BURTON
(Sir Richard Francis, 1821-1890, Traveller, Explorer and Linguist)
Fine Autograph Letter signed, in French with Translation to an unnamed correspondent
saying that after his “return to Trieste (yesterday night) I have received the booklet ... to M. L. L. S. of Sh. I am waiting for a communication of his part before passing his volumes. Please let me inform if there is a French (or Italian) translation of the book entitled: Priapeia; Sive Diversorum Poetarum in Priapum Lusus. I have just finished my... in English verse...”, 2 sides 8vo., Triest, 13th October no year
Item Date:
1886
Stock No:
42670
£1750
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BYATT
(Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, née Drabble, 1936-2023, Novelist, Poet and Booker Prize winner under the name A. S. Byatt, sister of Margaret Drabble)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Blackmore
thanking him for his letter and saying he “should very much like to talk to the University of Sussex Literary Society... I seem to have got into rather a panic trying to organise next term’s teaching, and various other things, which ought to be sorted out by the second half of next term. What I shd ideally like to talk about is structural problems in modern novels - symbols & realism & length - & illustrate it out of the things that have gone wrong in my own - but not talklng just about them. Would that sort of thing be all right?...”, 1 side 4to., 33 Ridgmount Gardens, 12th September
Item Date:
1967
Stock No:
42665
£95
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PHOTO SIGNED BY RICHARD E. BYRD
BYRD
(Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957, American Naval Officer and Pioneering Aviator, Polar Explorer and Organiser of Polar Logistics)
Magazine Photo boldly signed
showing him head and shoulders in profile, wearing his white Navy uniform, 6” x 4½”, no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1920
Stock No:
42703
£575
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RARE LETTER FROM LADY NOEL BYRON
BYRON
(Anne Isabella Noel, née Millbanke, 1792-1860, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron, wife of Lord Byron)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Crabb Robinson
saying that “Mr Follen, who has now vanished from our sight I fear for ever, had not any opportunity of giving you a message from me - Instead of repeating it I will ask you if you can bestow upon me any hour next Sunday, & come so far as this place to see yours very truly...”, with a postscript that she leaves “London this morning, but shall hope I find your answer on my return on Saturday & will observe the time named by you...”, 2 sides 8vo., ‘Great Western Hotel’, Paddington Station, 6th July no year
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
42710
£775
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RARE LETTER FROM LADY NOEL BYRON
BYRON
(Anne Isabella Noel, née Millbanke, 1792-1860, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron, wife of Lord Byron)
Formal Autograph Letter in the third person
presenting “her compliments to Mr Staffenden and requests to be informed on what terms he would attend her school at Ealing Grove on occasions of illness...” 1 sie 8vo., Fordhook, 4th May
Item Date:
1836
Stock No:
41692
£475
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