Photographs, Autographs and Ephemera

AUTOGRAPHS. A typed letter signed By Robert Baden Powell on Boy Scouts Association headed paper addressed to 'Dear Matthews' and dated '30th November 1925', 1p. 25.5cm x 20.5cm, discussing the Scouts Movement in Bristol, together with a collection of approximately 46 autograph and typed letters, mostly signed by politicians, actors and literary names, including Olave St Clair Soames, Peter Baden Powell, Nancy Astor, Ethel Snowden, Lord Roberts of Kandahar, Henry Newbolt, Sir Nigel Ross Playfair and Sybil Thorndike. Note: H. Norton Matthews was the author of 'The Three Great Grey Gorillas' first published in 'Bristol Scouting'.

AUTOGRAPHS. An L.M.S. Railway Dinner Menu dated 26th March 1940, signed to reverse in ink by Winston Churchill, Clementine S. Churchill and S.V. Goodall in black ink, 17cm x 10cm. Note: signed about a month before Churchill became Prime Minister.

AUTOGRAPH. A typed letter signed by Winston S. Churchill on '28, Hyde Park Gate' headed paper addressed to Mr Summers, dated 5th February 1947, 1pp., 24cm x 19cm, warmly declining an invitation to dine with the committee and address members of Mr. Summer's Conservative Club because 'my engagements are already so numerous that, much to my regret, I cannot add to them even in the agreeable way you suggest'.

R.M.S. LUSITANIA. A 3pp. letter from a sailor on board the R.M.S. Lusitania, dated 17th February 1915, and hand-written on the ship's stationery paper. Note: the Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat on 7th May 1915.

AUTOGRAPH. A signed photograph of the Bluebird K3 on Lake Locarno, autographed by Malcolm Campbell, inscribed 'With my very best wishes' and dated 'Locarno, 2: Sept 1937, Speed 129.5mph', 10.5cm x 14.5cm (some surface damage).

AUTOGRAPH. A photograph of Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, signed in black ink, 18.5cm x 11.5cm, within a lacquer frame, the easel support revealing an autograph letter signed by Roberts gifting the photograph to 'Dear Walsh' on his appointment as Master of the Ceremonies, dated 20 July 1907.

AUTOGRAPHS. An album of autographs including leaves signed by Sir John and Evelyn Barbirolli, Edwin Fischer, Ernst von Dohnányi and, among others, mounted autographs of Clifford Curzon, Kathleen Ferrier and Denis Matthews.

PASSPORT. A Victorian passport dated 1857, awarded to Mr Thomas Little, travelling to the continent with his wife, with stamps for France, Belgium and Germany, from 1857-1859, contained within a leather aide memoir style wallet.

MANUSCRIPT. A hand-written journal written by a British Captain, P.S. Forlouy, during his travels to Australia and Calcutta with a long section recording his work in Burma, 1852-55, 22cm x 18.5cm, comprising 268pp. in total (most likely in a single but variable hand), the first section of 99pp. is written during his 91 day voyage to Australia where the author records his philosophical, religious and political thoughts ('I am one of those who think the tendency of all European states is towards democracy') and some pages of his hand-written poems (one of which is a rumination on his 'inability to curb my passions'). After spending 18 months in Australia, the journal then records the journey to India in a 'terrible old tub of a ship' (he has tipped-in the hand-written contract between himself and an Indian servant who will travel with him to Rangoon) but the journal fully comes alive in descriptions of his surveying work in colonised Burma (some of the villages are now 'deserted') but the work is dangerous, so he carries a pistol for fear of tigers but also of the Burmese themselves. Captain Madagan was shot in his tent while his own native retainer 'swears I have shot him in the fingers'. Meanwhile Captain D'Oyly has just returned from the jungle where he'd hung the son of 'Ging Gong Gee, a famous rebel chief'. However, there is some diversion (Mrs. F. Bouchard and Mrs.Captain Frazen, 'both well known in Rangoon, the former for high company, the latter for wild company'. (Some loose leaves, text-block cracked).

LITTLEHAMPTON. A group of 9 photographs and postcards relating to Littlehampton, 1 of a foundation stone being laid, the others relating to E.G. Holland undertakers and monumental mason (a few duplicates).

PHOTOGRAPHS. An album containing 62 albumen-print photographs, circa 1870-1890, mounted recto and verso on leaves, 29.5cm x 22.5cm, the majority of Italy, including Rome and Venice, but also 2 of the Cliff House in San Francisco, and others titled 'Hawaiian Hotel', 'President Dole's Residence, Honolulu', 'Hotel del Europe and High St [Singapore]', 'Cavenagh Bridge, S'pore' and 'On way to, Mount Lavinia, Colombo' (album defective, upper cover lacking).

PHOTOGRAPHS. A collection of 33 various photographs of South Africa, most late 19th century, including albumen-print photographs titled 'Pietermaritzburg, Church Street', 'Railway Bridge, Durban & Pietermaritzburg line' and 'Natal, Bluff' and 3 stereoscopic viewing cards.

PHOTOGRAPHS. An album containing 55 small format photographs, mostly of Sussex and Surrey, circa 1910, photographs 6.5cm x 11cm, most captioned, including views of Betchworth, Canterbury, Fittleworth, Wisborough Green, Croydon Aerodrome, Brighton and Southend.

HENRY MILLER. A collection of ephemera related to Henry Miller, some signed, mainly consisting of prospectuses and cards offering his own work for sale ('Prices arbitrary; dependent not on size but on time, labor, sweat and anguish'), sent to the collector and bookseller Frank W. Letchford, including envelopes in Miller's hand.

EROTICA. A collection of 89 photographs and postcards of risqué, erotic and pornographic subjects, most 14.5cm x 9cm.

COACHING. Three albums titled on the upper cover 'Venture London-Brighton' dated 1910, 1912 and 1914, each containing 19 tipped-in or mounted photographs on titled leaves relating to the coach and horses of Alfred G. Vanderbilt, the 1910 booklet signed in pencil by Vanderbilt and dated July 27, 1910, all bound in original reverse calf (indent to upper cover of 1910), together with a mounted newspaper clipping of related interest.

PHOTOGRAPHS. An album of 31 small-format, black and white mounted photographs from the East African campaign, circa 1940's, leaves 13cm x 11cm, including individual and group portraits.

ALBUM. An album of watercolours, inscriptions, cuttings, ephemera and autographs, circa 1912-1944, the majority family inscriptions, but including a programme cover for the 'First Open Hard Court Tennis Tournament… Brighton Championships… 1937' signed by Anita Lizana, Laurence Shaffi, Murray Deloford, Alan Stedman and a few others, mounted ephemera relating to the opening of Gatwick Airport on 6th June 1936, and a cut-out photograph signed by Flight Lieutenant Terence D Welsh.

PHOTOGRAPHS. A half leather-bound album containing 48 hinge-mounted black and white photographs titled in manuscript 'Memories of Travel, Henry Perrin', early 20th century, leaves 15.5cm x 20.5cm, all topographical views from around the world, most captioned, including views of Holland, Corfu, Israel, Morocco and Sierra Leone (leaves curling slightly).