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53 BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS &OTHER CURIOSITIES ON VOYAGES &TRAVEL 382. SOUSA (John Philip, 1854-1932, American Composer) Fine postcard photo by J. Beagles, signed and dated with an autograph musical quotation from “Hands across the Sea”, showing him ¾ length in dress coat with embroidered collar and cuffs, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., 1903 [SD26494]£575 383. STEPHENSON (Robert 1803-1859, civil engineer, only son of George Stephenson) Autograph admission ticket signed, as MP for Whitby, allowing Mr Malin admission to the “Gallery of the House of Commons ...”, 1 side oblong 8vo., 28th February 1850, slightly soiled at the edges, neatly mounted [SD26560]£225 384. STEPHENSON (George Robert, 1781-1848, Inventor, founder of Railways, builder of the ‘Rocket’) Excellent ALS to Robert Crossland of the Union Foundry in Bradford giving his favourable “opinion as to the character of your railway carriage wheels. In reply, I have to state that I like your wheels better than any others we have had. I believe we have not had one of them to fail and several of those from other Firms have given way by becoming loose in the arms. I now give you an order for another Turn plate similar to the one I paid you for the other day ...” asking him tosend it “direct to the Tapton Colliery ”, 3 sides 8vo., Tapton House, 13th September 1845 [SD26561]£1,450 Stephenson took a lease of Tapton House, near Chesterfield, during the construction of the Midland line and lived there till his death. In 1844 he used his influence to try and check the railway mania which was sweeping the country with mad schemes. The development of railways in the fourteen years since the Rainhill competition was remarkable. He travelled from London to Newcastle in 1844 to attend a railway banquet in only nine hours. His last great parliamentary struggle was in 1845 in the battle between the supporters of the locomotive and the upholders of the atmospheric railway system, led by Brunel, which arose in connection with the extension of the railway from Newcastle to Berwick. The board of trade was inclined to support Brunel but Stephenson's party won a great parliamentary victory, and settled the matter for ever. This was the final attempt to dispute the supremacy of the locomotive. 385. STOKES (Sir George Gabriel, 1819-1903, Mathematician and Physicist, from 1849 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, 1st Bt.) ALS toMrs Phillips, wife of Dr George Phillips, 1804- 1892, from 1857 President of Queens’, Cambridge, saying that “Something in the appearance of Polly’s feathers which you kindly gave the children led me to examine them for fluorescence and I found that the yellow ... was rather highly fluorescent. This is the first instance Ihavefound of fluorescence in the colouring matter of birds’ feathers”, he then tried a canary but it was not fluorescent, and begs, “as this isthe moulting season or near it ... a few of Polly’s feathers expressly taken from the crest, which are I believe the yellowest”, with a P.S. “See Philosophical Transactions for 1852, p. 515” (his classic memoir), 3 sides 8vo., Lensfield Cottage, 12th January 1870 [SD50082]£175 Stokes coined the term ‘fluorescence’, to avoid the older terms which suggested a mere dispersion. For an excellent summary of his many experiments in this field, see e.g. Enc. Brit. 11th edition. 386. STIRLING (David, 1915-1990, Lieutenant-Colonel, Creator of the Special Air Service) Black and white photograph signed, showing him head and shoulders in civilian dress, with a printed article about him and the SAS, and a compliments slip from his ‘Television International Enterprises’, 8” x 5½”, 24th February 1986 [SD50029]£65 387. STRATHMORE (Cecilia, 1862-1938, mother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Wife of Claude George, 1855-1944, from 1904 14th Earl of) TLS to Alice Verne BREDT , (1868-1958, pianist and violinist), thanking her “for your very kind letter about my daughter. I wish your dear sister”, Mathilde VERNE , (1865-1936, pianist), “was still here to see her pupil become Queen of England . I cannot thank you enough for all your good wishes ... forgive a very short typewritten note ... as I have so many letters to write just now”, 1 side 8vo., 38 Cumberland Mansions, Bryanston Square, W.1, 1936 [SD14622]£125 George VI had become King on his brother’s abdication, 11th December 1936. ABORI (Paul, b. 1908, Hungarian-born Journalist, Broadcaster, Scriptwriter and Novelist, ‘Peter Stafford’ and ‘Christopher Stevens’) APS toEileen Cond, explaining he has “been abroad the last four months ... I’ll be delighted to sign all three” and is “happy indeed to have found such a faithful reader”, 1 side card, 14 Stafford Terrace, W.8., 31st January 1946, light crease mark [SD19091]£25 389. TENNYSON (Hallam, 1852-1928, from 1892 2nd Baron) ALS toLouisa, née Donkin, wife of Horace, (1833-1907, from 1894 1st Baron Davey), saying “It is most kind in you to ask us for Friday”, but “My father” (Alfred, 1809-1892, Poet Laureate, from 1884 1st Baron), “and I go up by express to join the Gladstones in a cruise on board a Donald Currie ship. This cruise must be kept private till you see it in the papers”, 1 side 8vo., Aldworth, Haslemere, Surrey, 5th September 1883, light traces of old transparent strip in three blank margins [SD16407]£30 Hallam was named after his father’s Cambridge friend, the subject of ‘In Memoriam’. Sir Donald Currie, 1825-1909, the founder of the shipping line, was Liberal M.P. for Perthshire, 1880-1885. The Daveys married in 1862 and were near neighbours at Aldworth. Horace was made a Q.C. in 1875, Liberal M.P. 1880- 1885, Solicitor-General and knighted 1886, and an Appeal Judge 1893. 390. THACKERAY (William Makepeace, 1811-1863, Novelist) ALS in his sloping hand to an unnamed correspondent, accepting an invitation to dinner, 1 side 8vo., 27 Jermyn Street, 9th August n.y., (1844) mounted with a photo [SD16205]£175 Thackeray’s wife became ill after the birth of their third child and eventually the family house had to be given up in 1843, after which he rented this address and returned to a bachelor life, his children were looked after by their grandparents.
Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, XV The Green, Calne, Wilts, SN1 8DQ, Tel: (01249) 821121 54 391. THOMSON (Sir Charles Wyville, 1830-1882, FRS, Scottish chief Naturalist on the Challenger ) ALS to the Secretary of the Palaeontographical Society, saying that he and Dr. Carpenter (W.B., 1813-1885) have been working on papers for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, his own “will form the basis of the Natural History introduction to the Monog: of the Crinoids”, which has delayed him giving a firm date, he now thinks Marsupites belong to the Palaeozoic group, not Comatula, but will “complete my study of your specimens and bring them ... to London ... early in Summer”, he details the contents of the monograph’s three parts, “Comatulae ... Apiocrines &c. ... and Marsupites”, he may have to get another artist for the plates, as to his subscription, “A friend made me apresent of the whole series up to last year and I cannot afford ... a second, my foreign book account is necessarily so large”, but discusses back numbers for the College and himself, he himself would like to start with “the first part of Salter’s Trilobites”, (J.W., 1820-1869, whose monograph appeared in the Pal. Soc.’s journal 1864-1867), 7sides 8vo., Strandtown, Belfast, 17th March n.y., c. 1870, joined at pages 4-5 by old transparent strip, small defect on side 7 from former laying down [SD50183]£750 Thomson greatly enlarged the knowledge of the ocean floor, finding living creatures in abundance down to 650 fathoms, many of which were previously thought extinct, and that deep-sea temperatures were not so constant as supposed, indicating an oceanic circulation. His researches were incidentally of great importance for cable-laying. See Thomson’s ‘The Depths of the Sea’ (1873) for the dredging voyages of Lightning (1868) and Porcupine (1869, 1870). The Challenger Expedition was sent out to make a series of soundings and dredgings in the three great ocean basins, to ascertain the temperature and character of the water, to collect specimens of the fauna and flora on the surface and from all possible depths, and to study as far as possible certain rarely visited oceanic islands. The Challenger was a corvette of 2,306 tons, specially fitted up and placed under command of Captain Sir George Nares, with a naval surveying staff. Thomson, who had been granted leave of absence by his university, was appointed chief of the civilian scientific staff (six in number). They left Sheerness on 7 Dec. 1872, crossed the Atlantic from the Canary Isles to the West Indies, when after skirting its American side as far north as Halifax they recrossed to Madeira by the Azores. Then they sailed southward of the Cape de Verde Islands and St. Paul's Rocks toFernando Noronha and the Brazil coast, crossing the southern Atlantic by way of Tristan da Cunha to the Cape of Good Hope. From this they made for the Antarctic Ocean by way of the Crozets and Kerguelen land, and reached the ice-pack a little south of the Antarctic circle, beyond which it was unsafe to venture in an ordinary vessel. From there they proceeded to Australia, and after touching at Melbourne and Sydney, sailed for Fiji. A devious course took them through the Australasian islands, and then they visited Japan and the Sandwich Islands. After sailing due south to the tropic of Capricorn, they took an easterly course to Valparaiso, and made their way into the southern Atlantic through the Magellan Strait. After calling at Montevideo they visited the Canaries, and returned to England by a variation of their former route, arriving at Spithead on 24 May 1876, having travelled in this remarkable voyage 68,890 nautical miles, and having made observations by soundings at 362 stations. An enormous mass of material had been obtained for study, and Thomson (who was knighted on his return) was appointed director of the Challenger expedition commission to superintend the arrangement of the collections and the publication of the results at the public expense. He also resumed his university duties, delivered the Rede lecture at Cambridge in 1877, and the combination of all this work was too much for him and he became ill and he died at his house, Bonsyde, near Linlithgow, on 10 March 1882. 392. THORNHILL (Cudbert Bensley, d. 1868, Secretary to the Governor, North West Provinces, during the siege of Agra, 1857, Commissioner of Allahabad, 1861) Signed Copy Letter to (Sir) George St. Patrick Lawrence, 1804-1884, Chief Agent (Resident) and Brigadier-General Commanding in Rajputana, saying that he has seen the letter of 7th August from Lieutenant (Arthur St. John) Mildmay, 1823-1884, detailing the assistance given by the Maharajah of Bikanir and the forces under his personal command in reoccupying Sersal and Hissar, and enclosing “a Khureelah expressive of the Lieutt. Governor’s acknowledgment of the Services of the Maharajah”, to be forwarded to the latter unless “subsequent circumstances” dictate otherwise, 1 side folio, Fort Agra, 4th September 1857, afewlight grease marks [SD50021]£75 The letter gives no hint of the current anxiety at Fort Agra, where the Lieutenant-Governor, John Russell Colvin, 1807-1857, had gathered all the Christian population of the cantonments and the city, and, though dangerously ill, had succeeded in preserving calm. For Sir George Lawrence’s remarkable services in Afghanistan, see DNB. 393. TREMATON (Rupert, 1907-1928, Elder Son of Alexander, Earl of Athlone, 1874-1957, Viscount) Very fine large photograph, signed ‘Trematon’, showing him three-quarter length seated, 11” x 9”, n.p., n.d. 1927 [SD14624]£150 Viscount Trematon and his father were Princes of Teck, titles exchanged for British ones in 1917. His mother, Princess Alice daughter of Prince Leopold, was the last surviving granddaughter of Queen Victoria. He died in a road accident in France in 1928. 394. TROLLOPE (Anthony, 1815-1882, Novelist) Fine unpublished ALS to Charles Banning aying he has received an "invitation to meet C. Dickens at a dinner to be given for him at Liverpool ... which I have accepted. I want to take my son with me ..." and asking if he can secure a ticket for his son as he feels he cannot ask himself as he is a guest, 3sides 8vo., address removed, 13th March n.y., [1869], the top left hand corner has been torn off with the loss of the address but no text, professionally repaired [SD26558]£895 This meeting of the two great novelists is not mentioned in any of the major biographies of Trollope. The dinner was held in Dickens' honour on the 10th April 1869 and is briefly noted in R. C. Terry's 'Trollope Chronology' but seems to have been otherwise unnoticed by Trollope scholars. It is rare to find letters of Trollope mentioning Dickens: less than twenty are known. Letters of Trollope to Banning, a post office colleague, are even rarer: only one other survives. Trollope at this time was anxious about his sons making their way in the world. Although both sons were around -- Fred had just returned from Australia but was intending to leave England again in late April -- it is more likely it was Harry whom he wished to introduce to society, perhaps with the hope that the boy's job prospects would improve as a result. A few months following this dinner, Harry did indeed secure employment -- with Chapman & Hall, Dickens' publishers, whose high-ranking staff would almost certainly have been present at this dinner.
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