ISHERWOOD
(Christopher, 1904-1986, Novelist)
Reproduction of a caricature, signed and inscribed
"for Elliott F. Kraemer, with my best wishes", showing him half length in profile, 8" x 5½", no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
18353
£175
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ISHERWOOD
(Christopher, 1904-1986, Novelist)
Autograph Note signed ‘Christopher' to “Dearest Anita” LOOS
(1888-1981, American Actress, Novelist, Playwright and Screenwriter), thanking her “so much for the photograph of Miss M’s portait - i think it’s enchanting, one of the best Don has done. And your red notepaper makes mine look so pale that I’m reduced to an ordinary card!...”, 1 side postcard with autograph address on the verso, 145 Adelaide Drive, Santa Monica, California, 26th March postmarked
Item Date:
1966
Stock No:
43238
£175
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JAMES
(George Payne Rainsford,1799-1860, Novelist & Poet)
Autograph Conveyancing document signed
certifying "that I have made over to Captain Gardener all my right and title in the lodging now occupied by me over the second and third stories of the House of Monsieur Webber which I hold till Christmas week ...", 1 side oblong 8vo., Hendlebury, 26th October
Item Date:
1840
Stock No:
38343
£275
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JAMES
(Henry, 1843-1916, American born, British Naturalised Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs MEIGGS
saying he has “had the misfortune to promise to go the houses of two friends, far apart, on Sunday next, after drinks; but I shall not fail to do my best to turn up in Cromwell Road, if I can achieve it at a decorous hour. If I am worsted in this effort please believe that it will not have been for want and true good will to see Mrs Francis before she leaves England. Please to give her this remembrance, with my kindest regards...”, 3 sides 8vo., 34 de Vere Gardens, 4th April no year
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43125
£775
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"THE YELLOW FEVER THERE IS MORE MALIGNANT ... EVEN THE NEGROES CATCH IT"
JAMES
(George Payne Rainsford,1799-1860, Novelist & Poet)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to "My dear Hutchins"
saying that he has been "waiting anxiously to hear from you respecting the manuscripts which I sent over and you received. Whatever delay may take place in Mr Newby's receiving it - if not occurring by any defect upon my side - must not of course, count against me, either in the date of his bills or the period of presenting the next manuscript. Both must be reckoned from the time when you called upon or sent it to him. The terms of our agreement are precise. The bills must of course be sent to me as they are always payable to my order and would be discounted without my endorsement. I cannot help thinking that one of my letters to you must have miscarried as is so frequently the case here. Were I in Norfolk I could tell you all I have written for all are registered the moment they are posted; but in travelling I cannot take such precautions and if I happen not to have stamps to put on the letter but prepay it in money every now and then the postmaster pockets the money and the letter never goes. We are now here staying with Walter at the most miserable backwood town you ever saw. The meat is so tough that Fanny cannot digest it at all and if it were not for Walter's gun and mine and our fishing rods, she would actually starve. No eggs, no fowls, no mutton, nothing but beef steaks as hard as iron except when we bring in game. However the expence of being starved here is not much for this place is as cheap as Norfolk is dear. We pay two shillings a day for board and lodging. Poor Norfolk is in the most awful State that ever was known. The yellow fever there is more malignant than it has ever shown itself elsewhere. Even the negroes catch it - a thin unknown elsewhere and few once attacked recover. Sorrow has become so great that not twelve hundred white persons are left in this town which numbered eighteen thousand. All the stores and shops - even the druggists are closed; the meat and fish market has ceased; none of the provision boats come in; the dying are left to die alone and the living are nearly starved. The acting Consul writes me word that no living thing is to be seen in the streets but the doctors hurrying from house to house, the horses dragging the hearses and the mourners following. Each day sweeps off one sixtieth part of the remaining population and I am in terror lest poor Crudshaw shouldlbe carried away too ...", 3 sides 4to., with integral autograph leaf and seal, Menasha, Wisconscin, 6th September
Item Date:
1855
Stock No:
39419
£975
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