Album of Autograph Letters. 4to., cont. half brown morocco gilt (spine rubbed and faded, lower cover with some wear). Including: Nightingale, Florence. ALS to Richard Bagallay, Hampstead, Oct 11/62, 4pp., offering "any assistance in my power to your noble object of reconstructing St. Thomas', with a suitable building on a suitable site." She commends his research into foreign hospitals, and praises the new Civil Hospital for Malta. (single paper hinge); further loose incomplete ALS to the same. 35 South Street, n.d., 3 and a half pp., on hospital plans, preferring that "the Matron's Office Residence, Probationers' Quarter would all be together - also a sine qua non (for saving Matron's time & strength)", and complaining about her health, "I was unable to raise my head from the pillow after you left me " Hardy, Thomas. ALS to Mrs. McCarthy, 79 Harley Street, Friday, n.d. one page, regretting he "cannot join you this evening. But I had promised Lady Jenner's daughters to go with them to the theatre " (conjoined blank leaf pasted down) Rackham, Arthur. Autograph card, Arts Club, Dover Street, n.d. "Very many thanks for yours. - my train reaches Pangbourne at 1.47.". Signed with initials and an ink sketch of a bird. (pasted down) Tenniel, Sir John. ALS to Mrs. Grahame, 10 Portsdown Hill, Maida Hill, Jany. 5 1904. 2pp., thanking her for the Christmas greetings, "but why you should suppose that I have already arrived at the stage of "second childishness" which delights in toys and which the "picture post card" so picturesquely suggests " (p2 pasted down) With further ALsS or cards including Anstey Guthrie to Mrs. Kenneth [Grahame], 1933, Laurence Binyon to the same, 1935, H.H. Asquith to Mrs. Lucas, (19)03, Stanley Baldwin to Mrs. Woodward, 1925; W. E. Gladstone, card signed with initials (18)77 referring to a review copy of Schliemann; General de Gaulle. TLS, in French. Lagos, Forces Francaises Libres, 5 Octobre 1940. One page 4to. [to the Governor of Nigeria, Sir B. H. Bourdillon] thanking him for the welcome etc. "bien qu'il soit passé incognito." (small corner hinge), Lord Mountbatten of Burma. TLS. Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, 27th October, 1953. One page, "My dear Commissioner", thanking for hospitality at Episkopi. "I feel that the airfield at Akrotiri and the Headquarters of the Middle East Command at Episkopi will be admirably sited "(loose), Attlee, Clement. Three line TLS, 10 Downing Street, 27 March 1946 to Sir B. H. Bourdillon (loose) Queen Mary. Christmas card, 1929. With cut signatures including Rudyard Kipling, Kenneth Grahame, King Peter of Yugoslavia and other "Yugoslavian officials. Mostly 8vo. Pasted down unless otherwise described. And a bundle of other loose correspondence etc., including cut signature of Queen Victoria. (2) PROVENANCE This album and the following lot were evidently compiled by the family of Sir Richard Bagallay (1816 - 88), M.P., judge, Attorney General under Disraeli; and passed to his daughter Florence who married into the Reiss family (her son Richard becoming one of the founders of Welwyn Garden City), thence by marriage to Violet, Lady Bourdillon, wife of Sir Bernard Henry Bourdillon (1883 - 1948), Governor of Nigeria, and by descent to the present vendor.
Album of Autograph Letters. 4to., cont. half brown morocco gilt (spine rubbed and faded, lower cover with some wear). Including: Nightingale, Florence. ALS to Richard Bagallay, Hampstead, Oct 11/62, 4pp., offering "any assistance in my power to your noble object of reconstructing St. Thomas', with a suitable building on a suitable site." She commends his research into foreign hospitals, and praises the new Civil Hospital for Malta. (single paper hinge); further loose incomplete ALS to the same. 35 South Street, n.d., 3 and a half pp., on hospital plans, preferring that "the Matron's Office Residence, Probationers' Quarter would all be together - also a sine qua non (for saving Matron's time & strength)", and complaining about her health, "I was unable to raise my head from the pillow after you left me " Hardy, Thomas. ALS to Mrs. McCarthy, 79 Harley Street, Friday, n.d. one page, regretting he "cannot join you this evening. But I had promised Lady Jenner's daughters to go with them to the theatre " (conjoined blank leaf pasted down) Rackham, Arthur. Autograph card, Arts Club, Dover Street, n.d. "Very many thanks for yours. - my train reaches Pangbourne at 1.47.". Signed with initials and an ink sketch of a bird. (pasted down) Tenniel, Sir John. ALS to Mrs. Grahame, 10 Portsdown Hill, Maida Hill, Jany. 5 1904. 2pp., thanking her for the Christmas greetings, "but why you should suppose that I have already arrived at the stage of "second childishness" which delights in toys and which the "picture post card" so picturesquely suggests " (p2 pasted down) With further ALsS or cards including Anstey Guthrie to Mrs. Kenneth [Grahame], 1933, Laurence Binyon to the same, 1935, H.H. Asquith to Mrs. Lucas, (19)03, Stanley Baldwin to Mrs. Woodward, 1925; W. E. Gladstone, card signed with initials (18)77 referring to a review copy of Schliemann; General de Gaulle. TLS, in French. Lagos, Forces Francaises Libres, 5 Octobre 1940. One page 4to. [to the Governor of Nigeria, Sir B. H. Bourdillon] thanking him for the welcome etc. "bien qu'il soit passé incognito." (small corner hinge), Lord Mountbatten of Burma. TLS. Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, 27th October, 1953. One page, "My dear Commissioner", thanking for hospitality at Episkopi. "I feel that the airfield at Akrotiri and the Headquarters of the Middle East Command at Episkopi will be admirably sited "(loose), Attlee, Clement. Three line TLS, 10 Downing Street, 27 March 1946 to Sir B. H. Bourdillon (loose) Queen Mary. Christmas card, 1929. With cut signatures including Rudyard Kipling, Kenneth Grahame, King Peter of Yugoslavia and other "Yugoslavian officials. Mostly 8vo. Pasted down unless otherwise described. And a bundle of other loose correspondence etc., including cut signature of Queen Victoria. (2) PROVENANCE This album and the following lot were evidently compiled by the family of Sir Richard Bagallay (1816 - 88), M.P., judge, Attorney General under Disraeli; and passed to his daughter Florence who married into the Reiss family (her son Richard becoming one of the founders of Welwyn Garden City), thence by marriage to Violet, Lady Bourdillon, wife of Sir Bernard Henry Bourdillon (1883 - 1948), Governor of Nigeria, and by descent to the present vendor.
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