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Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9896/1
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Scope & Content:: DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge [Lewis Carroll]. 7 Autograph letters signed to Mr Bowles. Creation dates: Jan 1879-April 1892
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Mar 2012
Extent:: 22 colour prints

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9896/2
Title:
Scope & Content:: SCOTT, Robert Falcon. Autograph letter signed to Mrs Evans. Creation dates: Oct 1911
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Mar 2012
Extent:: 3 colour prints

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9896/3
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Scope & Content:: THOMAS, Dylan. 2 printed documents, filled in in ink by Thomas, being forms sent out to authors by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd requesting biographical and other information 'for use by our Publicity and Sales Departments'. Creation dates: Circa 1936-1939
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Mar 2012
Extent:: 5 colour prints

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9896/4
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Scope & Content:: CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer. Autograph letter signed to 'My dear Blakeney'. Creation dates: Nov 1928
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Mar 2012
Extent:: 2 colour prints

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9897
Title:
Scope & Content:: DARWIN, Charles. Autograph letter signed, possibly to his publisher John Murray, requesting a copy of a book (by Werner Hoffmeister) to enable him to complete his research for his latest work 'The Formation of Vegetable Mould'. Creation dates: June [1880]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16 Mar 2012
Extent:: 1 colour print

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9898
Title:
Scope & Content:: SHELLEY, Mary. (1). Autograph letter signed by Marianne Hunt, the wife of Leigh Hunt, to Mary Shelley, asking Mary to persuade Shelley to invite the Leigh Hunts to Italy, where the Shelleys were resident; Jan 1821. (2) Autograph envelope by Mary Shelley to Mrs Hogg (Jane Williams), sent from Nic...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Mar 2012
Extent:: 9 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9899
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Scope & Content:: POTTER, Beatrix. Autograph testimonial signed ("H.B. Heelis (Mrs. W. Heelis)"): a letter of recommendation for Benjamin Dawson, gardener. Bonhams, 20135, 27 Mar 2012, Lot 215. Creation dates: March 1933
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16 Apr 2012
Extent:: 2 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9900
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Scope & Content:: WILSON, Oriana. Autograph letter signed to F. J. Hooper, who was a member of the party which found the bodies of Scott, Bowers, and Oriana Wilson's husband Edward, who had died on their return from the South Pole in 1912. Bonhams, 19552, 30 Mar 2012, Lot 133. Creation dates: Feb 1913
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Apr 2012
Extent:: 3 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9901
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Scope & Content:: CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer. First edition of Churchill's 'Great Contemporaries', containing his assessment of Adolf Hitler, inscribed on the fly-leaf 'To Neville Chamberlain from Winston S. Churchill October 1937'. Bonhams, 20135, 27 Mar 2012, Lot 190. Creation dates: Oct 1937
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19 Apr 2012
Extent:: 1 photocopy

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9902
Title:
Scope & Content:: TITANIC. Autograph letter signed, written on board the Titanic to his parents by James Paintin, the personal steward of Captain E J Smith. Creation dates: April 1912
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Apr 2012
Extent:: 3 colour prints

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