Recent Arrivals from Sophie Dupre

saying "By all means - in great haste..." on a correspondence card 4" x 3½", 5 Old Palace Yard headed, 8th May no year He was a politician, writer, publisher and theatre owner in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He is now most remembered for the Labouchère Amendment, which for the first time criminalised all male homosexual… Read more about this item

to "Whom it may concern... These are to certify that our Brother John Shenton who hath signed his name in the Margin hereof was regularly received into Free Masonry on the 3rd day of January 1878 & was admitted to the third Degree on the 18th day of July 1878 in the Portland Lodge Ch 637, Stoke on Trent… Read more about this item

4½" x 3½", no place, no date, dated in another hand in pencil 1st May

sending him "the medals and another picture for you! Abbot Forquet was to be here today but is ill I hear - now the Stenbrook nuns say he is to be with them on the 13th and he is supposed to come on to us from there. How will he manage your meeting... I only hope he will soon… Read more about this item

saying that "it is with the deepest sorrow that I announce to Your Majesty the loss of the King, my beloved and most honoured Lord and Brother, who died in the morning of the 16th of this month, at 4. The feelings of pity which so particularly distinguished the august head of our house gave him the courage to… Read more about this item

(1787-1862, Congretional minister and hymnwriter) teling him that he will "be absent from town on the 28th inst, the day appointed for the dinner of the Orphan Asylum & consequently shall be prevented attending on that occasion...", 1 side 8vo., with integral autograph address leaf, Northrepps Hall, 19th March Together with a contemporary print of an engraving… Read more about this item

showing a bird and a snake on a tree, 7" x 5", no place, no date

relating to the General Command instructing them "about the thick report of the 54th Vitclar-Jnsti luth Oberleeutenat Alnten Wosseley to the higher General Command. Report on June 21, 1882...", 1 side folio, no place, 21st June Pausinger was one of Rudolf's closest friends outside family and court. Rudolf is said to have confided to Pausinger six years… Read more about this item

First edition, original publisher's green cloth over bevelled boards with elaborate gilt embossed decoration to the upper cover, all edges gilt, sepia engraved frontispiece and fifteen charming Chromolithograph Illustrations by E.V.B. - Eleanor Vere BOYLE (1825-1916, Victorian Watercolour Artist and Illustrator), boldly inscribed "Charlie - from his very affectionately Robert Browning, Christmas Eve 1867", 4to., Sampson Low, Son and… Read more about this item

showing him three quarters length, standing in his studio, full face, with a large palette in his hand, signed in the blank bottom margin, addressed in his hand on the verso to Frank Smith in Bromley, 5½" x 3½", no place, postmarked Bromley, 31st October

on a Riggs National Bank printed form with a picture of the bank for $50 in Cash, 7" x 3", Washington DC, 10th November During a short term as Russian minister to Tokyo in 1897–1898, Rosen concluded the Nishi-Rosen Agreement between Russia and Japan, whose articles recognised Japanese supremacy in Korea in exchange for an implicit recognition… Read more about this item

saying that "no one can possibly take exception to the founding of a Martin Buber Society, but it is quite unrealistic to organise the kind of function you have in mind for the 23rd September: these things simply cannot happen that way. Everyone is already committed... for myself I am up to my eyes and ears in the Commonwealth… Read more about this item

numbered 4172 through 4177 showing scenes from Walt Disney's 1930's film, each 5½" x 3½"

issued by the Russian Government for one Billion Roubles in 1916, with 6 of the original 20 coupons still attached, 1 side folio printed in Green Ink with the Czarist Eagle at the head, Moscow

yours truly Alexander George of Teck", on piece 4½" x 2½", no place, no date, circa

sending him "a cheque for a guinea, as my contribution to the cost of the gift to Professor Coupland...", 1 side 4to., Macmillan & Co. headed paper, St Martin's Street, 12th December On his return to London in 1920 he joined the family publishing firm Macmillan Publishers as a junior partner. In 1936, Harold and his brother… Read more about this item

regretting that he "cannot at this moment give you the reference which you ask for. The volume on Sir Walter Raleigh was written more than twenty years ago and though all the best authorities were consulted I could not without looking them up again remember what the authority was for the relationships of Catherine Ashley. She was however I… Read more about this item

(Frederick Balsir, 1834-1886, Theatre Manager and Impresario) thanking him "very cordially for your obliging note and enclosed photograph, and beg to assure you that when I visit London, which I am not likely to do very soon, I shall not omit to avail myself of your invitation to call on you...", 2 sides sm. 8vo., with original autograph envelope,… Read more about this item

addressed to "J. Graham Esq, Cranford, Middlesex", 1 side 4to., London, 24th July Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester. The owner of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London, he wrote several prominent plays… Read more about this item

acknowledging "receipt of the letter by which you and Mr. Vice-President of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique kindly inform me that a sum of 3.780,20 francs has been subscribed by the Company to contribute to the creation of the "Pasteur Institute". On behalf of the Patronage Committee of this establishment and myself, I send you the expression of all our… Read more about this item