LYTTON
(Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1831-1891, 1st Earl, Viceroy of India, 1875-1880, during the Afghan Wars, Poet)
Final page of a long autograph letter signed ‘R.B. Lytton’
starting “have had any very deeply laid designs against the Laws of the land - that they themselves prevented her peaceable departure by sending 8 gendarmes into her bedroom, with muskets, and lodging her forthwith in gaol. That, at the speediest her trial cannot come on before the end of November... when if found innocent she will have been unjustly detained in prison for 3 months, and if found guilty is, under the present law, liable to imprisonment of from 5 to 10 years with labour in the Casa de Forza! Is not this taking a spear to stab a butterfly? The Gd Duke has been personally applied to both by Scarlett (who has been, it is just to say, most energetic and active) as well as by his own Ministers, (who disapprove of this proceeding) and others, but all in vain. I think it not improbable that the Legation will be withdrawn. I have been, for a short time, at the Baths of Lucca, and you would be astonished to know the number of Protestant Italians there. I believe more than half the inhabitants to be - not merely anti-priest-and-pope-ists but professing Protestants. All going on well at the Umbra Mina [?]. Mrs Wilson not so well, indeed, as I could wish to see her - she is thinner & eats little or nothing - I think change of air would have done her good had she been able to take it. Both Guido and the Baby, however, grow apace and are picture children. Your mother I think is looking very well, & always cheerful - write to me, my dear Arthur, when you have an idle hour and make me very happy by doing so...” ending with the Latin phrase “vive vale et tis memor mei” (Long live and remember me), and a postscript that “Your Anacreon... is guarded like the apple of my eye...”, 2 sides folio
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LYTTON
(Lady Rosina Bulwer, 1802-1882, Novelist, wife of Edward)
Signature from an Autograph Letter Signed
with some text on the verso “before she went to Brighton, I enclosed her a letter from Mrs Woodhouse of Hertford to Mrs Clarke, which I should be glad to have back. I do hope you are feeling...” and ending with the subscription and full signature, 3½” x 2”, no place, no date
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LYTTON
(Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer, 2nd Earl, 1876-1947, Governor of Bengal, Writer)
Typed Letter Signed with autograph salutation and subscription to Mr Windsor-Garnett
thanking him "for the kind things you say ... about my book ... I hope you will look me up, if you ever come to my part of the world. I should like to have the pleasure of showing you Antony's home ...", 2 sides 8vo., Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, 24th May
Item Date:
1937
Stock No:
12865
£20
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MAARTENS
(Maarten, Pen name of Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten-Schwartz, 1858-1915, Dutch Writer who wrote in English)
Autograph Letters Signed with both signatures to "Dear Madam"
saying that "Mr Ellison has given me yr very kind message & I need hardly say how greatly I appreciate it. I shall now look forward much more to my pilgrimage to Cambridge. My daughter is at Folkestone with her governess, we leave England on Friday week. I think the best thing for us to do wd be to meet at Canterbury early on Tuesday ... if it wd suit you to receive us then, we shall of course be delighted ...", 4 sides 8vo., National Club headed paper, 5th May
Item Date:
1904
Stock No:
40676
£75
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MACAULAY
(Dame Rose, 1889-1958, Writer and Traveller)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Miss O’Malley
telling her that she does “write short stories gratis, but i do not think they have merit for your purpose or, indeed, for any other (though the last thing I want to do it to crab my own work). I find sketches or articles less of a strain on. my intellect, as a rule. May I come and see you sometime & talk about it, as you suggest, or could you come & have tea with me... South Kensington, where I stay when in town...”, 2 sides 8vo., Hedgerley End, Beaconsfield, 13th December year illegible
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