SAMBOURNE REFUSES TO DO A CARTOON ABOUT BULLER AFTER HIS SACKING
SAMBOURNE
(Edward Linley, 1844-1910, ‘Punch’ Artist)
Autograph Letter Signed ‘Linley Sambourne’ to an unnamed correspondent
thanking him for his letter but saying that “unfortunately I have my hands more or less tied as knowing General Sir Redvers Buller personally I should not (even if requested to do so) like to make any pictorial comment whatever touching on recent deplorable occurrences. I none the less am sensible of your kindly taking the trouble to forward a suggestion...”, 2 sides 8vo., Hockwold Hall, Brandon, Norfolk, 27th October
Item Date:
1901
Stock No:
43625
£75
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SIMEON II
(Simeon Borisov Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, born 1937, King of the Bulgarians, 1943-1946, Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria, 2001-2005)
Fine Coloured Photo signed and dated
showing him head and shoulders in a jacket and tie, 6½” x 4½”, no place, June
Item Date:
1997
Stock No:
43641
£375
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SOPHIA
(Dorothea Ulrike Alice, 1870-1932, Princess of Prussia, daughter of Emperor Friedrich III, wife, 1889, of King Constantine I of Greece)
Stencilled image of a leaf signed with the place and date
done while she was staying with her Grandmother Queen Victoria at Osborne as a young Princess, she has filled in the veins of the leaf which she has stencilled, 1 side 8vo., Osborne, 30th July
Item Date:
1882
Stock No:
43635
£145
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PRINCESS SOPHIA OF PRUSSIA ON THE DEATH OF PRINCESS ALICE AND HER DAUGHTER MARIE
SOPHIA
(Dorothea Ulrike Alice, 1870-1932, Princess of Prussia, daughter of Emperor Friedrich III, wife, 1889, of King Constantine I of Greece)
Extraordinay early Autograph letter signed to ‘My darling Pysie’,
saying “Is it not awful for Uncle and cousins that they should lose first darling May & then poor Aunty? The doctors would not let Mama go to the Funeral which was yesterday this made her very sad but she is gone to Cöln to meet Uncle Bertie. Now darling Pysie wishing you a happy Christmas...”, 4 sides 8vo., on paper with a fine gold crested ‘S’ at the head, Berlin, 19th December
Item Date:
1878
Stock No:
43637
£375
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SPARK
(Dame Muriel, 1918-2006, Scottish Novelist, Short Story Writer, Poet and Essaysist)
Autograph Letter Signed "Muriel Spark" to Mrs Desmond Dupré
(Cathering Dupré, 1926-2014, Writer) saying that their “mutual friend Tony Lincoln, is bringing me on a tour of some of our friends in Kent... & we wonder if we could call on you? I expect this would be in the afternoon, some time. (The above sounds like a commercial traveller’s advance warning)... I would be jolly & Tony, like me, is looking forward to it...”, 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 13 Baldwin Crescent, Camberwell, 24th March
Item Date:
1959
Stock No:
43644
£225
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