Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

25 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS,MANUSCRIPTS &SIGNED PHOTOS
187. BRYAN (John, pen-name of Josephine Delves-
Broughton, b. 1916, Novelist)
Long TLS toEileen Cond, saying “I am so glad your father
enjoys The Man Who Came Back ... Julian Symons wrote
me acharming personal letter”, she is unfortunately “too
tired and interrupted to do all the research for a historical
novel. An invalid is like a small child ... (and I am the last
person to care for the sick) ... Then my ward and her friends
are down so many weekends ... though it’s fun to have
anything young and bright ... The Difference To Me had the
TV rights sold to a small film company ... but my publishers
seem quite unable to collect the money - due last June! If
one sued, this wretched little company would probably go
bankrupt ... I had hoped the money would enable me to put
my mother in a nursing home”, she longs to get away and
start “the serious novel forecast a year ago. I’m the wrong
sex for a writer! Men authors like my cousin Compton
Mackenzie and H.V. Morton (a dear friend) have adoring
wives and/or secretaries to cosset them and shelter them
from daily tiresomeness ... If I were free, I should settle in
Italy”, 2 sides 8vo., Apple Tree Cottage, Rowledge,
Farnham, Surrey, 11th November 1958 [SD16832]£30
Among her other novels are ‘Crown Imperial’, 1949, about
Elizabeth I.
188. BURGER (Ludwig, 1825-1884, German War Artist)
ALS ‘Ludwig Burger, Artist’ in German (with translation)
to his publishers, saying he would “be happy to undertake
the 4 - 5 illustrations and the ... cover design ... but must ask
you to choose the themes for the drawings in good time”
and to send “precise information as to how the drawings are
to be delivered”, asking them to make sure they have
available “engravers who are skilled at doing the shading”,
1side8vo. with conjugate blank, 15 Trebbiner Str., Berlin,
29th June 1871 [SD9439]£85
Burger was a deservedly popular and, as this letter shows, a
fastidious illustrator. He collaborated with the writer and drama
critic Theodor Fontane ,(1819-1898), on lavishly illustrated
histories of the Prussian wars against Denmark of 1864 and
against Austria and her German allies of 1866, published by R.
von Decker, to whom Burger was well known. The present letter
is therefore likely to be to a different publisher. In a note at the
end ofFontane on the war of 1866, Vol. I, Burger takes great
pride in the excellence of the Berlin woodcut artists and points out
that none of the work had been contracted to foreign firms.
Burger worked in many fields, including stained glass for Cologne
Cathedral and interior decorations for Bismarck’s and other
mansions in Berlin.
189. BURGH OF SELKIRK
‘Burgess Ticket’ for Augusta Anne, 1748 or 1749-1837,
née Ayscough, wife of Sir James Cockburn, 1729-1804,
from 1745 8th Bt. of Langton, “the worthy representative
for this Burgh in Parliament”, naming the chief officers of
the Burgh, and admitting her “Burgess Freewoman and
Guild Sister”, signed by Andrew Henderson, Town Clerk,
vellum, papered seal on tab, 1 side 8” x 10”, title on verso,
Selkirk, 4th August 1782, a little browned, oblong piece
cut from below signature, seal faint [SD20132]£175
190. BUSTINI (Alessandro, 1876-1970, Italian Pianist
and Composer)
Typed letter in Italian with translation, signed to Nathan
MILSTEIN ,(1904-1992, violinist) saying that “Following
your election as Honorary Academician of St. Cecilia, at the
Assembly of 3rd February this year, I am pleased to send
you -under separate cover - the corresponding diploma and
badge ofFellow of our Institute” and expressing again “my
warmest personal pleasure, and that of the whole Academy,
at your nomination”, 1 side folio, National Academy of St.
Cecilia, Rome, 6th November 1963, right margin trimmed
just touching last letter of signature [SD15222]£75
The St. Cecilia Society, founded by Palestrina in the 16th century,
became an Academy for promoting Church Music under Pius IX
in 1847. Bustini studied and spent most of his working life there,
and continued to teach after his time as president.
191. BUTE (John, 1744-1814, from 1792 4th Earl, from
1796 1st Marquess)
ALS toSir Isaac Heard (1730-1822, from 1784 Garter King
of Arms), suggesting that “If my Brother General Stuart”,
(Sir Charles, 1753-1801, M.P., who captured Minorca from
the Spaniards in 1798), “is to bear Supporters to his arms ...
you had better write to consult his wishes”, but that “It
seems natural ... that he should bear exactly the same as I
do”, 1 side 4to., Hill Street, Mayfair, 3rd March 1799
[SD14772]£30
192. BUTE (John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 1847-1900, 3rd
Marquis, Restorer of Buildings, Linguist & Traveller)
ALS toJohn Villiers Stuart Townshend (1831-1899, from
1863 5th Marquis Townshend), asking him if he is
“inclined to venture sofarNorthasthisinmid-winter?
Your uncle and my cousin, Mr. Stuart”, (Henry Stuart of
Montford, Bute, 1808-1880, brother to Townshend’s
mother), “tells me you are passing the present time at
Raynham”, the Townshends’ seat in Norfolk, “perhaps it
would interest you to visit a place where I think you have
not been before. There is no one here but my wife, & Mr.
Sneyd, (who writes most of my letters), and ... perhaps two
excellent clergymen”, including “my old Tutor at Harrow ...
and a Balliol man, Mr. Tyke, who is more nearly our
contemporary ... I should be unaffectedly glad if you would
come” as would “Mr. Stuart (who is a most excellent
gentleman)”, 4 sides 8vo., Mount Stuart, Rothesay, Isle of
Bute, 21st December 1872 [SD14782]£30
Lord Bute rebuilt the wonderful Mount Stuart, with materials and
craftsmen from South Wales, where he had large estates and was
Mayor of Cardiff, 1890. He was a munificent benefactor of St.
Andrews and Glasgow Universities.
193. BUTLER (Sir William Francis, 1838-1910, British
general and author)
ALS toLord Mayor and Lady Treloar, regretting he cannot
attend “the Conversazione on Thursday June 13th at the
Mansion House”, 1 side 8vo., Junior United Service Club,
S.W., 6th June 1907, light traces of laying down on blank
fourth side [SD16847]£40
Sir William wrote on his service in the Red River, Ashanti, the
Sudan and South Africa. His wife Elizabeth, née Thompson
(1850-1933), was the well-known battle painter.