Fawcett (Millicent) Autograph Letter signed to WT
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Fawcett (Dame Millicent Garrett, leader of the constitutional women's suffrage movement and author, 1847-1929) Autograph Letter signed to William Thomas Stead, 4pp., sm. 8vo, Alde House, Aldeburgh, 25th December 1890, thanking him for sending her a copy of his Portrait Album, "I am feeling very happy & thankful over the recent unmasking of the criminal conspirators. I fell that a great National danger has become much less threatening. Well done, good English wolves, go on hunting, first at the fire escapists & then at the gutter sparrows till the whole crew of them are destroyed", folds § Farrar (Frederic William, Dean of Canterbury, novelist, and philologist, 1831-1903) Autograph Postcard signed to Stead, 2 sides, 17 Dean's Yard, Westminster, 13th December [?1890], "I am doing all I can in various directions for the Darkest England Scheme" [Stead helped to ghost-write General William Booth's In Darkest England]; and 22 ALs.s to Stead, including: George Goschen, Lord Lansdowne, General Lord Wolseley, Edward Malet, J.A. Froude, T.H. Huxley, Frederic William Farrar, all loosely inserted in a copy of Stead's "Portraits and Autographs: An Album for the People", original cloth, paper label on upper cover "Review of Reviews" Office, v.s., v.d. (c. 22 pieces).
⁂ Stead, William Thomas (1849-1912), newspaper editor and spiritualist,
⁂ Stead, William Thomas (1849-1912), newspaper editor and spiritualist,
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Fawcett (Millicent) Autograph Letter signed to WT
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