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JAMES, HENRY. Autograph letter signed to J.A. Hammerton, London, 10 February 1903, 2 pages, 8vo, on Reform Club stationery : "You are welcome to make use of the 4 paragraphs from my paper on R.L.S. [Robert Louis Stevenson] in Partial Portraits concerning which I received a letter from you today"--COLLINS, WILKIE. Autograph letter signed to Mrs. Lansing Thurber, London, 16 February 1878, one page, 8vo, responding to an autograph collector; Autograph signature and date on small card (slightly darkened) --MILL, JOHN STUART Autograph letter signed ("J.S. Mill") to Miss Nicholson, [London] 8 June 1868, 2 pages, 12mo, address portion of envelope tipped to integral blank leaf, remnants of mounting : "I have the pleasure of inclosing the papers of the National Society for Women's Suffrage...[the secretary of the Society -- Mill gives her address] will supply you with all the information which I am happy to hear you desire with reference to the suffrage"--RUSKIN, JOHN. Autograph letter signed ("J Ruskin") to Miss Heaton, n.p., n.d., one page, 12mo : "I am pleased with your drawings. Will you kindly fix for yourself as early a day as possible, on which to meet me at two o'clock at the Museum to examine books, and compare the drawings"--NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY Cardinal . Autograph letter signed ("John H. Newman") to "Dear Sir," Oriel College, Oxford, 4 June 1828, one page, square 8vo, remnants of mounting on verso , regarding books he had requested: "I have received the Eusebius, for which I feel very much obliged -- as also for your kind offer about the American Divinity..."--KINGSLEY, CHARLES. Autograph letter signed ("C Kingsley") to "My dear Sir," n.p., 8 March 1871, 1 1/2 pages, 12mo : "I am afraid that I must ask leave not to sign your Remonstrance. My principle is to obey the powers that be, whatever my private judgement may be, on all things not involving a question of right & wrong, because I believe them to be ordained of God"--HUNT, LEIGH. Autograph letter signed to "Dear Sir," London, 14 December n.y., 2 pages, 18mo : "...it is with difficulty I write to you this letter, the second I have written this morning, & the only bit of manuscript I have ventured upon, except that one, during the whole week. I was taken ill on Sunday night, & am now getting well. I am advanced with the Conductor [i.e., Hunt's contribution to this periodical]...I dare not promise it before Wednesday next...It is not the worst Magazine time, but if it cannot be made to suit your own arrangements, pray do without me ..."--HALLAM, HENRY (1777-1859, historian). Autograph letter signed to "My dear Sir," n.p., 20 April [1840?], one page, 8vo, tipped to larger sheet : "I trust to my hatter's name, which does not often meet my eyes, instead of my own, to secure my capital property. I sympathize with your loss, for it is a vexatious one in its way; but I am in possession of my own, & that only." Beneath this is a signed note by the diarist Henry Crabbe Robinson: "The Handwriting of the great Literator, written, I believe, to the great poet Wordsworth" (the last seven words have been crossed out, presumably by Robinson having second thoughts)--DORNFORD, JOSEPH (1794-1868, divine, author of sermons). Autograph letter signed to James Ford Plymtrees, n.d., 4 pages, 8vo, concerning the Oxford Movement and mentioning Newman, Pusey, and Keble--WATTS-DUNTON, THEODORE. Six letters signed and two letters signed by his amanuensis to J.A. Hammerton, "The Pines," 1 December 1905 - 14 February 1910, together 13 pages, 8vo-4to, concerning literary matters, with references to Swinburne, Meredith, and Dickens. Nearly all with typed transcripts. (Milne) (18)