"I EXPECT TO HEAR SHORTLY OF HIS BEING GONE TO GRETNA GREEN WITH SOME FEMALE BLACKAMOOR"
LEWIS
(Matthew Gregory "Monk", 1775-1818, Novelist and Dramatist
Autogrph letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he intends to "accept your invitation on Thursday: if it is inconvenient to receive me on that day, you must direct to me at Barnes, otherwise I shall not hear from you ... I congratulate Brook on his safe arrival after all 'his moving accidents by flood and field'; I expect to hear shortly of his being gone to Gretna Green with some female Blackamoor 'who loved him for the dangers he had past' ...", 1 side 8vo., Barnes, Monday no date, annotated in another hand as 6th November
Item Date:
1806
Stock No:
40227
£1250
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LEWIS
(C. S., 1898-1963, Writer & Scholar, Author of ‘The Screwtape Letters’)
Autograph envelope addressed to “Miss June Flewett” and signed with initials
addressed to “Kingswood, Gipsy Lane, Putney SW15”, 1 side envelope, Oxford, postmarked 10th November
Item Date:
1949
Stock No:
43263
£475
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LEWIS
(C. S., 1898-1963, Writer & Scholar, Author of ‘The Screwtape Letters’)
Autograph envelope signed with initials “C.S.L.” addressed to “Mrs Neylan”,
at “Hoo Mill, Watlington, Oxford”, 4¾” x 3¾”, postmarked Oxford, 22nd November
Item Date:
1945
Stock No:
43259
£525
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SIGNATURE OF ‘ALICE’
LIDDELL
(Alice Pleasance Hargreaves, neé Liddell, 1852-1934, the little girl that Lewis Carroll used as the model for ‘Alice in Wonderland’)
Fine signature on card
3½” X 2½”, no place, dated in another hand 16th April
Item Date:
1928
Stock No:
42683
£375
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LINKLATER
(Eric, 1899-1974, Writer)
Fine signature and "Good wishes" on Savile Club headed card
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
7912
£10
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