Laurens: Manuscripts & Paper Collectibles, Signed (5 results)

Pas de couverture. Condition: Bon. Premier jour philatélique signé dans les années 2000. + Photo 10x15 cm (tirage récent). Format : 9x16,5 cm. État : voir scans svp. Authenticité garantie. Signé par l'auteur.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. At his death in 1917, H. T. Beresford-Hope was Third Secretary at the British Legation at Athens; and he left the enormous sum of £67,167. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded twice for postage. Addressed to 'My dear Beresford-Hope' and signed 'H. Fisher'. Twenty-eight lines of text. He begins a gently teasing letter by stating that he is delighted to hear of Beresford-Hope's 'triumph in the Diplomatic Service examination', his wife joining him in sending congratulations. 'Herbert is a good man and moreover a man of a [sic] Balliol, and it is a distinction to have got ahead of him.' He presumes that Beresford-Hope is now 'the complete foreigner retaining only the slightest acquaintance with your native tongue'. He urges him to 'Become an ambassador if you like, the sooner the better, but do not plunge us into war, or in any way imitate the proceedings of that courteous but unwise gentleman, the late Duc de Grammont. Eradicate by your personal example the false maxim now so prevalent that England expects every diplomat to play polo.' He thinks that BH has 'a chance of going ahead, judging from the deplorable feebleness of so many of our Foreign Blue books, notably the recent collection of reports in Foreign Income boxes, compiled by the second secretaries of our legations.' He ends by inviting him to 'Come and see us when you are next this way.'.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. On offer is a fascinating piece of Delaware County, New York history held in one ledger book. The book contains the unique combination of a 1916 ledger kept by the staff of an auto mechanic garage in Colchester, New York and the 1917-1918 personal diary of a young Colchester man, who may have worked at the shop for a time. The book was used as a mechanic shop ledger between January 24 and July 30, 1916. We believe the shop may have been owned by H. M. Barnhart. The ledger contains a ton of names from Delaware County along with notes on the services each person purchased from the shop, the cost of gas, oil, labour, car parts, rides to and from their destinations, and more. A large note at the bottom of the page following entries from June 29 reads: "Gorse [Gray] left today June 29, 1916 for Cleveland Ohio". There are then another 1.5 pages of mechanic shop ledger entries, ending July 30, 1916. The book then jumps to Sept 13, 1917, and, in Gorse Gray s hand, is written: "Bought car 13 day of Sept 1917". The ledger book then continues as Gray s detailed daily diary until December 31, 1918. Gorse Simmons Gray (1892-1964) born in Downsville, Delaware County, New York to Charles and Mary (Woodard) Gray. Theirs was a farming family, and along with his siblings, Gorse was actively involved in farming operations. He married Anna Boyd (1900-1980) on Christmas Day, 1918. Together they had six children, five of whom lived to adulthood. Gorse became a machinist and woodworker. He was also elected to Laurens, New York town office on the Republican ticket as collector, town clerk and highway superintendent. A mystery of this ledger book is how it came into Gorse Gray s possession. While the Gray family are listed as frequent customers at the shop, particularly the patriarch Charles Gray and his farmhand Edwin J. Foote, our diarist, Gorse was still working in his family farming business in 1916 and did not become a mechanic until after he was married in 1918, so it is unclear how he ended up with the business ledger to use as his personal diary. Since he ultimately became a mechanic he may have been apprenticing at the shop in 1916. Gray s diary provides insight into life in Delaware County in the early 20th century. In the course of his daily life and tasks, Gray discusses Walton, Delhi, Shavertown, Union Grove, Ilion, Clapton, Pepacton, Hobart, and other nearby towns. He is working on his family farm and discusses the minutiae of that lifestyle, as well as discussing the comings and goings of his siblings and other locals. He is dating Anna Boyd (1800-1880). Anna was a teacher who would later become a columnist for the Oneonta Star. As a whole, this book is an absolute goldmine of information on the citizens and lifestyle in Delaware County. Some excerpts give the flavour of both the ledger and Gray s diary: "Geo Hoyt - 5 gallon gas 1.30, 1 Gal T. Oil .50. Archie Campbell - Bushings 0.55. Ed. Smith 5 Gal Gas Paid 1.30Gray and Foote 2 Gas Gal. .52Chas Warren Vulcanising .30C. E. Gray 1 Gal. Gas 0.26" [April 24-26, 1916]. "Took Mama Lydia Edna to Kingston used about 10 gal gas 2.80" [Oct 18, 1917]. "Very warm, boiled sap all day and did not run much. Lee and I went down town I called on Anna a while she is much better. I went up to barber shop till Lee came played pool we got stuck coming home had to get a horse to pull us out was 12 when we got in" [March 21, 1918]. "Nice day. Sap did not run much. I drilled all day. Took off some. Dad and Mother went to town. I got a letter from Anna going to assist tonight. We heard that the Kaiser has been captured" [March 25, 1918]. "Washed car AM. WEnt down and got Anna. We went up back of School house for walk. She stayed to supper. Went down to go to Church but was late so we went for a walk. Lee went down to Church. We came home after. Lee came from Church" [April 7, 1918]. [Abe Word limit reached, contact seller for full listing]. Signed by Author(s).

HENRY LAURENS Autograph Letter Signed to Peter Baynton, Charleston, South Carolina, 5 September 1770. 2-1/2 pages, 7-1/2" x 9-1/4, plus integral address leaf. A leading South Carolina planter and merchant, Henry Laurens, would later become a key supporter of the Revolutionary movement in the South. He would serve as President of the Continental Congress in 1777-1778, be held as a prisoner of war by the British from 1780-1782, and become one of the American signers of the preliminary treaty of peace with England in 1782. Laurens writes here to a member of the important Philadelphia trading company, Baynton, Wharton & Morgan, and he sends an interesting mix of personal and business news. Laurens' wife of twenty years, Eleanor, had died in May 1770. The Mr. Hughes discussed here is John Hughes, who was the Collector of Customs in Charleston and was associated with Baynton, Wharton & Morgan. A rare early pre-war letter from Henry Laurens. Charles Town, So. Carolina, 5 September 1770 Dear Sir: Mr. Hughes by whom this is intended, brought me your favor of the 29th June at a time when my spirits were much deprived under a load of affliction which is visibly overwhelmed upon the death of my wife, this melancholy event which seemed to comprehend all Evils, together with the sole charge of five children sought such an alliteration in my affairs particularly those of a domestic nature that I have been incapable of paying that respect & attention to the Collector which I should otherwise have done and which I hope to have the pleasure of doing when the near ____ to Carolina. I have had very little of Mr. Hughes company, yet form the little I have seen, and the such I have learnt from my friends in town, entertain the most favorable opinion of him as a Man & as an Officer. I must make not the least doubt of his being very happy among us at the same time perceived my self that he will be so wise as to give satisfaction to the Higher Powers. Who _____ I should presume to impart any blame to him it would be for rather an ____ of indulgence shows a kind disposition and a good heart, but there are around him, some bad Envious hearts with wishful eyes & flattering tongues, tell him this for, as you are his intimate friend, to avoid every act of obliging the Merchants or any Merchant insofar as may put him in the power of some mean fellow to misrepresent him as a case of Guardian of the Acts of Trade, Take to which the Ministry are at this time particularly at _______ I sincerely participate that satisfaction which all your every benevolent mind must feel from the foreseeable change in your commercial affairs which you attend to. I wish advice and accounts may brighten upon you every day until you service the whole of your supposed lots. From the ____ of a letter which I received from Mr. Morgan I conclude that he is now abroad & expect the pleasure of seeing him in Charles Town in his return from ______. Therefore, I do not write to him by this opportunity, but I shall be always glad of opportunity to send you both my best services _____, in acknowledgement of many civilities received from your dear Father when I was a young man and a stranger in Pennsylvania as well as for the honour which I derived from your acquaintance & correspondence. I _______ with great regard Sir, Your Most Obdt. Servt., Henry Laurens. "Peter Baynton, Esquire" Is written in a different hand to the left of Laurens' signature. Mr. Elias Ball, the Son of one of my late wife's Brothers, who is an honest Wealthy Country Gentleman goes in this _____ to Philadelphia - he is a plain sober good young man your countenance to him when he happens to meet you will be obliging to me. The Collector will call you from _____ the voyage what sort of a lad he is - he looks big and rough for 20, that he is only in his 18th Year yet which is no small disadvantage to him.

Pas de couverture. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. GIDE, André (1869-1951) Lettre autographe signée « André Gide » à Élie Allégret La Roque, [fin] août [18]93, 3 pp. in-4° sur papier vergé crème finement ligné Filigrane « Original Palet Mill », très légères rousseurs marginales Admirable lettre du jeune Gide à son précepteur et confident, évoquant les premières manifestations de l amour qui le lie à sa cousine Madeleine Rondeaux Il dévoile ensuite son projet de voyage aux côtés de Paul Laurens, une aventure qui se révélera décisive pour l écrivain, tant sur le plan moral que sexuel Lettre restée dans les archives Allégret jusqu en 2007 « Bien du temps a passé, mon cher ami, depuis ma dernière lettre. Je t écrivais alors d Espagne, avec cette émotion de me sentir plus près de toi parce que j étais plus loin de la France. Ce voyage s est fini tout simplement et nous avons repris pour un temps maman et moi nos occupations parisiennes. [] Notre séjour habituel de la Roque est déjà tout près de finir ; le temps m est strictement mesuré pour des raisons que je m en vais te dire. Mes cousines ont passé près de nous trois semaines. Que ne puis-je, mon ami, te parler longuement d elles et te demander après tes pensées. Je me souviens si bien de cette causerie trop courte que nous eûmes sur des affaires très intimes, dans cette voiture qui remontait l avenue de l Opéra, t entraînant vers d ultimes acquisitions, car le lendemain tu devais repartir. Tout est resté de même, mon ami, tout s est approfondi, aggravé : c est une chose difficile à comprendre lorsqu on ne fait que la dire sans raconter longuement tous les pourquois : oui tout s est aggravé (c est le mot le meilleur) amours, luttes, tristesses et refus. La résistance de Madeleine est obstinée ; elle n a cessé que lorsque par instant sa raison fut vaincue, et que son amour trop fort a dû paraître. J ai presque tort de te parler de cela, ne pouvant t en parler assez ; j ai peur que tu te méprennes et que tu penses que j ai grand tort de continuer cette poursuite, du moment qu elle est repoussée. C est bien ce que je me dis lorsque j en suis fatigué jusqu à la plus profonde tristesse. Mais si je reprends cette poursuite ensuite, c est parce que je sais qu elle m aime plus que tout autre, et c est elle qui me l a dit, elle m a dit que la vie sans moi lui paraissait vide et terne, et que tout en elle mourait le jour où elle s est dit qu elle devait me quitter Elle s est fait de cela un devoir, non pour elle, mais pour moi, je le sais, se craignant pour moi trop âgée [Madeleine est de deux ans l aînée d André]. Alors comprends-tu que j insiste, et que sachant tout cela, un refus qu elle s impose douloureusement ne me rebute, et que tout continue, et ne peut presque plus avoir de solution qu une attente l un de l autre, une attente perpétuelle, et que peu à peu le mariage ne devient presque plus souhaitable, tant nous avons pris peu à peu l un devant l autre une attitude presque hostile parfois à cause de cette triste lutte. Et nous ne pouvons pas nous passer de cela. [] Je ne suis pas retourné chez elle depuis bien des années ; et c est bien malgré elle que Madeleine m invite ; elle me l a dit, mais je m effraie de voir combien une femme peut se mentir. Je ne resterai pas là-bas [Cuverville] beaucoup de temps ; je pars aussitôt après pour un assez long voyage. On ose à peine devant toi parler de long voyage , pourtant celui-ci devrait durer six mois ; je dois partir avec un ami de mon âge, le fils du peintre Jean-Paul Laurens [] nous avons choisi l Italie, la Sicile, la Tunisie, l Algérie et l Espagne. Le désert nous tente tous deux et nous projetons de descendre jusqu à Ouargla [ville de province à 800 km au sud d Alger] si c est possible ; tout ça en vue de nous mûrir ; j ai un peu le spleen d avance mon compagnon aussi, ce qui fait que nous nous entendrons []. Signé par l'auteur.