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31 signatures of mainly American famous people.

Various formats, from complete letters to cut-off signatures and autographs written on collector's cards. 19th and 20th centuries. From writers and painters to politicians, talk show hosts and even a humorist and a great picture collector. Laura Adams Armer (1874-1963), American artist and writer Stringfellow Barr (1897-1982), American historian Barry Benefield (1877-1971), Texas writer Otto L. Bettmann (1903-1998) and another Bettmann. From the founder of the Bettmann Archive Miner W. Brock (2 x), American poet of the 1960s Phillips Brooks (1835-1895), Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts Frederic Brush (author of the Songs of the Susquehanna) Alice Curtis Desmond (1897-1990), American author and founder of the Desmond-Fish Library. A 1931 loose signed dedication page to Henry Goddard Leach (1880-1970), Scandinavia scholar. Marshall J. Dodge 3rd (1935-1982), Maine humorist Emily Myrtle Dunn (signature of 1925, a poet born 1886) George Fielding Eliot (Australian military author, 1894-1971) Thomas J. Fleming (American popular author). Signed card from 1987 Allen French (1870-1946), American historian and children's book author Percy Stickney Grant (1860-1927), writer, Episcopal priest. Dedication of 1908 Charles Yale Harrison (1898-1954), Canadian war writer Rosalba Beecher Hartshorne (1868-1933), American heiress, a ‘petit bleu’ to Rudolph Aronson (1856-1919), founder of the Casino Theatre in New York Charles F. Heartman (1883-1953, a prominent Mississippi book dealer) Alexander Irvine (author of My Lady of the Chimney Corner, Oct. 1924, N.Y.C.) Walter A. Maier (1893-1950), theologian author, large signed photograph Clarence “Pat” Manion (1896-1979), American talk show host Nellie Burget Miller (1875-1952), Poet Laureate of Colorado Anthony Mockler (signed 1976, author) Paul Elmer More (1864-1937), American journalist Jerome Myers (1867-1940), American painter who lived in Carnegie Hall, slip of paper signed and dated ‘February 21st 1914/ Carnegie Hall NY’ Henry Sylvester Nash (1854-1912), American theological author I.L. Nathan (??) not well readable, an editor of Life Magazine, 1912 Pierre van Paassen (1895-1968), Dutch-Canadian bestseller author, signed inscription, clipped from a book Bess Sankey (1905-1970), American film actress George Ticknor (1791-1871), American Hispanist Peter Wilson (boxing journalist, letter dated 1975)

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Catalogue: America

AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION

41 leaves with 44 signatures of mainly British famous people.

Various formats, both complete letters, cut-off autographs and signatures penned on collector's cards. 19th and 20th centuries. From writers, painters and politicians to bishops, journalists, various Scots, actors and a car manufacturer. Bernard Barton (1784-1849), ‘The Quaker Poet’ Geoffrey Bennett (1909-1983), Historian and author Maeve Binchy (1939-2012), Irish writer (Arch)bishops of Cambridge, Canterbury, Manchester, Southwark and St. Asaph (not clear which), together on two leaves Robert Blatchford (1861-1943), British spirited left-leaning journalist John Gerard Braine (British novelist, 1922-1986) Peter Brook (British director, 1925-2022) Herbert Ashwin Budd (1881-1950), British painter Charlie Burchill (born 1959), founder of the Simple Minds Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909), British author of popular and children’s literature Lord Robert Cecil (British politician, 1864-1958) Envelope adressed to Hugh E.C. Childers (1827-1896), British politician Isabel Colegate (1931-2023), British author and publisher Fanny Corbaux (1812-1883), British painter Josephine Cox (1938-2020), British author Sarah Jayne Dunn (born 1981), British actress Oliver Elliott (signature of 1931; actor in the company of Hamilton Deane) Marcia Williams, baroness Falkender (1932-2019), secretary of Harold Wilson Marjorie Fischer (signature dated 1929, pulp author) James Follett (1939-2021), British author Paul Mackintosh Foot (1937-2004), British journalist Margaret Forster (1938-2016), British novelist Sir John Foster Fraser (13 June 1868-1936), a Scottish travel author. Agnes Giberne (British children's author, 1845-1939) Elizabeth Goudge (British author, 1900-1984) Robin Guthrie (1902-1971), British painter Edna Healey (wife of Denis, sign. 1986) Ian MacLaren (= John Watson, 1850-1907), Scottish author Martin Middlebrook (1932-2024), British military author Annette Mills (1894-1955), English actress William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (1877-1963), of the Morris car factory Naomi Royde-Smith (1875-1964), British author John Henry Shorthouse (1834-1903), British novelist Miriam Stoppard (born 1937), British medical author and journalist Colin Thubron (born 1939), a British travel author Joanne Trautmann, editor of Virginia Woolf’s letters John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916), an American antislavery author Donald Mackenzie Wallace (Scotland, 1841-1919), Russian correspondent of The Times J. Fisher White (British actor, played in two dozen early films, 1865-1945) Woodrow Wyatt (British politican, 1918-1997)

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Catalogue: Britain