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Literary.- Sheridan (Richard Brinsley, playwright and politician, 1751-1816) Autograph Letter signed "RS" to W. Downes, Brewer Street, Golden Square, 1p. with conjugate blank and address panel, sm. 8vo, "Recd Tuesday 2d. July 1808", "Every thing, is safe, 'till I see Mrs. Hudson on Thursday ", later portrait of Sheridan pastedown on verso, folds, browned § Carlyle (Thomas, author, biographer, and historian, 1795-1881) Receipt signed "T. Carlyle" from Chapman & Hall for £521.12, manuscript, signed over stamp, on verso of Chapman and Hall paper headed "193 Piccadilly London", folds, slightly browned, 126 x 201mm., 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, 3rd April 1860; and 11 others, letters, including: Bulwer Lytton, Kathleen Raine, Christopher Fry (2), Walter de la Mare, John Masefield (2), Edmund Gosse, Lytton Strachey, Edmund Blunden, v.s., v.d. (13).