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![AUTOGRAPH LETTERS—continued. 186 Henry VIII. —DocuMENT SIGNED, one p., 4to., respecting -a loan of 4637 to “‘ Richard Gresham of Oure Citie of London”’ . 6 (afterwards Lord Mayor of London), signed ‘ Henry Rex! ‘third Day of Marche the fourthe yere of oure Raigne ” (1513) 416 187 James (Henry) A.L.S., 2 pp., 8vo., 34. De Vere Gardens, W., Friday, p.m., no year, to Mrs. Hertz, “‘a memento of one of whom your appreciation is too liberal ” 188 Hudson (W. H.) AvrocrapH Lerrer Stenep, 4 full pp., 8vo., Penzance, N.D., to Mrs. Violett Hueffer, referring to ‘“‘ Afoot in England” and ‘‘ Birds and Men” “Did you ever read Afoot in England . . . that book is to be issued in the Spring in an American Edition. And after a ‘copy to work from had been advertised for about six months—the publisher wrote to me in desperation to get him a copy at once. I succeeded in getting one from a friend, and id before last read it to put in a number of verbal corrections before posting . *“* Please give it (Bath) my undying love and at the Albee Sica kiss a stone for me —say a prayer if you like. And don’t forget to take a glance at Foot’s monu- ment—and at Sibthorpe’s the botanist, with his bunch of flowers. And please go to Quiet Street and pace slowly up and down because of its name, and please curse the trams that have now brought the note of noisy modernity and vulgarity into that sacred town,’ &c. 189 Johnson (Dr. Samuel) A.L.S., one page, 4to., Sept. 16, 1784, Ashbourn, in Derbyshire, to Mr. Barclay, with reference to a life of John Scott (d. 1783, Quaker Poet) B25 ‘* As I have made some advances towards recovery, and loved Mr. Scott, I am willing to do justice to his memory,” &c. ** Johnson consented to write a sketch of Scott’s life, but his death intervened and it was undertaken by Hoole.”—D.N. B. 190 Kipling (Rudyard) A.L.S., one p., sm. 8vo., Bateman’s, Burwash, Sussex, May 30, 1906, to A. O. Capel, thanking him for pointing out a misprint in Traffics and Mscoveries, with envelope £4 191 Lamb (Charles) AurocrarH Letrer SIGNED (initials ‘‘C. L.”), to CuarLtes Lioyp, 3 pages, 4to., no place or date [Dec., 1799], asking for the immediate return of ‘‘ your copy of my play ” [John Woodvil| and to Kemble’s approbation of it ; also a reference to Coleridge 450 “*T make it my particular request, that you will immediately transmit me your copy of my Play.—I promise religiously to restore it some time again—I am liable every day to be called upon for a copy. Ihave presented my copy to Kemble . . . a letter from Kemble, in very handsome terms declining to determine upon it, as not being in his province, but offering ‘with great pleasureto put my play into the hands of the Proprietors of Drury Lane Theatre.’ ” ‘* Coleridge has taken Lodgings with his family in the Adelphi but I have seen nothing of him,” &e. _. 192 Lawrence (D. H.) A.L.8., 2 pp., 8vo., 7 May, 1927, Villa Mirenda, Scandicci, Firenze, to V. H. (Collins), on his work, &c. £4 *‘T read Byron and it made me sad. If anybody. ever tries to make the best of me, when I’m dead, I hope they catch small-pox.’ 193 Masefield (John) A.L.S., 13 pp., 8vo., 30, Maida Hill, West, June 8, 1908, | concerning tickets for a matinee ‘performance 10s](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30482458_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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