Literature Autographs

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD Autograph Letter Signed. British poet, author and journalist. Author of 'The Light of Asia'. ALS. 2pp. 225 Cromwell Mansions, Kensington, SW. October 28th 1897. To "Dear Madam". "I read with sympathy and interest your letters about your talented grandchildren, but I can do nothing at present to assist them, as I am ill and confined to the house.  Try to get our musical editor, Mr J. Bennett, Daily Telegraph Office, City, E.C. to be interested in them. He is very influential. Say I recommended the little ladies to him. Yours truly, Edwin Arnold". Bifolium. 8vo. Approx 17.5.....

MATTHEW ARNOLD Autograph Letter Signed. English poet, critic and schools inspector. Author of 'Dover Beach'. ALS. 1p.  Fox How. August 22nd 1865.  To "Dear Mr Hill".   "I hasten to answer your letter. I have found a great treasure for you - ten letters to yourself - which I find put away most carefully.  Whether they came into my possession later than what I returned to you I cannot say, or how it may have been, but here they are and I rejoice to return them to you. Let me only beg of you to let me hear that you.....

MATTHEW ARNOLD Autograph School Time-Table Signed. English poet, critic and schools inspector.  Author of the poem 'Dover Beach'. A rare and unusual model school time-table, entirely in the hand of Matthew Arnold. Endorsed signed and dated by him at foot "approved on behalf of Education Department, as fulfilling requirements of sect.vii of Elementary Education Act 1870. Matthew Arnold. November 19th [18]72."   Folio leaf 34 x 24.5 cms (13.5 x 9.75 inches).  Evidence of old mounting or binding at top edge of verso. All else fine.   A fascinating document. Matthew Arnold, the son of Rugby School's headmaster, Thomas Arnold, had.....

THOMAS ARNOLD Autograph Letter Signed. English educator and historian.  Headmaster of Rugby School, immortalised in 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'.   ALS. 4pp.  Rugby. April 24th 1841.  To Mr [Herbert] Hill.   "I thank you much for your letter.  If I can send you any pupils, especially any in whom I am interested, I shall have the pleasure of knowing that I am doing for them one of the best things I could do and therefore I can always most gladly recommend pupils to you because I am quite sure that I am benefitting them by so doing quite as much as I.....

THOMAS BAKER Autograph Signature.English antiquarian and academic.Autograph signature "Tho. Baker. Coll. Jo: Socius Ejectus".On paper piece measuring approx 5 x 1.5 inches (12.5 x 4 cms).  Tipped onto larger leaf bearing the biographical details of Thomas Baker as compiled by and in the hand of Anne Susanna Nichols (1788-1853).  Some browning, else in very good condition.Thomas Baker was one of the great antiquaries of his day and the majority of his extensive collection of manuscripts is now housed in the British Library and Cambridge University.  These include books printed by Caxton and other priceless manuscripts and examples of early printing.....

R H BARHAM autograph letter Signed. Thomas Harris Barham also known by his nom de plume Thomas Ingoldsby. British (English) cleric, author and poet. Author of 'The Ingoldsby Legends'.   ALS. 4pp. Resid[entiar]y House, Amen Corner, St. Pauls. October 24th 1842. To "My Dear Sir".   "I congratulate you very sincerely on the improvement in your prospects which I need not, I am sure, say that I will be happy to promote in any way that may be in my power.  If I have not replied sooner to your letter it has been that I have been absent from town.....

J M BARRIE Autograph Letter Signed. Sir James Matthew Barrie. British (Scottish) author and playwright. Author of 'Peter Pan'.   ALS. 1p. Adelphi Terrace House, Strand. WC2.  7th October [no year].  To J.T. Davies.   "Alas, I am hermetically sealed in my bed with a chill and have been for some days and have some more days of it ahead of me.  I am so disappointed at not being able to accept this kind invitation of Mrs Lloyd George and the Prime Minister that I'd leap out of bed and risk it were it not that I should probably carry.....

CUTHBERT BEDE Autograph Letter Signed and Two Ink Drawings. Cuthbert Bede (pseudonym of Edward Bradley). English novelist and illustrator. Author of 'Verdant Green'. ALS.  3pp.  Leigh, Worcester.  November 2nd, no year [1854]. To "Dear Sir" [almost certainly Thomas Miller].    "The subject of your picture by West of Clifton struck me as bearing a resemblance to one of Westmorland's waterfalls for which I had made memoranda.  You will perhaps be able to judge from the enclosed diagrams whether your picture is a Welsh or English subject.  Of course if the Skelwith Force drawing had been taken from below the chief fall,.....

WALTER BESANT Autograph Letter Signed. British (English) novelist and historian.   ALS. 1p plus integral blank leaf. Together with original envelope. 18 Gayton Crescent, Hampstead. April 30th 1890. To W[illiam] Blake Odgers.   "I cannot speak on politics. If you wanted a volunteer to lay on the nine tailed cat on Harcourt & Co I would gladly step forward. I am glad you have got the paper. Very sincerely yours" [etc].   8vo. Approx 7 x 4.5 inches. Envelope affixed to the integral blank leaf. Mounting traces to verso of integral blank leaf. All else near fine.   Walter Besant.....

ALGERNON BLACKWOOD Typed Letter Signed.  British (English) short story writer and novelist, noted for his ghost stories.  TLS. 1p. Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, W.1.  October 31st 1929.  To [Arthur] St John Adcock.  "I enclose the article you suggested and hope it will suit you.  As I have now been photographed by Howard Coster, I wonder if you would kindly return the snap-shot I sent you some ten days ago. Yours sincerely, Algernon Blackwood."  8vo. Approx 8 x 5 inches (20 x 13 cms). Some creasing and slight marking. Small chip and pinhole to top edge. Mounting traces to verso......