[Rarebooks] Offering: Sir Oliver Lodge ALS; also William Ernest Henley ALS & Note

[Michael John Thompson]

Offering:

LODGE, Oliver Joseph, Sir (1851-1940) English physicist and writer 
involved in the development of key patents in wireless telegraphy.

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, dated 17 March 1921, Return Address 
Normanton House, Lake, Salisbury.

Octavo, on address staionary "Normanton. Lake. Salisbury Telegrams: 
Lodge, Normanton, Amesbury. Station: Amesbury" 1page, Dated 17 March 
1921. To Emil Whyte. 12 lines, mostly completely illegible (to me). 
Signed in full "Sincerely yours, Oliver Lodge".  Old creases, small 
pin marks in upper corners; very good condition with no tears.

$125.00 US (Net $100 ppd)

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I can also offer:

HENLEY, William Ernest (British poet, critic and editor, 1849-1903).

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED & AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED.

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED dated 1/3/86. Concerns writing an article 
plus returning some proofs. ALONG WITH a short note note to the same 
recipient sending him the address of J. P. Brodhurst. Both signed 
"W.E.H." The short note is written at the end o f a small letter from 
Brodhurst to Henley. William Ernest Henley was a close friend of 
Robert Louis Stevenson's and the man upon who the character of Long 
John Silver in Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND was based. In 1886 he was 
working as editor of TH E MAGAZINE OF ART, these letters presumably 
pertain to this. Fine condition.

$125.00 US (Net $100 ppd)

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