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PEPYS, Samuel. Letter Signed as Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board, to the 'Masters Attend[an]t, M[aste]r Shippwr[igh]t, Clerks of ye Checq, Stores & Survey at Chatham', requiring them, on the orders of the Lord High Admiral James Duke of York, to commandeer the Duke of Richmond's yacht in ...
LE HERMITE, Jacques. 'The Lord L'Hermite his voyage into the Sowthe Seas Thorrow the Straits Lemar in the year 1623 ...', being a manuscript written in English in perhaps two early 17th century hands, possibly derived from a 1628 account of the voyages in Latin. Creation dates: [After 1626]
HARDY, Thomas. Autograph Letter Signed to C F H Rumbold, discussing an alteration to 'The Return of the Native' that has been forced on him by the sensibilities of the Rumbold family. Bonhams, 16761, 24 March 2009, Lot 152. Creation dates: Oct 1912
JAMES VI and I, King of Scotland, England, and Ireland. Manuscript address formulary, probably prepared for King James I of England, being modes of address to 67 of his fellow monarchs and heads of church and state in continental Europe, North Africa and Asia. Creation dates: [1613]
SHAW, George Bernard. Typed Letter Signed to F C Owlett, regarding the latter's plan to reconstruct Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Bonhams, 16811, 23 June 2009, Lot 163. Creation dates: Jan 1935
INE, West Saxon King. Manuscript on vellum of the laws of King Ine (promulgated between 688 and 694), in facing Anglo-Saxon and Tudor English, written in the formal hand of Laurence Nowell, with autograph additions by his friend, colleague, and executor William Lambarde. Creation dates: [Circa ...
FORSTER, E. M. Carbon typescript of BBC talk on Clouds Hill, including entry 'Broadcast in the West of England Programme on ... 25th August, 1938', with one ink correction, to the date of the broadcast, in Forster's hand. Creation dates: 1938
Manuscript (not autograph) of 3 poems by John Hoskyns, and an incomplete poem by Walter Raleigh, as follows: (1) Hoskyns - 'Little Ben whilest thou art young'. (2) Hoskyns - Latin poem addressed to James I. (3) Hoskyns - 6-line Latin poem to fellow prisoners in the Tower. (4) Raleigh - 3 (of 6) ...
Autograph letter signed from P. T. Barnum to a doctor. Also, two carte-de-visite albumen prints showing Barnum with Anna H. Swann of Nova Scotia and with Capt. Martin van Buren Bates. At the time Bates and Swann were the tallest married couple in the world. Creation date: 1860s-1883.