HAGGARD
(Sir H. Rider, 1856-1925, Novelist, Author of 'King Solomon's Mines')
Note signed to Mr Haworth Booth
apologising to the brief reply and thanking him for an invitation, but "until I reach Yorkshire I cannot say what my arrangements will be, nor if they will allow of my accepting your hospitality. I should be grateful if you would leave the invitation open ...", 1 side pc with address on verso, The Fore Hill House, King's Norton, Worcestershire, 12th May
Item Date:
1901
Stock No:
30526
£125
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“THE ZULUS HAVE NO BETTER FRIEND THAN MYSELF”
HAGGARD
(Sir H. Rider, 1856-1925, Novelist, Author of ‘King Solomon’s Mines’)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
thanking him for his “letter & the copy of the Ruin of Zululand which you have kindly sent me. I can only say that I have done my best to form an impartial judgement on the evidence in the Blue books. The Zulus have no better friend than myself but I look to the welfare of the nation at large rather than to that of individuals however exalted. The ‘thatcher’ anecdote was given for whatever it may be worth...”, 3 sides 8vo., 69 Gunterstone Road, West Kensington, 2nd February
Item Date:
1888
Stock No:
42680
£225
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HAGGARD
(Sir H. Rider, 1856-1925, Novelist, Author of ‘King Solomon’s Mines’)
Autograph Letter Signed to “My dear Jessie”
regretting that he “can’t as I have to come to town on 14th to attend Electrical Concessions in Africa Trust meetings. But it won’t matter a bit as the peripatetic P.L. speakers can keep it going for any length of time. Also it isn’t much use firing off African speeches anywhere out of London. We hope to be down at Ditchingham next Thursday...”, 2 sides 8vo., 27 Duke Street, St. James’s, headed paper, 29th March no year
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43210
£175
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HAGGARD
(Sir H. Rider, 1856-1925, Novelist, Author of ‘King Solomon’s Mines’)
Wonderful early portrait photo boldly signed and dated
showing him three quarters length, standing with his hands behind his back, in semi profile, 5½” x 4” in mount 10” x 8”, no place
Item Date:
1889
Stock No:
43216
£875
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HAIG
(George Alexander Eugene Douglas, 1918-2009, Artist, from 1928 2nd Earl)
Typed Letter Signed to Donald McCormick,
(1911-1998, Historian of the Secret Services as 'Richard Deacon'), saying "I have no objection to the passages from my father's papers being included ... I am glad you are taking the right side !", 1 side 8vo., 22nd May
Item Date:
1963
Stock No:
50457
£45
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