Partial draft script of play 'Miss Elizabeth Bennet' by A A Milne
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The first half of a notebook containing Alan Alexander Milne's handwritten drafts for several scenes of 'Miss Elizabeth Bennet', his stage adaptation of Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'. This notebook contains parts of several scenes, including scene 3 depicting Mr Bennet and Mr Collins in ...
Documents related to Rudyard Kipling including a letter to A A Milne
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Various documents relating to Rudyard Kipling including: - a letter to Alan Alexander Milne, dated 18 Aug 1925, signed by Rudyard Kipling, stating his admiration of 'When We Were Very Young' and Milne's other work in Punch magazine - the second half of a letter signed by Kipling regarding wor...
Correspondence between Rudyard Kipling and his mechanic, W W Parsons
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Correspondence between Rudyard Kipling and his mechanic, Mr W W Parsons, regarding his Rolls Royce car (Chassis 6 UE). - handwritten letter to Mr Parsons, dated 10 Apr 1925, thanking Mr Parsons for the assistance given in sending a man after Kipling's car broke down. - three typed copies of a ...
Letters to Irene Cooper-Willis, literary academic, regarding drafts of her novel 'The Green Eyed Monster' written under the pseudonym Althea Brook. - Letter to Miss Cooper-Willis from Vernon Lee, dated 19 Jun 1923, offering an in-depth critique of her book - Letter to Miss Cooper-Willis from...
Correspondence between Leslie Hartley and Freda Hughes
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Letters between Leslie Hartley and Freda Hughes regarding 'The Go-Between'. - a copy of a letter from Freda Hughes, dated 28 Nov 1954, conveying her pleasure in reading 'The Go-Between', describing the conditions under which she read it, and comparing it to other literary works. - A letter f...
Rental ledger for Theddlethorpe estates of Lord Brownlow Bertie
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Bound rental ledger for the estates of Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire, belonging to Lord Brownlow Bertie, Duke of Ancaster. This volume details the accounts collected by Thomas Brackenbury and Robert Chapman. The volume also includes a note on the front cover, dated 8 Jun 1824, claiming this book...
411 page bound typescript, heavily corrected and amended in manuscript in red, blue, and black pen and pencil by an unidentified hand. Cuneo Eastern Press Operating Service date stamp to verso of two leaves. One More River was the third book of End of the Chapter, a sequel to The Forsyte Saga, pu...
Facsimile of a 1799 letter from Napoleon Bonaparte to Joseph Bonaparte
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Contains a facsimile of Bonaparte's letter to his brother, Joseph, deputy to the Council of the 500, dated Cairo, 7 Thermidor [27 Jul 1799], with a translation. Bonaparte refers to the conquest of Egypt, adding 'a page to the military glory of this army.' However, he notes there is no money to pa...
Autograph revised manuscript, with Gibson's name in his own hand on the title page, 356 lines, including about five deleted and interlinear lines, some autograph revisions with reconsidered readings not included in the published version (a copy of which is bound with the manuscript) which appear...