ORCZY
(Baroness Emmuska Orczy, 1865-1947, Author of the ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’)
Fine signature and end of a Typed Letter Signed
“With kindest remembrances and every good wishes...”, 6” x 2”, no place, no date
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0
Stock No:
43290
£25
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BARONESS ORCZY AND THE MYSTERY ROOMS THAT WHEATLEY ORGANISED FOR THE DAILY MAIL IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION
ORCZY
(Baroness Emmuska, 1865-1947, Author of ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel')
Small Archive of two Long Autograph Letters Signed and one Typed Letter Signed to Dennis WHEATLEY
(1897-1977, Novelist) the first an Autograph letter saying that they are “now settled at home for the winter, and won’t be in England before about the middle of June. But how kind of you to send us such a delightful invitation. We should have loved it. Your ‘Paternoster Club’ seems to be a wonderful circle of interesting people whom both my husband & I would have enjoyed meeting. Alas! and alas! Do convey our united warm thanks to your chairman & committee... don’t you & your dear wife ever come our way down here. What about a Montecarlo holiday about Christmas time. You would enjoy it you know. We do know how to be gay here and how to enjoy our sunshine, even though we don’t haunt the ‘Palace of Sin’. Gambling not being in our line. Do try and come. You would both love it. I have never yet known any one - but a ‘mugwump’ who didn’t... I hope we shall have the chance of sampling your beautiful Today. I have some, but stock is getting low, and the French customs won’t allow the importation of ‘dessert’ wines save at a prohibitive price. Poor little Hungary she is getting hit in every possible way...” with a postscript “A thousand truly heartfelt congratulations on your continued great success!!...”, 2 sides A4, with original autograph envelope, Villa Bijou, Monte Carlo, 4th October 1937, the next the Typed letter thanking her for “sending me the account and full details of your ‘Mystery Rooms’. I think they must have been most exciting and it was very clever of people to guess the owners of the various rooms. From all accounts the whole Exhibition was a great success, and I hope you and the organisers are pleased... It would indeed be a great pleasure to see you and your dear wife when next we are in London... Early in June we go to Holland... and after that to Belgium on business. I am afraid it would be quite the end of July or beginning of August before we get to London... It must have been a lovely trip that you had in Egypt. Do make up your minds some time next winter to spend a few days here on this lovely coast...”, 1 side A4, Monte Carlo, 1st June 1938 and the final Autograph Letter saying how disappointed she had been to find that they were in “our part of the world at this very time when we are never there. We usually leave Monte at teh end of June for about three months. We are in England now for another few days after which we go to Aix-les-Bains stopping for a while in Paris on the way... I am afraid you are finding it terribly hot down South. Our gardener writes to say that ‘la chaleur est excessive’. Here it has been awful ever since we landed at Dover... we love the whole of lovely Savoie. I know Cavaliere well - we stayed also at Beauvallon in the spring. Have you visited the faith-healer fisherman? He really has done some marvellous cures. I am sure your hotel people have talked to you about him... he is such a character &. I think a most attractive personality. Of course you are all getting wonderful bathing... the coast is so lovely. If you go motoring about don’t fail to go to lunch at the Restaurant des Flots Bleus in the little village of Anthéor - on the sea shore. Their ‘grillades’ are a culinary poem & the ‘atmosphere’ such as you only get in places of that sort in France. How I wish I had been at home to welcome you...”, 2 sides 4to., c/o Swiss Bank Corporation, 11 Regent Street, 9th August
Item Date:
1939
Stock No:
43292
£975
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ORPEN
(Sir William, 1878-1931, Portrait, Genre & War Painter)
Brief Autograph Note signed
“Sir, the honour is mine, herewith my little name, with pleasure...”, 3¾” x 2½”, Paris, dated in another hand, 5th September
Item Date:
1924
Stock No:
43289
£35
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PALGRAVE
(Francis Turner, 1824-1897, Poet, Critic, Editor of the ‘Golden Treasury')
Fine Long Autograph Letter Signed to “My dear Observer”
saying that “although some rumour of your continued existence reached me through my mother, yet it is long since I have heard any news about you, and I should like it very much if you would at any time send me one of the short billets-doux which I know you are in the habit of writing. I have been in some hopes that one would come some day to tell me that you were coming up to town, remember that you promised, on the faith of an Astronomer, to let me know if you visit the fashionable lodgings, and the fat friend who at other times moves in so high a sphere. You cannot have had much observing lately; in Devonshire, at least, and S. Wales, whence I have just returned, the clouds had taken to the most persevering sky-scraping and earth-deluging; hardly any day was free from rain. I stayed for a few days with Edm. Bastard, whose name you will remember at Balliol 2 years ago; he has a house on the very edge of Dartmoor; in fertile, cultivated land, but so high up that the clouds used to come down on the lawn, and constantly to cover the tops of the granite hills close by. I had a very pleasant time there; the country was quite new to me... and the host was not:- he is one of the most remarkable people I have ever seen, for clearness of mind and the most unsullied goodness. As he has rather large property, he has abundant room to exercise these good qualities. From Devonshire I went to Wales and travelled slowly about with my Father & Mother attempting to sketch numerous Castles & great Monastic Churches. We saw Tintern among other things; but on the whole I could not help thinking ruins rather an unprofitable study - unless at least one has a great previous knowledge of history. Beyond the outermost facts as it were in the life of the old inhabitants they teach one nothing. I saw a report in a Paper which made me think of you - it was about Bowden’s joining the R. Catholics. I fear you will regret it if it is true. Will you mention something about it if you write, and do not object? You know that I knew him and liked him much. We have not heard from Gifford for 3 weeks or more, did he write to you...”, 6 sides 8vo.,Hampstead, 28th August no year but circa
Item Date:
1850
Stock No:
43299
£125
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PALMERSTON SENDS PAPERS ABOUT THE SLAVE TRADE TO THE COMMISSIONER OF BOA VISTA
PALMERSTON
(Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784-1865, Prime Minister)
Fine Clerk Written Document signed to “Her Majesty’s Commissioner Boa Vista”
transmitting to him “for your Information 4 Copies of a Series of Papers, marked A, B, C, and D, relating to the Slave Trade, which have been presented by Her Majesty’s Command to the Two Houses of Parliament during the present Session...”, 1 side folio, Foreight Office 14th August
Item Date:
1846
Stock No:
43301
£475
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