“TENNYSON IS EXPECTED TODAY OR TOMORROW...”
PROCTER
(Ann Benson, née Skepper, 1799-1888, Writer, wife of the post ‘Barry Cornwall’)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Mitchell
thanking her for her letter and saying that “you and I are the only letter writers left. The next generation (if you and I for the sake of my argument can be placed on the same line) will never be able to publish any correspondence - the little scraps that one receives now are like Telegrams, the fewer words the better. You tell me of the Milners of whose residence at present I was quite ignorant - Lord Houghton is about sailing for America I suppose. Where a real live Lord will be very acceptable. We are highly excited. Tennyson is expected today or tomorrow. We ought to receive him with an address - or a shower of roses - most suitable for a poet... Poor Lady Thomson - I wish she had a home - I don’t call Curzon St one - but place in the Country where she could knock a nail in or turn a kitchen into a sitting room - she wants something to do - and above all, when one is not well - my dear husband used to say ‘what a bad headache I should have, had I not a hard days work before me’. I never knew Lady Thomson better in health than when she was so anxious abut Mrs Mitchell. Mrs Sartoris was so uneasy about Lady Thomson - she found her so irritable - no subject pleased her, and yet the two old friends love each other dearly. What a spoilt life it has been - Handsome - fine qualities... she became a prey to the false & bad. The Mother stood for years between her & those who warped her judgement. I wish she had some idol now... Edith & I are going to Rendcomb Park in Nov. I hear continually from my dear Lady Goldsmed. Sir Francis much the same. I want to tell you a little story and to ask you for a little help. I have these young friends they live at Wimbledon, they support themselves by giving lessons in French, Italian, Music & Singing. The youngest, aged 22 - very pretty & very engaging has fallen into a bad state of health. The Doctors all advised Ventnor, where she passed last Winter & returned for the Summer to... Wimbledon - she was enabled to go to Ventnor by the kindness of a friend. We want her to go this Winter to Ventnor and I am trying to raise a little fund for this purpose. They deserve help, they do so much for themselves, they Cook for the sick sister... dress her, wait upon her. The whold three are gentlewomin in every sense of the word - the Doctor thinks that another Winter may restore her...”, 3 sides 8vo., Beach House, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, 20th September
Item Date:
1875
Stock No:
43517
£125
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ROBERTS
(Frederick, Earl, 1832-1914, V.C., K.G., ‘Roberts of Kandahar’, Field Marshal)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Theodore MARTIN
(1816-1909, Scottish Poet, Biographer & Translator) making an appointment to meet “at the United Service Club... we can have a chat either there, or at your Club which is close by. Will you kery kindly send me a line to Edgehill, Sydenham to say if this arrangement will suit you...”, 2 sides 8v., Dublin, 17th December
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
43539
£125
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ROMILLY
(Joseph, 1791-1864, Registrar of Cambridge University, 1832-1861)
Autograph Letter Signed to Dr PAGET,
(later Sir) George Edward PAGET, (1809-1892, of Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, from 1872 Regius Professor of Physic), thanking him “for your most kind invitation to eat my Christmas dinner with you & Mrs Paget. I cannot have the pleasure of doing so as I have a nephew coming to me with his little by. The youngster is recovering from the whooping cough; had he been thoroughly well I should ere now have written to beg Edmund to be his companion. May good health & happiness attend you & Mrs Paget...”, 2 sides small 8vo, Friday night, 13th December no year
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43541
£55
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RUTHERSTON
(Albert, 1881-1953, Figure & Landscaper Painter, Illustrator)
Autograph Letter Signed to “Dear Couverie”
thanking him for his letter and apologising for not answering sooner as his show has “kept me more than busy. I will certainly send Davies a catalogue so soon as Sotheby’s sends them along. I’m delighted to hear that he is interested and that you formed a good opinion of the collection although I was certain that you would do so. I hung my show at the Crichton yesterday & this morning & am filled with that sort of black depression I get always on seeing my work hung up en masse, the the world’s judgement... it’s a horrible feeling. Tomorrow perhaps I’ll feel more happy about it. I intend going into my private view latish both Friday & Saturday - about 4.30. I don’t wish to appear either day but the Crichton insist - virtually - that I should. I hope... that you are better & entirely revived again & we hope to see you very soon. It is most good of you to have interested Davies over the collection...”, 1 side 4to., 11 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn, 1st November
Item Date:
1921
Stock No:
43540
£145
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RUPERT SHEPHARD WRITES ABOUT THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE, DYLAN THOMAS’S SISTER IN LAW
SHEPHARD
(Rupert Norman, 1909-1992, Painter, Illustrator and Art Teacher)
Long Autograph Letter Signed to Josephine PULLEIN-THOMPSON
(1924-2014, Writer best known for her Pony Books) saying “bless you for a really wonderful letter about Nicolette and her great qualities and her happiness with me, (I too was immensely happy). You help me to cope with the difficult phase of having to accept that she is no longer here and that I must get on with life without her. I’m so glad that her friends at P.E.N. talk about her a great deal. P.E.N. meant an awful lot to Nicolette. She had never before been really part of a society not assisted in any co-operative activity. P.E.N. gave her a lot of enjoyment and a sense of support & security... It was lovely that P.E.N. sent flowers... I’m sorry you weren’t able to be there - wonderful singing and Sally (Graves) Chilver gave a very good address...”, 2 sides A4, 68 Limerston Street, SW10 0HJ, 1st June
Item Date:
1987
Stock No:
43523
£125
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