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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SPENCER
(Gilbert, 1892-1979, Artist, brother of Sir Stanley)
Fine Long early Autograph Letter Signed to Austin and Vera LANE POOLE
(1889-1963, Historian, from 1913 Tutor, then Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, President, 1947-1957 and his wife 1890-1965, Vera Ellen Dendy, Painter, saying that he is “suffering under the influence of the first shock of the empty chair complaint, not being a wireless enthusiast & not being a spiritualist I am left with no other alternative but to talk to you through the medium of His Majesties Post Master General. I heard you go off yesterday & felt half inclined to run up this hill to cheer you on your way. I did not. feel particularly happy at returning but Marjorie is doing her best to keep my spirits in the ascendancy. I am terribly affected by associations & environments & in spite of my apparently living alone I am in fact very much part of & among my friends. To love one’s friends does not mean that one has got to be perpetually on their door step neither does it mean that one has even got to be continually writing. To my way of thinking the making and keeping of friends is a fine art. My friends are all in a sort of nursery & I am the nurse... I have entered upon my duties as a householder with all the dignity & fortitude I can muster but the children still titter every time they say ‘Good night Mr Spencer’...” there is then a lengthy description of his daily routine before continuing to his work “I am now painting those lovely little dark fir trees which look so good against the grey roofs of the houses. I have definitely decided to put some pigs in the foreground as I am certain that no portrait of Lower Chedworth would be true without them. On returning to dinner which Marjorie serves up with remarkable dexterity I remark that the butcher has not sent me what I asked for - half a leg of mutton the knuckle end - being very careful not to betray to her the fact that I did not ask for the other end (which thank God he sent) because I did not know its name. After dinner I take a walk...” he continues with the details of the rest of his day with comments on the people in the village and the book he is reading (Tess of the D’Urbervilles), “The ducks still wend their irrigated way down the many interlacing streams quacking their appreciation of Christmas having passed & sticking to their courses as faithfully as any railway engine. The Steam Roller still finds life full of ups & downs & I should like to ask the driver whether he likes sailing but he might ‘turn funny’. It rained this morning so I could not paint... Dean came in a little later & told me that he was so frightfully busy with Parochial affairs etc that he had that day transferred the whole of that huge undertaking - the supply of York Cottage with electric light - to another manager... Well my pen has fairly run riot with me tonight. I started this letter with the intention of stating in plain & simple language my affectionate gratitude for the very happy time I have spent here with you & the hope that again someday I shall cross the threshold of your door to add another link to the happiness of my experiences. This letter passes through some rather mixed phases...”, 11 sides 8vo.,, with original autograph envelope, c/o Mrs Poole, Chedworth, Gloucestershire, postmarked
Item Date:
1923
Stock No:
43624
£225
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SPENDER
(Sir Stephen, 1909-1995, Poet & Critic)
Typed Letter Signed to fellow author Aubrey Hodes
saying that “the story and poem are both interesting and powerful. I am sorry not to have written before about the poem, but it became detached from your letter and there is no indication on it of whom it is by. For this reason I did not realise that it was yours and had put it aside until I heard from the author. I am very sorry to have to return them but at the moment we have so much pressure on space that I am simply returning almost everything...”, 1 side A4 on Encounter Magazine headed paper, 25 Haymarket, London, 28th June
Item Date:
1956
Stock No:
43645
£100
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