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[London]: 9 March, 1871., 1871.. Good. - 26 words penned on a partial sheet of letterhead, approximately 3-1/4 inches high by 3-1/2 inches wide, with his London address printed in red at the top. The letterhead is mounted on a piece of card of the same size. Signed "B. W. Proctor". The note is lightly soiled & its left edge is a bit darkened. Some partial words are penned on the verso of the mount with glue stains where it has been removed from an album. Good. Proctor writes that he regrets to say that his daughter died five years ago. "Therefore the only signature that I can send you is that of your obed servt / B. W. Proctor".Bryan Waller Proctor [1787-1874] was a nineteenth-century English poet. He studied law in London then entered a partnership with another solicitor. In 1820 the partnership was dissolved and he began to write under the pseudonym of "Barry Cornwall". After his marriage in 1824 he returned to his career as a conveyancer and was called to the bar in 1831. In the following year he… Read More

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Co., c. 1860. Lithograph, 32.5 x 39 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso; prepared for William Colling Hobson’s “Fox-Hunting Atlas”, overprinted with the names of the hunts and the places of the meeting of foxhounds. Map

1920. 1 vols. watercolour, signed "J Heseldine" lower left inscribed as title on verso, 5 x 7. This watercolour is one of a series done by the artist of scenes in Cornwall, England in the 1920s, when Cornwall was a favoured holiday resort. 1 vols. watercolour, signed "J Heseldine" lower left inscribed as title on verso, 5 x 7