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19 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS,MANUSCRIPTS &SIGNED PHOTOS CLAND (Sir Thomas, 1809-1898, 11th Bart, M.P.) ALS tothe statistician Dr. William Farr, (1807- 1883, F.R.S.), thanking him warmly for “so clear &condensed [a] statement - it is like Pemmican I feel that I cannot digest it at once ... I will send it on to Roby when I have studied it a little further. I could not help saying to Gladstone about 3 A.M. this morning how you would pull to pieces Mr. D’Israeli’s statistics as to the Country population. He seems to have forgotten the wives and families”, 3 sides 8vo., blind-embossed stamp of The Athenæum, 3 Portugal Street, Park Lane, 5th June n.y., c. 1870 [SD16660]£40 Like Gladstone, Acland began as a Tory, but by 1865 had become aLiberal. Both were at Christchurch and both were Fellows of All Souls. Acland took a leading part in establishing the Oxford Local Examinations, 1857-1858. He promoted the extension of the Bath and West of England Show, edited the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society for 7 years, and was one of the 2 original trustees of Ruskin’s Guild of St. George, 1871. Farr was a pioneer of modern statistics and its applications, a commissioner for the Census of 1871, and President of the Statistical Society, 1871 and 1872. For many years he wrote the Registrar-General’s report on the causes of mortality, and the greater part of the reports in the censuses of 1851, 1861 and 1871. Henry John Roby, M.P., b. 1830, author of a famous Latin grammar, was professor of jurisprudence at University College, London, and from 1872-1895 commissioner of endowed schools. 145. ADAMS (Joshua, Temporary Surgeon to the East India Company at Allahabad) Invoice to “The Honourable Company”, signed, in respect of “My Salary as Superintendent of Vaccine Inocualation [sic] for ... May 1823”, amounting to 260 “Calcutta Sicca Rupees”, 1 side 7¾” x 8” ruled in red, Allahabad, 1st June 1823 small edge tears without loss [SD24303]£55 146. ALBONI (Marietta, 1826-1894, Italian operatic contralto) Portrait engraved from a photograph by Mayall, threequarter length in a damask dress, signed by her in the margin ‘Countess Pepoli’, 11½” x 8¼”, n.p., n.d., c. 1880, a little light browning just touches engraved background [SD24310]£45 147. ALEXANDER (Grand Duke, 1866-1933, Russian Admiral, Brother-in-Law of Nikolai II) ALS ‘G.D. Alexander’ in English to the founder and editor of the Boston News Bureau, Clarence Walker BARRON, (1855-1928, president of Dow, Jones & Co.), thanking him “for sending the article, I am very glad that it made an impression and that many of your influential men have read it” and “for the paper”, 1 side 8vo., with conjugate blank, headed paper of Claridge’s Hotel, Paris, 11th June 1913 [SD26032]£175 The writer’s father was Grand Duke Mikhail, 1832-1909, fourth son of Nikolai I. Alexander married Nikolai II’s sister Xenia, 1875-1960, who lived for many years at Hampton Court. Barron was a great traveller and raconteur, well known in all the important financial centres of the world. From the Estelle Doheny collection. 148. ALEXANDER I (1777-1825, Emperor of Russia from 1801) Fine Letter Signed, in Russian with translation, to FERDINANDO IV, (1751-1825, from 1759 King of Naples and Sicily), telling him of “the Wedding which was solemnized in Our capital this last 22nd July [3rd August in Western calendar] between Our beloved Sister Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna and His Highness the Hereditary Prince Karl Friedrich of Saxe- Weimar-Eisenach”, with some fifty of Alexander’s titles, including, besides the ancient kingdoms, smaller provinces and Baltic states, “the Udora, Obdorsk and Konda regions” (referring to rivers and mountains beyond the Urals), “and all the Northern Regions”, besides the Caucasian peoples still under their own rulers, with original envelope made from a folded sheet, bearing Alexander’s papered seal, 3¼ inches diameter, with his arms and title, 2 sides 14¾” x 9¾” and conjugate leaf, St. Petersburg, 31st July [12th August Western], 1804, light narrow water stain on portion of central fold touching a few letters [SD50193]£750 Signed also by the great Polish statesman and patriot Prince Adam CZARTORYSKI (1770-1861). Sent to St. Petersburg as a hostage in 1795, after the third partition of Poland, he attracted the attention of Catherine the Great, who remitted part of the family estates. He and Alexander, the future Emperor, became firm friends, and by 1804 Czartoryski had the practical control of Russian diplomacy. He rendered great service to Russia at the Congress of Vienna, and prepared the way for the Congressional Duchy of Warsaw. When the Polish insurrection broke out in 1830, he came out of retirement and in 1831 was elected head of the provisional Government. He sacrificed half his fortune to the national cause. At the end of the war he emigrated to France, where his son Wladislaw married a granddaughter of Louis Philippe. Prince Czartoryski will first have met Ferdinand IV when he was accredited to the King of Sardinia (December 1798). Finding the latter without a kingdom, he used the time to study Italian and in a pleasant tour through Italy to Naples. 149. ALEXANDER I (1777-1825, Emperor of Russia from 1801) Letter Signed, in French with translation, to Joachim MURAT, 1767-1815, King of Naples 1808-1815, and brother-in-law of Napoleon I, congratulating him on his accession, “I pray for the prosperity of Your reign, and will take care to maintain the ties of friendship and good understandng established between the two States ... Your good Brother”, 1 side 4to and conjugate blank, St. Petersburg, 22nd October 1808 [SD50194]£750 By the Peace of Tilsit Alexander Ihad withdrawn his opposition to Napoleon. Meanwhile Ferdinand IV still held on in his other kingdom of Sicily. 150. ALEXANDRA IOSSIFOVNA (1830-1911, née Princess of Saxe-Altenburg, wif of Admiral Konstantin, 2nd sonofEmperor Nicholas I) Photograph Signed ‘Aleksandra’ in Russian, by A. Pasetti, showing her half-length, seated, wearing two large blue brooches set in diamonds, at her waist is a large bow bearing an anchor, hand tinted in light and dark blue, light brown, red and silver, 9½” x 7”, (St. Petersburg), 1890 [SD50238]£275
Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, XV The Green, Calne, Wilts, SN1 8DQ, Tel: (01249) 821121 20 THE PARENTS OF TSAR NICHOLAS II 151. ALEXANDER III (1845-1894, Emperor of Russia from 1881) & his wife MARIE FEODOROVNA (Princess Marie Dagmar, 1847-1928, sister of Queen Alexandra of Britain) Exceptional Russian cabinet photo signed by both “Alexander” and “Dagmar” and dated by the Empress, showign them standing together, he is wearing uniform and a greatcoat, she is wearing outdooor dress and they are leaning on a decorative railing, 6.5” x 4.5” in original frame, 10” x 8”, n.p., 1879 [SD26438]£2,750 Alexander III succeeded his father after his assassination in 1881. In 1866 he married Princess Marie Dagmar of Denmark who became known as Maria Feodorovna. She had originally been engaged to Alexander’s elder brother Nicholas, but changed suitors on his death in 1865. The precedent was followed by her nephew George V. They ascended to the Imperial throne in 1881. 152. ALFORD (Henry, 1810-1871, Poet and Editor) ALS to‘Dear Sir’, about “Ld Herbert”, suggesting that if he “cut off 11 pages” of the 31, “you would not eventually suffer asthe chapter would stand entire in your book”, he much prefers this to dividing, “I am pledged too largely for Novr.”, printed heading about contributors exceeding their limits, 2 sides, ‘Contemporary Review’, Deanery, Canterbury, 2nd August 1867, spike hole near foot without loss, inkblot touching one letter [SD19872]£45 153. ALWYN (William, 1905-1985, Composer) ALS to Harold Chipp of the Cheltenham Gramophone Society, sending 8 titles of records he would like him to get, including Debussy, Stravinsky, Honegger, Chopin and Schönberg, “I did warn you I am not a collector myself ... Could you borrow a metronome?”, with a pencil note by Chipp of record magazines to consult, 2 sides 8vo., 8 North Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.W.11, 15th November 1953, neat filing holes touching a few letters, light marks of paper clips [SD18183]£40 Alwyn’s 1st Symphony was first performed at the Cheltenham Festival, 1950, and in London, 1953. His 4th was performed at the Proms in 1959. His film music includes ‘Odd Man Out’ 1947, ‘Swiss Family Robinson’, 1960, and ‘The Running Man’, 1963, besides his symphonies, chamber works and song cycles. 154. ANDREEV (Leonid Nikolaevich, 1871-1919, Russian Novelist, Dramatist and Publicist) Portrait Postcard photo signed in Russian, showing him three-quarter length in fur-lined coat and Astrakhan hat, n.p., n.d., c. 1900 [SD50000]£150 Andreev’s talent was ironic and pessimistic, his writing part realist, part symbolic. Attracted at first to Maxim Gorky, he found he was on the side of revolution, but not of revolutionaries, and protested at their excesses. Inclined to theatricality, he was roused to genuine fervour by the 1914 war (“The sorrows of Belgium”), and by the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks, (“Russia’s call to humanity: S.O.S. - an appeal to the Allies”). 155. AUDEN (W. H., 1907-1973, British born American Poet) Signature under his programme photo on the souvenir booklet for “Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry International 1971”, 44 pages A4 with a gold cover, London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, 1971 [SD26592]£225 156. ANSON (George W., 1810-1849, Secretary to Prince Albert) ALS toMr. R. Ollivier, informing him that “Her Majesty has not given permission for the Hibernian Ball, a Prospectus of which you have enclosed, to take place under Her Majesty’s Patronage”, 1 side 8vo., Osborne, 13th March 1847 [SD19994]£40 Prince Albert inherited the much-liked Anson from Lord Melbourne. Anson lived in a house in Eaton Square built by Thomas Cubitt, and may well have been instrumental in getting Cubitt for Osborne. 157. ASIMOV (Isaac, 1920-1992, Russian-American Biochemist, Sci-Fi Writer) Typed Letter Signed ‘Isaac’ to Mel Korshak of Shasta Publishers, Chicago, thanking him for “a copy of Mullen’s ‘Kinsmen of the Dragon’ ”, hoping “you will see fit to send me future books put out by Shasta” and that “next time you are in this vicinity you will let yourself be heard from” (11th December 1951), together with Shasta’s ‘flimsy’ in answer, signed by Ted Dikty, as Korshak is away, requesting “two copies of all clippings of the book reviews ... when ... printed”, and announcing the forthcoming “Shasta prize novel contest”, not “the one announced in Galaxy ,although this is the basis of our revised version ... The grand prize will now be $4,000.00” with “secondary prizes of approximately $2,500.00 ... Why not slant your next novel inthis direction?” (17th December 1951), the two letters neatly stapled, 2 sides folio, 265 Lowell Street, Waltham 54, Mass., and 5525 South Blackstone, Chicago 37, 11th - 17th December 1951 [SD14700]£150 Asimov began contributing stories to science fiction magazines in 1939 and in 1950 published his first book, ‘Pebble in the Sky’. He had taken his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1947, and then joined the faculty of Boston University. From 1958 onwards his professorship was nominal, without salary or duties, as he devoted himself to highly successful and lucid works of popularization and science fiction. Shasta Publications had reprinted Asimov’s ‘No Connections’ in their ‘Best Science-Fiction of 1948’. 158. ATHOLE ARMS HOTEL (Blair Athole, Perthshire) ‘Tourists’ Guide and Route Map of Blair Athole and Vicinity’, with illustrations of the hotel, the local falls, Killiecrankie, and Blair Athole, detailed instructions for getting to Bynack Lodge and Braemar by Glen Tilt, small but excellent map showing the Queen’s View and all the local peaks including Schiehallion, 8 sides folding card 8vo., n.d., c. 1870 [SD19550]£45 159. ATTLEE (Violet Helen, née Millar, wife of Clement, 1883-1967, Prime Minister 1945-1951 and 1st Earl) ALS to Domini, Lady Crosfield (née Elliadi, d. 1963), saying “How sweet of you to send us a Christmas Gift of Dances of Greece ... The children did enjoy your party ...We have been a large family party”, her granddaughter Ann is“entrancing”, 2 sides 8vo., 10 Downing Street, 31st December 1949 [SD19440]£35
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