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Clive Farahar & <strong>Sophie</strong> Dupré, XV The Green, Calne, Wilts, SN1 8DQ, Tel: (01249) 821121 70<br />
580. GREY (Charles, 1764-1845, 2nd Earl, Prime<br />
Minister of the Reform Bill)<br />
Address panel signed for free postage to Lady Pocock in<br />
Brighton, Plympton, Devon, 22nd October 1825, address<br />
lightly crossed out on forwarding [SD16591]£30<br />
581. GUITRY (Sacha, 1885-1957, French Actor, Artist,<br />
Playwright, Filmmaker and Novelist)<br />
Bold large signature with several words of greeting, 1 side<br />
oblong 8vo., n.p., n.d. [SD21399]£35<br />
582. HARRISON (Sir Rex, 1908-1990, Actor)<br />
Fine signature on an album leaf with annotation in another<br />
hand “No time for Comedy” 5th March 1941 [SD9639]£29<br />
583. HONEGGER (Arthur, Swiss Composer, 1892-1955)<br />
Autograph return address from a parcel sent by him, “Exp.<br />
Honegger, 149 Hegibachstrasse, Zürich”, stiff paper, n.d., c.<br />
1925 [SD19181]£35<br />
584. HOWARD (Sir Robert, 1626-1698, Auditor of the<br />
Exchequer and Dramatist)<br />
Fine signature on end of exchequer document ordering<br />
payment, 20th September 1673 [SD9643]£30<br />
585. HUGO (Victor, 1802-1885, French Writer)<br />
Fine signature and subscription in his rather shaky hand,<br />
with accompanying letter from Richard Lesclide sending<br />
the signature with Hugo’s best wishes, Paris, 24th April<br />
1882 [SD26480]£195<br />
586. HUXLEY (Thomas Henry, 1825-1895, Biologist)<br />
Fine signature from an ALS [SD18408]£30<br />
587. HYDE (Laurence, Earl of Rochester, 1641-1711,<br />
Lord High Treasurer)<br />
Signature and date from a larger document, 17th May<br />
1680, mounted with a black & white photo of the portrait<br />
by W. Wissing [SD7721]£40<br />
At the time he was one of 3 young leading ministers of Charles II<br />
nicknamed the ‘chits’.<br />
588. IRETON (Henry 1611-1651, General, Regicide)<br />
Signature mounted under a contemporary engraving<br />
[SD22<strong>56</strong>0]£60<br />
589. KEAN (Charles, 1811-1868, Actor)<br />
End of ALS with subscription “Believe me dear Madam<br />
very faithfully yours” [SD20577]£30<br />
590. KOSSUTH (Lajos, 1802-1894, Hungarian Patriot<br />
and Statesman)<br />
Fine signature ‘Lewis Kossuth’, with biographical details in<br />
alater hand in English, n.p., n.d. [SD11669]£40<br />
When revolution spread through Europe in 1848, ‘Hungary’s<br />
purest patriot and greatest orator’ was chosen to be in the first<br />
government allowed by the Austrians, and was soon its effective<br />
head, but by August 1849 the Austrians had recovered complete<br />
power, and Kossuth spent the rest of his years in exile. In 1851<br />
He was briefly in England and the USA, then in England till 1859,<br />
in close association with Mazzini, then in Italy where he died at<br />
Turin<br />
591. LANG (Andrew, 1844-1912, Folklorist, Poet &<br />
Scholar)<br />
Part ALS with some text, on one side saying he does not<br />
know “Paget, but I think a brother of his married a lady I<br />
know, who bore the pleasing name of MOKE. It is not easy<br />
to say anything original on those occasions but I can very<br />
sincerely congratulate a Paget ...”, and on the other side<br />
says he is “drowned out fishing. My wife sends her love,<br />
and is writing I daresay. I always feel rather depressed<br />
when people I like are engaged, but it wears off! ...”, half of<br />
2sides 8vo., n.p., n.d. slightly duststained [SD21439]£45<br />
592. LAWRENCE (Sir Henry Montgomery, 1806-1857,<br />
Brigadier-General, Chief Commissioner in Oudh)<br />
Autograph Envelope signed as Assistant to the Governor<br />
General, addressed to Capt. Munbee, Superintending<br />
Engineer at Bhurtpoor, n.d., c. 1855 contemporary<br />
calculations in rupees on verso [SD50163]£45<br />
Lawrence served with the Artillery in the EIC’s army, but<br />
gradually took on important political posts as resident in Nepal,<br />
1843-1846, Lahore 1847, agent for the Punjab, 1849, and in<br />
Rajputana, 1853. At the outbreak of the mutiny he was given<br />
control over all troops in Oudh, but was killed while successfully<br />
holding Lucknow against the mutineers.<br />
Bhurtpoor (Bharatpore), 35 miles west of Agra, was the capital of<br />
aprotected state, on the far side of the Jumna.<br />
593. LAYARD (Sir Austen Henry, 1817-1894,<br />
Archaeologist & Diplomat, Excavator of Nineveh)<br />
Fine autograph envelope signed, marked ‘Private’, to Henry<br />
Reeve at the Council Office, [SD15846]£75<br />
594. LAYTON AND JOHNSTONE (Turner Layton,<br />
Clarence Johnstone, American Entertainers in Variety)<br />
Programme for ‘Varsity Hospital Rag’, also signed by<br />
Owen Nares, Mark Lister, Claude Hulbert, Leslie<br />
Henson and others, Thursday 29th October, 1925 slightly<br />
worn at centre fold [SD11402]£30<br />
595. LINTON (Eliza, née Lynn, 1822-1898, Journalist<br />
and Novelist)<br />
Signature ‘E. Lynn Linton’ on last side of an ALS, 1 side<br />
8vo, n.d., c. 1870 [SD17746]£30<br />
Eliza Lynn was on the staff of the Morning Chronicle, 1848-1851,<br />
and acorrespondent in Paris, 1851-1854. Her ‘Autobiography of<br />
Christopher Kirkland’, 1885, is largely from her own life.<br />
596. LLOYD-GEORGE (David, Earl, 1863-1945, Prime<br />
Minister)<br />
Signature, laid down on black card [SD11555]£45<br />
597. LOCKHART (John Gibson, 1794-1854, Biographer<br />
and Critic, Editor of the Quarterly Review 1825-1853)<br />
Last page of an ALS to William WORDSWORTH<br />
(1770-1850, Poet Laureate), asking to be “remembered to<br />
you &Mrs W,”, 1 side sm. 8vo., Sussex Place, Regents<br />
Park, 20th April 1836 [SD22236]£45<br />
598. MacDONALD (George, 1824-1905, Novelist &<br />
Poet)<br />
End of autograph letter with fine signature and “Always<br />
your obliged but hurried friend” [SD18411]£125
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