£1,063
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 694
Auction: 13 July 2022 at 11:00 BST
comprising:
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930). Autograph postcard signed, Crowborough, 1918. 'Dear Sir, it does seem most disgraceful [...], A Conan Doyle, Crowboro', addressed to F. W. Bennett of Bristol on recto (also in Doyle's hand), 8.8 x 11.4cm;
Williams, Ralph Vaughan (1872-1958). Autograph letter signed, Dorking, [1937]. To [Frederick Allan] Wilshire (1868-1944), musician and judge, declining an invitation, 1 p., on Vaughan Williams's personal stationery, old folds;
Sullivan, Sir Arthur S. (1842-1900). Autograph letter signed to 'My dear Collier', undated, arranging a meeting, 1 p.;
and approx. 50 others, authors and literary figures including George Macdonald (1824-1905), autograph letter signed, 1889, Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847), clipped signature retaining final 4 lines of a letter, W. Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), signed envelope, Sir Archibald Alison (1792-1867), autograph letter signed, 1848, Bayle Bernard (1807-1875), autograph letter signed, Francis Horner (1778-1817), founder of the Edinburgh review, autograph letter signed, 1807; musicians including J. L. Molloy (1837-1909, Irish composer and associate of Gilbert and Sullivan, 4 letters, including lengthy musical quotations), Frederick Ouseley (1825-1889), John Stainer (1840-1901; 2 letters), Walter Macfarren (1826-1905); musicologists (Ernest Newman, 1868-1959; Ebenezer Prout, 1835-1909), singers (Louisa Pyne, 1828-1904; John Coates, 1865-1941, letter and signed cabinet card), impresario Carl Rosa, 1842-1889), conductor Henry Coward (1849-1944), and similar, mainly complete letters, many mounted on album leaves (approx. 50)