BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Selection of signed photographs of various sizes (8 x 10, postcard and smaller), signed ...

BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Selection of signed photographs of various sizes (8 x 10, postcard and smaller), signed cards (3), A.Ls.S. (3), T.Ls.S. (2) by various British Prime Ministers of the 20th century comprising H. H. Asquith (2; also accompanied by a pencil A.L.S. by his wife, Margot Asquith, stating, in full, 'I'm afraid I can't write anything for £100. Yesterday a journalist offered me £300 for an article on Rome & promised me more if I cd. make it long enough for two parts. I've been offered thousands of pounds by American publishers if I wd. write 2 articles on our Royal family (King Edward & K. George) whom I've known very intimately but no money wd. make me do it'. I hate writing & had it not been for Lord Morley wd. never have published anything', 13th March 1924), Stanley Baldwin (A.L.S., Baldwin of Bewdley, two pages, 8vo, Astley Hall, Stourport, 30th December 1939, to Mr. Gillett. Baldwin thanks his correspondent for their letter and a copy of St Martin's Review, which he has looked at with interest, and continues 'It is good of you to offer to print a contribution from me, but I am not a writer, alas!'. In a lengthy postscript Baldwin further apologises for his delay in writing, explaining 'my secretary has been away for some months, and I try to deal single handed with a mixed grill of a correspondence which at times seems to mount over my head'), Andrew Bonar Law (T.L.S., A. Bonar Law, one page, 8vo, Edwardes Square, Kensington, 17th November 1913, to 'My dear Windham'. Law thanks his correspondent for their letter and invitation although adds that he has no prospect of being in Norfolk again and concludes 'I shall send your suggestion about literature to the Central Office'), Harold Wilson (3; one an unusual vintage signed 9.5 x 7.5 photograph of Wilson standing in a three quarter length pose at the Canadian International Trade Fair in Toronto alongside C. D. Howe, the Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce, and Charles Sawyer, the American Secretary of Commerce, May 1949), Edward Heath (3; one a vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph dated 2nd May 1966 in his hand and another a brief T.L.S. to Andre Deutsch thanking him for a copy of William Davis' book, October 1968), James Callaghan and Tony Blair. G to generally VG, 13 £100-150