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An unsigned framed portrait of a woman identified as Henrietta Maria Sarah Stuart. The reverse of the image displays an original label which is difficult to decipher, but seems to indicate that it was painted in Sep 1844 by James Robertson and given as a birthday gift to a family member.
Volume bound in black leather with tartan endplates, entitled Stuartiana, or Bubbles blown by and to some of the family of Stuart. Printed privately by Jonathan Rashleigh for Sir William Stuart (1798-1874). The volume contains the bookplate of Ralph Esme Stuart stuck over the bookplate of Charl...
Extensive collection of letters received by Dorothy L. Sayers, with copies of many of her replies, covering her entire writing career. Correspondents include Dennis Wheatley, Arthur Machen, John Gawsworth, A. P. Herbert, Violet Vanbrugh, Charles Oppenheimer, Violet Bonham-Carter, Tom Driberg, How...
Correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers and Gerald Sayers
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The correspondence is chiefly of a social nature, discussing meetings, family, and mutual friends, with some discussion of Dorothy’s work and that of Gerald, which included colonial civil service posts in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) and later work with the Conservative Party. Gerald was Dorothy’s ...
Correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers and Carrie Quick
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The letters discuss the upkeep and condition of Sayers’s London flat and payments for Quick’s services. The letters from 1939-1945 touch on the London blitz and near misses. Quick was Sayers’s London housekeeper/caretaker.
Correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers and Basil Smallpeice
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The letters discuss Sayers visiting the Royal Doulton works where Smallpeice is acting managing director, and the supply of hot water bottles; Sayers’s comments on economic papers written by Smallpeice and others; war production, the economy, and taxation in wartime, and the likely economic land...
‘File of correspondence from donors of food parcels from abroad’
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Correspondence with senders of food parcels in the immediate post-war years. Senders include fans of Sayers’s work and state they are sending the parcels as thanks for the enjoyment her books have given them. Senders were located in Australia, USA, South Africa, New Zealand, and Canada. Despite ...
Correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers and friends in Germany
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The correspondence discusses the post-war situation in both Britain and Germany, in particular rationing. Sayers sends parcels of food and clothing to Germany, despite herself being in receipt of food parcels from overseas (see Add MS 89727/1/5). Also contains correspondence with the Save Europe...