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OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900); ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930); RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936); W. B. YEATS (1865-1939) & OTHERS Autograph note signed ("Oscar Wilde"), 1½ pages, 8°, May 22 1884 (back page laid down), "I will have two new lectures at least next season - besides those I have delivered. October will do but my fee is always the same." Autograph letter signed ("Arthur Conan Doyle"), one page, 8°, Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex, 30 Jan 1910 (outer edge laid down with sellotape), "I shall have much pleasure in joining your Local Committee, and enclose a guinea towards the fund." Autograph card signed ("Rudyard Kipling"), 1½ pages, 12°, Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex, May 27, 1900 (outer edge laid down with sellotape), declining an invitation. Autograph letter signed ("W B Yeats"), one page, 8°, 18 Woburn Buildings, Euston Road, [n.d.] (sellotape mark to integral blank leaf), sending some money, "I should have sent it before - I have been keeping it loose in my bag hoping 'the heaven sent moment' would come", also thanking for for a day in Epping Forest. With approximately 52 other autograph letters and notes by J. B. Priestley, H. G. Wells, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, W. Harrison Ainsworth, John Drinkwater, John Galsworthy, Mary Webb John Oxenham, Rebecca West, Katharine Tynan, Hall Caine, Humbert Wolfe, Eden Phillpotts, Laurence Binyon, H. Rider Haggard, Alec Waugh, Robert Lynd, H. M. Tomlinson, Hugh Walpole, Beverley Nichols, John Moore and others, mainly addressed to Mr St John Adcock, all in a folio album.