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Aisne, France: Author , 1910. Letter. Very good. Single page handwritten on Chateau de Vivieres, Aisne letterhead, ink black ink on blue paper. In French. "Dear Colleague..", signed by noted French dramatist/playwright, Henry Bataille.
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ALS, Handwritten letter, signed by French dramatist and poet, Henry Bataille
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ALS New Year's Eve from writer and noted Victorian, Elizabeth Herbert (Baroness Herbert of Lea, nee Ashe à Court-Repington), wife of Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, to Ben Austin Esq., Dec 31, 1890
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London, 1890. Letter. Very good. On Herbert House, Belgrave Square Stationery with embossed crown monogram, 'Sir, I enclose a note from my husbands Father [George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke] according to your wish. Yours faithfully, M. E. Herbert.' 18 x 11 cm, bordered in black. Traces of paper from removal from album. Herbert (b. 1822-d.1911) was an English Roman Catholic writer, translator, philanthropist, and influential social figure. Friends of many noted Victorians, including Benjamin Disraeli and Florence Nightingale. She became a Roman Catholic convert in 1866, following the death of her husband. Following her reception into the Catholic Church, as part of a determined effort to ensure the Protestant succession of the Herberts, she was forbidden by Parliament to bring her children to Mass, and her children were taken as wards in Chancery and brought up in the Church of England. Only her eldest daughter, Mary, followed her into the Catholic faith. Spent her life in faithful…
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ALS dated 16th January 1888 from Archbishop of York [William Thomson], to Sheriff of York
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York, 1888. Letter. Very good. Single sheet folded, [4] p., two written. Embossed Bishopthorpe, York stationery. Archbishop of York presents compliments to the Sheriff with regrets he is unable to accept kind invitation to dine. Thomson was a fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Geographical Societym and also wrote a very popular Outline of the Laws of Thought.
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ALS from George Dixon, Member of Parliament, to S(ir) Forster (Forster's Education Act/Elementary Education Act 1870; Chief Secretary of Ireland;Royal Society member and Rector of Aberdeen University) on letterhead of Dixon's home, 'The Dales', Birmingham, Nov. 29, 1885
by George Dixon
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Birmingham, 1885. First Edition. Letter. Very good. Largely responsible for a system of national education in England, here, Dixon acknowledges Forster's prior congratuations (for Parliamentary appointment) and offers a return compliment. Dear S. Forster, I received your congratulations - but wanted to acknowledge them until I could return the compliment. I am delighted to be able to do so now - trust that we shall have many a talk in London. It is to be feared that there will be fare more talk than work in Parliament! Ever yours truly, George Dixon One of Dixon's first achievements as Mayor in early 1867 was a private conference he held in his house for the leading men of the town to discuss a possible remedy for the lack of education for children. In March a public meeting was held in the Town Hall where the Birmingham Education Society was formed along the lines of one created in Manchester and Salford in 1864. The society raised money to pay the school fees of some…
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ALS from Captain Thomas Mayne Reid to Grace Greenwood/Sara Lippincott declining an invitation to submit a story for the Little Pilgrim as his pen is "under mortgage"
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Bucks, England : Mayne Reid, 1858. Letter. Very good. Single page on folded leaf, dated May 18, 1858, sending regrets that he is unable to furnish Miss Greenwood with a story. The Little Pilgrim was a children's periodical running 1853-1868, edited by Greenwood. Reid was a favorite and noted juvenile adventure novelist, with Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt and Conan Doyle among those who found inspiration from his series. Sara Lippincott used Grace Greenwood as a pseudonym. Her earliest writing was poetry and children's stories, publishing locally In 1844 at the age of 21, she was published in the New York Mirror and she would go on to receive significant critical attention and be published widely, while rising within the NYC literary circles. She was the first woman reporter on the New York times, joining the National Era, a weekly abolitionist newspaper, and copy editing the original, serialized version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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ALS from William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth, England on Patshull/Albrighton/Wolverhampton stationery to Charles [--]
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Staffordshire , 1857. Letter. Very good. Bifold sheet, three pages of writing. January 20, 1857 .Dear Sir: I fear that I cannot engage to attend the annual meeting of the Birmingham Church Extension Society, to be held on the 29th - but although I have just now many heavy calls upon me from places with which I am actually connected - having as you may, I think, be aware, no property in the town of Birmingham or -- in any part of the Diocese of Worcester - I shall perhaps be able to give a mall contribution towards the excellent object which you have in view. Perhaps therefore when your lsit of subscriptions has been well started I may hear from you again. In the meantime, I remain very faithfully yours, \Darthmouth. Paper residue from being affixed to album pages.
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ALS from Magdalen Herbert (b.1864 - d. 1957, sister of George Charles Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis) to Rev. A. J. Kuspton
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London, 1890. Letter. Very good. [2] p., 18 x 11 cm. On Styche, Market Drayton stationery lettered in embossed blue (Shropshire, the 18th c. home of Robert Clive), Herbert writes: May 23rd, Dear Sir: I enclose a reprint of the advertisement of the Education Committe respecting the grants offered to teachers for the Summer Meeting. Will you be so kind as to make it known as much as possible among the teachers in your neighborhood, so that they may have the opportunity of apply if they care to do so. There is not much time before June 1st. Truly yours, . Herbert was the daughter of Percy Egerton Herbert and Mary Caroline Louisa Thomas Herbert. She granted the style and precedence of the 'daughter of an Earl' by Royal Warrant 1891.
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ALS on British Legation, Lisbon stationery from diplomant's wife, Mrs. Maurice de Bunsen to Mrs. Anstruther
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Lisbon , 1905. First Edition. Letter. Very good. Dear Mrs. Anstruther, I was charmed with your nice lines. Indeed it will be our own fault if we don't enjoy our tree top, where there will always be a branch for you. You must really come and perch on it when you can. Your father has also written me a charming letter. We had some pleasant walks and talks together last summer. Alas! Cintra [Sintra] has no possible counterpart in Spain. Will you thank your husband very much for his letter to me? I hope we may meet in London 'ere long. Very sincerely, [--]De Bunsen served as British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Lisbon in 1905, then in 1906 began as British Ambassador to Spain. The proximity of these wives of diplomats to pivotal moments is of interest. In de Bunsen's story, taken from Wiki: On 16 July 1914, reporting on what he had been told the previous day at a lunch with Count Heinrich von Lützow, who had learned of the planned aggression…
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ALS on Clapham Park, Bedfordshire stationery, from MP (Member Parliament for Bedford) James Howard (the agriculturalist, not Whig) to M. Ridgeway
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London, 1880. Letter. Very good. Single folded leaf, [4] p. handwritten. July 8, 1880 addressed from 22 Westborne St., Dear M Ridgeway, I was very sorry that we did not meet. I do not intend to go to Carlisle unless compelled by something unforeseen. I was to have stayed with Wakefield the [--] but I am [--] of Agricultural meetings. I don't think Landerman has anything to [--] from this Distrubance Bill in this amendment from. The summary power of Ejectment is [--] and arbitrary. English owners have no such power and [--] Irish? Two more pages, mentions New Zealand, James [Key] Caird C.B., and South Africa. Yours very truly, James Howard. Howard was an English agriculturalist, Liberal politician, manufacturer, and Bedfordshire landowner. In 1862, Howard bought a large part of the Clapham, Bedfordshire, estates of Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, and established a model farm there, farming his land under new scientific methods. In 1864, Giuseppe Garibaldi visited the…
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ALS on Isthmian Club, Piccadilly stationery, from Lord Devon to [Mundy], April 8, 1907
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London, 1907. First Edition. Letter. Very good. Dear [M], I return you the paper you gave me to read, I do not quite see how I can do the duties of treasurer for the entertainment, as I do not know any of the people who are setting it up, or of the Musical or Dramatic Profession, so if I did act as treasurer, the people setting it up would only wonder, why I was interfering in what I know nothing about. Also I suspect to be much occupied with business of one sort or another in the coming months, so should not have the time. It is very kind of you to wish me to do it for you, but I am sorry to say I cannot. Yours sincerely, /Devon. Folding leaf, written on three pages, removed from album.
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ALS on The Liberator letterhead, New York City written from Assoc. Editor Floyd Dell to Miss Vedder, accepting for publication her submission of 'Life is Less Disturbing"
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New York: The Liberator . Good. Dell, an American newspaper and magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright, Works Progress Administration author and poet has been called "one of the most flamboyant, versatile and influential American Men of Letters of the first third of the 20th Century".Once Dell settled into the West Village Bohemian circles, he became closely associated with such noted literary figures as Theodore Dreiser, Max Eastman and Edna St. Vincent Millay, radical John Reed and writer Joseph Freeman. The Dell papers are held at the Newberry Library, Chicago.Miriam Vedder, a graduate of Wellesley and correspondent with Katharine Lee Bates, had her poetry published 29 times in the New Yorker magazine. She was the first recipient of the John Masefield Poetry Prize at Wellesley. Vertical crease, light toning.
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ALS on embossed crown monogram stationery from Viscount Althorp (Charles Robert Spencer and Lord Chamberlain to the Household) to Mr. Acland, Nov. 21, 1907, 'Dallington House, Northhampton'
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Northhampton , 1907. Letter. Very good. Bifold letter, bordered black, with creaslines and mild toning, paper residue from assume album placement, small paper clip rust line. [2] p., signed. Part of the Spencer line, Charles Robert Spencer was known between 19051910 as The Right Honourable Viscount Althorp. He was the great grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales.Dear Mr. Acland: Forgive the informality of my thus addressing you, but your Father and I have been such friends for years that I hope that you will forgive me. I wonder if you could and would come and say a few words to my Volunteer Company on the 28th Nov. at our annual dinner at Althorp. I should be so very grateful if you could possibly manage it though I know how fearfully busy you are - The men are a little nervous about the new army scheme and a word from you not from [--] and the war office would be the greatest encouragement to them. I should be delighted if you would come and sleep here after the dinner. Althorp…
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The Abolition of Work
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Atlanta: CrimethInc./Worker Collective, 1996. Pamphlet. Very good +. Anarchist zine from the notorious CrimethInc., which is typically known as Ex-Worker Collective. A decentralized, cell-based collective with deep ties to the anarcho-punk movement and hardcore punk music scene. Here, a reprinting of the seminal underground essay by Bob Black.
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Acto Propicio: Poemas de Fernando Sanchez Mayans
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Mexico : Coleccion Metafora, 1958. First Edition. Softcover . Very good. Signed and inscribed by Fernando Sanchez. 63p. including index. Part of the Coleccion Metafora series. Illustrations by Elvira Gascon. Laid in, telegraph from Sanchez Mayans.
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The Adams-Blair Process for Manufacturing Steel Direct from The Ore
by Jos. D. Weeks
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Pittsburgh : Win G Johnston and Co., Printers and Stationers , 1891. Second Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 25p., stapled. None in trade, none in holdings.
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An Address delivered at the Laying of the Corner Stone [cornerstone] of the Bunker Hill Monu,ent
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Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Company , 1825. Second Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 40p. pamphlet, removed, with marbled endpaper at rear.
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Address Delivered before the Lancaster County Agricultural Society, At It's Annual Meeting, on the Thirteenth of January, 1852 by James Gowen, Esq
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Philadelphia: Brown's Steam Power Book adn Job Printing Office, 1852. Pamphlet. Very good. 28p., removed. Husbandry, agriculture. Lightly foxed.
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An Address delivered before the New York Historical Society February 23, 1852 by Daniel Webster
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New York: Press of the Historical Society, 1852. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 57p. + errata slip, disbound/removed.
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Address at a Meeting of the Citizens Held January 3, 1887, by invitation of the Society, to consider the best methods of assisting the poor
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Dedham, Massachusetts : Dedham Associated Charities , 1887. Wraps. Very good. 6p., 9" x 5.75" in printed wrapper. Lightly toned at border. Speech addressing social reforms, holistic approach to aid, with pleas to thougtfully include those less fortunate in larger cooperative networks. Mrs. G. G. Nichols was a contributor to the Columbia Hospital for Women. Seemingly unrecorded.
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An Address delivered before The Society of the Alumni of Williams Collegeon the Day of the Annual Commencement
by John Woodbridge, Pastor of the Church in Hadley, Mass.
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Hartford : Printed by George Goodwin, 1823. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 18p. pamphlet, trimmed, removed, bearing Rev. Spring's signature to E.D. Griffin [President of Williams College]
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