Two ALSs: one signed "Henry M. Stanley," one page, 4.25 x 6.25, March 18, 1896, in full: "I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your cheque for £19.0.11 for Royalty up to Dec 31-95 and tender to you my best thanks for the same," with affixed one pence postage and revenue stamp initialed and dated in ink by Stanley, "H.M.S., 18 Mar/86"; and one signed Dorothy Stanley, one page both sides, 4.75 x 6, May 15, 1901, in part: "The copyright of all my paintings, I have retained, so that on payment of fees to me you can reproduce any one you like. Messrs. Dixon of Albany St. have the negatives of all my pictures," listing the titles of several works. In overall fine condition.
Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a famed author, explorer, and special correspondent for the New York Herald, remembered for his inquiry, ‘Dr. Livingstone, I presume?,’ upon finding David Livingstone, a fellow explorer who had become lost in the wilds of Africa.
His wife, Dorothy Tennant Stanley (1855-1926), was a noted painter of the Victorian era neoclassicism who also served as the editor of her husband's autobiography.
