ELIZABETH I, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS and THE DUKE OF NORFOLK. Elizabethan Privy Council Letter signed by the Earl of Leicester, Sir William Cecil and other Councillors, to the Sheriff and Justices of the Peace of Kent, informing them of the Duke of Norfolk's flight to Kenninghall. Bonhams, 20139, 13...
ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina. Autograph letter signed to 'Dear Sir' [John Ingram], replying to a letter from Ingram which requested a copy for review of her new edition of 'Goblin Market, and other Poems'. Creation dates: [29 Nov 1875]
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. Autograph letter signed to 'Dear Sister' from 'Brother A', written three weeks before the Battle of Chancellorsville, describing the unidentified Officer's role attending to Captain Douglas, and mentioning an expected inspection by Abraham Lincoln of the 12th Infantry Regimen...
MILL, John Stuart. Autograph letter signed to C. E. Rawlins Junior, a fellow member of the Union and Emancipation Society, Manchester, to discuss a suggestion relating to electoral reform. Creation dates: 15 May 1867
CALDECOTT, Randolph. 2 illustrated signed autograph letters, one incomplete, from the artist and illustrator Caldecott to his friend Mrs Middleton in Australia. Creation dates: 11 Nov 1872, undated
COLLINS, William Wilkie. 2 Autograph letters signed to Dennis Powell, regarding the latter's proposal to adapt 'The Frozen Deep' for the stage; 18 Jan and 13 Mar 1875. Creation dates: 18 Jan-13 Mar 1875
NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Autograph letter signed to Dr John Elliott, informing him of the responses from 'several London Accoucheurs' to Elliott's work 'Instructions for Midwives'. Creation dates: 05 June 1874
BEDE, Cuthbert, pseud. (Edward Bradley) & HOW, William Walsham, Bishop of Wakefield. A collection of limericks, each with an original ink illustration by Bede, including a note by the Bishop that Bradley did the illustrations for him, for rhymes written in about 1846. Creation dates: [circa...
DICKENS, Charles. First separate edition of 'Barnaby Rudge', 1841, inscribed by Dickens on the titlepage 'Mrs Smithson from Charles Dickens New Years Day 1842'. Mrs Smithson was presumably the wife of Charles Smithson, partner of Dickens's friend and lawyer Thomas Mitton. Creation dates: 1 Jan ...