Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, XV The Green, Calne, Wilts, SN1 8DQ, Tel: (01249) 821121 28
210. COMBERMERE (Sir Stapleton Cotton, 6th Bart.,
M.P., 1773-1865, Field Marshal, from 1814 1st Baron,
from 1827 1st Viscount)
Signature on piece from the end of a letter, together with
his portrait and facsimile signature engraved for the
London Printing and Publishing Company (c. 1830), 8¾” x
5¾” inmargins 10½” x 7½”, the signature Calcutta, 10th
September 1827 [SD50136]£95
Lord Combermere was 2nd in command at Salamanca, leading the
famous charge of Le Marchant’s and Anson’s Heavy Brigades, but
was wounded and sent home. His return passage took 28 days
and so he was 3 days late for the battle of Vitoria. In 1815
Wellington was annoyed that command of the Cavalry in Belgium
was given to Lord Uxbridge by the Prince Regent, who thought
that Combermere had gossiped years before at Brighton about
Mrs. Fitzherbert. Thus Combermere missed Waterloo, but he
commanded the whole Allied Cavalry in France 1815-1816 and
was Commander-in-Chief in Ireland and in India
211. COTTON (Sir Arthur Thomas, 1803-1899, K.C.S.I.,
Army and River Engineer in India, General)
ALS to the General Post Office, asking that letters to him at
11 Wimpole Street be sent to Nailsworth instead of Penge,
“I conclude this redirection takes place at the General Post
Office, as ... it is not done at that near Wimpole Street”, 1
side 8vo., two signed notes on conjugate leaf of attention by
“the General Post” and “London District Post”, Nailsworth,
Gloucestershire, 21st September 1855 [SD20062]£45
Sir developed the water supplies for growing cotton in India.
212. CRITCHETT (Sir George Anderson, d. 1925, 1st
Bart., Surgeon Oculist to King Edward VII)
ALS to Dr. Haig-Brown, saying “Young Mr. Gray has
evidently caught cold and reproduced his old conjunctivitis.
Ithink he should use Galt acquatic nitrates ... night and
morning & bathe the eyes 3 or 4 times daily with a lotion of
Lapis Divinus ... I have touched the edges of the lids lightly
with solid stick of nitrate of silver ... and should the mucous
discharge continue”, he recommends painting the inner
upper lids with “cocaine and then with a solution of nitrate
of silver”, giving the quantities in each case, 4 sides 8vo, 21
Harley Street, Cavendish Square, W., 21st October 1897,
traces of guard on part of black edging on first side without
loss [SD16963]£25
Sir George was consultant eye surgeon to St. Mary’s Hospital,
London.
THE FERGUSON BEQUEST
213. CUNNINGHAM (Thomas, of Edinburgh)
ALS to the Revd. William Cousin, (1812-1883), Free
Church minister of Irvine, (1850-1859), saying that
“Though highly approving of this Educational movement,
so far as it goes ... I have declined to attend the meetings
both here and at Glasgow upon general grounds ... I am
very glad you liked the address”, 1 side 8vo., 25th April
1856 [SD19636]£35
James Ferguson (1787-1856), of Irvine, left £400,000 for religious
education in the South of Scotland, and six university
scholarships.
214. CURZON (George, Marquis, 1859-1925, Viceroy of
India &Foreign Minister)
AN in the third person, saying he regrets “that he cannot
send alady’s ticket too”, he has refused such for some of
the Lincoln Archaeological Society “owing to the numbers
... coming”, with the ticket for the opening of Tattershall
Castle, Lincolnshire, signed by Curzon for S.A. Gimson
(1860-1938, engineering manufacturer in Leicester and
rationalist), the letter 2 sides 8vo., 1 Carlton House Terrace,
3rd August 1914 [SD19637]£40
AUDET (Alphonse, 1840-1897, French novelist
and playwright)
ALS, in French with translation, to ‘Mon cher
Child’, saying he is sending “the 1st volume of my new
publication. I would be most grateful if you could
announce it in your journals”, 1 side 8vo., n.p., n.d., c. 1895
[SD19713]£125
THE MAISON DE FRANCE
216. [D’ORLÉANS (Jean, 1874-1940, Duc de Guise,
Pretender to the French Throne as Jean III) and his wife
ISABELLE (1878-1961, his 1st cousin and daughter of
Philippe VIII, Comte de Paris)]
Contemporary Photograph by Alfred Ellis and Walery of
the Menu for their Wedding Dinner, showing engraved
Royal Arms and 13 courses ending “Wedding Cake” (this
in English), opposite is the photograph of the verso with no
less than 23 signatures of the House of Orléans and their
near connections, including the bride and groom, their
parents, the groom’s sister Marie Valdemar, and
Valdemar’s own sister Queen Alexandra (then Princess
of Wales), the oldest present is Clémentine, 1817-1907,
daughter of Louis Philippe I, others include Jean’s brother
Henri, 1867-1901, the explorer, Isabelle’s sister Hélène,
Duchess of Aosta, and her grandmother Isabelle, (1843-
1919, widow of the elder Comte de Paris, Philippe VII), 6”
x 8” on original cardboard mount 10½” x 13½”, York
House, Twickenham, 30th October 1899, afew tiny marks
on the mount and two on the photo of the verso without loss
to the signatures [SD50198]£125
217. DALLAS (Isabella, née Gearns, 1823-1889,
Shakespearean Actress and Reader Isabella Glyn)
ALS ‘Isabella Dallas Glyn’ to ‘Sir’, asking if he can “spare
me some dozen of your circulars issued about my
Readings? And why did you not qote from The Times -
Daily News -and daily Papers? Have you seen this week’s
Punch? It is admirable for quoting! I cut it out for you”,
and asking him to let her know “about Leamington”, 3 sides
8vo, 6 Hanover Square, London, W., 20th December n.y.,
c. 1867, ten lines of old shorthand in pencil on blank fourth
side, also faint trace there of laying down by one edge
[SD17030]£35
Isabella, who acted under her mother’s maiden name of Glyn,
made her début at Manchester as ‘Constance’ in ‘King John’ in
1847, and played ‘Cleopatra’ at the Princess’ Theatre, Oxford
Street, in 1867. She was married to the journalist and author E.S.
Dallas, 1828-1879, whom she divorced in 1874.