"DID YOU EXPECT ME TO SIT ON THE STAIRS ON THE OFF CHANCE OF YOU COMING IN?"
DOUGLAS
(Lord Alfred, 1870-20th March 1945, Poet, friend of Oscar Wilde)
Autograph Letter Signed signed in full to Mr Calvert
saying "You are the 'limit'. I called in accordance with your own suggestion last Friday exactly at 1 o'clock. I left The Rossiad & a note for you & I called again at 1.45 and 2.30. Now you say you came in at 1.10 & 'as there was no letter' from me you went out to lunch. How do you mean 'no letter'? I left a letter in the office opposite. Where else was I to leave it, or did you expect me to sit on the stairs on the off chance of yr. coming in? It is most annoying as I came up on purpose to see you on business connected with The Rossiad. Could you come down here next Sunday to talk it over. There is a train leaving Victoria at 11.15 arriving Lewes 12.39. I would send motor for you & you could lunch here & spend two or three hours & get back to London in time for dinner. Let me know if you can manage this. See Daily Express advt. day after tomorrow ...", with a few annotations, presumably in Calvert's hand, relating to the train times between London and Lewes, 4 sides 8vo., Shelley's Folly headed paper, 4th April
2 filing holes on second sheet barely effecting the text
Item Date:
1916
Stock No:
41622
£775
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[ELISABETH
(Alexandra Louise Alice, 1864-1918, Grand Duchess of Russia, daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, wife of Sergei of Russia, became a nun and was murdered by the Bolsheviks)]
Fine unsigned Russian postcard photo,
showing her half length, seated, sitting in a chair facing partly right but with her head turned towards the camera, she is wearing a dark dress, a headscarf and and a crucifix on a long chain, 5½" x 3½", no place, (Moscow) no date, circa
Item Date:
1908
Stock No:
41633
£275
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[ELISABETH
(Alexandra Louise Alice, 1864-1918, Grand Duchess of Russia, daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, wife of Sergei of Russia, became a nun and was murdered by the Bolsheviks)]
Fine unsigned Russian postcard photo,
showing her three quarters length, standing, in her Nun's robes with veil and crucifix, 5½" x 3½", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1914
Stock No:
41634
£375
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[ELIZABETH
(The Queen Mother, 1900-2002, Queen of George VI)
Superb unsigned sepia toned portrait photo by Vandyk
showing her half length seated, wearing a lacy dress, pearls and the Strathmore Rose Tiara, 8" x 6½", with photographer's stamp on the verso, 41 Buckingham Palace Road, no date, circa
Item Date:
1926
Stock No:
41659
£225
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FERDINAND MARIA
(1884-1958, Prince of Bavaria and Spain, grandson of Isabel II, his first wife MARIA TERESA, 1882-1912, sister of Alfonso XIII, and their first child LUIS ALFONSO, b. 1906)
Portrait photograph, by Franzen,
signed by them on the image with the baby's name and date in his mother's hand, showing Ferdinand Maria full face, nearly full length, in cavalry officer's short jacket and breeches, with his wife seated holding their baby, 7½" x 4½" on mount 13¼" x 8¾", Madrid,
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
36359
£475
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