Collection

writers, poets and playwrights, including: Elizabeth Gaskell (about an invitation to stay with her, 3 pages, 8vo, September 1854), C.L. Dodgson (to Miss Hope, inviting her to visit his rooms, 2 pages, oblong 8vo, 26 May 1896), Thomas Hardy, Henry James, W.M. Thackeray, Evelyn Waugh, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Marie Corelli, Shane Leslie, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Sitwell, R.D. Blackmore, C.M. Yonge, W. Somerset Maugham, Mary Sinclair, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Clive Bell, William de Morgan, Christina Rossetti, Robert Browning, John Ruskin, Sir Walter Scott, Hilaire Belloc, Charles Reade, Marcel Proust and Alphonse Daudet; artists and designers, including: George du Maurier (two original pen-and-ink drawings, one of them signed), D.G. Rossetti, Edwin Lutyens, John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt, Aubrey Beardsley, Thomas Lawrence, James McNeill Whistler, William Orpen, Charles Shannon, Charles Ricketts, Gordon Craig, John Singer Sargent, Duncan Grant and Gregorio Prieto; theatre directors and actors, including: Ellen Terry (giving advice on a charity event, 6 pages, 8vo), John Gielgud and Barry Jackson; and politicians, diplomats, and military leaders, including: Simon Bolívar (a grant of a post in the Bolivian government, 28 December 1825), the Bolivian and Peruvian presidents Antonio José de Sucre and Ramón Castilla, Prince Eugene of Savoy, the first Duke of Marlborough, Napoleon, Warren Hastings, Chateaubriand, Prince Kropotkin and Giuseppe Mazzini



all collected by or addressed to Eric Allden (see also lot 12) or the actor Ernest Thesiger and captioned by Allden in pencil, tipped in, mounted or loosely inserted in 3 volumes, folio, red cloth, chiefly late 19th to mid-20th century, occasional spotting, dust-staining or creasing, a few minor tears

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
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An autograph letter signed by Oscar Wilde has been removed and offered as lot 72. A list of the main correspondents is available from the Book Department.