Lot 224
Autograph letters and clipped signatures, 3 albums--Barrie, J.M.
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs | 09 May 2007
Description
A.L.S. to My dear Nicoll, extending an invitation to dinner with his uncle and sister, 2 pages, 133 Gloucester Road, 20.4.1900; Ibid. A.L.S., 5 lines, referring to a meeting, one page, 1.5.95; Stanley, H.M. signature with address; Ibid. A.L.S. to Mr Young, thanking him for two volumes, Edinburgh, 4.12.1884; Gladstone, W.E. Card signed referring to constitutional legislation, 30 Nov. 88; Hardy, Thomas A.L.S. to Dr. Nicoll, declining a lunch invitation due to prior engagement, one page, 12 Mandeville Place, Manchester Square, 10.7.91; Ibid. A.L.S. thanking correspondent for a guinea, one leaf, upper half illegible as stuck to card, Max Gate embossed paper, [n.d.], browned; Churchill, Sir W.S.Typed letter to Innes Lozan acknowledging receipt of letter, signed "Yours faithfully Winston S. Churchill", one page, 105 Mount Street, 13.3.1901; Envelope, with stamp torn away, to the Secretary of the Scottish Conservative Club, signed W.S. Churchill in lower corner; Buchan, John A.L.S. claiming he does not have a photograph to send his correspondent, one page, 34 Queen Mary Avenue, Glasgow, 19.4.95; Redpath, ? A.L.S. from Jones Falls, Rideau Canal, Canada, "there is no settlement between this and Hudson Bay", referring to the wilderness, canal, business ventures and Montreal, 3 pages, third page stuck down, 3 Dec. 1831; and a large quantity of autographed letters and clipped signatures, c.1850-1901, in 2 albums and one loose leaf folder, mounted on album leaves (3)
Footnote
Note: The letters were collected by A.S.I. Logan of Kelso who eventually became Minister of Roseburn Church in Edinburgh. His father, Peter Logan, a school teacher in Kelso, married Helen Redpath (some of whose relations emigrated to Montreal and established Redpath Sugar) and later Maria Nicoll, whose father, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, gifted books to Aberdeen University.