JOURNALISM AUTOGRAPHS

EMILY CRAWFORD Autograph Letter Signed. Irish born journalist, war correspondent and the first female staff correspondent on a London Daily Newspaper.   ALS. 3pp. The Nunnery, Saint Michael's Hamlet, near Liverpool. October 30th 1890. To [William] Woodall.  Together with a fine contemporary portrait photograph.   "I sent back the Miss Balgarnie letter. It would have crossed yours. Many apologies for the letter. Would it be asking too much if I were to trouble you so far as to forward on enclosed to Messrs Smith, Payne & Smith. I shall ask for a further allotment (in case I can get it).....

ELIZA LYNN LINTON Autograph letter Signed. British (English) journalist, essayist and novelist.   ALS. 4pp. Queen Anne's Mansions, St. James's Park, S.W. Sunday, April 6th [no year]. To [William] Woodall. Together with a fine contemporary portrait photograph.   "I think you might feel somewhere about your shoulder blades for those wings which must be sprouting. You are the most anglic-tempered man that ever lived. The fount of your human kindness is inexhaustible, the cloak of your charity covers every renegade. What can I say to express my deep sense of your loveliness? No, but all (serious) fun aside I do sincerely.....

WILLIAM SYME MACKIE Autograph Letter Signed. British (Scottish) journalist and newspaper editor.   ALS. 2pp. New Park Villa. October 5th, no year. To [William] Woodall. Together with press cutting from the 'Journalist and Newspaper Proprietor'.   "I am leaving here today to take up new duties at Leeds on Monday. When I came to Hanley 8 years ago I never dreamt it possible that I should leave it with such a keen regret as I feel today. The appointment conferred upon me at the Leeds Mercury is from my point of view an ideal one and the principle offices in it.....

HUGH GILZEAN REID Autograph Letter Signed. British (Scottish) journalist, newspaper editor and politician.   ALS. 3pp. Dollis Hill, NW. March 22nd 1898. To [William] Woodall. Together with a fine contemporary photograph.   "On returning from Warley today I find that, on the 28th (Monday) at 7.30, some friends are coming to dine with us at Dollis Hill - one from Belgium, the Baroness de Stein, the Ambassador's wife, a native of Warwickshire! If you are free to join us, it will afford my daughters and me real pleasure. A line will oblige."   8vo. Approx 7 x 4.5 inches. Mounting.....

SIR THOMAS WEMYSS REID Autograph Letter Signed. British (English) journalist, newspaper editor, biographer and novelist.   ALS. 4pp. Reform Club, Pall Mall, SW. June 27th 1894. To W[illiam] Woodall. Together with a fine portrait photograph.   "Will you forgive me if I venture to write rather urgently with regard to the case of Sir George Clarke. As I know that he is known both to Mr. Campbell Bannerman and yourself I need not say anything of his high qualities and remarkable abilities. But I happen to know that owing to his domestic circumstances the prospect of having to return to.....

EDWARD R. RUSSELL Autograph Letter Signed. British (English) journalist.   ALS. 1p and integral blank leaf. House of Commons. March 20th 1886. To [William] Woodall. Together with a fine contemporary portrait photograph.   The letter is in the form of a press cutting, written by Edward R. Russell, which he identifies as being from the Liverpool Daily Post of 22nd March 1886. It it he praises William Woodall and gives an account of the dinner given by the Savage Club to celebrate Woodall's "elevation to office" (presumably as Financial Secretary to the War Office). Present at the dinner were many.....

WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL Autograph Letter Signed. Irish born journalist and war correspondent.   ALS. 3pp. 167 Victoria Street, SW. July 19th 1893. To [William] Woodall. Together with a fine contemporary portrait photograph.   "Your first note was written on 'War Office' paper, & it was not till I referred to your second kind billet just now, that I discovered the mistake I had made in supposing you asked us to dine in Pall Mall. I thence was led to add a remark respecting the novel appearance of ladies in the Temple of Bellona which must have been rather puzzling to you.....

WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL Autograph Letter Signed. Irish born journalist and war correspondent.   ALS. 3pp. 167 Victoria Street, SW. July 12th 1893. To [William] Woodall.   "I shall be very happy to dine with you on the 20th, & my wife is disengaged on that evening also, but I am rather at a loss about the introduction of the feminine element in her person into the halls which are lighted by the fulmina belli & I wish you to be good enough to tell me if we are actually to dine at the usual hall in Pall Mall where hitherto.....