Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
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Grenfell, Joyce.
Darling Ma: Letters to her Mother, 1932-1944
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1988).
Edited by James Roose-Evans. Hardback. Ex lib with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in creased dw. xxii + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-C4643
Keywords: 0340423684, Joyce Grenfell, mothers, daughter, letters, 1930s, World War II, Second World War, history, correspondence, woman, women, actresses, drama, actress, theatre, interwar, inter war, inter-war
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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Carter, Mark Bonham and Pottle, Mark.
Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xiii + 461pp. Order No. NSBK-C12987
Keywords: 0297816497, Violet Bonham Carter, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, letters, diaries, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, diary, epistles, epistolary
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Bax, Clifford, ed.
The Silver Casket: Being Love-Letters and Love-Poems Attributed to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
(Home & Van Thal, 1946).
Hardback. Cloth sun-faded with a little wear to edges, otherwise good. 54pp. Order No. NSBK-A14423
Keywords: B0011G83ME, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Scotland, Scottish, poems, poetry, letters, correspondence, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Elizabethan, 16th century, sixteenth century
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MacKnight, Nancy, ed.
Dearest Andrew: Letters from V. Sackville-West to Andrew Reiber, 1951-1962
(Michael Joseph, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 127pp. Order No. NSBK-C5058
Keywords: 0718118235, Vita Sackville-West, Andrew Reiber, women writers, correspondence, letters, twentieth century, woman, women's history, 1950s, 1960s, literary, literature, friendship,
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Creve-coeur, J Hector St. John.
Letters From an American Farmer:
(Fox, Duffield and Co., 1904).
Hardback. Good in heavily soiled and rubbed boards. xxvii + 355pp. Order No. NSBK-A15523
Keywords: B0012RU7JE, American, America, United States. USA, US, farms, farming, farmer, letters, letter, epistles, epistolary,
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Bolton, W. F.
The English Language: Essays by English and American Men of Letters, 1490-1839
(Cambridge UP, 1966).
Hardback. Ex library with minor ink notation, & usual library stamps & stickers, a good working copy. xii + 227pp. Order No. NSBK-A3955
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Hankin, C. A., ed.
The Letters of John Middleton Murry to Katherine Mansfield:
(Constable, 1983).
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Clarke, Patricia.
The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies, 1862-1882
(Hutchinson, 1985).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled, slightly chipped dustwrapper. xii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-C4092
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