CLARK
(Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, 1903-1983, Art Historian, Life Baron)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed ‘K’ to ‘Dearest Ava’ LADY WAVERLEY
(1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) saying that he owes her “two letters of thanks for the most delightful evenings... adored the trip down the Avon & equally the ring of Valkyrie. It has always been my favourite of the Cycle... We had a most delightful day & evening with Mollie & Walter at Drumlanrig. I think the most beautiful house in Scotland with the most beautiful things in it... what possessions they have! It is incredible - where on can spend an evening with Queen Elizabeth sitting in chairs given by Charles II to Monmouth - in a room lit by sconces given to Monmouth by Charles II & so on ad infinitum - one is transported into another world... How sad it will be when Drumlanrig becomes a kind of Chateau of the Loire? That is the only sorrow about Chatsworth. Admirable as the arrangement is - how much better it would have been if Anconer could have gone on living there. Houses very quickly turn into Museums - & die. Mollie is really a genius at entertaining. To transport the whole household from Boughton to Drumlanrig & back & have 22 people to dinner every night - is a triumph! I put you, & Mollie & Diana Cooper as the three best hostesses in my generation. How happy I am to know & love them all! & enjoy such hospitality. I wish you and John weren’t going away in the summer & could have come either her - or to Glancomer for the Festival...”, 4 sides 4to., Harwood Bonchester Bridge, Hawick headed paper, 27th June no year
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43724
£125
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COLENSO
(Harriette Emily, 1847-1932, Christian Missionary in Southern Africa)
Autograph Postcard Signed to Mr Shearing (?)
Thanking him “much for the book Religious Systems of the World safely received this evening...”, 1 side postcard with autograph address on the verso, 8th September
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
43738
£125
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CONSTANTINE II
(1940-2023, King of the Hellenes) & his wife ANNE-MARIE (of Denmark, born 1946)
Black and White Photograph signed by both underneath
with a printed a printed message in Greek inside, the image shows the King and Queen with three of their children, two boys and a girl standing together in a garden, 6¾” x 5½” on folded white card, no place, no date
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0
Stock No:
43763
£75
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RELATIONS BETWEEN GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR
DALRYMPLE-HAY
(Sir John Charles, 3rd Baronet, 1821-1912, Admiral and Politician)
Extraordinary Long Letter Signed to Dr Maurice ERNST
(1872-1955, London correspondent of the Neues Wiener Tagblatt) replying to his letter which had asked him to give his opinion as to “the cause of the ‘strained relations’ that exist at present between Germany and Great Britain. I should consider that the causes are I. the imprudence of the newspapers - many of which have done all they can to make ‘bad blood’ between the nations. The violent and disgraceful articles published in the German newspapers against Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, whose noble life should have shielded Her from such virulent abuse... the faint echoes of the Boer War - not happily ended - still continue to awaken regret in many German minds at the complete success of Great Britain. II. The free importation of German manufactured goods into Great Britain is a great cause of ill feeling. No manufacturers are more worthy rivals nor have we better customers among foreigners than Germans. But German manufactured articles of inferior quality, and others in the various preliminary stages are ‘dumped down’ in Great Britain duty free... III. The preference shown here for ‘cheap’ in preference to good articles, dearer in money value is another Cause. ‘Made in Germany’ is a familiar description of this class of goods... This rage for ‘Cheapness’ is the complaint from which Great Britain suffers. Trade Unionism infests the Workman. The skilled artisan is not allowed to benefit by his superior skill or dexterity... Where work is not done by Contract good honest work still produces the best. Not long ago the Writer had the honour of spending a day at Messrs Harland and Wolff’s great shipbuilding yard at Belfast. They do not contract. The build the ship or produce the engine for the customer. The Customer pays the bill on delivery. There is no scamping of the work in any of its stages for there is no inducement to make things cheap... A tax on the importation of articles made abroad... might make Great Britain and her Colonies self supporting and self contained and might stop the friction due to Germany’s success in exporting to Great Britain inferior articles at a lower price than the same articles of a better quality home made. A judicious Tariff would help to restore the much to be desired good feeling between the two countries... The watch dog over Contract is the Eleventh Commandment ‘Thou shalt not be found out’. The rivalry between Germany and Great Britain is supported by Contract... The Sovereigns of both States are looked up to in both with reverence and affection. Their relations to each other are most friendly. The defensive forces of each are in a high state of efficiency. There is no general ill feeling in Great Britain or its people against Germany or the Germans. On the contrary in the words of Sir John Kennaway... ‘in the hearts of the people of this Country there exist feelings of cordial friendship and respect’...”, 4 sides folio, 108 St George’s Square, London, no date, circa
Item Date:
1905
Stock No:
43791
£275
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DANKWORTH
(Sir John Philip William, 1927-1010, Jazz Composer, Saxophonist, Clarinettist and Writer of Film Scores)
Fine coloured photo signed and inscribed
“best wishes” showing him half length with his saxophone, 10” x 9”, no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43793
£50
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