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F W S Cumbrae-Stewart, DCL Formerly Scholar of Christ Church, Oxford Of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law Garrick Professor ofBiblio.com

Herman Merivale (1806-1874), historian and civil servant, Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, brother of Charles MerivaleBiblio.com

Herman Merivale historian and civil servant to his brother Charles Merivale. Long Autograph Letter Signed 'H Merivale' discussing his activities and writing and ending with a shrewd assessment of Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

22732'7 Carey Street. Lincoln's Inn London Tuesday.' With postmark 3 December 1833. 4pp 4to. Bifolium. In good condition lightly aged. Addressed on reverse of second leaf with small seal in red wax and postmark to 'Revd. Charles Merivale St John's College Cambridge'. A long letter with the four pages of text followed by a long postscript at the head of the first page continuing to the last. An interesting intimate letter discussing his activities and writing and ending with aThe letter begins: 'My dear Charles I still direct from these unfortunate lodgings having been quite unable to find chambers to suit me in which I consider myself particularly unlucky: as all the world except myself appear to have found their way into decent habitations Neate in particular who has got a very pleasant little set of rooms in Lincolns Inn for almost no rent at all.' He turns to 'Other news' with reference to 'the revisorship' his 'Wiltshire operations' 'a stupid barbarian by name Taunton' 'Mrs. Spring Rice' and her husband who is 'feasting ministers in his house in Hertfordshire instead of making up & paying the accounts of us unhappy barristers who are desperately out of pocket by his delay'. He has his 'hands over full of writing' but does not find that he can 'do satisfactorily more than one thing at a time: consequently I undertake a great many jobs more than I am able to perform'. He has 'just finished or nearly so a long paper for Cochrane about the Italian Wars of Charles V.' and has 'also on the stocks one or two small matters for Blackwood: & ought to be in correspondence with Napier who wants me to select a subject & write for him but nothing has occurred to me worthy of my genius.' He continues with reference to the Edinburgh Review the 'Revue des 2 mondes a tolerable Paris journal' and again to his publisher Cochrane. As the letter continues there are references to 'Mrs. Mariott' 'De Morgan' and 'Mr. Frere'. He asks to know what his brother's 'proposals are with respect to Henry Drury'. The postscript gives a shrewd assessment of Dickens's future friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton: 'I have not read much of Bulwer & what I have I greatly despise. Not that I do not agree in many of his public ideas: but there is a mixture of affected philosophy & mortified vanity about him which would be amusing in one chapter but is detestable in 2 volumes - he seems to have aimed at being the most fashionable man in London - a leader in the House of Commons - and a first rate writer all at once: & to think it very hard that he has not succeeded - Had he addicted himself to one line only the composition of works requiring a mixture of passion & affection I think he would have come nearer Rousseau & de Stael than any English writer has done.' '7 Carey Street. [Lincoln's Inn, London] Tuesday.' With postmark 3 December 1833. unknown

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Margot Asquith [Emma Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, nee Tennant] (1864-1945), wife of Liberal Prime MinisterBiblio.com

Margot Asquith Countess of Oxford. Autograph Signature 'Margot Oxford' to Copy of Typed Letter to the Editor of The Times regarding the plans of the University of London with regard to the preservation of Torrington Square Bloomsbury.

24098Without date or place. Circa 1935. See her entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p long 8vo. In good condition lightly aged. Headed â€˜TORRINGTON SQUARE. / To the EDITOR of The TIMESâ€™. Whether the letter was published or not and if so whether it appeared in its entirety is unclear. Clearly a carbon but with her characteristic signature at end in black ink â€˜Margot Oxfordâ€™. The forty-seven-line text has four autograph emendations. Begins: â€˜Sir / It has been officially announced that the building of the School of Oriental Studies London Institution in Finsbury Circus is to be sold and that in due course the School â€œwill be accommodated in its own new building on the Bloomsbury siteâ€; and further that the Court of the University of London has presented a new site to Birkbeck College.â€™ In the light of this and as a Bloosmburyite the Asquiths had lived at 44 Bedford Square since the early 1920s she continues: â€˜May we see in these announcements the gleam of a hope that the University proposes to preserve the garden of Torrington Square and to surround it with a group of beautiful buildings generously spaced and allowing glimpses of those wonderful treesâ€™She quotes a â€˜Resolution adopted by the Senate of the University in March 1928â€™ suggesting that â€˜a group of beautiful buildingsâ€™ would give â€˜greater scope to the genius of the Architect Mr. Charles Holden than a single patternised buildingâ€™. In then emphasizing â€˜the strenght of public opinion in favour of the preservation of London squares she quotes a statement by Lord Rothermere â€˜in handing over the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park in Southwarkâ€™. The final paragraph outlines how â€˜the garden of Torrington Square could be made a thing of beauty rivalling the garden of New Square in Lincolnâ€™s Innâ€™ and could be used for purposes including â€˜garden parties open air concerts and playsâ€™. Construction delays and the war meant that what became SOAS did not move to its Bloomsbury site until 1941. Without date or place. [Circa 1935.] unknown

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R E Baynes [ Robert Edward Baynes ] (1849-1921) of Christ Church, Oxford, physicist and freemason [ William Scoresby Routledge;Biblio.com

Venizelos; R. E. Baynes Oxford physicist/freemason. Two Autograph Letters Signed 'R. E. Baynes' first containing an anecdote regarding 'the maker of modern Greece' Eleftherios Venizelos at a Christ Church gaudy the second on Freemasonry.

20292One on letterhead of Christ Church Oxford 2 July 1920; the other from 'Ch. Ch. Oct 30 no year '. From the papers of William Scoresby Routledge 1859-1939 Australian-born British ethnographer anthropologist and adventurer. Both items in good condition on lightly-aged paper but the first with a vertical closed tear at the base of one leaf. ONE: On letterhead of Christ Church Oxford. 2 July 1920. 3pp. 16mo. Bifolium. Routledge's silence he begins by stating led him to think that he was 'somewhere on the High Seas' but he has realised that it was due to a mistaken address 'in the Steward's Office Address Book where 'Conservative Club' has been written for 'Carlton Club'. 'How the mistake arose I cant imagine: for 2 years ago though the usual Clerk was away at the Wars the Steward had the services of a most excellent & business-like woman clerk whom I never found to fail in doing anything that I as Secretary had to ask her to do.' A description of 'the Gaudy' follows: 'We tried to fill the Hall but though I sent out 561 invitations there were only 198 diners.' He proceeds to tell an amusing anecdote about Venizelos then reaching the end of a turbulent period as Greek Prime Minister: 'Venizalos sic was our principal guest & he had consented to address us for 5 minutes in French as his English is not of easy flow when most dramatically a tweed-clothed man entered the Hall by one entrance from Common Room handed him a slip of paper which seemed to cause him much surprise & made him hurriedly rise briefly apologize to the Dean & at once disappear â€“ doubtless as Lord Sumner said in an immediately following speech to give the Turk â€œa lesson in compulsory Greekâ€.' He hopes the 'Sti' to which Routledge is 'off' 'will prove to be savoury as well as pleasant and interesting'. TWO: 'Ch. Ch. Oct 30'. 3pp. 16mo. Bifolium. He does not know why 'any London Lodge shd charge you an extra Fee on joining it because you are not a Subscribing Member of any other Lodge at the time of so joining it. I expect Buckmaster has made a mistake.' As a consequence he is returning Routledge's guinea and has taken his name 'off the Lodge Books'. If Routledge does find that there are fees for having 'ceased membership with us but this I cant for a moment believe' he will arrange the matter for him. The letter ends with further talk of joining fees. Postscript: 'Still at bones' One on letterhead of Christ Church, Oxford, 2 July 1920; the other from 'Ch. Ch. Oct 30 [ no year ]'. hardcover

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Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (1910-1982), Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, British Marxist historian of Africa [Sylvia Lynd (1888-195Biblio.com

Two Autograph Letters from the historian Thomas Lionel Hodgkin one signed 'Thomas' to the poet Sylvia Lynd the other unsigned to her daughter Sigle Lynd both written in the most effusive terms.

13144Both letters on letterhead of 20 Bradmore Road Oxford. Letter to Sylvia Lynd: 16 December 1930. Letter to Sigle Lynd: 19 July 1930. Both items in very good condition on lightly-aged paper. Both letters are written in an excited gushing style and have the margins filled with extra text. Letter to Sylvia Lynd: 2pp. 4to. Addressed to 'Dear Mrs Lynd'. He conveys at great length his 'immense gratitude' at her 'hospitality': 'I have never really told you what very great happiness this succession of glorious meals has given me - This visit to London was splendid and neither Sweet-Escott nor the Kind Cabmennor my Kinder Aunt in Saint John's Wood are really at all the hosts whom I want to thank for it - But you.' He thanks her for 'Rock' which he is sure 'is best' and makes a couple of references to a recent rugby match 'my right shoulder aching . where a nasty heavy forward wilfully kicked it when no one was looking and the scrum had fallen down yesterday afternoon - A beautiful game and I kept swallowing mud and getting it into my eyes'. He urges her and her family to 'come to Bamburgh'. Letter to Sigle Lynd who studied chemistry and biology at Somerville 1929-1930 leaving after four terms as she was 'too busy dancing': 2pp. 12mo. With envelope docketed by Sigle Lynd: 'Lovely enthusiasm from T. It increases my regret even more.' The letter begins with a flight of fancy: 'As for the Byron and the poem I gave them to your charming maid who told me she remembered me and my name was Mr Barry wasn't it I said it wasn't - But it has occurred to me that she may have meant Barrie and not believing my denial she has probably stolen the MS and has been hawking it round to low Publishers hoping by persuading them that as Barrie writes few poems this must be a rarity to get a vast price for it. It will be fun if they bring out a pirated edition for it - But I'm afraid if they compare handwriting and style they may see through it - and she will get nothing poor creature.' He is sending her 'the Poets Progress because I met the young man who wrote it Walter D'Arcy Cresswell 1896-1960 - he's miserably poor and charming - and it's an excellent book - prose rather like Bridges and exciting metaphysical ideas - so your copy if I remember to get it will bring him one and threepence or so which he badly needs'. The letter contains another invitation to Bamburgh: 'Remember that I shall be working at least six hours a day and you will be able to do that and more if you like to miss dirty games like lobstering'. From the Lynd family papers. Both letters on letterhead of 20 Bradmore Road, Oxford. Letter to Sylvia Lynd: 16 December 1930. Letter to Sigle Lynd: 19 July 1 unknown

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W T Spencer [Walter Thomas Spencer] (d1936) of 27 New Oxford Street, bookseller specialising in Dickensiana: d 1Biblio.com

W. T. Spencer London bookseller and Dickens specialist. Two Autograph Letters Signed to Miss Winifred Bois urging her to buy a volume of drawings in a double case. With Autograph Letter Signed on the subject from Bois to London bookseller Sawyer.

14686Spencer's two letters both from Grange House Shanklin Isle of Wight. 23 and 26 February 1931. Bois's letter to Sawyer: on letterhead of 32 Phillimore Walk Kensington London W8. 14 March 1966. Spencer was a sharp operator see Mandelbrote ed. 'Out of Print and into Profit' pp.285-287 and the present items give an hint of his methods. The two letters are addressed from the premises at which his staff were said to practice their 'sophistications'. His two letters both signed 'W. T. Spencer' are in good condition on lightly-aged and worn paper with the second dated by Bois to 1931. Bois's letter signed 'Winifred Bois' is in fair condition with a short closed tear along one edge. Letter One: Spencer to Bois 23 February 1931. The letter begins: 'I have just come across a vol of Flowers & Birds Drawings on Paper that I thought you might like I have never seen anything quite like them before and being in a double case thought they might be the work of a famous artist'. He offers it to her for £20 and also sends 'a Rice Paper Vol with some loose ones inside' priced at £12. Letter Two: Spencer to Bois 26 February 1931. He urges her 'to secure those Drawings even if only as an investment'. 'I feel somehow at the back of my head that they are very valuable; because I have never before seen anything in a double case and as you know I have seen a good many of these things'. He admits that 'they are oxydized but if you do not know how to take that off Miss Marie will tell you how to when next you are that way'. He concludes: 'Do please secure it.' Letter Three: Bois to 'Mr Sawyer' 14 March 1966. She thanks him for his cheque for £184 'in payment for the Books taken on Thursday. I was sorry to not to see you but your assistant seemed a very nice pleasant young man & very keen on the books.' She feels 'quite happy about the deal' and is 'glad the books have gone back to their original home'. She asks whether he still buys 'Chinese Drawings' having sold him some of hers in the past. 'I have a book which old Walter Spencer was certain was very valuable as he had never seen one like it before - I want to dispose of it some time but should like to ask your advice first.' She asks him to telephone as she finds it 'very difficult getting about in the crowded London streets'. Spencer's two letters both from Grange House, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. 23 and 26 February [1931]. Bois's letter to Sawyer: on le unknown

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