Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

19 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS,MANUSCRIPTS &SIGNED PHOTOS
CLAND (Sir Thomas, 1809-1898, 11th Bart,
M.P.)
ALS tothe statistician Dr. William Farr, (1807-
1883, F.R.S.), thanking him warmly for “so clear
&condensed [a] statement - it is like Pemmican I feel that I
cannot digest it at once ... I will send it on to Roby when I
have studied it a little further. I could not help saying to
Gladstone about 3 A.M. this morning how you would pull
to pieces Mr. D’Israeli’s statistics as to the Country
population. He seems to have forgotten the wives and
families”, 3 sides 8vo., blind-embossed stamp of The
Athenæum, 3 Portugal Street, Park Lane, 5th June n.y., c.
1870 [SD16660]£40
Like Gladstone, Acland began as a Tory, but by 1865 had become
aLiberal. Both were at Christchurch and both were Fellows of
All Souls. Acland took a leading part in establishing the Oxford
Local Examinations, 1857-1858. He promoted the extension of
the Bath and West of England Show, edited the Journal of the
Royal Agricultural Society for 7 years, and was one of the 2
original trustees of Ruskin’s Guild of St. George, 1871.
Farr was a pioneer of modern statistics and its applications, a
commissioner for the Census of 1871, and President of the
Statistical Society, 1871 and 1872. For many years he wrote the
Registrar-General’s report on the causes of mortality, and the
greater part of the reports in the censuses of 1851, 1861 and 1871.
Henry John Roby, M.P., b. 1830, author of a famous Latin
grammar, was professor of jurisprudence at University College,
London, and from 1872-1895 commissioner of endowed schools.
145. ADAMS (Joshua, Temporary Surgeon to the East
India Company at Allahabad)
Invoice to “The Honourable Company”, signed, in respect
of “My Salary as Superintendent of Vaccine Inocualation
[sic] for ... May 1823”, amounting to 260 “Calcutta Sicca
Rupees”, 1 side 7¾” x 8” ruled in red, Allahabad, 1st June
1823 small edge tears without loss [SD24303]£55
146. ALBONI (Marietta, 1826-1894, Italian operatic
contralto)
Portrait engraved from a photograph by Mayall, threequarter
length in a damask dress, signed by her in the
margin ‘Countess Pepoli’, 11½” x 8¼”, n.p., n.d., c. 1880,
a little light browning just touches engraved background
[SD24310]£45
147. ALEXANDER (Grand Duke, 1866-1933, Russian
Admiral, Brother-in-Law of Nikolai II)
ALS ‘G.D. Alexander’ in English to the founder and editor
of the Boston News Bureau, Clarence Walker BARRON,
(1855-1928, president of Dow, Jones & Co.), thanking him
“for sending the article, I am very glad that it made an
impression and that many of your influential men have read
it” and “for the paper”, 1 side 8vo., with conjugate blank,
headed paper of Claridge’s Hotel, Paris, 11th June 1913
[SD26032]£175
The writer’s father was Grand Duke Mikhail, 1832-1909, fourth
son of Nikolai I. Alexander married Nikolai II’s sister Xenia,
1875-1960, who lived for many years at Hampton Court. Barron
was a great traveller and raconteur, well known in all the
important financial centres of the world.
From the Estelle Doheny collection.
148. ALEXANDER I (1777-1825, Emperor of Russia
from 1801)
Fine Letter Signed, in Russian with translation, to
FERDINANDO IV, (1751-1825, from 1759 King of
Naples and Sicily), telling him of “the Wedding which was
solemnized in Our capital this last 22nd July [3rd August in
Western calendar] between Our beloved Sister Her Imperial
Highness the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna and His
Highness the Hereditary Prince Karl Friedrich of Saxe-
Weimar-Eisenach”, with some fifty of Alexander’s titles,
including, besides the ancient kingdoms, smaller provinces
and Baltic states, “the Udora, Obdorsk and Konda regions”
(referring to rivers and mountains beyond the Urals), “and
all the Northern Regions”, besides the Caucasian peoples
still under their own rulers, with original envelope made
from a folded sheet, bearing Alexander’s papered seal,
3¼ inches diameter, with his arms and title, 2 sides 14¾” x
9¾” and conjugate leaf, St. Petersburg, 31st July [12th
August Western], 1804, light narrow water stain on portion
of central fold touching a few letters [SD50193]£750
Signed also by the great Polish statesman and patriot Prince
Adam CZARTORYSKI (1770-1861). Sent to St. Petersburg as
a hostage in 1795, after the third partition of Poland, he attracted
the attention of Catherine the Great, who remitted part of the
family estates. He and Alexander, the future Emperor, became
firm friends, and by 1804 Czartoryski had the practical control of
Russian diplomacy. He rendered great service to Russia at the
Congress of Vienna, and prepared the way for the Congressional
Duchy of Warsaw. When the Polish insurrection broke out in
1830, he came out of retirement and in 1831 was elected head of
the provisional Government. He sacrificed half his fortune to the
national cause. At the end of the war he emigrated to France,
where his son Wladislaw married a granddaughter of Louis
Philippe.
Prince Czartoryski will first have met Ferdinand IV when he was
accredited to the King of Sardinia (December 1798). Finding the
latter without a kingdom, he used the time to study Italian and in a
pleasant tour through Italy to Naples.
149. ALEXANDER I (1777-1825, Emperor of Russia
from 1801)
Letter Signed, in French with translation, to Joachim
MURAT, 1767-1815, King of Naples 1808-1815, and
brother-in-law of Napoleon I, congratulating him on his
accession, “I pray for the prosperity of Your reign, and will
take care to maintain the ties of friendship and good
understandng established between the two States ... Your
good Brother”, 1 side 4to and conjugate blank, St.
Petersburg, 22nd October 1808 [SD50194]£750
By the Peace of Tilsit Alexander Ihad withdrawn his opposition
to Napoleon. Meanwhile Ferdinand IV still held on in his other
kingdom of Sicily.
150. ALEXANDRA IOSSIFOVNA (1830-1911, née
Princess of Saxe-Altenburg, wif of Admiral Konstantin, 2nd
sonofEmperor Nicholas I)
Photograph Signed ‘Aleksandra’ in Russian, by A. Pasetti,
showing her half-length, seated, wearing two large blue
brooches set in diamonds, at her waist is a large bow
bearing an anchor, hand tinted in light and dark blue,
light brown, red and silver, 9½” x 7”, (St. Petersburg), 1890
[SD50238]£275