ILLUSTRATED AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY DICKEN’S GRANDSON
DICKENS
(Sir Gerald Charles, 1879-1962, Admiral, Grandson of Charles Dickens)
Charming Illustrated Autograph Letter Signed to Doctor ALLCHIN
(William Henry, 1846–1912, Physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy, physiology, pathology and medicine at Westminster Hospital) apologising for his “tardy answer to your very kind letter. I was to have started Friday but at the last minute the date of sailing was put off... I thought it most likely that you would have been busy or out of town... otherwise I would have acknowledged your letter personally. It was very kind of you remembering me & I was very much touched. We get into Gib. tomorrow & Malta Monday or Tuesday where I join my ship. It is good to be afloat again after these months of Shore. I am very well & very jolly. Hope you will read in the paper soon that H.M.S. Griffon has been ordered to China - am afraid it’s unlikely. The mate would hardly appreciate it if it came to pass. It’s getting hot at last...” after his signature he has drawn a little picture of an officer pursuing a Chinaman - holding on to his pigtail titled “The Only Way of settling the China Question - send ot The Griffon”, 4 sides 8vo., “P & O SS Sumatra, off C. Trafalgar”, 13th July no year but
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
43790
£245
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DICKSEE
(Sir Frank, 1853-1928, President of the Royal Academy)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Bovill
regretting that he “cannot accept your kind invitation both Friday & Saturday happen to be the varnishing days at the Academy & I fear I shall not be able to leave. I was very pleased with what was presented to the eye at Bushy but the rest did not command my admiration, but it was a fine picture. I was rather taken by the musical sounds. I wish I had gone the day you went...”, 2 sides 8vo., 80 Peel Street, Camden Hill headed paper, Thursday, no date
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0
Stock No:
43786
£125
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DIXIE
(Lady Florence Caroline, 1857-1905, traveller, rationalist, and supporter of equal rights for all, 1st wife of Sir Alexander Dixie, 11th Bart.)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent “Dear Madam”
saying that she “will instruct my photographer to send you a photograph of myself...”, 1 side 8vo., Corsindae House, Midmar, Aberdeenshire, 5th October no year
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0
Stock No:
43796
£575
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TOM DRIBERG COMPLAINING BITTERLY ABOUT THE RAILWAYS
DRIBERG
(Thomas Edward Neil, Baron Bradwell, 1905-1976, Jouornalist, Politician, Anglican Churchman and possibly Soviet Spy)
Very Long Typed Letter signed with autograph additions to Sir Henry JOHNSON
(1906-1988, Chairman of British Rail) starting that “Air travel is so intolerable, particularly in the tourist season, that I have in the past come home from France, when possible, by rain and boat, usually by the night ferry from Paris. I doubt if I will continue to do this after travelling from Paris to London on the night of 5/6 September. The trains have become increasingly shabby in recent years, but one can put up with that. The service has, of course, deteriorated, but no more than service in comparable contexts elsewhere, and the breakfast-car staff on the English side are, with one exception, extremely friendly and helpful. (I need not specify the exception - he was well-meaningly guilty only of a mistimed joke.). The charge of 75p for breakfast was exorbitant... I should, however, be grateful if you will let me have a list of the increases in meal charges on trains in the last 10 years... and some indication of the extent to which British Rail took advantage of decimalisation to ‘round up’. What was really, and perhaps permanently off-putting was the absolutely disgraceful arrangement, or rather non-arrangement, for the arrival of passengers at Victoria. The French conductor of my Wagon-Lit kindly procured a porter... I carried my own bags out of the hall, assuming that there would be a line of taxis... On the contrary, in the narrow congested street there were no taxis at all... The train was crowded not so much with British passengers, who are by now inured to the general discomfort of life in this country and of our public services, but with many American and French passengers, on whom the most disagreeable impression was created. Several questions arise... Why can the customs and passport formalities not be done on the train during the night... If it is for some valid bureaucratic reason necessary to have these formalities conducted in the dreary hall at the side of Victoria Station, why cannot arrangements be made with the traffic authorities to. have the narrow thoroughfare at that side... reserved for a taxi rank...”, 3 sides A4, House of Commons headed paper, 10th September
Item Date:
1971
Stock No:
43795
£250
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[ELIZABETH
(The Queen Mother, 1900-2002, Queen of George VI)]
Typed letter signed ‘Lettice Boothby’ on behalf of the Queen to Mrs Ralph Wigram
Ava Lady WAVERLEY (1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) saying that “the Queen’s letter to you. must just have crossed yours... As one who has been thro’ the same utter desolation that you are now struggling in, may I offer you my deepest sympathy. I know only too well what it means. But nothing can ever take from us the happiness we have had & it shines on through all the years of loneliness like an afterglow. The Queen would be very glad to have the book on King Edward VII’s Coronation written by your father, & is much touched that your husband should have thought of sending it to her...”, 4 sides 8vo., on Sandringham headed paper, with original autograph envelope with Edward VIII’s stamp in the corner, 14th January, postmarked
Item Date:
1937
Stock No:
43809
£75
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