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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Books, Maps and Manuscripts | |||
| Auctioneer: | Lawrences, Crewkerne | Location: | South Street, Crewkerne |
| Contact: | Telephone: 01460 73041 Fax: 01460 270799 | ||
| Date: | 21st July 2011 | Time: | 11:00AM |
| Details: | Viewing: Monday 18th July 9am to 4.30pm Tuesday 19th July 9am to 4.30pm Wednesday 20th July 9am to 4.30pm Thursday 21st July 9am to 10.30am |
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| Auction Lots - Page 9 | |||
| 3405 | |||
| ALBUM. 8vo., orig. cloth, containing 48 window mounted family photographs, late 19th c., of picnics, groups of children, horse drawn vehicles, some sitters possibly in Russian dress (some fading). — ETON COLLEGE. 4to., orig. maroon morocco gilt (lacks clasp), c. 1903 containing 110 portraits, window mounted, including sitters in sports or rowing dress (some spotting). (2) £80-100 |
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| 3406 | |||
| ALBUMS. Two albums., oblong 4to. cont. green morocco gilt over wooden boards, with clasps (inner joints broken) late 19th c. containing approx. 125 window mounted portraits (mostly uncaptioned), and a few others including views in Scotland, historical portraits and reproductions of paintings etc. (some loose or damaged). Provenance. The Colyer-Fergusson family with initials on upper covers. (2) £100-150 |
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| 3407 | |||
| ALBUM of John H.L. Illingworth of Hamwith Hall, Bell Busk, North Yorkshire, c. 1922 - 38. Oblong folio, orig. maroon leather. Approx. 185 photographs, various sizes. Subject include early motor bicycles and cars, naval and sailing. £100-150 |
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| 3408 | |||
| BONFILS, FELIX and ADRIEN. An album stamped in gilt "Palestine - Greece. 1897" on upper cover. Oblong folio, cont. half black morocco gilt. Containing 62 photographs: 24 of them mostly signed Bonfils, 2 of them signed A. Bonfils, 215 x 281 mm.; 5 smaller unsigned views; 6 large views of Egypt by A. Beato, 4 of them identical (2 of them crudely trimmed); 22 large views of Greece and Pompei, including statuary; 2 views of Amalfi by Somner, Naples, (one of them loose); and 2 others. Originally from France, the Bonfils family set up as photographers in Beirut in 1867. See Illustration. £200-300 |
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| 3409 | |||
| BONFILS, FELIX. Two albums, oblong folio, cont. black morocco, a.e.g. late 19th c. containing 84 photographs, 5 of them coloured, of Egypt, Syria, Palestine, including Jerusalem, mostly by Bonfils, but 8 by Liekegian, approx 225 x 280 mm. (occasional spotting or fading). (2) See Illustration. £400-600 |
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| 3410 | |||
| ENGLAND, WILLIAM. Views of Switzerland and Savoy. Messrs. Marion Son & Co. [c. 1870]. Oblong folio, cont, half black morocco gilt (upper joint split). 25 mounted albumen prints (stained margins, some spotting). The photographs are captioned and numbered in pencil in the lower margins. See Illustration. £300-400 |
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| 3411 | |||
| IRELAND, FIRST WORLD WAR. A family photograph album, compiled by Marjorie Milton-Henn, 1916 - 24. 4to., orig. cloth, with embroidered additional loose cover. Containing photographs of military parades in Ireland, country houses, including Ardhu, Limerick & Admiralty Lodge Miltown-Malbay, Co. Clare. With signature of Siegfried Sassoon dated 3/2/18 and others on a page with small photograph of the 3rd Royal Welch Fusiliers outside New Barracks, Limerick. Illustrated with a few watercolours. £220-250 |
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| 3412 | |||
| WELSH ALBUM. Containing approx. 191 photographs 1880's mainly views in England and Wales, various sizes, including several of the interiors at the Cardiff exhibition of 1881. 4to., orig. maroon leather gilt, a.e.g. (worn, lacks backstrip). With printed "Ode on the opening of the Cardiff Free Library" pasted inside lower cover, and bookplate of Joseph Larke Wheatley (town clerk of the city for forty years), whose display of treasures is shown in one of the photographs. See Illustration. £150-200 |
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| 3413 | |||
| WINDSOR, EDWARD, Duke of, and WALLIS, Duchess of. Photograph signed by both, dated 20 - XI - 37, group at a fete in Paris, with the Duchess accepting a bouquet of flowers from the vendor (slight damage at lower edge, and a few scratches) 213 x 273 mm. Framed and glazed (loose in frame). Pasted to the backing board is an ALS from Dudley Forwood, [equerry], Hotel Meurice, Paris, 3rd December 1937, to the child's mother, returning the photograph duly signed, "You will I know appreciate that such a grant by His Royal Highness must be given no publicity whatsoever and be a private gift for your daughter." One page, 8vo. See Illustration. £200-300 |
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| 3414-3415 | |||
No LotsAUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS AND DOCUMENTS |
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| 3416 | |||
| CHURCHILL, Sir WINSTON SPENCER. Cut signature, in ? orig. blank envelope with "C" cypher on flap. With cut signatures of Cardinal John Henry Newman, dated January 31, 1875; Joseph Hume (politician); and printed receipt signed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (4) £200-300 |
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| 3417 | |||
| COMMISSION appointing the Duke of Buccleuch to be Lord Lieutenant of the County of Dumfries, 1915. Manuscript in ink on vellum, folded, attached wax seal of George V in tin box. £40-60 |
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| 3418 | |||
| DOCUMENT appointing Edward Pine Coffin to be a Knight Bachelor, on vellum, with decorative borders and detached wax seal of Queen Victoria in tin box, n.d. (presumably lacking 2nd page with signatures etc.). Sir Edward Pine Coffin used naval vessels to distribute oatmeal and other supplies, to alleviate the Highland Potato Famine in 1847. £30-50 |
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| 3419 | |||
| HAWSTED, JOHN, surveyor. The Plott of Glapthorne in the Countye of Northampton Ao 1614. Manuscript on four conjoined vellum membranes, linen backed (strengthened at lower edge, a few stains). Plan of the Manor of Southwick, showing the village of Glapthorn, hand coloured in outline, with hand coloured cartouche, scale and arms of Brudenell with crest and mantling. 152.5 x 82 cm. This map would presumably have been commissioned by the Brudenell family of Deene Park who owned the Manor. John Hawsted is listed as the surveyor of other estates in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. See Illustrations. £5000-10000 |
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| 3420 | |||
| LEGAL DOCUMENTS. A folder containing 37 items, 7 of them on vellum, 16th - 18th century, many relating to Durham. (37) £200-300 |
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| 3421 | |||
| ANOTHER LOT, similar, 18 items in a folder, 16th - 18th century (mostly 18th c.) 6 of them on vellum, relating to Durham, London, Staffordshire etc., and 7 further fragments, also on vellum. (25) £100-150 |
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| 3422 | |||
| LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. ALS to Mrs. Higginson. Cambridge (Mass.) March 28, 1878. 1 1/2pp., 8vo. Concerning a present (unspecified) evidently given to the Higginsons by English friends. With 3 other relevant letters relating to the same, one of them from Thos. Wentworth Higginson, who states that his wife is the niece and namesake of Longfellow's first wife. £80-120 |
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| 3423 | |||
| MILITARY, POLITICAL. A collection of correspondence mostly to Col. T.A. Colfox of Bridport, Dorset, and his wife Constance (nee Nettlefold). Comprising: Lord Roberts, TLS, 1906; Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, ALS, 1910 and 3 TLsS, March - May 1911, concerning an engagement in Sherborne; Austen Chamberlain, 3 ALsS with envelopes to Mrs. Colfox, 1906 - 31; Neville Chamberlain, TLS, 1930 to Cdr. Hare (son-in-law of the Colfox's); Cecil Aldin, ALS, 1923. With 2 others: Lt. Gen. Lord Chelmsford, ALS to a Mr. Miller, 1878; Lord Granville (Foreign Secretary) ALS to a Dr. Carpenter, 1879, and issue 45 of the North Briton [April 1763] (worn) which resulted in John Wilkes being charged with seditious libel over attacks on George III's speech. The Nettlefolds and Chamberlains were partners in the Birmingham firm making wood screws (later part of Guest, Keen & Nettlefold). (13) £100-150 |
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| 3424 | |||
| TRAVEL JOURNALS, 19th c. The journal of Christine Hunter of Manchester Street, London, beginning 25th July 1826, describing a visit to Paris via Dieppe, where the party consisting of the writer's brother William and sister Sibella, are disappointed to attend a ball "full of nothing but shopkeepers and the canaille [rabble]..." In Paris the party visit the sights, including the Louvre, Pantheon, the theatre, and Notre Dame where they are present at a mass attended by King Charles Xth; also Versailles and Sevres "to see the china manufactory. They would not allow us to see the people actually at work...but I was delighted with the exquisite specimens of painted china". They return to England on 4th September 1826. Intermittent entries for 1827 describe social life in London, and a visit to her sister Caroline at Ewhurst Park, Basingstoke. Approx. 90 pp., manuscript in ink, small 8vo., orig. sheep (covers stained). (2) INDIAN JOURNAL by the same, beginning on the first day after her arrival in Bombay, 1st January 1831 - June 1832. Most of the entries relate to the daily social round of calls, dinners, balls, drives etc., with many complaints about the heat, and flirtations with the young officers, until her marriage to Harcourt Masters of the 4th Light Dragoons in December 1831, at Poona. She describes the journey to Poona in May 1831, "the road almost perpendicular in some places - scene altogether most extraordinary - the roaring of the men to frighten away the tigers, the glare of the torches and strange wild scenery reminded me [of] 'The Descent of Hercules into Hell'." Approx 194pp., manuscript in ink, 8vo., cont. half calf. (2) £150-250 |
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| 3425 | |||
| WEBB, BEATRICE. T.L.S. to Mr. Horder, 1 1/2pp., 8vo., Passfield Corner, Liphook, 27 September 1941. Discussing the Webbs' book Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation, a new edition of which was about to appear, and mentioning a meeting with Sir Stafford Cripps, "he is great friends with Stalin". £20-30 |
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| 3426 | |||
| WELLINGTON, ARTHUR WELLESLEY, 1st Duke; NORBURY, JOHN TOLER, 1st Earl; QUIN, Major DENNIS. A collection of letters and papers relating to Major Dennis Quin, who according to family tradition, was private secretary to the Duke in the early part of his career. Comprising: Quin's three military commissions on vellum, folded, Lieutenant 1796; Captain, 1789, and Major, 1806, all in the 33rd or 1st Yorkshire West Riding Regiment of Foot, signed by King George III, and Marquess Cornwallis, Henry Dundas and Lord Castlereagh respectively. Letter signed by Ja. Johnston addressed to Lt. Col. Serle from the Royal Hospital at Haslar, August 5th 1795 relating to the exchange of Lt. Quin with a French prisoner. 1p. (tear at centrefold). AL in the 3rd person from Lady Wellesley to Major Quin, Harley Street, July 13th 1809, 1p., 4to., with integral franked address panel, thanking him for his "most friendly congratulations" and "to assure you that Lord Wellington is thank God in the most perfect health...I look forward to the greatest advantages to all Europe from this victory when last we heard from Portugal". ALS from the Duke of Wellington to Mrs. Mary Pearson (Major Quin's daughter), London, March 3rd 1827. 1p., 8vo., addressed to "Dear Madam", thanking her for her congratulations and expressing his pleasure at her happiness. Three A.Ls.S. from Lord Norbury to Major Quin, c. 1810 - 16, 9pp., 4to., one with integral franked address panel, one referring to "those glorious events and particularly those in which your friend [the] Duke of Wellington has had so magnificent a share"; with 8 further A.LS.s. from Lord Norbury to Mary Quin (later Pearson), c. 1820 - 25. With other family correspondence including copy letters from the Duke and Lord Norbury relating to Dennis Quin's death in 1820. Lord Norbury (1745 - 1831) Irish lawyer, politician and judge. A note on the franking/postal history will be available at the view. (a quantity). £200-300 |
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| 3427 | |||
| QUIN, Major DENNIS. Journal of his voyages to and from India, leaving Portsmouth on 15th September 1807 "under convoy of the Monmouth 64 Guns Admiral Drury & Capt. King", with several other ships, giving brief details of their progress, weather conditions etc., including one occasion when the Captain was obliged to order crew members "to force Miss Johnston to her cabin from the supper table..." The ships arrive in Madras on 16th Feb. 1808. No details are given of the next few months, and the journal resumes with Quin's departure on 25th October 1808, aboard the Phoenix, calling at Table Bay in January 1809, St. Helena on 24th Feb, and arriving at Plymouth on 19th May after "a long and unpleasant passage indeed". 38pp., with integral blanks, small oblong 8vo., orig. leather (lacks clasp). With a small folding engraved map of Hindustan, hand coloured in outline, from the East India Register (tear at fold). (2) £100-200 |
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| 3428 | |||
| THEATRE. Edward Smith Willard, actor-manager. A collection of theatrical memorabilia including autograph letters, 9 portrait photographs, some in character, mostly signed. Including 4 ALsS from J.M. Barrie, 5 ALsS from Sir Henry Irving and one Ls, with printed auction catalogue of his Library, 1905; Weedon Grossmith (1), Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1), Sybil Thorndike (2), and note signed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle etc. (a quantity) A biographical note on Edward Smith Willard is included in the lot. £100-150 |
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| 3429 | |||
| CHARD, SOMERSET. 12 documents on vellum, 18th c., relating to turnpikes and bridges; rolled document on vellum concerning oaths of allegiance by Justices of the Peace, signed by Ed. Phelips, Giles Strangways, H. Fownes Luttrell, Tho. Dyte Acland and many others, 1761; 10 19th legal documents; folder of documents on paper, 1753 concerning the local roads, tolls and duties; a roll of petitions etc. (a quantity in a box). £200-300 THE LITERARY AND PERSONAL ARCHIVE OF FR. BROCARD SEWELL |
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| 3430 | |||
| THE LITERARY AND PERSONAL ARCHIVE OF FR. BROCARD SEWELL, contained in 6 boxes, with brief contents listed below. Some folders of correspondence etc. have been lotted separately. Most of the folders have detailed contents lists compiled by Fr. Sewell's executor and friend, the artist Jane Percival. The portrait photographs used to illustrate the lots are mostly by Oswald Jones. Box 1 containing folders of mainly ecclesiastical material, including: research papers relating to Father Benedict Williamson, priest and architect (unfinished memoir; ring-bound ms. notebook by Fr. Brocard, etc.) with printed booklet by Williamson on The Bridgettine Order, 1922; a few notes about Dominic Willliams, O.P. (for possible inclusion in a volume of studies intended as a sequel to "Like Black Swans"); the Muggletonians (followers of Lodowick Muggleton); letters from Father Bede Bailey, of the English Dominican Province Archive, from Newport, Isle of Wight, and Blackfriars, Edinburgh, 1981 - 91, referring to Eric Gill, the St. Dominic's Press etc; typescripts of Fr. Brocard's sermons, addresses, lectures etc., including pieces on John Gray, Arthur Symons, Fr. Vincent McNabb, G.K. Chesterton, Cecil Chesterton and others; 3 folders of research material, correspondence etc. relating to Fr. Brocard's book on Brother Joseph Gard'ner, published as "Cancel all our Vows", particularly the Frensham Circus and St. Thomas More school; printed forms of service, funerals,memorials etc., including several items about Erica Marx of the Hand and Flower Press; a folder of ms. and typed notes on G.K. Chesterton's Defence of Dogma, approx. 288 pp.; folder of letters from Bro. Peter Anson, Caldey Island, to Bro. Donald Halliday, c. 1970 - 74 (forwarded in 1986), with photocopy of Peter Anson's Correspondence by S.G.A. Luff; Commonplace book, 10 pp., 1985; red cloth bound notebook containing various ms. items on Thomas Dominic Williams (1668 - 1740), The Hague & Gill press, the founding of the Aylesford Review etc.; folder relating to the Saint - Pol - Roux number of poesie vivante, Geneva 1965 [Paul-Pierre Roux, French symbolist poet 1861 - 1940]. Carmelite history, students course, carbon copies; A History of the Carmelite Order, ms. by Fr. Brocard, 41pp., in a red cloth notebook, with Carmelitana. ms. by the same, rough notes, disbound; folder on the Turin Shroud; folder of photocopies of various numbers of the periodical Our Saviour's Messenger, 1921 - 23. Box 2 containing personal correspondence including letters from Penelope Shuttle (1947 - ) poet and novelist. Three folders, from Staines and Falmouth, 1964 - 96; Fiona MacCarthy (1940 -) biographer and cultural historian. One folder, from Sheffield, 1984 - 94; Dyan Wade (1945 - 88) writer (see also Box 5). Two folders, mostly from London, 1972 - 88. Box 3 containing folders of papers and letters etc., comprising autobiographical material,family history, including copy of paper by Devendra P. Varma on Fr. Brocard read at the Aylesford literary weekend, May 1992; 70th and 80th birthday cards; folder relating to The Aylesford Review, correspondence etc., including personal statement concerning its discontinuation and Fr. Brocard's suspension from normal priestly duties following his criticism of the Pope's encyclical "Humanae Vitae", 1968, with letters of support received in response; samples of printing from the St. Albert's Press, Llandeilo etc; A List of the Sewell papers in the English Dominican Archive, Oct. 1982, ms., 15 pp.; folder of correspondence from Jerusha McCormack mostly relating to John Gray, 1982 - 89; folder on "In the Dorian Mode", reviews, critical studies, etc., 1983; folder on "My Dear Time's Waste"; folder on H.R.L. Gough, a teacher at Weymouth College who featured in Fr. Brocard's autobiography; three folders of miscellaneous correspondence including letters from William Plomer, Charles Causley, Paddy Kitchen, Michael Hastings, Fleur Adcock, Ruth Fainlight, A.N. Wilson, Ted Hughes, Colin Wilson, Diana Mosley and many others (mostly one or two examples, full list in folders); folder of correspondence relating to his letter in the Guardian, 1966 concerning the defection of the Rev. Charles Davis; folder containing three typescripts by Neville Braybrooke, Caroline Delteil and Timothy d'Arch Smith; folder on William Beckford; folder on The Friends of Oswald Mosley etc., including typescript address on Henry Williamson at the Annual Dinner, 1987; press cuttings, book reviews, obituaries etc. Box 4 containing personal correspondence, mostly one folder each, including letters from Zahra Rayman (contributor to the Aylesford Review), c. 1964 - 67; Sarah Williamson (daughter of Henry), c. 1970 - 75, with typescripts of poems; Joan Gilbert, American poet, folder of carbon copies of poems, letters from her mother, 1968; Nicola Wood, automotive artist c. 1965 - 83; Jane Percival, c. 1984 - 94 and many others. Box 5 containing Fr. Brocard's Diaries, 21 vols., July 1961 - March 1998. Manuscript, 8vo., mostly orig. cloth (not uniform), vol 1 Diary With Dominican Calendar and XII Wood-Engravings. St. Dominic's Press, Ditchling 1928. A fascinating group, of great interest to any future biographer, with details of his literary, cultural and religious life from the 1960's, mentioning writers, poets and artists, including Henry Williamson, Oswald and Diana Mosley, and many others whose correspondence is also included: interspersed with visits to prisons and psychiatric hospitals, and his many friendships, mostly with women, including those involved with the Stephen Ward trial and its repercussions. With 6 vols. of ms. notes, research material for his various books, family history etc. Box 6 containing printed material, including The Aylesford Review, Spring 1965 (H. Pepler and The St. Dominic's Press); Autumn 1965 (M.P. Shiel); Autumn 1966 (Aubrey Beardsley and the 1890's); Autumn 1967 (Henry Williamson's Lucifer Before Sunrise etc.); Antigonish Review, Winter 1971 (Beardsley, Raffalovich); Aylesford Press: Shuttle, Penelope. Nostalgia Neurosis & other poems, 1968 - Bruce, Sylvia. Bemused, 1987 - Bergé, Carol. The Chambers. Poems, pub. By Brocard Sewell, Capel-y-ffin, 1969, orig. wraps. - Fainlight, Ruth. Two Wind Poems, No. 15 of 125 copies, 1980 inscribed to Fr. Brocard on his 70th birthday — Sillitoe, Alan. More Lucifer, No. 19 of 125 copies, 1980, similarly inscribed - Lister, Raymond. The Illuminator A Tribute to Albert Cousins, the Golden Head Press, Cambridge, 1966. One of 250 copies. 8vo., orig. wraps., or cloth backed boards. — Sewell, Fr. Brocard. Two Friends, St. Albert's Press, 1963. No. 382 of 450 copies, orig. cloth (spine spotted); The Vatican Oracle, 1970, orig. cloth, d.w., both 8vo. Offprint from Matrix 9 of book review of Eric Gill by Fiona MacCarthy, Whittington Press 1989; extract from The Antigonish Review article on Desmond Chute:Aesthete and Churchman, 1985; typescript of "the Habit of a Lifetime", final version, January 1989 (published 1992, with unpublished Appendix on Dyan Wade, with ms. corrections. Folder of photographs including two of Fr. Brocard as a boy, c. 1921 - 24; three of Henry Williamson (two of them by Oswald Jones) with another of Jones; three group photographs of the Eric Gill centenary gathering at Spode House, with members of the Gill family, 1982; one of Susan Lesley, dedicatee of "My Dear Time's Waste", 1966, and one of Colin and Anna Haycraft with Fr. Sewell, c. 1967. See Illustrations. £1500-2500 |
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| 3431 | |||
| CUSTANCE, OLIVE, poet, wife of Lord Alfred Douglas (1874-1944). Research material for Fr. Brocard's monograph, published in Makers of the Nineties series, ed. By G. Krishnamurti, Eighteen Nineties Society, 1975, including 17 ALSs from Krishnamurti, 1974 - 75, regarding the publication; ALS from Sir Osbert Lancaster, 3pp., Oct. 1974, "She was very kind hearted...Despite their separation she used always to have that deplorable old wreck Bosie, who had treated her quite abominably, to stay for a fortnight each summer"; TLS from Sir John Betjeman, 1p., Nov. 1974, "She liked to be known as Opal...She was large, curved and jovial and not at all the wispy sad, inward-looking person her excellent poetry might lead you to believe"; 3 ALsS and one TLS from Cecil Woolf, 1975 and 1988 regarding publication of her poems. - HAWKER, Rev. ROBERT STEPHEN, Vicar of Morwenstow, Cornwall (1803 - 1875). Correspondence relating to the centenary gathering in 1975, including 2 ALsS from Sir John Betjeman, July and August 1975, one enclosing a corrected typescript of his introduction to Hawker's works, "He was a big, generous man, like his handwriting and a revolutionary in introducing harvest festival to our country churches...Whether he was Church of England or Roman Catholic in his dying moments we can leave to his Maker and thank God for his poetry..."; 2 ALsS from Tom Driberg, 1975; 6 ALsS and 3 TLsS, Aug. 1975 - April 1976 from Cecil Woolf, Banim Street, London, approx. 39pp., various sizes, relating to the publication of Hawker's work, and also referring to that of Olive Custance. (2 folders) £200-300 |
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| 3432 | |||
| HOROVITZ, FRANCES, poet and broadcaster (1938 - 83). Correspondence to Fr. Brocard Sewell, 1985 - 1983. Approx. 125 ALsS. 278pp. and 35 cards. From Henry Williamson's field; Colville Terrace, London; Mullions, Piedmont, Gloucestershire; and Sunderland. The series reflects their close, warm friendship over an 18 year period, from the first meeting in the studio of her friend, the artist Jane Percival. She writes about her poetry, poetry readings, broadcasts, marriages to Michael Horovitz and Roger Garfitt, family life, particularly her son Adam etc., mentioning many other poets and writers including Henry Williamson, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Bruce, Penelope Shuttle, and Sir Francis Meynell. She comments on Fr. Brocard's writings, the Aylesford Review etc. In 1965, "Yes of course I will be your literary executor...I think its an honour - but I hope I won't have anything to do for years and years and years". June 1968, "I don't understand - or approve of these divisions of poets into any category - but if they are being made by people who want to print my poems I don't mind at all being called an underground poet." May 1977, "...but I see the way the wind blows for poems of a more feminine intuitive 'internal' kind...I enclose the Snow poem...also a poem I wrote today about Adam's seahorse he bought for 7p at Mousehole." With typescripts of her poems, including two inscribed to Fr. Brocard ("Child in Cornwall" and "Rowlstone Haiki", with Roger Garfitt, July 1973, with ms. pencil note on verso of "The Woman's Dream"; three folders and an envelope of typescripts of contributions etc., to the memorial symposium (following her early death from cancer in 1983) arranged by Fr. Brocard, including letters from Ted Hughes, Gillian Clarke, Anne Stevenson, Kathleen Raine, Ruth Fainlight, Robert Gittings, Oswald Jones, and many other writers and poets c. 1983 - 86; partial autograph ms. of Fr. Brocard's memoir "So Sweet Was Her Fame" and two typescripts (neither the final version), with printed copy of the Symposium, Aylesford Press, 1987. See Illustration. £600-800 |
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| JARMAN, WRENNE, poet, 1905 - 53. A series of 24 ALsS from Clifford Bax (poet, playwright, 1886 - 1962), to Jarman, 1944 - 1949, some undated, mostly 1p., 8vo., from The Albany, London. Warm, affectionate letters, making plans for meetings and visits to the theatre, with many references to her poetry, "the best new poems which have come my way for a number of years...you have a distinguished mind fluttering inside that charming head". With a TLS from Walter de la Mare, 1st April 1946; two TLsS from the reviewer William Keen Seymour, 1946 and 1948, "the Breathless Kingdom announces a lyric poet of wide range and feeling..."; an ALS from Edmund Blunden, 1956 to her brother, letter of condolence, describing her as "a true poet"; a printed copy of her poem The Inward Greatness for Mr. Winston Churchill, 8pp., Fountains. Press, n.d., and prospectus for Nymph In Thy Orisons, St. Albert's Press, Llandeilo. (one folder) £150-250 |
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| 3434 | |||
| JOHNSON, KAY, "Kaja", Beat generation American poet and artist, author of "Human Songs". 20 TLsS and 4 postcards to Fr. Brocard Sewell, 1963 - 65, approx. 48pp., mostly from Athens, typed in red and black, on flimsy paper, some with coloured decorations, various sizes. A lively, exuberant series, referring to her poetry, contributions to the Aylesford Review, religion, mysticism, sex, psychology etc. "Surealism is like a playground at the edge of the soul, all full of unidentified objects and toys, which might mean something or might not..." With two TLsS, an ALS and a postcard from her friend Olivia de Hauleville (a niece of Aldous Huxley) to the same, 1966 - 67. (one folder). See Illustration. £400-600 |
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| PEPLER, HILARY DOUGLAS CLARK, (1878 - 1951). A series of 29 ALsS to his son Stephen, Fr. Conrad Pepler, (1908 - 1993), approx. 87 pp., various sizes, some in pencil, mostly from Hopkin's Crank, Ditchling Common or the S. Dominic's Press, 1927 - 1935. The letters begin at the time of Stephen's decision to enter the priesthood, and contain much loving fatherly advice about his vocation, "If there is anything in our holy religion then there is this to remember (while you weigh the pros & cons); there is no ideal family life without a priest - any more than there is a good game of tennis without the lines...you have already, in your vocation, tended to unite the family & keep its aims in focus." On his own faith, "I am often very doubtful about my love of God - a half hearted irresponsive unemotional duty - but the veil lifts, you give Him grudgingly some tiny gift & the whole of heaven seems poured into your heart." He comments on beauty, "The artist (or workman) has no more power qua artist to appreciate beauty than you or I have...Nudity has nothing to do with the business of beauty, it has much to do with prudence. A licentious man may make a beautiful thing..." With a few added dates and annotations in the hand of Fr. Brocard Sewell and one ALS from Fr. Conrad to the same, 1983. Contained in a folder with photocopies of two obituaries written by Fr. Brocard in 1993. With 2 further folders containing photocopies, correspondence etc. relating to Fr. Brocard's checklist to the St. Dominic's Press (ms. and typescript of the Addenda). (3 folders) £600-800 |
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| PROFUMO SCANDAL. Correspondence, press cuttings etc., including one TLS from John Profumo and another from his wife Valerie, 1st & 8th July 1963, Chester Terrace, thanking Fr. Brocard Sewell for his letter of support; 13 ALsS and 4 Christmas cards from Christine Keeler to the same, 1983 - 90, approx. 20 pp., various sizes,concerning her memoirs, family news etc.,"...it has been a long time since I was with someone like you who has their feet firmly on the ground..." With draft typescript of his introduction to Keeler's book "A Matter of Security" with ms. corrections. 3 pp., folio; with photocopy of proposed corrections for the 2nd edition of Keeler's book "Nothing But", with additional ms. annotations (1984); correspondence relating to Fr. Sewell's objections to a planned BBC film about the Profumo Affair, 1986 - 87. (One folder). Fr. Sewell was well known for his non-judgemental views on moral issues. £200-400 |
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| QUIN, ANN (1936 - 73), novelist. 25 letters signed, some autograph, others typed, approx. 43 pp., 21st April 1964 - 17th August 1973 to Fr. Brocard Sewell. From various locations including Lansdowne Road, London W.11; Ilfracombe; San Francisco; Springfield Hospital, Upper Tooting; Elgin Avenue, W.9.; and Lewes Crescent, Brighton. Various sizes. With 6 postcards to the same. Fr. Brocard first met Ann Quin when she stayed at Aylesford Priory in spring 1964. Her novel "Berg" was reviewed by Henry Williamson in the next number of the Aylesford Review. Her letter of 10th June 1964 from Ilfracombe refers to their relationship, "Henry is anyway so different when out walking and being with him is a joy...I do so want to "help" him as he does me - but fundamentally I feel I cannot be more than a good friend - I think he does hope for more - i.e. for me to eventually be with him in Devon." Following a letter from San Francisco (she is in America for the publication of the U.S. edition of "Berg") in 1965, there is a gap until she writes from Springfield Hospital, Upper Tooting in 1971 where she has been admitted after sectioning. Father Brocard visits her there and she stays at Allington Castle after release from hospital. Her final letter appears more cheerful, in spite of problems with her mother, but in August 1973 she drowns herself by swimming out from Brighton pier. Contained in three folders, which also include: two typed essays by Quin; typescript of Giles Gordon's interview with her of 1965; portrait photograph of Quin by Oswald Jones; typescript of an APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED short story "Nude and Seascape"; photostats of other stories: "Ghostworm", "Motherlogue", "A Wise Child" and extract from her unfinished novel, with covering letters from her publishers Calder and Boyars, 1974; correspondence/contributions for an unpublished symposium on the same, edited by Fr. Brocard Sewell and Carol Burns, from Eva Figes, Robert Creeley, Robert Sward, Robert Nye, and others. (3 folders) See Illustration. Fr. Brocard devoted a chapter of his book "Like Black Swans..." 1982 to Ann Quin, and quoted excerpts from her letters. £500-700 |
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| WALL, BERNARD, (1908 - 74) author, publisher and translator. "Ten Days" (a novel), [about Russia] typescript, 282pp. with ms. corrections (probably unpublished), with ALS from Fr. Sewell to the author from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, 1970, asking for contributions to the Antigonish Review, 4to., in cardboard file. With two folders of ALsS from Fr. Sewell to Gabriel Wall (Mrs. Bergonzi, daughter of the above), from 1971 until her death in 1984. Bernard Wall was active in the Catholic intellectual movement in the mid 20th century, and translated a number of works from Italian into English. (3 folders). £150-250 |
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| WALTERS, EDWARD, private press printer and engraver. Two humourous manuscript notebooks, in ink, one titled "Versiculi Scurriles A Posy of Doggerel and Rhymed Rubbish Also Free Verse...", and another untitled similar, prose, both n.d. (probably 1960's and 1970's, individual verses dated thus) small 4to., orig. cloth over 200 pp. Illustrated. With 4 pages similar, and 2 printed items, loosely inserted; a mounted wood engraving by the same, and St. John Fisher. Sermon Against Luther. Pepler & Sewell, St. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, and Edward Walters, London, 1935. One of 300 copies, 8vo., orig. printed wraps. (detached). Fr. Sewell may well have acquired the two volumes at the time of writing his article on Edward Walters in Matrix in 1981. Other doggerel verses by Walters were publshed as Silva Civica in 1935. See Illustration. £300-400 END OF SALE |
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