LITERATURE: Small selection of A.Ls.S. e

LITERATURE: Small selection of A.Ls.S. etc. by various Victorian novelists comprising H. Rider Haggard (to the author, antiquarian and expert on bookplates Egerton Castle, sending an introduction to Rose, 5th February 1896), Thomas Hughes (a lengthy A.L.S., three pages, 8vo, Bracknell, Easter Monday, 1889, to Miss. Fox, thanking her for the kindness she had shown to his children during a trip to Cornwall and remarking 'I should like to know what you made of Arthur who is a character & one which much puzzles his mother & myself…..we have given in to his desire to turn philosopher, & to spend his life in the pursuit of what I suppose this generation calls culture. We have only insisted that he shall first pass his examinations…..he is really a diligent student, though in fields where I fear he can only gather thistles & the like….') and Charles Kingsley (2; one on A.L.S., three pages, 8vo, Eversley, 1st November 1850, to a gentleman, stating, in part, 'I shall….consider it a great honour to have any poetry of mine set to music by the composer of the Captive Knights, & I beg you will transmit any permission necessary….I have recd. the Record this morning “Whose blame in praise” I assure you I am as thick skinned as the hippotamus in the Regents Park. I did not write Alton Locke without counting the cost of all this - & besides, you know, it saves advertisements - wh. save money', and the other an unrelated autograph envelope signed by Kingsley, addressed in his hand to the hymnologist Rev. T[homas]. V[incent]. Fosbery at Reading, bearing a Penny Red postage stamp and postmarked November 1864). A good group of letters etc. with interesting content and associations. Some light age wear and minor staining etc., G to about VG, 4