Beschreibung:

AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. A fine collection comprising documents with the signatures of AUTHORS AND ARTISTS including Rudyard KIPLING (1912, a contract with the dramatist Roland Pertwee), George Bernard SHAW (two autograph postcards signed, to Mrs [Maud] Clarke, 18 May 1928, and to Horace Jackson, 30 August 1940, refusing to have his play Getting Married 'stolen ... by the Jewish gentleman [Jesus]'), H.G. WELLS (two autograph correspondence cards signed , 'I wish I could help but I haven't the spare energy', and another declining to commit himself), James Fenimore COOPER (cheque signed, 1836), Leo TOLSTOY (signatures in English and Russian), H. Rider HAGGARD (letter signed, 1906, 'I don't think I will "drop into poetry"'), W. Somerset MAUGHAM (letter signed, 1954), Henry LONGFELLOW (autograph letter signed, 2 December 1874), Lillie Langtry Henry Moore Camille Pissarro and Siegfrid Sassoon (8 autograph letters signed, and a manuscript poem, discussing the inclusion of his verse in an anthology); and of SCIENTISTS AND OTHER HISTORICAL FIGURES, including Gustav EIFFEL (letter signed to the director of the Oxford Laboratory of Engineering, November 1907, presenting 'mon volume de Recherches expérimentales sur la Résistance de l'Air exécutés à la Tour Eiffel'), Sir Robert McCLURE (autograph letter signed whilst senior officer in the Straits of Malacca, 22 March 1860, referring to gunboats), Samuel MORSE (autograph letter signed to his father, Jedidiah Morse, New York, 19 March 1825, referring to a shipment of cider and velvet corks), and General Charles George GORDON (letter in Arabic signed as Governor General of the Soudan Provinces and Red Sea Coasts, 11 March 1878, requesting to be informed of all requisitions from the Soudan Railway, one page, 4to ); with a letter with facsimile signature of Winston Churchill (27)