Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections, L26401, London

Opera. [Subiaco: Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz, 29th October 1465]

Le Roman de la Rose.

Autograph manuscript poem, "Elegy for J.F.K.",

Letter signed, with autograph postscript, to St George Mivart, defending the theory of Natural Selection

Letter signed, to J.J. Weir, asking for additional information on the flowering of distinctive specimen trees as part of his research for a new edition of The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication,

Autograph letter signed, to “Dear Sir” [Arthur Claypon Horner], thanking him for his letter about his book on worms

Autograph letter signed, to "Dear Sir" [Henry Yates Thompson], thanking him for sending information on the behaviour of lapwings to attract earthworms

Autograph letter signed, to James Porter, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, on the campaign to procure a portrait of the Duke of Devonshire, Chancellor of the University

A series of 11 letters signed by writers (chiefly autograph), discussing the character of T.S. Eliot, to Michael Gonin

Autograph letter signed (“B. Franklin”), to William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, as American Peace Commissioner

Letter signed (“M.K. Gandhi”), to William Winstanley Pearson, praising the work of a fellow satyagrahi, reflecting on Pearson's recent arrest for his work in support of swaraj and celebrating its ultimate benign consequences

Contemporary notarial copy of a papal Bull issued on behalf of Pope Innocent IV at the Lateran,

Autograph card signed, to Miss Smorley (“a not-very-well-girl”), photographic portrait by Coster of A.A. Milne, Christopher Robin Milne, and Winnie-the-Pooh, commenting on the photograph

Letter signed, as First Consul (“Bonaparte”), to an unnamed Bishop (“Monsieur l’Eveque”), justifying the resumption of war, which he blames on the bad faith of the British over the fate of Malta, and asking his blessing, with two countersignatures includi

Autograph letter signed ("Nelson & Bronte"), to Emma Hamilton ("My Dearest Friend")

Autograph letter signed, to Hippolyte Heymann, asking him for an advance

Letter signed, to William Lyttelton, Royal Governor of South Carolina, concerning a proposed attack on the colony of French Louisiana to be commanded by Admiral Edward Boscawen and General Amherst,

A collection, comprising:

Ravenna Recited in The Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878. 

Signed inscription (“To Kenyon Fortescue from his friend Oscar Wilde.

Two illustrated theatre programmes for the first production of The Importance of Being Earnest, at the St James’s Theatre on King Street.

Autograph letter signed, to W.T. Stead, an exceptional and revealing letter thanking Stead for his support in the aftermath of Oscar Wilde’s trial

Letter signed, to Rev. R.B. Meyer, written during the Paris Peace Conference, reluctantly declining to participate in Meyer’s planned commemorative film for the tercentenary of the voyage of the Mayflower,

Autograph letter signed, to Florence Emery, on the aftermath of “this wild rising in Dublin”,