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A 2 page hand written letter and receipt dated 1847 from the prominent 19th-century merchants John Gladstone & Co. who were associated with maritime trade and engineering interests in the city of Liverpool. The 2 page document consists of a receipt on paper headed ‘Manufactured by John Gladstone [Sons] & Co.’ which outlines an order for ‘2 pair pat… Read more…

A social artefact which reveals a previously unheard female voice at the outbreak of WW2. The 63 manuscript letters in this collection, written between November 1939 and October 1940 are penned by Phyllis of 61 Station Road, Burton Latimer, Northants to her sweetheart Ralph of 83 Montague St, Kettering who had been conscripted into the army, based… Read more…

A hand written letter from John Aitken Carlyle M.D., written in May 1865 and addressed to the notable Victorian photographer John Watkins of Parliament St. London. He requests for a second time, a dozen copies of ‘your photographs of my brother Thomas Carlyle’. There is some urgency as he plans to leave his address, 62 Hanover St, Edinburgh in only… Read more…

Three manuscript letters written to the Anglo-American artist Dorothy Brett (1883-1977) from Roger Fry, Gilbert Spencer and Albert Rothenstein. A graduate of the Slade School of Art, friend of Dora Carrington, and an established member of the London artistic scene, Brett exhibited in London in the 1920s with the New English Art Club (NEAC), and ass… Read more…

This handwritten letter on Metropolitan Police Office headed paper dated 8 th Feb 1895 is written by Melville Leslie Macnaughton or Mac as he liked to be known who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1889 when the killer known as Jack the Ripper was still thought to be active in the Whitechapel area of London. Macnaughton was actively involved in the… Read more…