PORTER, Jane, Anna Maria & Robert Ker. A significant archive of letters, documents, manuscript pieces and scraps by and relating to the novelist sisters Jane and Anna Maria Porter, their brother, artist, author and diplomat Robert Ker Porter, and other family members. Creation dates: [1790...
SHELLEY, Mary. Autograph letter signed to her friend and admirer the American actor and playwright John Howard Payne, then in Paris, mostly about recent trips to the opera in London, but also providing news of her father, William Godwin, and of an impending visit by Edward Trelawny, and inquiring...
RUSSELL, Bertrand. Typed letter signed to Leonard Fulton (in reply to a letter from him), in which Russell urges Fulton to join any peace organisation in the United States in order to contribute to the 'struggle against nuclear war', and also suggesting that he might try to contact Professor Linu...
FRY, Elizabeth. Autograph letter signed to Major Palmer, Inspector General of Prisons, on the subject of proposed reforms at Dublin Prison. Creation dates: 19 Aug 1836
BELCHER, Sir Edward. TOMS, Frank. Autograph letter signed by Toms, an assistant surgeon on Belcher's Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, to a fellow doctor criticising Belcher and describing medical conditions. Creation dates: 20 Feb 1854
ROBERTS, David. Autograph letter signed, to Allan Cunningham, who has offered to contribute the letter-press for the contemplated publication of his drawings from the Holy Land. Bonhams, 20751, 19 Mar 2013, Lot 131. Creation dates: 27 Mar 1840
BURNE-JONES, Sir Edward. Autograph letter signed ('Ned') to Algernon Swinburne (as 'Hajie') on the death of William Morris. Creation dates: [03 Oct 1896]
MILNER, Joseph (1745-1797). Manuscript sermon by Milner on Revelation Chapter 7 Verse 9, given by the Rev Fawcett of Carlisle his executor to the Rev. Edward Bickersteth of Watton. Creation dates: [Circa 1785]
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Autograph letter signed (with initial 'D') to his son Denis providing an outline plot of the story that would become 'The Maracot Deep' and inviting his help with it. Creation dates: 8 April [1928?]