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saying that she is "one of those few who have believed in me these many years; a fact whereof I have always felt very proud; more so than I well know how to say. Any little circumstance therefore which would seem to justify your faith is intensely welcome... In this light I value the associateship. It will now be my duty to take a share of the teaching in the schools and if either of your children should go to study there you know it will be a great gratification to me to devote to them the best I can do in that way. The last time we went to Camp Cottage you were all away... We have now six babies all told and the latest still keeps his mother nearly always at home so you will be nearly sure to find her when you come. I hope I may be no less fortunate but to save me a disappointment you must stay to dinner and there will I hope be no reason for your returning to Wimbledon that evening...", 3 sides 8vo., 6 Keswick Road, Putney, 30th January

(Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville, 1903-1989, Classicist and Medievalist who held senior chairs of Latin at Oxford and Cambridge) thanking him for his letter "It was very good of you to take this trouble. I have sent it to Batey, which I hope you won't mind, and I do hope now he will feel he can use my block without qualms. I think the present division of the words stems from Michael Burghess who supplied the press with such splendid copper plate engravings in the 17th century. They are large and the shield is not the only thing in the designs. The shield as used now, by itself and small, needs careful attention paid to the lettering (Burghess was not particularly a letterer). That was my reason for this slight re-arrangement It was not just a quibble. The Press I think knowing there have been variants in the past... This in itself I feel is a pity. There is no particular virtue in standardisation. But if it must be standardised then surely the most satisfactory design should be… Read More

Sending her "the two subjects you receive from me are fron Spencer's Fairy Queen and the Decameron... the first is Una with the Satyres,... & the other a secluded meadow scene from the latter...", 1 side 8vo., Newman St, 25th September His best-known painting is the Procession of the Canterbury Pilgrims, (now in Tate Britain), the engraving from which, begun by Luigi and continued by Niccolo Schiavonetti and finished by James Heath, was immensely popular. The commission for this picture was given to Stothard by Robert Hartley Cromek, and was the cause of a quarrel with his friend William Blake.

thanking him for "the Guinea you kindly sent me for the Artist's Benevolent fund & for your promised support at my table on May 5th. The dinner ticket shall be sent in due course...", 1 side oblong 8vo., 54 Bedford Gardens, Kensington, 4th February

telling them that "while wrapping up the enclosed - I must express as well as I can my very sincere thanks for all your kind attentions to me & all the love you have shown me which has made my little sojourn here so very happy - but more especially do I desire to thank Our Heavenly Father for all the spiritual communion & fellowship which I have truly enjoyed - & which if it pleases Him to spare me I shall hope again to enjoy in the Spring after a visit from yourselves to me D.V. in January, when I trust I may reciprocate some of that love & affection which you have shown me & which has made me so happy. May Our dear Lord & Saviour ever watch over you & bless you & make you both a blessing to the sheep committed to your care - & may He guide us all, in which I desire with kindest love to include yr dear Aunt to follow Him until He lead us into those Heavenly Mansions which He is gone to prepare for His redeemed...", 3 sides 8vo., together with an original… Read More

thanking her for "sending me the charming photograph - and I thank you from my heart, also the cigarettes., they are so good - that I smoked too many and have a smoky hot head at the moment - so forgive more. Your very thankful Painter...", 1 side 4to., 8 South Bolton Gardens, no date

asking that it "be Tuesday the 27th as on speaking to my wife we are engaged the 20th. A line to say yes...", 7 Cromwell Place, South Kensington, 14th May

of the hall in her house, she sends "all good wishes for 1945 to you both & hoping to see you here!", 4¾" x 3½", 19 Lord North Street, no date but December

An Exposition by Adolph Saphir", inscribed to "The Revd Richard Earle with the affectionate regards of Lady A. Blackwood, Boxmoor, 27th October 1894", together with a newspaper cutting illustration of the house, 1 side 8vo., Boxmoor, 27th October Lady Alicia was the daughter of George Frederick Augustus Lambart, Viscount Kilcoursie (1789–1828) and Sarah Coppin, she was married to the Rev. James Stevenson Blackwood (1805–1882). As she recounts in A Narrative of Personal Experiences & Impressions during a Residence on the Bosphorus throughout the Crimean War (1881), Lady Alicia Blackwood and her husband "were deeply moved to go out" after hearing of "the battle of Inkerman, that terribly hard-fought struggle". Dr. Blackwood obtained a chaplaincy to the forces; Lady Alicia and two young women friends accompanied him, determined to find some way to help. Lady Alicia applied to Florence Nightingale at Scutari in December 1854.

sending "the autograph you ask for. I make it a rule to ask for 10/6 subscription to the General Artist's Benevolent Institution so if you feel inclined to do so I shall be very pleased...", 1 side postcard, 9 Langford Place, St John's Wood, no date

saying that "with reference to the title page of 'Puss in Boots' of Stereotype it may stand as it is for this Edition - if not then merely put the name of A or 'Alfred Arnold...", 1 side 8vo., no place, 10th May George Cruikshank illustrated Puss in Boots in 1864.

saing that he had forgotten "to acknowledge your cheque for the Romney Marsh C.P.T., which I have sent on to the Treasurer. Thank you so much!...", on a coloured postcard of the Benjamin Britten Memorial Window in Aldeburgh, 6" x 4", no place, 10th May

with many thanks and every good wish from" with the date, 1 side 8vo., 15th October "In the London of Beardsley and Beerbohm, Shaw and Henry James, Robertson was a promising presence in the art and theatre worlds. Today the museums of England owe a debt to his taste and judgement", according to The New York Times.

thanking her for having "treated my requst so sympathetically & to have arranged the matter with Gloucester so promptly. Thank you... also for saying you will look in at the class.... I should be glad to pay Mr Moore's fee if he were able to come...", 1 side 4to., Rodmarton headed paper, 21st December Claude and Margaret Biddulph built Rodmarton Manon near Cirencester in the 20's, one of the last great houses of England and one of the last great shrines to the Arts and Crafts movement. They chose to live modestly in cottage-sized rooms in a wing, while the main reception rooms were turned into a sort of village college. The Architect was Ernest Barnsley. He had abandoned architectural practice in Birmingham in 1893 and, together with his brother, Sidney, and Ernest Gimson, had settled in the Cotswolds.

sending "the full size moldings &c for the sarcophagus", 1 side black-edged, 28 Montagu Square, W., no date, c.

saying that "at last I beg to return the 2 Vol; (Mexico) you were so kind as to lend me, and but that you have so often forbade any apology would again attempt to excuse myself for having kept them so long. I don't think I ever committed a work with more satisfaction and may I say advantage... in respect of some particulars which made them exceedingly apropos. My avocations however afford me but little time to read consecutively and the entire perusal of the work have been interrupted by long intervals. Pray allow of this in excuse...", with a long postscript asking him to "do me the great kindness, in your next 'Punch' dispatches for Mexico... considered one of my... happiest efforts, & is not the worst idea for revolutionary principles introduced at Home...", 4 sides 8vo., 1 Vale Place, Hammersmith, 4th November Leech was best known for his work for Punch, a humorous magazine for a broad middle-class audience, combining verbal and graphic political satire with… Read More

saying he "could not ask for work to go better or faster - and one day I shall endeavour to return your kindness which I have done nothing to deserve. I am enclosing a note for Perdiguier [please could you put on the address], if he was responsible for the very kind words on the heading. Try and avoid colliding with Villemessant here on Monday...", 1 side 8vo., no place but with his red Monogram "N" with "Quand Meme" at the head, no date, circa Nadar was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs. His son, Paul Nadar (1856–1939), continued the studio after his death. The correspondent is possibly Philippe GILLE (1831-1901) who was a French dramatist and opera librettist, who was born and died in Paris. He was photographed by Nadar in the 1870s. He is probably referring to Hippolyte de VILLEMESSANT (1810-1879)… Read More

saying that in Rome "they expect spring weather" to begin in February, he is "writing now by an open window!", although he knows Rome well "there is constant food for thought", recalling "over and over again the lessons of childhood and manhood", 2 sides 8vo., Grand-Hôtel, Rome, 2nd February guard just touches ends of a few lines For Agnew's outstanding deals see DNB.

saying that he will "probably come to town tomorrow.. but this must depend upon my getting a coach at Woburn as it is not the day for the Ampthill coach. This house is full of gay society & Colonel Charles... previous to his departure for America...", 1 side 4to., Ampthill, 21st August

returning "your copy corrected, and a transcript throughout, of the Latin memorial and here follows, in English the concluding sentence, or, rather part of a sentence, beginning after the last period,and with the word Post that you may perceive the defect at the end: But after these and many such like duties (or works of benevolence) or services, rendered both to God and his/her country, and to me, his wife/her husband,and the his/her children.... As to your publication' as a well wisher to literature, I hope it may reward your pains, by meeting with many friends. On looking again at your letter since writing the above, I perceive the personage in question is a lady but the transition is easy, as amended above. But to proceed in answer to your enquiry, whether she was a native of Rumford? The Latin does not say so much, of herself it does not speak at all ... There is no word in the original for her or his the omission is no defect, but a grammatical licence... With respect to my account,… Read More