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21 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS,MANUSCRIPTS &SIGNED PHOTOS<br />
ADEN POWELL (Robert, Lord, 1857-1941,<br />
Defender of Mafeking & Founder of the Boy<br />
Scouts)<br />
Exceptional long ALS to Mrs Vaughan, apologising for not<br />
having written sooner after leaving Nannau, “but I went<br />
straight away from Wales to manoeuvres and have been at<br />
them ever since .... before starting for Scotland. I went to<br />
see book buyers in accordance with my promise ... I found<br />
Messrs Stile & Steevens of Great Russell Street ...<br />
particularly nice to deal with ...” and suggests that she sends<br />
more details of her library and a list of books so that they<br />
can decide if they will visit her to assess the value of her<br />
collection, they would deduct their commission and<br />
expenses in they succeeded in selling it, “That seems a<br />
reasonably satisfactory course but until they see the list they<br />
cannot say whether it would be possible for them to come<br />
without having their expenses paid ...” but he suggests that<br />
if there were another library in the neighbourhood they<br />
could split the costs, or alternatively if she wants to “sell<br />
them privately I daresay I could arrange it ...” but he needs<br />
the “dates covered by the book and the names of the chief<br />
battles in it and 2. About what price you value it at ...”, he<br />
ends by telling her that he has “just begun my leave here<br />
and am thoroughly enjoying this imitation of N. Wales<br />
called Scotland ...”, 10 sides 8vo., with original autograph<br />
envelope, Farleyer House, Aberfeldy, 27th September 1905<br />
[SD26<strong>56</strong>3]£650<br />
161. BADEN POWELL (Robert, Lord, 1857-1941,<br />
Defender of Mafeking & Founder of the Boy Scouts)<br />
Fine photo by Elliott & Fry, signed and dated, showing him<br />
head and shoulders in profile, in full uniform with medal, 6”<br />
x4”inmount 11.5” x 8.5”, n.p., September 1905, together<br />
with a later “Boy Scouts Association” charter with<br />
stamped signature, authorising “Major General J. Vaughan<br />
... of Maes-y-bryner, Dolgelly ..”, to act as District<br />
Commissioner for the Dolgelly District, I side oblong 4to.,<br />
Imperial Headquarters, London, 23rd October 1929,<br />
certificate worn on lower edge, photograph’s mount<br />
chipped on the bottom right hand corner. [SD26<strong>56</strong>9]£475<br />
162. BALLADS<br />
2on1sheet, ‘The Mantle of Green’ and ‘I’m Seventeen<br />
Come Sunday’, beginning “As I went a-walking one<br />
morning in June ... she appeared like a queen ... and a<br />
mantle of green”, she had lost her lover at Waterloo, whom<br />
the singer realises was his commanding officer, the second<br />
begins “As I walked out one May morning”, and ends “Now<br />
Iamwith my soldier lad ... A drum and fife is my delight,<br />
And a pint of rum in the morning”, thin ballad paper, 1 side<br />
10” x 7”, Thomas Yapp’s Cheap Song Warehouse, 82<br />
Digbeth, Birmingham, date in pen 1863 [SD19547]£30<br />
163. BATH (Thomas Henry Thynne, 1862-1946, M.P.)<br />
ALS asLord Weymouth to ‘Dear Sir’, saying “I owe my<br />
success to the exertions of my friends”, hoping “you will<br />
express my gratitude” to those “in the polling district of<br />
Wellow” and that, 2 sides 8vo, Longleat, Warminster, 21st<br />
January 1886, a little foxed [SD19229]£35<br />
164. BAIRD (Sir David, 1757-1829, General, 1st Bart.,<br />
Hero of Seringapatam, 1799) and POPHAM (Sir Hume,<br />
1762-1820, Rear-Admiral)<br />
DS by both to Marquis CORNWALLIS ,(1738-1805), as<br />
Governor-General of India, directing payment of “29,410<br />
Sicca Rupees” or “3,370 Pounds Sterling” to Edward<br />
Stephenson Dennison, on account of “the Honble the East<br />
India Company’s Troops saved fom the wreck of their Ship<br />
the Brittania”, 1 side folio, St. Salvador, West Africa, 23rd<br />
November 1805, laid down by margin [SD50114]£275<br />
Baird held many important commands in the Cape and in India.<br />
He led the Indian force in the expedition of 1801-1802, joining<br />
Abercromby from the South, that recovered Egypt from the<br />
French. Back in India in 1802 he was made head of the North<br />
Madras army, but resigned and went home when it was clear that<br />
Sir Arthur Wellesley would be in charge of the operations against<br />
the Mahrattas.<br />
In 1805 a small force was secretly assembled at Madeira to<br />
recover the Cape. Baird had transports and East Indiamen with<br />
5000 troops. Popham had eight ships. They left San Salvador on<br />
the West Coat of Africa on 26th November 1805. They anchored<br />
off Table Bay on 4th January 1806 and on the 10th received the<br />
Dutch capitulation.<br />
LETTER FROM AMERICA<br />
165. BAKEWELL (Benjamin, of Pittsburgh)<br />
ALS to his cousin Mrs Gifford in Southampton, England,<br />
forwarded to Derbyshire, saying he has just returned from<br />
St. Louis, he believes his cousin could safely have gone to<br />
France, “I can hardly believe that the Parisians of 1830 are<br />
of the same race as those of 1792”, admiring “their courage<br />
in battle” and “their moderation after Victory”, and<br />
comparing Louis Philippe I to Washington as “raised up by<br />
Providence”, he hopes “no popular ... nor Royal faction ...<br />
will attempt to destroy the beautiful Fabric which the<br />
friends of order & liberty are endeavouring to rear. I<br />
observe that the great, the good, & under all vicissitudes,<br />
the consistent La Fayette, is at the head of the National<br />
Guards once more”, he turns to British Politics, refers to the<br />
new Reform Cabinet, “the Sailor King”, and the riots, and<br />
talks interestingly about Lord Brougham, now Lord<br />
Chancellor, with whom the family shares a friend in the<br />
Revd. John Harrison, and finally about visiting his nephews<br />
and nieces “during my journey in the Western Country”, 4<br />
sides 4to., the first neatly cross-written, address and<br />
postmarks including 13th April 1831 and “Ship Letter<br />
Liverpool” on fourth side, Pittsburgh, 15th January 1831, a<br />
few light tears in folds, partly mended with old transparent<br />
paper, a few letters caught by seal on opening<br />
[SD20131]£125<br />
The writer and his nephews and nieces were all linked by the Ohio<br />
steamboat, at Pittsburgh, Wheeling (W. Va.), Cincinnati,<br />
Louisville and Shippingport (Ky.). Their surnames include<br />
Anderson, Atterbury, Woodhouse and Berthoud. “Mr Berthoud<br />
has recently made an engagement with Gordon of Liverpool & is<br />
going in a few weeks to reside in New York”. The writer asks for<br />
advice over his granddaughter, who “although in apparent good<br />
health ... will sometimes fall back in her chair suddenly quite<br />
asleep. - If spoken to ... she answers, but on coming out ... is quite<br />
unconscious of what has passed ... Our Physicians do not<br />
understand the complaint”.
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