BRITISH AUTHORS, EDUCATORS AND CLERGYMEN]. CARLYLE, THOMAS, Essayist . Autograph letter signed ("T. Carlyle") to J.A. Froude (his biographer), Chelsea, 8 June 1843. 1 page, 12mo, small hole in center seam . "Pray get me a ream of that paper; it is not quite exactly the same as the former...I find by experience that it can be written upon. This unfortunate plaster of glue and lime is not it." -- MEREDITH, GEORGE. Autograph letter signed to Mr Salt, Dorking, 31 May 1907. 2 pages, 12mo . Meredith writes: "On a point or two of your advocacy I am not accord with you, but fully upon most...The rabbit traps are among the villainous offences against humanity." -- SOUTHEY, ROBERT. Autograph letter signed, Keswick, 8 February 1825. 1 page, 12mo. . On a Glossary of North Country Words: "The words peculiar to ...northern counties seem to be chiefly of Danish extraction." Of the West country he writes: "...it could be curious to see whether more of the Cornish has been retained there than of the Welsh here." -- TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord . Letter signed, Isle of Wight, 16 February 1872. 1 page, 12mo . Tennyson returns a borrowed book: "I hope you will receive your long absent book safely..." -- RUSKIN, JOHN. Autograph letter signed to W.L. Stillman, Camberwell, 15 February 1855. 2 pages, 4to. Long letter recommending W.M. Rossetti, who has the "peculiar power of arriving at just critical opinions," observing that "the spirit in which you conduct your journal is indeed very different," and adding: "I have had much to thank the Americans for - Heartier sympathy, and better understanding of what I mean I am, than I am met with in England...Nothing gives me greater pleasure than the idea of being of any service to an American." -- And 47 other items, including: Isaac Watts (clipped signature, 1730), Theodore Watts Dunton (2 ALSs, one to Rossetti, John Morley , the painter G.F. Watts (2 ALSs), Coventry Patmore (2 ALSs, 1 to W.M. Rossetti), Charles Kingsley (3 ALSs), Austin Dobson (ALS, and AMS poem "Angel-Court"), Reginald Heber (ALS), Matthew Arnold (ALS, 1879, to Edwin Arnold), Sabine Baring-Gould (ALS), Henry Hallam (ALS), D.W. Farrar (ALS). (52)
BRITISH AUTHORS, EDUCATORS AND CLERGYMEN]. CARLYLE, THOMAS, Essayist . Autograph letter signed ("T. Carlyle") to J.A. Froude (his biographer), Chelsea, 8 June 1843. 1 page, 12mo, small hole in center seam . "Pray get me a ream of that paper; it is not quite exactly the same as the former...I find by experience that it can be written upon. This unfortunate plaster of glue and lime is not it." -- MEREDITH, GEORGE. Autograph letter signed to Mr Salt, Dorking, 31 May 1907. 2 pages, 12mo . Meredith writes: "On a point or two of your advocacy I am not accord with you, but fully upon most...The rabbit traps are among the villainous offences against humanity." -- SOUTHEY, ROBERT. Autograph letter signed, Keswick, 8 February 1825. 1 page, 12mo. . On a Glossary of North Country Words: "The words peculiar to ...northern counties seem to be chiefly of Danish extraction." Of the West country he writes: "...it could be curious to see whether more of the Cornish has been retained there than of the Welsh here." -- TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord . Letter signed, Isle of Wight, 16 February 1872. 1 page, 12mo . Tennyson returns a borrowed book: "I hope you will receive your long absent book safely..." -- RUSKIN, JOHN. Autograph letter signed to W.L. Stillman, Camberwell, 15 February 1855. 2 pages, 4to. Long letter recommending W.M. Rossetti, who has the "peculiar power of arriving at just critical opinions," observing that "the spirit in which you conduct your journal is indeed very different," and adding: "I have had much to thank the Americans for - Heartier sympathy, and better understanding of what I mean I am, than I am met with in England...Nothing gives me greater pleasure than the idea of being of any service to an American." -- And 47 other items, including: Isaac Watts (clipped signature, 1730), Theodore Watts Dunton (2 ALSs, one to Rossetti, John Morley , the painter G.F. Watts (2 ALSs), Coventry Patmore (2 ALSs, 1 to W.M. Rossetti), Charles Kingsley (3 ALSs), Austin Dobson (ALS, and AMS poem "Angel-Court"), Reginald Heber (ALS), Matthew Arnold (ALS, 1879, to Edwin Arnold), Sabine Baring-Gould (ALS), Henry Hallam (ALS), D.W. Farrar (ALS). (52)
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