium. the Biscuit, with his Commanding Officer, Sydney 2 pages 4to, together with the envelope, Southgate, Smith. GarWood were the leading manufacturers of motor speedboats; the founder of the company, Middx., 4 August 1914. £550 Garfield Wood, won the Harmsworth Trophy, the , whose name is today known international award for motorboat racing, eight times primarily for the brand of tea named after him, was as a driver and owner between 1920 and 1933. an astute self-made man, who made a fortune running an expanding chain of grocery stores in Scotland and 125. LEHAR, Franz (1870-1948). Hungarian later England. His apprenticeship had been served in the United States in the years after the Civil War, and Composer of The Merry Widow. he retained a circle of friends there. Postcard Photograph Signed (“herzliche Grusse! Having made his fortune he was free to indulge in [hearfelt greetings] his great passion as a yachtsman. His annual lack of F Lehar”), a half- success in the America’s Cup was endured with good length image of grace and his generosity as a host aboard his yacht, the the composer, Erin, ensured his popularity. who has signed “. . . I will have . . . a special steamer leaving New York vertically on a every morning during the races, to bring my friends light portion of the down to the “Erin” . . . Lord and Lady Perrie will image at the left. not be with me this time . . . but I will have on board 5½ x 3½ ins, Mr. and Mrs. Marconi. Mr Marconi as you know is framed in a plain the inventor of the wireless telegraphy. . . If England black and gilt should be engaged in war, it might alter all my plans . wooden frame, in . . This would be a terrible calamity. . . I hope nothing all 7¾ x 6¾ ins., will happen to prevent my racing. . .” n.d. £195 Not only did the Erin not race in the years to come, it was soon deployed in the Mediterranean, transporting A very attractive medical supplies for the troops, where she was portrait of the eventually sunk by the enemy. most popular of all operetta composers. His correspondent, Mrs. Edward Dewey, was the niece by marriage of Admiral George Dewey.

126. LIFAR, Serge (1905-1986). Russian-French dancer. 128. LLOYD GEORGE, David (1863-1945). Prime Minister 1916-1922. Large Photograph Signed (“Serge Lifar”), a black and white portrait of the star in his own ballet Icare. Typed Letter Signed, Letter Signed, and Autograph 9½ x 7 ins, n.d. £150 Letter Signed (“D Lloyd George”) to the liberal politician Cecil, later Lord, Harmsworth (1869- Lifar, one of Diaghilev’s great discoveries, joined 1948), younger brother of the newspaper proprietors the Paris Opera Ballet after Diaghilev’s death. He Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere. choreographed Icare in 1935, dancing the lead, which 3 pages 8vo and 1½ pages 4to in all, the Letter highlighted his athletic style. Signed on black-edged paper, with two original envelopes, Board of Trade, 18 March 1906, House of Commons, 18 February 1908, and Treasury Chambers, 10 August 1911. £395 129. LLOYD GEORGE, David (1863-1945). Prime Minister 1916- 1922. Fine large Photograph Signed (“D Lloyd George”), a three-quarter length portrait showing the statesman seated sideways to the camera, his head turned to face the photographer, signed by him on the grey border below the image. Framed in a handsome wooden frame, the image c. 13 x 10½ ins, in all 21½ x 17 ins, photographer’s imprint of Reginald Haines on the mount, n.d. £795 A striking and very attractive portrait, in excellent condition.

130. LONDON, Jack (1876-1916) American Writer. Typed Letter Signed (“Jack London”) to the Secretary of the Vallejo Yacht Club, half page 4to, Glen Ellen, Sonoma, California, 22 October 1910. £975 “I have bought the yawl “ROAMER,” on which at present I am cruising up- Businesslike but friendly letters from a Cabinet river. I should like to sail her under the flag of the Minister to a a loyal liberal Parliamentary colleague. Vallejo Yacht Club. Can you tell me what arrangements In the first letter, as President of the Board of Trade, are necessary, or, rather, what procedure, to enable me Lloyd George discusses at length a complicated to become a member of the Vallejo Yacht Club? . . .” problem of railway toll rates. In the second letter he Jack London, a dedicated sailor, purchased the Roamer says he will “be delighted to dine with you on Tuesday on the recommendaton of his first wife Bessie’s next to meet your brother”. In the last letter, written brother-in-law. He considered it the perfect vessel, entirely in his hand as Chancellor of the Exchequer and indeed described it in his novel The Valley of the when Harmsworth was the M.P. for Luton, Lloyd Moon (1911). He set out on 10 October 1910 on the George refers to a request from the Luton Chamber of Roamer for a trip up the Sacramento River to the San Commerce, saying “If anything can be done – & I am Joaquin River valley delta, during which he wrote this hopeful of meeting the Luton case – it had better come letter. He continued to sail her until his death. In 1911 through you.” he published his memoir of an earlier trip, The Cruise Together with other material relating to Harmsworth’s of the Snark, his account of his 1907-9 voyage across career, including two letters to him from Frances the Pacific. Stevenson, Lloyd George’s secretary, mistress, and later Creasing along original folds. second wife, 1917 and 1943; and Harmsworth’s copy of the facsimile autograph letter signed which was sent by Lloyd George to his MPs dated 11 December 1916, informing them that “His Majesty the King has entrusted me with the task of forming a Goverment & I have carried out His Majesty’s commands . . .” A small but politically informative archive. 131. LOPOKHOVA, Lydia (1892-1981). Russian means ‘higher’, in the sense of striving for excellence. ballerina; member of the Ballets Russes. In the end the youth is found “lifeless but beautiful”, half buried in the snow, by his faithful hound, “still P o s t c a r d clasping in his hand of ice that banner with the strange P h o t o g r a p h device “Excelsior.”” Signed (“Lydia L o p o k h o v a April 5, 1942 133. LOUIS XVIII (1755-1824). Younger Brother L o n d o n ” ) , of Louis XVI; King of France 1814-24; and a head and CHARLES X (1757-1836). His younger brother; s h o u l d e r s King of France 1824-1830. image of the Letter Signed by both (“Louis Stanislas Xavier” dancer wearing “Charles Philippe”) with a three-line annotation by a Russian-style Louis, a reply to a memorandum, the first page of close-fitting which is on the verso of the letter, enquiring about cap. the proper means of taking on two men into the A message on Ordnance Company of the Armée des . the verso reads 1 page folio in French, n.p., n.d. [but , “46 Gordon 1792]. £1295 Square W.C.1 An interesting document, signed by two future kings London / of France. Thank you very Charles, Comte d’Artois, had fled France in 1789, only much for your a few days after the storming of the Bastille. Louis kind letter. Stanislas, the future Louis XVIII, left two years later, L.L.” £250 at first taking refuge in the Spanish Netherlands. The Lopokhova was one of the most interesting of the brothers were soon reunited at Koblenz, and, together Ballets Russes ballerinas. As a fine dancer, she excelled with the French marshals, de Broglie and de Castries, in ballets such as La Boutique Fantasque. Her marriage to they resolved to form an army, known as the Armée the economist John Maynard Keynes brought her into des Princes, which would overturn the revolution and the circle of the Bloomsbury Group, where she was not restore the monarchy, aided by a more experienced well received. Her energy and intelligence, however, Prussian army under the Duke of Brunswick. made her an invaluable companion to Keynes, going Louis XVI, who had been under house arrest in the on to found the Cambridge Arts Theatre with him. Tuileries following his ill-advised flight to Varennes, was transferred to the Temple in August 1792. In November 1792, the Armée des Princes was disbanded 132. LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807- after the revolutionary army’s decisive victory at 1882). American Poet. Valmy. Autograph Quotation Signed (“Henry W. The tone of the letter is remarkable in its assumption Longfellow”), the first verse of his poem Excelsior, of aristocratic privilege and superiority over the first published in 1841. bourgeoisie, even when these bourgeois were prepared 1 page oblong 8vo, signed at the end and dated by to fight for their cause. Longfellow “July 1855.” Laid down at the lower Trans: “The decree of 19 August allows men to change left, beneath the text, date and signature, is a narrow Companies once, upon giving the Commander of browned glue-stained slip on which the poet has the Company they are leaving, and the commander written “With Mr. Longfellow’s compliments”. of the Company which they wish to enter, their £850 reasons for doing so. The decree of the Tiers [Etat, i.e., Third Estate], concerning the formation of Bourgeois “The shades of night were falling fast, Companies, changed nothing in their disposition . As through an Alpine village passed . . One might even add that the provisional creation A youth who bore, ‘mid snow and ice, of companies of infantry was primarily designed to A banner with the strange device bring together those of the bourgeoisie who share Excelsior!” with the nobility their attachment to religion and the Longfellow’s strange tale of the youth with the banner monarchy; as this class of people is infinitely smaller had an almost hypnotic effect on his readers. The than that of the nobility [i.e., there are fewer bourgeois story of the romantic hero with the tragic past has than nobles who will oppose the revolution], it would all the elements of myth. ‘Excelsior’, from the Latin, “I enclose the note I have received in answer to mine; – I presume that you will now leave your card or call – & will then feel your way towards getting the American Neophyte into the Wizard circle.” Bulwer Lytton maintained a keen interest in alternative medicine, spiritualism, and the occult, so the “wizard circle” may have some connection with this. Novelist, playwright, wit, dandy and politician, Bulwer Lytton is best remembered today for his novel, The Last Days of Pompeii, published in 1834. A social celebrity from an early age, his rather detached manner led to the nickname “the cool of the evening.”

135. McCORMACK, John (1884-1945). Irish tenor. Postcard Photograph Signed on the cream paper mount (“Yours very sincerely John McCormack Birmingham Nov. 08”), showing the singer seated sideways on a chair. Image size 5½ x 3½ ins, in all 11 x 8½ ins. £225 A rare image from the begining of McCormack’s career, when he was twenty four. A year earlier, in 1907, he had sung the lead in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, at Covent Garden, becoming the theatre’s youngest principal tenor. The most celebrated lyric tenor of his time, he was particularly notable for his extraordinary breath control.

136. MACAULAY, Rose (1881-1958). have been more suitable, in the opinion of their royal Typed Letter Signed (“Rose Macaulay”) with highnesses [i.e., Louis and Charles], to gather together autograph postscript, to “Dear Mr Scott-James”, in the companies of infantry the greatest number of 1 page oblong 8vo, 7 Luxborough Court, those from the Third [Estate, i.e., the bourgeoisie], for Northumberland Street, 7 October 1934. £55 there they would have found officers and the training “Thank you for your note. I should like to review Alice which a troupe organised in all its branches might James, & have now got the book from the Mercury have offered, and in increasing the strength of the office. Would you let me know which day you want it infantry, one could have formed a trustworthy troupe, sent you. P.S. You say about 1000 words: if later, you ready to surround His Majesty [i.e., Louis XVI], the want fewer than this, please let me know.” moment he would have regained his freedom.” The acerbic diary of the highly-strung Alice James, In the autograph postscript, Louis comments that “the sister of Henry and William James, was first published, two bourgeois in question should be taken into the in truncated form, in 1934, and Rose Macaulay infantry and the bourgois companies already formed had evidently been asked to review it. 1934 was a should be attached to this corps if they so desire.” productive year for her, in which she published both The letter is slightly browned and is frayed at one her well received biography of Milton and her novel edge, evidently from having been torn from a book. Going Abroad.

134. LYTTON, Edward Bulwer, Lord (1803- 137. MANSFIELD, Katherine (1888-1923). New 1873). Novelist and Politician. Zealand born writer. Autograph Letter Signed (“E B Lytton”) to “Dear Autograph Letter Signed (“Katherine Mansfield”) Mr. Milner Gibson” [most probably the radical to “Dear Mr. Kapp” [the artist and caricaturist politician Thomas Milner Gibson], 1 page 8vo, Edmond Xavier Kapp], 1 page 4to boldly written Sunday, n.d. [1843-66]. £125 on paper with the letterhead of the literary journal Regiment of Foot, President of the Court Martial “for the Tryall and Punishment of such Crimes and Disorders as may have hapned among Her Majesty’s Foot Forces in the Low Countrys under My Command.” Countersigned by Marlborough’s secretary, Adam de Cardonnel. 1½ pages folio with integral blank leaf, Henneff, 7 June 1703. £1250 “For the Tryall and Punishment of such Crimes and Disorders as may have hapned among Her Majesty’s Foot Forces in the Low Countrys under My Command, I have thought fitt that a General Court Martiall be forthwith held . . . and after full hearing and examination to proceed to give Judgment and Sentence, according to the Rules and Articles of Warr, declared and appointed for the better Government of Her Majestys Forces . . . and the Powers and Limitations of a later Act of Parliament Entitled an Act for punishing officers and Soldiers that shall Mutiny or Desert . . .” The following year, Lord North and Grey was severely wounded at Blenheim, where he lost his right hand, and was later present at Malplaquet. In 1722, he was implicated in the Jacobite Atterbury plot, and spent the remainder of his life in exile. Rhythm, which she co-edited with her lover and future husband John Middleton Murry. Adam de Cardonnel served as Marlborough’s discreet 57 Chancery Lane, 16 December 1912. £975 and loyal secretary throughout his campaigns. His judgement and diplomatic skill were sufficiently well Katherine Mansfield’s first collection of short stories, regarded that he was a likely candidate to succeed In a German Pension, had been published in 1911. Her Robert Walpole as Secretary at War, but this never clever and original stories made their mark in the came to fruition. literary world, and she and Murry were able to attract Some staining to the inner horizontal fold. Remains of exceptional talents such as Rupert Brooke and D.H. guard have been removed under our direction. Lawrence to the short-lived Rhythm, which endured only from June 1911 until April 1913. Katherine Mansfield’s correspondent Edmomd Xavier 139. MARTINEAU, Harriet (1802-1876). Kapp (1890-1978) had had his first one-man show of Journalist. drawings and caricatures in this year, 1912. A staff Autograph Quotation Signed (“H. Martineau”), officer in the First World War, he was commissioned an epigram “translated from the Persian by Sir as an official war artist in 1940. William Jones”. “Will do our best about your Henry Wood [evidently a One page 4to with integral blank leaf on letterhead drawing or caricature of the conductor Henry Wood]. with an attractive engraving of a house, stream and Come just as you like on Saturday. Its not ‘dress’ – a ducks. The Knoll, Ambleside, 5 March 1855. jersey if you like. Do get the December ‘Rhythm’ – & Together with a Carte-de-Visite Photograph Signed tell us what you think of it.” (“Harriet Martineau”) showing her seated in an A group of later sketches of Sir Henry Wood by armchair, sewing. £795 Edmond Kapp, 1929-40, are in the Barber Institute of Martineau has copied out an epigram:– Fine Arts, Birmingham. “On parents’ knees, a naked, newborn child, Letters of Katherine Mansfield are rare. Weeping thou sat’st, while all around thee smiled. So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, 138. MARLBOROUGH, John Churchill, Duke Calm thou may’st smile while all around thee weep.” of (1650-1722). General. Harriet Martineau wrote tirelessly on the issues Document Signed (“Marlborough”), appointing which concerned her, feminism, social commentary, Lord North and Grey, Colonel of Her Majesty’s political economy, in spite of recurring ill-health. Although she had 142. MASSENA, André, Duc de Rivoli and ostensibly been Prince d’Essling (1758-1817). French Marshal. cured through Letter Signed (“Massena”) to [Paul] Barras, sending mesmerism some him a letter [not present] from a priest in Grasse, years before, in 1855 she began to proving unidentified allegations concerning priests suffer with heart and emigres. trouble, which 1 page folio in French, Padua, 24 fructidor an 5 [10 no doubt turned September 1797]. £750 her attention Trans: “I am passing to you, Citizen Director, a letter once again to her from a priest in Grasse named Pagan, you will see that own mortality. In the purported allegations of the emigres and rebellious fact, she lived for priests who have returned are now a certainty . . . Will another twenty this plague sully the soil of liberty for much longer? years, during and will we have met all these dangers, run all these which time she risks, borne all this exhaustion purely for the benefit completed her of these gentlemen? Certainly not, Citizen Director, autobiography. sooner or later, the Directoire will take vigorous Traces of measures to drive away these traitors to the nation, m o u n t i n g these intolerant and perfidious fanatics. remain, but these I beg you, Citizen Director, to rest assured that my are nevertheless a esteem and affection for you will always remain particularly attractive pair of items. constant.” Massena had become a national hero in France after 140. MASCAGNI, Pietro (1863-1845). Italian his military triumphs in northern Italy and into Composer, best known for his Cavalleria Rusticana. Austria, and he was nearing Vienna when a truce was Cabinet photograph Signed and inscribed (“Ricordo declared. Upon his return to Paris, he was feted by the della tournèe di Concerti – 16 ott. – 24 Nov. 1899 crowds and by the Directoire. The latter, led by Barras, went so far as to consider him as a useful counterpoise P Mascagni”) an attractive image of the composer to Bonaparte, whose independence and obvious seated in an armchair in profile. ambitions gave them cause for concern. Image size 7¼ x 5½ ins, in a black and gilt wooden A wonderful letter, in excellent condition. frame, in total 10½ x 8½ ins, Milan, 1899. £245 A handsome and atmospheric image. The photograph 143. MASSENET, Jules (1842-1912). French has had minor water damage, and is slightly yellowed, but is nevertheless in sound condition. Composer. Printed vocal and piano score for his opera Manon, signed and inscribed (“a mon ami Delaborde son 141. MASEFIELD, John (1878-1967). Poet. affectioné J. Massenet Paris /92”). Autograph Letter Signed (“J. Masefield”) to a Mrs. 402 pages large 4to, original wrappers preserved, Jacks, 1 page 8vo, Hill Crest, Boar’s Hill, Oxford, re-bound in marbled boards, brown calf spine, n.d. [after 1917, when Masefield moved to Boar’s Paris, 1892. £425 Hill]. £55 Elie-Miriam Delaborde, to whom this volume is Masefield asks “Would you let me see the Riquet play inscribed, was a pianist, minor composer, and socially some day? We cannot do many plays here in the year, well-connected, a friend of Manet, Turgenev and Bizet. but I would to see Riquet, if you have a copy.” Massenet’s 1884 opera Manon, a great success at the The poet is probably referring to F.R. Planché’s Riquet time, is today the most frequently performed of this with the tuft, a play based on a fairy tale by Perrault prolific composer’s works. and first performed in 1836. Masefield was deeply The front endpaper has become detached from the involved with the drama and had his own theatre at binding, but this handsome volume is otherwise in Boar’s Hill. very good condition. 144. MASSENET, Jules (1842-1912). French 146. MILHAUD, Darius (1892-1974). French Composer. Composer. Printed Score of his opera Cendrillon, signed and Les Eumenides, the last part of the trilogy of opera- inscribed on the half-title (“Mon cher Luigini, Voila oratorios based on the Oresteia of Aeschylus, the cette partition qui te doit tant; l’autorite de ton nom, French translation by Paul Claudel and the music ton talent, ton amitié étaient les surs garants de by Darius Milhaud. l’admirable execution de cet ouvrage. ton vieil ami The score 403 pages, piano transcription by the reconnaissant, Massenet Paris, mai 1899”). composer for four hands and voices, folio, grey 378 pages 4to, bound in red roan-backed boards, wrappers with a russet spine, Au Menestrel, Paris, the composer, title and date of first performance (24 1927, in the original grey box with title on the May 1899) in gilt on the spine. £395 spine. The dedi- Signed and inscribed on the title page “Au Trio cation, to the Clignencourt / (Hencher Clement, Caby, Dautun) / c o n d u c t o r Bien amicalement / D Milhaud” £375 of the work, The Eumenides was the third successful collaboration M.A. Luigini, between Milhaud and Claudel. Despite differences translates as in background and temperament, the composer and “Here is the playwright remained friends. score which Small tear at head of front paper wrapper. owes so much to you; the i n f l u e n c e 147. MILHAUD, Darius (1892-1974). French of your Composer. name, your Orchestral Score of his ballet Les Songes, signed talent, your and inscribed on the title page (“à mon cher Clerk f r i e n d s h i p , Souvenir affectueux Milhaud”). w e r e 80 pages small 4to, n.d. [but probably late 1930s]. guarantees of the admirable £225 execution of Les Songes, which choreographed this work. for his company to Milhaud’s score, Your old, had its premiere grateful, friend in June 1933. The . . .” company, backed The original by the eccentric pictorial wrappers have been retained within the later and wealthy binding, and the cast list and list of scenes appear Edward James, encircled in splendid art nouveau decoration. lasted less than a year. During that At the top of the cast page is a manuscript note year, however, indicating that this score was used at the dress the company rehearsal on 20 May 1899. was seen by Lincoln Kirstein, 145. MELBA, Dame Nellie (1861-1931). who persuaded Australian Soprano. Balanchine to Postcard Photograph Signed on the mount (“Nellie move to New Melba”), showing the soprano wearing a glittering York and offered white gown standing by a pillar, or possibly the him the financial backing to found a school and later a company, which proscenium arch of a stage. was to become New York City Ballet. c. 5½ x 3½ ins, mounted on cream paper, 11¼ x 8½ ins. in all. £195 The ballet was not revived after that short-lived season. A striking image. Melba made her debut as Gilda in Slightly worn and sunned at the spine, but otherwise Rigoletto in 1887, and maintained her position as the in very good condition. leading colaratura of her day for nearly 40 years. 148. MILHAUD, Darius (1892-1974). French small volume on Liberty, of which I believe there is Composer. a German translation, and which would probably discourage your Society from publishing another in Printed Score for his Concerto for piano and your publication. But perhaps the work in question in orchestra, signed and inscribed (“à Edward Clark your letter might be my Address upon my accession as pour ses ondes! Milhaud”) on the title page. Honorary Rector of the University of Saint-Andrews, 54 pages 4to, wrappers, in a specially made light which deals solely with education. If you would like grey box with a reproduction of the cover of the to clear up my doubts, I would have great pleasure in score, and a reproduction of the title page with the sending you a copy of one or the other work. . .” inscription on the inside cover of the box. Deiss, Mill’s progressive views on women’s rights were Paris, 1934. £260 heavily influenced by his relationship with Harriet This is Milhaud’s Piano Concerto No. 1, written in 1933. Taylor. After their marriage, they were in the habit of spending part of every year in Avignon for her health, and Mill continued to do so after her death in 1859. 149. MILLAIS, John Everett (1829- 1896). Artist. 151. MONTGOMERY, Bernard, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976). Field- C a r t e - d e - v i s i t e Marshal. Photograph Signed (“J.E. Millais”), a A collection of General Montgomery’s Personal head and shoulders Messages to the Eighth Army, 19 leaves folio, bound portrait showing the in black leather with “Eighth Army” and its badge artist, wearing an embossed in gilt on the front cover. overcoat, looking to Inscribed and signed “To: Kirkie / in memory of our his left. days in the Eighth Army / B.L. Montgomery Field- 4 x 2½ ins, with Marshal / Berlin / 21 – 8 – 45”. the imprint of the Together with a typed copy of Montgomery’s London Stereoscopic message to the Eighth Army of 12 January 1943, & Photographic with an autograph note signed at the foot “Omitted Company, n.d. £295 in error from the bound copy of messages / B.L. Montgomery Field-Marshal / 3 – 9 – 45” £900 The artist appears to be relatively youthful in this portrait, which was probably taken when he was in The collection of printed Personal Messages from his 30s or 40s. Signed photographs of Millais are very Montgomery to the Eighth Army commences with his rare. message dated 23 October 1942 (“1. When I assumed command of the Eighth Army I said that the mandate was to destroy Rommel and his Army, and that it “A SMALL VOLUME ON LIBERTY . . .” would be done as soon as we were ready. 2. We are 150. MILL, John Stuart (1806-1873). Philosopher ready NOW.”) and ends with his farewell to the Eighth Army on 1 January 1944 (“1. I have to tell you, with and Reformer. great regret, that the time has come for me to leave the Autograph Letter Signed (“J. Stuart Mill”) to Doctor Eighth Army. I have been ordered to take command Edward Lowenthal, referring to several of his of the British Armies in England . . . When the heart published works, including On Liberty. is full it is not easy to speak. But I would say this to 3½ pages 8vo in French, Avignon, 24 January 1868. you: “YOU have made this Army what it is. . .”“). Each £1800 message bears Montgomery’s facsimile signature. Trans: “I take the liberty of writing to you in French in The inserted typed message has minor folds at the reply to your letter of the 10th. If by any chance I have edges where it has slipped out of the volume, but is misunderstood your letter, the fault will lie in my lack otherwise in good condition. of practice with German cursive script. The dedicatee of the volume is General Sir Sidney There is no collection of my speeches. Only two have Chevalier Kirkman (1895-1982), known as “Kirkie”, been printed separately, one on the political suffrage Montgomery’s artillery commander at El Alamein of women, the other on personal representation; and I and afterwards commander of the 50th Northumbrian send you copies of each of these by the same post. I have division at the invasion of Sicily. written nothing “uber die Freiheit der Wissenschaft” [on the freedom of science]. I have published a Anne of Green Gables in 1908, L.M. Montgomery created one of the best-loved heroines of young girls throughout the English-speaking world. The story of the red-haired orphan who, in subsequent books, becomes a teacher who writes romantic stories in her leisure time, echoed Montgomery’s life. Sent to live with her grandparents as a small child after her mother’s death, she too eventually became a teacher, and had several suitors before finally marrying the Presbyterian minister, Ewan Macdonald. “It was very nice of you to send me such a kind letter and I assure you I appreciate it. I am getting letters from Australia at the rate of over fifty a week and this deluge has been going on ever since the publication of my address in an Australian paper. So you will realize that I, who am a tremendously busy 152. MONTGOMERY, Bernard, Viscount person – being the wife of a minister and the mother Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976). Field- of two boys – can answer them all, if at all, only with Marshal. a very short note of acknowledgment and that it is Photograph Signed (“Montgomery of Alamein”), a quite impossible to send hundreds of pictures – as large black and white image showing Montgomery almost every letter asks me. standing as he boards an official open-top car, I am very glad my stories have given you pleasure. alongside an unidentified official. Prince Edward Island is a very lovely place. I lived 10 x 11¾ ins, n.p., n.d. [but after January 1946]. there until my marriage and since this have lived in £395 Ontario. I’m sure your tortoise is interesting. I have two very nice pussy cats for pets – “Paddy” and The location is unidentifiable, but the very flat “Good Luck”. . .” landscape and cobbled road would seem to indicate northern France or Belgium. Montgomery wears his It would appear to be a safe assumption that trademark beret and thick overcoat, and has signed in Montgomery replied, however briefly, to most, if not a clear portion of the image above his head. all, her fan letters. It is therefore surprising that her letters are so rare, and this is the first we have been able to offer. 153. MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud (1874- 1942). Author of the Anne of Green Gables books. Autograph Letter Signed (“L.M. Montgomery Macdonald”) to Patty Benfield, a young admirer in Australia. 2½ pages small 4to together with the autograph envelope (stamp removed), The Manse, Norval, 30 April 1930. £1250 With the publication of 154. MURAT, Joachim (1771-1815). King of 156. MOORE, Henry (1898-1986). English Naples. French Marshal. Sculptor. Letter Signed (“J Murat”) as Commander of the Postcard Reproduction Signed (“Henry Moore”) of Army of the Midi in the Cisalpine region, to General his large sculpture Standing Figure of 1950, signed Solignac, announcing that a peace treaty had been by him at the lower left, to the side of the image. signed with Britain. 5¾ x 4 ins, undated. Published by Verlagsarchiv, 1 page folio in French on letterhead showing an Berlin. £200 attractive small vignette of a trophy, with integral In this impressive black and white photograph, address leaf bearing the remains of red wax seal, Moore’s large two-headed figure is shown in close up Milan, 16 vendemiaire an 10 [8 October 1801]. £995 in an outdoor setting, against a background of sky and Trans: “I hasten to let you know, dear General, that clouds. the peace with England has just been signed on 9 vendemiaire, by Lord Malverbury [sic] and Citizen 157. MUNNINGS, Alfred James (1878-1959). Otto. I ask you to communicate this happy news to all Artist, especially known for his paintings of horses. in the town under your command and to the troops.” Photograph Signed (“Alfred Munnings What a Murat appears to think that the British signatory of the mug!!!”), showing the artist at a racecourse, wearing treaty was Lord Malmesbury. In fact, when Pitt was a top hat, his binoculars case slung over his shoulder, replaced as Prime Minister by Henry Addington in 1801, Lord Hawkesbury undertook negotiations with standing at the rails and holding a race card, two the French. The French negotiator Count Otto, who had out of focus race horses in the background. served as France’s envoy to the newly-independent 9¾ x 8 ins., n.d. £425 United States before returning to revolutionary France, A very suitable image of Munnings. The photograph had worked tirelessly to bring the negotiations to has been glued to a now slightly messy mount, but fruition. The Preliminary was signed this could easily be hidden by sympathetic framing. by Hawkesbury and Otto on 1 October 1801, and when news of Napoleon’s ratification of the agreement reached London, enthusiasm was immense. However, 158. NANSEN, Fridtjof (1861-1930). Norwegian the agreement was only an armistice, and negotiations explorer and humanitarian. for a final peace settlement moved to Amiens in early Postcard Signed (“Aug 1896 / Fridtjof Nansen”), 1802. The , which ended hostilities, printed in monochrome and blue highlights, with was signed in that city on 25 March 1802. portraits of Nansen and his twelve crew members Having distinguished himself at Marengo a year on the Fram, as well as a polar scene with the Fram earlier, Murat was appointed Commander of the in the background. Nansen has signed boldly on Observation Corps in December 1800, with a mission the front of the card, in a white portion below the to capture the from the Neapolitans. polar scene. Murat assumed the title of Commander in Chief of the 3½ x 5½ ins. £495 Army of Naples and he remained in command of the troops of the Cisalpine Republic for two years. General Solignac, the recipient of the letter, had assisted Murat on the night of the coup d’état of 9 November 1801 which brought Napoleon to power. Some staining, not affecting the text.

155. MOORE, Henry (1898-1986). English Sculptor. Coloured Postcard Reproduction Signed (“Henry Moore”) of his elmwood sculpture Reclining Figure of 1939, signed by him at the upper right, above the image. 4 x 6 ins. £220 In August 1896 Nansen finally arrived at Vardø in The reclining figure was one of Moore’s favourite northern Norway at the conclusion of his three- subjects and he created versions in marble, cast bronze, year expedition to reach the North Pole. Although and, as in this case, elmwood. This large sculpture is unsuccessful in his ultimate aim, he had travelled on a plinth against a terracotta background. It is now further north than any previous explorer, and upon in the Detroit Institute of Arts. his return to Christiania in September he was greeted as a hero. Bonaparte announced to the French Directoire that French forces had been greeted with cheers by the populace. Baraguay d’Hilliers remarked, perhaps more realistically, that the dominant emotion in Venice was one of fear. The , signed in October of that year, divided the territory between France and Austria. At the start of the campaign, Napoleon had declared that he would be a veritable Attila to Venice. But for the Venetians perhaps the most antagonistic aspect of Napoleon’s victory was the shameless looting which took place, as pictures by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese made their way to Paris and finally, worst of all, the horses of St. Mark’s. The removal of the horses in December of that year led to widespread riots. Trans: “The march of the three Tyrolian divisions into Germany has left Italy uncovered. The treachery of the Venetians has whipped up the inhabitants, it is imperative we take measures to guard our rear and restore order. In Italy we have General Victor’s division, which consists of 5,000 men. The garrisons at Mantua, Verona and Portolegnano and Adda make up a corps of 5,000 men; the Lombard legion at Bologna makes another corps of 3,000 men. I have given the necessary instructions to General Kilmaine, who I have entrusted with the general Command, but I think it essential that you go with your division in order to protect Victor’s division, the passage of our convoys, and crush the Venetians. If they dare make any more trouble, it is my intention that you replace General Kilmaine should he “CRUSH THE VENETIANS” become so ill that he can no longer assume command. 159. NAPOLEON I (1769-1821). of the The 63rd to the 79th half brigades must be between French. Podernone and Vilhac. Leave with the 8th Regiment Letter Signed (“Bonaparte”) as General in Chief of of Dragoons and bring these demi-brigades together the Army of Italy to General Baraguay d’Hilliers, at Ozopo and St. Daniel, holding the bridge at Tagliamento. Bring, also, the 5th of line and the giving him extensive instructions about troop battalion of the 58th, together at this point. Once there, movements and measures he is to take in dealing communicate with all the commanders we have from with the insurrection in Venice. Clagenfurth, with General Guilhaume who commands 3 pages folio in French, with a vignette of victory at Palme Nuova and with the commander of the city crowning the French Republic with a crown of of Edine, in order to discover the movements of the laurels, Graz, 22 Prairial an 5 [10 June 1797]. Venetians. . . £4750 Inform Citizen Lallemagne in Venice of your arrival, The year 1797 saw the end of a millenium of taking care to inflate your forces, and tell him that you independence for the Venetian Republic. Venice’s have come to bring back Mr. and Mrs. Venetians into fleet had been severely depleted and, caught in the line. midst of the merciless war between Republican If Citizen Lallemand has left Venice, if you discover France and Imperial Austria, Venice surrendered that the war against the Venetian troops has already to the French with humiliating speed in May 1797. started on land . . . close and disarm the Venetian signature. garrison and make use of both terror and gentleness The Count of St. Marsan, a native of Turin, had come when bringing the country between the Isouzo and to Napoleon’s attention whilst the Directory was the Brenta under the rule of the Republic. negotiating with the King of Sardinia. The . . . I have sent orders to General Kilmaine in the first came under French control in 1809, and Napoleon place to bring our business with the Venetians to soon appointed this capable negotiator Minister a conclusion, by force if that is the only means. . . I Plenipotentiary to Berlin, which was then enjoying have told him to move Victor’s division in the camp a brief respite from French occupation. In 1813, St. of Castelnovo in order to protect our communications Marsan employed his diplomatic skills in an attempt with Italy and for the safety of our major routes in all at drawing Prussia into a firm alliance with France, but eventualities. to no avail. Prussia was soon part of the Sixth Coalition A corps of Tyrolians and enemies might yet attempt and an important force at the . to come through Cadore, Bellune, Feltre and through The document is very slightly dusty, particularly at the gorge of the Trenta. We must therefore protect our the edges, but this does not seriously detract from its communications on that front. very attractive appearance. . . . if General Kilmaine, having left General Victor at Castelnuovo, did not need you, you would remain at Ozopo until the new order in order to protect our communication . . . You will take care to write to me every day so that, once the moment arrives, I will give you the order to rejoin the army. Write frequently to General Kilmaine. . .” The Irish-born General Kilmaine, popularly known as “Brave Kilmaine” had served in the French army since 1794 and fought at Jemmapes. In 1796, he was appointed Commander of Northern Italy. His most memorable achievement, however, (if it can be called an achievement) would come a year after this letter, as one of the chief planners of the 1798 attempted French invasion of Ireland, which ended with the catastrophic capture of Wolfe Tone. In 1799, his health broken by frequent campaigns, he succumbed to chronic dysentery.

160. NAPOLEON I (1769-1821). Emperor of the French. Document Signed (“Napoleon”), appointing the Count of St. Marsan Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Berlin, with powers to “negotiate, conclude and sign such Treaties, articles and conventions . . . as he deems fit.” 1 page large folio with integral blank leaf and paper seal, the heading in elaborate calligraphy, Breskens, 24 September 1811. £4250 An impressive, very elaborate and decorative document, with an excellent 161. NAPOLEON I (1769-1821). Emperor of the your corps. The second and third companies will join French. you during the course of April. – . . . The principal part of your corps will be the 20 marine artillery battalions. Letter Signed (“Np”) to the Duc de Raguse [Marshal It is essential to have good colonels and good majors Marmont], giving him detailed instructions to command them; and that the division generals and concerning the training and deployment of his brigade generals put them through their paces. Those troops on campaign in Germany. regiments are surely very inexperienced and have 2½ pages 4to in French, Trianon, 17 March 1813. very little cohesion.” £2950 Marmont had proved an effective opponent to Napoleon was known for his unceasing attention to Wellington in the Peninsula, but in July 1812 he every detail. Writing to one of his most experienced sustained a severe wound to an arm, which left him field commanders, Marshal Marmont, he exhibits that out of action for many months. He was fortunate, quality to perfection. however, to have escaped the debacle that was Trans: “I expect that you will have arrived at Mayence Napoleon’s Russian campaign of 1812. By March 1813, on the 20th. Your four divisions should arrive between Napoleon was confronted by a coalition of enemies 20 March and 10 April. – You will join with Bonnet’s which included not only Russia and Austria, but also division between Hanau and Fulde, a day[‘s march] Prussia. Sweden, led by one of Napoleon’s former from Hanau. . . You will join with Campans’ division Marshals, Bernadotte, would join them a few months in the region of Darmstadt or of Nassau. – Your third later. Less than two months after this letter, on 2 May division is commanded by General Frederiks and the 1813, Marmont would lead the 6th corps at the battle fourth by General Teste. As both of these generals are of Lutzen. The French victory was hard won and newly division generals, it would be appropriate to would prove of little value. In October of that year, the have one march with Bonnet’s division and the other French would suffer their most catastrophic defeat to with Compans’ division, so that there is always an date at Leipzig. experienced general who can take command of the two divisions, and there not be any arguments about 162. NELSON, Horatio, Lord (1759-1805). Victor who commands. Your artillery must be organised of Trafalgar. in the first fortnight of April, at least with the basic Autograph Letter Signed (“Nelson & Bronte”) provisions. – You must have four ambulances made up of six caissons each, with enough supplies to to Major “Baynton” [probably a connection of care for 10,000 wounded and a fifth one at your Sir Henry Bayntun, Captain of the Vanguard Headquarters – which comes to 30 caissons. The first at Trafalgar], offering to take his son, a young company of the battalion of military equipment which midshipman, on board the Victory. will supply these five ambulances must be attached to 1 page 4to [Piccadilly or Merton], 17 March 1803. £5500 A warm letter, written during the short-lived Peace of Amiens, which was to end in May when Nelson was appointed Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean and hoisted his flag on the Victory. At this period Nelson received many applications to serve with him, most of which he felt he had to refuse. “Your son is [a] very fine Lad and unless you had rather have him in a smaller ship he shall be in the Victory which is to bear my flag. She will be commissioned if these preparations go on in about a fortnight, and even if I should not be on the spot Mr Carter[?] will ensure his reception.” The “Lad” in question was Benjamin Baynton, who indeed became a midshipman on the Victory and eventually rose to the rank of Commander. Lightly browned, but clear and legible throughout. Signs of former framing at edges, not affecting legibility. Verso endorsed “Lord Nelson” with some calculations and two small heads drawn in profile by an unknown hand. 163. NELSON, Horatio, Lord (1759-1805). Victor Nelson wrote to Sir Alexander Ball that he had heard of Trafalgar. a rumour that the French fleet was about to break out of Toulon and that he was ready for them. Autograph Letter Signed (“Nelson & Bronte”) to Major-General [William] Villettes, Commander Mounted and framed in a gilt wooden frame with two of the British troops in , expressing concern modern reproduction gilt , the top one showing the figure of , the lower a profile portrait of about deserters from one of his ships. Nelson. 1 page 4to with integral blank leaf, Victory, 25 November 1804. £7500 164. NEWCASTLE, Sir Thomas Pelham- Holles, Duke of (1693-1768). Prime Minister 1754-56. Document Signed (“Holles Newcastle”), and the other Lords Justices, “W. Cant.” [William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury], “Parker C.” [the Lord Chancellor, George Parker, later Earl of Macclesfield], “Kingston P.”, [Evelyn Pierrepont, Duke of Kingston upon Hull, Lord Privy Seal], “Kent, C.P.S.” [Henry Grey, Duke of Kent, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal], “Roxburghe” [John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe] and “J. Craggs” [James Craggs the elder, later implicated in the South Sea Bubble scandal], a warrant for paying Captain Clealand 2/6 per day out of the half pay of Major Bucknall. 3 pages folio, the Cock Pitt [the Treasury offices, London], 28 May 1719. £495 The Lords Justices were evidently called upon to decide a relatively minor dispute. Captain Clealand had “upon a Misunderstanding that happened between his Colonel and him in the Year 1709 he was first suspended, and afterwards without Tryal In 1804 Nelson, as Commander-in-Chief in the Superceeded . . . Major Edward Bucknall who Mediterranean, was engaged in blockading the French succeeded him was to pay him Two Hundred Pounds fleet at Toulon and harassing as much as possible any as a Consideration for his Commission . . . and altho’ ships which managed to break out. He also had to Major Bucknel . . . is now upon the Half Pay of that protect Gibraltar and Malta from attack. He longed for Regiment is not yet payd.” The justices ruled that half home leave, but any hope of an early return to Merton of Major Bucknell’s pay should go to Captain Clealand was banished in December by the news that Napoleon until he has paid Clealand the two hundred pounds had forced Spain to declare war on England. In fact with interest. Nelson was not to set foot in England again until Some slight discolouration at the fold on the last page, August 1805. and minor tears at the folds have been repaired under “I send you a letter from Capt. Adair of the Marines our direction. The document is otherwise in very good [Robert Adair, who was to be killed at Trafalgar] condition. respecting four Recruits who deserted from the The “Lords Justices” of this document were not Elizabeth, if they should have enter’d into any Corps lawyers, as would usually be implied by this term. In at Malta I shall thank you to order them to be deliverd 1719 George I paid an extended visit to Hanover, and to the Madras for a passage to the fleet. Nothing from on his departure appointed thirteen “Lords Justices”, England it is very extraordinary nor from Gib[ralta]r chosen from the leading political figures of the time, to since Octr. 22nd.” excercise power in his absence. The Duke of Newcastle Some wear and tearing along horizontal folds has been although only twenty-five, was already influential professionally repaired under our direction. No text is because of his vast landholdings, which enabled him lost, but Nelson’s signature has been slightly affected. to control several constituencies. Not in Nicolas and apparently unpublished. In a published letter of the same date, 25 November, 165. NEHRU, to the cantons of Jawaharlal (1889- Switzerland, occupied 1964). First Prime the fortress at Zurich, Minister of India. and offered the senate at France’s protection. Large Photograph Negotiations followed, Signed (“Jawaharlal and the Act of Mediation Nehru January 1958”), signed by all the cantons an atmospheric in Paris in February of the black and white following year abolished head and shoulders the centralized state and photograph, taken restored Switzerland in profile, signed by to a loose federation of Nehru on the white cantons. border below the The letter is very slightly image. frayed and browned at 12 x 10 ins, n.p., the head, but is otherwise January 1958. £575 in very good condition.

167. OLIVIER, 166. NEY, Michel, Laurence (1907-1989). duc d’Elchingen Actor. and Prince de la Moskova (1769- Fine glossy black and 1815). French Marshal. white three-quarter length photograph of Olivier and in a scene from Richard III, signed Letter Signed (“Ney”) to the Minister of War, clearly by both (“Laurence Olivier” and “Claire B”) General Berthier, informing him that troops of the on a light portion of the image. 6th Light Infantry brigade had arrived at Geneva c. 10 by 8 ins. Richard III was made in 1956; this on the 22nd of that month. photograph is a modern reprint signed in later life. 1 page folio in French on printed letterhead “Ney £150 General de Division, inspecteur Gral. de Cavalerie”, Geneva, 24 vendemiaire an 11 [16 October 1802]. A still from the famous seduction scene in which Together with a closely-written manuscript Olivier’s Richard holds a reluctant Lady Anne from biographical sketch of Marshal Ney, probably behind, murmuring into her ear. Richard III may written shortly after his death, 12 pages 4to in well be the most intelligently crafted of all Olivier’s French. £1250 Shakespearean films, in which he created a Richard against which all later performances of the part must Trans: “I have the honour of informing you, Citizen be measured. This is one of the most attractive signed Minister, that the Bataillon of the 6th half-brigade photographs of Olivier – and Bloom – we have been of light infantry arrived here on the 22nd and the able to offer. squadron of the 20th cavalry regiment arrived today, 24th inst. I have just received your despatch dated 19th inst., in which you announce the arrival at Pontarlier 168. PAGET, Henry, Earl of Uxbridge, later of the 2nd Cavalry regiment as well as the arrival at Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854). Second-in- Geneva of Generals Séras and Eppler who will serve command at Waterloo. in the Corps whose command has been entrusted to Autograph Letter Signed (“Anglesey”) to “My me.” dear Stovin” [Sir Frederick Stovin, who had served Even though Europe was mostly at peace after the in the Peninsula and was later wounded at the signing of the Treaty of Amiens, Switzerland was in battle of New Orleans], offering to be “questioned a state of unrest with widespread rebellion against & crossquestioned” by an officer employed in the , a French-imposed attempt at a “interesting work” on the . centralised Swiss state. Geneva was not part of this new 4 pages 8vo, Hampstead, 14 November 1835. state, having already been annexed by France. By the £395 time Ney arrived in Geneva, the unrest had developed into civil war. The day after this letter, on 17 October Henry Paget, later Marquess of Anglesey, lost a leg 1802, Ney was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Waterloo while next to the Duke of Wellington, famously remarking “By God, Sir, I’ve lost my leg!” The twenty-four stories in this volume include her O. “I had a letter from Curran of the 7th [Hussars, of Henry Prize story “Big Blonde”, dialogues such as which Anglesey was Colonel] informing me that a Box “The Sexes” and “Here we Are”, and the soliloquy containing the Correspondence would leave Dublin “A Telephone Call”, all written with her characteristic on that day & wd. be sent from Liverpool . . . It is not irony and wit. arrived & I feel nervous about it. . . I have been very idle about the Waterloo business. I know I shall do 170. PARKER, Dorothy (1893-1967). American nothing on it upon Paper. It is so difficult to recollect Writer details at this distance of time, & to determine what might be useful for the purpose of Elucidation & The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker, 202 pages, what superfluous. But if the ingenious Officer who is 8vo, grey cloth, decorated endpapers, dust jacket, employed in the interesting work would at any time Modern Libary, Random House [1959]. call upon me, I would for his accommodation readily Signed and inscribed on the verso of the half-title: submit to be questioned & crossquestioned. Old “For my friend Martha [McKelway] – my good, Thornhill is to be with me at Christmas, & if then, or good friend – Dorothy Parker”. £475 any time within a fortnight after that time, you & he This volume contains 193 poems, which range from would present yourselves at B.D., you wd. be les biens short witticisms to technically accomplished sonnets. venus . . . I have been a good deal surprised by some The mood is generally wry, but Parker does not shrink late events.” A scrawled postscript informs Stovin that from expressing emotion. The brief “Unfortunate “The Box is arrived”. Coincidence” gives the flavour of her work: “By the Lord Anglesey had served as Lord Lieutenant time you swear you’re his / Shivering and sighing / of Ireland until 1833, a post which, in its early And he vows his passion is / Infinite, undying – / Lady, days, brought him into conflict with his former make a note of this: / One of you is lying.” commander, the Duke of Wellington. It seems likely that the “late events” which surprised him concerned events in Ireland, particularly as he was expecting 171. PAVLOVA, Anna (1881-1931). Ballerina. correspondence from Dublin. P o s t c a r d Photograph 169. PARKER, Dorothy (1893-1967). American S i g n e d Writer. ( “ A n n a Pavlova”), The Collected Short Stories of Dorothy Parker, 362 showing the pages, 8vo, dancer in a dark blue pose from c l o t h , her most decorated famous role, endpapers, The Dying dust jacket, Swan. M o d e r n c. 5½ x 3½ L i b r a r y , ins., signed R a n d o m a c r o s s H o u s e , the white [1942]. portion at Signed and the foot of inscribed on the card. the verso of £240 the half-title: “To Martha [McKelway] – One of the few people on earth who gets better and better with The card has the years and years – Dorothy Parker”. £475 e v i d e n t l y been stapled into an album at one time, and the holes Dorothy Parker’s lifelong friend Martha McKelway are visible at the upper and lower margins of the card. (née Stephenson) was the wife of the New Yorker writer St. Clair McKelway, once described as “one of the twelve best reporters in New York”. 174. PEEL, Sir Robert (1788-1850). Prime Minister 1834-5 and 1841-46. Autograph Letter Signed (“Robert Peel”), as Home Secretary in Lord Liverpool’s government, to “My dear Floyd” [Peel’s brother-in-law, Sir Henry Floyd], informing him that “Julia has been this day safely brought to bed.” 1 page 4to with integral blank leaf, together with the letter cover, signed by Peel, bearing the broken red wax seal, Stanhope Road, 2 November n.y. [1824]. £260 “I am sure that it will give to you and to Lady Floyd sincere satisfaction to hear that Julia has been this day safely brought to bed. She has a 172. PAVLOVA, Anna (1881-1931). Ballerina. fine little boy – and all is going on favourably . . .” Large Photograph Signed (“Anna Pavlova”), showing the seated dancer, wearing a diaphanous Peel’s third son and fourth child, William, was born on 2 November 1824. William entered the Navy when shawl, smiling, her fingers just touching a cut glass barely in his teens, and distinguished himself by his vase. courage. He served at the siege of Sebastopol during 6 x 8 ins., boldly signed across a light portion of the the Crimean War, and later, following in his maternal image at the lower right. Photographer’s stamp of grandfather’s footsteps, in India (Julia’s father, Bassano of Dover Street on the verso. £295 General Sir John Floyd had served in the cavalry at A beautiful image, possibly taken at Pavlova’s north the capture of Seringapatam). He was wounded at the London home. relief of Lucknow, and, whilst still in India, contracted smallpox of which he died before he could return to England. 173. PARRY, John Orlando (1810-1879). Singer, There are pinhole marks at the top left of the letter, actor and comedian. which is otherwise in very good condition. John Parry’s Manual of Musical Terms, signed and inscribed on the verso of the original cover (“George 175. PEPYS, Samuel (1633-1703). Diarist and Thomas Rose from his Friend John Parry December Secretary to the Navy. 16th 1863”), rebound in dark brown roan-covered boards, preserving the original wrappers. Letter Signed (“S Pepys”) as Clerk of the Acts to the 13 pages oblong 4to, n.p., 16 December 1863. £225 Navy Board, to the Clerk of the Cheque [i.e. officer in charge] and Storekeeper at Chatham, stating that A charming and highly amusing series of sketches the Board has agreed with “Mr John Ruffhead his illustrating musical terms, starting with “Legato. Majesties anchorsmith at Chatham for the mending A smooth and connected style of fingering”, with a severall broken and at present unserviceable cartoon of a young urchin picking the pocket of a stout gentleman as he walks smoothly by. anchors” now lying at the Chatham yard, in order “to make them very good & fitt for his Majesties service.” Also signed by Admiral William Penn, father of the founder of Pennsylvania, and Colonel Middleton, Surveyor of the Navy. 1 page folio, Navy Office, 29 October 1668. £2500 A letter demonstrating the very high standard of naval administration and accountability under Pepys’ supervision. The Clerk of the Acts was an important government official, ranking as one of the principal officers of the Navy. Pepys had a handsome salary of £350 a year and official lodgings in the Navy Office building in Seething Lane. In his diary Pepys writes 176. PETER DE CORBEIL (d. 1222). Theologian and Scholastic Philosopher; Archdeacon of York. Document in his name as Archbishop of Sens, confirming an agreement to settle a dispute over tithes between the church of ‘Roseto’ and Girardus, priest of ‘Maravilla’. 1 page in Latin on vellum, c. 4¼ x 5¾ ins, the text written in an accomplished secretarial hand, n.p. [most probably Sens, Burgundy], August 1213. £975 An attractive little charter. Place names can be difficult to identify, but ‘Roseto’ is most probably Rozoy, and ‘Maravilla’, Merinville. Tithes, in effect a land tax, theoretically voluntary, were raised to support religious institutions and were often the subject of disputes. The tithes were usually paid in kind, and in this case ‘Roseto’ and ‘Maravilla’ have agreed to divide the wheat, grain and oats in question. All religious taxes we abolished in France after the Revolution. Peter de Corbeil was a canon of Notre Dame de Paris, a scholastic philosopher and master of theology at the University of Paris. In 1198 his former pupil, Pope Innocent III, appointed him archdeacon and prebendary of York. In 1200 he became Archbishop of Sens, an important ecclesiastical centre with a fine Gothic cathedral. A theological conservative, he forbade the teaching of several of Aristotle’s works and ordered the burning of works by the pantheistic philosopher David of Dinant. frankly of his colleagues on the Navy Board; the A manuscript of Peter of Corbeil’s commentary distinguished Admiral William Penn is “a false rogue on the Psalms is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. to me, and all the world besides”; Middleton however is “a most honest and understanding man.” PHILIP II AT HAMPTON COURT “. . . These are to pray and require you forthwith to deliver to ye said Mr Ruffhead the said broken and 177. PHILIP II (1527-1598). King of Spain; at present unserviceable anchors, to bring an exact husband of Mary Tudor. accompt of the weight, and also of ye several defects Letter Signed (“El Rey” – the King) as King of of each anchor and ye time of your delivery thereof to England, to the Duke of Alva, Head of the Royal him, and when he hath repaired them to receive them Household, Governor of Milan and Lieutenant and back, takeing an accompt of what he hath done to each Captain General [of the Imperial Forces in Italy], anchor, and what is the true weight thereof . . .” requiring him to comply with a letter of March On the day he signed this letter, 29 October 1668, 1554 from Philip’s father the Emperor Charles V to Pepys’ diary entry describes an attempt at court to Ferrante Gonzago, the previous Governor of Milan, lessen the Duke of York’s influence in the Admiralty. He also expresses relief at his success in placating his which is here quoted in full, requiring him to pay wife, who had caught him embracing the maid. the soldiers Diego de Zamora and Cristobal de Bajor, serving in the army in Lombardy, an annual A little browned, but clear and legible with strong stipend of 50 escudos granted for their service in signatures. Two small professional repairs at right edge, affecting one word. Turin, which had not been paid for the last four years. 2 pages folio in Spanish, the text in a good italic On 23 August, the very date of this letter, Philip and hand, with integral address leaf which has a fine Mary left Hampton Court for Greenwich Palace, impression of Philip’s armorial papered seal. Also travelling through London. On 29 August the whole signed by Philip’s secretary and adviser Gonzalo court assembled to watch Philip’s departure from Perez. The text is headed by Philip’s titles as “King Greenwich. After he had boarded his ship and gone of England and Naples and Prince of Spain, Duke below decks, it was observed that Mary, usually very reserved in public, had burst into tears. He returned of Milan.” in March 1557 for three and a half months to persuade Hampton “curt”, 23 August 1555. £3750 Mary to commit English troops to his war against France, resulting in the loss of Calais. In all, Philip spent no more than seventeen months in the country of which he was the titular king. The recipient of this letter, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Ducqe de Alva, was one of the leading generals of the and was later to be Philip’s chief minister in Spain. He had originally accompanied Philip to England as a confidential adviser. Later, as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands 1567-1573, he became infamous for his cruelty and persecution of ‘heretics’ and rebels. Philip has signed this letter in the usual Spanish manner “El Rey”, rather than with his actual name. However it is possible that the elaborate flourish at the end of the signature incorporates the initial “P”. Philip’s secretary Gonzalo Perez, who has countersigned the letter and may have written the text, was a priest and the father of the notorious Antonio Perez, later Philip’s adviser and his rival for the love of the beautiful Princess Eboli. Provenance: the collection of Roy Davids, dispersed at Bonhams in March 2011, where the letter is mistakenly dated 1556, evidently due to a misreading; the scribe has written M.D.L.V.I., but the final I is not part of the date, but a stroke denoting the end of the text. In any case, Philip was not in England in August 1556. Some minor fold splitting has been professionally repaired under our direction. One or two small brown Letters signed by Philip during his brief residence in spots, but there is no ink corrosion and the letter is in England are rare. He arrived to marry Mary Tudor clear condition with a strong signature. in July 1554, and was styled King of England until Mary’s death in 1558, although he was never crowned. 178. PIPER, John (1903-1992). Artist. His father Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, had created Philip “King” of the Spanish Autograph Letter Signed (“John Piper”) to “Dear possession of Naples before his arrival in order to Mr. Ensor”, returning “a few of the sketches for increase his prestige. Philip’s object in the marriage ‘Job’“. was to gain England’s support in Spain’s perpetual 1 page 8vo, Fawley Bottom, 6 September 1948. struggle with France, and if possible to father an heir £85 who would inherit the throne of England; his son by “I hasten on to you a few of the sketches for ‘Job’ his first marriage, Don Carlos, was then expected to which Sir K. Clark’s secretary has returned. I hope succeed to the Spanish throne. However by August they are the right kind of thing? Thank you for the 1555 Mary’s belief that she was pregnant was shown poster. It’s rather nice? & very flattering of them! I’m to be a tragic delusion. Philip, deeply unpopular off on Monday to Norfolk for ten days or so, to draw.” in England and anxious to return to his European campaigns in the knowledge that his father was Ninette de Valois’s 1931 ballet, Job, with a libretto contemplating abdication, made the decision to leave based on William Blake and music by Ralph Vaughan England, to Mary’s great grief. Williams was revived for the Royal Ballet in 1948 with new decors by Piper. 179. 181. RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939). Artist and PORTER, Illustrator. Cole (1891- Autograph Letter Signed (“Arthur Rackham”) 1964). to “My dear Heronbrand”, 1 page 8vo, Stilegate, American Limpsfield, Surrey, 3 May 1937. £375 Composer and Lyricist. Saying “I sent off Barbara’s [his daughter’s] M.S. to you some days ago. I should like to hear if you got it Photograph – I did not register it – though no doubt it would have Signed and been wiser.” i n s c r i b e d Rackham was most celebrated as the illustrator of ( “ F o r such children’s classics as Grimm’s Fairy Tales and K e n n e t h Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle. His style, angular with best and full of stylised Gothic detail, can be deliciously wishes Cole frightening. Porter”), a head and 182. RAINE, Kathleen (1909-2003). Poet. shoulders shot of the urbane composer wearing a white Autograph Letter Signed (“Kathleen Raine”) to carnation in his buttonhole, signed across a light “Dear Mr. Scott-James”, 2 pages 8vo, 6 Grotes portion of the image. Buildings, Blackheath, 7 February 1939. £95 7 x 5 ins., n.d. £750 “Are any of the enclosed poems [unfortunately not present] suitable for the London Mercury? Charles Rare. Cole Porter’s appearance is striking rather than Madge [Kathleen Raine’s former husband, poet, conventionally handsome; however, he had sufficient sociologist, and founder of Mass Observation] vanity to insist that in the Hollywood biopic of his life, forwarded to me a letter asking him for a review of Night and Day (1946), he should be played by Cary Laura Riding’s poems – apparently you never sent Grant rather than Fred Astaire, who looked much these to him, and he thought that the letter might more like him. have been intended for me, which it was not, of There are a few dusty marks on the border and the course. Incidentally, I should be very glad to have the upper right of the image which is printed on matt opportunity of reviewing Miss Riding’s poems, if you card, but the image and signature are crisp and clear. would allow me to do so . . . She was an early influence on my own poetry, 180. PUCCINI, Giacomo (1858-1924). and I should not Italian Composer. be entirely harsh.” Postcard Photograph Signed (“Giacomo A letter connecting Puccini Karlsbad(?) 1912”), showing the two of the most notable women composer in a three-quarter length pose, poets of the 20th seated on a chair, legs crossed, holding a century. The cane, his head resting on his right hand, American-born wearing a black armband. Laura Riding, the c. 5½ x 3½ ins. £495 lover of Robert Puccini wore the black armband in mourning Graves, had for his editor and publisher, Giulio Ricordi, published her who died in 1912. Puccini was by then the Collected Poems in most celebrated operatic composer of his 1938. day, but would only complete a few more works before his death, La Rondine and Il Trittico. An attractive image, with a large, clear signature in excellent condition. 183. RACHMANINOV, Sergei (1873-1943). profile, his head turned, smiling to the camera. Russian Composer. c. 5½ x 3¾ ins., photographer’s imprint on the verso P o s t c a r d of Sasha, Pall Mall, n.d. £310 P h o t o g r a p h It is likely that the photograph was taken while Signed (“Sergei Robeson was living in England during the 1930s, Rachmaninoff”), a period which saw his landmark performance as a three-quarter Othello, opposite Peggy Ashcroft, as well as his length image espousal of the cause of unemployed Welsh miners. showing the Remains of mount on the verso and a very slight composer seated crease which runs through the signature but does not on a chair, affect it. looking directly at the camera. RODIN AND BAUDELAIRE Signed against a relatively light 186. RODIN, Auguste (18401917). French portion of his leg. Sculptor. c. 5¼ x 3½ ins., Autograph Letter Signed (“Rodin”) to Monsieur n.d. £595 Deschamps, accepting the commission to execute “the monument for Baudelaire.” An elegant image. The photograph 1 page 8vo in French with integral blank leaf, 182 is very slightly Rue de l’Université [Paris], 18 August 1892. £1850 silvered, but the signature is clear. Trans: “I am very honoured to have been chosen to execute the monument for Baudelaire. I thank you 184. ROBERTS, Frederick Sleigh, Lord Roberts and I thank the Committee. Monsieur Rette made the of Kandahar (1832-1914). Field Marshal. proposition to me which I quickly accepted. According to the sums raised we shall see what can be done . . .” Typed Letter Signed (“Roberts F.M.”) to R.B. Winch Baudelaire had died in 1867, and the first plan seems in Edenbridge, thanking him for his “kind response to have been for a statue to be placed at his grave in to my appeal for field glasses”. the Montparnasse Cemetery. This idea was quickly 1 page 4to, Ascot, 13 October 1914. £145 abandoned, partly for want of funds, and Rodin “I write a line to thank you warmly for your kind went to work on what became a bronze portrait bust. response to my appeal for field glasses. Your glasses Completion was delayed because of work on his great will be of the greatest possible service to our Non- Balzac statue, and the bust was apparently not finally Commissioned Officers in the field. Iam completed until 1898. asked by the Commanding Officers of Units With both subjects, Rodin which are shortly expected to go to the front faced the same problem to convey their gratitude to the owners of the absence of a living of the glasses which will be distributed sitter, but dealt with it in amongst their men.” different ways. At the outbreak of the war, Lord Roberts For the Balzac statue, he was appointed commander in chief of worked from photographs the overseas forces serving in France. and portraits, but for The contribution he might have made the Baudelaire bust he to averting the blunders of the military ignored the great Nadar hierarchy during that conflict will remain photograph and the one of history’s might-have-beens; he died etching by Manet and of pneumonia in November 1914. used a draftsman named Malteste as a model. According to Rodin, 185. ROBESON, Paul (1898-1976). Malteste ressembled American Singer and Actor. Baudelaire and had the Sepia Postcard Photograph Signed (“Best characteristics he sought wishes Paul Robeson”), a half-length for the portrait: “See image showing the singer seated in the enormous forehead, swollen at the temples, dented, tormented, handsome nevertheless.” Rodin’s Secretary 1892”, “Wrote lives of Napoleon, Cromwell, intention was to go beyond mere realism and to catch Randolf (sic) Churchill etc.”, and (perhaps most the inner spirit of the poet. Baudelaire faces ahead importantly) “Won the Derby 3 times”. with rapt attention, and his eyes seem to be fixed on The photograph has become slightly pale, but the something invisible. The fact that the finished bronze signature remains clear and strong. does not in the end look particularly like Baudelaire did not concern Rodin, as he felt he had been able to capture the poet’s personality. 189. ROSSINI, Gioacchino (1792-1868). Italian Composer. We have placed with the letter an illustration of the bust, from the bronze now in the Detroit Institute of Gorgheggi e Solfeggi, Vocalises et Solfeges pour rendre Art. la Voix agile et pour apprendre a Chanter selon le Gout Moderne, Par Rossini [Trills and Vocal exercises 187. RODIN, Auguste (1840-1917). French to make the Voice supple and to learn to Sing Sculptor. according to Modern Taste, By Rossini]. 18 pages of vocal exercises, with a Postcard Photograph decorative engraved calligraphic title Signed (“Auguste page. Folio, scarlet boards stamped in gilt Rodin”) of his marble on the front cover with the name of the portrait sculpture owner Mlle Mathilde de Sassenay. Her Buste de Madame F name (probably her signature) has been [Marie Fenaille, wife written at the head of the title page. Red of Rodin’s friend leather spine with title in gilt, marbled the industrialist and endpapers. Paccini, Paris, n.d. . [c. 1835]. collector Maurice Signed by the composer (“Rossini”) at the Fenaille]. foot of the decorative title page. £575 c. 5½ x 3½ ins, clearly signed by Rodin on a A rather rare volume, with somewhat light central portion of demanding instructions in French at the the image. Undated, c. head of the first page of the score: These exercises are very necessary in order to 1908. £875 make the voice supple. They must be done This fine portrait every morning. The first time, slowly and bust of his wife was softly. The second time quickly and softly. commissioned by The third time very quickly and very loudly Maurice Fenaille and [très vite et très fort]. completed by Rodin Front cover a little scuffed, and lower right in 1907. Marie appears corners bumped. An attractive volume. totally relaxed, leaning slightly to her right, and even seems to have dozed off. The exceptional quality of the work was immediately recognised, and in 1908 the 190. ROSSINI, Gioacchino (1792-1868). Italian bust was acquired by the state and placed in the Musée Composer. du Luxembourg. Later Maurice Fenaille appears to Carte de visite photograph of the composer by have regretted the sale, and Rodin recreated another Erwin of Paris, an amiable head and shoulders version for him. portrait, inscribed and signed beneath the image Signed photographs of Rodin’s works are very rare. “Offert / a Mr Campbell Clarke / Rossini”. c. 4 x 2½ ins, laid down, and in a modern cream 188. ROSEBERY, Archibald Primrose, Earl of mount and black and gilt wooden frame, measuring (1847-1929). Prime Minister 1894-1895. in all c. 7½ x 6½ ins. Undated, but from Rossini’s appearance c. 1865. £950 Cabinet Photograph Signed (“Rosebery”), a sepia head and shoulders portrait by Lombardi & Co. of In the photograph Rossini looks self confident, Pall Mall and Brighton. prosperous and cheerful. After his early successes in 6½ x 4¼ ins, n.d. £275 Paris, Rossini retired to Italy in 1836 but returned to the French capital in 1855 and spent the rest of his life Various pencilled notes on the verso by a previous there, enjoying an agreeable existence as a celebrated collector remind us of some of Lord Rosebery’s host and gourmet. achievements, “Prime Minister 1894”, “Foreign The recipient of this photograph was the journalist The image is slightly silvered, but the signature and Campbell Clarke (1835-1902), who in 1872 became the inscription, on the light-coloured border surrounding resident correspondent in Paris of the Daily Telegraph. the image, are strong and clear. A printed label on the A connoisseur and art collector, he was an Officer of verso, no doubt indicating a previous owner of the the Légion d’’Honneur and was knighted in 1897. photograph, gives the name of Le Vicomte Ishu, the former Japanese Ambassador to France. 191. ROSSINI, Gioacchino (1792-1868). Italian Composer. 193. ROTHSCHILD, Nathan Meyer (1777- Autograph Musical Quotation Signed (“G. Rossini” 1836). Banker; founder of the Rothschild London – large bold signature), a three note chord C, E, G branch. in C major written on a ruled stave and inscribed Document Signed (“N Rothschild, contractor”), a “A Mr Ganz” [the composer, conductor and pianist Russian Loan Bond for 720 roubles or £111 Sterling. Wilhelm Ganz]. 2 printed pages folio, the recto in Russian headed 1 oblong page, c. 3 x 7½ ins, Passy de Paris, 11 by an engraved eagle, the verso in English and August 1867. £2000 French, 1 March 1822. Together with the printed, unredeemed ‘Talon’ [coupon for payment of Wilhelm Ganz (1833-1919), was born in of a interest] for the 8th period of twelve years, for 1/14 musical family and came to England as a boy. He had a long and distinguished musical career and was the March 1918 [both the ‘old style’ and ‘new style’ Professor of Singing at the Guildhall School of Music dates are given]. £400 for many years. In 1913 John Murray published his Having settled in England from Frankfurt at the informative Memoirs of a Musician, in which Ganz beginning of the 19th century, Nathan Meyer reproduces this quotation (p. 158) and explains how it Rothschild soon established a commanding and came to be written: respected position in international finance. He acted as “When I was in Paris in the exhibition year of 1867 agent for the British government and was responsible I visited Rossini at Passy. He received me very for the supply of funds to Wellington throughout civilly and in looking over my album containing the . Indeed, such was Rothschild’s the autographs of many celebrated musicians, he understanding of the importance of international signed his name at my request, under the signature events to his business that he posted an agent at Ostend of Thalberg [the composer and virtuoso pianist to await the result of the battle of Waterloo while it was Sigismund Thalberg], whom he greatly admired. In still in progress, with the result that he was reputedly looking though the names he spoke the first man of many of the artists and composers, in London whom he had known personally, in to know of very flattering terms.” Wellington’s It is evident from this account that great victory. this very attractive quotation once In the case formed part of Ganz’s album and of this bond, was cut from a larger page. It is most h i s t o r i c a l unusual to have such a direct and e v e n t s vivid account of the creation of a o v e r t o o k musical autograph. the firm of Rothschild in a manner 192. ROOSEVELT, Franklin which they Delano (1882-1945). Thirty- could not second President of the United p o s s i b l y States, 1933-45. h a v e Photograph Signed and inscribed f o r e s e e n (“For my old friend Dick Child – the final with my affectionate regards t a l o n , Franklin Roosevelt April, 1933”), for 1918, a head and shoulders portrait of r e m a i n e d the decisive looking statesman, signed by him shortly after his inauguration to his first term as President. 10 x 8 ins. £995 unredeemed, as the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 had the main mast with a large mortar. intervened and Lenin repudiated all Russian foreign This letter was issued at a critical period in the second debt in 1918. These bonds, effectively perpetual loans, Anglo-Dutch war, when Charles II was massing were very popular in Britain. a very large fleet and the joint commanders were Nathan Meyer Rothschild, the most brilliant financial aboard their flagship. The three Anglo-Dutch wars of thinker of this remarkable family, has signed along the the seventeenth centry were essentially a struggle for right hand margin towards the head of the recto. control over the seas and trade routes. While England Some wearing, as usual. Weaknesses along the centre eventually emerged as the greater world power, the horizontal folds have been professionally repaired Dutch achieved significant victories. The Four Days under our direction. War took place three weeks after the date of this letter, and although both sides claimed victory, the English lost ten ships to the Dutch four. When Prince Rupert 194. RUPERT OF THE (1619-1682). came ashore after the battle, he comlained that the Nephew of Charles I and Royalist Commander; and MONCK, George, Duke of Albemarle (1608- 1670). Parliamentary Commander who brought about the Restoration of Charles II. Letter Signed by both (“Rupert”, “Albemarle” – fine signaures), as Joint Commanders of the Fleet, to the Commissioners of the Navy [who would have included the Surveyor of Victualling, Samuel Pepys], whom they address as “My Lord [Brouncker] & Gentlemen”, stating that they have ordered the flag officers and commanders “to Man & victuall the Ketches that belonge to their respective Squadrons”, and adding in a postscript that the wishes of the Duke of York, the Lord High Admiral, should be ascertained. 1 page folio, with integral address leaf, half torn away and repaired with matching blank paper, with part of the original address panel remaining. ‘Royal Charles in the Buoy of the Nore’, 7 May 1666. £1950 “We . . . have according to your desires given out orders to the fflagge Officers and Commanders to Man & victuall the Ketches that belonge to their repective Squadrons and also nott to keepe any Supernumeraries [additional sailors] above their Complement. Wee heare nothing yett of any of the Ketches w[hic[h were to bee sent downe, . . . Since the writing of this wee have spoken with some of the fflagge Officers, & they tell us that his Royal Highness promis’t them that in regard they had nott their full number of Men they should not Man the Ketches, & therefore wee desire you will know his Royall Hign. Navy Commissioners, and in particular the victualler, pleasure before you send downe the Insructions to Pepys, had failed to keep the fleet properly supplied the pursers & Musterm[aste]rs. The Lilly having taken during the campaign. A year later, in June 1667, de a prize with wch shee passed by heere yesterday, & Ruyter led a successful raid on the Medway, burned being it will save his Ma[jes]ty [Charles II] soe much part of the English fleet at Chatham, and towed away Mony as the hiring of a Ketch wee desire you will gett the Royal Charles, pride and flagship of the Navy. The her to be sent to ye fflleete instead of a Ketch.” war ended with the Treaty of Breda in July. Ketches, originally of 50 tons or less, square rigged Overall light even browning, but clear and legible on both masts, were roughly doubled in size during throughout. Letters signed by Prince Rupert and the Charles II’s reign. They acted as tenders to the fleet Duke of Albemarle as Joint Commanders are of the and were also used as bomb vessels, armed forward of greatest rarity. 195. RUSKIN, John (1819-1900). Art Critic and Social Reformer. Autograph Letter Signed (“JR”) to “Dear Arthur”, evidently an art student whom he was advising. 1 page 8vo, Brantwood, Coniston, , n.d. [after 1872, when Ruskin moved into Brantwood]. £160 “All these blocks are very nicely done indeed I send you some more rough stuff of the same sort. You may always leave out visible accidents of scratch . . . – the lines are all meant to be clear and steady.” Ruskin had been appointed Oxford’s first Slade Professor of Fine Art in 1869, and took his teaching duties very seriously. In 1871 he established the Ruskin School of Drawing, which he generously endowed. Remains of old tape have been professionally removed from the top of the page.

196. SAINT-SAENS, Camille (1835-1921). French Composer. Printed Score for his opera Samson et Dalila, signed and inscribed on the title page (“à mon cher confrère et ami Victorin Joncières / C. Saint-Saens 1899”). 320 pages 4to bound in marbled boards with light blue cloth spine and corners, Paris, 1899. £350

Victorin Joncières was the composer of two unsuccessful Image size 5 x 3 ins, 9½ x 5½ ins in all. £450 operas, one of them based on Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompei. He later found more success as a music critic At the time, Sayers was famous for her detective in the last decades of the nineteenth century. stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. However, in the late 1930s she wrote a series of plays with a religious Samson et Dalila is undoubtedly Saint-Saens’ most theme, beginning with The Zeal of Thy House, produced successful opera, providing a memorable dramatic for the 1937 Canterbury Festival. role for a mezzo-soprano.

199. SCHWEITZER, Albert (1875-1865). 197. SALISBURY, Robert Cecil, Marquis of Humanitarian and Philosopher. (1830-1903). Prime Minister 1885; 1886-92; 1895- 1902. Fanfare for Ernest Newman, a specially bound copy of a group of essays paying tribute to the music Cabinet Photograph Signed (“Salisbury 1881”), a critic and musicologist Ernest Newman, edited half-length portrait of the statesman in profile by by Herbert van Thal, published by Arthur Barker, Mayall of Regent Street. 1955. 6½ x 4¼ ins, London, 1881. £350 192 pages 8vo, marbled endpapers, brown A fine image. In May of that year Salisbury became morocco, gilt edged, gilt titling on spine. Signed and Leader of the Opposition, following the death of inscribed in French at the head of the title page “A . Ernest Newman avec mes bonnes pensées / Albert Schweitzer / 22 Oct 1955 / London” £95 198. SAYERS, Dorothy Leigh (1893-1957). This group of tributes, or Festschrift, was published Writer; Creator of Lord Peter Wimsey. to mark Ernest Newman’s golden jubilee as a critic. Photograph Signed and inscribed (“To The Brown It includes the facsimile of a warm autograph tribute Quartet with all gratitude & kindest remembrances from Schweitzer to Newman. Schweitzer himself was Dorothy L. Sayers Canterbury 1939”) on the a very fine organist and an expert on the works of generous mount below the image, a head and Bach. shoulders portrait. 200. SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). “I was ever so glad to receive your kind letter with its Playwright. contents, so precious for me. Many, many thanks for it. I should very much like coming to England to see Autograph Postcard Signed (“GBS”) to the actress my dear friends and perhaps to conduct. But it seems Madge McIntosh, evidently a reply to her enquiry me difficult [sic] to settle it now. My visit would in that about a part in his new play. case take place next autumn. I might later on take up Half page the matter again . . .” 8vo with the The prolific Sir Granville Bantock was a near message and contemporary of Sibelius, being three years younger. address side of He is best known for his Hebridean Symphony and the the postcard on choral work Atalanta in Calydon. The two men had the verso of an met and established a close rapport at the end of 1905, image of Shaw when Sibelius made his first to England to conduct his in profile at his First Symphony and Finlandia in Birmingham. desk, writing. The years after the First World War were particularly Shaw has productive for Sibelius, with the first performances of signed in full his fifth, sixth and seventh symphonies. His last major (“G. Bernard work was the symphonic poem Tapiola (1926) followed Shaw”) on the by years of mysterious silence. white border below the “EXPEDITIONS AND SPIES” image. Malvern, 14 202. SIEGE OF HARFLEUR, 1440 S e p t e m b e r Document in the name of Edmund [Beaufort] Earl 1933. £550 of Dorset and Count of Mortain [in Normandy], “Dash it all, my dear Madge, dont you realize that the acknowledging that he has received from Pierre moment a word is breathed of a new play everyone Baille, Receiver General of Norrmandy, the sum who has ever spoken a line of mine demands a part? I of 150 livres which was spent on “chevauchees et am one: they are many: how can I answer them all, or espies” [expeditions and spies] “sent by us into even the extra special ones like you? I’m afraid there’s the marches of Picardy and elsewhere to gain nothing that would fit you this time, but if you are intelligence of the actions of the adversaries of my near 4 Whitehall Court at 5.30 on Thursday the 21st Lord the King [Henry VI] during the siege latterly you might look in.” set by us before harfleur . . .” Madge McIntosh, the original Vivie in Mrs. Warren’s 1 page oblong folio in French on vellum, written Profession in 1902, was obviously not the only actress in a good cursive secretary hand, c. 5¼ x 13 ins, 31 who had asked Shaw if there was a part for her in December 1440. £1450 his new play. In 1933, Shaw had just completed his Documents of this period referring to spies are rare. seldom performed work, On the Rocks, subtitled “A Political Fantasy in Two Acts.” This interesting document relates to an English success towards the end of the Hundred Years War, The ink of the address and the last few lines of the which actually lasted for 116 years, 1337-1453, when message has slightly blurred, possibly through damp, the English Plantagenet Kings sought to assert their but the card is clear and legible throughout. claim to the throne of France. Harfleur was the principal seaport of north-western France and was of 201. SIBELIUS, Jean (1865-1957). Finnish great strategic importance. Edmund Beaufort began Composer. the siege in April 1440, hoping to emulate the success Autograph Letter Signed (“Jean Sibelius”) to the of Henry V who had captured the town twenty-five English composer Granville Bantock, whom he years earlier on the way to Agincourt. Double lines of earthwork were dug, mines were run under the addresses as “My dear old friend”. walls, and heavy artillery was employed. A flotilla of 1 page large 8vo in English with the original ships and small boats completed the encirclement. By autograph stamped and postmarked envelope, December the garrison had surrendered and Harfleur Jarvenpaa, , 16 February 1929. £795 was back in English hands, where it remained for A warm letter, discussing the possibility of coming to nine years. (See Michael Miller The Wars of the Roses, England, “perhaps to conduct”. Chapter 34). By 1453, with the English defeated at the battle of Castillon, the War was effectively over, with Plantagenet rule confined to Calais and a small area as the ‘Hero of Acre’. When writing his Memoirs on around it. Saint Helena, the Emperor remembered him bitterly Edmund Beaufort (c.1406-1455) was the grandson of as the man who had caused his first reverse. Always John of Gaunt and a notable military commander. He sympathetic to the fate of prisoners, especially after his was known to have been the lover of Henry V’s widow own incarceration as a prisoner of war for two years in Catherine de Valois before her marriage to Owen the Temple in Paris, Smith evidently took an interest Tudor, giving rise to the suspicion that he and not in the cases here brought to his attention. Despite Owen was the father of Catherine’s elder son Edmund a successful career fighting the French, he always Tudor, and therefore the ancestor of the Tudor . remained something of a francophile and settled in Paris after the restoration of the monarchy. Somewhat creased as usual, but a document in fine clear condition, very slightly browned at the right Letter to Sidney Smith (Trans): “ . . . You are a soldier edge. The date has been written at the left upper and an Englishman, we recall with gratitude and margin in a later, probably seventeenth century, hand. esteem the manner in which we were treated by your A piece of vellum has been neatly cut away at the companions in fortune and glory, the conquerors of right beneath the text, but the document is apparently Aboukir, and in addressing ourselves to you, we trust complete. in this same generosity. If some flaws in our claims [to prisoner of war status] do not allow us to appeal to With a complete transcript and translation. your sense of justice alone, our fate depends on you and the Minister “YOUR OWN your brother, GOVERNMENT’S you alone are our BAD EXAMPLE” support here . . .” 203. SMITH, Sir William Letter from Sidney Sidney (1764-1840). Smith to the prisoners (Trans): Admiral. “ . . . Your letter Manuscript Signed (“W. of yesterday was Sidney Smith”), copies given to me this of letters by French morning on board prisoners who had been the Tiger, I hasten captured after Nelson’s on arriving on land victory at Aboukir in to at least give you August 1798 and held in the consolation of prison at Constantinople, a prompt reply, pleading for their release, knowing from long and sad experience addressed to Spencer how painful waiting Smith, British Ambassador can be in your at Constantinople and unhappy situation . Sidney Smith’s brother; to . . I have employed the Spanish Ambassador my first moments the Chevalier de Bouligny; in the attentive to the French Foreign examination [of Minister [Talleyrand] and your plea], it is to Sidney Smith himself; easier to recognise with two copies of replies from Spencer and Sidney the lack of proof [of your claim] than the rights to the Smith to the prisoners. sacred title of prisoners of war of my country. This 20 pages 4to of continuous manuscript, written title will always have its true value with me; your own in French in a neat secretarial hand, signed at the government’s bad examples do not at all influence end by Sidney Smith evidently to authenticate the me, and I do not hesitate to point out to you a way of making good the flaws which I find . . . When I have content, n. p. [Constantinople], the letters dated the best evidence . . . I hope to be able to present it to December 1798 - January 1799. £975 those on whom your fate depends . . . at least I will do Sidney Smith was at this time acting in effect as his all I can, and I say everything in saying that I suffer brother’s co-Ambassador to Turkey. Three months every hour that soldiers remain in chains . . .” later he was able to organise the defence of Acre Some light staining on first and last pages, not affecting against Napoleon’s forces, making his reputation legibility. 204. SITWELL, Osbert (1892-1969). Writer. 206. SOULT, Nicolas Jean de Dieu, duc de Autograph Letter Signed (“Osbert Sitwell”) to the Dalmatie (1769-1851). French Marshal. Mayor of Colchester, regretting that he cannot Letter Signed (“Soult”) to Monsieur Villemanzy, accept his invitation to attend the Colchester Oyster Inspector in Chief, regarding additional payments Festival. to be made to officers and soldiers who fought at 1 page 8vo, Renishaw Hall, nr. Sheffield, 3 August Ulm, Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau or Friedland. 1951. £90 1½ pages folio in French, Stettin, 16 April 1808. £295 Responding to the original invitation, Sitwell politely writes that “I am greatly honoured by your invitation Trans: “I . . . thank you for sending me the instructions to the celebrated Colchester Oyster Feast, and much which you gave regarding the distribution of regret that ill-health compels me to go abroad in the exceptional rewards accorded by the Emperor and autumn, and that therefore I am unable to accept . . .” King to officers . . . and soldiers who were at the The previous year, Sitwell had made a highly battles of Ulm, Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau or Friedland. successful visit to the United States with his sister I must mention that the instruction does not appear Edith. The handwriting here, however, is noticeably to cover all cases, nor answer the questions which the shaky. Regiments have brought up. They ask in the first place if servicemen who did not take part in any of these Two neat filing holes at the left, battles, even thought not touching the text. they were in the army, and are currently 205. SOULT, Nicolas Jean employed in some de Dieu, duc de Dalmatie service, or in hospital, (1769-1851). French Marshal. should be excluded Letter Signed (“Soult”) to from these rewards? If the soldiers who took Marshal Berthier, proposing part in one of these Captain Harlet for promotion battles, but who have to Battalion commander. since been pensioned, Annotated and initialled should be included? by Berthier “Report to the Should we exclude Emperor Al.B.” those who only re- 1 page folio in French joined afterwards? on Soult’s letterhead as Finally, there are some Commander in Chief of the Regiments (all those Camp at St. Omer, Paris, 29 of General Molitov’s frimaire an 13 [20 December division) which, 1804]. £325 although they were not present at any of these Trans: “I have the honour battles, nevertheless to present . . . a proposal for received a notice an appointment as battalion that the Emperor commander for M. Harlet, accorded them a Captain in the 64th Regiment. reward of 40,000f. This officer, who, by his merits, each, under the same his understanding of military conditions as the other matters and his devotion to Regiments. What form his work, has shown himself worthy of the praise of of distribution must we follow in these cases? . . .” Marshal Murat, governor of Paris, is likely to make The question of additional payments made to soldiers an excellent battalion commander and to justify the and officers was considered one of great importance confidence which His Majesty will deign to have in to all concerned, for obvious reasons. Apart from any him . . .” financial reward at the end of this series of campaigns, Soult had a reputation as a hard taskmaster with Soult was granted the title Duke of Dalmatia. The his men. The value of his training and his choice of granting of a title was welcome, although Soult had men was to become apparent during the Austerlitz hoped to be made Duke of Austerlitz. campaign a year later, when he was able to boast that he was virtually the only commander who had neither deserters nor laggards in his corps. 207. SOLOMON, Solomon Joseph (1860-1927). A small marginal split has been professionally Artist; pioneer in development of camouflage. repaired under our direction. Small blank lower left corner torn away, and two tiny holes at the upper left Postcard Photograph Signed (“Solomon J Solomon”) blank corner. a three-quarter length portrait of the artist standing holding an artist’s palette, signed by him on the lower white margin of the card. 209. STOCKHAUSEN, Karlheinz (1928-2007). Addressed on the verso in another hand to Dick German Composer. Cusson in Edinburgh. Printed score for his Nr. 16 Mixtur, signed and c. 5½ x 3½ ins, n.d. [but postmarked 27 May 1907]. inscribed in red ink to the British composer and £90 teacher Alfred Nieman (“Mix without being A successful portraitist and painter of biblical and afraid ohhhhhh dearrrrrrrrr Alfredo! Yours mythological scenes, Solomon published his influential [Stockhausen’s signature follows in the form of Strategic Camouflage in 1920. a rebus, consisting of a cane (in German: stock), a A good, clear image. A minor fold in the card has house with smoke coming from the chimney (in left a mark on the lower half of Solomon’s face, but German: haus) and the letters en]. it is otherwise in very good condition with a clear 82 pages folio, original wrappers re-bound in plum- signature. coloured calf with the name “A. Nieman” stamped in gold at the bottom right, n.p., n.d. £375 “I HAVE IT AT HEART TO SERVE THE CHURCH”

208. SOUTHEY, Robert (1774-1843). Poet and Critic. Autograph Letter Signed (“RS.”), to “My dear Sir” [identified in a pencil note at the head as “the God Father of one of his Children”], responding to a suggestion that he might enter the Church. 2 pages 4to, Keswick, 7 November 1820. £325 A remarkable long letter. The forty-six year old Southey, Poet Laureate since 1813, had long left behind the radicalism of his youth and had become a bulwark of order and a champion of established institutions. Devoted to the Church of England, in 1824 he published The Book of the Church, a history of Christianity in England and a defence of the established Church. As far as we are aware, no suggestion that Southey should himself become a clergyman has hitherto been known. “. . .Time & change have brought my opinions so nearly to the standard of the Church, that there would be no obstacle to prevent my entering it on that score. Stockhausen’s pioneering work, written for orchestra But there are insuperable ones without it. I have it at and live electronics, had its premiere in 1965. The heart to serve the Church, which I can do with much visual appearance of the score presents a radical greater effect as a layman, – & which I should in great departure from the works of previous centuries. measure incapacitate myself from doing, if I entered it with the purpose of serving myself – which of course 210. STOCKHAUSEN, Karlheinz (1928-2007). would be the motive attributed to me . . . But that is not German Composer. all. My habits are now fixed, sedentary, & to a certain degree slothful. – but they suit my disposition both Copy of “Feedback” signed and inscribed in red of body & of mind. I have literary works planned, or pencil on the front cover (“To Julie Lawson cordially (many of them) in prospect which will require more K. Stockhausen”), in a specially made white box, years of life to compleat them, than I am likely to with the cover of the pamphlet reproduced on the reach . . . Accordingly therefore to my own deliberate front. judgement I am best as I am . . .” 20 pages large 4to, ring bound, n.p., n.d. [1971]. Somewhat browned, but perfectly legible throughout. £175 The mimeographed pages, simply ring-bound, were and composer’s name on the spine. produced, according to the title page, “to coincide 104 pages large 8vo, Paris, 4 November 1937. £550 with the visit of Karlheinz Stockhausen to England An insert from a biographical dictionary informs us April 27th – May 4th 1971. It contains three articles . . . that Emmanuel Bondeville (Stravinsky had evidently and the programme note to Mantra . . . all of which are mis-spelt his name) was a French composer who was, published for the first time . . .”. from 1936, director of the radio station at the Eiffel Tower.

213. ST. VINCENT, John Jervis, Earl (1735- 1823). Admiral. Document Signed (“St. Vincent”) as Commander- in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, a Memorandum addressed to Captain Duckworth [later Admiral Sir John Duckworth] of the Leviathan, ordering a manoeuvre to to bring Transports to anchor near his own ship the Ville de Paris. 1 page folio, Ville de Paris, off Cadiz, 8 September 1798. £375 A document signed during St. Vincent’s long and successful Mediterranean command, when he was blockading Cadiz. St. Vincent, the friend and Commander-in-Chief of Nelson, was Nelson’s senior by twenty-four years but survived him by eighteen. He derived his title from his great victory over the Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent on 14 February 1797. “The Commander in Chief directs that the barges and Launches of the advanced Squadron are immediately employed in towing up to the Ville de Paris, the 211. STRAVINSKY, Igor (1882-1971). Composer. Transports which are done with, and bring them to an Anchor near to that Ship as is consistent with Fine Photograph Signed and inscribed (“A mon their safety from swinging on board of her, which éditeur et ami Otto Kling en toute sympathie / I. done, they are to repair on board the Ville de Paris for Stravinsky / [cyrillic quotation] / Genève 17/iii 20”), further Orders.” a fine head and shoulders portrait of the composer looking straight at the camera with a serious 214. SWINBURNE, Algernon (1837-1919). Poet. expression, signed on the mount. 8¾ x 6 ins. on cream card, photographer’s imprint Autograph Letter Signed (“A.C. Swinburne”) of Rigassi embossed, Geneva, 17 March 1920. to “Messieurs” [the Paris committee which was £1100 organising celebrations in honour of Victor Hugo’s 80th birthday]. Otto Kling, as director of the firm of music publishers 1 page 8vo in French with integral blank leaf, The J.&W. Chester, first started working with Stravinsky Pines, Putney Hill, 21 February 1881. £650 in 1919 when he acquired the rights to Les Noces. Although the association lasted for a relatively short Trans: “I will always be proud and happy at the time, Chester were to publish some of Stravinsky’s honour you have done me in associating my name more important scores, including Pulcinella and The with the celebration of the man who will cause those Soldier’s Tale. who come after us to always call our century ‘The Century of Victor Hugo’.” 212. STRAVINSKY, Igor (1882-1971). Composer. Hugo’s 80th birthday was on 26 February 1882, a year after this letter was written, so the Committee was Printed Score of his ballet Jeu de Cartes, signed giving itself ample time to plan what was in effect and inscribed (“Pour M. Emmanuel Bonville en a national celebration in honour of France’s greatest souvenir de sa bonne visite le 4 nov 37 au Fg St. living writer. One of the ways in which Hugo was Honoré I Stravinsky”), in a beige card box, the title honoured was the changing of the name of the street where he had lived for several years from the Avenue 1 page large folio, c. 18 x 12 ins., Paris, 8 floreal an 11 d’Eylau to the Avenue Victor Hugo. [28 April 1803]. £900 Swinburne deeply admired Hugo, and often referred A most attractive document. to him as “the Master”. A year after Hugo’s death in The Citizen Belleteste who was travelling to Marseille 1885 he published a penetrating study of his life and was a noted orientalist, and one of the scholars who work. had gone to Egypt with Napoleon in 1798. The work produced by these scholars, the Description de l’Egypte 215. TALLEYRAND, Charles Maurice, Prince was perhaps the only worthwhile lasting monument de Bénévent (1754-1838). French Statesman. to Napoleon’s adventure in the Middle East. Belleteste Document Signed (“ch mau talleyrand”), as eventually joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Napoleon’s Foreign Minister, a passport for Citizen an interpreter. He produced translations of various works written in Arabic, including a treatise on Belleteste, secretary-interpreter to the Envoy precious stones. Extraordinary (i.e., Ambassador) to the Bey of Tunis, travelling to Marseille. At the time, travellers required a passport for journeys 1 page large folio with a large and impressive undertaken within France as well as to foreign parts. vignette showing the figure of liberty holding the The document has been inlaid and is somewhat weak tablets of the laws of the Republic, a lion at her feet at the folds, but this does not detract from its overall with a scroll of the Laws, a globe beside her and an attractive appearance. angel carrying an olive branch holding a scroll with the words “Alliance / Sureté / Protection / Chez 216. TALLEYRAND, Charles Maurice, Prince l’Etranger”. de Bénévent (1754-1838). French Statesman. Letter Signed (“ch mau. talleyrand”), as Foreign Minister, to Count Otto, “Ministre Plénipotentiére” [Ambassador] of France in London, informing him that the peace treaty between France and the Ottoman Porte has been signed. 1 page folio in French with integral blank leaf, with the vignette of the figure of liberty writing, an olive branch in front of her and the printed heading of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Paris, 1 jour complementaire an 10 [18 September 1802]. £995 Trans: “Citizen, the exchange of the ratifications of the peace treaty beween France and the Ottoman Porte was concluded in Paris on 21 fructidor [8 September]. I am sending you the issue of the Official Journal which contains this treaty and which announces the reparations paid to France by the Dey of Algiers. The First Consul [Napoleon] wished to see Europe at peace and prosperity in the Republic. His twin aims have been fulfilled, and the universal pacification brings him [i.e., the First Consul] further glory and calls all other to share in the happiness which it brings to France. I have no doubt that the government of the nation in which you reside will learn of this happy event with the greatest interest when you notify them of it.” There is no doubt that Napoleon’s concern with the prosperity of the republic was greater than any ambition for peace. The treaty with the , restoring an old alliance, was signed very soon after the Peace of Amiens which had brought a truce, rather than peace, between England and France. The treaty with the Ottoman Empire allowed France trading rights along the Black Sea, an important advantage for the French in their mercantile rivalry with Britain. The Ottoman Sultan, Selim III, was to remain an ally of France, even after the signing of the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807. This treaty, between France and Russia, could easily have been interpreted as a threat by Selim, and indeed Alexander I may well have hoped that it would give him the opportunity to snatch territory from Turkey. However, soon after that treaty was signed, a British fleet, led by Admiral Duckworth, attempted to pass the Dardanelles and was soon repulsed by the Ottoman forces. The cultured and reforming Sultan was assassinated in 1808.

217. TAUSKY, Vilem (1910-2004). Composer and conductor. Quattro Pezzi Sacri (Four Sacred Pieces) by Verdi, the printed score, 66 pages folio, paper covers, Ricordi, 1948 reprint. Signed and dated on the tile page “Vilem Tausky Oct 21st 1955”. £65 brought back into active service and in March 1799 was given the command of the French troops in Verdi’s Quattro Pezzi Sacri – Ave Maria, Stabat Mater, Switzerland. On 25 September, he achieved a decisive Laudi Alia Vergine Maria, and Te Deum – were choral victory at the Battle of Zurich, an event which was works written separately, but published together for acclaimed as having saved the Republic and the the first time in 1898. revolution. The Czech-born composer and conductor Vilem A system of telegraphy based on semaphores, Tausky was a major force in British post-war musical transmitted via mechanisms placed on towers and hills life, particularly as an opera conductor. at regular intervals, was developed by Claude Chappe Spine a little worn at head and foot. in 1793. Although very basic, and falling prey to fog and bad visibility, it nevertheless proved a significant 218. TELEGRAPHY, 1799 improvement in communications. It was estimated that a message from Paris could reach Strassburg in Letter Signed (“Dinant”), a copy of a telegraphic six hours. Construction of these structures increased communication from the Director of Telegraphic greatly after Napoleon’s coup d’état in November Communication at Strassburg to the Chief of Staff, 1799. imparting the information that he has just received A most unusual letter. from the head of the Army of the [Massena] that the enemy has been driven from Switzerland. 1 page 4to in French, with an attractive vignette of 219. THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811- a small pyramid with a telegraphic arm on top, and 1863). Novelist. specifying that it is from the Telegraphic Line from Autograph Letter Signed (“W M Thackeray”) to an Basle to Strassburg. unnamed correspondent (“Sir”), probably a lecture agent, discussing the possibility of delivering a Strassburg, 20 vendemiaire an 8 [12 October 1799]. lecture for the benefit of “an old literary friend”. £695 1 page 8vo on blue paper, the letter in Thackeray’s Trans: “Telegraphic Transmission. The General in sloping hand but the address and date in his upright Chief of the Army of the Danube announces by his hand. 36 Onslow Square, 30 October n.y [probably note of today that the enemy are entirely driven from 1850’s]. £575 Helvetia.” “Since I wrote to you yesterday, I have had reason to In the summer of 1799, France once again saw its change my mind about the proposed lecture. An old borders threatened by Austria and Russia. Massena literary friend of mine is in much distress, and I want had been recalled from Italy a year earlier but was some money for him – Will half the net proceeds of a full room amount to some 30£? If so, I will read a lecture either on ‘George III’ or ‘Humour & Charity’ upon some day next year (D.V.) Why I hesitate is because I am liable (about once in 6 weeks on an average, but at intervals quite uncertain) to sudden and violent attacks of illness wch utterly prostrate me for 2 or 3 days: but if you will run the chance of this attack, I will; and I hope my illness if it is to come, may fall upon some other day than that upon wh we fix for the lecture . . .” As well as having digestive problems, Thackeray appears to have suffered from an underlying and undiagnosed heart condition; his sudden death at fifty-two came as a complete shock to his family and the reading public. He was a successful and popular lecturer in both England and America, without ever attaining quite the celebrity of Dickens as a public figure. As the devoted single parent of two daughters, Thackeray welcomed the income from the lectures as providing security for their future; in this case, however, the money was evidently intended to help a friend. Thackeray’s two distinct styles of handwriting, the upright and the sloping, are only rarely to be found on the same communication. 222. TOLSTOY, Leo (1828-1910). Russian 220. THOMAS, Ambroise (1811-1896). French Novelist. composer. Postcard Photograph Signed (“ 18 Oct. The vocal score of his opera Mignon, signed and 1905”), a fine head and shoulders portrait of the inscribed (“A Madame Funck hommage et souvenir writer, wearing a rough cloth shirt, looking intently Ambroise Thomas”). before him. 335 pages, bound in red morocco-backed roan boards 5¼ x 3½ ins. £2200 with a blue label to the front cover identifying the The printed text on the verso of the card indicates that opera, ownership inscriptions of Blanche Mialaret it was printed in Britain, and was probably signed for and Henri Mialaret, Paris, n.d. £110 an English admirer. Although Tolstoy devoted many The very prolific and once popular Ambroise Thomas of his later years to the consideration of moral and is largely forgotten today, with the notable exception social questions, he had not entirely stopped writing of a few popular arias from his highly successful 1866 fiction, and 1905 saw the publication of his fine short opera, Mignon, based on Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister. story Aloysha the Potboy, a tale of frustrated love. Mignon’s aria, “Connais-tu le pays” is still frequently heard in operatic recitals. 223. TOSCANINI, Arturo (1867-1957). There is some scuffing to the spine, but the volume is Conductor. otherwise in very good condition. Photograph Signed (“Arturo Toscanini June 1 1938 London”), a head and shoulders image of the 221. TIPPETT, Michael (1905-1998). Composer. conductor in profile, signed by him on a large white Photograph Signed (“Michael Tippett”), a head and panel below the image which appears to have been shoulders portrait of the composer, signed by him taken from a theatre programme. on the white border below the image. 8½ x 5¼ ins, mounted and framed in a plain black 7 x 5 ins, n.d. £225 wooden frame, in all 10½ x 8½ ins. £70 The photograph was evidently signed while Toscanini was on tour. Firmly opposed to Mussolini, he left Italy in 1939 and did not return until 1946. The intervening and England’s Pleasant Land (1938). years were spent primarily in the United States, where Front cover slightly dusty, but with a strong clear he made regular broadcasts with the NBC Symphony inscription. Orchestra.

226. VICTORIA (1819-1901). Queen of Great 224. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph (1872- Britain and Ireland. 1958). Composer. Letter Subscribed and Signed (“Sir my Brother, Printed vocal and orchestral score of his cantata Your Majesty’s Good Sister, Victoria R”) to the King Willow-wood, bound together with the vocal score of the Two Sicilies [Ferdinand II], congratulating of his Toward the Unknown Region, the cantata him on the birth of a son, Gaetano Maria Frederick. inscribed “From Ralph”. 1 page 4to with integral blank leaf and the original 23 pages and 27 pages 4to, bound in red cloth, envelope, which has a complete (but slightly London, n.d. £200 blurred) impression of Victoria’s red wax seal, Claremont, 5 February 1846. £475 E.M. FORSTER’s COPY This formal letter, couched in conventionally polite diplomatic language, gives no hint of the widespread 225. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph (1872- British disapproval of Ferdinand’s extremely repressive 1958), Composer. regime, described by Gladstone as “a negation of God Six Choral erected into a system of government.” Two years later, Songs (for in 1848, he suppressed a liberal uprising with such U n i s o n brutality that he gained the name of ‘Re Bomba’ (King Voices) to be Bomb). The Prince whose birth is here celebrated came sung in time to a sad end; unhappily married, in poor health, and of war The depressed, he shot himself in a Lucerne hotel room at Words by the age of twenty-five. Shelley The “. . . The sentiments of Friendship which I entertain Music by for Your Majesty, and the interest which I take in R. Vaughan every thing that affects your Personal Happiness, or W i l l i a m s . the Welfare of Your Royal House, impel me to offer The score to Your Majesty my cordial Congratulations on this happy event. I request Your Majesty to accept likewise 23 pages my best wishes on behalf of the Infant Prince . . .” 4to, cream p a p e r The letter is lightly toned, with original fold creases. Some offsetting from seal slightly affecting wrappers, subscription, which remains perfectly clear and O x f o r d legible. University Press, n.d. [1940]. 227. VICTORIA (1819-1901). Queen of Great Signed and inscribed on the front wrapper “For Britain and Ireland. E.M. Forster from Ralph Vaughan Williams”. Document Signed (“Victoria R I”), “Instructions Forster’s printed ownership label is at the top left: for Our Trusty and Well-Beloved William Edward “This book belongs to E.M. Forster”. In the original Goschen Esquire, whom we have appointed Our cream slip case, lettered in black on the spine. £525 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary The six Songs are titled: “A song of Courage, A Song of to the Court of Servia . . . We . . . have thought proper Liberty, A Song of Healing, A Song of Victory, A Song . . . to give you the annexed General Instructions for of Pity, Peace and Love, and A Song of the New Age. your guidance.” The words are taken from several of Shelley’s works, 1 manuscript page folio with paper seal, signed at including Hellas and Prometheus Unbound. the head by the Queen, Windsor Castle, 1 July 1898. A fine association copy. Forster and Vaughan Williams The printed “Instructions”, 6½ pages folio, together had been collaborators on two pageant plays on rural with 2 supplementary printed pages, in French England for which Forster had written the words and with English translation, on dipomatic protocol as Vaughan Wiliams the music: Abinger Pageant (1934) agreed at the , are attached by the original blue cord. With a Typed Letter Signed from the Prime first performance took place on 10 June 1865, and Minister Lord Salisbury to Goschen, saying he is is regarded as a landmark in the development of transmitting to him his Letters of Credence, which Western music. he was to present to the King of Servia [Alexander The premiere was conducted by Hans von Bulow, then I], and “The Queen’s General Instructions under still officially married to Cosima. They had married in the Royal Sign Manual” [the document described 1857, but Cosima’s intimacy with Wagner, twenty-four abvove]. 1½ pages folio, Foreign Office, 2 July years her senior, began in 1863 and in April of this year, 1898. £725 1865, she gave birth to their first child, appropriately named Isolde. Wagner and Cosima were eventually The very detailed “Instructions” are in 19 paragraphs; able to marry in 1870, after they had both obtained with particular emphasis on discovering the political divorces from their previous partners. intentions of the host government and any treaties Cosima’s correspondent Anna von Pourtales and her or agreements it may make with other Powers; husband Albert had entertained Wagner in Paris in discovering the military, naval and economic resources 1861, and he had dedicated his solo piano composition of the host country; promoting the commercial Arrival of the Black Swans to her. interests of Great Britain; and keeping the “Cyphers and Decyphers” safe. Trans: “Since his establishment at Munich Mr. Wagner has intended to recall himself to your remembrance, Serbia [here called Servia], part of the Ottoman Empire and to let you know about the happy transformation of since 1459, was recognised as an autonomous province his destiny, by assuring you that he will never lose the in 1830 and became a fully independent Kingdom in memory of the gracious hospitality that you, Madame, 1878. William Goschen went on to be Ambassador to and the late Count Pourtales bestowed on him in Paris. Vienna and Berlin, and left Berlin hurriedly on the Illness frst of all, the torments from certain directions outbreak of the First World War. inseparable from even the most brilliant destiny of the artist, [and] at last now the rehearsals of Tristan, these “THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF TRISTAN” are the obstacles which have hindered one of his most serious intentions. 228. WAGNER, Cosima, née Liszt (1837-1930). Daughter of Franz Liszt and Wife of Richard Fearing that he would not find the leisure to write to you as he would wish, he asks me to let you know Wagner; later Director of the Bayreuth Festival. Madame that the first performance ofTristan will take Autograph Letter Signed place on 15 May (“C de Bulow-Liszt”) to next [in fact the “Madame la Comtesse” performance was [Countess Anna von delayed for nearly Pourtales, widow of the a month]. He found Prussian Ambassador to in your home so Paris], inviting her, on much kindness, Wagner’s behalf, to the so sympathetic a reception, and premiere of Tristan und such a noble Isolde in Munich. admiration of his 4 pages closely written genius, that it has 8vo in French, Munich, 25 been impossible April 1865. £1850 for him not to A long and informative inform you of a letter written at a turning date of so much point in the lives of Wagner importance [qui and Cosima. Wagner fait époque] in his had written Tristan und life. He doubts Isolde between 1856 and Madame that 1859, but had no means you will be able of staging it. However to be present at early in 1865 his admirer this performance, Ludwig II acceeded to however he asks the throne of Bavaria, and me to tell you offered funds to present that it will be the opera in Munich. The quite exceptional. Thanks to the enthusiastic protection of H. M. the king of Bavaria, In the Tristan and Isolde will be given with a care and original dark perfection and in conditions of which up to now one blue cloth can have no idea . . .” s l i p - c a s e , Cosima has written the letter on paper blind-stamped with tucked with her monogram: the entwined letters CBL beneath into an inside a coronet. Although living with Wagner, Cosima was pocket a 45 evidently happy to demonstrate that her husband, r.p.m. record Hans von Bulow, came from a noble family and had reproducing the title of Freiherr (Baron). the original 1 9 2 9 Slight split in centre vertical fold has been r e c o r d i n g professionally repaired under our direction. of “Facade An Enter- 229. WALTON, William (1902-1983). English t a i n m e n t , Composer. The poems The printed vocal score of Walton’s opera Troilus spoken by C o n s t a n t and Cressida, 360 pages folio, black cloth, Oxford Lambert and University Press, 1954. Edith Sitwell, Signed and dated by the composer on the title page conducted by “William Walton 1980”. £375 William Walton.” The record is in the original paper Troilus and Cressida, with a libretto by Christopher wrapper and dark blue sleeve. Hassall and based on Chaucer’s poem rather than Facade was first performed privately in 1922 and had its Shakespeare’s play, had its premiere at Covent Garden first public performance at the Aeolian Hall, London, on 3 December 1954, conducted by Malcolm Sargent. on 12 June 1923. It has the unusual format of the poems It was only moderately successful, and Walton revised being recited over the instrumental accompaniment, the score for its revival in 1976. The first production and was an immediate had fine singers – Richard Lewis as Troilus and Magda succès de scandale. Laszlo as Cressida – but Walton appears to have been Frederick Ashton’s disappointed both with them and the conductor, Facade ballet, which whom he felt had not properly learned the score. he choreographed to Walton’s music, was first 230. WALTON, William (1902-1973). English produced in 1931. Composer. A very attractive volume, in virtually pristine condition. The record too appears pristine, but as we Facade, an entertainment, the poems by Edith Sitwell, the have not played it we cannot vouch for its quality. music by William Walton, Oxford University Press, 1972. Folio, 111 pages of printed score preceded by the text of Edith Sitwell’s poems, introductions 231. WALTON, William (1802-1983). English by Edith Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell and Frederick Composer. Ashton, and a facsimile of three pages of Walton’s The printed full score of his Oratorio Belshazzar’s score. Feast for baritone solo, mixed choir and orchestra. Quarter cloth with leather spine titled in gilt and Oxford University Press, 1978, small folio,192 red, glassine wrappers, the front and back covers pages in all including introductory essay by printed in green, red and white with an illustration Michael Kennedy, all edges gilt. Quarter cloth of an outstretched hand by John Piper. The end with decorative front and back covers portraying papers and two half-titles are also illustrated by the entrance to Belshazzar’s palace in Babylon, John Piper in colour, with abstract designs, and the from coloured tiles in the Berlin Museum. Glassine frontispiece reproduces Piper’s design for the 1942 wrappers, in original slipcase. curtain for Ashton’s Facade ballet. No. 9 of a limited edition of 350, Signed by the No. 110 “of an edition limited to one thousand composer (“William Walton”) on the half-title numbered copies for sale, the first two hundred page. £575 and fifty have been specially bound and are are A very attractive volume, in pristine condition. The signed by the composer.” Signed by the composer endpapers reproduce John Martin’s mezzotint of (“William Walton”) on the limitation page. £895 Belshazzar’s Feast, and the frontispiece shows Elizabeth Gérard, famous for his portraits of Napoleon and his family. Trans: “I regret that I will not be able to come to see you on Wednesday as I am engaged to dine that day at two thirty in order to meet the Emperor of Russia; but I will arrange with you a time for the sitting before leaving for the Revue of the . . .” Baron Gérard, the most prolific and popular French portraitist of his day had painted Napoleon and most of his extended family, as well as famous portraits

Frink’s sculpture of the composer’s head. Belshazzar’s Feast is an Oratorio in ten sections, with libretto selected and arranged from the Bible by Osbert Sitwell, mainly from the Book of Daniel and Psalm 137. It had its frst performance in Leeds in October 1931, conducted by Malcom Sargent, and is dedicated to Walton’s friend and benefacor, Gerald Berners. It has remained one of the most popular works in the English choral repertoire.

IN PARIS AFTER WATERLOO of Madame Récamier, Madame de Staël, and several of the French marshals. His one great battle scene, a 232. WELLINGTON, Arthur Wellesley, Duke depiction of the , had won favour of (1769-1852). Victor of Waterloo. with Napoleon. Created a baron after the restoration Autograph Letter Signed (“Wellington”) to “Mon of the Bourbon monarchy, Gérard went on to paint cher Monsieur Gerard” [the painter Baron Gérard], those responsible for the defeat of Napoleon, including regretting that he cannot keep his appointment Wellington. His portrait of Alexander I is today in Apsley House. with him, as he is due to dine with the Emperor of Russia on that day. A tear at the edge of the page has been repaired under 1 page 4to in French, with integral blank leaf, Paris, our direction. A few minor brown spots at the bottom of the page, not touching the text. 28 August 1815. £1500 Just two months after his great victory at Waterloo, 233. WELLINGTON, Arthur Wellesley, Duke Wellington was in Paris, as were the other victorious leaders, Blücher, , Francis I of of (1769-1852). Victor of Waterloo. Austria among them. Among other things, he was Two Autograph Letters Signed (“Wellington”) to largely responsible for arranging the return of art J.M. Elwes, advising him to be vigilant with regard works looted by Napoleon’s army to their previous to a “Socialist Institution” which has recently been locations, such as the Venetian horses of St. Mark’s. established in his neighbourhood. He nevertheless found considerable leisure to take 4 pages 8vo, London, 1 February 1840 and 1 page advantage of the more sociable pleasures which Paris 8vo with integral blank leaf, London 19 February had to offer, including sitting for his portrait by Baron 1840. £1400 Wellington’s deep antipathy to any movement which “PRINCE DE WATERLOO” he feared might lead to chaos and revolution, as France had known in 1789, prompted his condemnation of 234. WELLINGTON, Arthur Wellesley, Duke Chartism. In this instance, however, it was not the of (1769-1852). Victor of Waterloo. Chartists who alarmed him but a new phenomenon Autograph Letter, written in the third person known as socialism. but Signed with the extremely rare signature “A Petition to the House of Lords has been “Wellington Prince de Waterloo”, to Count communicated to me, to which your Name is signed; Schiedenflewek [? or Scheidenfleid – name virtualy stating that a Socialist Institution has been established illegible] in Dover Street, evidently an envoy from in the neighbourhood of Broughton in the County the King of the Netherlands [William II], arranging of Hants. As a Justice of the Peace it is your duty to to deliver to him, for presentation to the King, “the observe and to take Cognizance of the Proceedings Staff of distinction of Field Marshal of the British of such an Institution, more particularly as this Army.” Association has announced and published that it has 2 pages 8vo with integral blank leaf, London, 25 objects inconsistent with the doctrines of the Christian Religion; with the duties of Christians; with Morality; March 1847. £2000 and with the very existence of Society. William II, King of the Netherlerlands (1792-1849) I recommend you to notice immediately any breach of to whom the Field-Marshal’s baton was to be the Law that you may observe; and in the meantime to presented, had as the young Prince of Orange served exert your influence and that of your Office, to draw as Wellington’s aide-de-camp during the Peninsular the attention of the Influential Classes of the people War. Described by Wellington as “a brave young in your Neighbourhood to the danger and Mischief man”, he commanded the Dutch troops at the battle of which will probably result from the establishment of Waterloo, where he was wounded. Oxford-educated, this Institution among them; and to induce them to he had been briefly engaged to Princess Charlotte of refrain from giving their attendance upon its Meetings; Wales and was often entertained by Wellington at and to persuade their Servants and dependants to Apsley House. follow their example . . .” The hereditary title of Prince de Waterloo had been “Referring to the Letter which I wrote to you on the conferred on Wellington after the battle by William 1st, I now enclose the Copy of one upon the same II’s father, William I. It placed Wellington, and his subject which I have received from the Secretary of descendants, in the highest rank of the Dutch nobility. State; to which I beg to draw your attention. . .” Although Waterloo is now in present day Belgium, in 1815 Belgium did not exist as an independent The OED records that the term “socialism” in its country and the battle took place in the territory of the modern sense entered the English language in 1827. Its Netherlands. most committed proponent, Robert Owen, had already preached the For a British subject to hold principles of the movement for the title of a foreign prince is over a decade and put his ideas extraordinarily rare; the only other into concrete form at New Lanark. instance of which we are aware is In 1835, Owen formed a new the Duke of Marlborough, who association which became known was created a prince of the Holy as the Rational Society. By 1840 Roman Empire after Blenheim. the Society had over 60 branches, Wellington did not use his title delivering lectures throughout of prince, and this is the only the country expounding Owen’s example of his signature as Prince creed. Owen attempted to form a of Waterloo that we have seen. new community at East Tytherley Doubtless he employed it here as a in Hampshire’s Test Valley, not compliment to the nation who had very far removed from Broughton, granted him the title. based on the Owenite community “Field Marshal the Duke of of New Harmony in America. It Wellington Prince de Waterloo seems entirely possible that it is presents his compliments to His this venture which has aroused Excellency Comte Scheidenfleid [?] the Duke of Wellington’s fierce with his Excellency’s permission disapproval. the Duke will attend at His Tears at the folds have been Excellency’s Home on tomorrow repaired under our direction. March 26th at a quarter past twelve at Noon in order to deliver into His Excellency’s Hands for presentatiion to His Majesty the King of the Netherlands the Staff of distinction of Field Marshal of the ; which Her Majesty the Queen [Victoria] has commanded Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington to deliver to His Majesty. He requests His Excellency to accept the assurance of his profound consideration. Wellington Prince de Waterloo” In virtually pristine condition, with original slight fold creases. Wellington was evidently uncertain about his correspondent’s name, and appears to have spelt it differently both times he has written it.

235. WELLS, Herbert George (1866-1946). Author. Autograph Letter Signed (“H.G. Wells”) to Huntly Carter, evidently a reply to a series of questions which had been put to him. 1 page 4to, Easton Glebe, Dunmow, 1916. £595 A socialist and supporter of the Labour Party, Wells was neverthless critical of the party’s approach in many matters. His utopian ideal of the future was tempered by what was, at the time. considered a pragmatic approach to problems. “1 Labour will be after some fool’s grievance about the COs [conscientious objectors] or suchlike, under the guidance of Fenner Brockway, Ramsay Macdonald & so forth. Labour will be sticking on pts. of order. Labour will be unaware that there is an economic problem Labour will be sheep in a narrow road. 1b. Capital will be scrambling back towards the old A letter warmly thanking Mrs. Keppel for sending him conditions in a stupid instinctive way under cover of a photograph of a new portrait of herself. A few days an Irish row. earlier, at a dinner at Crichel Down, Wimborne, given 1c. Nonsense! Do you mean economic? by Lord Allington, the rules of precedence had been disregarded in Alice’s favour and she was placed next 2a. 2b. 2c. Think hard. But this is Utopian.” to the Kaiser so that she might have an opportunity Huntly Carter, to whom Wells is replying, was a writer of speaking to him. The Austrian Ambassador, Count on theatre, with a particular emphasis on Soviet theatre Mensdorff, found himself wondering what sort of in the years immediately following the Revolution. report she sent back to Sandringham. Pinholes at the top left corner, and the indentation The Kaiser’s 1907 visit to England, had not, in the from a small paperclip are still visible, but the letter is view of his uncle Edward VII, gone well; he had otherwise in very good condition. infuriated the establishment by stating that it was only by adopting his [Wilhelm’s] plans that the British 236. WILHELM II (1859-1941). German Emperor army had saved itself from disgrace in the Boer War. 1888-1918. However, Alice exercised her famous charm and she and the Kaiser got on so well that she sent him, care Autograph Letter Signed (“William I. R” – i.e. of the German Embassy, the photograph for which he Imperator Rex – Emperor of Germany and King of now thanks her. See Diana Souhami, Mrs. Keppel and Prussia) to the Hon. Mrs. George Keppel in Portman her Daughter, 1996, Chapter 1, in which this letter is Square [Alice Keppel, the mistress of Edward VII], quoted. 1 page 8vo in English on gilt-edged paper with “Will you kindly allow me to thank you most warmly integral blank leaf and the original autograph for the splendid photograph you sent me. It is very envelope which has on the verso a virtually perfect artistic & also very like you, & shows that the picture impression of Wilhelm’s large red wax seal. must be very well painted. Once more thanking you German Embassy, 9 Carlton House Gardens, 10 for your kind thought” December 1907. £850 “THE RELEIF AND SUPPORT 238. WILLIAM IV (1765-1837), King of Great OF OUR POOR SUBJECTS” Britain and Ireland, and HARDY, Thomas Masterman (1769-1839), Nelson’s flag-captain on 237. WILLIAM III (1650-1702). King of England. the Victory. Document Signed (“William R”) to the Document Signed by both (“William R” and “T.M. Commissioners of the Treasury, requiring them to Hardy”) appointing George Bruce Puddicombe a pay £1000 to William Cuddon, Chamberlain of the Captain in the Corps of Royal Marines. City of London, “to be disposed and distributed by 1 page oblong folio on vellum with blue revenue him for and towards the releif and Support of Our stamp at the left, engraved and completed in poor Subjects inhabiting within the parishes in and manuscript, signed at the head by the King and about the said City.” at the foot by Hardy and George Barrington as 1 page folio, signed by the King at the head and Lords of the Admiralty, and by Sir George Barrow, countersigned by Sir Stephen Fox, founder of traveller, explorer and Secretary to the Admiralty. Chelsea Hospital; Charles Montagu, later Earl of Windsor, 12 October 1832. £525 Halifax, First Lord of the Treasury; and John Smith, later Chancellor of the Exchequer. Kensington, 13 Hardy had a distinguished career after Trafalgar, January 1696/7. £1600 becoming an Admiral and in 1834 Governor of Greenwich Hospital, where he instituted several £1000 was a reasonably large sum for the period; to reforms. From 1830-34 he held the important position get an idea of its present-day value it is necessary to of First Sea Lord on the Admiralty Board, the non- multiply by about 100. political official ranking directly below the First Lord Some slight fraying at the left margin, not affecting the of the Admiralty, who was always a member of the text. Cabinet. Documents signed by both the King and Hardy are rare.

“UNDER SENTENCE OF TRANSPORTATION”

239. WILLIAM IV (1765-1837). King of Great Britain and Ireland. Document Signed (“William R”), addressed to “The Governor of the General Penitentiary for Convicts at Millbank”, granting a Free Pardon to Rosanna Boaden or Ballantine and Sarah Geer, who were “under Sentence of Transportation . . . having been Convicted of Felony”, and ordering their release from prison. 1½ pages folio with paper seal and integral blank leaf, signed at the head by the King and countersigned at the foot by the Home Secretary and future Prime Minister Lord Melbourne. St. James’s, 4 March 1834. £575 For an account of the history of transportation and the granting of free pardons, see note to number 91 in this catalogue. In the cases cited here, the prisoners had been held in Millbank Penitentiary for two and a half years and one year respectively. Slight discolouration to edges where previously framed. Slight horizontal fold splitting has been repaired under our direction. 240. WILLIAMS, Tennessee (1911-1983). Cathedral constructed on the ashes of the original American Playwright. building which had been destroyed by German bombing. A prolific composer who was Master of the Typescript Queen’s Music from 1975 until his death, he worked S i g n e d in several genres, including film music, and his score and dated for Hammer’s Brides of Dracula (1960) was regarded as (“Tennessee highly successful. W i l l i a m s 1977”), a 242. WILSON, Woodrow (1856-1924). Twenty- quotation Eighth President of the United States, 1913-21. from the opening of Large Photograph Signed (“Sincerely yours Act I of his Woodrow Wilson”), a half-length portrait of the play Cat on a statesman seated at a desk, photographer’s imprint Hot Tin Roof, of Harris & Ewing of Washington D.C, signed on beginning the light border below the image. with the 12 x 8 ins., n.d. £695 s t a g e d i r e c t i o n “At the rise of the c u r t a i n s o m e o n e is taking a shower in the bathroom, the door of which is half open”, and continuing with the opening dialogue between Brick and Margaret (Maggie). 1 page 4to, the text typed in italic, signed and dated boldly at foot in black ink. £495 The excerpt contains the cruel, but very funny, exchange between Maggie and Brick in which she describes Gooper’s children as “those no-neck monsters” whose “fat little heads are set on their fat little bodies without a bit of connection.” Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the story of a Southern family in crisis, was said by Tennesee Wlliams to be his favourite among his plays. It opened on Broadway in 1955, with Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie, Ben Gazarra as the alcoholic Brick, and Burl Ives as Big Daddy. Typescript quotations from his plays signed by Tennessee Williams are rare.

241. WILLIAMSON, Malcolm (1931-2003). Australian-born Composer. The border has been slightly cut down, affecting the last portion of the downstroke underlining the Vision of Christ-Phoenix, for organ, written for the signature, and the photograph shows signs of having dedication of the new Coventry Cathedral, the been framed, but it is otherwise in very good condition. printed score, 18 pages, 4to, paper covers, Chappell, 1962 [but evidently 1961]. Inscribed on the front cover “Elisabeth / love / Malcolm / 30.v.61”. £95 Malcolm Williamson’s Vision of Christ-Phoenix was inspired by the sight of the rebuilt Coventry 243. WODEHOUSE, Pelham Grenville (1881-1975). Novelist. Autograph Card Signed (“P.G. Wodehouse”) to “Dear Mrs. Haldane”, thanking her for what was evidently a fan letter and referring to a televised version of his Blandings novels. 1 page oblong 8vo, Remsenburg, N.Y., 22 July 1967. £225 “Thank you so much for your letter. I am delighted that you like my books so much. I hope those Blandings things on T.V. get over all right. Ralph Richardson ought to be wonderful as Lord Emsworth.” The six half-hour adaptations of Blandings stories, made by the BBC, featured a magnificent “I was so sorry that I was engaged today & could not cast with Ralph Richardson as Lord Emsworth and get to your show. We hope to come & see the drawing Stanley Holloway as his splendid butler, Beach. of Morgan Forster before long – but my husband is The card is in excellent condition. very busy at the moment.” Edmond Xavier Kapp (1890-1978) is known mainly for his drawings and caricatures, although in later life 244. WODEHOUSE, Pelham Grenville (1881- he turned to abstract painting. The National Portrait 1975). Novelist. Gallery holds several of his drawings, and his work is Photograph Signed (“With best wishes P.G. to be found in many public and private collections. He Wodehouse”), a half-length snapshot of the made two drawings of E.M. Forster in 1930; one is in novelist, smiling, holding his pipe while sitting King’s College, Cambridge, and the other in the Barber in a rattan chair in a garden, signed by him in red Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham. marker pen. 3¾ x 4¾ ins., n.d. £175 “I NEVER SENT YOU THE AUTOGRAPHS”

247. WOOLNER, Thomas (1825-1892). Pre- 245. WOOD, Sir Henry Joseph (1869-1944). Raphaelite Sculptor. Conductor; founder of the Promenade Concerts. Autograph Letter Signed (“Thos: Woolner”) to “Dear Colour Reproduction of his portrait by Frank O. Miss Gladstone” [probably Agnes Gladstone, eldest Salisbury signed (“Sincerely yours Henry J. Wood daughter of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer June 1944”), showing Wood in his doctoral robes, and future Prime Minister W.E. Gladstone], about seated and holding a musical score, signed by him “the autographs which I promised.” on the white border below the image. 1 page 8vo with integral blank leaf, 9 Welbeck 8¼ x 6 ins. £95 Street, 26 August 1864. £145 Sir Henry Wood conducted the first Promenade “I never sent you the autographs which I promised, concert in 1895, and continued to conduct them until and now feel ashamed to send so few [not present]. I his death. By tradition, his bronze bust is decorated have been so much engaged the last year that I have with a floral wreath on the last night of the Proms. been able to make but a very poor collection for you – I am going away from London in a short time and “THE DRAWING OF MORGAN FORSTER” thought it best to send even these few before I went away . . .” 246. WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). Novelist and At the urging of his wife a rather reluctant Gladstone sat Critic. to Woolner in 1865. Two busts in marble were created Autograph Letter Signed (“Virgnia Woolf”) from Woolner’s clay model, depicting Gladstone in to “Dear Mr. Kapp” [the artist and caricaturist jacket and necktie; one is at Hawarden and the other Edmond Xavier Kapp], 1 page oblong 8vo on blue was presented to Oxford University. paper, 52 Tavistock Square, Tuesday, n.d. [c. 1930]. £1100 No. 46, Walter Crane No. 29, Buckingham Palace Programme

No. 30, George Canning No. 62, Alexandre Dumas No. 50, Charles de Gaulle

No. 40, Sir Winston Churchill No. 68, George Eliot (Mary Anne Lewes) No. 96, Alexander Glazounov No. 110, Christopher Isherwood No. 79, Sir John Franklin

No. 111, Henry James No. 127, Sir Thomas Lipton No. 116, Rudyard Kipling

No. 142, Andre Massena No. 154, No. 166, Marshal Ney No. 155, Henry Moore

No. 156, Henry Moore

No. 157, Alfred Munnings No. 186, Auguste Rodin

No. 188, Lord Rosebery No. 197, Lord Salisbury No. 212, Igor Stravinsky No. 78, Cesar Franck

No. 189, Gioacchino Rossini No. 72, Gabriel Fauré