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Published by Cassell & Co, c.1890. 6in x 4in., 1890
Seller: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Carbon print, mounted, from "Cabinet Portrait Gallery",
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 4 Little Essex Street, London, 1903
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 487 pp. Hardcover, bound in brown morocco over cloth. Short crack front joint. Bookplate. Offset from fly leaves, else fine.
Published by 9 August On embossed letterhead of the House of Commons, 1898
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice for postage. Signed James Bryce . Addressed to W. S[?]ing Esq. , presumably the secretary of the South Place Ethical Society. His time is already so fully occupied with public & private work & engagements of many kinds that he cannot hope to comply with the recipient s request that he should give an address for the South Place Ethical Society .
Published by 9 October On letterhead of Burn Side Prides Crossing Massachusetts, 1908
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. The letter begins: 'My dear Hope, I have told Canadian Club you are coming. If I left my spectacles in the Chancery, in their case as I think I did this forenoon, will you please put them into an envelope for me?' He will go over the following morning, 'at Manchester if not'. He is 'pretty sure to be over on Sunday', and if Hope can tell him 'by what train you pass through to Salem', he will 'come down to Pride's Crossing station & receive them from your hands there.' He concludes: 'Luckily I have a spare pair here to go on with till I recover those I left.'.
Published by 22 November, 1916
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. The letter was torn in two vertically, and has been taped back together, with the tape going over the downstroke of the y in Bryce s signature. It also has a spike hole. Otherwise in fair condition. Addressed to Dear Mr. Marshall and signed Bryce . Marshall s telegram has followed him into the country, & it is now too late to express the opinion you ask for , although that would in any case be really superflous because I said upon Tuesday the 14th. Novr. in an address reposted at the time all I could say now, as to my belief that the time has not arrived when there would be the least use in negociating [sic] for peace .
Published by 20 November ; on letterhead of Hindleap Forest Row Sussex, 1905
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
12mo, 4 pp. 41 lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with slight discoloration to edges. 'It was high time that in England, whence so many mountain climbers and tourists go to the Alps, a protest should be raised against the ruin wrought in Switzerland by the construction of tourist railways up the slopes of the mountains'. Deplores the 'irretrievable harm' already done to 'some of the noblest landscapes in the world, [.] easily accessible from the populous cities of Central and Western Europe, such as those on the shores of the Lake of Lucerne'. The 'hill sides are scored by hideous lines and the peaks defaced by blatant hotels', and 'the intrusion of the train destroys the romantic quality and what may be called the sentiment of the scenery'. Describes the factor by which the gain 'to those who wish to reach without exertion a lofty point of view' is outweighed. Claims that there is 'already in Switzerland a strong and growing movement among lovers of nature and beauty to arrest this process of devastation'.
Published by 1915 and 1917. The second on letterhead of Hindleap Forest Row Sussex; the third on embossed letterhead of the House of Lords, 1914
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
See the two men's entries in the Oxford DNB. The three items are in good condition, lightly aged and worn; the second is lightly spotted. Each is folded once. All three signed 'Bryce'. ONE: 13 February 1914. No place. 3pp, 12mo. On bifolium. Begins: 'My dear Ross / I should like [to] help in so good a cause, but cannot possibly venture to make any promise for a date so distant as Nov. next. It would be "a tempting of Providence" as we say in Scotland.' He is not even certain whether he will be in England then, 'and there is nothing one has more to avoid than the breaking of promises'. He is 'glad to hear of the movement: & it will be much reinforced if the idea of a School of Social Studies in Oxford goes forward'. TWO: 23 February 1915. 1p, 16mo. On Hindleap letterhead. He apologises for having been 'prevented by incessant work from sooner sending you a donation to the Barnett House Fund'. He hopes 'to hear more about its working from you when next in Oxford'. THREE: 4 December 1917. On House of Lords letterhead. 2pp, 12mo. He is sorry to learn that 'the Poplar experiment did not succeed', but has no doubt that Ross's 'discretion was wisely exercised'. The 'contribution as a mark of sympathy' that he is enclosing 'has to be small, because there are charitable war causes so much more urgent, and making so strong a personal appeal to me that I am obliged to reserve for them all that I can give'. Concludes: 'I gather that Oriel, and doubtless many another college, has fewer undergraduates than ever.'.
Published by No place or date. London? During the early years of the First World War
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
3pp, 8vo. On three leaves with hole in one corner where they were attached with stud. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. The letter is clearly a draft of a public letter to be signed by a number of eminent individuals, and was presumably composed by Bryce himself. No date or place, simply headed: 'To the Chairman of | The Government Distress Committee.' It begins: 'Sir, | We whose names are appended hereto view with concern the methods that seem about to be adopted for the relief of the distress caused by the war. | We recognise the care taken by the Government to avoid demoralising methods of relief; to suggest plans of dealing with the emergency that were less open to objection; and to secure, as far as possible, that charitable funds should be administered on some deliberately concerted plan. | We are glad to infer, moreover, that the distress caused by the war is confined, for the present, only to some exceptionally situated trades or localities, and that owing to the extensive recruiting, the number of unemployed men is seldom large. But we cannot ignore the fact that the number of wage earning women put out of work by the war, or reduced to "half time" is already very great and that the nation must be prepared for things getting worse.' The proposed signatories are alarmed at the 'evident desire and intention of so many of the Local Representative Committees to fall back on a policy of distributing money in driblets to large numbers of applicants whom they are attracting and whose distress may not be caused by the war'. Such a policy would be 'disastrous in its effect on personal character, so little calculated to prevent suffering and physical deterioration, and so endless in its extravagance'. After stating that 'it would be preferable to discourage the giving of doles', the letter proceeds to describe in detail four measures employing the Prince of Wales's Fund, 'so far as civil distress is concerned', involving subsidy, training, 'adequate provision for expectant mothers', education and 'maintenance allowances for boys and girls' under Local Education Authorities. 'By the adoption of such measures the deterioration entailed by an unwise system of distribution will be avoided and the relief given by the Fund initiated by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at this national crisis will have a definitely beneficial effect on character and health.' The letter ends with an appeal to 'these Committees to be economical and to delay their action'. During the First World War Bryce produced the Bryce Report on German war atrocities in Belgium, and after the War he served at the International Court at The Hague, and supported the establishment of the League of Nations. it is unclear whether the letter was published in any form. Note the interesting use of the word "dole", "the dole" originating at least in 1919.