Written Collection (#13)

Suffragette Annie Kenney Character Sketch. A Character Sketch of Annie Kenney (1879-1953) written by Frederick Pethick-Lawrence with an article by Annie Kenney on Prison faces This recounts

Mrs. P. Leigh Votes for Women. Portrait, Mrs. P. Leigh, caption hand written in ink, Votes for Women, Mrs. P. Leigh Sec. W.S.P.U Date: circa 1910

Suffragette in Snow Votes for Women. A lone suffragette holding a banner stands in the snow and ice. The caption reads, And loud that clarion voice replied

Very poignant letter to his daughter - WWI
Very poignant letter to the daughter of the unknown letter writer - Miss Muriel Nibbs, 5 Woolley Terrace, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. Envelope is dated 23rd December 1916

The Dumbells - 3rd Canadian Division Concert Party
Programme for The Dumbells - Third Canadian Division Concert Party - entitled Battle of Somme-Area (concerning the journey from Poperinghe to the Somme) and Kit Inspection with commentary

Neuve Chapelle - WWI
Neuve Chapelle. Including a separate hand-written description as follows - Here enemy made a counter-attack (under cover of a mist) in mass formation

Firescreen - fabric shows tanks, planes, ships, armoured cars, etc.Now written off - damaged. Trench Art

George R. Sims Dagonet Ballads - The Workhouse
An illustration inspired by In the Workhouse: Christmas Day - better known as Christmas Day in the Workhouse - one of the Dagonet Ballads written by George R Sims in 1877

B. R. S. M Tea Party
Children, attended by adults, sit at trestle tables in a small hall. Their mugs are filled from watering-cans. A hand-written caption states B.R.S.M. perhaps part of the Ragged Schools Mission

Steevens Memorial
GEORGE STEEVENS literary critic, depicted contemplating a bust of Shakespeare on whose plays he had written commentaries. Date: 1736 - 1800

Michael Sadleir
MICHAEL SADLEIR writer and bibliographer, best known for his novel Fanny by gaslight written 13 years after this portrait was made. Date: 1888 - 1957

WW1 - German soldiers on a train on their way to the front
German soldiers on a train on their way to the front in Germany. On the train are inscribed messages showing enthusiasm of the departing soldiers. Date: circa 1915

Ham - a 37-pound chimpanzee - Americas first astronaut
Ham - a 37-pound chimpanzee - became Americas first astronaut when he was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Redstone (MR-2) suborbital flight on 31 January 1961

The first test of the first goreless wonder, dropped in stick with a standard parachute for comparison in descent. The vintage Virginia, the last of its line

Letter written by Charles Darwin to Emma
Part 1 of 3: see also 14143 and 14144

Letter written by Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913)
Letter from the nineteenth century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace to Frederick Bates, sent from Singapore in 1856

STOWE, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (1811-1896)
" STOWE, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (1811-1896). North American writter. US writer. She wrote " Uncle Toms Cabin", a work written in. Engraving."

Detail of Arabian writing in an Ottoman illuminated manuscript about Muhammads life (16th c.). Miniature Painting. TURKEY. Istanbul. Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul

AMBROSE, Saint (339-397). Doctor of the Church
" AMBROSE, Saint (339-397). Doctor of the Church and archbishop of Milan. Saint Ambroses Works" (vol I), written and illustrated by Enrique de Bellorto for Guicciardi de Pavic (15th c.)

VALLE-INCLAN, Ram󮠍ar�del Valle y Pe񡬠named
" VALLE-INCLAN, Ram󮠍 aric del Valle y Pe񡬠 named (1866-1936). Cover of the 11st volume of Valle Inclᮧs " Opera Omnia"

Everard de Espinquess Tristan and Iseult
" Everard de Espinquess " Tristan and Iseult", written by Gassien de Poiters. Page from the third volume, with Jean Du Mas weapons

Book of Knight Zifar. ca. 1300. First adventures tale written in Spanish. Page depicting a citys conquest. Manuscript from Paris Ms.36, 1464. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Paris

NEBRIJA, Antonio Martinez de Cala, called Antonio
" NEBRIJA, Antonio Martinez de Cala, called Antonio de (1441-1522). Spanish humanist and grammarian. " Gramᴩ ca Latina" (Latin Grammar), work written by Juan de Z�

HaggadᬠHebrew codex of Catalan or Valencian
Haggadᬠ Hebrew codex of Catalan or Valencian

Poster by Pedraza Blanco for the documentary
" Poster by Pedraza Blanco for the documentary film " Tierra Espa񯬡 " (The Spanish Earth, 1937), written by Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos

BERGSON, Henri Louis (1859-1941). French philosopher
" BERGSON, Henri Louis (1859-1941). French philosopher. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. Cover of " Mati貥 et M魯 ire", written in 1896

Spain. First Carlist War. Frontispiece of Historia
" Spain. First Carlist War. Frontispiece of " Historia de la guerra civil y los partidos liberral y carlista" (History of Civil War and the Liberal and Carlist Parties), volume II

Illustration of the Treatise on the Astrolabe
" Illustration of the " Treatise on the Astrolabe". "

LYRE, Nicol᳠de (1270-1340). Theologian. Lesson
LYRE, Nicol᳠ de (1270-1340). Theologian. Lesson

METGE, Bernat (1343-1413). Catalan writer. First
" METGE, Bernat (1343-1413). Catalan writer. First page of " Valter e Griselda", Translation into Catalan by Metge of the Petrarchs Latin epistle " Griseldis"

Penitential psalms of the Pope Innocent III written in Catalan. 15th c. In the bottom, Initial with coat of arms supported by two angels. Fol.1 v. Miniature Painting

Spain (1929). Primo de Riveras Dictatorship
" Spain (1929). Primo de Riveras Dictatorship. " La Vanguardia" (13th August 1929). Obituary section with an announcement of death written in Catalan (lower right section)

DAZA DE VALDɓ, Benito (1591-1634). Spanish scientist and eclesiastic. Author of the first book on optometry written in Spanish (1623) and notary of the Spanish Inquisition. Sevilla, 1623

The Death of Caesar, tragedy by Voltaire written in 1736. Illustration (1791). Etching. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

MURATORI, Ludovico Antonio (1672-1750). Italian

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