CATALOGUE 58 SOPHIE DUPRÃ - Sophie Dupre

CATALOGUE 58 

SOPHIE DUPRÉ 

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, 

& SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS: 

Autograph Letters & Manuscripts Page 2 

Unsigned Vintage Photographs Page 66 

Signatures & Fragments Page 79 

CONTENTS 

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SOPHIE DUPRÉ 

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1. AFFIDAVIT, 1759 

Sworn by Elizabeth Crooks, with her mark, before W. 

Richardson, J.P. for Surrey, as “late Servant to Thomas 

Howlett of Kew Green ... Esq.r”, saying that he had died on 

the 16th March last past, 1 side 5¼” x 8”, Surrey, 28th July 

1759 [SD51702]£55 

2. ALBEMARLE (George Monk, 1608-1670, Restorer 

of Charles II, 1st Duke), CLIFFORD (Sir Thomas, 1630- 

1673, later 1st Baron and Lord High Treasurer), and 

DUNCOMBE (Sir J., Chancellor of the Exchequer 1672- 

1676) 

Signatures as Lords of the Treasury on an Order to the 

Exchequer to pay William Ashburnham (d. 1679), Cofferer 

of the Household, £54 18s for certain persons’ diet and 

board-wages between 29th September 1663 and 1st 

October 1664, to be registered against the Hearth Tax, 

printed except for the sum of money, with on the verso 

Ashburnham’s signed transfer of the whole to Charles 

Toll, 24th March 1668 / 1669, and Charles Toll’s of £13 

7s 6d of it to John Maxwell, 21st July 1870 (sic, for 1670), 

printed with MS additions, 2 sides 7” x 9½”, the Order 7th 

July 1668, lacks lower half (blank except for exchequer MS 

additions) 

[SD51623]£425 

Ashburnham’s name is printed, because many part-payments to 

him were envisaged. This document shows that a Privy Seal of 

29th June 1668 released a total of £23,044 17s 9d, which had been 

suspended between the dates mentioned four years earlier. 

Charles Toll , d. c. 1691, was Clerk of the Bakehouse, 1671, 

also (1685) of the Poultry, Woodyard, Scullery & Pastry, and Joint 

Clerk of the Spicery, 1689. 

PRINCE ALBERT HOLDS ON TO A 

VALUED ADVISER 

3. ALBERT (Prince, 1819-1861, Consort of Queen 

Victoria) 

Fine autograph letter signed, in his excellent hand, to ‘My 

dear Colonel Wylde’, (William, 1788-1877, of the Royal 

Artillery), saying he has “occasionally looked forward to 

the probability of your being incapacitated by the advance 

of years from any longer executing the active duties of your 

present office”, namely as Albert’s Equerry since 1840, “& 

of my consequently losing your services & the pleasure of 

your society”, suggesting instead, following the resignation 

of Sir George Anson, “the office of Groom of the 

Bedchamber”, especially as “the proposed increase in the 

Artillery would give you the command of the whole Horse 

Artillery at Woolwich” and necessitate “a more permanent 

residence there”, bright gilt embossed crowned VR in 

corner of sides 1 and 3, 3 sides 4to, Buckingham Palace, 

22nd February 1846 [53116]£575 

The letter had its desired effect. Colonel Wylde was Groom of the 

Bedchamber from 6th March 1846 till the Prince’s death in 1861. 

Prince Albert continued to employ Colonel Wylde on confidential 

missions, especially to Portugal and Spain.. 

In April 1834 Wylde was a “military commissioner” helping Don 

Pedro’s army in Portugal, then in Spain from September 1834 to 

December 1838 gave magnificent support to Espartero and 

Isabella II. See especially ‘The English in Spain’, by Francis 

Duncan, 1877. From February 1840 he was equerry and groom to 

Prince Albert. In 1863 he became Colonel Commandant of the 

R.E.. 

4. ALBERT I (1875-1934, from 1909 King of the 

Belgians) 

Fine Letters Patent signed, printed with the details filled in 

by hand in parallel French and Flemish, with translation, 

ratifying the appointment by the Peruvian Government of 

E. Van Teghem as their consul in Ostende, with all “the 

privileges, freedoms, and precedence attaching to his post”, 

save that if he engages in commerce, he may not plead his 

position if a law suit arises, signed also by Julien 

Davignon, (1854-1916, Foreign Minister), lithographed 

with MS additions, royal arms at head and papered seal at 

foot, 1 side double-spread 15½” x 18¼”, Ostende, 15th July 

1914 [52367]£225 

Albert I was much admired for his bearing during the German 

occupation, 1914-1918, and during the subsequent restoration of 

his country. 

5. ALBERT I (King of Belgium, 1875-1934), his 

Queen ELISABETH (1876-1965) and their daughter 

MARIE JOSÉ (1906-2001, Last Queen of Italy) 

Programme of Music by Bach, signed by both on the 

outside, to be performed at the Chateau Royal de Laeken, 

under the direction of Monsieur Maurice Dambois, 4 sides 

7” x 5”, Laeken, 24th February 1933 [SD31950]£225 

THE ROYAL FAMILIES OF RUSSIA, 

DENMARK & ENGLAND 

6. [ALEXANDER III (1845-1894, Emperor of Russia 

from 1881)] 

Exceptional unsigned photo published by Jongh Freres 

showing the Imperial family the image includes Tsar 

ALEXANDER III, (1845-1894) Empress MARIE, 

(1847-1928) Grand Duchess XENIA of Russia, (1875- 

1960) Grand Duke MICHAEL (1878-1918) and 

Grand Duchess OLGA of Russia (1882-1916) Grand 

Dukes VLADIMIR, (1847-1909), PAUL (1857-1919), 

DIMITRI (1891-1942), Queen OLGA of Greece, 

(1854-1926), Grand Duchess CONSTANTINE (1830- 

1911), and also the future Tsar NICHOLAS II, (1868- 

1918) Grand Duke SERGE MIKHAILOVITCH, 

(1866-1918) Grand Duchesses CONSTANTINE, (1830- 

1911), & VLADIMIR (1854-1920), surrounded by their 

entourage, 9” x 6½”, with photographers stamp, no date, 

no date, c. 1893 

[SD31315]£2,250 

A famous portrait taken in 1893 of Tsar Alexander III and his 

family at Tsarskoe Zeloe. 

7. ALEXANDRA (of Saxe-Coburg, 1878-1942, 

daughter of Alfred Duke of Edinburgh, wife of Ernst, 7th 

Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 1863-1950) and her 

children Prince GOTTFRIED (1897-1960), Princes 

MARIA MELITA (1899-1967), Princess 

ALEXANDRA (1901-1963) and Princess IRMA (1902- 

1986)) 

Charming oblong cabinet photograph, by E. Uhlenhuth of 

Coburg, signed ‘Sandra’ and dated, identified below in 

German in another hand, showing them head and shoulders 

in a row, no place, 1904 [52846]£675

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS 3 

THE CRAZY GANG 

8. ALBUM 

Autograph album, compiled by R. Blundell of Maidstone, 

highly evocative of the days just before the war, with its 

concert parties (the Crazy Gang, all six signatures ), 

Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold, Jack 

Shephard’s Entertainers, whose summer show at Brighton 

was broadcast on 7th July 1938, Cardi the TV conjuror, 

broadcasters who went the rounds of talks and visits - a 

chance to get their signatures, such as the director and 

technical officer of the East Malling Research Station, the 

M.P. Vernon Bartlett, organists Thorne, Dixon and Cleaver, 

classical disc jockey Christopher Stone, and broadcasting 

clergy. C.H. Middleton, the radio gardener, writes “Sorry 

and all that, but my house was bombed”, others early in the 

war include Jean de Casalis, visiting Maidstone for “War 

Weapons Week”, 1940. There is also a telling newspaper 

photo showing King George VI with Churchill and the 

ministers of the many governments in exile in London, 

represented in the album by the signatures of the Polish 

Ambassador, and the Greek, Netherlands and Belgian 

ministers. Most are with notes of the occasion and a 

newspaper or postcard portrait photo, blue hard covers, 54 

sides 5¼” x 7¼”, 1938 - 1944, a few leaves loose in place, 

inner hinges gone but stitching firm [52680]£250 

Among pioneer broadcasters are Anona Winn (“Since 1932 I have 

been writing to this young lady”), the first artiste to broadcast in 

Australia, and the Finnish lady announcer Kaiso Puuski (signed 

photo, 29th October1939). 

9. ALEXANDER I (1876-1903, from 1893 King of 

Serbia till assassinated) 

Finely penned Document signed, in French with translation, 

to Nicolás de Piérola, (1839-1913, President of Peru 

1879-1881 (Dictator) and 1895-1899), acknowledging his 

letter informing him of his election, and assuring him of his 

desire to maintain and strengthen friendly ties with Peru, 1 

side folio and conjugate blank, Belgrade, 19th December 

1895 [52529]£425 

10. ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA (1872-1918, née 

Princess Alix of Hesse, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, murdered 

at Ekaterinburg) 

Autograph letter signed “Alix”, in English, to ‘Dearest 

Helen’, Princess HELENE (1857-1936, daughter of 

Prince Georg of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1824-1876, 2nd 

wife, 1891, of Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg, 1843- 

1902), sending “my best thanks for our little note”, and 

hoping “you are feeling quite well again now. Nicky & I 

should be very pleased if you would come Sunday 13th to 

tea at 4½, if it suits you”, and ending “Your loving Alix”, 2 

sides 8vo black-edged, Alexandria, 12th June 1895 

[53160]£1,750 

Helene’s mother was a grand-daughter of Paul I, so that Helene 

was a Russian as well as a German Princess. Her father, brothers 

and husband all served in the Russian army. When Prince Albert 

died she brought up his daughters Olga and Maria by his first 

wife, at their home in Oranienbaum and in Germany. 

Alexandria is the ‘cottage’ palace at Peterhof, built by Alexander 

II. 

THE CORONATION OF QUEEN 

ALEXANDRA 

11. ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, Queen of 

Edward VII) 

Magnificent photo, signed and inscribed “Coronation day 

Augst 9th” and dated, showing her seated full length in her 

coronation gown, crowned, with her train arranged over the 

back of her chair and flowing into the foreground of the 

picture, 11½” x 7” in mount 13¾” x 8¾”, no place, 1902 

[52842]£750 

12. ALEXANDRA VICTORIA (1887-1957, 2nd 

daughter of Duke Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig- 

Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and daughter-in-law of 

Kaiser Wilhelm II) 

Fine portrait photo by Dührkoop of Berlin, signed as 

Princess of Schleswig Holstein, showing her head and 

shoulders in profile, with a wistful expression, oval 9½” x 

7” in margins 11¾” x 8”, Copenhagen, 1921 [52420]£175 

The Princess married the Kaiser’s 4th son Augustus Wilhelm 

“Auwi” in 1908 and they had a son, but were divorced in 1920. 

This photo dates from 1921, shortly before she remarried in 

January 1922, to Arnold Rümann. 

13. ALFONS (Prince, 1862-1933, cousin of Ludwig II of 

Bavaria) 

Autograph Letter Signed in German, with transcription and 

translation, to Countess Mathilde von Tattenbach at 1, 

Friedrichstraße, Munich, saying “We and a have reached 

here and with the exception of a thunderstorm on the high 

Arlberg have had really good luck with the weather with 

brilliant distant views”, he has already written “to 

Reitzenstein to ask him to arrange supper at your house” 

tomorrow evening, “the passage across the mountains was 

magnificent”, sending regards “from Louise and myself”, 

there is no need for Reitzenstein to meet them at the station, 

with original autograph envelope (stamp neatly removed), 

Schruns, Vorarlberg (western Austrian Alps), 1st March 

1895 [52513]£95 

Prince Alfons’ wife Louise, 1869-1953, was the daughter of 

Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, grandson of Louis Philippe I. Count 

von Tattenbach was a noted diplomat, and in 1905 was sent to 

Morocco to secure privileges for Germany, which nearly brought 

Germany to war with France. 

14. ALFONSO XIII (1886-1941, King of Spain from 

birth to 1931) 

Finely penned document, in Spanish with translation, 

signed ‘Alfonso RH’, to D. Miguel Primo de Rivera, 

(1870-1930, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Spain 

1923-1930), giving the latter’s full titles, and authorizing 

him to ratify the convention with Peru on artistic and 

literary property signed in Lima on 26th February1924, 

signed also by the Minister of Justice and Worship, D. 

Galo Conte Escartin, wafer seal of the Royal Arms edged 

with four fleur-de-lys, 2 sides folio and conjugate blank, 

Royal Palace, 5th December 1928, a few tiny worm holes 

touching one letter [51984]£225


15. ALFRED (Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg 

Gotha, 1844-1900, 2nd Son of Queen Victoria, Admiral of 

the Fleet) 

Fine large portrait photograph, [by Mayall], signed and 

dated May 1860 on the mount, showing him three quarter 

length, three quarter face, as a midshipman, his cap in his 

right hand, his telescope by him on his left, 10” x 7¾”, laid 

down, present in pockets on the verso are carte-de-visite 

photos of the portrait, unsigned, by Lake Price of Lord 

Elcho (1818-1914, M.P., from 1883 10th Earl of 

Wemyss), full length, in his uniform as Lieutenant Colonel 

of the London Scottish Rifles, cradling his sword, by the 

London Stereoscopic and Photo Co., c. 1863, of the Hon. 

Frederick Byng, (c. 1784-1871, youngest son of the 5th 

Viscount Torrington, known as ‘Poodle Byng’), signed 

“Eta sua [aged] 78” and dated on the mount, showing him 

full length, full face in the uniform of the Queen’s Rifle 

Volunteers with a tall rifle and bayonet, 1863, of the 3rd 

Marquis of Northampton, (1816-1877), seated full 

length, full face, and the Marchioness, (1837 or 1838- 

1864), full length, seen in a mirror in a pre-Raphaelite pose, 

bare headed with long tresses, both by L. Caldesi of 

London, c. 1863, together five portraits, 2 sides album leaf 

12¾” x 9½”, n.p., 1860 - 1863 laid down on album leaf 

[53081]£375 

Prince Alfred had recently passed as a Midshipman, and left in 

May 1860 in Euryalus for the Cape of Good Hope and South 

America. 

16. ANDREI VLADIMIROVICH (Grand Duke,1879- 

1956, Russian Major-General, Grandson of Tsar Alexander 

II, Cousin of Nicholas II) and his wife Princess Matilda 

Maria KSCHESSINSKA , (1872-1971, Prima Ballerina 

Assoluta of the Imperial Ballet, Mistress of Nicholas II 

when Tsesarevich) 

Autograph letter in Russian with translation, signed 

‘Andrei’, also signed ‘Aunt Mala’, to her nephew Slava 

Astafiev (d. 1976), sending “our heartiest felicitations to 

you and your wife for the approaching festive season, with 

... affectionate greetings to you both and to your Sima”, 

French New Year’s card with skiing scene on verso, 4½” x 

2½”, no place, no date, c. 1930 

[SD26031]£225 

Slava was the son of Matilda’s brother, the actor Joseph 

Kschessinsky (1868-1942), and of his first wife the famous 

ballerina Serafima Alexandrovna Astafieva (1876-1934), 

known as ‘Sima’. Sima left Russia and set up her ballet school at 

152 Kings Road, Chelsea, in 1916. Slava married Margot Luck 

(d.1976), one of his mother’s pupils. Other pupils included Alicia 

Markova, Anton Dolin and Margot Fonteyn. ‘Aunt Mala’ married 

the Grand Duke in 1921 and, from 1929, taught at her own school 

in Paris till she was 92. See Matilda’s memoirs, ‘Dancing in 

Petersburg’, translated by Arnold Haskell, 1960. 

17. ARTHUR (Duke of Connaught, 1850-1942, Son of 

Queen Victoria, Governor General of Canada) 

Charming photo signed “Arthur F.M.” with the place and 

date on the mount, showing him in full uniform walking 

down a path, with his walking stick, 5½” x 4” in mount 9” 

x 7”, Bath, 1937, in brown leather frame [SD31007]£275 

18. [ALICE (Maud Mary, 1843-1878, Princess, 

Daughter of Queen Victoria, wife of Ludwig IV, Grand 

Duke of Hesse & mother of Alexandra Feodorovna 

Empress of Russia)] 

Mourning Card, with a blind embossed headpiece of 

mourning angels, and 20 lines of verse by H.B. Worth 

“accepted by Her most gracious Majesty”, 1 side 6” x 4½” 

black-edged, pub. by Marks & Son, London, for 14th 

December 1878 [51501]£75 

Princess Alice died, after nursing her children with typhoid, on the 

anniversary of Prince Albert’s death from the same illness. 

19. ANNE (b. 1950, Princess Royal, Daughter of 

Elizabeth II) & Capt Mark PHILLIPS (b. 1948, her exhusband) 

Fine presentation photo by Lord SNOWDON signed by 

both and dated by the Princess on the mount, showing the 

couple three quarters length, she is wearing a a white dress 

and decorations with a tiara and he is wearing uniform, 6” x 

5” in mount, 7” x 5½”, in original blue morocco 

presentation frame with domed top and gilt monogram 

“MA” at the head, 10” x 8”, no place, 1979, some 

waterstaining to the bottom of the mount slightly affecting 

the signatures and date 

[SD30057]£750 

Presented to the Principal Private Secretary of King Bhumibol’ of 

Thailand while they were making official visits there. 

20. ARTHUR (Duke of Connaught, 1850-1942, Son of 

Queen Victoria, Governor General of Canada) & his wife 

LOUISE MARGARET (Alexandra Victoria, 1860-1917, 

Daughter of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia) 

Fine pair of cabinet photos by Puccino & Co. Bombay, 

each signed and dated, showing them both head and 

shoulders, she is in profile and he is wearing his uniform 

and medals, 6½” x 4½”, Bombay, 1890 [SD32180]£375 

From the descendants of the Hughes family. Patrick Hughes was 

British Consul General in Shanghai at this time. One of his duties 

was to entertain visiting Royalty, and this presented considerable 

problems as the accommodation was quite primitive. His brother 

Thomas was the Commissioner of Chinese Customs and also held 

the rank of a Chinese Mandarin. These photos came from his 

eldest daughter, Gladys, later Viscountess Sidmouth. 

21. ASTAIRE (Fred, 1899-1987, American Dancer & 

Actor) and his elder sister ADELE (Lady Charles 

Cavendish, 1896-1981, American dancer and entertainer) 

Fine vintage photo signed by both & inscribed, “Sincerely”, 

showing them both full length in costume, he is wearing a 

sailor’s hat and dress clothes, she is wearing Tyrolean 

costume and a hat with a feather, 7” x 5”, no place, no 

date, c. 1930 corner slightly creased with loss of top left 

one, not affecting the image 

[SD31911]£325 

22. ATTLEE (Clement, 1st Earl, 1883-1967, Prime 

Minister) 

Fine portrait photo signed as Prime Minister, showing him 

head and shoulders full face, 7½” x 5” in mount 11” x 8”, 

no place, no date, c. 1946, the signature has been partially 

inked over 

[SD32075]£275 

From the collection of Sydney May who served under seven Prime 

Ministers.


23. ATTLEE (Violet Helen, née Millar, wife of 

Clement, 1883-1967, Prime Minister 1945-1951 and 1st 

Earl) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Domini, Lady Crosfield (née 

Elliadi, d. 1963), very disappointed at not being able to 

come, “I wasn’t able to meet Yehudi Menuhin before at 

your house”, nor to the Playground Association meeting, “I 

shall ring you up ... and find out what happened”, 2 sides 

8vo., Cherry Cottage, Prestwood, Great Missenden, 25th 

September 1952 

[SD19442]£35 

24. AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (Duke of Sussex, 1773- 

1843, 6th Son of George III, President of the Society of 

Arts, Bibliophile) 

Autograph Letter Signed with his elaborately overwritten 

signature, to ‘Sir’, saying that “having to attend on His 

Majesty” he cannot accept the Union Reform Committee’s 

invitation to dine and “celebrate the recent Triumph of 

Reform on the return of the four Representatives of the 

City”, he would have expressed in person his “firm 

Conviction” that the proposed measure “is the best 

Calculated to secure the Stability of the Crown ... the 

respectability of the Aristocracy ... and the Rights and 

Prosperity of the People”, and praising the Committee’s 

exertions for “the Great and National Cause”, 2 sides 4to 

and conjugate blank, Hyde Park Place, 6th May 1831 a 

little discoloured from former damp [SD51565]£75 

25. BALLANTYNE (Robert Michael, 1824-1894, 

Scottish Writer of Boys Books) 

Fine long Autograph Letter Signed to his wife “my darling 

Jeanie”, giving her all the news - “Mrs Hislop ... is chatting 

beside me with Isabella so it’s not easy to write ... Last 

night we all went to the Tempce conversazione in the 

Museum, and on presenting my card I was received as a 

‘distinguished guest’!!! so I hope you are properly 

impressed. It was a great turn out with band and pipers, but 

the speaking was not audible ... I was surprised at suddenly 

meeting young Perkins who is studying here ... I also met 

and was introduced to a lot of people who knew me as a 

story-teller ... Our ‘delegates’ are queer, amiable cockneys, 

very Geo Barclay like, and the man is even smaller than 

G.B. I am going ... to see the Forth Bridge with them as 

they will be shown all over the works by an official. ... I’ve 

agreed to address Carrubber’s Close ... Marcus Dods is to 

precede me, so I’m in good (or bad?) company. After I 

come in from D. Chalmers on Thursday I go with Wm & 

Isa to No. 2 M. Ho Rd to tea ... Last night I saw the Walter 

Patons. They are kind. Poor Walter has been very ill ... 

but his wife is bright & good as ever. They both send 

‘love’ to you ... Left cards on Sir Noel Tulach, Sir D. 

McLagen, J. H. A. McD and saw Jane Scott & her sister. 

Now I’m going to see about Ted’s birth certificate ... your 

loving husbd RMB ...” with a postscript sending love to the 

household and looking forward to returning to “home-sweet 

home”, 4 sides 8vo., 31 Chalmers St, Edinburgh, Tuesday, 

no year. 

[SD29908]£275 

26. BANNISTER (Roger, b. 1929, First man to run the 4 

minute mile in 1954) 

Large signed photo inscribed “with best wishes”, showing 

him crossing the finishing line, 9½” x 7”, no place, no date, 

[SD29985]£150 

27. BAKER (George, 1781-1851, Historian of 

Northamptonshire) 

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear Sir’, in pencil, thanking 

him for “your kind offer to take us to the Stafford Gallery 

but we have been two or three times ... we have an 

engagement in Marchmont Street at 5 o’clock” but will call 

“at Burton St. in the Evg for the chance of seeing Mr. & 

Mrs. B.”, written on the cover sheet of a letter (not present) 

addressed to him, 1 side 4to., British Museum, no date, c. 

1830 [SD19874]£35 

The Marquis of Stafford’s gallery, in what is now Lancaster 

House, was among the first great private art collections regularly 

open to the public (originally 12-5 on Wednesdays in May and 

June, after previous application for a ticket). 

28. BALLAD 

‘The Countryman’s Ramble to London’, verses beginning 

“At whoam a simple country lad” interspersed with a long 

monologue, describing how he gave as good as he got in 

London, with many dreadful puns, contemporary MS note 

“A fair sample of the ballads sold at Thirsk Fair, November 

1857”, thin ballad paper, 1 side 9½” x 7¼”, no place, 

[1857] [SD19544]£30 

29. BALZANI (Count Ugo, 1847-1916, Italian Medieval 

Historian) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Reginald Lane Poole, (1857- 

1939, Editor of the English Historical Review, Lecturer in 

Diplomatic at Oxford 1896-1927), thanking him for 

enquiring at the Bodleian, and for his review of “the Farfa 

book”, asking for “one or two extra copies ... to carry 

always ... with me”, he is now editing “from the autograph 

manuscript ... the Chronicon Farfense”, saying that a 

history of the Monastery at Farfa “may help to bring some 

light into the darkness of the history of Rome during the IX 

and X centuries and the first half of the eleventh”, he talks 

of the relation between Benedicts VIII and IX, and of 

recent clear evidence of “the exact date of the election of 

Benedict VIII ... Of what small stones the building of the 

medieval history of Rome is made !”, and says “it would 

give me a great pleasure to read and review Hartmann’s 

book”, handsome crowned ‘B’, 5 sides 8vo., 5 Royal 

Terrace, Weston super Mare, 15th November 1889 

[SD50513]£75 

30. BARNUM (Phineas T., 1810-1891, American 

Showman, Founder of the Barnum and Bailey Circus) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Shepard, about selling 

a farm, “You may sell the Dent farm as you propose for 

$450. Take $200 Cash & $250 on interest. If not perfectly 

safe please take a mortgage - but if safe you need not take a 

mortgage. I wish he would fix a specific time to pay the 

note say three four or six months, or some other date & 

draw the note accordingly ...” continuing with suggestions 

about how he would like it drawn up, asking to have “the 

deed to me on Saturday ...” as he is going away, 1 side 

8vo., Bridgeport, 22nd March 1855 [SD30469]£575


The flamboyant showman was the discoverer of the midget Tom 

Thumb, Jenny Lind (the Swedish Nightingale) and the counterfeit 

Feejee Mermaid. He founded the famous Barnum and Bailey 

Circus. 

31. BARRY (Mgr. Canon William Francis, 1849-1930, 

R.C. Rector of St. Peter’s, Leamington, 1908-1928) 

Group of 10 Autograph Letter Signed to his friend the 

Revd. (Sir) James Marchant, 1867-1956, the Free Church 

minister associated with Cassell’s, about literary 

undertakings and rapprochement between the 

denominations, Hall Caine “does not understand our 

doctrine of marriage” as a free contract, “the lady’s consent 

is forced ... therefore no marriage exists ... I deplore the 

popular taste which allows to such a man popularity ... I 

think you have cut his comb” (2nd October 1913, “My ... 

story will not be ready” for any spring list, on doctors’ 

advice, “besides, I have a school to build” (8th December 

1913), “One matter will need very delicate handling on 

your visits to the Catholic Prelates whom I have in view, 

whether of U.S.A. or Australia”, bishops “deprecate the 

teaching by any others than parents or teachers (priests 

have their own rules) of sexual knowledge to the young”, in 

“articles like those of Miss Sylvia Pankhurst ... there is 

grave impropriety in any woman publicly instructing the 

other sex on such a topic”, he talks of “White Slavery” and 

“Shop Slavery ... you might look round .. for information 

about girls’ wages &c. in huge establishments like Marshall 

Fields” (1st April 1914), he refers to the “Vat. decree” on 

“Reason” but “Newman’s Apologia, Ch V” would be 

better, “The believer in inspired scripture will have to face 

... Copernicus and Galileo &c &c quite irrespective of any 

Papal infallibility ... these forensic debates ... help very 

little towards getting at facts ... Research is the only way ... 

No man has written more to the purpose than De Quincey - 

see ‘The Bible and Science’ ... What terms for 3000 words 

on the question you moot of the fatal decline & fall of 

Empires?” (16th January 1918), he reviews in sincerely 

appreciative detail “The Churches at the Crossroads” by the 

Baptist divine J.H. Shakespeare, 1857-1928, with its 

proposals for ‘federation’, commenting “there is too much 

of Kikuyu discernible here for Frank [Weston, Bp. of] 

Zanzibar & Co.,” (25th August 1918, referring to the 

‘Kikuyu Conferences’ of 1913 and 1918 expressing mutual 

recognition by the various missionary denominations in 

East Africa), “To attempt a diagnosis of the state of 

Catholicism as affected by the war seems most difficult ... 

The forces at work lie deep” (27th August 1918), “Tell Sir 

W.R. Nicholl I shd. like to review” the Shakespeare book 

“in the Bookman”, he describes the “law of development” 

of the sciences as “a Song of Ascents” (4th October 1918), 

“With regard to yr Birthrate Commission ... after a few 

pages by way of trial, I seem to get a warning from the 

Demon of Socrates, decidely against going on ... Anything 

official takes the life and colour out of whatever I am 

touching”, he talks about a married friend of Marchant’s 

who would like to join a Benedictine order (22nd January 

1920), his interest grows as he dictates “like a Delphic 

oracle” with “alternation of scenes, actors, and subjects, yet 

according to a plan - not mine”, asking Marchant to look 

into his ‘The Unknown Plot’, “It is by far the most original 

bit of philosophy I ever accomplished, and my book 

[‘Memories and Opinions’] its perfect illustration” (24th 

March 1926), the plan “unfolds itself in romantic fashion. 

You can cheer ... Messrs Putnam by giving them my 

present figure” of 50,000 words “which I hope to exceed 

while you announce it” (30th March 1926), together 28 

sides 8vo or 4to, St. Peter’s, Leamington, 1913 - 1926, tiny 

defects in blank margin of one letter [SD20182]£375 

Barry studied and was ordained in Rome, and was present at the 

1870 Vatican Council. He seems always to have had a wide and 

enquiring mind, aware of, but not constricted by, official 

pronouncements (see 22nd January 1920, above). He wrote 

several romantic novels. See too his ‘Literature; the word of life 

or of death’ (1912), in connection with his comments on Hall 

Caine. 

32. BARNUM (Phineas T., 1810-1891, American 

Showman, Founder of the Barnum and Bailey Circus) 

“Struggles and Triumphs; Or, Forty Years’ Recollections of 

P. T. Barnum. Written by himself”, with fine inscription 

signed on the front free endpaper, 

“To Mr John Howard Stott, with the author’s 

compliments, P. T. Barnum” and the place and date, 

Author’s Edition, publish Buffalo, N.Y., Warren Johnson & 

Co, 1874, half calf with marbled boards, Waldemere, 8th 

September 1876 

[SD31049]£575 

The flamboyant showman was the discoverer of the midget Tom 

Thumb, Jenny Lind (the Swedish Nightingale) and the counterfeit 

Feejee Mermaid. He founded the famous Barnum and Bailey 

Circus. 

33. BARRIE (Sir James M., 1860-1937, Novelist & 

Dramatist, Writer of ‘Peter Pan’) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed in pencil to Miss May 

HARRISON (1890-1959, Violinist, performed with her 

three sisters) thanking her for keeping her “promise to write 

to me and if the violin urged you the more thanks to the 

violin. But alas I am abed under doctor’s orders and that 

may lead to my having to go somewhere for a bit ...” so he 

cannot make any arrangements but he wishes her “all 

happiness to you and the violin in your new home ...”, 1 

side 8vo., with original autograph envelope, Adelphi 

Terrace House, 4th November 1931 [SD30944]£475 

34. BARRYMORE (Lionel, 1878-1954, American 

Actor) 

Portrait photo signed and inscribed, showing him head and 

shoulders, in wing collar and bow tie, with the printed slip 

of MGM British Studios Ltd, Denham, “in production ‘A 

Yank at Oxford’ ”, the photo 9½” x 7½”, no date. but 1937 

[52115]£150 

BEAUFORT WRITES TO FRANKLIN 

35. BEAUFORT (Sir Francis, 1774-1857, F.R.S., Rear- 

Admiral and Hydrographer) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to A. Fox, saying he has 

“forwarded your letter respecting the Magnetic dip and 

intensity to Sir John Franklin”, (1786-1847, the arctic 

explorer), and that his brother’s observations deserve “to be 

very closely investigated”, 1 side 4to., Admiralty, 22nd 

October 1835 [51958]£575 

R. B. Fox (1789-1877) constructed the new dipping needle used 

by Sir James Clark Ross and Captain Nares.


36. BENSON (Arthur Christopher, 1862-1925, Writer on 

English Literature, taught at Eton 1885-1903, author of 

‘Land of Hope and Glory’, Master of Magdalene, 

Cambridge) 

Archive of letters to the Yorkshire local historian Harry 

Speight of Bingley, in the first subscribing to ‘Nidderdale’ 

and offering information about his family, which he and his 

father the Archbishop of Canterbury are researching (22nd 

November 1893), apologizing for making “simple 

conditions” about citing his privately printed family 

memoir, “by an accidental breach of confidence I was 

placed the other day in a very painful position by the Editor 

of a Yorkshire paper” (11th December 1893), “I do not 

think we are related to the Knaresboro’ branch” (2nd May 

1894), on the back of one envelope Speight notes that 

Benson’s novel ‘Dodo’ has a view of Low Hall, an 

ancestral Benson home (7th May 1894), sending a 

correction from the Archbishop that ‘old Christopher 

Benson’ was born in 1765 at Northwood, although 

christened or at least registered at both Thornthwaite and 

Pately Bridge, with interesting comments about double 

registration (15th July 1894), and commending Speight’s 

‘Bingley’ for its “graphic style”, one is “insensibly tempted 

onwards”, mentioning the Sidgwicks (his mother’s family) 

and asking him to say if he should hear of an old farmhouse 

near Skipton for sale (4th September 1898), 9 letters on 20 

sides of which 3 have the Benson coat of arms, Eton 

College, 1893-1898, with 11 further letters on local 

history, from William F. Balfour of Minsterworth, 

Gloucester (2), with a highly entertaining and informative 

account of Close, the eccentric Yorkshire poet, a 36-mile 

trek through the Forest of Dean, the relative dangers of 

Lakeland high walks, and recommending Scott’s novels, 

(7th November 1878 and 25th January 1883), Prof. John 

Stuart Blackie (1809-1895), sharing Speight’s 

condemnation of gaslight in natural surroundings, “let man 

reserve his gaspipes for the service of his own 

constructions”, with two good clippings about Blackie (3rd 

May 1883), Canon James Raine (c. 1829-1896) (2), 

suggesting the Index of Wills at York, if Speight were to 

use the Court Rolls at Knaresborough he “would 

revolutionize every previous history of the district ... you 

are describing”, Richard Saul Ferguson (1837-1900, 

lawyer, Chancellor of Carlisle diocese), valuing coins of 

Otho and Vespasian, Lord Howard of Effingham 

subscribing to ‘Nidderdale’, Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease 

(1828-1903, Chairman of the NE Railway), George 

William Kennion (1845-1922, Bishop of Adelaide 1882- 

1894, then Bath & Wells), E. Atkinson (d. 1915, from 1856 

Master of Clare, Cambridge), and William Gershom 

Collingwood (1854-1932, Ruskin’s assistant and 

biographer), saying that Brunanburh might well be in 

Cheshire but the question is complicated by “local 

patriotism”, with a fascinating description of how one 

might search for an ancient Norse or Danish chief’s 

homestead by making a large scale map and seeing how 

“certain centres force ... your attention” by the pattern and 

meaning of surrounding place and field names, giving the 

key elements, and suggesting origins for names in ‘- 

thwaite’, again closely described with reference to locality, 

he is not surprised Speight’s ‘Bingley’ has sold out, 

“everybody at Bingley must be very proud of it” (8 sides, 

Lanehead, 3rd September 1898), and with an early 

envelope addressed to Speight at ‘Ridley’s’ (Ripley’s) 

famous Bowling Dye Works near Bradford (where Speight 

was cashier), bearing interesting 1882 postmarks Taldora 

(Queensland, 19th June), Normanton (Queensland, 18th 

July), Plymouth (Ship Letter, 15th September) and 

Bradford (16th September), and original 4d stamp, 

envelope edges a bit frayed, in all 20 letters on 53 sides 

8vo, most with original envelopes annotated by Speight, 

and 1 envelope from Queensland, Eton and v.p., 1878 - 

1902, a few envelopes a bit worn [52528]£575 

37. BEAUFORT (Sir Francis, 1774-1857, F.R.S., Rear- 

Admiral and Hydrographer) 

AN in the third person to Sir Charles Bell, 1774-1842, the 

discoverer of the distinct functions of the nervous system, 

thanking him “for ... permission to attend his lectures”, 1 

side 8vo, 8 Cumberland Street, 4th March 1833, top and 

bottom trimmed without loss [51957]£250 

38. BEECHEY (Frederick William, 1796-1856, F.R.S., 

Rear-Admiral and Explorer, P.R.G.S 1855) 

Autograph letter signed to the editor of a newspaper, saying 

“I dare say you are going to report something of my Paper 

that was read at the Geog: Soc: on Monday night” and 

accordingly has left the MS “in the hands of Mr. Bradbury 

at the Society’s rooms” at the reporter’s service, “I enclose 

a short statement of ... the concluding part, which is not yet 

written” to be treated “not as coming from in particular”, 1 

side 8vo., no place, 24th June n.y., c. 1850, light traces on 

blank verso of laying down by one margin [51756]£275 

Beechey joined the navy at the age of nine, served in the 

Peninsula, and in 1818 went with Franklin, the first of four Arctic 

voyages. In 1825 he went out in ‘Blossom’ to the Bering Strait in 

the hope of joining Parry and Franklin, who were working from 

the East Coast. He explored beyond 71 deg. North and reached a 

point only 146 miles west of Franklin’s expedition from the 

Mackenzie River, In 3 years and 70,000 miles he made important 

discoveries in science and navigation, going on to survey the 

coasts of South America and of the Bristol and Irish channels. 

39. BELLASIS (Edward, 1852-1922, Lancaster Herald, 

1882, and Registrar of the College of Arms 1894-1899) 

Autograph Letter Signed to G. Bouvier, saying as he has 

“some lantern views of Cluny Abbey church, would it be 

feasible to have the lantern? It helps the affair of ‘talk’ ”, 1 

side 8vo., College of Arms, London E.C., 2nd January 1896 

[SD16721]£20 

40. BERENS (Harold, Gladys HAY , Bart NORMAN , 

& Art CHRISTMAS ) 

Programme Signed of “Radio’s Two Greatest Features 

‘Ignorance is Bliss’ and ‘Twenty Questions’ ”, the former 

“Proving there is no limit to human stupidity!”, the later 

“Conducted by Daphne Padel from the Radio’s Panel of 

Experts”, 4 sides 8vo., Winter Gardens, Margate, for a 

week from 25th August 1947, slightly creased, the remains 

of laying down obscure a few words of advertisements 

[SD24345]£20


41. BENEKE (Paul Victor Mendelssohn, 1868-1944, 

grandson of the composer Felix Mendelssohn) 

Autograph letter signed to ‘Dear Madam’, thanking her for 

her kind words about his accompaniment, “The lot of an 

accompanist is apt to be like that of a football referee, and 

there are not many singers who are so easy to follow as 

yourself”, 2 sides 8vo., Magdalen College, Oxford, 18th 

May 1905 

[SD14718]£15 

42. BERLIN (Irving, 1888-1990, Composer) and Sir 

Harry LAUDER (1870-1950, Scottish Music Hall 

Entertainer) 

Programme for “You keep Coming Back like a Song” 

signed by both on the front with the words and music 

inside, 4 sides 4to., no place, no date, back page rather 

soiled, lacking bottom right hand corner [SD29970]£500 

43. BERRY (Mary, 1763-1852, Authoress, Traveller, & 

Literary Executor of Horace Walpole) 

Autograph letter signed, to ‘Dear Sir’, saying she “will 

have the satisfaction of bringing you back the 2 Vols of 

Mme Sevigné ... and along with them ... with your 

permission ... my old friend Mr Wilmot as determined a 

Sevigneist as myself and much better informed as to the Art 

of that day, in short in every respect very worthy to see 

your treasures”, 2 sides 16mo watermarked 1847, 

Richmond, “Friday Morn[in]g” 12th October no year but 

1849, laid down on album leaf 7½” x 5¾”, on the verso of 

the album leaf, laid down, is an autograph note, signed 

with initials, by Mrs Dinah Maria CRAIK, (née Mulock, 

1826-1887, author of children’s books and ‘John Halifax, 

Gentleman’), saying “Newspaper returned - with thanks - 

very pleasant writing”, 1 side card 3” x 4¾”, The Corner 

House, Shortlands, Kent, 8th February 1884 somewhat 

browned [52934]£225 

Mary Berry first met Horace Walpole in 1788. He wrote to her 

and her sister Agnes in most affectionate terms, and they moved in 

1791 to Little Strawberry Hill, which he bequeathed to them for 

the term of their life. Mary brought out his ‘Works’ in 1798 and 

his letters from Mme du Deffand in 1810. Mary’s own works 

include her travel journals from 1783, completed in 1852, and 

‘Social Life in England and France from 1660 to 1830’. 

44. BESANT (Sir Walter, 1836-1901, Novelist, 

Biographer & Social Reformer) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Walter Chitty, saying he is 

sending “a copy of my ‘London’ for your village Library 

and my little ‘History of London’ for your own use”, and 

will be very much gratified by Chitty’s “History of Wilts”, 

with a folio magazine portrait of Besant, 1 side 8vo., 

Frognal End, Hampstead, 12th October 1893 

[SD24351]£20 

45. BETHELL (Slingsby, Lord Mayor of London 1755- 

1756) and MORETON (William, d. 1763, from 1753 

Recorder of London) 

Signatures on portion of a document, authorizing payment 

of a (charitable) sum to be divided in various amounts, 

including to William Philp and Richard Hebert “One Pound 

fifteen Shillings”, vellum, 5¾” x 11½”, 27th July 1756, 

lacking upper portion 

[SD51697]£75 

46. [BERNSTORFF (Count Albrecht, 1809-1873, 

Prussian Ambassador to Great Britain 1853-1861 & 1862)] 

Contemporary manuscript Testimonial headed ‘copy’ for 

Thomas Lincy, who “has been in my service for nearly ten 

years ... as Footman and has travelled ... in Germany where 

he has attended me as Valet ... he understands his service 

perfectly well and is strictly honest sober & trustworthy”, 

Prussia House, Carlton House Terrace, 12th July 1872, the 

copy in an English hand, 6th September 1872 

[SD20104]£45 

47. BILL OF LADING 

Bill of Lading, in Portuguese with translation, signed by 

Joaquim da Lus, Master of the Yacht Livramento 

[‘Deliverance’], saying he has “under cover, dry, and in 

good condition” from Medlicott & Inness, named quantities 

of fish glue, sulphur, straw for strawboard, and cork, for 

delivery to Messrs Newton Gordon Murdoch & Scott in 

Madeira, at a charge of 6600 reis (about 30 shillings), 

printed with manuscript additions, oval woodcut of 

Britannia in a shell carriage, with a trumpeter, a lion and a 

ship, 1 side 5½” x 9¾”, Lisbon but signed at the port of 

Sines about 60 miles to the South, 27th September 1826 

[53060]£125 

48. BILL OF LADING 

Document signed, in French with translation, by Antonio 

Novaro, Captain of the pink ‘Our Lady of Carmel’, 

declaring a consignment by Bernard Corradi & Son of 10 

half-tuns of clear olive oil, destined for Marseille, with 

details of the freight charges including 5% to the captain 

for his care in lading, with attractive woodcut vignette of 

a ship carrying the Holy Family and flying the flag of 

Savoy, printed (including the shipper’s name) with MS 

additions, 1 side 6¼” x 8½”, Porto Maurizio, 19th April 

1806 

[51760]£75 

Porto Maurizio is famous for the quality of its oil. It lies about 25 

miles East of the French-Italian border, and with Oneglia now 

forms the commune of Imperia. Novaro, although he subscribes 

the bill in Italian, is described as a Frenchman, since under 

Napoleon, Savoy was incorporated with France. 

49. BINYON (Laurence, 1869-1943, Poet and 

Playwright, Oriental Curator at the British Museum) 

Autograph Note Signed, returning printed card to the 

Secretary of the Friends of the Bodleian, saying he will be 

not be able to come to their next advisory committee, 1 side 

card, postmarked Goring, Berkshire, 28th April 1938 

[52090]£25 

50. BLUNDEN (Edmund, 1896-1974, Poet & Critic) 

Autograph fair copy signed with initials of his poem 

“Young Field Mouse” in blue ink on the back of a piece of 

Times Literary Supplement headed paper, beginning 

“Beseeching this little thing-strayed from deep grass and 

breezy scented Spring”, three verses of six lines each on 1 

side 8vo, no place, no date, c. 1950 [SD27305]£250 

The Times headed paper has a crossed through typed note that 

reads “Mr Edmund Blunden much regrets that owing to heavy 

pressure of work he is unable to read MSS. of poems sent to him 

for opinion and advice”


51. BLUNT (Arthur Cecil, 1843-1896, the Actor ‘Arthur 

Cecil’) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Chandos Brydges Lee Warner, 

explaining that he has “rehearsals all day & theatre work at 

night”, but inviting him to dine before an evening 

performance of ‘The Cabinet Minister’ if he will wire him 

on the corresponding morning, 2 sides 8vo., Beefsteak 

Club, 2nd January 1891, lacks lower blank portion of first 

leaf 

[SD24358]£15 

With a pencil note by the recipient of their first meeting. 

52. BLYTON (Enid Mary, 1897-1968, Children’s 

author) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Olive Gunn, wife of 

newspaper editor Herbert S. Gunn, saying “Here is a new 

Tumpy story - & tell your small boy that I’ve written it 

specially for him ! How old is he now - 6 or7 ?”, adding, 

“If you want the same artist ... as before (in the Evening 

Standard) her name is Dorothy Wheeler”, naming the 

artist’s agent, and sending “... my love to the boy”, with a 

P.S. “I hear you have bought another magazine - 

Congratulations”, 1 side 8vo., Green Hedges, Penn Road, 

Beaconsfield, 26th May 1951 [52751]£250 

53. BLYTON (Enid Mary, 1897-1968, Children’s 

author) 

Signed paperback “The Talking Teapot” a selection of 

short stories in the Old Thatch series, signed and inscribed 

“with love from”, 8vo., pub. W. & A. K. Johnston, 

Edinburgh & London, 1934 

[SD30092]£125 

54. BOOTH (General Evangeline, 1865-1950, Salvation 

Army Commander for Canada and (1904) USA, daughter 

of William Booth) 

Fine strong portrait photograph, signed, showing her three 

quarter length, in uniform, with a Typed Letter Signed to 

Louis B. Frewer from Lt.Col. E. Waplod, explaining that as 

Frewer’s photograph “is only a print from a newspaper 

cutting, the General thought you would rather have a real 

photograph of herself”, 10” x 8”, the letter 1 side 4to., 

International Headquarters, E.C.4., 7th April 1938, slight 

traces of laying down on blank verso of letter [52117]£150 

55. BOROTRA (Jean, 1898-1994), BRUGNON 

(Jacques, 1895-1978), HUGHES G. Pat, 1902-1997) and 

PERRY (Fred, 1909-1995) 

Fine group photo taken by Westminster Press, signed by 

Perry and Hughes (May 1933), with the signatures of 

Borotra and Brugnon (‘Juillet 1933’) neatly affixed, 8” x 

10”, 1933 [52118]£175 

Borotra and Brugnon beat Perry and Hughes in the Men’s Doubles 

Final at Wimbledon, 1932, 6-0, 4-6, 3-6, 7-5, 7-5, and went on to 

win again in 1933. 

56. BOULT (Adrian, 1889-1978, Conductor of the 

L.P.O.) 

Postcard photo signed showing him half length, seated at a 

table, writing, 5” x 3½”, no place, no date [SD29964]£75 

57. BOURCHIER (Arthur, 1863-1927, Actor) 

Typed Letter Signed to ‘Dear Sir’, sending a copy of Miss 

Jose Pope’s poem ‘No’, 1 side 4to., Coliseum, London, 

20th February 1915 

[SD12209]£15 

Bourchier helped found the Oxford University Dramatic Society. 

58. BOWRING (Sir John, 1792-1872, Linguist, Writer 

& Traveller) 

Autograph verses signed and titled ‘Perpetual Production’, 

musing on the idea that if atoms are indestructible, so 

perhaps are the thoughts of man, circulating and 

recirculating, and that even more “The soul, - which is of 

nobler birth Must live - must live eternally”, 40 lines with 

several autograph alterations, 2 sides 4to., no place, no 

date, c. 1850 [51814]£275 

59. BRADMAN (Sir Donald, 1908-2001, Australian 

Cricketer) 

Portrait photo signed and inscribed, showing him half 

length at his desk, three quarter face, 8” x 10”, Fox Photos, 

6 Tudor Street, London, year lightly pencilled in margin 

1934, light traces of laying down on blank verso 

[52119]£150 

60. BRAGANÇA (Dom Miguel, 1853-1927, Miguelite 

pretender, eldest son of Miguel I, 1802-1866, King of 

Portugal 1828-1834, Duke of) 

Autograph Letter Signed in English to the travel writer 

V.C. Scott O’Connor, 1869-1945, thanking him for his 

book on Mandalay, and saying that “my brother in law, 

Duke Charles Theodor of Bavaria and my sister [Maria 

José] are both going out with me to Ceylon for the winter in 

the ‘Derfflinger’ ... from Genoa”, he may vary it “by 

making the trip you spoke about” and perhaps even get to 

Burma where the book will be invaluable, “We had grand 

weather up in Scotland” for the marriage of his eldest son 

Dom Miguel to the American Miss Anita Stewart, at Castle 

Tulloch, near Dingwall, on 15th September, it is “a pure 

love match, in spite of what the papers said about the 

millions of the bride which only exist on paper”, she is 

“very nice and well educated”, he ends by hoping they will 

meet in India or Burma, 2 sides folio, Ryde, Isle of Wight, 

22nd September 1909 [51529]£125 

The Duke’s father escaped from Portugal in 1834 after the civil 

war between the Miguelites (absolutists) and partisans of Maria II. 

In 1851 he married a German lady and brought up his family in 

Germany. Shortly after the present letter, Dom Miguel’s mother 

died in a convent in Ryde (16th December 1909). 

61. BREWSTER (Sir David, 1781-1868, Physicist, 

Inventor of the Kaleidoscope in 1816) 

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear Sir’, naming the “four 

papers I propose to read in Section A”, all showing his deep 

experimental knowledge of optics, beginning “On 

Binocular Lustre”, “On Photographic Micrometer”, the 

others are on the retina and on impressions moving over it, 

“all will occupy less than half an hour”, 2 sides 8vo., 

Allerly, Melrose, 26th August 1861, clear but a trifle faint 

[51960]£275


62. BRATHWAITE (James, c.1617-1651, of St. 

Sepulchre’s Parish, Citizen and Pewterer of London) 

Attractive Probate Inventory of his personal estate of £514 

5s 11d net, as sworn before the Lord Mayor, Thomas 

Andrews, over half comes from the ‘Pewter in the Shop and 

Kitchen’, including 47 hundredweight of “fine pewter of all 

sorts” at £5 the cwt, 5½ doz. “Alchimy spoones” worth 12s 

[possibly gilt, since a plain spoon sold for about ½d at this 

period], quantities of lead, “brass stillpannes & other old 

brasse” and iron, “an old Counter beam & wooden scales” 

(5s), “one Sad-worke wheele [lathe for making plates, as 

opposed to vessels] and other ... working tooles” (£6 14s 

1d) and “4 beating blocks”, even “the Sweepe of the Shop” 

is worth 20s, in “the Garretts” are “an old Corselett & pike 

& 2 swords ... 12s”, we are taken on a tour of the rooms 

and their furnishings, “the uppermost Chamber 

Northwards” is lined with “painted cloth about the roome” 

(8s), the most elaborate is the “Widows Chamber” which 

the custom of London required to be available to a 

householder’s mother, it includes “a small parcell of 

childbed linnen and a red bayes mantle”, Brathwaite seems 

to have lived alone except for the maid Dorothy, there is 

still “about a Chaldron of Seacoales” in the Cellar but only 

the Hall and Kitchen have fire irons, “Apparrell” includes 

“a livery gowne faced with budge [lambskin fur] past 

wearing ... a blacke sattin dublett plaine a figured sattin 

dublett ... all very meane & old”, the inventory ends with 

the money accounts and expenses, vellum scroll, 1 side 

126” x 5”, endorsed with the net total and the additional 

totals of the ‘sperate’ (well-attested) and ‘desperate’ debts 

due to the estate, [London], 17th July 1651 [SD19961]£375 

James Brathwaite was the son of William of Furness Fell, 

Lancashire, apprenticed to John Momford in June 1633, and 

Freeman of the Pewterers’ Company, 15th July 1641 (minimum 

age 24). 

Of particular interest are the debts due to the estate, many 

apparently from customers, “the Lady Franklin £10 16s ... the 

Lady Whitmore £19 9s ... an Apothecary £5 ... Mr Lucas £13 1s 

9d”, very likely the pewterer, “the Countesse of Oxford £5 2s 2d 

... the Lord Lucas 28s 4d”, with more among the “sperate” debts 

including “Mr Brathwait of Borneyside ... £17 14s 10d ... Mr 

Brathwait [Gawen, 1583-1653] of Ambleside 6s 4d ... Mr Case att 

the Countesse of Rutlands 32s 3d”. The estate owes “Mr Glover 

the Landlord for one quarter ... £9”, with other sums to “the Nurse 

... Dorothy the Testators maid ... Mr Walson Apothecary for 

physicke £3”. 

Philip Hunt, draper, Richard Mering, haberdasher, John Bennett 

and Robert Lucas pewterers, Citizens of London, valued the items. 

The inventory was exhibited again by the sole executor Daniel 

Rawlinson, citizen and vintner, before the Court of Orphans on 

28th August 1651 (see endorsement). Will proved in the PCC 

July 1651. 

We are grateful to Dr. R.F. Homer, Liveryman and Archivist of 

the Worshipful Company of Pewterers, for his help in preparing 

this note. See ‘Pewterers of London’, The Pewter Society, 2001, 

ISBN 0-9538887-0-3. 

63. BURNS (George, 1896-1996, and his wife Gracie 

ALLEN , 1895-1964, American Comedy Duo) 

Portrait photo, signed by both and inscribed to Louis B. 

Frewer, showing them half length, George looks slightly 

apprehensive as Gracie teases him with her finger on his 

chin, 8” x 10”, no date, c. 1935 [52120]£225 

64. BRISTOL (Frederick William Hervey, 1800-1864, 

Treasurer of the Household, 2nd Marquess) 

AN in the third person on his engraved card to Dr George 

Phillips, 1804-1892, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, 

accepting for dinner on 9th June (after the conferring of 

honorary degrees, including his own), with autograph 

envelope front, postmarked London S.W., 23rd May 1862 

[SD50051]£25 

65. BROOKE (Robert John, of Plymouth, late Factor of 

the East India Company at St. Helena) 

Power of Attorney Signed to John, Alexander & Thomas 

Nesbitt, City of London Merchants, to receive his E.I.C. 

retiring pension from the Paymaster of Civil Services, 2 

sides folio and title, 13th January 1846 [SD19963]£65 

Brooke was awarded a pension of £140 p.a. in 1835. 

66. BROTHERTON (Sir Thomas William, 1785-1868, 

General, served in Egypt and the Peninsula) 

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear Sir’, accepting for “the 

Tea Party ... of the Bolton Anti Corn Law League”, 1 side 

8vo., Manchester, 12th December 1842 [51961]£75 

67. BROWNING (Robert, 1812-1889, Poet) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Miss V. Martin, thanking 

her effusively for the honour of her “invitation (conveyed 

to me with such kind expressions of your own) to share in 

the pleasant festivities ... It happens unfortunately that I am 

engaged on that evening and can only thank the Council, 

the students and yourself for your goodness ...” in including 

him, 1 side 8vo., 19 Warwick Crescent, 16th December 

1880 [SD30420]£825 

68. BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett 1806-1861, Poetess, 

wife of Robert) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Hooper asking her if 

he can “defer for a few days the pleasure you offer me? I 

have had such a bad headache to-day & yesterday that ever 

if I were less engaged than I am just now, I should prefer 

on every account listening to the reading when I can give it 

better attention ...” 1 side sm. 8vo., with original envelope 

with autograph address to the Hotel de l’Europe and her 

seal on the verso, Via Bocca di Leone 43, Wednesday, no 

date, With a contemporary engraving [SD30113]£2,750 

69. BURTON (Sir Richard Francis, 1821-1890, 

Traveller, Explorer and Linguist) 

Four autograph recipes, unsigned, with transcription, for 

“Gurathee” (snuff), made from tobacco, “gur” (molasses), 

soft fruit and “gulkhand” (rose petal conserve), “mix well 

and bury for month”, for “Melted butter” thickened with 

cream and flour “fit only for the workhouse”, “Sherbet”, 

and “Indian Brandy- mixture” for “Journeys Fever 

Anaemia Hospitals”, later identification at head ‘given me 

by Richard Burton’, 1 side 8vo., no place, no date, c. 1860 

[SD51594]£1,250 

In Burton’s tiny hand, here still pretty legible. ‘Richard used 

always to say that a wee writing, as if done with a pin, betokened a 

big, strong man’ (Lady Burton, ‘Life’, ii. 268, with a good story of 

how she pacified the printers’ foreman).


70. CAESAR (Charles, 1673-1741, Treasurer of the 

Navy, Jacobite) 

Signature and inscription on verso of portion of a Treasury 

Order for future repayment of money he has lent to the 

Exchequer, transferring “All my Right ... in this Order and 

Tally thereunto belonging unto the Governour and 

Company of the Bank of England and to their Assignes”, 

printed with MS additions, 3” x 7½”, the Treasury Order 

1st July 1713, lacking lower portion [SD51660]£150 

Caesar’s name is printed in the margin of the Order, so many 

payments of this kind were envisaged. The repayment to Caesar 

was to be from the duty on Malt. 

71. CALVÉ (Emma, 1858-1942, Opera Singer) 

Fine cabinet photo by Downey, signed and inscribed to 

Mademoisell M. Castallat with a note in French “Bien 

sympathetique souvenir”, with the place and date, showing 

her three quarters length in costume, 6¼” x 4¼”, Messaline 

(London), 1901 

[SD30424]£375 

72. CAMBON (Paul, 1843-1924, French Ambassador to 

London 1898-1921, Promoter of the Entente Cordiale) 

Autograph Letter in the third person, in French with 

translation, to the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, 

regretting that he cannot accept for dinner on the 10th 

April, 1 side 8vo. black-edged, French Embassy, 28th 

February n.y., c. 1907, light traces of laying down on blank 

fourth side 

[SD19592]£15 

73. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN (Sir Henry, 1836- 

1908, Prime Minister) 

Autograph Letter Signed to E. Alexander, thanking him for 

his “friendly letter, out of remembrance of old days, and it 

has been a genuine pleasure to me to receive it. I am doing 

my best for old and sound principles, & whether we can 

influence public policy or not we will at least not fail to 

assert what is right ..”, 2 sides 8vo., 6 Grosvenor Place, 8th 

July 1901, slightly soiled and duststained [SD30954]£110 

Parliament had dissolved in September of the preceding year and 

the country returned Lord Salisbury’s government again. The 

‘khaki’ election, as it was called, was won on the plea that the war 

was finished, and that the government responsible for it should 

finish their task and be responsible for the settlement after the war. 

The war in fact dragged on for another twenty months, and 

throughout this period Campbell-Bannerman consistently 

advocated conciliatory and definite terms of peace. On 10 Dec. 

1901 Lord Rosebery finally agreed with him. 

CAROL I ANNOUNCES HIS MARRIAGE 

TO ‘CARMEN SYLVA’ 

74. CAROL I (1839-1914, from 1866 ruling Prince, 

from 1881 King of Romania) 

Finely penned Document signed ‘Charles’, in French with 

translation, to the President of Peru, (José Balta, 1816- 

1872, President from 1868), announcing his marriage on 

15th November to Princess Elisabeth of Wied (1843-1916, 

the poet ‘Carmen Sylva’), at Neuwied Castle, and saying he 

wishes to form “ties of friendship” with Peru, 2 sides folio 

and conjugate blank, Bucharest, 30th November 1869 

[52531]£625 

75. CÁRDENAS (Adán, 1836-1916, President of 

Nicaragua 1883-1887) 

Finely penned Document signed, in Spanish with 

translation, to the Council of Ministers of Peru with 

Executive Power, thanking them warmly for their letter 

saying that Generals Miguel Iglesias and Andrés Avelino 

Cáceres have reach an accord, bringing to an end the Civil 

War, and that the Council have assumed power pending a 

free election, and sending his wishes for them personally 

and for the prosperity of the “sister Republic”, 2 sides folio 

and conjugate blank, Managua, 12th March 1886 

[52530]£325 

Cárdenas was no stranger to war. In March 1885 he joined forces 

with Salvador and Costa Rica against Honduras and Guatemala, 

whose President Ruffino Barrios had proclaimed himself head of 

the armies of all five, in order to unite the Central American states 

under himself. Peace returned when Barrios was killed in the 

April. 

76. CARNOT (Sadi, 1837-1894, President of France 

from 1887 till assassinated) 


to the President of Peru, (Remigio Morales Bermúdez, d. 

1894, President from 1890), saying that he is accrediting 

M. Raoul Wagner as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister 

Plenipotentiary to Peru, commending his abilities, and 

through him conveying his own friendship for Peru, signed 

also by Jules Develle, (1845-1919, Foreign Minister 1893), 

2 sides folio, 20th January 1893 [52533]£325 

77. CARNOT (Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, 1753-1823, 

French Military Engineer and Minister for War, the 

‘Organizer of Victory’ in 1794) 

LS, in French with translation, as Minister for War, to 

Citizen Desvaux, saying that on 25th May 1800 he “gave 

order to Citizen Renard to deliver at Troyes ... 5795 Shirts 

... for the foreign prisoners of war”, which by 13th July had 

still not arrived, he reminds Desvaux that “the 18th Military 

Division forms part of those you have to support as deputy 

to Citizen Renard” and that supplying the shirts is “of the 

highest priority”, attractive printed heading with woodblock 

device, 1 side 4to, address on conjugate leaf ‘chez le 

Citoyen Magon-la-Balue Place Vendôme No. 10’, Paris, 

30th Fructidor year 8,17th September 1800 [51744]£375 

When Carnot was a member of the Committee of Public Safety, he 

was responsible for almost all its military business, frequently 

visiting the Eastern front against the Austrians and their allies. In 

the reaction against the Terror he was denounced in the 

Convention, at which a member cried out “Will you dare to lay 

hands on the man who has organized victory?” Early in 1800 he 

became Minister for War again, and effected much-needed 

reforms in the administration. 

78. CARTIGNY (Louis Emanuel, 1790-1892, last 

survivor of the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805) 

Carte-de-visite portrait photograph, signed in his firm clear 

hand, showing him seated, head and shoulders, at the age of 

100, with the French Imperial eagle above, and the 

Trafalgar ribbon below, the photograph 4” x 2½” laid down 

on stiff paper 10” x 8”, Hyères, Var, France, 1890 

[53101]£575 

Cartigny served in the Redoubtable, was wounded, and kept a 

prisoner for several years.


79. CHAMBERLAIN (Neville, 1869-1940, Prime 

Minister) 

Fine portrait photograph (by Fayer of Vienna at Grosvenor 

Street, London), signed and dated on the mount, showing 

him head and shoulders, full face, with a serious but 

attractive look, 8¾” x 7” on mount 11¼” x 8¼”, no place, 

July 1938 [53102]£675 

This image was used at the beginning of ‘The Tatler’ for 23rd 

March 1938, following his important speech to the Commons on 

the 14th. 

80. CHAPPELL (William, 1809-1888, Musical 

Antiquary) and LAND (Jan Pieter Nicolaas, 1834-1897, 

Dutch historian of Philosophy, Musicologist) 

Group of 3 letters by Chappell and 2 by Land, all in 

English, with musical examples, to Reginald Lane Poole 

(1857-1939, Editor of the Historical Review, and Lecturer 

in Diplomatic at Oxford, 1896-1927), about the MS Lute 

Book of 1630 at Leiden. Land sends 21 apparently English 

melodies (present in the letter, March 1881), often with 

Dutch titles, to Poole, who obtains Chappell’s annotations 

in his clear but elderly hand, Chappell replies with a 

fascinating summary of the history of scales, tuning, 

consonance, Greek tuning by aliquot parts, and 

mathematically equal tuning (which should not be applied 

to the lute any more than to Arab third-tones), on sides 2 

and 3 he writes out the whole scale by semitones for each 

of the six pitches of lute string (a thing he does whenever 

transcribing), then lists alternative tunings, all with musical 

notation, and marks of time, and sends a copy of his article 

in Archaeologia (not present) (10th May 1881), Land 

discusses the development of the lute on the continent, 

quoting Mersenne and others, ‘Our first men about 1600- 

1650 were very fond of the lute; Constantijn Huyghens was 

rather proud of having played it before James I’, he 

describes his society’s forthcoming concert, comments that 

Arab third-tones were indeed based on the Greek system, 

and sends the remaining English tunes (17th May 1881, 3 

of ?4 sides of the tunes are present), Chappell gives very 

detailed comments with references to old English and 

Dutch collections (14th June 1881), thanks Poole for his 

valuable index to Julian Marshall’s MS, suggests he acquire 

Chappell’s ‘History of the Popular Music of the Olden 

Time’ at trade price by quoting his name, and asks Poole 

and Mrs Poole to stay before they go to Leipzig, warning 

him again, when studying for his doctorate there, that ‘the 

greatest mathematicians of the past thousand years could 

not understand the music of Plato and Aristotle ... but I 

translated every crux I met with’ (2nd October 1881), 

together 16 sides 8vo and 3 oblong sides of melodies, 

Weybridge and Leiden, March - 2nd October 1881, 

[51499]£275 

A fine example of Chappell’s careful and conscientious work. 

Land’s interests were wide - Spinoza, the Syrian and Malabar 

churches, and Javanese music, to name but a few. Poole, aged 19, 

had translated his ‘Principles of Hebrew Grammar’ from the 

Dutch. 

81. CARPENTER (William Boyd, 1841-1918, Bishop 

of Ripon 1884-1911) 

1 Typed Letter Signed and 1 Autograph Letter Signed to 

the Revd. (Sir) James Marchant, 1867-1956, asking “who 

has been thought of for the future President ?” (29th June 

1914), for him to undertake another year is “streng 

verboten ... You must not look for me on the Birth Rate 

Commission” (19th June 1914), together 3 sides 8vo., 6 

Little Cloisters, Westminster, and Riversea, Kingswear, 

1914 [SD20173]£45 

Boyd Carpenter was Canon of Windsor and Chaplain-in-Ordinary 

to the Queen 1883-1884. From 1911 he was Canon, then Sub- 

Dean of Westminster and Chaplain to the Forces. He was a close 

friend of both the British and the German Imperial Royal families, 

especially the Kaiser’s mother the Empress Frederick, Queen 

Victoria’s daughter. 

82. CHARLES I (1600-1649, King of Great Britain) 

Fine Letter, in French with translation, signed and 

subscribed ‘Vostre tresaffectionne [devoted] Frere Charles 

R’, to FREDERICK HENRY, PRINCE of ORANGE 

(1587-1647, from 1625 Stadtholder, Captain- and Admiral- 

General of the United Provinces), saying that Charles had 

not wished “to let the Lords of Randwyck and of 

Heemstede, Ambassadors extraordinary of the States [of 

the United Provinces]” to return without saying that “if 

their negotiations for peace between us and His Most 

Christian Majesty [Louis XIII] have not borne more fruit, 

the fault does not lie with us, for they will be able to assure 

you that we have supported them with all the goodwill and 

reasonable steps that rested with us”, and that he will 

continue to do so “for love of the public weal wherever we 

see signs of a like inclination and intention from the other 

party; especially keeping in mind your personal interest in 

achieving this peace, about which we feel and will take 

pains as we would about our own affairs”, 1 side folio, 

Palace of Westminster, 6th March 1628, modern calendar 

1629 [SD51721]£3,750 

Charles I had married Louis’ daughter in 1625, partly in hope of 

getting his brother-in-law restored to the throne of Bohemia. But 

by June the following year he had expelled his wife’s French 

attendants, and by 1627 was at war with France and attempting to 

support the Huguenots besieged in the Isle de Ré. Meanwhile 

Frederick Henry made it his key policy to enlist the help of France 

against Spain in the Spanish Netherlands, and was anxious to 

preserve his country’s neutrality as between Great Britain and 

France, hence the present negotiations. 

Frederick Henry, youngest son of William the Silent, had been 

trained in the art of war by his elder brother Maurice, and proved 

an even greater politician and statesman. The years when he was 

Stadtholder were a golden age in Dutch history, marked by great 

commercial expansion in the East and West Indies, and by 

military success in the Netherlands. He abandoned the French 

alliance only just before he died, in order to secure from the 

Spanish all the gains the Dutch had been seeking for 80 years. 

Arndt or Arnold van Randwyck, 1574-1641, Knight of 

Nijmegen, was in 1627 sent with Sir Adriaen Pauw to England, in 

the hope of preserving their country’s neutrality in the war with 

France. A lawyer and historian, he was honoured with an M.A. by 

Cambridge on 27th July 1628.


KEEPING WARM IN FLANDERS 

83. CAVAN (7th Earl, Richard Ford William Lambart, 

1763-1836, General, Commander of the Army in Egypt, 

1801, and of the Eastern counties, 1803-1804) 

Document signed as Captain, Coldstream Guards, being a 

“Return of Spirits issued to the Grenadier Battn. of Foot 

Guards ... after Crossing through the Waters at Scoutthorp 

& on the March to Rhene”, namely 14 Gallons with the 

price in guilders and in sterling, signed also by (Sir) 

Charles ASGILL, (General, c. 1763-1823, captured at 

York Town, 1781, and sentenced to be executed), as 

Commander, Grenadier Battalion, Brigade of Guards, and 

by (Sir) George DON, (General, 1754-1832, from 1814 

Governor at Gibraltar), as D.A.G., no place, (Flanders), 

19th March 1795 [51964]£325 

PAYMENT TO THE ROYAL JEWELLER 

84. [CHARLES I (1600-1649, King of Great Britain)] 

Lower half of an order to the Receiver General and the 

Commissioners of the Revenue, for a payment to James 

Heriot “upon yo[u]r next accompt. Given under o[u]r signe 

Manuall”, with James Heriot’s signature and receipt for 

£1300, 1 side 6½” x 8”, the order from “o[u]r Pallace of 

Westminster”, 10th April, 4 Charles I (1628), the receipt 

20th December 1628, lacking top half [SD51621]£275 

James Heriot, the half-brother of George Heriot (the famous 

founder of the school in Edinburgh and jeweller to James VI and 

I), is first noticed in Edinburgh as a goldsmith in 1594. James 

married, in June 1625, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Joyce, keeper 

of the Robes to Charles I, and was appointed one of the jewellers 

to the King in 1627. He died in 1629 or shortly after. (See ‘The 

Heriots of Trabroun’, p. 54, reference kindly supplied by Mrs 

Yvonne Marr of the NLS). 

From the present document he seems to have been more fortunate 

than his son Alexander Heriot, who was owed £2068 2s 8d for 

jewels when Charles I was executed. A warrant of 1674 in BL 

Stowe MS 206, f. 35, reveals that James’ grandson James had to 

accept £1000 in full settlement of the latter debt, which was 

proved “by several constats or certificates of privy seales entered 

in Our Courts of Exchequer”. 

85. CHRISTIAN IX (1818-1906, from 1863 King of 

Denmark) 


to the President of Peru, (General Miguel Iglesias, 1822- 

1901, President 1883-1885), thanking him for his letter of 

31st October 1883 announcing his election, and wishing the 

country prosperity, signed also by Foreign Minister Baron 

Otto Ditley Rosenörn-Lehn, with a second, unsigned, 

copy for filing, together 2 sides folio, Copenhagen, 12th 

January 1884, faint traces on blank verso of main document 

of a former paper seal [52534]£425 

From 1879-1882 Chile was at war with Peru, who had taken the 

side of Bolivia in a dispute over the Chilean Nitrate Company. 

Chile’s real aim in invading was the rich province of Tarapacá. 

After the fighting was over an attempt was made to form an 

administration which could agree terms with Chile, who continued 

to occupy Lima. General Iglesias was nominated and in October 

1883 a treaty was signed, but the invaders maintained a strong 

force at Chorillos till the treaty was finally approved in July 1884, 

including the transfer to Chile of Tarapacá. The Peruvians of the 

interior under General Cáceres refused to recognise Iglesias, and 

in December 1885 Iglesias abdicated. 

86. CHRISTIAN X (1870-1947, from 1912 King of 

Denmark) 

Finely penned document signed, in French with translation, 

to the President of Peru, (Augusto Bernardino Leguía, 

1864-1932, President 1908-1912 & 1919-1930), thanking 

him for his letter announcing his election “to the chief 

magistracy of the Republic of Peru”, congratulating him, 

and joining in his desire “to extend the good relations 

which exist between the Kingdoms of Denmark and Iceland 

and the Republic of Peru”, signed also by Harald 

Scavenius, (1873-1939, Foreign Minister 1920-1922), 1 

side 13¼” x 8¼” and conjugate blank, Copenhagen, 20th 

August 1920, two neat filing holes in blank margin, a little 

light brown spotting [52371]£225 

87. CHRISTIE (Agatha, 1891-1976, Detective Novelist) 

Autograph Letter Signed “Agatha Christie” to Mr Frewer, 

regretfully refusing his “request - but I never speak or 

appear in public ...”, 1 side 8o., 48 Swan Court, SW3, 10th 

October no year. 

[SD30680]£475 

88. CHURCHILL (Sir Winston Spencer, 1874-1965, 

Prime Minister) 

Classic portrait photo by Vivienne signed while Prime 

Minister in his last term, showing him head and shoulders 

in the typical bulldog pose, with photographers stamp on 

the verso, 6½” x 5” in mount 9½” x 6½”, London, c. 1953, 

signature very slightly faded 

[SD32078]£2,750 


Ministers. 



Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Lucy Clifford, 

thanking her for her letter but he regrets he will “not be 

able to act on yr suggestions. The idea of a tax on posters 

has been gone into ... but the yield wd not be great enough 

to make it worth while to face the difficulty of getting the 

tax through. The proceeds of a 6d licence on wireless sets 

wd also be comparatively insignificant & the Govt already 

gets its fair share ...”, 1 side 8vo., with original autograph 

envelope, Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, 29th October 

1927 [SD30137]£2,250 

Lucy Clifford was the wife of William Kingdon Clifford (1845- 

1879, mathematician). After his death in 1879 she achieved 

considerable success as a novelist and dramatist. Her best-known 

story, Mrs Keith’s Crime (1885), was followed by several other 

works, the best-known of which is Aunt Anne (1893). 


Prime Minister) & his wife Clementine (1885-1977) 

Superb photo signed by both showing them seated at a 

banquetting table either side of the Lady Mayor of Bath, 

Churchill is speaking to her and Clementine is leaning over 

to join the conversation, behind them stands a footmen and 

on the white tablecloth in front of them is the remains of 

their meal, coffee cups and an array of different wine 

glasses, 8½” x 6½”, no place, (Bath), no date, c. 1958 

[SD29901]£3,275


91. CLARENDON (George William Frederick Villiers, 

1800-1870, Statesman, from 1838 4th Earl) 

Incomplete but important part autograph letter signed (last 

8 sides of 12), written near the end of his 6 years as 

Ambassador to Madrid, and at a crucial stage in the war 

between the constitutionalists under Espartero, on behalf of 

the infant Isabella II, and the absolutists under her uncle 

Don Carlos, to Col. William Wylde, R.E., 1788-1877, 

then acting as advisor to Baldomero Espartero (1792- 

1879, the Spanish soldier & statesman). Clarendon hopes 

Wylde will make up his own mind and then “press it with 

energy upon the General ... thro’out Europe there will be an 

anxious expectation”, Espartero will gain “great glory or be 

reckoned a wretched bungler ... in this extraordinary crisis”, 

the Spanish Government “will of course be ready to 

concede all the ranks & pay wh. the Carlist officers now 

hold (I have spoken to Perez de Castro & Alaix upon the 

subject) and indeed any thing else that Esparto. likes to 

propose - so he should go magnanimously to work”, 

suggesting Espartero “send back to the Carlist country any 

deserters with brilliant offers ... for it is of vast importance 

that the real intentions of the Govt. shd be known”, 

Clarendon would be “rejoiced” if Wylde himself could 

“send a message either to Maroto or Filicarcal or any one 

else whom you might consider comeatable & of importance 

to gain”, offering “the mediation of the Brit. Govt. with that 

of the Q.” in “the only way by wch. civil wars ever are 

ended - a transaction between the Belligerent Parties wch. 

among countrymen can only be honorable to both &c &c”, 

Clarendon is “sadly grieved that ... I should be obliged to 

go to England ... & about the middle or latter end of next 

week I must set out”, the British Government want him to 

succeed Lord Durham in Canada, “a mission for wch. I 

have no sort of fancy ... [Henry] Southern will remain in 

charge of the Archives & you know how active & zealous 

he is” and will pass on “any communication for the Govt.”, 

in a P.S. he adds that he has received “your No 32 from 

Lodosa” (east of Logroño), he will be glad “if Espartero 

writes as he promised you about the T[reat]y of 

C[ommer]ce for Ld Palm[erston] informs me ... that 

without a liberalization of the Com[ercia]l system here it 

will be impossible to overcome the distrust of Spain wch. 

prevails in the Engl[ish] money”, no place [Madrid], no 

date, but “rec[eive]d March 6th”, that is, 1839 [52924]£425 

Clarendon ranks with the best Foreign Secretaries of the 19th 

century for his breadth of vision, and as one who cared little for 

the prizes of ambition in comparison with the advancement of 

peace and progress. At Vergara, shortly after this letter, 20,000 

Carlist volunteers laid down their arms, nearly 1000 officers 

retaining their ranks and titles. 

In April 1834 Wylde was a “military commissioner” helping 

Don Pedro’s army in Portugal, then in Spain from September 1834 

to December 1838 gave magnificent support to Espartero and 

Isabella II to defeat the Carlists. See especially ‘The English in 

Spain’, by Francis Duncan, 1877. From February 1840 he was 

equerry and groom to Prince Albert, who employed him on 

confidential missions to the Peninsula. In 1863 he became 

Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers. 

92. CLANRICARDE (Ulick John de Burgh, 1802-1874, 

K.P., Ambassador to St. Petersburg 1838-1841, Postmaster 

General 1846-1852, Lord Privy Seal 1858, from 1825 1st 

Marquis) 

Group of 3 Autograph Letter Signed (1 in the third person) 

to Col. Anthony Blake Rathborne (b. 1811 or 1812) asking 

him to call “this morning” (6th April 1859), forwarding the 

note of Sir Charles Wood (secretary of state for India) 

referring to “official difficulties” with regard to 

Rathborne’s papers, thanking him for the Privy Council 

Judgment (3rd April 1860, not present), and asking for “the 

final result of yr correspondence with the India Office. For 

I feel you have been wantonly illtreated”, redress can only 

come from “the Officials, from the individuals who 

inflicted the wrong” (2nd June 1862), if they are 

ungenerous rather than unjust, “public discussion” could 

not help, together 6 sides 8vo., and 4 envelopes or envelope 

fronts, 2 Carlton Terrace and 17 Stratton Street, London, 

1859-1862 [SD51549]£275 

On 9th August 1859 Rathborne petitioned the Commons to 

enquire into the Council of India. Originally in H.M. Indian Army 

(1829-1856), he became Collector and Magistrate of Hyderabad in 

Scinde, and was a strong supporter of Indian land reform. When 

Scinde was transferred to Company control, he tried to bring 

before the Directors the outrageous behaviour of the Irregular 

Regiment in Hyderabad against the local people. When they 

responded by attacking his record (for the first time), he resigned, 

and studied in London to be a barrister. Disraeli, then in 

opposition, found ‘Sunday chats’ with him useful for political 

ammunition over the Mutiny, but abandoned his protégé when in 

Government. 

93. CLARENDON (George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 

1877-1955, from 1914 6th Earl, Governor-General of South 

Africa, 1931-1937, Lord Chamberlain, 1938-1952) 

Commission Document signed as Governor-General to 

Nigel Alers Hankey, “reposing especial trust and 

confidence in your Loyalty, Courage, and Good Conduct”, 

and appointing him to the Union Defence Forces as 2nd 

Lieutenant in the Active Citizen Force, printed in a bold 

italics with typed (dot-matrix style) additions, large blind 

embossed seal of the Union, 13¼” x 17”, Durban, 29th 

June 1935, a little browning in fold and small portion of 

margin [52535]£95 

94. CLIFDEN (Leopold Agar-Ellis, 1829-1899, M.P., 

A.D.C. to Lord Carlisle as Viceroy of Ireland) 

Autograph Letter Signed in the third person to Dr George 

Phillips, 1804-1892, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, 

accepting for dinner on the 9th June (honorary degree day, 

and to meet the new chancellor the Duke of Devonshire), 1 

side 8vo., 3rd June 1862 


95. COOK (Frank Henry, b. 1862, C.I.E., of Thos. Cook 

and Sons, Travel Agents) 

Typed Letter Signed to his firm’s representatives, 

introducing “Mr William Baker, who has succeeded the late 

Dr Barnardo in ... the great charitable institution ... Mr 

Baker is visiting the centres of similar work on the 

Continent, and I should be glad if you would ... do anything 

you can to assist him”, 2 sides 8vo., Ludgate Circus, 

London, E.C., 30th July 1906 

[SD19623]£25


96. [COCKBURN (Sir James, 1728 or 1729-1804, M.P., 

from 1745 8th Baronet of Langton, Commissary General to 

the Army in Germany, 1762-1763)] 

Archive of autograph letters signed and documents 

addressed to him (13) or his father-in-law the West India 

merchant Henry Douglas (1), neatly stitched in mid-19th 

century paper covers with decorative manuscript title, from 

Baron August Friedrich Von Spoercken, 1698-1776, the 

Hanoverian General, Henry Douglas, Sir George 

Colebrooke, M.P., General George Howard, Walter Scott, 

W.S. (father of Sir Walter), and John Haddow, about Sir 

James’ enquiry into overcharging by German contractors 

during the Seven Years’ War, bequeathing and purchasing 

estates, and Sir James’ election expenses, MS list inside 

front cover, 36 sides folio or quarto plus conjugate blanks 

or address leaves, Schweinsberg in Hesse, London, 

Münster, Edinburgh and Lanark, 1761 - 1774, generally in 

good condition, a few pieces neatly secured or mended with 

gauze [53048]£775 

The first 7 items refer to the war of 1756-1763, in which Sir James 

was appointed a Commissary under Prince Ferdinand in May 

1760, and Commissary General to the British Army in Germany, 

1762-1763. They begin with a testimonial from Baron August 

Von Spoercken, commander of the ‘Légion Britannique’, but soon 

Sir James has to head a Treasury Enquiry into overcharging by 

German contractors, an invidious task since Sir James will have 

dealt with some of them himself. His friends and relations in 

England relay the support of Treasury Commissioners James 

Oswald and Gilbert Elliott. Particularly striking are two long 

letters from Sir George Colebrooke, (1729-1809, from 1761 2nd 

Bart), in the first (22nd December 1761) he refers to the rise of 

Lord Bute and comments that “G---n Troops, G---n measures - 

and G---n war, are Terms not quite so fashionable as they were, on 

the Contrary since Mr. P--itt’s going out [5th October 1761] ... 

very violent Speeches from all Quarters of the House have been 

made against our Continent System as ruinous & destructive ... 

where it will end the Lord only knows ... those who are not 

interested in the Battle, seem equally to like the Sport ... We all 

nevertheless may justly blame him [Pitt] for not giving us Peace, 

upon such good Terms as were offered last Summer”. In the 

second from Colebrooke (4th June 1762), there have ben changes 

at the Treasury, in Cockburn’s colleagues, in his powers, and in 

the scope of the inquiry, the writer goes over the internal politics, 

but continues to encourage Cockburn as “second in Command to 

General Howard”, Howard himself writes from Münster (18th 

December 1762) looking forward to working with Cockburn. A 

delightful letter from Cockburn’s cousin James Stewart (3rd June 

1762) describes a visit to Cockburn’s family in Petersham, “this 

will be delivered to you by my brother Archy Cornet of the Blues 

whom my Father puts entirely under your protection”. 

The other 7 items are from Walter Scott, 1729-1799, and reflect 

his character and attention to business. He advises Sir James on 

building up his estate, commiserates on Colebrooke’s banking 

failure but is glad Sir James is not involved, but the most striking 

are Scott’s list of expenses in getting Sir James elected for the 

Linlithgow Burghs, for the Parliaments of 1772 and 1774. 

Because Linlithgow, Lanark, Selkirk and Peebles joined in 

sending one member, there are frantic journeys keeping the 

handful of electors in each burgh on side, with much hiring of post 

chaises, meetings with people of influence, and payment for 

alcohol. 

For a good account of Sir James’ career in Parliament and in 

commerce, and of elections to small Scottish burghs, see Sir Lewis 

Namier and John Brooke, ‘The House of Commons, 1754-1790’, 

HMSO, 1964. Note that 19th century peerage works make Sir 

James the 6th Baronet, by taking the 1st and 3rd to be the same Sir 

William. 

CHECKLIST 

1. Baron August Friedrich Von Spoercken (1698-1776, 

Hanoverian General in the Seven Years’ War, later Field 

Marshal), autograph letter signed, in French (translation supplied), 

saying he is delighted to attest “the exact and prompt manner in 

which you supplied my Troops, making possible the forced 

marches required by my Orders”, 1 side folio, Schweinsberg (in 

Hesse), 21st March 1761. 

Von Spoercken raised 5 “Freedom Battalions” in Paderborn in 

1759, which from February 1760 formed part of the regular 

Hanoverian troops. On 9th April 1760 the Duke of Brunswick 

named them the “Légion Britannique”, and their commissions 

were dated 9th May 1760 from London. From 1762 they were 

absorbed into the Prussian service. 

2. Von Spoercken, autograph document sealed and signed, in 

French (translation supplied), saying that his two Corps in 

Westphalia and Saxony did not lack for a single day the fodder 

and bread supplied by Cockburn, and that should Von Spoercken 

have a separate corps he desires “to have him with me”, 1 side 

folio, Schweinsberg, 21st March 1761. 

3. Henry Douglas of Friershaw and Pinnacle, Roxburghshire, 

West India merchant in London and father of Cockburn’s first 

wife Mary (‘Polly’, d. 1766), autograph letter signed to ‘Dear 

Jamie’, following his conversation “this day at the Treasury with 

Mr Oswald & Mr Elliott”, encouraging him to proceed “happily & 

speedily thro your Invidious & troublesome Trust, showing no 

Favour or Affection”, since the Treasury are behind him, 2 sides 

4to, London, 8th December 1761. 

4. Sir George Colebrooke, M.P., autograph letter signed about 

the enquiry, and about the violent feelings in the house against Pitt 

(who ‘went out’ on 5th October 1761) over Peace terms with the 

French, 2 sides 4to, London, 22nd December 1761. 

5. John Stewart, Cockburn’s older cousin, (his father Sir John 

Stewart of Allanbank married Miss Cockburn), autograph letter 

signed, advising him “to concur with Pownall and Howard” in the 

new plan, suspecting “the German Contractors have been 

endeavouring to create jealousies betwixt ye”, and describing the 

progress of Cockburn’s children at Petersham, 4 sides 4to, 

London, 3rd June1762. 

6. Sir George Colebrooke, autograph letter signed, encouraging 

Cockburn to continue in spite of the Treasury’s internal poliltics, 

he intends to visit Lord Bute for the first time to see what 

inducement Cockburn might have for continuing, 4 sides folio, 

London, 4th June 1762. 

7. Sir George Howard, autograph letter signed, in answer to 

Cockburn’s letter from ‘Hertzbrook’, looking forward to making 

his acquaintance, and to giving him an account of “The Plan for 

settling things finally”, with his compliments to Lady Cockburn, 2 

sides folio, Münster, 18th December 1762. 

8. Statement of accounts due by Henry Douglas to Walter Scott, 

(1729-1799, W.S.), between 11th July 1765 and August 1777, for 

drawing up a “charter” of the lands of Friershaw and Pinnacle in 

Roxburghshire, in favour of Douglas and his heirs, with the 

superiority of Pinnacle to Sir James, Douglas retaining a life-rent, 

and enrolling Douglas and Sir James as freeholders of the county, 

with Scott’s autograph signed note, that they have been allowed 

“to me in ane acco[unt] Curr[ent] settled w[ith] Sir James 

Cockburn Bar[t] this day”, 3 sides folio, London, 1st May 1778. 

The payments are many and varied, from stationery through the 

actual drafting to the complexities of registration, including ‘Drink 

money’ to minor officials. 

9. Walter Scott, autograph letter signed, to Cockburn in London, 

refusing praise for Cockburn’s success in his “late Enterprises”, 

with some hints about building up Cockburn’s interest with Baillie 

Smith and [Deacon] Newbigging, whose sons are coming to 

London, by giving “the young fellows a little countenance”, he 

will “second the attack” to get Captain William Dickson’s vote in 

Berwickshire, where also Scott has been offered good rents for 

Cockburn’s property in Birgham, ending with a recommendation


for “Mr Hart who goes Surgeon’s mate with my Br[other]” (Bob, 

mentioned earlier in the letter), 3 sides 4to, Edinburgh, 21st 

January 1771. 

10. Fascinating set of accounts for election expenses due to 

Walter Scott, in the successful campaign to get Cockburn elected 

for the Linlithgow Burghs (Linlithgow, Lanark, Selkirk and 

Peebles), chronicling Scott’s feverish activities and journeys round 

the countryside, paying for chaise hire, express letters, town bands 

(“the Musick”), and “drinks to the mob”, and for delivering the 

writs of election to the various burghs, in all £50 2s, 3 sides folio, 

7th - 24th December 1771. 

The “small burghs” tended to have very few qualified electors. 

Each burgh elected a “depute”, and the deputes chose the M.P. In 

this election Cockburn attached himself to the Hamilton interest in 

Lanarkshire, and was returned against the Dundas candidate. See 

Namer and Brooke for all the bargaining preceding his adoption. 

Sir James sat in three parliaments, 1772-1784. 

11. Walter Scott, autograph letter signed, saying he can get £140 

sterling p.a. for the farm at Longbirgham, “but delay no time in 

sending me your answer”, 1 side folio, Edinburgh, 24th March 

1772. 

12. Walter Scott, autograph letter signed, saying he was “most 

deeply affected with the acct.” conveyed in Cockburn’s letter of 

31st March 1773, telling, no doubt, that Sir George Colebrooke’s 

bank had that day closed its doors, “I am happy to think you stand 

clear of the transactions which have been the cause of this 

overthrow” and wishes “you could be satisfied with a Scotch 

Estate ... free from the noise and thunder of Bankruptcy”, he goes 

on to discuss a possible purchase at Birgham from the Home 

family, “Geo: Cranston and I survey’d it pretty narrowly”, he 

would then have 250 acres in all and “when dress’d up, there will 

not be a prettier spot in Berwick Shire”, he asks Cockburn to 

enquire after a book which Douglas was sending him by Provost 

Andrew, in case there is some mistake, 3 sides 4to, Edinburgh, 5th 

April 1773. 

13. Walter Scott, autograph letter signed, about the chance to buy 

60 acres from Mr Brown, on the north side of Cockburn’s property 

at Birgham, “they contain a bed of Shell Marle of 9 feet thick 

suff[icen]t to improve not only these lands but your other Estate”, 

and explaining the circumstances of the current bankrupt tenant, 2 

sides 4to, Edinburgh, 26th July 1773. 

14. Set of accounts for election expenses due to Walter Scott, and 

to John Haddow of Lanark (apparently innkeeper), 26th 

September - 1st November 1774, with even more travelling than 

in December 1771, and items such as “Paid the Expence of the 

three Linlithgow C[o]uncellors coming from thence to Peebles and 

returning £9.17.3” (10th October), the moneys due to John 

Haddow are for all sorts of alcohol including “Ditto [Punch] given 

People at the Cross”, meals and horse feed, Scott’s bill totals no 

less than £340.12.1, together 5 sides folio, the balance receipted 

by Scott at Edinburgh, 4th November 1774. 

97. COROT (Camille, 1796-1875, French Painter) 

Autograph Letter Signed, in French with translation, to ‘My 

dear friend’, apologizing for being “very tardy in giving 

you names for the portrait in question”, saying that he has 

been given the names of Jalabert [Charles François, 1819- 

1901] and Carolus Duran, “I think from these artists you 

will get good portraits”, and sending his regards “to all the 

family”, 1 side 8vo, no place, no date, c. 1865 [52458]£525 

Corot’s landscapes have both an intense delicacy and unity of 

impression that paved the way for the Impressionists. His main 

sketching ground was at Barbizon, in the Forest of Fontainebleau. 

Carolus-Duran (1838-1917, Charles Auguste Émile Durand) 

was especially influenced by Velasquez. He taught some of the 

most brilliant artists of the next generation, including Sargent. 

98. COMMONWEALTH CIVIL MARRIAGES 

Archive of Certificates of Marriage made out by James 

Maunsell, of Thorpe Malsor, near Kettering (under the Act 

of 1653, which allowed Justices of the Peace to perform 

Weddings), by adding his signed, dated and witnessed 

statement to a Certificate of Publication of Banns sent in by 

the newly created Registers (Registrars) in each parish, the 

Banns are interesting for the great variety of the hands and 

signatures, and come from many villages and towns in the 

county, they have been arranged, titled and numbered 

between 2 and 100 by Thomas Whitwell, Register of 

Thorpe Malsor (see e.g. nos. 35, 50), who appears to have 

functioned as Maunsell’s clerk, in about 15 cases there is 

also the banns certificate from the other parish (left 

unsigned and unnumbered), occasionally a sworn statement 

of parents’ or friends’ consent replaces the banns, or a 

simple letter to the J.P. in cases where the parish has no 

Register, in an undated letter John Willes writes from 

Cransley “Worthie Sir I suppose that I am somwhat abused 

beeing disapoynted of my maid upon os [?for ‘so’] short 

worneing but yet I shall Refer the matar to your Worship 

for mi one part if you thinke fit I desire not to hinder 

mariage”, some 14 numbers are not used or are missing, but 

together over 100 items of 1 or 2 sides 8vo., 

Northamptonshire, February 1654 - March 1655 (old style 

calendar), new style February 1655 - March 1656 about 9 

texts faint in part from damp or damaged[SD51582]£1,500 

The banns commonly state that they were called three Sundays in 

turn at the end of ‘our morning exercise’ or Church service, but a 

good many were called on Market Days at the Market Cross, 

including most of those at Rowell (Rothwell), also at Thrapston 

and, over the border in Leicestershire, Market Harborough. 

Among the fathers’ occupations are bellowsmaker (no. 78), 

collarmaker (no. 86), and hosier (no. 94). 

New Register Books were introduced by the Act, and the JP could 

on request give a certificate in parchment of the marriage, for 

which his clerk would charge 12d. The Act came into force on 

29th September 1653; the clause that this was the only legal form 

of marriage was not re-enacted when the rest of the Act was on 

26th June 1657. 

It is known that there are some certificates of banns in the 

Northamptonshire Record Office (also linked with the Maunsell 

family) and some in the Warwickshire Record Office. 

99. COOCH BEHAR (Sir Nripendra Narayan, 1862- 

1911, from 1863 Maharajah of) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Franklin (daughter of Col. 

D.F. Franklin) sending “two photographs [not present] ... 

one in our national durbar costume & the other in full 

regimental dress review order ... both rather large ... I hope 

you will give me one of yourself”, fine crowned monogram 

in red, blue, silver and gold, tipped in on the conjugate 

blank is the Maharajah’s engraved letter heading with his 

arms in blue, loosely inserted is an interesting obituary 

notice, the letter 2 sides 4to. blue-edged, Colinton, 

Darjeeling, 26th October n.y., c. 1900, small defect from 

former laying down by blank part of second side, touching 

one letter, light tabs on blank fourth side [52467]£275 

The Maharajah was an honorary lieutenant colonel of the 6th 

Bengal Cavalry, and served through the Tirah campaign on the 

staff of General Yeatman-Biggs, earning a C.B. and Hon. ADC to 

the King. In 1909 he published “Thirty-Seven Years of Big Game 

Shooting”.


SOUTH AMERICA 

100. CONGRESS OF AMERICAN STATES, 1864 

Finely penned document, in Spanish with translation, 

signed by José Gregorio Paz Soldan (1808-1875, Peruvian 

Diplomat and Chancellor), Manuel Montt (1809-1880, 

President of Chile 1851-1861), Vicente Piedrahita 

(Ecuadorian Ambassador to Chile), Antonio Leocadio 

Guzmán (1801-1884, President of Venezuela 1870-1888), 

Justo Arosemena (1817-1896, Panamanian statesman when 

it was a state of Colombia), Juan de la Cruz Benavente 

(Bolivian Ambassador to Peru, involved in the secret pact 

in 1873 that eventually led to the ‘War of the Pacific’ with 

Chile), Pedro Alcántara Herran (1800-1872, President of 

Colombia 1841-1845), and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 

(1811-1888, President of Argentina 1868-1874), recording 

the inauguration of the Congress by the exchange and 

recognition of their accreditations, to be followed by further 

meetings and negotiations “concerning the high aims for 

which they have been accredited”, 2 sides folio, Lima, 30th 

October 1864 [52536]£775 

A remarkable group on one document of signatures of South 

American Presidents and Envoys, in response to an invitation 

from Peru to meet to discuss a pan-american union. 

101. COULEVAIN (Pierre, 1838-1913, nom-de-plume of 

Mlle. Augustine Favre de Coulevain, French Writer) 

Autograph Letter Signed, in French with translation, to an 

unnamed correspondent, thanking her “a thousand times” 

for her “floral memento”, adding “If the good one does 

brought happiness you would have enough and to spare”, 

and hoping the south of France “may help you to get over 

the crisis through which you are passing”, Coulevain is 

completing “ ‘The Unknown Island’ my notorious book on 

England” which has “grown enormously”, whatever its 

reception “by English and French people ...when I lay 

down my pen I shall be conscious of having been fair and 

impartial. I doubt whether it will give as much pleasure as 

‘On the Branch’ and yet it is stronger - in my view at least”, 

ending “You have . You have not been useless ... the 

forces which govern us all are constantly using you without 

you knowing it ... I pray that all through this year they will 

bring you joy”, 4 sides 8vo., Hotel Bellevue, Avenue de 

l’Opera, Paris, 3rd January 1906, two transparent tabs on 

fourth side, one just touching one letter [52468]£225 

With two newspaper clippings recalling her character. She led a 

rather mysterious life and had two works, including ‘Eve 

Victorieuse’, crowned by the Académie. One clipping recalls her 

saying that “when she was writing ... Sur la Branche ... a spirit 

stood behind her dictating the whole work”. 

102. COWARD (Sir Nöel, 1899-1973, Actor, Composer 

& Dramatist) 

Superb large photo, annotated on the verso as being by the 

German photographer Horst TAPPE , signed and 

inscribed, “For Gaeter with best wishes”, showing him 

three quarters length holding open a mirrored door so that 

you also see his reflection, 10” x 8” together with a fine 

silk menu from a Coronation Gala Dinner at the Cafe de 

Paris in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, at 

which Noel Coward was proving the Cabaret, the menu is 

decorated with the coronation coach and crown at the top, 

Cafe de Paris, 2nd June 1953 

[SD30392]£375 

103. CRAGGS (James, senior, 1657-1721, M.P., Director 

of the East India Company, Joint Postmaster General 1715- 

1720, and political ‘fixer’) 

Signature on verso of part of a Treasury Order for future 

repayment of a loan of “for the Service of the War, Anno 

1710”, Craggs assigns his right in the Order “and Tally 

thereunto belonging unto the Sovereign Lords of the 

Laudable Canton of Berne”, printed with MS additions, 2 

sides 3¼” x 9”, 18th March 1711, new style 1712, lacks 

lower portion 

[SD51656]£225 

Craggs amassed great wealth as an army clothier and a director of 

the East India Company. In 1695 he was sent to the Tower for 

refusing access to his books. In 1721 he was specially named in 

the Act of Parliament, 7 George I, c. 28, as having fraudulently 

promoted the South Sea Company, and all the property he had 

acquired since 1st December 1719 was confiscated for the relief of 

sufferers from the ‘Bubble’. For his signature see BL MS Stowe 

750, f. 206. He signs ‘Ja. Craggs’, while his son, the Secretary of 

State, signs ‘J. Craggs’. 

104. CRICHTON-BROWNE (Sir James, 1840-1938, 

Medical Historian, the first medical broadcaster) 

Autograph Letter Signed to the Revd. (Sir) James 

Marchant, 1867-1956, saying he should be glad “to join the 

Commission to inquire into the Causes of the declining 

birth-rate”, 3 sides 8vo., 45 Hans Place, S.W., 2nd February 

1913 [SD20167]£45 

Marchant was secretary of the National Commission, 1913-1937. 

105. CRONIN (A. J., 1896-1981, Scottish Novelist) 

Cigarette card portrait, in colour, signed, showing him head 

and shoulders, full face, with a thoughtful and determined 

gaze to the left, 3¼” x 2”, no date, c. 1937 [52254]£75 

No. 7 of 40 famous British authors. In 1930 Cronin gave up 

medicine for writing, and his first novel Hatter’s Castle (1931) 

was a great success, followed by ‘The Stars Look Down’ (1935), 

‘The Citadel’ (1937) and ‘Doctor Finlay’s Casebook’. 

A PASSAGE TO INDIA 

106. D’ESTERRE (Henry Martin, c. 1760-1801, of 

Limerick, Captain, 1799, 17th Native Infantry, Bengal) 

Anxious Autograph Letter Signed to David Scott in 

London, begging him to obtain an order from the E.I.C. to 

cover the cost of his passage, he has reached Portsmouth on 

H.M.S. Melpomene, and writes from the Alfred, Capt. 

Farquarson, “now ready for sailing ... I should hope the 

Honble Court will dispence with my personal attendance ... 

we are only waiting a fair Wind”, he also requests him to 

send English notes or a banker’s draft on London against 

“the Enclosed Order [present] on ... Messrs Colvins & 

Bazette of Calcutta” in favour of Scott for £125, “which 

will meet due Honor as these Gentlemen are my Agents ... 

all my future prospects in Life depend upon my not losing 

this Oppy. ... before the Expiration of my leave of 

absence”, the money to be sent c/o the E.I.C.’s agent Mr. 

Lindergren in Portsmouth, with the Order to his agents, 

bearing a footnote “Having taken my passage on board this 

Ship for Madras hope to see you soon in Calcutta”, 1 side 

4to., St. Helen’s, Isle of Wight, the main letter 3 sides folio, 

both from the Alfred, 28th March 1799, a few light traces 

of former laying down in blank rear margins [51799]£275 

His “future prospects” included perhaps Mrs. Elizabeth Bateman, 

whom he married in Calcutta on 13th August 1800.


107. CURTIS (Sir Roger, 1746-1816, Admiral) 

Portrait engraved by Orme jr., half-length in oval 4½” x 

3½”, overall 8¼” x 5”, published 1795 [SD20064]£35 

Curtis served on the coasts of Africa & Newfoundland, 

commanded Lord Howe’s flagship & destroyed the floating 

batteries at Gibraltar. 

108. D’INDY (Vincent, 1851-1931, French Composer) 

Autograph Letter Signed in French with translation, to an 

unnamed correspondent telling him that he is “by order of 

the Faculty, immobilised in my room (!) for 2 or 3 days, 

which is very annoying ... I am relying on you to take the 

Orchestral Class today when they are due to read through a 

work by Mlle. de Marcillac, with Mlle. Ménage singing. 

Have a look also at the choruses” in case his correspondent 

has to conduct “the concert on Friday ... Tell Le Fleau to 

inform my Wednesday pupils in the IIIrd and IVth years 

that I cannot take them tomorrow”, cancelling a dinner 

engagement, “have a little look at the things Raynaud is 

doing, which are worrying me. Lastly, I am rather relying 

on you to look after the Schola for the next 2 days, when 

the School will be without its Director, its Secretary- 

General and its book-keeper!”, 2 sides 8vo on mourning 

paper, no place, no date, c. 1900 [SD14050]£225 

D’Indy was the pupil, friend, helper and biographer of César 

Franck, (1822-1890), and created the Paris Schola Cantorum as a 

complete music school to further Franck’s ideals. 

109. DALÍ (Salvador, 1904-1989, Surrealist Painter) 

Document signed in full ‘Salvador Dali’ and dated, being 

an agreement by “Mr and Mrs Salvador Dali” to lend his 

“Chimera passing in front of a Key” to the Gallery of 

Modern Art / Huntington Hartford collection, New York, 

for its “Dali Exhibition”, giving its medium (“sepia wash”), 

size, value ($15,000), and condition, printed with carbontyped 

details, with certificates of authenticity from both 

PSA/DNA and from R&R Enterprises, the document 1 side 

folio, giving the Dalis’ address as Hotel Meurice, Paris, 5th 

January 1965, staple holes in blank top left corner, small 

PSA/DNA label neatly affixed to foot of verso [52488]£675 

Full Dalí signatures are quite elusive, as the artist typically signed 

only his last name. 

110. DEER PARK HOTEL, HONITON 

Delightful visitors’ book kept by Eileen Cond and her 

parents, with contributions about its special calm and 

wonderful food, and a few sketches, about 60 in all, bluegreen 

covers with roses and carnations 9¼” x 7”, mostly 

1949-1954 with a few later up to 1984 [52423]£175 

From the late thirties Eileen Cond used to send her bookplate on 

every new appearance of a novel or travel book for the author to 

inscribe, with a warm letter of appreciation of the writing. When 

she and her father set up the hotel, several of them came to stay 

and record their appreciation in turn. They include Capt. Dorling 

(‘Taffrail’, a long contribution about hotels round the world), 

Lester Powell, Doris Leslie, and Capt. A.O. Pollard V.C., 

broadcasters Freddie Grisewood (on one occasion for ‘Down Your 

Way’), Doris Arnold, Anne Ziegler & Webster Booth, Philip 

Harben and Stuart Hibberd, several judges and colonial governors, 

and a interesting signature and clipping about the wedding of the 

chaplain to the 1st Gloucesters, who was a P.O.W. for 2½ years in 

Korea. 

111. DELIUS (Frederick, 1862-1934, Composer) 

A very scarce long autograph letter in German, signed in 

full, to an unnamed correspondent, telling him that he has 

“just composed a song for mixed choir à capella on an 

English text, the length is about 50 bars. This needs to be 

ready for performance in a month from today. For it I 

require a fee of 210 marks ...” asking him to consider it 

immediately “as the matter is very urgent. I hope to receive 

in the next few days the settlement for the five songs 

Seadrift, Appalachia piano concerto ...” promising to 

write soon about other work which he has to publish 

shortly, with a postscript that he has just done another 2 

similar songs which he can offer on the same conditions, 2 

sides 4to., Grez-sur-Loing, 27th December 1907 mounted 

with a portrait of the Composer [SD28911]£3,750 

Delius lived in France from 1888. In 1897 two friends of his, girl 

students of painting, invited him for the week-end to a house 

which they had taken for the summer at Grez-sur-Loing, near 

Fontainebleau. He accepted and stayed on until his death. 

‘Appalachia’ was choralorchestral variations on an old slave 

song, inspired by his stay in Florida which was performed at 

Düsseldorf in 1905, ‘Sea-Drift’, a cantata with words taken from a 

poem by Walt Whitman at Essen in 1906. 

112. DESBOROUGH (William Henry Grenfell, K.G., 

1855-1945, 1st and last Baron, Cross Channel Oarsman, 

Swimmer who swam Niagara Falls) 

Manuscript list by him headed “The King”, “The Last 2 

Shoots when I was there”, with the numbers of birds shot 

on 16th August and 19th September 1939 (?1938), totalling 

408 and 307 respectively, “The shooting does not interfere 

with the bird sanctuary”, 1 side 8vo., [Sandringham], 2nd 

January 1939 browned 

[SD19570]£15 

‘Willy’ Grenfell was the outstanding sportsman and athlete of his 

generation. He swam twice across Niagara, stroked an eight 

across the channel, and climbed the Matterhorn and neighbouring 

peaks in a record round trip. At one time he was serving on 115 

committees besides his main task as chairman of the Thames 

Conservancy Board, a post he held for 32 years. 

113. DIANA (Princess of Wales, 1961-1997, ex-wife of 

Prince Charles) 

Paperback copy of Denise Robins’ book “More than Love”, 

signed “Diana Spencer” and dated on the front end-paper, 

8vo., Mayflower books, London, 1978, cover creased, 

book obviously read 

[SD31038]£500 

It is interesting to have an example of the sort of romantic novels 

which the young Princess enjoyed in her teens. 

114. DIAZ (Porfírio, 1830-1915, President of Mexico 

1877-1880 & 1884-1911) 


translation, to the President of Peru, (Mariano Ignacio 

Prado, 1826-1902, three times President of Peru between 

1865 and 1879, the first time as dictator), announcing his 

entry into office as President, and declaring his aim of 

strengthening the ties of friendship between their countries, 

signed also by Ignacio Luis Vallarta (1830-1893, Foreign 

Secretary), 2 sides folio and conjugate blank, Mexico City, 

6th May 1877, small closed tear through both leaves in 

blank upper portion of side 1, touching two letters without 

loss on side 2 [52537]£225


115. DILKE (Sir Charles W., 1843-1911, Radical 

Politician) 

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear Sir’, sending his 

signature with “great pleasure”, 1 side small 8vo., 76 

Sloane Street, 20th November 1872, faint traces of laying 

down 

[SD19668]£15 

116. DISKUL (Damrong, 1862-1943, Prince of Thailand) 

and his daughters by his first wife Princess Poon Diskul, 

(1897-1990), and Princess Pilai Diskul, (1899-1985) 

Charming Photograph, by Swaine of London & Southsea, 

signed by all three, showing them seated, full face, half 

length and smiling, the Prince in a suit and wing collar, the 

Princesses in blouse and skirt with flop-over hats, Princess 

Poon wears a fox fur and Princess Pilai a simple cape, 3¾” 

x 5¾”, in frame 8½” x 12½”, no place, dated by the Prince 

1930, signatures in a rather dark part of the image 

[52597]£750 

Prince Damrong, one of the most remarkable men of his era, was a 

son of King Mongkut by Choom, a consort but not a queen, and 

was therefore not in the line of succession. By diligent research 

he taught himself the history of Thailand and published many 

valuable monographs. As Chulalongkorn’s half-brother he 

reorganized the country’s administration by provinces and 

effected many important reforms. However, during the reign of 

the last absolute monarch, Prajadhipok (Rama VII, ruled 1925- 

1935), the popular pressure to fill public office outside the 

numerous members of the royal family led to a revolution, and in 

1932 Damrong went into exile in Penang. 

Princess Poon was the well-known President of the World 

Buddhist Federation. In all Prince Damrong had eighteen 

daughters and twelve sons by eight wives. 

We are grateful to Dr Henry Ginsburg for help with this note. 

117. DOLLFUS (Charles, 1893-1981, Balloonist, the first 

Frenchman to cross the Atlantic both ways) 

Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Charles Dollfus aéronaute’, in 

French with translation, to ‘My dear friend’, thanking him 

for “your books”, the first confirms that “Charles Dollfus 

was on friendly terms with George Sand. He was actually 

my great-uncle ... and a close friend of Renan. I have not 

had this work of his and will derive all the more pleasure 

from it”, he has not come across “the other little volume - 

with the balloon ... It is a curious document on the state of 

ultra-patriotic fervour at the time of Boulangism, and the 

author, to read him, was not easy to get on with, unless he 

was simply a placid bourgeois in a state of mental 

excitement”, he was just telephoning Gallimard’s “to 

reserve the Restif for you, when they told me you were in 

the building”, saying that when he gets back he will “be 

delighted to see your collection” and to show him “some 

boxes and shelves of books at my place”, and asking if he 

knows “this splendid writing paper”, fine large pictorial 

heading of a 19th c. balloon with the balloonist and five 

passengers, one holding the French flag, 2 sides folio, Paris 

16e., 30th March 1931 [52781]£375 

Dollfus first went up in a balloon in 1911. His knowledge was 

used by the French Navy during and after WWI and in 1919 

created the French Museum of the Air, of which he became the 

dedicated curator. 

DOYLE WRITES ON SPIRITUALISM 

118. DOYLE (Sir Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, Creator of 

‘Sherlock Holmes’) 

Excellent Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Lucy Clifford 

regretting that his life makes it difficult to keep up with 

friends, “It is one of the happy things which the next sphere 

brings with it. When I am through my various labours I 

simply have not the energy for social intercourse. I am 

overdrawn in the bank of life. A man should be, for only 

then does he know that he is using all his Capital. You 

should look into the psychic question. That way assurance 

& happiness lie ... All fear of death is lost & one begins to 

realise this general plan of the universe. What I say on this 

subject is not what I think but what I know. Why man 

should refuse or neglect such enormous consolation is a 

mystery to me. It is more important than everything else 

put together ...” he offers to send her books on the subject 

and continues about her novel “Mrs Keith’s Crime. I read 

it when it appeared. I really can’t imagine what I can say to 

help. Publishers make vague suggestions of this kind 

which are really impracticable ...” and he invites her to the 

Albert Hall for a talk, 2 sides 8vo., The Psychic Book Shop 

headed paper, 2 Victoria St SW1, 27th October no year., 

1914 [SD30140]£875 






119. DOYLE (Sir Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, Creator of 

‘Sherlock Holmes’) 

Furious autograph postcard signed, to H. S. Hodges of the 

Western Chronicle, saying that the “article seems to be the 

usual ignorant abuse. What is this gentleman’s opinion 

worth compared to that of Lodge, Crookes, Lambroso & 

Flammarion, to mention four only out of an army of expert 

investigators [and] ... what is the use of challenging me [to 

show things which] ... I have already written two books, 

‘The New Revelation’ and the ‘Vital Message’] ... The 

mere use of the word ‘spooks’ for the spirits of our beloved 

dead in offensive and odious ...”, 1 side postcard, 

Windlesham headed card, postmarked 11th January 1920, 

rubbed in places slightly affecting a few words, supplied in 

square brackets 

[SD30683]£550 

He is referring to Cesare LAMBROSO (1836-1909, Italian 

Founder of the Science of Criminology) and Camille 

FRAMMARION (1842-1925, French Astronomer) 

120. DUMAS (Alexandre, fils, 1824-1895, French 

Novelist, Playwright and Writer on Morals and Society) 

Autograph sentiment signed ‘A Dumas f’, in French with 

translation, saying “only make anonymous charitable gifts; 

they have a double advantage: they avoid ingratitude and 

prevent abuse”, no place, no date, c. 1870 [52514]£125 

Dumas fils’ great stage success was ‘La Dame aux camélias’, 

February 1852, from his novel of 1848, and was at first banned by 

the Minister of the Interior.


121. DUMAS (Alexandre, 1824-1895, fils, French 

Novelist, Playwright and Writer on Morals and Society) 

Substantial autograph Manuscript Fragment, unsigned, in 

French, with translation and transcription, of an unused 

portion of his comedy ‘L’Ami des Femmes’, first produced 

in 1860, a dialogue between J[ane de Simerose] and de 

M[ontègre], with many corrections in the text, between the 

lines, or in the margin, made at the time of writing, Dumas 

explores as many as four versions of a sentence before 

continuing, Jane passionately asks Montègre whether, if her 

husband has broken his word, that is a reason to break hers, 

“So long as I am to keep his name, I must respect it”, if a 

wife gave herself to another, “each of the two would have 

this right to despise her, for you would despise me in spite 

of yourself if I were to believe you ... Who do you take me 

for ? To put me in a web of lies, terrors, insults, adulteries 

... to lower myself in the esteem of others and my own - 

Never”, 2 sides folio on blue paper, old identification of the 

handwriting in French, no place, no date but watermark 

‘Towgood’s Extra Super’ dated 1857, very light mending of 

short side tears 

[SD51542]£575 

This passage may have been a trial for part of Act IV. 

In the published play, Act I introduces de Royes, the ‘friend’ of 

the title, who claims to be an expert on women, and de Montègre, 

who has briefly met Jane two or three times before. She loved but 

is separated from her husband, who was unfaithful after a month 

of marriage. Meeting Montègre again, she wistfully thinks he 

might be someone she could trust and writes a note asking him to 

meet her ‘tomorrow - I love you’. However, her husband turns up 

near the end of Act III, with adoption papers for a young orphan, 

whom he hopes Jane will bring up with his support, and Jane is 

given pause. In Act IV she is trailed by Montègre to Paris, where 

she gives him the slip. On returning home she upbraids him for 

following her in secret rather than declaring himself openly, and 

refuses to trust him. At the end of Act V Montègre arranges for 

Jane’s note of assignation to be put in the hands of the husband as 

if from Jane herself, Royes’ ‘expert’ knowledge is counfounded, 

and Jane and her husband are reconciled. (See Dumas’ Théâtre 

Complet, vol. 4). 

The present fragment suggests an alternative which Dumas could 

not use, possibly because it seemed too final at this stage of the 

play. 

122. DÜMMLER (Ernst Ludwig, 1830-1902, German 

historian of the East Franks, Editor of the Monumenta 

Germaniae) 

Autograph Letter Signed, in German with translation, to 

Reginald Lane Poole, (1857-1939, Editor of the English 

Historical Review, Lecturer in Diplomatic at Oxford 1896- 

1927), asking if he or an assistant at the Bodleian would 

kindly verify some readings in “MS Digby 65 from which 

Wright, in Anglo-Latin Satirical Poets II, 208-212, 

published a poem of Serlo, On the Sons of the Priests. We 

wish to include it now in the Monumenta Germaniae under 

... the Investiture Quarrel”, the points are unresolved in Mr 

Parker’s recent collation, and adding “You would oblige 

me greatly” as “the sheets ... are already in the press”, 2 

sides 8vo., Königin-Augusta-Straße 53, Berlin W., 5th 

December 1896 

[SD50520]£75 

EDEN USES TELEVISION IN HIS 1955 

ELECTION CAMPAIGN 

123. EDEN (Sir Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977, 


Fine typed letter signed as Prime Minister with autograph 

salutation and subscription to Herbert Gunn of the Daily 

Sketch, marked ‘Personal’, telling him that “on the evening 

of May 17th the Conservative Party has half an hour’s 

television time as part of our election campaign. We 

should like to make this programme an informal press 

conference, and I am writing to you to ask whether you 

would consider taking part. The broadcast will take place 

in a studio at Lime Grove. Our intention is that I and three 

or four of my Ministerial colleagues, including the 

Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary, 

will meet you there in order that you can put to us any 

questions ... over a wide range of subjects ...” he continues 

that the programme will be spontaneous and that he is 

inviting other newspaper editors from London and the 

Provinces, 1 side 4to., 10 Downing Street, Whitehall 

headed paper, 2nd May 1955 

[SD31912]£875 

Eden took over from Churchill as prime minister on 6th April 

1955 and made few changes in the Cabinet. His immediate 

problem was the timing of the next general election which he 

could have postponed till October 1956, but the economy was 

booming, unemployment was negligible, and, largely thanks to 

Eden’s own efforts, the international scene was tranquil. A taxreducing 

budget was announced and he decided to go to the 

country as soon as possible. The election held on 26th May 

increased the Conservative majority over all other parties from 

seventeen to sixty. The result owed something to Eden’s own 

conduct of the campaign. Repeating his theme of a ‘propertyowning 

democracy’; he was the first prime minister to make 

effective use of television, addressing his audience alone, face to 

face and without a script. 

124. EDGELL (Frances) 

Long Autograph Letter Signed to her mother at Oak End, 

Gerrards Cross, describing visits to her [probably maternal] 

grandmother, Regent’s Park, and the Bakers, “After ... a 

little while Lady Baker asked Alex whether he ever bribed 

an Omnibus driver, to let him drive”, Alex took the hint and 

“we both went away ... I got the presents and a parasol, for 

which I took French leave of Papa’s purse”, she saw 

Admiral Napier’s portrait at “the Exhibition ... I wish you 

would let me come home for the Montem ... I ... could go 

back by the 7 o’clock Coach Wednesday morn ... Perhaps 

... Heneri could drive up for me”, she could have her 

picture taken “in the most correct style ... by the Master 

who teaches heads here Mr Mulready in water colors”, and 

asks, “if any body comes to Town”, for “some vegetables 

in a hamper”, 4 sides 4to., Cadogan Place, Chelsea, 1st 

June 1835, small tear on opening without loss 

[SD19721]£45 

Harry Edgell, 1767-1863, of 21 Cadogan Place, was a barrister, 

Clerk of Assize of the Norfolk Circuit, 1795-1863, and Clerk of 

Errors in the Court of Exchequer and Court of Common Pleas.


125. EDEN (Sir Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977, 


Fine portrait photo as Prime Minister, signed and dated, 

showing him half length, seated, 8½” x 6½” in mount, 12” 

x 9”, no place, 1957, the signature has been partially inked 

over 

[SD32074]£275 


Ministers. 

CHOOSING A SCHOOL 

126. DURY (Revd. Theodore, 1788-1850, Rector of 

Keighley, W. Yorkshire, 1825-1840, and of Westmill, 

Hertfordshire from 1840) 

Engaging Autograph Letter Signed to “My dear 

Fred[eri]c”, saying that “Barnard is a man of experience in 

training applemunching urchins, and his testimony in 

favour of Mr Trimmer’s establishment, to use the 

fashionable term by which schools are advertised in and 

about London, is very strong ... young Barnard ... seems the 

very mirror of schoolboyhood for he can read Hebrew & 

construe Hecuba & yet has not reached his twelfth year”, 

but asks if that “will teach him todiscern between the wool 

of a Ewe, a Lamb or a Hog ?”, the name “reminds one of 

well trained schools & good little books ... Anne [Dury’s 

wife] says I must write a stiff business like letter, which all 

the ... Sugdens from Walker up to William, including 

Martha in bed, may read”, he talks amusingly of the recent 

change of Government, of the cold, “the thermometer 

nearly paid the debt of nature for it fell to 1½ above zero -- 

at Hoddesdon to zero according to Caro[line], who returned 

today from a visit to the Barnards”, and of the plans 

“prepared by Mr Gill” for a new church at Keighley, for 

which he may have to borrow money, he gives detailed 

instructions for Frederic and Edwin [the writer’s son] to 

unlock Anne’s cabinet where they are stored, “Man wants 

but little here below”, as Wellesley Pole said when courting 

Miss Long with 50000 a year, “upon which someone 

added, but wants that little Long”, in a P.S. he asks “about 

your flittings ? Have you agreed with the Lord of Cliffe ? 

or the Lady of St Ives”, 4 sides 4to, Westmill, 8th January 

1841 [52687]£275 

‘Barnard’ is Mordaunt Barnard, rector of Great Amwell, near 

Hoddesdon. It seems that while Mr Dury was now at Westmill, 

much of the family’s belongings were still up in Keighley, where 

their neighbour, mill owner William Sugden of Eastwood House 

(now part of Victoria Park), was looking for a school for his son. 

Cliffe Hall (now Castle) and St Ives are not far from Keighley. 

Dury was chaplain to the Duke of Devonshire who was Lord of 

the Manor of Keighley and patron of the rectory. Mrs Sarah 

Trimmer, 1741-1810, famous for school books full of illustrations 

and stories employing animals and birds rather than fairies, had 

been governess at Devonshire House. 

127. [EDWARD (1739-1767, Duke of York, next brother 

to George III, Admiral)] 

Part Treasury Document of 11th October 1763 ordering 

payment to Prince Edward, signed and receipted on the 

verso by W. Cadogan, 4½” x 8”, 19th October 1763, 

bottom half lacking on cancellation, trimmed at left just 

touching two letters 

[SD20070]£25 

128. EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain) 

Autograph note in pencil, as King, signed ‘E.R.’, saying 

“Please telegraph to W. Carington” (Colonel Sir William, 

1845-1914, Comptroller to George V as Prince of Wales) 

“that I should wish him to represent me, at Ld. Arran’s 

Funeral at Windsor on Monday - & to inform Ld. Sudley”, 

embossed crowned anchor bearing the Garter, 1 side 8vo. 

black-edged, HMS Ophir, no date. but March 1901, light 

traces of laying down on blank third side [51971]£225 

THREE KINGS 

129. EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain), 

with his grandchildren Prince EDWARD (1894-1972, 

later Edward VIII), Prince ALBERT (1895-1952, later 

George VI), Princess MARY (1897-1965, Countess of 

Harewood), and Prince HENRY (1900-1974, Duke of 

Gloucester) 

Engaging portrait photograph, by J Russell & Sons, signed 

on the mount by the King “Edward R & his 

Grandchildren”, showing them all full length, full face, the 

King and his two elder sons in highland dress, Princess 

Mary in a white outfit and sailor’s cap, Prince Henry a little 

puzzled in a dark round cap, the king looking slightly to 

one side with a hand on Princess Mary’s shoulder, 6¾” x 

4¼” on card mount 10¾” x 8”, no place, circa 1902, very 

light water stain in blank top portion of mount [53104]£750 

130. EDWARD VIII (1894-1972, King of Great Britain, 

Later the Duke of Windsor) 

Delightful photo signed and dated showing him standing in 

the middle of a group of eight geisha girls, he is wearing 

full naval uniform, 8” x 5½” in mount 10” x 8”, no place, 

1922 [SD31947]£750 

Taken during his 1921/22 Tour of Japan and the Far East. 


Later the Duke of Windsor) & the Duchess of WINDSOR 

(Wallis Simpson, 1896-1986, his wife) 

Fine large photo by Sarer Photos, NYC, signed by both 

“Wallis Windsor” & “Edward”, showing them seated in the 

middle of a crowd of people, including several men 

wearing Salvation Army uniforms, all laughing at whatever 

they are looking at, 10” x 8”, no place, (New York), no 

date, the word “Windsor” is in a rather dark part of the 

picture 

[SD29944]£1,250 

132. [EDWARD VIII 1894-1972, King of Great Britain, 

Later the Duke of Windsor)] 

A Photograph Album containing 126 original unsigned 

photos Photographs in a variety of formats, taken during 

the Prince of Wales’ Tour in 1925 in H.M.S. Repulse to 

South Africa and South America, the photos show the 

sights, they show the Prince in many of the images, on 

formal and informal occasions and they show the sights as 

well, album 14” x 10”, inside front cover has the arms of 

the Royal Marines in Gibraltar, 1925 10 affected by glue 

staining, lacking boards 

[SD31008]£750


133. [EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain), 

and ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, his Queen)] 

Menu, in French, for Dinner, of 6 courses and 2 desserts, 

including “Pannequets [pancakes] à la Danoise”, hand 

written in gold ink, 1 side card gilt-edged, embossed 

heading of Marlborough House, 6th March 1901 

[51502]£125 



Programme for a Welsh musical evening signed in pencil 

on the front by the Prince of Wales, all in Welsh, printed in 

green, 4 sides 8vo., together with an unsigned copy , 

with a crest at the head showing a dragon with leeks on 

either side over the words ‘ Cymru Am Byth’, Gwyl Dewi 

Sant, 1920 

[SD29902]£175 



Typed Letter Signed to the Bishop of Nassau thanking him 

for his birthday wishes and saying that “the Duchess and I 

are very anxious to help the people of this Colony from 

time to time and we are grateful to you for your good 

advise as to the best way of doing so…”, 1 side 8vo., 

Government House headed paper, Bahamas, 23rd June 

1941 [SD28607]£475 

RUSSIAN BONDS 

136. ELIOT (Sir Charles, 1862-1931, Linguist, Diplomat, 

Principal of Hong Kong University 1912, High 

Commissioner for Siberia 1918-1919, Ambassador to Japan 

1919-1926) 

Typed Letter Signed to the Director of the Foreign Claims 

Department, Foreign Office, asking him to advise the 

bearer, “Captain A.W. Berg, who has been acting as 

Secretary to the High Commission in Siberia”, because the 

banks in Petrograd where his Russian securities are 

deposited “are now in the hands of the Bolsheviks”, and he 

fears that everything has been confiscated, blind embossed 

British arms, 2 sides 4to., Vladivostok, 25th March 1919, 

neat filing holes in blank margin [SD50522]£75 

137. ELISABETH (Alexandra Louise Alice, 1864-1918, 

Grand Duchess of Russia, daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand 

Duke of Hesse, wife of Sergei of Russia, became a nun and 

was murdered by the Bolsheviks) 

Autograph postcard signed ‘Your loving cousin Ella’, in 

German with translation, to Princess Helene of Russia 

and Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1857-1936, wife of Prince 

Albert of Saxe-Altenburg, 1843-1902), with an attractive 

coloured view by A. Beggrow of the Admiralty seen across 

the Neva, sending “good wishes from the heart for the New 

Year”, on the verso she thanks Helene for her letter, 

“unfortunately we have just set off for St Petersburg, I have 

only seen your protégés when their concert took place in 

Moscow, but have heard since that they have had great 

success”, ending “Many regards from Sergei and myself”, 2 

sides 5¾” x 3¼”, no place, 1899 [53164]£1,750 

138. ELISABETH (Queen, 1876-1965, Wife of Albert I, 

1875-1934, from 1918 King of the Belgians, daughter of 

Karl Theodor, Duke of Bavaria) 

Superb portrait photo by Alban of Brussels, signed and 

dated, also signed by the photographer, showing her half 

length, in a wonderful twenties dress with a tiara and long 

string of pearls, 9” x 6” in mount 16” x 12”, no place, 

(Brussells), 1925 

[SD30425]£750 

139. ELISABETH CHRISTINA (1691-1750, née 

Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, wife (1708) of Karl 

VI, 1685-1740, from 1711 Holy Roman Emperor) 

Letter cover sheet, unsigned, in Latin with translation, 

1730, seal paper has a few small defects at end of titles 

(easily supplied), a few other letters a little faint 

[SD51545]£275 

Elisabeth, daughter of Ludwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, 

followed her cousin Amalia in marrying a future Emperor. In 

1708 she sailed from Genoa in a fleet of 142 vessels, under the 

British Admiral Leake, to marry Karl in Barcelona where for five 

years he had been pursuing his claim to the throne of Spain against 

Philip V. When Karl became Emperor in 1711 she stayed behind 

in Spain, not leaving till 1713 when the war of the Spanish 

Succession drew to an end. Her arms on the present seal still 

include the claim. 

In 1728 Fini concluded difficult negotiations between Benedict 

XIII and Karl VI in a manner highly favourable to the latter. In 

1730 he was banned from the Vatican by the new Pope, after a 

review of his activities in the previous reign. 

140. ELIZABETH (The Queen Mother, 1900-2002, 

Queen of George VI) 

Christmas card signed underneath the printed message 

opposite a black and white photo of the Queen Mother 

standing by a fireplace, on folded ivory card with the Royal 

Crest printed on front, 8” x 7” 1956 [SD30146]£350 

141. ELIZABETH (The Queen Mother, b. 1900, Queen 

of George VI) 

Christmas Card signed, under the printed message of 

greeting, opposite a coloured photo of the Queen Mother, 

half length, wearing a floaty blue dress and hat, 6½” x 6” 

in folded ivory card with gold crest on the front, 9” x 7½”, 

no place, 1983 

[SD30577]£250 



Fine portrait photo by Anthony Buckley signed and dated 

showing her half length seated, wearing a bejewelled dress 

and sash, 6” x 4½” in presentation card folder with gilt 

crested monogram on the front, 8” x 6”, no place, 1984 

[SD30579]£500 

143. [ELIZABETH II (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain)] 

Timetable of the journey from Wolferton to King’s Cross, 

printed in gold, with British Railways emblem, showing a 

lion holding a wheel emerging from a crown, 1 side 7¼” x 

4¼” in mount 10¼” x 6½”, 6th January 1958 [51506]£50 

With a neat typed presentation note at the foot of the mount.




Fine presentation photo by Dorothy Wilding signed 

showing her three quarters length seated, wearing a casual 

dress with fur trim and simple pearls and a brooch, in 

original blue leather presentation frame with 

monogram at the head , 8” x 6½” in frame12½” x 9” 

overall, no place, no date c. 1946 [SD29892]£1,950 

From the collection of Major-General Sir Douglas KENDREW 

KCMG, CB, CBE, DSO, Governor of Western Australia 1963 - 

1973. 

145. ELIZABETH II (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain), 

& Prince PHILIP (Duke of Edinburgh, b. 1921, her 

Husband) 

Fine portrait photograph by Cecil Beaton, with his stamp 

on the verso, signed by the Queen and Prince Philip and 

dated by the Queen on the mount, showing them three 

quarter length, full face, at their sides are Prince 

CHARLES (b. 1948) and Princess ANNE (b. 1950), the 

Queen holds the infant Prince ANDREW (b. 19th 

February 1960), all four smiling, the baby nearly so, n.p., 

1960 signatures slightly faded [53105]£750 

The first child born to a reigning monarch for 100 years. 

146. [ELIZABETH II (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain)] 

Typed Letter Signed from Lady (Henriette) Abel Smith, (b. 

1914, Lady-in-Waiting 1949-1987), to Domini, Lady 

Crosfield (née Elliadi, d. 1963), thanking her for her “good 

wishes ... to The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh for 

their forthcoming visit to India”, Royal Arms, 1 side 4to., 

Buckingham Palace, 19th January 1961 [SD19454]£25 

147. EMMA (1858-1934, Regent of the Netherlands, 

1890-1898, for her daughter Wilhelmina, 1880-1962) 

Finely penned document signed as Regent, in French with 

translation, to D. Justiniano Borgoño, (1836-1929, 2nd 

Vice-President of Peru), congratulating him on taking over 

executive power on the death of President Remigio 

Morales Bermúdez, and assuring him of her desire 

likewise to maintain the friendly relations between their 

countries, signed also by Joan Roëll (1844-1914, Dutch 

Prime Minister and Foreign Minister), 2 sides folio and 

conjugate blank, Soestdyk, 31st July 1894 [51986]£225 

Normally the 1st Vice-President (Señor Solar) would have 

succeeded for the rest of the unexpired term, but General Cáceres, 

Bermúdez’ predecessor, secured Borgoño’s appointment. This 

was highly unconstitutional. Cáceres was again elected in August 

1894, which led to a rebellion, the loss of 2800 lives, and Cáceres’ 

defeat, hostilities ceasing only on the intervention of the British 

Consul in March 1895. 

148. EYRE (Sir James, 1734-1799, President of the Court 

of Exchequer 1787, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 

1793) 

Signed power of attorney to his bankers, Messrs Robert, 

Francis and William Gosling “to demand and receive ... 

from the Tellers of his Majesty’s Receipt of Exchequer ... 

all ... sums ... due to me ... as Chief Baron”, in a neat hand, 

1 side 12½” x 9”, 19th September 1787 [SD51714]£75 

149. FANTIN-LATOUR (1836-1904, French Artist) 

Autograph Letter Signed, in French with translation, to 

‘Sir’, authorizing him “to reproduce two of my works from 

the Salon, La Nuit [Night] and La Tentation de St. Antoine 

[The Temptation of St. Anthony]”, 1 side black edged and 

conjugate blank, Paris, 31st March 1897 [52459]£400 

Fantin-Latour is well known for his flower studies and for 

portraits, sometimes grouped to show literary and artistic figures 

of the day in company. 

150. FARADAY (Michael, 1791-1867, Chemist & 

Physicist) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to the Rev. Edwin SIDNEY 

(1798-1872), saying that he has “received the account of 

the Parasites you have been so kind as to send me & am 

much indebted to you for it. It brought back vividly the 

very pleasant and valuable essay you gave us ...”, 1 side 

8vo., Royal Institution, 28th March 1850 [SD26576]£475 

151. FARJEON (Joseph Jefferson, 1883-1955, Detective 

Novelist and Playwright) 

Autograph picture postcard signed with initials to Eileen 

Cond, saying he is glad she enjoyed “my recent books, and 

hope you will like my latest, ‘Green Mask’ ... I had a letter 

from Collins today saying they are very keen on the autumn 

novel” except for the title “ ‘Castle of Ghosts’. I think they 

are wrong. Anyway, this new contract with me is twice as 

good as the last, so all’s well”, with on the verso a photo of 

South Down sheep grazing, Ditchling, Sussex, 28th June 

1944 [SD17135]£20 

Farjeon was an editor for Amalgamated Press, 1910-1920, and, 

besides his books, contributed to many journals, including ‘Punch’ 

as ‘Smith Minor’. 

152. FAWCETT (Sir William, 1728-1804, Major- 

General) 

Finely penned document signed and inscribed by him 

“Approv’d by the King”, being Memoranda of Leaves of 

Absence for three officers, Colonel Newman, Lieutenant 

Sutherland, and Ensign Ostman, for periods from 4 weeks 

to six months for health or private reasons, with their 

regiments and dates, headed in large letters “Most Humbly 

Proposed to His Majesty”, 2 sides folio, title on conjugate 

leaf with the words “Returned from H.R.H. the Captain- 

General [the Duke of York] for His Majesty’s 

Approbation”., no place, 3rd October 1799, tiny defects at 

edge of folds and blank bottom right corners, light remains 

of laying down by edge of conjugate leaf [51800]£225 

Fawcett’s long career spanned Culloden, enlisting Hessians and 

Brunswickers to serve against America, and the Flanders 

campaign of 1794-1795. He translated Marshal Saxe’s memoirs 

and on announcing the victory of Warburg to George II in German 

was rewarded with a lieutenant-colonelcy. 

153. FERDINANDO (Don, 1609-1641, Cardinal, brother 

of Philip IV of Spain, Governor of the Spanish 

Netherlands) 

AN signed ‘F’, in Spanish, with transcription, saying “let 

this Report be produced to the Privy Council so that they 

may give their opinion”, identification in pencil in an old 

hand, 1 side 8½” x 6” and conjugate blank, no place, no 

date, in another hand at top 1641 [SD51625]£275


154. FIELDS (Dame Gracie, 1898-1969, Singer & 

Comedienne) 

Collection of 18 different signed photographs of Gracie 

Fields, and 3 unsigned of which one is in colour, half 

length, smiling full face, hands crossed under her chin, and 

wearing a beret (De Reske cigarettes, post card size, c. 

1935), and one three-quarter length, in a sleeveless 

patterned dress, eyes turned to the right, 9½” x 3¾” 

(presented with ‘Radio Review’, c. 1935), 7 signed 

programmes from the London Palladium (1948-1951 & 

1953), Empress Hall, Fulham (1949) and the Prince of 

Wales Theatre (1956), 2 tickets for the TV show Sunday 

Night at the London Palladium (5th May 1957 and 1st 

February 1959, signed on the verso), 3 Christmas cards 

signed from Gracie and husband Boris (1953, 1955 & 1959, 

2 with envelopes), 2 signed thank you cards, and a p.c. of 

her villa with a thank you and initials on verso, the photos 

mostly in a stiff paper album 7¾” x 10”, 1 or 2 to the page, 

in all 36 items, c. 1932 - 1959, album covers worn at edges, 

programmes a bit worn and one back cover loose and 

defective, transparent paper at head of the tall 1935 photo 

not touching image, all other photos and the cards in good 

condition [52673]£325 

Most of the photographs have notes by the compiler, Lucy Farlow 

of St John’s Wood, recording the occasion. One, a press photo of 

the ‘Star Ball’, 26th April 1949, is inscribed “Dear Lucy, I’m so 

sorry I went and mucked up my face with this silly Pen” - there is 

a short stroke by her forehead. Another shows Gracie full length, 

singing towards a microphone, behind is her pianist, cheerfully 

smoking while he plays, c. 1932. Two, of the Command 

Performance, 1951, show her dominating the stage in front of the 

whole company, and afterwards shaking hands with the Queen. 

Although she has had to send an affectionate printed letter in 

answer to wedding congratulations, 1952, she still finds time to 

inscribe her accompanying photo. Also present is a MS list by 

Lucy Farlow, listing “some song[s] Gracie sang on Oct 2nd & 9th, 

1950”, at the London Palladium variety show - no less than 18, 

including all the well-known favourites, serious, sentimental and 

humorous. One Christmas card reproduces a romantic pencil 

drawing of water nymphs disporting themselves in the swimming 

pool on Capri, with the villa’s terraces behind looking out to the 

rocky coastline, above is the melody ‘Sally’ (8” x 6”, 1959). 

155. FIRST WORLD WAR BATTLE SHIPS 

3 attractive photographs, of First World War Battle Ships, 

signed on the verso by J. W. Yates, including HMS 

Revenge with barrage balloon, each 6” x 4” mounted on 

card 9½” x 8”, June 1917 

[SD13566]£65 

156. FISHER (Dr Geoffrey, 1887-1972, Baron Fisher of 

Lambeth, Archbishop of Canterbury 1945-1961) 

Typed Letter Signed to the Revd. Sir James Marchant, 

(1867-1956, the Free Church minister and social activist), 

recalling his own work and desire for “closer co-operation 

and ultimate union”, but unable to agree that 

“representatives of the Free Churches ... present at an 

Enthronement” of an archbishop “should take any part in 

the Enthronement ceremony” (which is about canonical 

obedience), and to make it “an occasion of very great 

controversy ... would not be much gain”, Fulham Palace, 

11th January 1945 

[SD20195]£75 

157. FLAGSTAD (Kirsten, 1895-1962, Norwegian Opera 

Singer) 

Magnificent portrait photo by Morton, signed and inscribed 

“For Blanche With kindest greetings Yours sincerely”, 

showing her full length, three quarter face, as Isolde, hands 

anxiously clasped, 9” x 7” in mount 13” x 10½”, no place, 

no date, circa 1935, signature slightly faded [52863]£450 

158. FORD (Sir Francis Clare, 1828-1899, Diplomat) 

Fine cabinet photo by Notman of Toronto, signed with the 

place and date, showing him three quarters length seated, 

smoking a cigarette, 6¼” x 4¼”, British Legation, Madrid, 

dated 1886 but taken around 1876 [SD30782]£150 

The son of Richard Ford (1796-1858, barrister and author), he 

went into the army before going into the diplomatic service. 

Between 1852 and 1862 he was successively an attaché at Naples, 

Munich, Paris, Lisbon, Brussels and Stuttgart. He was then the 

Secretary of the Legation at Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, and 

Washington.. He then became Secretary of the Embassy at St. 

Petersburg and Vienna (1872-1873). Between 1875 and 1877 he 

was in Canada. After those posting he was envoy extraordinary 

and minister plenipotentiary to Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and 

Greece and then ambassador at Madrid and then Constantinople 

and Rome. He retired in 1898. 

Photographed by William Notman of Canada. Notman arrived in 

Canada from Scotland in 1856 at the age of thirty. Born at Paisley 

in 1826, he started his career as a daguerreotypist. After his 

emigration to Canada, he was initial employed by a drygoods firm 

in Montreal, but he soon opened his own photographic studio. He 

first made his mark when he was commissioned to photograph the 

building of the Victoria Bridge across the St. Lawrence. His 

pictorial account of the construction work made his studio a 

household name, not only in Canada, but throughout America, and 

he eventually opened 25 branches of his studio. His outstanding 

portraits drew society ladies and business magnates to his doors, 

and his work won him many medals at international exhibitions. 

Presumably the photograph was taken around 1876 when Ford 

was in Canada and then given away to someone in Madrid ten 

years later. 

AUSTRIA AND PERU SET UP FRIENDLY 

RELATIONS 

159. FRANZ JOSEPH I (1830-1916, Emperor of 

Austria, King of Hungary, his attack on Serbia in 1914 

started World War I) 

Finely penned Document signed, in Latin with translation, 

to the President of Peru, (José Rufino Echénique, 1808- 

1887, President 1851-1855 & 1865), ackowledging his 

letter announcing his election, in which Echénique has also 

asked for some “testimony of goodwill” from the Emperor, 

accordingly he goes into interesting detail about first setting 

up an Austrian Consul in Lima, to enjoy the same 

immunities and privileges both personal and official as 

other foreign consuls, and offering the possibility of a 

Peruvian consulate in one or other port of the Austrian 

empire, evidencing Peru’s increasing commercial strength, 

1851 [52540]£475 

Trieste was Austria’s window on the Adriatic, the home of her 

navy. Later Sir Richard Burton the explorer was British Consul 

there, a good base for his journeys.


160. FREDERICK (Pauline, 1883-1938, American Silent 

Cinema Star) 

Fine large portrait photo by Monte Luke (of Melbourne, 

Australia, 1885-1962), signed “Polly” and inscribed to 

“George dear”, showing her in profile, half length, in furs 

and an elegant turban hat, all with strong highlights, a 

dignified but warm image, 15” x 10”, no date, c. 1930 

[52436]£125 

From a group inscribed to George Barraud, b. 1893, the British 

film actor and screen writer. Pauline Frederick was the first 

“strong woman” of the silent screen. 

161. FREDERIK IX (1899-1972, from 1947 King of 

Denmark) 

Finely typed document signed, in French with translation, 

to the President of Peru, (Fernando Belaúnde Terry, b. 

1912, President 1963-1968), thanking him for his letter 

announcing his election as President for 1963-1969, 

congratulating him, and joining in his desire “to extend the 

friendly relations which so happily exist” between their 

countries, signed also by Per Haekkerup, (1915-1979, 

Foreign Minister 1962-1966), 2 conjugate sides 8¼” x 

11¾”, versos blank, Amalienborg, 6th December 1963, two 

neat filing holes in blank margin [52373]£225 

162. FREDERIK IX (1899-1972, from 1947 King of 

Denmark) 

Typed Letter Signed with autograph salutation and 

subscription to Sir William Rootes thanking him for his 

“kindness in placing such excellent cars at my disposal not 

only during my stay here, but also during my recent visit to 

Paris with the Queen ... these services have been of the 

greatest help on both occasions ...”, 1 side 4to., Royal 

Danish Embassy, 29 Pont Street, SW1, 11th May 1955 two 

neat filing holes in blank margin [SD31795]£150 

163. FREDERIK VII (1808-1863, from 1848 King of 

Denmark) 


to the President of Peru (Ramón Castilla, 1797-1867, 

President 1845-1851 & 1855-1862), acknowledging his 

letter informing him of his election, congratulating him and 

wishing to strengthen friendly ties with Peru, 2 sides folio, 

Frederiksborg Castle, 15th April 1855 [52541]£325 

Castilla was responsible for bringing peace and prosperity to his 

country, apart from Vivanco’s insurrection in 1856-1858, after 

many years of generals contending for power. 

164. FREEMAN (Edward Augustus, 1823-1892, from 

1884 Professor of Modern History at Oxford) 

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My dear Butler’, saying “I 

think I should best like to help for the Arnold picture. 

There is no one to whom I owe more ... though I never 

spoke to him. But I suppose I may wait to settle details till 

I get to Oxford - alas, the time is getting near”, 1 side 8vo, 

Somerleaze, Wells, Somerset, 23rd September 1890 

[SD17177]£20 

Freeman’s best known work is the ‘History of the Norman 

Conquest’, 1867-1879. He also wrote on Architecture, the 

Saracens, the English Constitution, European History, and Sicily. 

165. FONDA (Henry, 1905-1982, American Actor) 

Fine signed colour postcard photo showing him head and 

shoulders, 3½”x 5½”, no place, no date [SD25365]£125 

166. FRIEDRICH III (Wilhelm Nikolaus, 1831-1888, 

son-in-law of Queen Victoria, Emperor of Germany for 99 

days) 

Finely penned Document signed, in German with 

translation, to the President of Peru, General Andrés 

Avelino Cáceres, (1836-1923, President 1886-1890 and 

1894-1895), saying that “having ascended the throne of My 

forefathers, following the deeply lamented death [9th 

March] of my honoured Father, His Majesty the German 

Emperor Wilhelm, King of Prussia, I do not hesitate to 

confirm Naval Captain Zembsch in his position as Minister, 

accredited as His Resident in the Republic of Peru during 

the lifetime of His Majesty my Father now at rest in God”, 

signed also ‘Graf Bismarck’ by Herbert, 1849-1904, elder 

son of the ‘Iron Chancellor’, Foreign Minister 1886-1890, 

who conducted many negotiations with Great Britain on 

colonial affairs, 2 sides folio black-edged and conjugate 

blank, Charlottenburg, 22nd March 1888 [52542]£775 

Autograph material by Friedrich III is uncommon due to his early 

death from throat cancer. He only survived his father Wilhelm I 

by three months. 

167. FRIEDRICH WILHELM II (1744-1797, from 

1786 King of Prussia) 

Letter in French with translation, signed ‘F Guillaume’ to 

the Comte de Broglie, (Elzéar Ferdinand François, 1768- 

1837, French Field Marshal 1815, nephew of Victor 

François, 1718-1804, Duc de Broglie), telling him that his 

“letter of yesterday’s date, informing me of your arrival in 

Berlin, and of your desire to be present at the different 

reviews of the troops of this country, has been duly 

delivered to me. You are entirely at liberty”, and looking 

forward to seeing him “at the special reviews at Berlin, 

where you can arrange to be presented to me”, 1 side 4to. 

with conjugate blank, Potsdam, 23rd April 1787, small 

printed portrait of the king neatly attached by stamp-hinge 

to top left of recto 

[SD14383]£275 

Ferdinand, Comte de Broglie was the son of Charles François 

(1719-1781), younger brother of the duke. At the time of this 

letter he was a lieutenant of artillery. He emigrated in 1789, was a 

staff officer in the Armée des Princes in 1792, then served the 

Tsar 1795-1814, returning at the Restoration. 

168. FROUDE (Ashley Anthony, 1863-1949, son of the 

historian) 

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear Madam’, saying he is 

sending her letter about a quotation “to my sister, and if she 

knows ... I will at once let you know”, 2 sides 8vo., Collapit 

Creek, Devon, 14th March 1904 

[SD19763]£15 

Ashley Froude worked in the Colonial Office and took part in the 

Behring Sea Arbitration of 1892. 

169. GARIBALDI (Giuseppe, 1807-1882, Italian Patriot 

and Soldier, with Cavour and Mazzini one of the Founders 

of the State of Italy) 

Autograph Letter Signed, in Italian with translation, to 

‘dear Croce’, thanking him for his “kind note of the 28th 

February”, 1 side 5¼” x 8¼” paper ruled in red, Caprera, 

5th March 1872 [52515]£175


170. GALLI-CURCI (Amelita, 1882-1963, Italian 

Coloratura Soprano) 

Fine portrait photograph by Lumiere of New York, signed, 

dated and inscribed “To S.H. Porter very sincerely”, 

showing her head and shoulders, full face, leaning on her 

left elbow, hand to head, a velvet cape irregularly draped 

round her neck and left forearm, and wearing a crescent 

shaped mantilla, n.p., 1930 [53107]£375 

171. GALSWORTHY (John, 1867-1933, Author of ‘The 

Forsyte Saga’, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature) & 

Edmund Joseph SULLIVAN (1869-1933, Etcher and 

Illustrator) 

Superb large etching by Sullivan, signed in pencil on the 

mount by the artist and his sitter showing him half length, 

seated correcting a pile of papers, 10” x 8” in mount, 21” x 

16½”, no place, no date 1930 

[SD30406]£325 

E. J. Sullivan was one of the most important illustrators working 

in the 1890s, the 1900s, and through into the 1920s 

172. GARDINER (Sir Robert William, 1781-1864, 

General, Royal Artillery, served with Sir John Moore at 

Corunna and with Wellington in the Peninsula and at 

Waterloo, Governor & C-in-C Gibraltar, 1848-1855) 

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My dear Sir’, saying “The 

very day ... I wrote to you, The Prince found occasion to 

send a trusty person to London ... but I hope you will 

receive my thanks ... as entirely as if I had benefitted 

immediately by your kindness”, and sympathizing with 

Mrs Baynes, “Baynes is the greatest loss to Genl. 

Macleod”, the writer’s father-in-law, Adjutant-General at 

Woolwich, “from his knowledge of the duties they had 

together, and from his attachment and friendship in 

executing whatever orders the General gave him”, 4 sides 

4to. black edged, Came House (near Dorchester, Dorset), 

25th January 1818 [52058]£275 

Gardiner lived at Melbourne Lodge, Claremont, as Prince 

Leopold’s equerry. 

173. GATTINGER (Augustin, M.D., 1825-1903, Author 

of ‘The Flora of Tennessee’, 1901) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Robert Morton 

MIDDLETON , jr., F.L.S., F.Z.S., (1846-1909, English 

shipbroker and botanist), assuring him that “it would be the 

fulfillment of a long cherished wish to make again a ramble 

on the tops and slopes of your mountains, and in the 

swamps at their feet”, and much as he would like “to make 

the acquaintance of your esteemed lady and family ... I ... 

am pledged to some professional obligations. Please think 

about the Ilex”, I. ambigua Chapmanii, which Gattinger 

hoped Middleton would collect for him, 2 sides 8vo., 

Nashville, Tennessee, 7th June 1889 [SD13914]£75 

Gattinger was born in Munich, Germany, and practised medicine 

in Nashville. In December 1888 he sold his herbarium to the 

University at Knoxville. Middleton was employed at one time by 

the Hartlepools Shipowners’ Society. About 1886 he and his wife 

settled in South Pittsburg, Tennessee, at the foot of the 

Cumberland Mountains. He corresponded with many leading 

naturalists, collected autographs, and presented a herbarium of 

some 3000 American and other specimens to McGill University in 

December 1890, returning permanently to England in 1892. With 

his wife and sister he spent 1904-1907 as a missionary in Chile. 

174. GEORGE (Prince, 1819-1904, 2nd Duke of 

Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief) 

Autograph Letter Signed to the 3rd Earl of Zetland, sending 

a memo from “the Dep Adj General of Artillery”, saying 

that “Lt Talbot ... will not be overlooked ... for ... selection 

to the Horse Artillery” compared with “other candidates of 

longer standing”, 2 sides 8vo., Gloucester House, Park 

Lane, 14th June 1883 

[SD19771]£35 

175. GEORGE I (1660-1727, King of Great Britain & 

Ireland, Creator of the Cabinet System of Government) 

Fine warrant Document boldly signed at the head printed 

with the details filled in by hand, appointing Henry 

D’Louthier “to be Ensign of that Company whereof Charles 

Sadler Esq is Captain in Our Regiment of Foot commanded 

by Our Trusty and Wellbeloved Edward Nicholas Sankey 

...”, countersigned by Charles TOWNSHEND (2nd 

Viscount, 1674-1738, Lord President of the Council) , 1 

side folio on vellum with revenue stamp, Court at St James, 

11th January 1714 lacks papered seal [SD31327]£1,000 

176. GEORGE II (1890-1947, King of Greece) 

Fine Autograph letter signed as King to Colonel Plowden, 

thanking him for “all the kindness and hospitality you and 

your wife showed me during my brief stay in Bangalore. It 

was all rather a rush unfortunately and I would have liked 

to see more of the country. I regret very much having 

curtailed your charming dinner party and do hope your 

guest will realise that it was not quite my fault that I was 

not able to chat with them for a but. Anyhow I enjoyed 

every minute of it, and am wondering whether a kindly fate 

will ever bring me that way again! ...” ending by sending 

best wishes to his wife and thanking him again, 2 sides 

8vo., The Residency, Hyderabad, 18th January 1935 

[SD32310]£275 

177. GEORGE II (1683-1760, King of Great Britain) 

Fine Warrant Document signed at the head, establishing a 

board of General Officers, as the time limit “for 

constituting a Board of General Officers expires the 24th of 

this instant December ... we have thought fit to order and 

direct that the Board ... for the future shall consist of those 

whose names are respectively mentioned in the List 

annexed, seven of whom at any time are to constitute a 

board ... five shall be a quorum, and the Eldest at any time 

to be President ... to meet at the Great Room at the Horse 

Guards from time to time, in order to have the Inspection of 

the Cloathing of Our Forces and to consider and report their 

opinion upon all matters ...”, 1 side folio, Court at St 

James, 17th December 1731 

[SD9895]£350 

George II kept particularly close control of, and paid especially 

detailed attention to the army. 

178. GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain) & 

his Queen MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953) 

Fine pair of cabinet photos by J. Thomson, each signed 

“Victoria Mary” and “George”, and dated the Prince is 

wearing dress uniform with all his medals, the Princess is 

wearing a tiara and elaborate choker, both images are full 

face, 6½” x 4½”, no place, 1897, a little soiled and spotted 

to mounts 

[SD31659]£275


179. GEORGE III (1738-1820, King of Great Britain) 

Fine Commission Document signed, printed with the 

details filled in by hand, appointing William Munro “to be 

a Second Lieutenant in our Royal Regiment of Artillery 

whereof Our Master General of the Ordnance is Colonel 

and Commander in chief ...”, countersigned by 

CHATHAM (John Pitt, 1756-1835, 2nd Earl, son of Pitt 

the Elder, General), 1 side oblong folio on vellum with 

papered seal and revenue stamp, Court at St James’s, 9th 

August 1805 

[SD31640]£375 

Chatham was a favourite of George III, and owed most of his 

many appointments to him. He was ambitious in his army career 

and was very disappointed when Wellington was given the 

command of the army in the Peninsula in 1808. In 1809 he was 

given charge of the disastrous expedition to Walcheren, possibly 

as a compensation, and his name is mainly connected with this 

failure. 


Fine document signed at the head, printed with manuscript 

details, appointing Richard Ward to be “Captain of 

Dragoons in Our Army”, countersigned by “ Dunk 

HALIFAX ” (George Montague-Dunk, 1716-1771, 2nd 

Earl of Halifax, uncle of Lord North), as a Secretary of 

State, and by the Hon. Robert WALPOLE (d. 1810, 

Clerk of the Privy Council, Ambassador to Portugal), for 

the War office, vellum, 1 side oblong folio with papered 

seal and revenue stamp, Court at St James’s, 17th 

November 1762 

[SD51577]£750 

Dunk Halifax, ‘the Father of the Colonies’, was 1st Lord of 

Trade, 1748-1761, promoting Nova Scotia, whose capital is 

named after him (1749), as are counties in Virginia and North 

Carolina. In 1741 he married the heiress of Sir Thomas Dunk. In 

1763 he signed the famous ‘Dunk Warrant’ to search and 

apprehend the authors, printers and publishers of Wilkes ‘North 

Briton’, No. 45. After the officers arrested 18 people and seized a 

vast quantity of papers, the warrant was pronounced by the judges 

to be ‘unreasonable search and seizure’, and Halifax was mulcted 

in damages. It has been called ‘the most important warrant in 

Anglo-American law’, and the doctine overturning it is closely 

related to the Fourth Amendment. 

Robert Walpole’s father was Horatio, 1st Baron Walpole of 

Wolterton, brother of the Prime Minister. 

THE KING ANNOUNCES THE DEATH 

OF HIS COUSIN 

181. GEORGE V (1865-1936, from 1910 King of Great 

Britain) 

Finely typed document signed, in English, to the 

Provisional President of Peru, General Oscar Raimundo 

Benavides, (1876-1946, President 1914-1915 & 1933- 

1939), announcing “with deep sorrow ... the death of ... the 

Prince Maurice Victor Donald of Battenburg, son of Our 

dear Aunt ... the Princess Henry of Battenberg ... killed in 

action on the 27th. of October ... in his Twenty-fourth 

year”, confident the President will “share with Us the grief 

... tempered ... with the knowledge that the late Prince died 

in the service of his country”, signed also by Sir Edward 

Grey, (1862-1933, 1st Viscount, Foreign Secretary 1905- 

1916), fine printed royal titles with royal arms, 2 conjugate 

sides 14” x 8¼” black-edged, Buckingham Palace, 30th 

November 1914, two neat filing holes in blank margin 

[52374]£775 

182. GEORGE IV (1762-1830, King of Great Britain) & 

Sir Robert PEEL (1788-1850, Prime Minister) 

Fine Document signed as King addressed to the Revd 

George Gregory & William Ponsford, being a “License that 

John Lambert Arden & his issue may take & use the 

surname of Gorwyn in addition to and after that of Arden”, 

there is a lengthy explanation of the family situation 

“Whereas George Gregory of Dunsford in the County of 

Devon, Clerk, and William Ponsford, of Puddicombe in the 

same County Gentlemen, for and on behalf of John 

Lambert Arden, of the Parish of Cheriton Bishop in the 

County aforesaid Gentleman, a minor of the age of twenty 

years and upwards, the fourth and youngest son of George 

Arden, late of the City of Exeter, Mercer, deceased, by Joan 

his wife, on of the sisters of John Lambert Gorwyn, late of 

Cheriton Bishop ... also deceased, have by their Petition 

humbly represented us, that the said John Lambert Gorwyn, 

the late maternal uncle of the said John Lambert Arden, in 

and by his last Will ... gave and devised his messuages ... in 

the said Will, there is contained a Proviso and Direction 

that when and as soon as the said John Lambert Arden 

should become seized or entitled to the actual Possession of 

the said Estate ... he shall use, assume and take upon him 

and afterwards continue the surname of Gorwyn only 

instead of his then surname or by adding the same thereto 

...”, countersigned by Sir Robert PEEL) , 4 sides folio 

with papered seal and revenue stamp. Court at Carlton 

House, 14th May 1824 

[SD31641]£425 

Document signed by George IV as King are difficult to find as his 

reign was short and this one is particularly interesting as it is 

countersigned by Peel. 

183. GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed ‘George’ to ‘My dear 

Bishop’ saying that he will be “delighted to do anything I 

can to get Hastings in the Club, either to propose or second 

him & I will also try to get as many people to vote for him 

as possible. I am unfortunately laid up on board with a bad 

foot else I would come & see you ... I hardly like to ask you 

to come & see me as we are coaling, but if you don’t mind 

a little coal dust I would be very pleased if you would just 

come on board for a minute an we could talk it over ...”, 3 

sides 8vo., H.M.S. Alexandra headed paper, Friday, no 

date, but 1887- 1888 

[SD31634]£475 

From 20th May 1887 to 1st July 1887 and from 21st April 1888 to 

5th November 1888, Prince George served in H.M.S. Alexandra 

as a Lieutenant. This letter dates from his carefree early days of 

naval service, prior to 1892, when the death of his brother Prince 

Eddy placed him second in line to the throne. 

184. GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain) 

Fine Document signed at the head ‘George R.I.’ printed 

with the details filled in by hand, appointing “Joseph 

Cameron Dunbar, Esqure, Major in Our Royal Artillery ... 

to be a member of Our Distinguished Service Order ...”, 

countersigned with a stamped signature of David LLOYD 

GEORGE , 1 side folio with papered seal, Court at St 

James’s 3rd June 1916 

[SD28416]£175 

The DSO is second only to the VC


185. [GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain)] 

Menu, in French, for a dinner of nine courses, ending with 

“Timbale glacée Reine Mary”, embossed crowned 

monogram in gold, 1 side 6¼” x 4” gilt-edged, 

Buckingham Palace, 3rd March 1911, some spotting 

[51505]£125 

THE KING AND QUEEN IN SILVER 

PRESENTATION FRAMES 

186. GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain) & 

his Queen MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953) 

Superb pair of presentation photos signed on the mounts, 

his by Downey signed “George R. I.” and hers by Lambert 

Weston, signed “Mary R.” also signed by the photographer, 

showing them three quarters length, the King in uniform, 

with his hands behind his back, the Queen, in a jewelled 

dress, with a tiara, holding a fan, each 11” x 7”, in mounts 

14” x 11” in original silver frames with Crowns at the 

head, 15½” x 11½”, no place, 1922 the crowns are slightly 

rubbed 

[SD32235]£2,250 

187. [GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain) & 

his Queen MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953)] 

Timetable of their journey as Prince & Princess of Wales 

from Dalkeith to King’s Cross, by the N.B.R., N.E.R. and 

G.N.R., attractively printed in blue with a gold border, 1 

side 8vo and conjugate blank, 15th July 1907 [51504]£75 

188. GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of England) & 

ELIZABETH (1900-2002, Queen of Great Britain) 

Christmas card addressed to Reverend Stone, (Dean of 

Windsor) signed by both, under the printed message “with 

best wishes for Christmas and the New Year”, with a colour 

photo of the gardens at Balmoral on the front, 6½” x 4½” 

with a small blue ribbon, on folded white card, 8¼” x 7¾”, 

together with original envelope, Balmoral, Xmas 1938 

[SD28189]£375 



Fine large pair of presentation photos by Dorothy Wilding, 

signed and dated by the subjects under each image, 

showing the Royal couple head and shoulders, the King in 

uniform and the Queen in a jewelled dress with tiara and 

strings of pearls, each 11½” x 9”, on photographers mount 

13” x 10½”, in a wooden frame with a gilt crown on the top 

28” x 21”, no place, 1942 [SD28230]£1,500 



Fine wartime christmas card addressed to Reverend Stone, 

(Dean of Windsor) signed by both, under the printed 

message “with best wishes for Christmas and the New 

Year”, opposite a black and white photo of the King and 

Queen with their two daughters, the King wearing military 

uniform and the Queen wearing furs, 6¼” x 5”, on folded 

ivory card with the Royal Crest in gold embossed on the 

front, together with original envelope, no place, Christmas 

1942 [SD28188]£550 

191. [GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of England) & 

ELIZABETH (1900-2002, Queen of Great Britain)] 

Piece of their wedding cake in original presentation box 

with their intertwined initials “A.E.” under a silver crown, 

with the place and date, the cake still has the original 

protective lace doyley on it, Buckingham Palace, 26th April 

1923, slightly browned [SD31030]£650 

192. GILBERT (Sir Alfred, 1854-1934, Sculptor of 

‘Eros’ in Piccadilly Circus etc) 

Long Autograph Letter Signed to Madam apologising that 

his “letter should have conveyed a wrong meaning. I had 

no with to deny your coming to my studio as visitor, but as 

I have a distinct dislike of being written about I merely 

wished to convey to you as a critic that as long as my work 

was under my hands, I prefer not to show it through 

journalistic description to the outside World ...” inviting her 

to come when he will be “only too pleased to show you 

anything and everything I am doing if it interests you 

personally ...” but insisting that she must not write about it, 

4 sides 8vo., The Avenue, 76 Fulham Road, 23rd March 

[SD29982]£175 

193. GLYNNE (Sir Stephen Richard, M.P., 1807-1874, 

9th Bart.) 

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear Sir’, saying “By Mr. 

Gladstone’s direction I enclose a Check for £5 ... his 

contribution to the Church Educational Institute”, and 

asking for an acknowledgment direct to Gladstone at “No. 

4, Carlton House Terrace, London”, 3 sides small 8vo, 

Hawarden Castle, 2nd April 1856 [SD17204]£25 

Sir Stephen’s sister Catherine married W.E. Gladstone in 1839. 

He surveyed and made notes on 5,530 English churches, those for 

Kent being published by his nephew W.H. Gladstone in 1877. 

194. GORDON (Charles Gordon, 1833-1885, General 

Gordon of Khartoum, ‘Chinese Gordon’) 

Autograph Letter Signed to “H. M. Minister 

Plenipotentary” at Cairo, asking him if he “will supply me 

with the accompanying list of stationery as I had to leave 

England, at such short notice, that I could not obtain the 

same ...”, annotated at the top that it had been answered 

“yes”, 1 side 8vo., “At Sea”, 21st January 1884 

[SD30681]£375 

Gordon was summoned to the war office on 15 Jan. by Lord 

Wolseley to discuss sending him to Khartoum. The next morning 

(16th) he left for Brussels, en route for the Congo but he was 

immediately summoned back as the king of the Belgians, for 

whom he had been going to the Congo gave him permission to go 

to Egypt instead. On the 18th Gordon saw the British cabinet, and 

the same evening left with Colonel Stewart for the Soudan. 

Gordon’s mission was to effect the withdrawal of the garrisons 

and to evacuate the Soudan. At Cairo his functions were 

considerably extended. He was appointed, with the consent of the 

British government, governor-general of the Soudan, and was 

instructed, not only to effect the evacuation of the country, but to 

take steps to leave behind an organised independent government.


195. GONZÁLEZ (Manuel, 1833-1893, President of 

Mexico 1880-1884) 


translation, to the President of Peru, (General Miguel 

Iglesias, 1822-1901, President 1883-1885), thanking him 

“with great satisfaction” for Iglesias’ letter explaining that 

“appointed President for the renewal of Peru by the 

Assembly of Cajamarca in December 1882, Your 

Excellency [Iglesias] peacefully occupied Your capital on 

the 23rd of the following October, having signed with the 

Government of Chile on the 20th ... the peace so longed for 

by your own people and by foreign countries”, and that 

although Iglesias’ position “is uncertain, since You have 

already summoned for the 1st March next the General 

Constituent Assembly ... You have not wanted this short 

interval to pass, without bringing to my notice the happy 

successes accomplished in Peru”, thanking Iglesias for his 

good wishes, his successes “are all the more agreeable, as 

they concern a sister Republic which has just emerged from 

a prolonged and desolating struggle”, 2 sides folio, Mexico 

City, 29th January 1884, two small pinholes in blank upper 

left corner of first side [52543]£350 






to occupy Lima. General Iglesias was nominated and in October 

1883 a treaty was signed, but the invaders maintained a strong 

force at Chorillos till the treaty was finally approved in July 1884, 

including the transfer to Chile of Tarapacá. The Peruvians of the 

interior under General Cáceres refused to recognise Iglesias, and 

in December 1885 Iglesias abdicated. 

196. GORDON (Sir Alexander, General) 

Autograph Letter Signed to William Egley, (1798-1870), 

the miniaturist, saying that after “my Inspection of the 

District on Wednesday” they have only “Helen, Merelina, 

and Emma at home”, he sends his cheque for £14 4s “for 

the miniatures of ‘Les Jumelles’ ... when I am richer I will 

not fail to solicit your Services” for “my daughters Helen 

and Theresa”, he will send the miniatures of the Twins to 

Paris “with your directions about printing”, fortunately his 

son was not at Ferozeshah, the British had not half the 

artillery or of the calibre of the Sikhs, 4 sides 8vo., Hythe 

Barracks, 27th February 1846, old strip of transparent 

paper on margin of fourth side without loss [SD50369]£75 

197. GOULD (Sir Francis Carruthers, 1844-1925, 

Caricaturist and Journalist) 

Autograph Letter Signed to G.A.B. Dewar, thanking him 

for “the paragraph in the S. Review” and apologizing for 

not sending “a card this year”, they are off to Porlock in 

August, in Bloomsbury “we are always at home on 

Sundays, but I expect you prefer the country birds to the 

Church bells in town”, 3 sides 8vo., The Westminster 

Gazette, Tudor Street, E.C., 1st July 1903 [SD19794]£25 

Gould excelled in caricatures of figures on the Stock Exchange, of 

which he was a member, and wrote ‘Froissart’s Modern 

Chronicles’. 

198. GRACE (W. G., 1848-1915, Cricketer) 

Autograph Postcard Signed to A. E. Skeen, telling him that 

he has “nothing whatever to do with the arrangements of 

the test matches ...”, 1 side postcard, with autograph 

address on the verso, together with a cigarette card photo, 

Sydenham, 13th December 1904 [SD30658]£325 

199. GRANARD (George Forbes, 1760-1837, from 1780 

6th Baron, Col. Commandant 108th Foot, General, from 

1806 1st Earl) 

Autograph Letter Signed to his tenant Alexander 

Montgomery, explaining that he fears his letter of the 19th 

“was in the Mail that was robbed”, he had first heard that 

day “of your lands being distrained three days after the rent 

was due ... Mr Verschoyle ... solemnly assured me that 

Crawford had done it ... without his knowledge or direction 

... I am incapable of countenancing such behaviour ... few 

events have ever ... vexed me half so much ... Crawford I 

shall certainly dismiss”, but will have to remain long 

enough to go over the accounts, he hopes Lady Granard’s 

letter to Montgomery’s brother will vindicate him, “for if I 

had injured, I should never have added to it by ... 

professions of friendship”, 3 sides 4to., Dublin, 25th 

December 1788 

[SD50152]£75 

200. GRANBY (John Manners, 1721-1770, Commanderin-Chief, 

1766-1769, Marquis of) 

Portrait engraved by François Germain Aliamet, 1734- 

1790, head and shoulders, 6½” x 4¾”, no date, c. 1780 

[SD20026]£35 

Aliamet came to England in 1756, perhaps to avoid comparison 

with his brother Jacques, settled in London, and opened a school 

of drawing. 

201. GRANVILLE (George Leveson-Gower, 1815-1891, 

K.G., Statesman, 2nd Earl) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Frederick Gye, 1810-1878, of 

Covent Garden, saying that “Lord Ailesbury would be 

obliged ... if you would direct an omnibus box ticket to be 

sent to Lord Newport”, 1 side 8vo., 16 Bruton Street, W., 

4th April 1864, laid down 

[SD19796]£15 

202. GREENE (Graham, 1904-1991, Novelist & 

Playwright) 

Typed Letter Signed with autograph corrections to Mr 

Harding Edgar telling him that he hasn’t got “the revised 

typescript with the properly collated Boisgobey’s and 

Gaboriau’s, so I’m not sure how many first Vizetelly 

editions we have, but this is the list of titles and if you have 

any titles apart from these I would like to have them 

whatever the edition ...” there follows a list of titles by the 

two authors with an autograph addition at the end of the list 

and he then says he is “sorry I’ve missed out a Gaboriau 

Catastrophe 1890. As you see we seem to be pretty strong 

in Boisgobey’s! ....”, 2 sides 8vo., with original envelope, 

C6 Albany, London, 27th November 1962 [SD30100]£325


203. GREY (Charles, 1804-1870, Secretary to Prince 

Albert 1849-1861 and to Queen Victoria 1861-1870, 

General from 1865) 

Long autograph letter signed to Colonel William Wylde 

(1788-1877, of the Royal Artillery), commenting on two 

papers on the instructing of officers at Aldershot, which 

Wylde had forwarded from the author for Prince Albert, 

heartily concurring with the second in recommending more 

attention to marching, small arms practice and as much 

“spade & pick ... as that given to the Sappers & Miners”, 

which benefits soldiers both in the army and after 

discharge, recalling the views of his brother (Henry, 3rd 

Earl) when Secretary at War under Melbourne, and his own 

experience, that marching, halting for inspection, and 

taking up “a position” as if attacked from in front or 

behind, was very valuable, however taking issue with the 

writer’s views in the first paper, that officers should receive 

instruction before entering the Army, commenting “in any 

system of education, whether for the bar or the church, a 

man’s real education begins after he is 17”, and “must be 

continued after he joins his Regt. - He should be considered 

strictly in statu pupillari till he is 3 or 4 & twenty ... no 

previous study ... will do much if ... not ... followed up”, 

adding “the Sandhurst Officers generally prove failures”, 

they join their regiment “bristling with self conceit”, adding 

in a P.S. that “those who go, voluntarily to the Senior 

Department of Sandhurst ... almost invariably become 

useful officers & ... distinguish themselves if they have the 

opportunity. The Prince had not time to read the Papers 

himself - but I told him the purport of them”, 6 sides 4to, 

Buckingham Palace, 11th March 1855 [53124]£275 

Charles Grey was the second surviving son of the 2nd Earl Grey 

of Howick, 1764-1845, Prime Minister. Wylde had served in 

Portugal and Spain in the 1830s, helping Don Pedro and Isabella 

II. Prince Albert made him his Equerry in 1840, a post exchanged 

for Groom of the Bedchamber in 1846 as Wylde’s Artillery 

responsibilities grew, but which still allowed Albert to send him 

on confidential missions to the Peninsular. 

From the papers of Col. William Wylde, 1788-1877, who helped 

Espartero defeat the Carlists. 

204. GUIZOT (François, 1787-1874, French Historian 

and Prime Minister) 

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Monsieur’, whom he has sent 

to Brittany to gauge popular opinion, in French with 

translation, “I only fear that a part of this visit”, presumably 

by Louis Philippe I, “may be still too soon to guarantee a 

welcome ... but the occasion will not let him down ... 

Monsieur de Saint Aignan ... only lacks a Prefect of the 

Côtes du Nord. The King had named a very good man, 

who has preferred to stay as Sub-Prefect at St. Malo”, the 

writer needs frequently “to view things as they are seen 

from down there, from where the administration is always 

so distant ... We have done some good things here. 

However, come back as often as you are able. I would like 

you to in your own personal interests”, 2 sides 8vo., no 

place, 21 August 1830 

[SD19156]£65 

Written within a fortnight of Charles X’s abdication on 7th 

August. Guizot was the new Minister of the Interior, and 

overhauled the appointments of the Prefects and Sub-Prefects, 

besides closing down the revolutionary clubs. From the 

Bibliotheca Lindesiana, no. 1768. 

205. GREIG (Group-Captain Sir Louis, 1880-1953, 

Comptroller, 1920-1923, and from 1924 Gentleman Usher 

to the Duke of York (George VI) and to Elizabeth II) 

Typed Letter Signed to N. Dayer-Smith, of Hadsley & Co., 

thanking him on behalf of the Duke of York for “the 

admirable and business-like manner in which you carried 

out within recent months the purchase and sale of No. 29, 

Chester Mews”, and for his care and trouble “... in other 

ways”, crowned York Rose in garter at head, with original 

envelope, 1 side 4to., White Lodge, Richmond Park, 8th 

June 1923, small defect in blank corner, a little sunned 

from former framing, envelope laid down [SD50525]£60 

206. GRÉVY (Jules, 1813-1891, French President 1879- 

1887) 


to the President of Peru, (General Miguel Iglesias, 1822- 

1901, President 1883-1885), thanking him for his letter 

saying that on 1st March 1884 he was installed as 

Provisional President by the Constituent Assembly, 

pending a full election, congratulating him and aiming to 

maintain and strengthen good relations between their 

countries, signed also by Jules Ferry as Foreign Minister, 

1 side folio, Paris, 20th June 1884, blank right and bottom 

margins a trifle frayed, mostly with short closed tears, one 

small light original smudge in text, slightly foxed 

[52544]£175 


side of Bolivia in a dispute over the Chilean Nitrate Company. An 

attempt was made to form an administration which could agree 

terms with Chile, who continued to occupy Lima. General 

Iglesias was nominated to head an administration and agree terms 

with Chile and in October 1883 a treaty was signed, but the 

invaders maintained a strong force at Chorillos till the treaty was 

finally approved in July 1884, including the transfer to Chile of 

Tarapacá. The Peruvians of the interior under General Cáceres 

refused to recognise Iglesias, and in December 1885 Iglesias 

abdicated. 

Jules Grévy, a lawyer who had defended republican political 

prisoners, retired from public life under Napoleon III till 1868, and 

was chosen the first president of the new Assembly in 1871. 

Quiet but with a reputation for shrewdness, he was the 

republicans’ choice in 1879 to succeed the conservative Marshal 

Mac-Mahon. 

Jules Ferry, 1832-1893, administered Paris during the siege of 

1870, and was Prime Minister 1880-1881 & 1883-1885. He is 

famous for the law of 1882 which made primary education in 

France free, non-clerical, and obligatory. He also organised the 

conquest of Indo-China, 1885. 

207. GUSTAF VI (1882-1973, from 1950 King of 

Sweden) and his second wife LOUISE (1889-1965, née 

Mountbatten, younger daughter of the 1st Marquess of 

Milford Haven) 

Exceptional photograph by Jaeger, signed below and dated, 

showing him standing, full length, in uniform with sword 

and decorations, his wife seated, nearly full length, in 

nurse’s uniform, both full face, no place, no date, circa 

1928 [52851]£425


208. GUSTAF V (1858-1950, from 1907 King of 

Sweden) 

Finely typed document signed, in Swedish with translation, 

to the President of Peru, José Luís Bustamante Rivero, 

(1894-1989, President 1945-1948), acknowledging the 

letter recalling Dr José Ortiz de Zevallos from his post as 

ambassador, saying that the ambassador has constantly 

striven “to maintain the friendly relations which so happily 

exist between Sweden and Peru” and has so gained “Our 

esteem and confidence”, signed also by Östen Undén, 

(1886-1974, Foreign Minister 1924-1926 & 1945-1962), 1 

side 13¼” x 8¾” and conjugate blank, Stockholm Castle, 

22nd March 1946, two neat filing holes and a few brown 

specks in blank left margin [52375]£175 

During the first world war, Gustaf V initiated talks with the other 

Scandinavian monarchs which led to their preserving their 

neutrality. During the second, his nephew Count Folke 

Bernadotte was active in securing the release of prisoners from 

German concentration camps. 

209. HAGGARD (Sir H. Rider, 1856-1925, Novelist, 

Author of ‘King Solomon’s Mines’) 

Important collection of 7 Autograph Letters Signed, 2 

Typed Letters Signed, (one with autograph postscript), 9 

LSs (one with autograph additions), 4 secretarial cards 

signed and 1 autograph card signed to Mr Matheson, Hon. 

Sec. Anglo- African Writer’s Club, ranging from 1894 to 

1922 and covering various topics - concerning a talk “I 

shall confine my remarks to African politics & affairs so if 

you like to have reporters present from the London papers - 

well & good ... I met Capt Lugard yesterday ...”, “I think it 

might be well to alter the sentence ‘the tin trumpet of Mr 

Labouchere is not the great voice of Britain’ to the tin 

trumpet of ‘Truth’ is not the great ... less personal I think! 

....” thanking him for sending “your volume ‘Under the 

Cedars’ ... I never knew that you were the author of the 

parody beginning ‘I drove a golf ball into the air’. Surely 

there was some row about it not long ago ... if you did play 

a foursome with me ... you would indeed find the 

performance ‘mediocre’ ...”, sending his “resignation of the 

Presidentship of the Anglo-African Writer’s Club ... as I do 

not think that one individual should monopolise that office 

indefinitely. Would it not be well to make the position 

annual? ...”, concerning a talk being given by Kõtze, 

regretting he cannot chair a dinner because of “the sudden 

and shocking death by accident of a relative of Mrs 

Haggards a young friend of min, whose parents live close 

... He was captain of an amateur fire brigade and lost his 

life in a brewery ...”, accepting that the Club wishes him to 

continue as Chairman on the understanding “that I shall be 

engaged in constant travelling during the next six months 

which may prevent my being able to preside at the dinners 

...” and so withdrawing his resignation, saying the “If Mr 

Chamberlain will accept it would be an excellent thing - but 

I fear he will scarcely care to speak on these matters at the 

present juncture ... From ... October till ... November I have 

engagements connected with my agricultural business 

which I fear would make it most difficult .... for me to 

come to town ...” thanking him for “the letters of 

introduction you mention ...”, asking him about cabins as 

he understands “that your boats are still running to 

Mombassa & the E. African ports. Are they very crowded 

or are any single cabins available? ... I am thinking of going 

to Mombassa ... to pay a visit to the Governor of Uganda 

who is an old friend ... if one can do so without too much 

discomfort & expense ...” asking for a list of sailings and 

prices for “a return ticket to E. Africa & alternatively home 

round the Cape. I hope you keep well in these melancholy 

times ...” (October 1915), he writes again that he “must be 

very stupid, but I am not sure that I understand the rates & 

routes ... My idea is to got to Uganda starting say 

somewhere about Xmas ... what I should be glad to know is 

(1) The nett single first class fair to Mombassa by the E. 

Coast route ... (2) Ditto by the West Coast Route ... (3) Can 

you give me an idea of the longest delay there might be in 

catching a British India boat at Natal & ... the approximate 

length by either route of the voyage ... (4) Could I hope to 

have a cabin to myself ...”, the final letter thanks him for 

his letter and “the book of verses which I have received just 

as I am leaving this place (where I spend the winter for the 

benefit of my ‘tubes’ en route for Norfolk ... It seems a long 

while since the old A.A.W.C. days ... I always think it was 

rather a pity that the Club was allowed to expire. You are 

luck to be able to retire and spend your age in lecturing, 

somehow most of us have to keep our shoulders to the 

collar ...”, 24 sides 8vo., together with a reading copy of his 

autobiography “The Days of my Life” in 2 volumes, the 

letters 10 sides 4to., 7 sides card, 51 Cambridge Terrace, 

Hyde Park, Ditchingham House, Norfolk, 27 Duke St, St 

James’s, Cliff Grange, Kessingland, Rougemont Hotel, 

Exeter, 12 South Street, Thurloe Square and North Lodge 

St. Leonard’s, 10th April 1894 to 8th April 1922, varying 

condition, some staining and soiling and some repairs, one 

with the crest removed not affecting the text 

[SD29900]£2,750 

210. HAGGARD (Sir H. Rider, 1856-1925, Novelist, 

Author of ‘King Solomon’s Mines’) 

Exceptional portrait photo by Langfier, boldly signed and 

dated showing him head and shoulders, full face, 8” x 6”, 

no place, 24th June 1919 

[SD30997]£750 

THE CENTENARY OF THE BATTLE OF 

AYACUCHO 

211. HAAKON VII (1872-1957, from 1905 King of 

Norway) 


to the President of Peru, (Augusto Bernardino Leguía, 

1864-1932, President 1908-1912 & 1919-1930), naming 

Jacob Christian Dahm as his special Minister 

Plenipotentiary to attend the centenary celebrations of the 

Battle of Ayacucho, and inviting the President “to place 

entire trust in what Herr Dahm will convey to You on My 

behalf ... above all ... the sincere wishes that I form on such 

an auspicious occasion”, signed also by Lars Oftedel, 

Minister of Social Affairs, 1924-1926, 2 sides 13¼” x 8½” 

and conjugate blank, Royal Palace, Kristiania (Oslo), 20th 

September 1924, two neat filing holes in blank margin 

[52376]£325 

In 1824 General Sucré defeated at Ayacucho the Spanish Viceroy 

La Serna, who had retreated inland after the declaration of 

independence at Lima on 1821. The viceroy and his officers were 

taken prisoner and Spanish dominion in Peru was at an end.


THE CORONATION OF KING HAAKON 

VII & QUEEN MAUD 

212. HAAKON VII (Christian Charles, 1872-1957, 1st 

King of Norway on its independence from Sweden) & his 

wife Queen MAUD (Charlotte Mary Victoria, 1869-1938, 

Daughter of Edward VII) 

Fine portrait photograph, by Aune of Trondhjem, signed by 

both and dated by the Queen, showing the King standing 

and the Queen seated, both full length, full face in their 

coronation robes, each with crown, sceptre and orb, 5¼” x 

6½” on card within mount 8½” x 11”, (Trondhjem), 22nd 

June 1906 [53109]£750 

213. HAILSHAM (Quintin Hogg, b. 1907, Statesman, 

English Jurist, Lord Chancellor, 2nd Viscount) 

Typed Letter Signed to the Revd. Alastair M. Wallace, 

(Scottish teacher in Kenya), saying “It was so good of you 

to write”, royal arms and ‘Lord Chancellor’ in heading, 1 

side 8vo, House of Lords, S.W.1., 21st March 1973 

[SD17322]£15 

214. HALL (Gage John, Major-General, Commander of 

the forces at Mauritius, 1817-1819 and Acting Governor, d. 

1854) 

Autograph Letter Signed to the Commissioners of the 

Colonial Auditor, saying he considers they “should be in 

possession of the enclosed document” [not present], 

relating, according to the verso, to the Mauritius Treasury, 

1 side 4to. and conjugate leaf, 39 Sackville Street, 6th April 

1819, small defect in fold from former laying down 

[52073]£150 

Later Hall was the first Colonel of the new Wiltshire Regiment, 

(the 99th), whose smart turnout led to the phrase “dressed up to 

the nines”. 

215. HAMILTON (Sir George Rostrevor, 1888-1967, 

Poet, Writer & Civil Servant, Vice-President of the Royal 

Society of Literature) 

Portrait photograph by Walter Bird, half length full face, 

signed and inscribed on the mount “Affectionately” (for 

Molly Patterson, secretary of the R.S.L.), 6” x 4¼” on 

mount 8” x 6”, no date, c. 1965 

[SD19821]£45 

216. HARRACH (Ferdinand, Graf von, 1832-1915, 

German Historical, Landscape & Portrait Painter) 

Autograph letter signed in his attractive hand, in German 

with transcription and translation, to ‘Your Highness’ ( 

Princess Helene, 1857-1936, 2nd wife of Prince Albert of 

Saxe Altenburg, 1843-1902), saying he has reserved three 

tickets, “which although not immediately next to the Royal 

Box, are still reckoned the best”, asking that they be 

collected from “the Society of Berlin Artists ... against 

payment of 20 Marks each”, and repeating his and his 

wife’s thanks for “yesterday evening”, 2 sides 8vo, Berlin, 

30th November 1895 [53161]£75 

With a pencil note “the painter” in German in the hand of Princess 

Helene’s step-daughter Olga. 

217. HARKER (Gordon, 1885-1967, Comic Actor) 

Portrait photo, signed and inscribed to Mrs Ambrose, 

showing him head and shoulders, three quarter face, hand 

just below his chin, wearing pince-nez, 9” x 7” in glazed 

frame 13” x 11”, no date, c. 1930 [52418]£65 

218. HARRIS (John Adolphus, General) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Messrs Kent at Carpenter’s 

Hall, London, saying “I believe you are right”, and asking 

for “Eighteen Yards of Sail Cloth, a Bedround Carpet; and 

your Acct.”, with a list by Messrs Kent on side 2, “36¾ yds 

4/4 [1 yd wide] Kiddr. - 6/-, 8 yds ¾ run for a bed 4/9 ...”, 

the letter 1 side 4to., address on conjugate leaf, Hoddesdon, 

14th December 1807, spike hole replaced with old paper, 

traces of guard on fourth side 

[SD50088]£30 

219. HART (William S.{urrey}, 1864-1946 , Silent film 

Actor, Screenwriter, Director, & Producer, 1st Western 

Movie Star) 

Fine photo signed and inscribed “to George Lavender from 

his friend William S. Hart”, he is posing next to a bronze of 

himself with two guns, 8½” x 7”, n.p., n.d., c. 1920 

[SD32294]£575 

THE NEW LOOK 

220. HARTNELL (Sir Norman, 1901-1979, The Queen’s 

Dressmaker) 

Group of 5 finished drawings in watercolour, of a winter 

“New Look” collection in contrasting styles, of which 3 are 

signed, including one with four swatches of the materials, 

and 2 unsigned, including one inscribed ‘to Miss Mary 

Alice Collins’, 10¼” x 7¼” in margins 14” x 10”, loose in a 

Hartnell folder “by Appointment to H.M. the Queen 

Dressmakers” with the arms in colour of Queen Elizabeth 

(wife of George VI), 16½” x 10¾”, 26 Bruton Street, 

London W.1., no date, c. 1950 [51773]£775 

1. Winter coat in bright red with striped hood, double breasted 

with “military” buttons, waisted and full skirted, worn with striped 

trousers and winter boots, signed. 

2. Afternoon coat in fine primrose wool, with matching hat and 

large matching fur collar and trimmings at the front, reminiscent 

of the style favoured at the time by the Queen, inscribed by 

Hartnell ‘to Miss Mary Alice Collins’, unsigned. 

3. Maroon knee-length dress with matching coat, with grey and 

mauve trimmings, tip-tilted hat with feather trimmings, with four 

swatches of the materials, signed. 

4. Grey coat with large fur trimmings to the lapels and pockets, 

nipped-in-waist and pleated skirt, two-tone grey hat, with a pencil 

sketch of the accompanying double-breasted dress, unsigned. 

5. Floor-length evening dress of black satin with heavy beaded 

decoration in aquamarine, and coat of aquamarine paillettes and 

heavy black fur cuffs, signed. 

Hartnell quickly impressed his own personality and wide range of 

colours and shades on the “New Look”, introduced by Christian 

Dior’s first collection of 1947. The look also responded to the 

government’s wish to increase the demand for clothing materials 

from factories previously devoted to the armed services. 

Hartnell received the Royal Warrant in 1940. Besides couture to 

the highest standards including the present Queen’s wedding and 

coronation gowns, his many famous designs included a stylish and 

flexible Utility range during the war, and uniforms for the 

W.R.A.C. and Women’s Police.


221. HARTNELL (Sir Norman, 1901-1979, The Queen’s 

Dressmaker) 

Fine original hand made Christmas Card signed (‘Norman 

Hartnell’) and dated inside under the hand printed 

Christmas greeting message, on the outside is a picture of 

shooting stars made out of plastic strips and beads on a blue 

felt background, 8” x 5”, no place, 1959 [SD26703]£125 

It was Hartnell’s habit to make his christmas cards out of the 

leftover scraps of material and beads from his workshop. 

AUTOGRAPH ALBUM INCLUDING 

EXPLORERS, MOUNTAINEERS & 

AUTHORS 

222. HILLARY (Sir Edmund, b. 1919, Mountaineer, 

Conqueror of Everest in 1953 with) Tenzing NORGAY 

(1914-1986, Sherpa Tenzing, Nepalese mountaineer), Sir 

Vivian FUCHS (1908-1999, Antarctic explorer), and 

members of Scott’s last expedition Sir Raymond 

PRIESTLEY (1886-1974, geologist), and George 

‘Sunny Jim’ SIMPSON (Meteorologist on the Terra 

Nova), Thomas Wyatt BAGSHAWE (1901-1976, 

Geologist) 

Interesting album of letters (about 15) and signatures of 

Explorers (7), including conquerors of Everest Sir Edmund 

Hillary and Tensing (signed postcard photo of the latter in 

mountaineering gear, 5th December 1955) & Tom 

Bourdillon (1924–1956, expedition member, Physician & 

Mountaineer), Antarctic explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs, and 

members of Scott’s last expedition Sir Raymond Priestley 

(Autograph Letter Signed, 20th October 1960, naming 

other survivors) and George ‘Sunny Jim’ Simpson 

(Autograph Letter Signed, 24th April 1961, about his 

cartoon portrait by Lillie in the ‘South Polar Times’), 

Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe (delightful Typed Letter Signed, 

10th December1960, about recruiting for Grahamsland, 

1920-1922); Writers (8), including Monk Gibbon (1896- 

1987, fascinating Autograph Letter Signed, Co. Dublin, 

27th July 1958, attempting to explain a poem [Yeats’ 

‘Among School Children’, in which Yeats refers to Maud 

Gonne’s ‘Ledaean body’], and referring to his own ‘The 

Masterpiece and the Man’ [a biography of Yeats, 1959], 

Bernard Darwin (2), Charles Graves, Christopher Fry, 

Priestley, Sir Harold Nicholson, C.E. Vulliamy; Actors and 

broadcasters (6) Valentine Dyall, Noël Johnson (‘Dick 

Barton’), Alvar Lidell (1908-1981, newsreader), John 

Neville, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh (1911-2005); 

Musicians Adrian Boult, Myra Hess, Yehudi Menuhin; 

Labour Politicians (4) Bevan, Bevin, Cripps, Dalton 

including a good photo of Cripps and Bevan visiting ICI, 

1946; and others including Sir Robert Watson-Watt (1892- 

1973, pioneer of radar), Lord McGowan (chairman of ICI), 

I. Peltekis, (DSO, Greek Resistance Leader, fine signature 

repeated in Greek and Roman letters, 7th June 1945), tennis 

players Giorgio di Stefani (Italian champion) and Ferrante 

Lavriani (Zermatt, 1947), together about 15 letters and 25 

signatures, blue leather 6¾” x 8¼”, 1938 - 1960, nearly all 

laid down, the letters by a blank portion [52576]£750 

The compiler of the album, Miss Julia Allen, worked at the Scott 

Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, and her aunt Mary Hope 

Allen was at the BBC, 1927-1958 (good obituary notice loosely 

included). 

223. HARVEY (Sir Martin, 1863-1944, Actor Manager) 

Fine cabinet photo by the London Stereoscopic Co., signed 

at the top showing him head and shoulders, as Sydney 

Carton in ‘The only way’, 6½” x 4¼”, no place, no date, 

[SD28269]£55 

224. HOFMANN (Josef Casimir, 1876-1957, Pianist) 

Fine photo signed and inscribed “To Boris Hambourg in 

remembrance of a most delightful evening spent in his 

house in Toronto ...”, showing him head and shoulders in 

profile, 9” x 6½”, Aiken, South Carolina, 1922 

[SD30097]£250 

225. HOLLOWAY (Stanley, 1890-1982, Entertainer) 

Typed Letter Signed to Miss Hazel Fletcher, of North End 

Modern School, Portsmouth, saying “there is a book 

published with twelve monologues, including ‘The Lion 

and Albert’ ”, giving details, and thanking her “for your 

kind birthday wishes and appreciation”, Pyefleet, East 

Preston, Sussex, 1 side 8vo., 26th October 1970 

[SD19906]£40 

226. HOOVER (Herbert Clark, 1874-1964, President of 

the United States 1928-1932) 

Photo of his crayon portrait from a magazine, signed, 

showing him head and shoulders, in serious but not severe 

mood, 7¾” x 5¾”, no date, c. 1930, laid down on card 

[52201]£225 

227. HOUGHTON (Richard Monckton Milnes, M.P., 

1809-1885, 1st Baron Houghton, Reforming Politician, 

Traveller and Poet) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Wylie, saying that he is 

“leaving London on Monday next ... otherwise I should 

have been very glad ... to come and meet the Duke of 

Newcastle”, 2 sides 8vo., 27 Norfolk Street, Park Lane, 

12th July n.y., c. 1865 

[SD15029]£15 

Monckton Milnes is ‘Vavasour’ in Disraeli’s ‘Tancred’. 

MEMBERS OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL 

INCLUDING VISCOUNT LATIMER 

228. HOWARD (Hon. Sir Robert, 1626-1698, Dramatist, 

from 1673 Auditor of the Exchequer Receipt), 

ARLINGTON (Henry Bennet, 1618-1685, Baron, 

CABAL member), BRIDGEWATER (John Egerton, 

1622-1686, 2nd Earl), COVENTRY (Hon. Henry, 1619- 

1686, Secretary of State), CRAVEN (William, 1606- 

1697, 2nd Earl), FAUCONBERG (Thomas Belasyse, 

1627-1700, Cromwell’s son-in-law, Earl), HOLLES 

(Denzil, 1599-1680, Baron), LATIMER (Sir Thomas 

Osborne, 1631-1712, Viscount, later Earl of Danby and 

Duke of Leeds), and WALKER (Sir Edward, 1612-1677, 

Garter, Secretary to Charles I, Clerk of the Council) 

Exceptional set of Signatures on fragment of an Order of 

the Exchequer, 1 side 3¼” x 12”, no date. but between 15th 

August 1673 and 27th June 1674 [SD51632]£775 

At the left is part of a note in a clerk’s hand, “[There is noe 

alter]ac[i]on of the demandes [of this quarters Bill] from the Bills 

of former [quarters]”. All the signers were members of the Privy 

Council. Written during the short period when Osborne was 

known as Viscount Latimer and before his impeachment.


229. HUTTON (Richard Holt, 1826-1897, Editor) 

Autograph Letter Signed to the Revd. Henry Allon, 1818- 

1892, President of the Congregational Union (1864 and 

1881), saying “My article is all but ready ... I could send it 

on Saturday very conveniently”, 1 side 8vo., ‘The 

Spectator’ Office, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, 3rd January 

1872 [SD19909]£45 

Hutton was ordained a unitarian minister, was Professor of 

Mathematics at Bedford College for Women, and from 1861 was 

part owner and joint editor of ‘The Spectator’. 

230. JAMES (Henry, 1843-1916, American born, British 

Naturalised Novelist) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Santley accepting an 

invitation to dine “with you on Tuesday ...”, 1 side 8vo., 3 

Bolton Street, Piccadilly, 7th November no year A fine 

example of his signature 

[SD32315]£350 

SIGNED BY LORD CHANCELLOR 

ELLESMERE 

231. [JAMES I (1566-1625, from 1603 King of Great 

Britain)] 

Writ, in Latin with transcription and translation, addressed 

to Sir Edward Stanhope, Sir Robert Swift, Sir William 

Cave, Lionel Rowlston, Esq., and Geoffrey Columbell, 

Esq., empowering them, or any four, three or two of them, 

in the case of William Copley, Esq against John Pierrepont, 

Gent., and his wife Margaret, to receive cognisances from 

the Pierreponts, in order to raise a final concord in the 

King’s Bench “concerning one half of two hundred acres of 

land twenty acres of meadow and sixty acres of pasture 

with appurtenances and ... one third part of tithes of all kind 

corn grain hay wool flax horses and sheep and of all other 

tithes whatsoever with appurtenances shooting growing and 

renewing in Wadworth in the County of York”, the king 

“sympathizing” with the Pierreponts who are so infirm 

(‘impotentes’) “that without very great danger to their 

persons they cannot undertake to proceed to Westminster 

on the day mentioned”, signed by the clerk “Harryson”, on 

the verso are the signatures “T. Ellesmere Canc[ellarius]’” 

and “Jo: Croke”, also “Rec’ vi s viii d Tho Whiche”, 

vellum, 1 side 2¾” x 12¼” and endorsements, Westminster, 

7th February, 8th and 44th James I, 1611 [53080]£275 

Sir Thomas Egerton, (1540-1617, Lord Chancellor 1603-1617, 

Baron Ellesmere and later Viscount Brackley) was heavily 

involved under Elizabeth in the prosecution of recusants and 

Jesuits, and in the trials of St Edmund Campion and Mary Queen 

of Scots. As Lord Chancellor he presided over the Star Chamber, 

and conducted among others the State Trials of Sir Walter Raleigh 

and the Gunpowder Plotters. The present writ reflects the 

enormous amount of business which he chose to oversee even as 

Lord Chancellor. Sir Edward Stanhope and Sir Robert Swift 

both served as sheriffs in Yorkshire. 

John Pierrepont of Wadworth, 4 miles south of Doncaster, 

died 1st July 1653, aged 75, and was owner of the rectory and 

other property there. In 1609 he married Margaret, daughter and 

co-heir of Michael Cockson, gentleman, of Wadworth and 

Crookhill. She was buried in 1620, having had several children. 

It appears therefore, that although they pleaded infirmity, neither 

will have been very old. The Copley family lived at the Old Hall, 

Wadworth, and the present writ shows that they had some claim 

on the tithes. 

232. IRIGOYEN (Hipólito, 1850-1933, President of 

Argentina 1916-1922 & 1928-1930) 


translation, authorizing Doctor Honorio Pueyrredón, 

Minister Secretary of State in the Department of Foreign 

Affairs and Religion, “to exchange Ratifications of the 

Convention of the 10th February 1910, signed by the 

Argentine Republic and that of Peru, concerning the 

abolition of notary’s certificates [‘legalizaciones’] in letters 

requisitorial and other documents directed between the 

Tribunals of both Republics” with those countries’ 

representatives, signed also by Secretary of State for the 

Interior Dr Ramón Gómez, 1 side folio and conjugate 

blank, 31st December 1918, five tiny worm holes in blank 

portions of margin [52546]£275 

233. JEPHSON (Arthur Jermy Mounteney, d. 1908, 

served under Sir H.M. Stanley in the Southern Sudan) 

Autograph Letter Signed to his publisher Mr Bentley, 

(George, 1828-1895, Publisher and Author) telling him in 

reply to my letter to “Messrs Robson telling them that I was 

going to bring out in a one volume form and asking for 

clichés of the four illustrations, they write to say that they 

have already disposed of two of the illustrations ... for other 

works in England, but that the will be ‘happy to let me have 

electrotype of the other two at the usual rate of 9d per 

square inch’ - Unfortunately the two that they say they have 

disposed of are the two best ... the remaining two will be 

better than nothing. ‘He would be a Soldier’ from what I 

hear ... is a book which could take tremendously at about 

Xmas time. I hope therefore you will not lose sight of your 

promise to bring it out by the 25th October ...” asking the 

latest date that he will need it and also it would be too 

expensive to get “two new illustrations by the same artist 

...”, 3 sides 8vo., written of notepaper with his 

monogrammed initials at the head but upside down, 

Ashford, nr Staines, 6th September no year, 1876 

[SD30416]£125 

Lieutenant Jephson commanded a detachment in the expedition to 

relieve Emin Pasha, 1887-1890, governor of the Equatorial 

Province of the Sudan. Jephson remained with Emin while 

Stanley went back to the Congo to pick up his belated rearguard. 

For several months Emin and Jephson were prisoners of Emin’s 

rebellious Egyptians, before finally reaching the East coast. See 

Jephson’s ‘Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator’. 

234. JOHN PAUL XXIII (born Angelo Giuseppe 

Roncalli, 1881-1963, Pope from 1958, known as Blessed 

John XXIII since his beatification, called the Second 

Vatican Council in 1962) 

Coloured photo signed, showing him three quarters length, 

in papal robes, giving a blessing, 6” x 4”, Rome, no date, 

circa 1960 

[SD32586]£450 

Known affectionately as “Good Pope John” and “the most loved 

Pope in history” to many people, on September 3, 2000 John was 

declared “Blessed” by Pope John Paul II, the penultimate step on 

the road to sainthood. Following his beatification, his body was 

moved from its original burial place in the grottoes below St 

Peter’s Basilica to the Altar of St. Jerome and displayed for the 

veneration of the faithful.


235. JERITZA (Maria, 1887-1982, Slovakian-born 

American Soprano, last mistress of the Emperor of Austria) 

Postcard photo, signed below, showing her standing half 

length, in a black coat and hat with white trimmings, 

bending over to hold her two dachshunds on the table next 

to her, 3½” x 3” oval in margins 4½” x 3¼”, (Vienna), date 

pencilled in corner 16th June 1925, light original smudge in 

last letter of signature [52288]£125 

Jeritza was in the Vienna State Opera, 1912-1935, creating the 

part of Strauss’ Ariadne. She was also at the ‘Met’, 1921-1932, 

where her Tosca was renowned. 

236. JERSEY (Edward Villiers, 1656-1711, Ambassador, 

Secretary of State, Lord Chamberlain 1700-1704, from 

1697 1st Earl) 

Portion of a Document signed addressed to “your 

Lordship”, asking for payment of £3550, in respect of gold 

rings worth £300 each to several foreign envoys, including 

those from Turin, the Elector Palatine, Florence and 

Poland, and another worth £350 “for her Majesty” (Queen 

Anne), 2 sides 5½” x 7”, no date, c. 1702, lacks top portion 

[SD51644]£125 

237. JOULE (James Prescott, 1818-1889, English 

Physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat 

and discovered the first law of thermodynamics) 

Autograph Letter Signed to My dear Clifton accepting an 

invitation, 1 side 8vo., Old Trafford, 12th June 1865 

[SD30490]£450 

Joule’s principle of energy conservation formed the basis of the 

first law of thermodynamics. This law states that energy can 

neither be created nor destroyed, but it can be changed from one 

form into another. The Joule - a unit of electrical energy equal to 

the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a 

resistance of one ohm for one second is named after him. 

238. JULIANA (1909-2004, Queen of the Netherlands, 

1948-1980) 

Finely typed document, in Dutch with translation, to 

General Manuel A. Odría, (1897-1974, Leader of the 

Governing Military Junta, 1948-1950, President of Peru, 

1950-1956), saying that she has appointed Jonkheer Dr 

Gerard Beelaerts van Blokland as her Special Ambassador 

for the inauguration of Dr Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, 

(1889-1967, President 1939-1945 & 1956-1962), knowing 

from his “personal qualities ... zeal for my service ... and ... 

attachment to my person” that “he will be worthy of Your 

trust and continue mine”, especially when assuring the 

President “of my high regard and friendship”, signed also 

by Jan Willem BEYEN, (1897-1976, Foreign Minister 

1952-1956), blind-embossed royal arms at head, 2 sides 

8¼” x 13” and conjugate blank, Soestdijk, 16th July 1956, 

two neat filing holes in blank margin, extremely light 

browning in a few places [52380]£325 

239. KETELBEY (Albert William, 1875-1959, English 

Composer of ‘In a Monastery Garden’) 

Postcard photo by Art Portraits Ltd. of Golders Green, 

signed, inscribed and dated, showing him seated half 

length, nearly full face, with a warm smile, 5½” x 3½”, no 

place, 1st May 1937 [52292]£75 

240. KALAKAUA I (David, 1836-1891, from 1874 King 

of Hawaii) 

Finely penned document signed ‘Kalakaua Rex’, in 

Hawaiian with translation, to the President of Peru, General 

Andrés Avelino Cáceres, (1836-1923, President 1886-1890 

& 1894-1895), saying “We have read with pleasure the 

letter we have received in which Your Excellency is 

pleased to inform Us, of Your elevation following the clear 

consent of Your fellow citizens to the high and weighty 

office of President of Peru”, congratulating him and 

praying sincerely “for the increase of peace and prosperity 

of your country, during the time Your Excellency is at the 

helm of government, and that God may embrace You in His 

holy care”, fine embossed monogram in green and gold, in 

a crowned garter bearing “Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka 

pono”, “The life of the land is perpetuated in 

righteousness”, the motto since 1843 of kingdom, republic, 

territory and state, signed also by Robert James 

Creighton, Foreign Minister, 2 right-hand sides folio, 

Palace of Iolani, 30th August 1886, with light brown 

spotting to the cream paper otherwise in good condition 

[52507]£475 

Kalakaua, who built Iolani, now the governor’s residence, was 

elected king in 1874 and crowned in 1883. He then aspired to 

what was termed the ‘Primacy of the Pacific’, a protectorate of the 

greater islands with whom he began to negotiate treaties, but 

owing to protests by the German government his gun-boat, of 170 

tons, was in 1887 recalled. The same year he was forced to signed 

a constitution, but continued to intrigue to restore autocratic rule. 

He died on a visit to California and was succeeded by his sister 

Liliuokalani. Robert James Creighton, (1835-1893, Irish-born 

New Zealand journalist and newspaper proprietor), was for some 

time in the 1880s in Honolulu, where he edited the Honolulu 

Commercial Advertiser 

241. KARL ALEXANDER (1818-1901, Grand Duke of 

Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from 1853) 

LS ‘Charles Alexandre’ in French with translation, 

thanking ‘My dear Count’ for his wishes, ( Count 

POTOCKI, (Pototski), Polish Ambassador, the present 

letter being formerly with others addressed to him), 

thanking him for his good wishes to the Grand Duchess and 

himself, adding “You promise me to visit some time in 

March. Please believe that I will be delighted to see you”, 

1 side folio with conjugate blank, Weimar, 22nd April 

1872, two short closed tears in blank margins [52693]£125 

Brought up under the eyes of Goethe, Karl Alexander continued 

the tradition of Weimar as the cultural centre of Germany. He 

brought Liszt, Richard Strauss and many others to the Court 

Theatre and promoted Wagner and Berlioz. His proudest 

achievement was completing the Wartburg at Eisenach as a 

monument to German history. In politics he disliked Prussian 

imperialism but supported the new Empire in other ways, acting, 

as Bismarck said, ‘as the agent of good relations between Berlin 

and St Petersburg’. 

242. KINTORE (Francis Alexander Keith-Falconer, 

1828-1880, from 1844 8th Earl) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Captain J. Lawson, 

acknowledging his “official of the 23rd Inst”, he will not 

fail “to give it my best consideration”, 1 side 8vo blackedged, 

Keith Hall, Aberdeenshire, 25th June 1873, a few 

original blots 

[SD17690]£15


243. KEYNES (John Maynard, 1st Baron, 1883-1946, 

Economist) 

Fine Typed Letter Signed to J.(ames) L.(ouis) Garvin 

(1868-1947, Journalist & Editor) sending “an advance 

uncorrected page proof of the Report of the Liberal 

Industrial Enquiry, which will be published on February 

3rd. We very much hope that you will think it interesting 

enough to give up one of your ‘Observer’ articles to it. 

And in this hope I am sending you a copy in good time ... 

before the date of publication, what is a pretty heavy bit of 

work. It has been an enormous labour producing a thing of 

this size by the methods of co-operative authorship sides. 

The result is of very uneven quality and some parts are 

much less readable than others ... in my opinion it is a 

thoroughly serious effort to set forth all the chief things 

which are both practicable and sensible in the politicoindustrial 

sphere ...” and asking for his opinion, 1 side 8vo., 

46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, 17th January 1928 

[SD31796]£875 

ROYAL WELCH FUSILIERS - 

Memorabilia of the 50th Anniversary Dinner 

of the capture of Mandalay 

244. KIPLING (Rudyard, 1865-1936, Novelist & Poet) 

Collection of Memorabilia relating to this anniversary 

dinner including a typed letter signed by Kipling regretting 

he cannot leave the South to come, wishing them “a stirring 

and heart-warming dinner to old memories. It is a far cry 

back ... to that three years’ Burma War”, 1 side 8vo., with 

original autograph envelope, 28th September 1935, also 

including the evocative menu with a fine pictorial chart of 

the Regiment’s route from India to Rangoon, and the 400 

miles up the Irrawaddy to Mandalay, signed by 14 of the 

22 survivors present, including Colonel R.F. Williamson 

aged 93, and adorned with humorous pencil sketches 

inspired by stories told at the dinner; the telegram from 

King George V to the survivors, a group photograph of 18 

of those present, 6” x 8” on mount 10” x 12”, and two good 

newspaper clippings, which record the stories told at the 

dinner, with the programme for the presentation to the 

R.W.F. of the freedom of Wrexham, giving all the 

ceremonial, the regimental flags in full colour, an account 

of the regiment’s distinguishing features including the long 

history of its Billy goat mascot, and other photos, 23 sides 

8vo and covers, 15th June 1946, together 7 items, the 

dinner Wrexham, 28th November 1935 front cover of menu 

rubbed, small defect in one corner, group photo chipped in 

places but not affecting any faces [52745]£575 

The dinner was organized and chaired by Captain Alex Butterton 

Kennair, (1871-1936), at age 14 and a drummer-boy the youngest 

to take part in the expedition. He was later Mayor of Wrexham. 

On the front cover of the menu is the famous refrain from 

Kipling’s ‘Mandalay’, which was recited during dinner, and at the 

foot of the chart the verse “Ship me somewheres east of Suez ...”. 

245. LEIDER (Frida, 1888-1975, German Soprano) 

Postcard photo, signed, by Schenker of Berlin, showing her 

as Isolde, seated nearly three quarter length, full face but 

with down cast eyes and hands clasped, long ringlets falling 

from a metal diadem, 5½” x 3½”, no place, date pencilled 

below 12th May 1932 [52299]£125 

246. KNOX (Ronald Arbuthnott, 1888-1957, Roman 

Catholic Priest, Translator of the Bible) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed To “Dear Mr Watkins”, 

thanking him for his “most interesting letter”, he goes on to 

ask if he has “your leave, in writing to the Listener, (i) To 

quote it anonymously? (ii) To quote it with your name? (iii) 

To quote it with the assurance that I can give your name 

and address to some enquirers?”, he apologises for being a 

nuisance but explains how he is bothered as to whether, (G. 

K Chesterton) “GKC really didn’t know who the heckler 

was?”, 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 

Mells, , August 3rd 1956 

[SD29354]£100 

247. KSCHESSINSKA (Matilda Maria, 1872-1971, 

Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the Imperial Theatre, St. 

Petersburg, Mistress in 1892 of Nicholas II as Tsesarevich, 

and of his cousin Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich, 1879- 

1956, whom she married in 1921) 

Autograph letter in Russian with translation, signed ‘Aunt 

Mala’ to her nephew Slava Kschessinsky, (d.1976), in her 

clear sloping hand, saying “Dear Slavushka, Warmest 

congratulations to you. God grant you a life of happiness. 

It is very sad that I cannot congratulate you this day in 

person ... Mama”, the ballerina Serafima Alexandrovna 

Astafieva , (1876-1934, Slava’s mother, known as ‘Sima’), 

“and you entirely forgot us. If you were all able to come 

down now for a few days, it would be very nice. I would 

be able to put you up here ... I have had news from Papa”, 

the writer’s brother, (actor Joseph Kschessinsky , 1868- 

1942), who had stayed in Russia, “a short note, he is clearly 

very badly off. Kiss Mama for me. A big kiss to you”, 1 

side oblong 8vo., Villa Alam, Cap d’Ail, Alpes Maritimes, 

26th January / 8th February 1921 [SD26030]£275 

Kschessinska (Russian Kshesinskaya) was the first Russian to 

perform the thirty-two fouettés, keeping (so she told an admirer) 

her eyes on the glint of his medals in the front row. She is best 

remembered in such Petipa ballets as ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ and 

‘Swan Lake’. In 1892 Nicholas installed Matilda in a modest twostorey 

house, rented from the composer Rimsky-Korsakov. Here 

they gave ‘regular supper parties like any young married couple’ 

(G. Brook-Shepherd, ‘Royal Sunset’, p. 193). When, later that 

year, Nicholas set about courting Princess Alix of Hesse- 

Darmstadt, Matilda became the protegée of Grand Duke Andrei, 

whose garden backed on to the grounds of the little house. Their 

son Vladimir (‘Vova’) was born in 1902. 

Matilda moved to a palace on Kronervsky Prospekt, which 

became the focal point of St. Petersburg social life. It was from 

the balcony of this house that Lenin addressed the citizens of 

Petrograd on his return from exile in 1917. 

Matilda and the Grand Duke left Russia in 1920. Before the 

Bolsheviks took complete power, there was an enquiry into the 

deaths of the Tsar’s family at Ekaterinburg. Some of the personal 

jewellery that had been taken from the prisoners was returned to 

the family, including Andrei and Matilda, distributed by Grand 

Duchess Xenia. However, Matilda’s precious love-letters from 

Nicholas II, which she had left in Russia for safe keeping, had 

been destroyed for fear of discovery. 

In 1921 Grand Duke Kyrill, head of the Imperial House and 

Andrei’s elder brother, gave Matilda the title Princess Krasinska at 

the time of their marriage in Cannes. (There was a family 

tradition of descent from the noble Polish Krasinskis). 

Matilda opened a famous ballet school in Paris at 10, Villa 

Molitor, in the XVIth, in 1929, where she taught till she was 92. 

She last appeared on the stage in 1936 in London.


PEACE AT LAST, 1814 

248. LAFORCADE (Anne, English wife of the mayor of 

Lauzerville, south-east of Toulouse) 

Long Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My dearest friend’, in 

English, written just after the first Restoration of Louis 

XVIII, thankful for “this miraculous Peace”, she has 

“suffer’d a great deal, from not having any intercourse with 

England, for so many years”, she explains that on arriving 

in France, she was “so truly Wretched that ... I lost all my 

flesh in about two months ... Laforcade is an excellent 

Husband & my Children are dutiful, & free from vice ... but 

our income is so small”, she talks of the immense taxes and 

conscription imposed by “the Tyranny of the Usurper 

Bonaparte; we cou’d call nothing our own, not even our 

Children, after the Age of Eighteen”, her husband, “being 

Mayor, ... at the peril of his life withheld [their sons] from 

the List” and “in such seclusion ... nobody inform’d against 

us”, she talks of what little, tragic, news reached her from 

her brother’s letters that got through, she rejoices that her 

friend’s family is doing well, and that her own eldest son 

Charles, who had been sent to her brother in England 

[perhaps at the Peace of Amiens, 1802-1803], is reckoned 

“an excellent young Man, & much belov’d”, Edwin is now 

to join him, with hope of catching up on his education, she 

talks also of Henry, and of Caroline who was “well 

grounded in England” before the war, while her sons of 10 

and 7 are beginning to understand “almost every thing” in 

English, “but they dont speak a word”, finally she talks of 

an expectation of 110,000 livres from an aunt of 

Laforcade’s, aged 86, frustrated by the aunt’s husband, who 

“from Ostentation, bequeathed 50 thousand to the Town of 

Toulouse, to erect a Fountain”, and the aunt’s parting with 

the rest to a nephew for a life annuity after Laforcade had 

managed the property for two years, they dare not go to 

law, “it is a most difficult thing to prove a person childish”, 

ending “Laforcade unites with me in every kind wish”, 4 

sides folio, Lauzerville, 20th June 1814 [52694]£250 

249. LAGERLÖF (Selma, 1858-1940, Swedish writer of 

short stories, fairy tales and romances, Nobel Prizewinner, 

1909) 

Autograph postcard signed, in Swedish with translation, to 

Miss Mizi Franzos in Vienna, saying “Of course you may 

have my photograph” when next she orders some, she is not 

writing any short stories at the moment, but promises to 

send some when finished, she has seen “many kind reviews 

in the papers” about “the Legends”, though none by 

Langen, says “it would be gratifying if the financial returns 

were also satisfactory”, and thanks her warmly for “the fee 

that has just arrived”, 1 side postcard with border of 

posthorns and integral stamp, address on verso, Falun, 

Sweden, 31st October 1904, [51495]£250 

Selma Lagerlöf grew up in remote Värmland, where tradition and 

folklore survived to an extent unknown elsewhere in Sweden. She 

shot to fame with Gösta Berlings Saga (1893) and later travelled 

to Italy and Palestine. The ‘Legends’ in the letter are her 

‘Kristuslegender’ (1904). 

Mizi (Marie) Franzos, b. 1877, ‘Francis Maro’, translated for the 

famous publisher Albert Langen (1869-1909) of Munich. He was 

known for fostering books on art, literature and theatre, and the 

weekly journal ‘Simplicissimus’. The firm still exists in Leipzig. 

LAMARTINE ATTACKS LOUIS 

NAPOLEON 

250. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de, 1790-1869, French 

Poet and Statesman) 

2 Autograph fragments of a speech, in French with 

translation, saying there are “three principal” dangers, “The 

first is the one I have already pointed out to you, a Republic 

that purges opinions, constraining instead of persuading ... 

living on anachronisms, repelling instead of attracting, 

demanding inquisition and dictatorship at a time that calls 

only for liberty and law”, Lamartine continues in the 

second fragment “With this party [the war party] the party 

of regency, still disguised, instinctively allies itself. The 

partisans of a regency feel that they have no possibility of 

re-establishing the monarchy in France except by the brute 

force of an army which they will have won over by the war 

and which they will then turn against the Republic. Beware 

the war party. They are bearing the regency and the 

Monarchy in the folds of their banners”, together three slips 

cut from two folio pages, the first two are consecutive, the 

third with page number “11” in Lamartine’s hand, versos 

blank, several original alterations and words crossed out, 

including “Only trust your armies to republican generals”, 

in all 18 lines, no place, no date, c. 1849 [SD16350]£125 

A powerful indictment of Louis Napoleon’s rule.. 

Lamartine was Deputy in the National Assembly for his 

birthplace, Mâcon, from January 1833 to May 1849, and President 

of the Conseil Général for his Département of Saône-et-Loire. In 

March - June 1848 he was Foreign Minister and effectively the 

head of the provisional government following Louis Philippe’s 

abdication on 24th February. That same day the Duchess of 

Orléans had gone to the Chamber of Deputies to try to secure a 

regency on behalf of her son, the Comte de Paris. The provisional 

government continued till the June riots, when General Cavaignac 

was made dictator. And when elections were held for a president 

on 10th December 1848, Lamartine polled only 17 thousand votes 

against Louis Napoleon (5 million) and Cavaignac (1½ million). 

Louis Napoleon then had to work with an assembly containing 

many Orleanists (whom Lamartine calls the regency party ) and 

Monarchists. In March 1849 Louis Napoleon sent an army to try 

to reinstate Pius IX, and was vehemently attacked in the Assembly 

by Lamartine on the 8th March. 

251. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de, 1790-1869, French 

Poet and Statesman) 

Autograph Letter Signed, in French with translation, 

recipient’s name “Mme Grosset” added in another hand, 

saying he is sending her by rail today “440 pages of a 

Manuscript of a life of Alexander for copying by M. 

Dumenil”, who printed it in 1859, and “to get it to him 

quickly”, 1 side 8vo., no place, 16th November 1857, a few 

traces of original offset 

[SD19824]£75 

252. LEOPOLD I (1790-1865, uncle of Queen Victoria, 

from 1831 King of the Belgians) 


to the President of Peru (Marshal Miguel de San Ramón, d. 

1863), congratulating him on his election, and expressing 

“the desire that animates me to see strengthened and 

consolidated more and more the ties which so happily exist 

between the two countries”, 1 side 13¾” x 8¾”, Laeken, 

20th December 1862, three irregular but small closed tears 

in blank margin [52381]£175


253. LANG (Cosmo Gordon, 1864-1945, Archbishop of 

Canterbury at the time of Edward VIII’s abdication) 

Typed Letter Signed to the Revd. Sir James Marchant, 

1867-1956, Free Church minister and social activist, 

commenting that “a private gathering of the King and 

Queen, the Cabinet and leaders of the Church at 

Armisticetide ... however much it might appeal to you and 

me” is not possible, he is glad “you have had so much 

encouragement about Church railings ... which I thought 

had been fully concluded”, 1 side 4to, Old Palace, 

Canterbury, 5th November 1941 

[SD20191]£75 

Marchant had come out of retirement to work in the Ministry of 

Salvage. 

254. LASCELLES (Sir Frank, d. 1934, Sculptor and 

Designer of Pageants) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Lord Mayor Treloar, accepting 

his “kind invitation” for himself “and Lady to meet the 

Archbishops and Bishops at dinner on ... July 3rd. The 

Lady who will do Sir Frank the honour of accompanying 

him is Lady Stanley of Alderley”, 1 side 8vo, 24th June 

1907, light remains of laying down on blank [SD17715]£15 

Sir Frank’s pageants included those at Oxford, Quebec (Canada 

Tercentenary, before the King), Bath, Cape Town, and the 

Coronation Durbar at Calcutta of 1912. 

255. LAUDERDALE (John Maitland, 1616-1682, 

Secretary for Scotland 1660-1680, 1st Duke) 

Pen Portrait, head and shoulders wearing Garter Star, 

pencilled note of artist ‘G. Eynsford R.A.’ [sic, we have not 

traced him], blind stamp of the Reform Club, no date, c. 

1840 [SD20033]£40 

256. LEAR (Edward, 1812-1888, Nonsense Writer & 

Artist) 

Charming Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Digby in 

typically Learian language, he had “intended to try if 

Yewandigby were atome yesterday ... but an old Corfiot- 

Maltese friend came in, & cajoled me into dining with him 

... I write now to ask if you are shayvoo next Sunday, 

andiffso I will charter the Hanson of rapidity, and be driven 

to the haunts of hospitality in the verdant recesses of the 

deer frequented groves of Tavistock Park ... I have been so 

pleased with a letter from poor Constance, along of some 

old designs I sent her, it is something to be able to give 

anybody any pleasure with no trouble or expence ... I am 

sorry as you never saw my Venice Canal after all ... the 

original has passed from Austria ... I have been having no 

end of despair at the darkness of late - & thort I shudavadda 

Phittavasmer again ...” with a postscript explaining that he 

has “had a thaddakthident, & have broken off my front 

teeth, so that I shalllnever thpeak plain again. Thith cometh 

of biting crutht ...”, 3 sides 8vo., 15 Stratford Place, 

Oxford St, “22toothoktober” 1866, sellotape on left hand 

edge 

[SD30044]£1,450 

257. LEONOV (Aleksey, b. 1934, Russian Cosmonaut, 

the first man to climb out of a spacecraft in space) 

Large photo signed and dated, showing him head and 

shoulders, full face, 11½” x 8½”, no place, 19th May 2001 

[SD29930]£175 

258. LÉGITIME (François Denis, 1833-1905, President 

of Haiti 1888-1889) 


to the President of Peru, (Andrés Avelino Cáceres, 1836- 

1923, President 1886-1890 and 1894-1895), announcing 

his nomination as President (Head of the Executive Power) 

of Haiti by the National Constituent Assembly, and 

expressing his wish for good relations with Peru, signed 

also ‘O Picqueny’, fine large embossed paper seal of Haiti, 

1 side folio and conjugate blank, Port-au-Prince, 27th 

October 1888 [52547]£475 

In fact civil war raged 1888-1889 with General Hippolyte, who 

succeeded Légitime and ruled with the most absolute authority till 

1896. 

259. LEO XIII (1810-1903, from 1878 Pope) 

Document signed, in Latin with translation, to Andrés 

Avelino Cáceres, (1836-1923, President of Peru 1886-1890 

& 1894-1895), saying that the President’s zeal “in 

hastening to send as ambassador a distinguished person to 

treat with Us concerning the religious affairs of your 

Republic” has “displayed your loyalty towards Us and your 

religion in a new and splendid light. We have therefore 

received with joy and due honour the Illustrious Juan María 

Goyeneche y Gamio ... not doubting that he will perform 

the office assigned to him in a way commensurate with the 

excellent character with which he comes recommended ... 

being confident that by his zeal and pains, those ties which 

unite your Catholic Republic with this Apostolic See will 

be strengthened daily”, praying that “the most Merciful 

God will watch over You and the Peruvian People with His 

powerful protection” and sending his “Apostolic Blessing”, 

2 sides 13” x 8” and conjugate blank, St. Peter’s, Rome, 3rd 

March 1888 [52503]£975 

Cáceres had previously been Peruvian Commander in Chief 

during the successful invasion by Chile in 1879. The Chileans did 

not finally withdraw till 1885, imposing harsh terms, which helped 

to secure his election as President in 1886. However, his second 

election in August 1894 led to a rebellion, the loss of 2800 lives 

and his defeat, hostilities ceasing only on the intervention of the 

British Consul in March 1895, when Cáceres left the country. 

THE KING ANNOUNCES THE WEDDING 

OF HIS NEPHEW PRINCE ALBERT 

260. LEOPOLD II (1835-1909, from 1865 King of the 

Belgians, his backing of Sir H. M. STANLEY led to the 

founding of the Belgian Congo) 


to the President of Peru, (Eduardo López de Romaña, 1847- 

1912, President 1899-1903), saying he is persuaded of the 

President’s lively interest “in all that can contribute to the 

happiness of My Royal House”, announcing that the 

wedding of his nephew, “Prince Albert of Belgium, to Her 

Royal Highness the Princess Elisabeth Duchess in Bavaria, 

was celebrated in Munich on the 2nd of this month”, 

offering in turn “the sincere wishes that I form for the 

prosperity of Peru”, and renewing his “high esteem and 

inviolable friendship”, 1 side 9” x 7”, Laeken, 4th October 

1900 [52382]£375


261. LEHMANN (Lotte, 1888-1976, German Soprano) 

Postcard photo by Setzer of Vienna, signed, showing her 

full length in gorgeous medieval costume and coronet, 5½” 

x 3½”, no place, no date, c. 1925, light remains of gum on 

blank verso [52298]£125 

262. LIEBERMANN (Felix, 1851-1925, German 

Historian of the sources of English Law pre- and post- 

Conquest) 

Autograph Letter Signed in English to Reginald Lane 

Poole, (1857-1939, Editor of the English Historical 

Review, Lecturer in Diplomatic at Oxford, 1896-1927), 

apologizing about a mistake, “I feel deeply ashamed, seeing 

that I underrated my late friend’s merit and gave you the 

trouble to prove my error ... You are generous enough to 

say the matter was a trifle ... and if in future my reviews 

will be better, the merit will be partially due to a kind 

physician prescribing the bitter pill of truth”, he is grateful 

for other kind words of Poole’s about “my reviews in 

Kunde ... When you and Mr Stevenson undertook a similar 

task for the J[ahres]B[erichte der] 

Gesch[ichts]wiss[enschaft]”, of the Berlin Historical 

Society, “I hoped to become controlled by a higher 

tribunal”, and regretting that the English members “have 

been dropped so soon from the Jahresberichte”, 2 sides 

8vo., 10 Benderstraße, Berlin, 16th February 1892 

[SD50532]£75 

Liebermann worked in his father’s business, dealing in textiles and 

banking, which took him to Manchester and London. After four 

years he took up the study of History at Berlin and Göttingen - his 

dissertation being on the English ‘Dialogus de Scaccario’. 

Thereafter the study of the sources of English law became his 

life’s work. Of independent means, he held no Professorship, but 

with his wife Cäcilie made his house a centre for students. His 

writings are in the best ‘Monumenta’ tradition of exact 

scholarship, based on all known manuscripts. They were of the 

greatest value to students of literature and philology as well as 

history, and extended to the English possessions in France. They 

are also remarkable in that Liebermann had no formal legal 

training. 

263. LIMA E SILVA (Francisco de, 1785-1853, Soldier 

and Politician), Joao BRÁULIO MONIZ (circa 1796- 

1835), Regents of Brazil, 1831-1835, for Pedro II, and 

Joaquim José RODRIGUES TORRES, (1802-1872, 

Journalist and Politician, three times Prime Minister of 

Brazil) 

Document signed, in Portuguese with translation, 

appointing Antonio PINTO CHICHÔRRO DA GAMA, 

(1800-1887, Appeal Judge, Minister of the Supreme Court 

of Justice, 1860-1875), as Minister and Secretary of State 

for Imperial Affairs, signed notes of registration at the 

Treasury Tribunal and at the General Audit Office, 2 sides 

13” x 8¼” and conjugate blank, Palace [Rio de Janeiro], 

10th October 

1833, [53053]£225 

In 1831 Brigadier Francisco de Lima e Silva received Pedro I’s 

abdication and proclaimed the 5-year old Pedro II Emperor. The 

Senate named him a member of the Interim Regency of Three 

which lasted a month, and he then headed the Permanent Regency 

of Three, June 1831 - October 1835. 

LÉOPOLD II ANNOUNCES THE BIRTH 

OF HIS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER 

264. LÉOPOLD II (1835-1909, from 1865 King of the 

Belgians, his backing of Sir H. M. STANLEY led to the 

founding of the Belgian Congo) 


to the President of Peru, (Manuel Pardo, 1834-1878, 

President 1872-1876), hastening “to inform Your 

Excellency that the Queen ... has given birth on the 30th 

July to a Princess”, Clémentine, he is sure from the ties of 

friendship between their countries that the President will 

join in his joy, signed also by Foreign Minister Count 

d’Aspremont-Lynden, 1815-1889, 1 side 4to and conjugate 

blank, Laeken, 19th August 1872 [52551]£475 

Clémentine Albertine Marie Léopoldine was born at Laeken on 

July 30, 1872 and died at Nice, France on March 8, 1955. She 

married Prince Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric Bonaparte (1862 

- 1926), head of the Bonaparte family. 

265. LIPTON (Celia, b. 1923, Mrs Victor Farris, Scottishborn 

singer, the youngest ever Peter Pan) 

Portrait photo, signed, showing her obliquely head and 

shoulder, full face, gazing thoughtfully to the left, strongly 

lit from above, 3½” x 2½”, no date, c. 1935 [52303]£45 

In 1995 Celia Lipton sang in Hyde Park for the 50th anniversary 

of VE Day. 

266. LISZT (Franz, 1811-1886, Hungarian Composer & 

Pianist, Wagner’s Father in Law) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed, in French with translation, 

to ‘Very dear friend’, Eduard LASSEN, 1830-1904, the 

Belgian-born composer and conductor, who succeeded 

Liszt as head of music at the Weimar Court Theatre, 1858- 

1895, recommending “a talented singer, who has won great 

applause at the theatre here. The laurels won by Madame 

Mombelli at Weimar are disturbing her sleep; she excels in 

Italian opera and fioriture”, Liszt encloses “her rich 

repertoire” [not present], she is “30 - 34, rejoices in a 

certain fullness of figure, not to her disadvantage”, and has 

already had success in Germany, her “inner fire” makes her 

long to sing at Weimar, Liszt asks his friend to ask Baron 

Loën, “if he can shortly make available some ‘casserolles’ 

(‘Gastrollen’ [star parts]) in favour of Madame Balazs 

(pronounced Balasch - not Ballast)”, perhaps also for her to 

sing at Court, “I have made no other promise than to let her 

know your response, which is awaited by Your most most 

cordial and devoted friend”, 3 sides 8vo., Pest, 4th 

December 1873 

[SD51544]£1,750 

At this period Liszt travelled annually between Weimar and 

Rome, stopping at Budapest on the way. This year at Pest they 

celebrated his 50th anniversary as a public performer, 8th - 10th 

November 1873. 

267. LONGFELLOW (Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, 

American Poet) 

Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent, 

saying that he has “received the enclosed yesterday. Do 

you think the matter worth the attention of the Hist. 

Society? ...”, 1 side 8vo., Cambridge, 22nd February 1860 

[SD31717]£375


268. LLOYD GEORGE (Lady Megan, 1902-1966, M.P., 

younger daughter of the Prime Minister) 

Typed Letter Signed to ‘Domini dear’, Lady Crosfield (née 

Elliadi, d. 1963) saying “My father felt the break with the 

House of Commons ... more deeply than I can say and it is 

some comfort ... to feel that he is not completely cut off 

from Parliament”, and that she will pass on Lady 

Crosfield’s comments on “wastage of fuel” to her brother 

Gwilym, M.P., 1 side 8vo., House of Commons, 24th 

January 1945, pin holes in one corner [SD19460]£25 

269. [LOUIS (Bonaparte, 1778-1846, brother of Napoleon 

I and father of Napoleon III, King of Holland 1806-1810)] 

Series of 6 Autograph Letter Signed, in French, from M. 

Massey, Comptroller at St. Leu, the King’s château north of 

Paris near the Oise, 5 being to M. de Sénégra, Master of the 

King’s Household at Huis ten Bosch, The Hague, and 1 to 

the King, reporting on the landscaping being carried out, 

including the sculpture for ‘the Monument’, getting rubble 

from the quarry, spreading the gravel, and planting clumps 

of trees, he asks urgently for 10,000 francs for the 

“poorest” contractors, some of whom are “in misery”, even 

the robust ones are uneasy, Morisset, for example needs 

payment for the monument at Saut-de-loup, which is not 

covered by the 14,000 francs per month Massey receives, 

he asks whether employees at the château should receive 

lighting, in the letter to the King he describes the choosing 

of the Rose-Queen (‘Rosière’) and the attendant 

ceremonies, the bride is “très bien”, the groom has been a 

patriotic volunteer and son of the castle locksmith, the 

King’s sister Princess Pauline plans to stay, should he let 

people stay other than the King’s household, the last letter 

has an interesting list of completed works ordered by the 

King but authorized only by Sénégra, Massey recalls an 

earlier such occasion when the King refused to sign for 

them, together 9 sides 4to., St. Leu, 16th September 1806 - 

24th October 1807 [52086]£375 

Holland was occupied by the French from 1795 to 1813, initially 

with the support of the Dutch republicans. In 1806 Napoleon 

made his brother Louis, who was married to Napoleon’s stepdaughter 

Hortense, King of Holland as Lodewijk I. 

Louis and Hortense arrived at Huis ten Bosch on 18th June 1806. 

Napoleon retook control of Holland in 1810, disliking the leniency 

towards the Dutch of Louis, who thereafter took the title of Comte 

de St. Leu. 

THE DAUGHTER & 

GRANDDAUGHTERS OF EDWARD VII 

270. LOUISE VICTORIA (Alexandra Dagmar, 1867- 

1931, Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife, Daughter of Edward 

VII) and her daughters ALEXANDRA (1891-1959, 

Princess Arthur of Connaught) and MAUD (1893-1945, 

Countess of Southesk) 

Photograph of the three by Downey, signed ‘Louise’, who 

has also written their names ‘Baby Maud’ and ‘Alix’ 

below, showing them standing, full length, the Duchess in a 

hat and long jacket with wide reveres, her daughters in 

matching coats with scalloped collars and white floppy 

hats, 8” x 4¾” in mount 11” x 7½”, no place, inscribed by 

the Duchess on the back in pencil ‘ For “Marouise” ’ and 

dated Christmas 1903 [52852]£450 

271. [LOUIS XVI (1754-1793, King of France 1774- 

1792, guillotined during the Revolution] 

Document signed in Louis’ name by a Secrétaire de la 

main, in French with translation, confirming to Louis- 

François Pascal de La Gillière (b. 1719), late 2nd Naval 

Lieutenant in the Compagnie des Indes, his pension of 200 

livres p.a. previously paid by the Compagnie, now to be 

paid by the royal Treasury, printed in imitation of an 

upright cursive with manuscript details, notes of later 

payments on verso, 1 side 10¾” x 17”, vellum, Versailles, 

1st November 1780 


Also signed by Antoine-Jean AMELOT (d. 1795, Intendant 

des Finances 1774, Secretary of State for the Royal Household 

1776-1783). He was known for refusing pensions to all and 

sundry unless they could show good cause: hence the detailed 

notes on this document indicating that the king had been given the 

necessary legal background. 

Amelot is remembered for his correspondence with Voltaire - 

they had a common opponent in De Brosses, President of the 

Parlement de Dijon, who was Voltaire’s part-landlord. On 

Voltaire’s return to Paris in 1784 after 28 years, Amelot forbade 

the press to publish attacks on the old man, and he signed the 

order allowing him to be buried away from Paris before the 

bishops could object. The present Rue Amelot, running north 

west from the Bastille, has borne his name since it was laid out in 

1777. 

The Compagnie des Indes was begun by Richelieu in 1642. At 

one time, when John Law was finance minister, it had almost a 

monopoly of French foreign trade. 

THE DAUGHTER & 

GRANDDAUGHTERS OF EDWARD VII 

272. LOUISE VICTORIA (Alexandra Dagmar, 1867- 

1931, Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife) with her husband 

ALEXANDER (Alexander William George Duff, 1849- 

1912 , Earl of Fife) and her daughters ALEXANDRA 

(1891-1959, married Prince Arthur of Connaught) & 

MAUD (1893-1959, married Charles Carnegie, 11the Earl 

of Southesk) 

Fine cabinet photo by W & D Downey, signed by the Duke 

and the Duchess who has also signed on behalf of her two 

young daughters showing them seated on a sofa with their 

children, the future Princesses, as their grandfather 

bestowed the titles on them the following year, 6” x 4½”, 

no place, c.Christmas 1904 top edge trimmed 

[SD32054]£275 

273. LUITPOLD (Prince of Bavaria, 1821-1912, from 

1886 Regent for his nephews Ludwig II and Otto I) 

Fine Manuscript letter in Italian with translation, signed, to 

Teodolfo Mertel, (1806-1899, Cardinal from 1858), 

thanking him for his good wishes “on the return of the Holy 

Festival of the Nativity. I too wish Your Eminence the 

most perfect happiness, and beg Your Eminence to be ever 

persuaded” of his “perfect esteem”, 1 side folio and 

conjugate blank, Munich, 12th January 1897 

[SD14431]£225 

Luitpold was made regent in June 1886 for the mad Ludwig II, 

who was drowned in the Starnbergersee near Munich three days 

later. Luitpold continued as regent for Otto I who was also insane. 

Cardinal Mertel, born at Allumiere, Civitavecchia, was vicechancellor 

(the highest legal post) of the Roman Church, from 

1884.


274. LUDWIG II (1845-1886, Mad King of Bavaria who 

built Magnificent Castles & was a patron of Wagner, 

drowned in the Starnberg Lake) 

Finely penned letter, boldly signed ‘Ludovico’, in Italian 

with translation, to Cardinal Altieri, 1805-1867, thanking 

him for “the good wishes which Your Excellency sent me 

on the recurrence of the Holy Feast of the Nativity”, and 

sending his in return for the Cardinal’s “complete 

prosperity”, 1 side folio and conjugate blank, Munich, 21st 

January 1865, two very light brown spots in blank portion, 

otherwise in excellent condition [52519]£975 

Written in the first New Year of Ludwig’s reign. 

Altieri was one of the triumvirate who restored order to Rome 

after the revolution of 1849 and was made Governor. A good 

scholar and Chancellor of Rome University, he died of cholera 

while helping to relieve the epidemic in his diocese of Albano. In 

1836 Cardinal Altieri became the diplomatic envoy to Austria for 

Pope Gregory XVI. He was created a cardinal in pectore four 

years later, receiving his red hat and title in 1845. 

Ludwig had a great passion for the music of the composer 

Richard Wagner and, on his father’s death on March 10, 1864 

when he ascended the throne it was one of his first official acts to 

invite Wagner to Munich. However, Wagner’s influence over 

Ludwig and the king’s liberal financial support combined with the 

composer’s affair with a married woman (Franz Liszt’s daughter, 

Cosima von Bülow) created such a public outcry that the young 

king was ultimately forced to dismiss him. After this Ludwig 

became increasingly reclusive and hid himself away in his alpine 

castle at Hohenschwangau, designing castles including the 

Disney-imitated Neuschwanstein. With his increasing instability 

the enormous expense of his castles became a burden to the 

kingdom and on June 8, 1886 he was declared insane. Five days 

later his body, along with that of his private physician Dr. von 

Gudden, was found floating in Lake Starnberg. Their deaths have 

never been satisfactorily explained. 

275. MAC-MAHON (Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de, 

1808-1893, Marshal of France and Duke of Magenta, 

President 1873-1879, also Prime Minister 1873-1874) 


to the President of Peru, (Manuel Pardo,1834-1878, 

President 1872-1876), recalling the French Envoy M. de 

Billonet, not doubting that the envoy “has taken every 

opportunity presented to him to express the gratitude he 

deeply feels for the marks of goodwill which you have 

shown him during his stay at Lima”, with his own wishes 

for Peru and the President, signed also by the duc de 

Decazes, (1819-1886, Foreign Minister 1873-1877), 1 side 

folio, Versailles, 2nd June 1875 [52554]£225 

276. MACMILLAN (Harold, 1894-1986),Conservative 

Politician and Prime Minister, 1st Earl of Stockton) 

Fine large photo by Vivienne signed on the mount by the 

sitter and on the photograph by the photographer, showing 

him while he was Prime Minister, half length, full face, 

seated at a table with his hands folded together in front of 

him, 12” x 9” in mount 14” x 10”, no place, no date, c. 

1960, some discolouration around the edge of the mount 

not affecting the image or the signatures [SD32072]£275 


Ministers. 

277. MAITLAND (Stuart, youngest daughter of Adam 

Maitland, 1763-1843, of Compston and Dundrennan, later 

wife of the Revd. William Dow) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Mary Pringle, (b. 1801, later 

Beague), eldest daughter of Maj.-Gen. James Pringle (1746 

or 1747 - 1810, Bengal Army), in Edinburgh, forwarded to 

London, giving news of sick Helen, “As I have had no 

royal visit to turn my brain ... I have not so good an excuse 

... for delaying taking up my pen ... Have you found the 

pleasures of a gay life greater than you once supposed them 

?”, she finds “encouragement for Christian communication” 

in “a beautiful text ... in Malachi”, she talks of helpful 

books by Doddridge, Scott and Thornton and “my great 

favorite Bickersteth on Prayer”, and mentions their old 

school mistress Miss Eliza Sanders (of Clifton), who has 

not written “for a long time, I believe from some absurd 

scruples about making me pay postage”, 4 sides 4to., crosswriting 

on 4th side but clear, Compston, 

Kirkcudbrightshire, 18th September 1822 [SD50013]£65 

278. MANET (Édouard, 1832-1883, French Painter) 


“My dear Champfleury”, (1821-1889, Jules Fleury-Husson, 

writer and critic, head of the Sèvres porcelain factory), 1 

side small 8vo., 81 rue Guyot, Paris, Monday 19th October 

no year but probably 1868 [52460]£1,250 

Jules Champfleury was the author of ‘Les Chats’, a scientific but 

also humorous work on the place of cats in human society, 

published in 1869. Manet produced a lithograph to publicise this 

in 1868, as well as a number of etchings for the book. The front 

cover also features a lithograph by Manet, of a black and a white 

cat, their tails in the air. As 19th October 1868 was a Monday, it 

seems likely that the letter was written this year, in connection 

with the project. 

279. MARGARET (Rose, 1930-2002, Princess, Sister of 

Queen Elizabeth II, Countess of Snowdon) and 

SNOWDON (Anthony Armstrong-Jones, b.1930, exhusband 

of Princess Margaret, Earl) 

Chaming photo by Lord Snowdon, signed by both and 

dated by the Princess, showing her head and shoulders, full 

face, wearing a diamond tiara and matching necklace and 

earrings, 9½” x 7½”, no place, 1972 slightly faded and 

edges trimmed not affecting the image [SD29893]£750 


KCMG, CB, CBE, DSO, Governor of Western Australia. 


Queen Elizabeth II, Countess of Snowdon 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to “Tug and Johnny”, saying 

that “Tony and I want to thank you both so much for our 

great feasting in Venice. What fun it all was and it was 

only sad that we couldn’t meet that last night owing the the 

last stages of fatigue. I found the whole place simply 

wonderful and we have been reliving those 10 days over 

and over again as we sit here on wing & rain-swept moors 

cowering behind butts. Luckily there has been plenty the 

shoot and lots of friends ... films in the evening and games 

and a great deal of laughter as usual. Valentina’s shawl is 

much admired ... more recherché than Chinchilla ...”, 2 

sides 8vo., together with a fine black and white photo , 

Balmoral Castle headed paper, 4th September 1964 pin 

marks in top left corner 

[SD31798]£575



Queen Elizabeth II, Countess of Snowdon) 

Superb portrait photo by Cecil Beaton, signed by the 

Princess and Beaton and dated by the Princess on the 

mount, showing her head and shoulders looking round at 

the camera, wearing a fine pearl necklace, 6¼” x 5”, no 

place, 1956, signature slightly faded [SD32108]£650 

282. MARGHERITA (of Savoy, 1851-1926, first cousin 

& wife of King Umberto I of Italy) 

Autograph letter signed, in pencil, in French with 

translation, to ‘Ma chère Cousine’, Princess Helene of 

Russia and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1857-1936, wife of 

Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg, 1843-1902, apologizing 

for writing so late to cancel their outing to the races owing 

to the “very bad weather ...I am so sorry for it deprives me 

of a good day with you ... I kept hoping the sun would 

come out”, sending her “fondest love ... with affectionate 

regards to the Prince”, elaborate letterhead in blue with two 

crowned shields of Savoy (the King and Queen of Italy 

were cousins), surrounded by putti, 3 sides 8vo, n.p., 

‘Sunday 12½’, no date, circa 1895 [53163]£275 

From a group of letters addressed to Helene with a note in pencil 

in her daughter Olga’s hand identifying the writer. 

283. MARIA (1888 - 1947, younger daughter of Prince 

Albert of Saxe-Altenburg, 1843-1902, and Princess Marie 

of Prussia, 1855-1888, wife, 1911-1921, of Heinrich 

XXXV of Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz, 1887-1935) 

Portrait photo by Marie Müller of Breslau, signed and dated 

on the mount showing her head and bare shoulders, three 

quarter face, wearing a pearl necklace, 3¾” x 3¾” roundel 

on mount 12” x 8½”, no place, 1914 [53158]£175 

284. MARIA CRISTINA (1858-1929, née Archduchess 

of Austria, second wife of Alfonso XII and mother of 

Alfonso XIII, Queen Regent 1885-1902) 


translation, to the President of Peru, (Remigio Morales 

Bermúdez, d. 1894, President from 1890), saying she is 

recalling Don Juan Duran y Cuerbo, her envoy to Peru, and 

that she is convinced he will have secured the President’s 

approval during his mission, signed also by Carlos O 

Donnell, 1834-1903, four times Foreign Minister between 

1879 and 1897, blind embossed armorial paper seal, 1 side 

folio and conjugate blank, Madrid, 25th October 1890 

[52558]£375 

The long regency of Queen Cristina, who was by nature a strong 

Conservative, owed much to her ability to work with Liberals and 

to encourage consensus politics between the two main parties. 

285. MARIE (Princess, 1845-1930, sister of Prince Albert 

of Saxe-Altenburg, 1843-1902, wife, 1869, of Karl, 1830- 

1909, from 1880 last reigning Prince (Fürst) of 

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen) 

Cabinet portrait photograph, by J.B. Ciolina of Frankfurt, 

signed and dated, showing her seated, three-quarter length, 

full face, in an elegant dress with lace, embroidery and 

appliqué work, 8½” x 5¼”, Sondershausen, 1906 a few 

light imperfections in the print [53152]£225 

286. MARIA FEODOROVNA (Russian Empress, 1847- 

1928, wife of Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II ) 

Autograph letter signed ‘Minny’, in French with 

translation, in pencil as often, to Princess HELENE 

(1857-1936, daughter of Prince Georg of Mecklenburg- 

Strelitz, 1824-1876, 2nd wife, 1891, of Prince Albert of 

Saxe-Altenburg, 1843-1902), thanking her for her “kind 

and sympathetic words which have profoundly touched 

me”, and hoping “both of you” can come round today 

“about 4 o’clock if that suits you”, crowned monogram of 

an M forming a ribbon in and around a Russian ‘F’, 2 sides 

8vo black-edged, Anichkov Palace, St Petersburg, no date, 

circa 1895 a few light marks on first side [53162]£975 

Helene’s mother was a grand-daughter of Paul I, so that Helene 

was a Russian as well as a German Princess. Her father, brothers 

and husband all served in the Russian army. When Prince Albert 

died she brought up his daughters Olga and Maria by his first 

wife, at their home in Oranienbaum and in Germany. 

287. MARIA THERESIA (Archduchess of Austria, 

1717-1780, Holy Roman Empress and Dowager Empress 

1745-1780, Queen of Hungary) 

Finely penned Document signed ‘Maria Theresia’, in Latin 

with translation, being a ‘rescript’ or imperial answer to a 

request, addressed to all the nobility and prelates of the 

County of Ugocsa in eastern Hungary, “our beloved and 

faithful subjects”, concerning the current legal proceedings 

against András Bencza, [?lately] Catholic Parish Priest of 

Böhénye, on a charge of alleged theft, which the local 

authorities wish to refer to the Empress, she therefore 

commands them to complete the proceedings as far as 

sentence, but before execution and judgment, and to send 

her all the papers in the case, and to do likewise with 

certain others involved, who are currently held in prison on 

an earlier charge, so that everything may be considered 

together, endorsed with a paper wafer seal, decorative 

heading with Maria Theresia in large capitals at head, 

signed also by József Bajráth, 1720-1804, Bishop of 

Veszprém, and by József Jablanczy, 1 side folio and 

address panel, Vienna, 11th July 1777 a little browned 

along folds, lower blank margin of address panel cut away 

without loss [52744]£750 

This document reflects the centralising tendency of Maria 

Theresia, when Hungary was peaceful but ruled by edict from 

Vienna, especially during the latter part of her reign. The Diet 

was by-passed and the office of Palatine of Hungary not filled 

after 1765; but the Empress sought to be good to all, including the 

serfs, in particular setting up schools and colleges all over the 

country, using the estates confiscated from the Jesuits. 

288. MARY (Countess of Harewood, 1897-1965, Princess 

Royal, Daughter of George V) 

Fine Portrait photo by Speaight, signed and dated showing 

her full length in court dress, holding a feather fan and 

wearing a tiara, in a superb red morocco and gilt 

presentation frame with her monogram at the head and a 

charming design all around the edge, 10” x 8” in frame 12” 

x 10”, no place, 1938 

[SD31644]£1,250 

From a small collection of presentation photos given to Sir 

Sydney Waterlow , (1878-1944, British Minister at Bangkok, 

Addis Adaba, Sofia and Athens).


289. MARIE (Princess, 1849-1922, elder daughter of 

Karl, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, wife, 1876, 

of Heinrich VII Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz) 

Long autograph letter signed, in German, to her son ‘Ikko’ 

( Heinrich XXXV ) for his 14th birthday (1st August), a 

serious call to examine himself and root out any thing of 

which he is ashamed, “like the wild shoots on a peachtree, 

to give its fruit more strength ... as a younger child you 

were never brought up so strictly as both your parents, and 

that takes its revenge”, “you are serious about the Navy, so 

become a seaman !”, he will need Mathematics, Greek and 

French, “let preparedness be your watchword !”, quoting in 

English “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”, ending “your 

Mâ Zitta” (perhaps her pet name), 4 sides 8vo, Trebschen, 

31st July 1901 [53166]£175 

290. MARLBOROUGH (John Churchill, Duke of, 1650- 

1722, General, Victor of Blenheim, Ramillies & 

Malplaquet in the War of Spanish Succession) 

Fine document signed ‘Marlborough’, addressed to the Rt 

Honorable Thomas Erle “Lieut General of his Maties 

Ordnance & to my loving Friends the rest of the Principal 

Officers of the same ...”, saying that it has been thought 

“necessary for the better expediting his Matys Service ... 

that ... fifty qualified and able persons should be entertained 

by this Office ... to serve and provide Lighters and great 

and Small Boates at Woolwich to carry Gun Carriages, 

Shot and other Stores of Warr from thence to Tower Wharf, 

Deptford, Greenwich Galleons, Longreach, Gravesend, 

Hope, Buoy of the Nore, Sheerness, Chatham or elswhere 

as occasion shall require ...”, 1 side folio with papered seal 

and revenue stamps, Office of Ordnance, 24th December 

1714, frayed and worn at edges, seal cracked but intact, 

laid down. 

[SD31794]£750 

291. [MARLBOROUGH (Sarah, 1660-1744, née 

Jennings, favourite of Queen Anne, wife of John, 1st 

Duke)] 

Receipt, signed by two of her executors Hugh HUME, 

(1708-1794, Scottish politician, from 1740 3rd Earl of 

Marchmont), and Thomas SECKER (1693-1758, Bishop 

of Oxford, 1738-1750, from 1750 Archbishop of 

Canterbury) as ‘Tho. Oxford’, for three sums totalling £175 

from the Exchequer, being one quarter’s interest due to her 

estate, to be paid out of the crown’s “Hereditary Rates and 

Duties of Excise upon Beer, Ale, and other liquors”, under 

the Act of 1704 “for carrying on the war” (largely by her 

husband), printed with manuscript additions in an attractive 

hand, 1 side 8½” x 6¼”, no place, 16th October 1751, laid 

down, right margin trimmed including the last letter of 

Marchmont’s signature and part of the description of the 

sums [53034]£225 

Various schemes were tried to raise money for the war with Louis 

XIV. The Act referred to here was passed in 1704, to provide life 

annuities. In 1705 they could be converted to 99-year annuities, 

as appears to have happened in this case. A good example of the 

Treasury’s accounting methods, in which an order for payment 

specified where it was to be paid from. 

292. MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953, Queen of George V) 

Fine large portrait photo by Downey, signed “Mary R” and 

dated, showing her half length wearing a pearl tiara and 

necklace and holding a fan, 10” x 8”, in mount 19” x 15”, 

in contemporary decorative wooden frame, no place, 1925 

slightly silvered around the edge [SD32165]£375 


Fine photo postcard by E. O. Hoppe, signed and inscribed 

on the verso “Little Margaret from Gt aunt Mary R” with 

an autograph note “Caravan - Blue with white jumper” and 

the date, the image shows the Queen arranging flowers, 

5½” x 3½”, no place, Xmas 1926 [SD24955]£100 

THE DUCHESS ON HER 

GRANDCHILDREN AND MENTIONING 

THE ZULU WAR 

294. MARY ADELAIDE (Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897, 

Queen Mary’s Mother) 

Long autograph letter signed to ‘Dearest Mrs Bevan’, 

(Maria, née Trotter, d. 1903, third wife (1875) of Francis 

Augustus Bevan, 1840-1919, the first chairman of Barclays 

Bank), explaining she is to stay at Sandringham till the 

20th, but hopes “to be permitted to announce myself to tea 

chez vous” at the end of the month, “my precious May and 

her darling babe”, the future George VI, born on 14th 

December, “are doing admirably well ... May has been 

driving out since Sunday ... but of an afternoon resumes her 

... dressing gown ... on the sofa ... The beloved Mrs Rosa 

Green”, the mid-wife, “is beginning to relax her 

authority!”, praising “Green’s care of my daughter-in-law 

and of her poor darling”, Adolphus’ son George, (11th 

October 1895 - 1981, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge), Sir 

Anderson Critchett, the royal oculist, has given an 

encouraging report, she hopes “with God’s blessing ... the 

dear child’s eyesight may ... be saved ... Grandson No. 1”, 

later Edward VIII, (b. 23rd June 1894), “is so bright and 

cheery and full of intelligence! His tiny brother, who 

promises to be like him by and by, tho’ darker, is ... 

wonderfully good and placid”, she continues “these are 

fearfully stirring times and with our beloved Allge [sic, 

Alge]”, (1874-1957, the Earl of Athlone), “at Pieter 

Maritzburg, only 6 hours’ distance from Johannesburg! ... 

All our sympathies are with Jameson ... that wicked, violent 

telegram”, from Wilhelm II congratulating Kruger, “makes 

one’s very blood boil !”, with a P.S. about Mrs Green, 

explaining that “Lady Margaret Spicer has asked her to go 

to her” and so she cannot come to see Mrs Bevan for some 

time, but “sends you her respectful duty”, 8 sides 8vo, York 

Cottage, Sandringham, 8th January 1896 [53071]£325 

Mrs Bevan was a London President of the Needlework Guild, 

whose clothes and parcels half filled White Lodge each autumn. 


Superb Imperial Cabinet photo by Lafayette, signed 

‘Victoria Mary’ and dated, showing her three quarters 

length wearing a long coat dress with fur stole and muff, 

16” c 10”, no place, 1907, the signature is very bold and 

clear but is on the dark background and so does not stand 

out as well as it could 

[SD31815]£375


A PRESENT FROM THE QUEEN TO HER 

SISTER IN LAW, QUEEN MAUD OF 

NORWAY’S SERVANT 


A Glorious ink blotter from Sandringham House, the blotter 

is mounted on a papier mache board decorated with a 

coloured design of pheasants in the landscape near York 

Cottage, the blotter itself can be revealed by taking the top 

layer out and laying it into the bottom layer, which has a 

printed card attached stating that it is a present from Queen 

Mary, the then Queen Mother, 1938 [SD32253]£1,750 

She had given it as a gift to Queen Maud of Norway’s favourite 

servant as a memento of the death of Queen Maud, who had died 

at Sandringham the previous month. It is unusual that Queen 

Mary would have given an artefact from Sandringham as it is part 

of a much larger set which is still extant in the house today. 

297. MASEFIELD (John, 1878-1967, O.M., Poet 

Laureate) 

‘New Chum’, an autobiographical description of his first 

experiences on board ship, signed and inscribed on front 

free endpaper “For Rita Gorsuch from John Masefield” 

with the date, and a charming coloured watercolour 

drawing of a person in a sailing boat, 8vo., Macmillan, 

New York, 4th edition, 1946 dated 12th November 1948 

partial remains of dustwrapper 

[SD31078]£65 

298. MATTHEWS (Denis, b. 1919, Pianist) 

Typed Letter Signed to Harold Chipp of the Cheltenham 

Gramophone Society, explaining he has been “in Southern 

Rhodesia for the Festival there”, and that he is having “to 

give up all lecture-recitals”, though he is “a very eager 

gramophile (or ... ‘discophile’!)”, 1 side folio, 9 Upper 

Phillimore Gardens, W.8., 10th September 1953 

[SD17930]£20 

299. MAX (Adolphe, 1869-1939, from 1909 Burgomaster 

of Brussels) 

Typed Letter Signed , in French with translation, to Dr. P. 

Vandervelde of Brussels University, saying he applauds 

“your generous suggestion” but unfortunately “it cannot be 

implemented as the law stands ... We can only distribute the 

income of our investments among the Children’s Charities 

[‘Oeuvres’] of the Brussels urban area”, quoting where 

“exceptional circumstances, and, especially, public 

calamities” are covered by their statutes, and the limited 

powers of the Assembly in such cases, with a newspaper 

clipping recalling his answer when the German general 

came in to his office, printed heading with the city’s arms, 

1 side 8vo., Brussels, 7th January 1926, traces of tabs on 

blank verso [52473]£150 

Adolphe Max showed heroic coolness in 1914, going to meet the 

approaching German generals, defying particular orders, declaring 

others illegal, and calming the people of his city. He was arrested 

on 26th September over the question of the war levy to be paid by 

the city, and sent to Germany. On 13th November 1918 he 

escaped and came back to a hero’s welcome, being appointed a 

minister of state and elected an M.P., while retaining his post of 

Burgomaster. He organized the great Brussels Exposition of 

1935. 

300. MAXWELL (Archibald Montgomery, Colonel 36th 

Regiment of Foot, d. 1845) 

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My Dear Sir’ (the writer and 

traveller Julius Griffiths), returning the books, “I have 

perused with much pleasure and edification your 1st Vol. of 

Museum of French Monuments ... Your interesting travels I 

once perused with pleasure at Vienna - & meant again to 

refresh my memory ... but Mrs Maxwell had not as yet 

finished with them ... She is now getting much stouter & ... 

will be at all times happy” to receive “one who is ... the 

friend of Yours most sincerely”, with on the conjugate leaf 

Mrs Maxwell’s invitation “any morning” except two times 

when she superintends her daughter’s dancing lesson, 

together 2 sides 8vo., no place, 20th January 1830, top of 

conjugate leaf removed, probably without loss 

[SD50377]£65 

Maxwell appreciated a good travel story - see his own 

‘Adventures’ (2 vols., 1841). 

301. MENÉNDEZ (Francisco, Provisional President of 

Salvador) 


translation, to the Council of Ministers charged with the 

Executive Power in Peru, thanking them warmly for their 

letter saying that Generals Miguel Iglesias and Andrés 

Avelino Cáceres have reached an accord, bringing to an 

end the Civil War, and that the Council have assumed 

power pending a free election, and sending his wishes for 

them personally and for the prosperity of Peru, signed also 

by Foreign Secretary Rafael Mesa, fine embossed green 

paper seal of Salvador, 2 right hand sides folio, National 

Palace, San Salvador, 19th May 1886, margins a trifle 

creased at top and bottom, tiny hole touching one letter in 

heading [52560]£225 






to occupy Lima. General Iglesias was nominated and in 

October 1883 a treaty was signed, but the invaders maintained a 

strong force at Chorillos till the treaty was finally approved in July 

1884, including the transfer to Chile of Tarapacá. The Peruvians 

of the interior under General Cáceres refused to recognise Iglesias, 

and after further fighting Iglesias abdicated in December 1885. 

302. MENUHIN (Sir Yehudi, 1916-1999, Violinist, 1st 

Baron) 

Portrait photo from a magazine, signed and dated, showing 

him half length as a young man, playing, the light casts a 

striking shadow of his arms, bow and instrument on a 

circular spotlight, 5½” x 7½”, 10th May 1938, laid down on 

card [52147]£85 

303. MONTGOMERY (Viscount of Alamein, Bernard 

Law, 1887-1976, Field Marshal) 

Fine large photo signed & dated aannotated on the verso as 

“official SHAPE portrait by SFC L. Moran (US Army)”, 

showing him head and shoulders in uniform with all his 

decorations, 10” x 8”, no place, 1972 [SD29975]£225


304. MILAN (Obrenovich IV, 1854-1901, Ruling Prince 

and King of Serbia 1868-1889) 

Remarkable pair of 2 autograph items, unsigned, together 

with an Autograph Letter Signed on card from M. 

Duvellery sending them to ‘Dear Madame’, all in French 

with translations, in the first the King gives minute 

instructions for a fan to be made, decorated with a story in 

three scenes - Happiness, Grief and Misfortune - about a 

couple first seen alone, in the second she is found with a 

lover, and in the third her husband lies shot in front of her 

and her young son, between the scenes are to be painted 

‘cupids bearing the emblems of death’, Milan describes 

minutely the clothes, the appearance of the characters, and 

the rooms, down to ‘a large stone recumbent lion’ in the 

entrance hall, this first item has an outline sketch of the fan 

and detailed ‘fashion’ sketches of the woman’s and boy’s 

clothes, the second has a detailed pencil drawing of the fan 

(though in the first scene, only the woman is shown), in the 

covering letter Duvellery explains that Milan’s 

commissions were often bizarre, sometimes relying on 

photographs with the faces masked, he invites his 

correspondent to guess for whom the fan was intended, 

together 3 items, 7 sides 8vo., Grand Hotel Louvois, Paris 

and no place, no date, c. 1895 

[SD51546]£475 

Milan was an able but headstrong and licentious ruler who secured 

the final independence of his country from Turkey in 1878. He 

married the beautiful Nathalie, daughter of a Rumanian colonel in 

the Russian service, and though he divorced her in 1888 they were 

reconciled for a time in 1893. He spent much time abroad until in 

1897 his son King Alexander, in whose favour he had abdicated in 

1889, recalled him as Commander-in-Chief of the Serbian army. 

305. MILLS BROTHERS (John, 1910-1936, Herbert, 

1912-1989, Harry, 1913-1982, and Donald, 1915-1999, 

American Vocal Quartet) 

Group portrait by Ava Studio of Charing Cross Road, 

London, signed by each and inscribed to “Miss Louis” 

(really Louis B. Frewer, of the Oxford Playhouse Guild), 

showing Herbert and Donald standing, seated in front are 

Harry, and John with the guitar, 6” x 6¾” in margins 6½” x 

8½”, dated below in pencil 1935 [52148]£500 

An original print of this famous image. These American singers 

were called “the fathers of R&B group harmony,” and this photo 

includes the very rare signature of John Mills, who died at age 24 

‘COME TO THE STUDIO’ 

306. MONET (Claude, 1840-1926, French Impressionist 

Painter) 

Autograph Letter Signed, in French with translation, to his 

friend Maximilien Luce, (185801941, French Pointillste 

and Landscape Artist) in pencil with his printed address, 

saying he did receive his note and “would be very happy to 

see you with your son. If you would like it to be that day”, 

Friday, “I would expect you about 3 o’clock”, but. “cannot 

ask you to lunch as I have to work”, ending “Till Friday 

Regards”, 1 side 8vo. and conjugate blank, Giverny, 19th 

October 1920 [52461]£2,000 

EAST INDIA COMPANY 

307. MONTAGU (John, 1690-1749, K.G., Grand Master 

of the Order of the Bath, 1725, Master General of the 

Ordnance, 1740, 2nd Duke) 

Autograph Letter Signed to “Sir” asking for his help, he has 

on board “Captain Townshend’s ship now lying at Deptford 

some India Pictures which I desired him to bring me from 

China”, likewise “an other Parsel ... which Captain Rigby 

sent me by the supercargo of Captain Townshend’s ship 

whose name I have forgot ... If they go to the East India 

house I shant get them I dont know when”, he has offered 

to pay any duty “to the king or the East India Company”, 

but they dare not release them “without an order from the 

Commissioners”, hence his appeal for assistance, 2 sides 

4to., Blackheath, ‘Tuesday’ no date, c. 1740 [51753]£275 

Captain Augustus TOWNSHEND (1745), a younger son of the 

2nd Viscount (agriculturalist ‘Turnip’ Townshend), sailed to 

Whampoa near Canton in the East Indiaman ‘Augusta’ and back, 

January 1739 - September 1740 and January 1742 - September 

1743. Captain Charles Rigby commanded the ‘Normanton’ on 

similar voyages a little earlier. See Anthony Farrington, 

‘Catalogue of E.I.C. Ships’ Journals and Logs, 1660-1834’, and 

his ‘Biographical Index’ (both 1999), and Cotton, ‘East 

Indiamen’, pp. 180-181. 

Montagu had a famous collection of pictures at Boughton, 

Northamptonshire, begun by his father. 

308. MONTGOMERY (Viscount of Alamein, Bernard 

Law, 1887-1976, Field Marshal) 

Programme for Macbeth, signed on the front, for a 

production at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, with the 

cast list printed inside, 2 pages 4to., Stratford upon Avon, 

1955 [SD26579]£95 

309. MÜLLER (Eduard, 1848-1919, President of 

Switzerland, 1913) 


to Guillermo Billinghurst, (1851-1915, President of Peru 

1912-1914), thanking him for his letter informing the 

Federal Council of his election as President, congratulating 

him on “this signal mark of the confidence of your fellow 

citizens”, assuring him that “we shall continue all our 

efforts towards maintaining and strengthening even further 

the ties of friendship that ... exist between our two 

countries”, and commending “you with ourselves to the 

protection of the Almighty”, signed also by Hans 

Schatzmann, (1848-1923, Chancellor 1910-1918), 

lithographed heading with the Swiss arms, 2 sides 14¼” x 

8¾”, Berne, 25th January 1913, two neat filing holes in 

blank margin [52386]£150 

310. MYERS (Leopold Hamilton, 1881-1944, Novelist) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed W.A.Dibden replying to his 

query, “The Orissers is the first book I published, unless I 

am to count the blank verse play I wrote when I was young 

and published a few years later, when I was young enough 

not to know better”, he goes on to explain how “The Near 

and Far” is the first book in a trilogy, and discusses the 

drafts and his attempts to add density to his philosophy, but 

find this hard to do without heavy sacrifices, 4 sides 8vo, 

Twyford Lodge, November 25th 1929 [SD29355]£75


THE COUPLE SIGN A PHOTO FROM 

THE TIME OF THEIR WEDDING 30 

YEARS LATER 

311. NICHOLAS (Prince of Greece, 1872-1938, author of 

‘My Fifty Years’) & his wife Grand Duchess HELENA 

(1882-1957, granddaughter of Alexander II of Russia, 

mother of Marina, Duchess of Kent) 

Cabinet photograph, by Böhringer of Athens, signed and 

inscribed by both, taken in the year of their wedding but 

signed 30 years later, showing him three quarter length, in 

uniform with decorations, standing a little behind his wife, 

who is seated, half length, in a pretty lace dress with 

gatherings in the upper arm and a corsage, signed by both, 

Prince Nicholas has added “sic transit” and his wife, 

signing in French, “31 years later ! 1902-1933”, no place, 

the photo 1902 [52857]£750 

312. NICHOLAS (Prince, 1872-1938, son of George I of 

the Hellenes, father of Marina, Duchess of Kent) 

Long series of 22 Autograph Letter Signed in English to 

V.C. SCOTT O’CONNOR (1869-1945, Travel Writer). 

Although they saw each other only two or three times, a 

meeting of minds began when King George II of the 

Hellenes, then in exile in London, suggested to O’Connor 

that the Prince write an introduction to his forthcoming 

‘Isles of the Aegean’ (1929). Nicholas had written 

‘Political memoirs 1914 - 1917’, and ‘My fifty years’, but 

kept his finances afloat by painting, with a flat in Paris. He 

shared with O’Connor a love of landscape, architecture and 

antiquity, and admired the quality of the photos and colour 

drawings O’Connor took or commissioned. But it takes “far 

greater imagination to describe in words than in colours” 

(on the Victoria Falls). O’Connor too had a strong vein of 

“common sense”, which Nicholas saw as the answer to 

Europe’s problems. In one of many comments on 

O’Connor’s books and articles, he regrets that the Danube 

is “an apple of discord” instead of goodwill. 

When O’Connor mentions the Prince’s name to Dr Gilbert 

Grosvenor, legendary editor of the National Geographic, 

Nicholas says modestly that he has never been outside 

Europe, “that highly strung and quarrelsome old lady”, but 

that if their friend Grace Ellison should write on 

Yugoslavia, he would be delighted to contribute 

photographs. 

O’Connor’s books tell of some places that Nicholas 

knows, and many that he would love to visit, especially in 

the East and in Morocco, where his Danish cousin Prince 

Aage commands a regiment in the Foreign Legion. He asks 

O’Connor to convey his compliments to Marshal Lyautey 

when he visits him and his archives. Nicholas is reminded 

of other writers, including Kipling, and of other periods of 

history, especially in Greece, which O’Connor saw, but 

Nicholas could not again, till after the anxious times of the 

plebiscite that brought back George II in November 1935. 

The ancient Greeks were “artists in choosing the spots of 

their sacred shrines ... that help me to understand ... those 

incomparable poets”. 

Nicholas and his family spend the summers at Sveti Janez 

in Slovenia, lovingly described, with his daughter Olga and 

son-in-law Paul. Paul suddenly becomes regent of 

Yugoslavia when Alexander II is assassinated in Marseilles 

in 1934 - for which the French government comes under 

strong criticism. The “big exhibition in Paris” in 1937 was 

marred by a strike of workmen “exploited by unscrupulous 

red agents. The (French) government seems ... hand in 

glove with Moscow”. Mussolini is “a mad bull in a china 

shop”. Could he really turn the Italians into “Roman 

legionaries ?” 

There are many references to Nicholas’ near relations. 

Both his daughter Elisabeth (who married a German count) 

and Marina were delighted by the offer of a book as a 

wedding gift, recalling the occasion they all first met in 

Paris in 1932. He proudly calls Marina “the sweetest bride 

I ever saw - Picture my feelings when I walked up the aisle 

in Westminster Abbey !”. The abdication crisis was “a test 

that only England could have survived”, the Duke of 

Windsor is staying “only an hour or two from here by 

motor car” and visiting Venice, where “a certain abstention 

from publicity would have been in better taste”. Nicholas’ 

last letter is full of excitement at the fine old cities of 

Germany - perhaps hinting at a book for O’Connor. His 

grandsons are at school in England. Venice “even in the 

rain” seems “far from all mental tribulations”. Belgrade’s 

architecture is “improving steadily” since Olga’s wedding 

in 1923, he recalls visiting Canterbury with Marina, also a 

cottage near Oxford, and the Picture Gallery at Christ 

Church where Paul graduated, and ends with the view of 

the Acropolis once again in Athens from the Royal Palace. 

Together 56 sides, mostly 8vo., and 5 autograph envelopes, 

Royat (Puy-de-Dôme), Sveti Janez (Slovenia), Paris (29 

Blvd Jules Sandeau), Belgrade, London (3 Belgrave 

Square, home of Prince George, made Duke of Kent shortly 

before his wedding), and Berdo Krany (N of Ljubljana, 

15th century castle bought by Prince Paul), 12th July 1929 - 

20th October 1937, [51537]£2,250 

1. 12th July 1929. Royat, 4 sides 8vo. 

2. 17th July 1929. Royat, 2 sides folio. 

3. 3rd October 1929. Sv. Janez. 2 sides 8vo. 

4. 13th July 1931. Sv. Janez. 2 sides 8vo and envelope. 

5. 4th March 1932. Paris. 3 sides black-edged [for Q. Sophie of 

Greece, his sister-in-law] and envelope. 

6. 15th March 1932. Paris, postcard of the Seine, 1 side. 

7. 26th March 1932. Paris. 2 sides 8vo. 

8. 5th May 1932. Paris. 4 sides 8vo. 

9. 11th August 1932. Sv. Janez. 2 sides 8vo. and envelope. 

10. 8th October 1933. Sv. Janez. 2 sides 8vo. 

11. 22nd November 1933. Paris. 2 sides card and envelope. 

12. ? April 1934 [invitation for ‘Wednesday the 11th’]. Paris. 2 

sides card. 

13. 16th July 1934. Sv. Janez. 4 sides 8vo. 

14. 2nd October 1934. Paris. 2 sides card. 

15. 28th October 1934. Paris. 2 sides card. 

16. 26th December 1934. Belgrade. 2 sides card and envelope. 

17. 6th May 1935. 3 Belgrave Square. 2 sides 8vo. 

18. 16th May 1935. 3 Belgrave Square. 2 sides 4to. 

19. 22nd September 1935. Sv. Janez. 2 sides 8vo. 

20. 4th January 1936. 2 sides 8vo. 

21. 3rd August 1937. Berdo Kranj. 4 sides 8vo. 

22. 20 October 1937. Beli Dvor [White Palace] Belgrade. 6 sides 

8vo.


313. NAPOLÉON III (Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, 1808- 

1873, Emperor of the French, Nephew of Napoleon I) 


signed also by Lionel, Marquis de Moustier, (1817- 

1869, Foreign Minister), to Col. José Balta, (1816-1872, 

from 1868 President of Peru), congratulating him on 

becoming President, 1 side folio and conjugate blank, 

Compiègne, 7th December 1868 [51991]£275 

With an old note in Spanish “this document was published in 

February 69”. 

314. [NICHOLAS II (1868-1918, Tsar of Russia from 

1894, Assassinated after the Revolution)] 

Menu in French for ‘Déjeuner’ of light dishes, beginning 

with Consommé de Volaille, and including Langoustine 

froide, Côte de veau Milanaise, and Macédoine de fruits, 

with a pencilled note in German saying that this was “an 

all-day breakfast at Emperor Nicholas II’s in Tsarskoe 

Selo”, gilt embossed crowned double-headed Russian eagle 

at its head, 1 side 6¾” x 4½”, Tsarskoe Selo, 26th March 

1911 [53170]£375 

From a group of documents associated with Helene, 1857-1936, 

Princess of Russia and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 2nd wife of Prince 

Albert of Saxe-Altenburg, 1843-1902. 

COMMITTEE OF LORDS AND 

COMMONS FOR THE REVENUE 

315. NORTHUMBERLAND (Algernon Percy, 1602- 

1668, 10th Earl), PEMBROKE & MONTGOMERY 

(Philip,1584-1650, 4th Earl), SAYE & SELE (William 

Fiennes, 1582-1662, 1st Viscount), and MPs William 

ASHHURST , Cornelius HOLLAND (Regicide who 

drew up charges against the king, but did not sign the death 

warrant), and Thomas HOYLE 

Lower half of a warrant to pay, signed by all the above, 1 

side 5” x 6”, Committee of Lords & Commons for His 

Majesty’s Revenue, Westminster, 3rd September 1646, 

lacking top half, small portions missing at blank lower 

corners 

[SD51622]£375 

Although Charles I held a rival Parliament in Oxford, it was still 

possible for the Parliament in London to claim it was managing 

“his Ma[jes]ties Revenew”. 

The Earl of Pembroke, with his predecessor William, were “the 

incomparable pair of brothers” to whom the 1st Folio of 

Shakespeare was dedicated. The 1st Viscount Saye & Sele, and 

Lord Brooke, heir of the Earl of Warwick, gave their names to 

Saybrook in Connecticut (1635), in which they were the principal 

shareholders. 

316. OFFENBACH (Jacques, 1819-1880, German-born 

French Composer of Operettas) 


‘Dear Sir’, asking if he would kindly insert “these few lines 

in your tomorrow’s number”, 1 side 8vo. and conjugate 

blank, Theatre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris, 11th December, 

year pencilled in another hand 1860 [52521]£325 

Offenbach took a lease of the Bouffes Parisiens in 1855, and 

produced there the opera that brought him fame, Orpheus in the 

Underworld (1858). He gave up the lease in 1861 to devote 

himself to composing Operettas, of which he was the founding 

father. 

FIVE PRINCESSES OF GREECE 

317. OLGA (1903-1997, Princess Paul of Yugoslavia), 

ELISABETH (1904-1955, Countess Toerring-Jettenbach) 

& MARINA (Duchess of Kent, 1906-1969), daughters of 

Prince Nicholas, and MARGARITA (1905-1981, 

Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg) & THEODORA 

(1906-1969, married Berthold, Margrave of Baden and 

headmaster of Salem), daughters of Prince Andrew and 

sisters of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 

Autograph signed contributions by the first three, (1915, 

pp.58-60), and the signatures of the last two, (1914, p.61), 

all in English, in an Album compiled by Muriel Bois, who 

trained as a nurse at the Norland Institute, 1906, and the 

Jenny Lind Infirmary, Norwich, 1907, and was in Greece 

c.1914-1916, with watercolour and pencil drawings 

including a good many by children aged 7-11 showing 

great skill, other Greek items include “Land at last !” drawn 

by Elene Dallaporta aged 7, signed in Greek letters (p.14), a 

watercolour of the temple at Phaleron (p.18), a Greek 

shepherd boy near Old Corinth (p.20), the monastery at 

Spetsas (p.22), a silhouette of Athens (p.41), and a 

delightful pencil sketch after Mabel Lucie Atwell of a child 

setting off for the beach at Phaleron (p.67, “drawn to the 

sound of this”, pointing to a howitzer), with many other 

drawings by colleagues at the Norland and at Norwich, 

family and friends, 72 sides plus 23 blank, 8½” x 6”, 

England and Greece, c. 1896 - 1916, several leaves loose in 

place, main stitching holding well but nearly detached from 

binding [52679]£375 

It was clearly part of the training at the Norland to draw well and 

pass on the skill to one’s charges. See a fine watercolour of 

Japanese girls blowing bubbles by a 9-year old (p.56), and a clever 

drawing of cats by another (p.19). Princess Olga writes about “a 

little star ... My silver beams cannot pierce far ... Yet I am part of 

God’s great plan ...”, Princess Elizabeth “... Be nobody else, but 

you”, and Princess Marina “I can’t do it, never did anything ... I 

will do, has performed miracles”, all in beautifully clear and quite 

distinct hands. At the end is Kipling’s poem on the “European 

War, 1914”, “For All We Have And Are”, “... Comfort, content, 

delight - The ages’slow-bought gain They shrivelled in a night ... 

No easy hopes or lies Shall bring us to our goal ...” There are also 

some wry original verses by Muriel Bois about the “Anglo-Greek 

squadron” on p. 8 (December 1916). 

318. OLGA ELISABETH (Princess, 1886 - 1955, 

daughter of Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg, 1843-1902, 

and of Princess Marie of Prussia, 1855-1888, wife, 1913, of 

Lt.-Gen. Count Carl-Friedrich von Pückler-Burghauss, 

1886-1945), her sister MARIA (Princess, 1888-1947, 

wife, 1911-1921, of Heinrich XXXV of Reuss-Schleiz- 

Köstritz, 1887-1935), & their friend Katia NAZLOWSKI 

Portrait photograph by Boissonnas & Eggler of St 

Petersburg, signed on the mount by all three, showing them 

three quarter length, full or nearly full face, seated at a table 

with an open book, in fine white dresses, 4¾” x 6½” in 

mount 7½” x 9”, no date, circa 1903 a few very light flecks 

but a striking group [53153]£275 

Prince Albert on 23 December 1891 married Helene, 1857 - 1936, 

daughter of Prince Georg of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1824-1876, 

who was in the Russian army and lived at Oranienbaum, near St 

Petersburg. Helene’s mother was a granddaughter of Paul I, so 

that Helene was also a Princess of Russia, a friend of Empress 

Alix and her elder sister Grand Duchess Elisaveta Feodorovna.


319. OSCAR (Prince, 1858-1953, younger brother of 

Gustaf V, Duke of Gotland and father of Count Folke 

Bernadotte) 

Portrait photo by Torin Houroro Boras, signed “O 

Bernadotte” and inscribed in Swedish “With warm 

thanks”, showing him at his desk, half length, full face, 4½” 

x 7” in glazed frame 7¾” x 10¼”, with a coronet affixed to 

the top edge, no date, c. 1940 [52438]£225 

320. OSCAR II (1829-1907, from 1872 King of Sweden) 

Finely penned Document signed, in Swedish with 

translation, to General Andrés Avelino Cáceres, (1836- 

1923, President of Peru 1886-1890 & 1894-1895), 

congratulating him on his election and on assuming the 

mantle of office, and assuring him of his desire to extend 

friendly relations with Peru, signed also by Foreign 

Minister Count Ehrensvärd, 1 side folio and conjugate 

blank, Stockholm Castle, 19th July 1886, small defect in 

blank top margin [52561]£250 

321. OWEN (Robert Dale, 1801-1874, Scottish-born U.S. 

Congressman, Chargé d’Affaires and Minister at Naples 

1853-1858, Abolitionist and Spiritualist) 

Pair of autograph letters signed to Hiram Powers, (1805- 

1873, the American Sculptor), in the first he places himself 

among “your old acquaintances of what was then almost 

the ‘Far West’ ”, adding that “doubtless, you have heard of 

me in connection with the proposal by the Smithsonian 

Institution in regard to the ‘Greek Slave’ ”, and enclosing a 

letter to be given to Mr Kinney on his arrival, (William 

Burnet, 1799-1880, American journalist and diplomat, 

associate of the Browning circle in Florence), hoping next 

year to visit Florence, where “I shall not find, in that city of 

a thousand recollections, anything that will interest me 

more than your studio”, and, in a P.S., offering to “make 

agreeable what time you might be able to spend in Naples” 

should Powers come to visit, (14th May 1856), in the 

second he forwards “by the kindness of General Bernard, of 

Louisiana, the bearer of this” a copy of his letter of May to 

W.B. Kinney, which “may have failed to reach its 

destination”, adding that Owen’s daughter, her husband and 

cousin “were delighted with the visit they paid to you”, a 

pleasure he hopes to have next year, with “an opportunity 

of talking over with you the subjects alluded to in my letter 

to Mr Kinney, which I have requested him to show you”, 

(8th September 1856), 4 sides 8vo and 2 sides 4to, Naples, 

14th May and 8th September 1856, in second letter, clean 

slit across middle of fold, blank bottom edge a little ragged, 

both without loss [53130]£425 

Owen was the son of Robert Owen, 1771-1858, the social 

reformer at New Lanark, and joined with his father in setting up 

New Harmony in Indiana. When the Smithsonian was formally 

constituted in 1846, he was one of the three congressmen on the 

original Board of Regents. 

Powers settled in Florence in 1837, thanks to benefactors who 

admired his portrait busts of Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster and 

others, sculpted from life in Washington. His ‘Greek Slave’, 

1843, was “without doubt the most celebrated single statue of its 

day”, and “the first sculpture by an American to attract general 

public notice” (Concise Dictionary of American Biography). It 

was exhibited at the Crystal Palace in 1851. 

322. OMONT (Henri Auguste, 1857-1940, Keeper of 

Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Membre de 

l’Institut) 


Reginald Lane Poole, 1857-1940, Editor of the English 

Historical Review, Lecturer in Diplomatic at Oxford, 1896- 

1927), thanking him “for ... your scholarly study on the 

correspondence of John of Salisbury. The two manuscripts 

at Paris and Cambridge have formed the basis of many 

precious comments on the history of the XIIth century ... to 

which you are such a sure and admirably well-informed 

guide”, 1 side 8vo., Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 15th 

April 1924 

[SD50536]£75 

Omont, besides supervising the main author catalogue of the Bib. 

Nat., was reponsible for the catalogue of Greek Manuscripts 

(1886-1898) and for many fine facsimiles, and for cataloguing 

new acquisitions of Latin and French MSS for forty years to 1931. 

323. ONSLOW (Arthur, 1691-1768, Speaker of the 

House of Commons 1728-1761) 

Signature ‘Ar: Onslow, Speaker’ on the verso of an 

Exchequer document, no doubt for payment of his salary, 

since the recto refers to ‘his Majesty’s General Letters of 

Privy Seal’ of 26th June 1737, 2 sides 4¾” x 9½”, 8th 

March 1757, lacks lower portion, date of Letters of Privy 

Seal shaved 

[SD51699]£55 

324. OWENS (Jesse, 1913-1980, Record Sprinter and 

Long Jumper) 

Striking action photo from a magazine, signed and 

inscribed, showing him in the long jump at which he won 

the Olympic gold medal, 8½” x 4¼”, Berlin, 1936, laid 

down on card [52154]£175 

On 25th May 1935 at Ann Arbor, Owens broke 5 world records 

and equalled a sixth within 45 minutes, and at the 1936 Olympics 

won 4 gold medals. 

325. OXFORD (Robert Harley, 1661-1724, from 1711 1st 

Earl (23rd May) and Lord High Treasurer (29th May), 

POULETT (Sir John, 1663-1743, 4th Baron and 1st Earl, 

1st Lord of the Treasury 1710-1711), PAGET (Henry, d. 

1743, from 1711 Baron Burton, from 1714 1st Earl of 

Uxbridge), MANSELL (Sir Thomas, Teller of the 

Exchequer 1712-1714, 5th Bart., from 1712 1st Baron) 

Signatures on portion of a Treasury document, for paying 

£420 salaries for two years to the Conservator of ?Windsor 

Forest, and his employees, apparently the document was 

drawn up and signed by the last three just before their 

commission ended, then confirmed by the Earl of Oxford 

after he became sole lord as Lord High Treasurer, 2 sides 

8” x 6” remargined to 9” x 7”, Whitehall, Treasury 

Chambers, 15th June 1711, lacking top and left portions 

[SD51654]£275 

In 1710 Harley, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, moved the Bill 

for the South Sea Company to fund the National Debt (9 Anne c. 

21). 

Also signed as “Examined” by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of 

Halifax, Auditor of the Exchequer. Montagu had been the prime 

mover in establishing the Bank of England, 1694.


326. OXFORD PLAYHOUSE 

Group of 5 lively numbers of ‘Repertory’, the Playhouse’s 

magazine, edited by Thea Holme (née Johnston, b. 1908, 

actress and writer), with very interesting interviews with 

Yvonne Arnaud, Cathleen Nesbitt, Lilian Braithwaite, 

Louise Hampton, Elena Miramova, Willy Clarkson the 

wigmaker (“Vote for Clarkson ... always at the top of the 

Poll”), C.B. Cochran (“My most memorable first nights”, 

full of incidents back stage), and Theodore Komisarjevsky, 

all with their signatures, among the articles are two each 

on decor by John Counsell, and on Oscar Wilde at 

Magdalen, Oxford, and London by J.G. Legge, another has 

excerpts from Queen Victoria’s diary, each number 16 

sides, 11” x 8½”, including pictorial covers & good 

advertisements, being the issues for 5th, 12th,19th October, 

9th November 1931 & 30th January 1933 [52171]£175 

Among the topics are ‘London’s Greatest Blot’ by Yvonne 

Arnaud (the lack of a National Theatre, she explains why the talk 

about films replacing the theatre is “sheer nonsense”), censorship, 

smoking in the theatre, the role of Repertory and of the amateur, 

and the entertainment tax. Stringer Davis contributes a witty 

article on “How to become an actor ... How to remain an actor”. 

On Drama schools: “It is advisable to forget most that you have 

learnt, but you are generally the better for having learnt it”. 

Altogether a vivid evocation of the enthusiasm of the period. 

327. PALMERSTON (Henry Temple, c. 1673-1757, 

from 1723 1st Viscount Palmerston) 

Document Signed and bearing his seal, giving John 

Pownall, “Secretary to the Lords Commissioners for 

Promoting the Trade of this Kingdom”, power of attorney 

“to ask demand and receive” from the Tellers of the 

Exchequer “all sums ... payable to me as one of the Lords 

of Trade aforesaid”, and ratifying all Pownall “shall 

lawfully do .. by Virtue of these presents”, 1 side 13” x 9”, 

no place, 8th October 1766, small marginal defect towards 

foot affecting about 6 letters of the witness statement, seal 

rubbed except for outlines 

[SD51705]£125 

328. PATTI (Adelina, 1843-1919, Italian Soprano) 

Autograph Note Signed in her married name (‘Adelina Patti 

Nicolini’), in French, written in purple ink, saying “The 

nightingale sings better in the solitude of night than at 

kings’ windows”, with a contemporary postcard portrait, 

showing her head and shoulders in tiara and matching 

choker, the note 1 side 5½” x 4” from Craig-y-nos Castle, 

Wales, on headed paper with a coloured monogram, 

mounted together in a glazed frame 8½” x 10½”, 1897, 

slightly faded [52451]£225 

329. PAUL VI (born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio 

Maria Montini 1897-1978, Pope from 1963) 

Coloured photo signed, showing him in profile half length 

seated on his throne in his coronation robes 6” x 4”, Rome, 

no date, 1963 


Pope Paul VI was a troubled figure who angered both 

traditionalists and liberals. Reviled by traditionalists for 

implementing the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, he was 

also a lightning rod for liberals for not changing the Church’s 

position on priestly celibacy, birth control, and the ordination of 

women. His encyclical On Human Life, which reaffirmed the 

Church’s ban on birth control, was met with a storm of 

indignation, even within his own Church. 

330. PAVLOVA (Anna, 1885-1931, Russian Ballerina) 

Fine vintage Postcard photo by Samuels of London, boldly 

signed showing her half length seated, in costume as a 

nymph, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date, c. 1910 

[SD30389]£350 

331. PEDRO II (1825-1891, Emperor of Brazil 1831- 

1889) 

Document signed with his large bold signature 

‘Emperador’, in Portuguese with translation, to D. José 

Balta, (1816-1872, from 1868 President of Peru), saying he 

has “received from the hands of D. José Maria La Torre 

Bueno, the letter by which You manifest the lively desire to 

promote and draw closer the relations of friendship which 

exist between our two countries and accredit the said 

gentleman in the role of Minister President of the Republic 

of Peru to My Person”, thanking him, and saying that the 

ambassador will meet with “every effort to contribute to ... 

the existing good relations, which are so necessary to the 

mutual interest of our Countries”, ending “May Our Lord 

keep you in His Holy Care”, signed also by Foreign 

Secretary Baron Coteyique, 1 side 11¾” x 9½” and 

conjugate blank, Palace, Rio de Janeiro, 10th September 

1869 [52510]£475 

Pedro II was distinguished by his peaceful reign and scholarly 

tastes. He travelled frequently in Europe, till the revolution of 

1889. In 1888, when the Regent Isabel asked Cotegipe, (1885- 

1889, by then Prime Minister) if she had “won the abolition” of 

slavery, he replied that she had “won the abolition but lost the 

throne”. 

332. PELHAM (Hon. Henry, c. 1695-1754, from 1743 

Prime Minister), LYTTELTON (George, 1709-1773, 

writer and historian, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1756, 

Baronet 1751 and Baron 1756) and BEDFORD (John 

Russell, 1710-1774, 4th Duke of Bedford, Secretary of 

State 1748-1751) 

Portion of a Treasury document signed by the first two, 

ordering payment of £462 10s for one quarter’s salary to 

the Duke of Bedford as Secretary of State, 2 sides 7½” x 

9¼”, with his receipt on the verso dated 11th July 1750, 

lacks lower portion, just touching descending letters of 

second signature 

[SD51686]£75 

333. PERÓN (Juan Domingo, 1895-1974, President of 

Argentina 1946-1955 and 1973-1974) 

Finely penned document signed, in Spanish with 

translation, authorizing the “Secretary of the Department of 

Foreign Affairs and Religion, Doctor Juan Atilio 

Bramuglia, to proceed, together with the Plenipotentiary 

appointed for the purpose by the Government of the 

Republic of Peru, to the signing of a Convention on 

travellers in transit”, signed also by the Secretary for 

Internal Affairs Ángel Gabriel Borlenghi, papered seal of 

Argentina, 1 side 13¾” x 10”, Buenos Aires, 14th June 

1946 a few tiny light brown spots on the papered seal, 

paper clip mark on blank fourth side [52505]£325 

Perón took a leading part in the army revolt of 1943, achieving 

power and great popularity with the masses with his ‘third way’ 

between capitalism and socialism. He spent 1955-1973 in exile. 

Borlenghi was a former labour leader and Bramuglia a rail road 

union lawyer.


334. PENNANT (Sir Samuel, Lord Mayor of London 

1749-1750) & ADAMS (Richard, Recorder of London 

1748-1753, later Baron of the Exchequer) 

Signatures on portion of a document, authorizing payment 

of some £40 to be divided in various proportions from 10s 

to £7 10s, between eleven men whose signatures (5) or 

marks (6) appear on the verso, vellum, 5” x 11”, 12th 

January 1749 (old calendar), new style calendar 1750, 

lacking upper portion but all signatures or marks appear to 

be present 

[SD51685]£150 

335. PÉTAIN (Henri, 1856-1951, Marshal of France) 

Postcard signed, in French with translation, to ‘Madame’, 

saying that her “sympathy for my country, so 

spontaneously and kindly expressed has touched me 

deeply”, and thanking her, 1 side card, 4” x 5½”, Sector 5, 

27th December 1916, remains of laying down on verso 

[51977]£275 

During the first half of 1916 Pétain won great laurels by 

successfully holding the fortress town of Verdun against the 

Germans, led by the Crown Prince. At the time of this card he 

was in command of the armies of the Centre, becoming C-in-C 

Western Front 1917-1918. A certain caution led him to success in 

WWI, but in WWII to the surrender of France, for which he was 

tried and imprisoned after the Liberation. 

336. PHILIP (Duke of Edinburgh, b. 1921, Consort of 

Queen Elizabeth II) 

Fine Presentation Portrait by Anthony Buckley signed, 

showing him half length in dress uniform, in original full 

blue morocco Presentation frame with gilt monogram at the 

head, 12½” x 9” 

[SD29896]£500 


KCMG, CB, CBE, DSO, Governor of Western Australia) 

337. PHILIPPE (VII) (Comte de Paris, 1838-1894, 

Prince Royal after the death of his father Ferdinand in 1842 

from a carriage accident and King of the French after his 

Grandfather’s abdication in 1848) 

Autograph Letter Signed, in French with translation, to ‘My 

dear Cousin’, saying that “since your kind visit I have been 

wanting, as I told you, to go with the Duke of Braganza 

[the future King of Portugal] and pay my homage to the 

Queen of Württemberg and visit the King”, but his 

influenza “has got so much worse that I have not been able 

to leave the house and I have been selfish enough to keep 

my future son-in-law at home with me”, since he left this 

morning “all I can do is to turn to you ... to express to Their 

Majesties ... our lively regret”, and sadly cannot come to 

Nice to see him, but is “looking forward to a happier 

occasion”, with a carte de visite photograph of the Comte, 

unsigned, by L. Angerer of Vienna, showing him bearded, 

head and shoulders, facing to the left, 4” x 2½”, the letter 2 

sides 8vo., embossed lilies of France in blue and gold 

lettered “Villa St. Jean, Alpes-Maritimes”, 5th March 1886 

slight traces of gum from laying down by folded left margin 

of verso without loss, two short closed tears in horizontal 

fold [52522]£250 

The Duke of Braganza, 1863-1908 (assassinated), Crown Prince 

of Portugal, from 1889 King Carlos I, married the Comte’s eldest 

daughter Amélie in Lisbon on 22nd May 1886. Queen Olga of 

Württemberg, (1822-1892, wife of Karl I, 1823-1891), was a 

daughter of Nicholas I of Russia. 

338. PERTINI (Alessandro, 1896-1990, President of Italy 

1978-1985) 

Finely printed document signed, in Italian with translation, 

to the President of Peru (Francisco Morales Bermúdez, b. 

1921, President 1975-1980), signed also by Francesco 

Cossiga, (b. 1928, Foreign Minister, youngest ever 

President of Italy 1985-1992), saying that he his bringing to 

an end “the mission which Signor Francesco Tonci Ottieri 

della Ciaja has been fulfilling with you as Ambassador”, 

and trusting “that this Ambassador, by the care he has 

taken in cultivating the relations of friendship happily 

existing between Italy and Peru, has earned your esteem 

and good will”, gold embossed five-pointed star of the 

Republic of Italy, repeated in blind at foot, 1 side 11¾” x 

9¼”, Rome, 27th November 1981 [52388]£150 

339. PISSARRO (Camille, 1830-1903, French 

Impressionist) 


from London to his wife Julie, giving “the overnight 

bulletin” on their son Lucien (1863-1944, who came to 

England in 1890 and set up the Eragny press), “the eye 

examination is favourable”, the doctor “told me that the 

coolness he had felt on the cheek yesterday was a very 

good sign”, he continues “Félix, who has just come, tells 

me that Isaacson refused to sign, he made a hell of a fuss 

(‘un pottin de tous les diables’) and showed the attorney the 

door ! Alice and Amélie must have spent a bad quarter of 

an hour”, with a P.S. “Esther wants me to tell you that she 

is taking good care of Lucien and sends her love as do the 

children”, 2 facing sides 8vo., 62 Bath Road, Bedford Park, 

London, 11th May 1897 [52462]£750 

As a young man Pissarro was much influenced by Corot and his 

landscapes. He was the leader of the original impressionists and 

the only one to exhibit in all eight of the Group exhibitions in 

Paris from 1874 to 1886. Pissarro made four visits to London, in 

1870-1871, 1890, 1892 and 1897. His half-sister and, later, three 

of his sons lived there. 

340. PITT (William, the Elder, Earl of Chatham, 1708- 

1778, ‘The Great Commoner’, Prime Minister) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed (‘Chatham’) to an unnamed 

correspondent saying that he visited Harley Street but 

found that he was away in Portsmouth, “I cannot therefore 

help troubling you with a few lines to express my 

congratulations to you on your appointment to a command 

in Lord Howe’s fleet knowing, as I think I do, enough of 

your sentiments to think you will feel happy in being called 

forth at this critical time. It is indeed impossible for me not 

to feel ... much satisfaction in seeing those services again 

mentioned to the Publick of which they have been so long 

deprived, but you are I hope, also assured, that I must 

participate on this and on all occasions in which you are 

concerned with the interest which the most sincere 

friendship and regard can suggest ...” ending with effusive 

best wishes, 2 sides 4to., Downing Street, 3rd September no 

year., 1766 

[SD31793]£975


341. PIUS IX (Giovanni M. M. Ferretti, 1792-1878, Pope 

from 1846 who proclaimed the Dogma of the Immaculate 

Conception and whose Vatican Council formulated the 

Dogma of Papal Infallibility) 

Document signed, in Latin with translation, to Manuel 

Pardo, (1834-1878, President of Peru 1872-1876), 

congratulating him on his election, rejoicing that “you 

propose, not only to preserve, but also to strengthen the ties 

of mutual good will and friendship, which unite this 

Apostolic See and your Republic ... For if indeed the 

catholic religion is the foundation of all justice, its nature is 

such that it cherishes respect for authority, watches over the 

observance of the laws, puts down greed, guards integrity 

of behaviour, preserves the peace of one’s people, and by 

these means wonderfully promotes the wealth of nations”, 

in return the Church will “by its nature ... bring no small aid 

to your endeavours”, and sending his prayers and blessing 

to President and people, 1 side 13” x 9”, address on 

conjugate leaf, St. Peter’s, Rome, 7th October 1872, a few 

tiny closed tears in blank part of margin, portion of address 

leaf caught by seal on opening [52501]£975 

342. PIUS X (Giuseppe Sarto, 1835-1914, of humble 

origins, born in Riese near Venice, Condemned Theological 

Modernism in his 1907 ‘Pascendi’ encyclical, Champion of 

Social Reform, Reformed the Liturgy, Canonized 1954) 

Fine round photograph signed showing him half length 

looking straight at the camera, 6½ inches across, with a 

label underneath giving the place and date, Vatican 1912 


It is very rare to find examples of this Pope. 

343. PIUS XII (born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni 

Pacelli, 1876-1958, Pope from 1939) 

Fine photograph by Louis Baumgartner, St Gallen, signed 

on the mount with an inscription “To our dear son Edward 

D. McKim and to his family” giving him “a special 

Apostolic Benediction”, the photo shows him three quarters 

length seated on his throne in his papal robes, with an 

impression of the papal seal, 6½” x 5” in mount 14” x 9½”, 

no place, (Rome), 24th August 1945 [SD32585]£750 

Pius XII was accused of being Pro Nazi during the second World 

War, but he was also responsible for saving many Jewish people. 

Senator McKim was a friend of Harry S. Truman having served 

with him in World War I in ‘Battery D’. He was a tireless worker 

in Truman’s political campaigns. 

344. PIUS XII (born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni 

Pacelli, 1876-1958, Pope from 1939) 

Finely penned document signed, in Latin with translation, 

to José Luís Bustamante Rivero, (1894-1989, President of 

Peru, 1945-1948), acknowledging his letter of November 

recalling Diomede Arías Schreiber as Ambassador to the 

Holy See, (1940-1945 & 1954-1956), praising the latter’s 

work on behalf of the Catholic Religion and his country, 

and sending the Apostolic Blessing to the President and 

People of Peru, 1 side 15¼” x 10½” and conjugate blank, 

top margin with a gilt border, St. Peter’s, Rome, 1st March 

1946, two neat filing holes in blank margin [52389]£750 

Pius XII was accused of being Pro Nazi during the second World 

War, but he was also responsible for saving many Jewish people. 

345. POLLOCK (Bertram, 1863-1943, Bp. of Norwich 

1910-1942) 

Group of 9 Typed Letter Signed to the Revd. (Sir) James 

Marchant, 1867-1956, about rapprochement between the 

Anglican and Free Churches, stimulated by ‘The Church at 

the Crossroads’ (1918, by J.H. Shakespeare, 1849-1930, 

Secretary of the Baptist Union), he thanks him for the book 

and looks forward to preaching at Eastbourne (18th 

October 1918), Marchant expects to find a vehicle for the 

sermon (8th August 1919), meanwhile a correspondence 

has started in The Times, “Yes, I have written to one or two 

... and ... will ... send a letter myself. I see today that 

Carlisle [Bp. Diggle] is handling Gore [Bp. of Oxford] ... 

The long article [by the Editor] on Sep 7 was wonderfully 

favourable ... Would it be worth while to itself ? ... I wish 

the big laymen would write ... Clutton Brock or Edmund 

Holmes ... wd carry weight”, asking if Marchant could 

approach either of them (12th September 1919), “I hope 

you do not think I was hard upon Winchester [E.S. Talbot] 

... for though he was of us he was not really with us. Now 

we have” to widen the support “of the Church of England 

and also on the Free Church side ... the position hitherto 

must have been very delicate and ... is so still and I should 

like to have a talk with you” (25th September 1919), 

thanking him “for interesting the ‘Daily News’ ... it was 

well worth while to publish the correspondence” if only 

that “the Archbishop’s [Randall Davidson’s] cordial 

sympathy might be read ... the general atmosphere of the 

Lambeth Conference [of 1920] may be rather hampering”, 

Pollock thinks “going over” to the C. of E. by a prominent 

Free Churchman “is probably just at the moment not the 

wisest policy” either as an individual or with his flock, 

giving reasons, he thinks of writing to the Times to 

substitute ‘fellowship’ for ‘inter-Communion’ and 

‘interchange’ “which have got unfortunate connotations ... 

we need ... the presence of some great Free Church minister 

in some great central Church of England. Devout men at 

large know nothing about all these conferences and our 

secret diplomacy” (7th November 1919), sending the letter 

for Marchant to comment and sound out the Times (24th 

November 1919), forwarding a letter for J.H. Shakespeare 

(24th November 1919), and asking Marchant’s help in 

bringing together Shakespeare and “three or four Bishops 

and three or four Free Churchmen”, he has pruned the letter 

for the Times “along the lines you suggest” (29th 

November 1919), “You make little of what you have done 

for me”, he wonders if “my words on the subject of 

Reunion are scarcely appreciative enough of what has been 

achieved at Lambeth”, fearing his estimate is accurate “if 

one removes all the overlying ... friendship and eagerness 

to meet one another ... Mr. Griffith Jones, my friend who 

was once a Congregational minister here, and one of the 

best theologians in Norwich ... is going to think the whole 

question over” (6th October 1925), together 18 sides 4to or 

8vo., The Palace, Norwich and Castle Forbes, 

Aberdeenshire, 1918 - 1925 

[SD20181]£275 

Marchant, a Free Churchman, was active in many spheres, 

working in the East End, with Dr Barnardo’s, on education via the 

silent cinema, on public health and morals, and industrial safety, 

to name a few. He was excellent at eliciting articles, books and 

symposia, which he edited with great judgment and efficiency, 

being associated wih Cassell’s and other publishers for many 

years.


346. PRICE (William Philip, 1817-1891, M.P., of 

Tibberton Court, near Gloucester) 

3 Autograph Letter Signed to Alfred Ellis, (1821-1879, of 

Belgrave, second son of John Ellis, 1789-1862, Chairman 

of the Midland Railway), saying he had two friends “who 

were Classical Tutors at University College and who were 

kind enough to say they would hunt for some good 

quotations for the plate”, he has heard from both, “I am 

really proud to think I should have selected the best passage 

that could be chosen ... and as the Poets of old were 

Prophets too, I really begin to think that glorious old Homer 

must have had your father in his prophetic eye ... Bright 

made a capital speech in the House tonight - I believe we 

are to have a fight on the Indian revolution Monday” (23rd 

April 1858), “It is useless to talk to my colleagues ... about 

the inscription as they all say ‘Settle it with the family’ ... 

Before sending up the form ... to the Engraver ... we might 

leave out the words ‘as part of a Service of Plate’ altogether 

... they are a burthen on the inscription”, so giving a little 

more room, “The testimonial would proceed from a low 

class of motives if it recognized only ‘ability and success’, 

Ability is a natural gift and Success is often its natural 

consequence, but neither of them are necessarily virtues ... 

whilst the Midland Shareholders admire the ability and are 

grateful for the success of your fathers administration they 

have also learnt to appreciate the manly simplicity of his 

character and the many higher qualities which have won ... 

their personal regard ... What do you say - to these [not 

present] - or to any similar words” (11th May 1858), “I 

return Messrs Hunt & Roskell’s letter ... they too share the 

general contentment & satisfaction - I was afraid their 

‘representative’ would be quite passed over, & I had to 

make a fight for him ... The letter they get on these 

occasions is useful to them, & their Mr Friswell is a very 

Gentlemanly and well-informed young man ... it has been a 

most interesting labour - if labour it can be called ... I am 

just ... starting for a few days to Scotland to see my son” 

(9th July 1858), in all 10 sides 8vo., no place, 23rd April - 

9th July 1858 

[SD15203]£125 

W. P. Price was also a timber merchant and from 1873 a Railway 

Commissioner. 

John Ellis was an early enthusiast, and projected the third railway 

line in England, from Swannington to Bagworth, Leicestershire, 

opened in July 1832. 

John Samuel Hunt and Robert Roskell, c.1805-1888, succeeded 

Storr & Mortimer at 156 New Bond Street. The plate, prepared to 

order as the ‘Ellis Testimonial’, cost £564. 

347. PUCCINI (Giacomo, 1858-1924, Italian Opera 

Composer) 

Autograph postcard, in Italian with translation, to Antonio 

Beltolacci (‘Tonino’) in Torre del Lago, where Puccini had 

made his home from 1891, written in pencil, saying “It’s 

beautiful here ... Are you making up your mind ?”, sending 

his and Carignani’s regards, 1 side postcard with on the 

verso a street scene in Prunetta, ‘1000 m. above sea level’ 

in the Montagna of Pistoia, postmarked Prunetta, 2nd 

September 1913 faint small trace of gum without loss in sky 

portion of the view [52523]£375 

Carlo Carignani was Puccini’s fellow student at Lucca, where 

Puccini was born and brought up, and made the piano 

arrangements for his operas. 

348. PRIVAS (Xavier, real name Antoine Taravel, 1863- 

1927, French poet, song writer and dramatic author) 

Autograph postcard signed, in French with translation, to 

M. and Mme. Georges Wague, who are on holiday off the 

Breton coast, saying “thank you for the pleasant news about 

Mlle. Desgraves ... Have a good rest ... Bravo on your great 

success at the Ba-ta-Clan [‘The whole boiling lot’, the 

café-chantant in the Blvd. Voltaire]”, with affectionate 

regards from Francine and himself, “I gave a talk on Pierrot 

at Lyon at the Hôtel de la Chanson” and “spoke of you in 

brotherly fashion”, on 2 sides, the postcard shows the island 

in the Rhône at St Rambert l’Ile Barbe, from St. Martin du 

Fresne, Ain, 20th September 1911 [51508]£75 

Privas began singing in the wine vaults of his native Lyon, then 

moved to the cabarets of Paris, including the famous Chat Noir. 

His songs have a tender strength and imagery in every couplet that 

sets them apart - he sang at the piano to his own words and music, 

while Wague, as Pierrot, or Francine Lorée, as Columbine, 

performed a ‘cantomime’. In 1898 he started the Cabaret des Arts 

in Montmartre, and in 1899 was elected ‘prince des poëteschansonniers’ 

by fellow artistes. See Laurent Tailhade’s account 

prefixed to the ‘Chansons Sentimentales’, 1906. 

349. POVEY (Thomas, Secretary for Foreign Plantations, 

1657, Treasurer to the Duke of York, and Treasurer for 

Tangier, 1661, Receiver General of the Revenues out of 

Africa and America, from c. 1663) 

Receipt Signature on fragment of a Treasury Order to pay 

£500 to the Earl of Peterborough, as “Commander in cheife 

of His Ma[jes]t[y]s forces in the kingdomes of Morocco 

Sus and Fez”, being part payment of a total of over £34,000 

for the six months 4th December last - 3rd May, and £1000 

for his personal use, 1 side 6½” x 5”, no date, c. 1662, 

edges ragged, lacks opening lines and one or two words at 

start of remaining lines but sense clear [SD51624]£275 

In 1661 Catherine of Braganza became engaged to Charles II. 

Part of her dowry was the city of Tangier, which the Portuguese 

had occupied to put down pirates. That summer, the Earl of 

Sandwich installed as governor Henry Mordaunt, c. 1624-1697, 

2nd Earl of Peterborough, and later conveyed Catherine to 

England. For many interesting details of this period, see BL 

Sloane MS 1956, ‘A wastebook [copies of documents] of all 

Tanger affaires 1661’. Charles II gave Peterborough power to 

make treaties on 21 November 1661, and the Earl appointed 

Povey his assignee on 11th December. 

350. PRAJADHIPOK (Rama VII, 1893-1941, reigned 

1925-1935, last absolute monarch of Thailand) 

Fine Presentation Photograph from the beginning of his 

reign, signed in Thai “Prajadhipok B.R. [Boromma Raja]”, 

showing him seated, half length, facing to the left, in white 

with embroidered collar and epaulettes, with full orders and 

decorations, 10” x 7¾” oval in rectangular silver frame 

12½” x 10¼”, no place, no date, c. 1925 [52598]£2,750 

The same image, much reduced, appears on the first postage 

stamps of his reign. Prajadhipok, 5th son of Chulalongkorn, was 

sent to school in England in 1897. He had never expected to 

succeed his eldest brother, but by a series of chances came to the 

throne in 1925. Chulalongkorn, who died in 1910, had started 

building a Parliament House, but the real power lay with the king 

and the royal family. Prajadhipok tried to placate his critics, but 

was in a difficult position after the revolution of 1932, abdicated 

in 1935, and came to live at King’s Priory, Virginia Water.


ELIZABETH FRY ATTENDS A QUAKER 

MARRIAGE 

351. PRYOR (Henry, of Holborn Hill, London, Umbrella 

Manufacturer) and his wife ELIZA (daughter of James 

Carter, Builder, of Upton, Essex and Alice Carter) 

Quaker marriage certificate, recording, “after due inquiry 

and deliberate consideration by the Meeting of Ratcliffe & 

Barking”, that the couple took each other as husband and 

wife, promising “through Divine assistance ... to be Faithful 

and affectionate”, signed by the couple and witnessed by 

his mother and her parents, and by 48 other witnesses, 

including Sarah, Catherine, Elizabeth and John Gurney (the 

children of Samuel Gurney of Ham House) and by Mrs 

Elizabeth Fry, 1780-1845, the great prison reformer, also 

by her husband’s sister Miss Elizabeth Fry and by Sarah 

and Louise Fry, engraved with MS additions, vellum roll, 

19½” x 13½”, Plaistow, Essex, 28th 7th Month (July) 1831 

[52454]£475 

In 1828 Joseph Fry’s bank failed and he and Elizabeth had to 

leave Plashet to live above the office in St. Mildred’s Court, 

Poultry. However, his tea business was still solvent, and by 1829, 

having paid off all private debts, they moved to The Cedars, 

Upton Lane, West Ham, close to Elizabeth’s brother Samuel 

Gurney at Ham House. Miss Elizabeth Fry had been able to keep 

Plashet Cottage in East Ham. About this time Mrs Fry’s diary 

shows her nervousness about her ministry but Miss Elizabeth was 

a minister too and was her staunch companion and support when 

they went to Meeting. 

Other witnesses’ surnames: Allcard, Backhouse (James), 

Baradaile, Barrit, Bedford, Carter (3), Catton, Coleby, Curratt, 

Dimsdale, Harris, Hoare (Anne), Kitching, Knight, Lemare, 

Lullman, Marsden, Morland, Pryor (7), Seale, Stevens, Taylor, 

Theobald (4), Wastie, Waterfall, Whiting, Wilson. 

Pencilled on the back are the births of four children to the couple. 

352. RACHMANINOFF (Sergei, 1873-1943, Russian 

Composer & Pianist) 

Superb photo by Mishkin signed and inscribed to “Mr & 

Mrs Boris Hambourg” on the keyboard, showing him 

seated at the piano playing, 9” x 7”, no place, 1932 

[SD30098]£1,750 

353. RICHMOND (Sir William, 1842-1921, R.A., 

President of the Society of Miniature Painters) 

Autograph Letter in the third person to Sir William Treloar, 

1843-1923, Lord Mayor, accepting for luncheon, Beavor 

Lodge, Hammersmith, 11th December 1906 [SD18776]£15 

354. RIDGE (William Pett, 1857-1930, English Writer) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Lord Mayor Sir William 

Treloar, 1843-1923, wishing he “could come to the 

Mansion House on ...the 9th”, but he has promised “to go 

down into the country”, and sending his “sincere regards”, 

1 side card, 24 Ampthill Square, N.W., ‘Wednesday’ no 

date, [1907] 

[SD18699]£15 

355. RIDLEY (Sir Matthew White, 1842-1904, M.P., 

Home Secretary, from 1900 1st Viscount) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Capper, saying he has 

“written to Mr Smith for Mr Russell”, 1 side 8vo., House of 

Commons, 6th March 1890 

[SD19288]£15 

356. RIEU (Emile Victor, 1887-1972, Writer and 

Translator, Editor of the Penguin Classics) 

Portrait photograph, signed on the mount, by J. Russell & 

Sons, London, showing him seated, half length, with a firm 

but friendly gaze, 6” x 4½” in mount 8” x 6”, no date, c. 

1950 [51522]£75 

Rieu’s translations are famous for their natural, flowing English. 

357. RILKE (Rainer Maria, 1875-1926, Austrian Poet) 

Autograph Letter Signed, in German with transcription and 

translation, to Oberleutnant Wolf, saying that “Yesterday 

evening calls for a special apology, to be met on your part 

by special leniency, should it deserve it”, explaining that he 

fancied “you had said something about seven o’clock ... 

About nine ... I went to bed, as on top of my normal 

tiredness a headache had been getting worse through the 

day. A little while later you were announced. I would have 

got up again, had not my aching head prevented any real 

conversation”, apologizing for Herr Wolf’s wasted journey, 

unfortunately “I am packing up and will probably make my 

way back to my friends in town very soon; after that it will 

be much easier to arrange to meet, perhaps in your usual 

café”, adding that “My tiredness takes over in the evening, 

and I usually have to surrender to it”, 2 sides 8vo., 

Hopfner’s Park-Hotel, Hietzing, Vienna XIII, 15th March 

1916 [52456]£1,500 

358. ROBARTES (Hon. Russell, Teller of the Exchequer 

1710-1714) and Charles MONTAGU (1st Earl of 

Halifax, 1661-1715, Auditor of the Exchequer) 

Signature ‘Robartes’ on lower portion of a Treasury Order 

of 29th June 1710, for future repayment of a loan of £400 

[at 6%], bearing a note to Robartes to repay the principal 

and £28 9s 5d interest to 5th September 1711 out of the 

Malt Duties, also signed as “Examined” by Charles 

Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, Auditor of the Exchequer.2 

sides 6¼” x 10”, [Exchequer], 7th December 1711, lacks 

upper portion, narrow remargins on three sides 

[SD51655]£175 

Montagu had been the prime mover in establishing the Bank of 

England, 1694. With the receipt signature of the lender ‘Henry 

Durley’ on verso, and a note ‘Delivered to the Bank by me this 

[31st, crossed out] first day of December 1711 [? by mistake for 

1st January]’, signed George Thornhill. 

ALL THE LORDS OF THE TREASURY 

359. ROCHESTER (Laurence Hyde, 1641-1711, 1st 

Earl, brother-in-law of James II), ERNLE (Sir John, 1646 

or 1647 - 1686, M.P. for Calne, Chancellor of the 

Exchequer), DERING (Sir Edward, 1625-1684, 2nd Bt.), 

GODOLPHIN (Sidney, 1645-1712, 1st Earl), FOX (Sir 

Stephen, 1627-1716) 

Superb document signed by all the Lords of the Treasury - 

an Exchequer Receipt Document, for their salaries of £800 

for the half year as Lords of the Treasury, received from Sir 

Thomas Vernon, Bart. (d. 1686), Teller of the Exchequer, 1 

side 11½” x 7¼”, 9th October 1683 [SD51634]£975 

The salaries were authorized by the Exchequer on 6th October 

1683, “by vertue of his Ma.ts Generall Dormant Letters Patent 

dated the 24th of July 1679”. These allowed certain routine 

payments without recourse to the Crown or the Treasury.


360. ROBERTSON (James Patrick Bannerman, 1845- 

1909, M.P., Lord President of the Court of Session, Life 

Peer) 

Autograph Letter Signed to the barrister and magistrate J.G. 

Hay Halkett, (1863-1937), saying that “Mr [R.B.] Haldane 

MP”, later Lord Chancellor, “will be happy to join” the 

Perthshire Association, 1 side 8vo. black-edged, 108 Eaton 

Square, 23rd June n.y., c. 1900 

[SD18792]£15 

361. RODIN (Auguste, 1840-1917, French Sculptor) 

Letter signed, in French with translation, to Maître V. 

Hoffman, saying he was “delighted by your congenial visit” 

and “very touched by the feelings you ... express in your 

letter”, 2 sides 8vo., 182 rue de l’Université, Paris, 19th 

May 1903 [51979]£275 

362. ROEST van LIMBURG (Theodorus Marinus, 1806- 

1887, Netherlands Foreign Minister 1868-1870) 

Finely penned document, in French with translation, to the 

Peruvian Foreign Minister (Dr José Antonio Barrenechea, 

1829-1889), thanking him for his letter addressed to the 

King (Willem III) by Colonel Balta, concerning his 

elevation to the Presidency of the Republic, saying “His 

Majesty has just replied by the enclosed letter [not present], 

both original and copy”, and assuring the Foreign Minister 

of his own “high regard”, small blind embossed stamp of 

the Dutch Foreign Office at top left, 1 side 13” x 8¼” and 

conjugate blank, The Hague, 23rd October 1868, small 

original ribbon slits in blank inner margin [52393]£125 

363. ROGERS (Will, 1879-1935, American Film Star, 

known for his rustic philosophy) 

Portrait photo from a magazine, signed, showing him head 

and shoulders in his hat, full face looking upwards, and 

thoughtfully holding his hand to the side of his head, 6” x 

5”, no date, c. 1930, laid down on card, very light creases 

in bottom right corner [52212]£425 

364. ROSSETTI (Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882, Poet & 

Painter aligned with the Pre-Raphaelites) 

Delightful Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Temple 

assuring her that he “was not aware of your being here 

today till you had left, or I should have taken care to thank 

you by word of mouth for the sweets of all kinds you left 

for the household to benefit by ...”, hoping that Mr Temple 

“has got over the cold he had ... Everything is getting so 

green that it seems altogether restorative, yet the weather is 

changeable and trying still ...”, 2 sides 8vo., on mourning 

paper, no place, Wednesday, no date, 1875 [SD30936]£425 

365. RUPERT (1619-1682, Prince ‘Rupert of the Rhine’, 

Cavalry Leader under Charles I, Scientist and founder of 

Hudson Bay Company) 

Superb receipt document with a bold signature 

acknowledging that he has “received of Tho. Bonnell Esq 

the sum of fifteene hundred pounds, being in full for my 

two pencions due to me at xmas last past ...”, 1 side 4to., 

3rd March 1680 

[SD31114]£950 

366. RUSKIN (John, 1819-1900, Writer and Critic) 

Autograph Letter Signed to “Dear Allen” saying that he 

doesn’t “know what arrangements you have made about 

sending Fors [ Clavigera ] to you but I have told Smith & 

Elder at any rate to have a parcel of them ready at Waterloo 

place, if you call for it ...”, 1 side 8vo., no place, 26th 

February annotated in another hand 1871 [SD31615]£575 

Details of much of Ruskin’s expenditure are to be found in curious 

pieces of self-revelation embodied in the appendices to ‘Fors 

Clavigera.’ He had many pensioners, his charitable giving was 

generous, he educated promising artists and presented valuable 

collections of Turners to Oxford and Cambridge as well as many 

other gifts and donations. 

367. SAINT-SAËNS (Camille, 1835-1921, French 

Composer) 

Autograph note signed, in French, saying “Don’t fail to 

come. Mme. Viardot is going to sing Delilah [‘Dalila’]”, 1 

side 5” x 4”, no place, no date, c. 1874, laid down 

[51980]£225 

Saint-Saëns dedicated “Samson and Delilah”, first performed at 

Weimar in 1877, to Pauline Viardot-Garcia, (1821-1910), the 

greatest mezzo-soprano of her time. He had begun about 1867 

with what later became Act II, calling it simply ‘Dalila’. Mme 

Viardot was then living in Germany, and early portions were sung 

privately by Augusta Holmès, but received without enthusiasm. 

Mme Viardot returned to Paris in 1871, to compose and teach, and 

the present note may well refer to a surprise performance in 

costume of Act II, on a stage set up in a neighbour’s garden in 

Croissy. The opera was not performed in France till 1890. See 

Brian Rees, ‘Camille Saint-Saëns’, 1999, p. 140. 

368. SALISBURY (Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, 

1830-1903, 3rd Marquess, Prime Minister & Foreign 

Secretary) 

Exceptional Autograph Letter Signed to His Highness the 

Khedive of Egypt, acknowledging receipt of his 

“Highness’s letter of the 29th ultimo conveying your 

congratulation on the occasion of the marriage of my eldest 

son, Viscount Cranborne with Lady Alice Gore, daughter 

of the Earl of Arran ... I venture to request that you will be 

pleased to accept in return my cordial wishes for your 

uninterrupted Health and Happiness, together with the 

assurance of my warm interest in all that concerns your 

Highness’s welfare and prosperity ...”, 3 sides 4to., Foreign 

Office, 9th June 1887 

[SD30102]£250 

369. SANDRINGHAM STUD BOOK 

Printed copy of Edward VII and Alexandra’s Stud book for 

Sandringham with the manuscript instruction to the 

Printers, Harrison & Sons, to bind it in “white morocco 

with racing colours inlaid”, the book lists the Stallions, 

Brood Mares, Foals, Horses in Training and Particulars of 

Sales, with photos of the animals, for the year ending 

December 1908, bound in morocco as per instructions with 

the King’s crest in gold on the front and the title, with the 

racing colours around the edge, sm. 8vo., London 1908 

[SD32106]£225 

A very unusual Royal Racing item, printed for private 

consumption


370. SANTA CRUZ (Andrés, 1792-1865, President of 

Bolivia, 1829-1839, also of Peru, 1835-1839) 


translation, to the President of Peru, (Augustín Gamarra, 

1785-1840, President 1829-1833 & 1839-1842), saying that 

peace and harmony between the South American states 

being the keynotes of his policy, he “received and treated 

with the greatest goodwill your Minister D. Mariano 

Alvárez, believing that his mission would produce the good 

effects that without doubt the two Governments intended. 

Unfortunately the Legation has retired without 

acknowledging the constant good disposition of the 

Government of Bolivia, and which must be supposed to be 

that of the Government of Peru”, nevertheless he has heard 

“with greater pain that alarming rumours are spreading, 

whose origin is inconceivable, and which tend to break the 

good harmony which ought always to exist between the two 

peoples ... and so that the withdrawal of the Peruvian 

Legation may not leave such cordial feelings paralyzed, I 

have appointed as Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy 

Extraordinary to Your Excellency the Minister of the 

Supreme Court of Justice Doctor Casimiro Olañeta”, 

hoping that “you will follow him with favour ... so that ... 

any rumours whatever that could disturb [Peru’s] good 

understanding with Bolivia may disappear for ever; and so 

that Peru and Bolivia may always be brother peoples and 

loyal friends”, signed also by the Bolivian Foreign Minister 

Mariano Enrique Calvo, with the Peruvian draft reply , 

agreeing to the appointment, and saying that to expedite 

matters, Dr Olañeta should remain in Arequipa [in the 

South of Peru] where the Peruvian envoy will meet him, 

“which will without doubt make lasting the bonds which 

unite the two Republics, so as to make vanish the alarming 

rumours which have been spread to the disgrace of both 

Governments, and to bring despair to the enemies of 

America, who desire to see us enveloped in the horrors of 

anarchy, and count on gaining party advantage from our 

dissensions and inexperience”, signed ‘Pedemonte’, 

together 3 sides folio, the main document Chuquisaca, 6th 

October 1830, the draft reply Callao, 15th January 1831, 

moth damage near the ends of five lines affecting also the 

(faint) impression of the paper seal of Bolivia on side 2, 

also blank portion of conjugate leaf, all but one word can 

be easily supplied, the sense is clear, small defect at blank 

head of fold [52563]£775 

An unusually early document in the history of the independent 

states. Santa Cruz was Bolívar’s successor as President. 

371. SCHWEITZER (Albert, 1875-1965, Alsatian 

French Medical Missionary, Theologian & Philosopher, 

Nobel Prize Winner) 

Signature on decorative programme card in French of a 

Matinée by “Madame Geneviève Petit and her School of 

Rhythmic Gymnastics and Dance”, 8 numbers with music 

by Chopin, Schumann, Schubert, Thomé and Grieg, with a 

charming photograph of the Château de Pourtalès at La 

Robertsau on the northern outskirts of Strasbourg, signed 

and dated below by Schweitzer, signed also by P[ère] Loys 

Chaudrier, 2 sides card 6¼” x 4¼”, 15th July 1921, small 

faint creases in two corners, also tiny closed tear in one 

corner [52524]£225 

372. SCHWEITZER (Albert, 1875-1965, O.M., Alsatian 

Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician and 

Philosopher, Nobel Peace Prize 1955) 


to Emil Mettler (d. 1959), Swiss restaurateur in Petty 

France, Westminster, his very old friend, thanking him for 

“the information ... You must be spending a great deal of 

money in postage to me. I hope that ship mail will start 

running again soon”, also for “all you are doing for my 

wife’s poor aunt”, he asks him to forward letters to Greta, 

Baroness Lagerfeld, who translated his books into Swedish, 

and to publisher Lindblad, he is “deep into Mr Seaver’s 

biography [published 1947] ... The whole account is very 

alive and interests me greatly ... My son-in-law Eckert”, 

Rhena’s husband, “is building the new 4-manual organ in 

Basel cathedral and a choir organ in Geneva cathedral !”, 

he adds “Mlle Mathilde [Kottman, his faithful secretary] 

arrived on the 6th August ! Now life is a little easier for 

Mlle Emma [Hausknecht] and myself. I am already feeling 

a little less tired”, his regards in the margin include those to 

Mettler’s partner de Quervain, and to [T.D.] Williams, 

Treasurer of the Schweitzer Hospital Fund in Britain, “His 

lists of gifts of the 25th April, 9th July and of 25th July 

have arrived safely !”, with a very fine portrait 

photograph of Schweitzer by Karsh of Ottowa, showing 

him head and part shoulders, full face, hand to chin, eyes 

almost closed in thought, 8¼” x 6”, stamp on verso of 

Camera Press, London, and with an autograph airmail 

envelope to Mettler bearing French Equatorial Africa 

stamps and Lambaréné postmark of 15th January 1947 

(faint), Schweitzer’s hand stamp on verso, the letter 1 side 

7” x 8” thin paper, Lambaréné, 26th August 1945, two 

small portions of margin repaired with transparent film 

without loss [52489]£875 

Written just after the end of the war in Europe. Schweitzer’s wife 

Hélène had made her way from France in 1941, deputizing for 

each of the nurses in turn, and now things were a fraction easier. 

In 1955, when Schweitzer received the O.M., he was in London 

for a few days and held court in a back room at Mettler’s. “A 

‘closed’ notice was hung on the door and the famous lined up to 

meet him”, including Vaughan Williams, Bertrand Russell, Leslie 

Weatherhead, and Augustus John, who sketched Schweitzer for 

nearly an hour, along with people from all walks of life 

(Brabazon’s ‘Albert Schweitzer’, p. 425). 

Based at this time in Strasbourg, Schweitzer was steadily 

recovering his health since internment, and working as hard as 

ever, writing, preaching at St. Nicholas’ (where he was shortly to 

resign his curacy) and touring to raise funds for the hospital at 

Lambaréné with lectures and recitals. By the beginning of 1924 

he was ready to return to Africa. 

373. SERAO (Matilde, 1856-1927, Italian Novelist and 

Journalist) 

Autograph Letter Signed ‘Matilde Serao’, in Italian with 

translation, to ‘Dear Countess’ telling her that they “are 

here in Rome for five or six days” and very much hoping 

the countess can “arrange this meeting with Madame 

Hindenburg”, 1 side 8vo., Grand Hotel, Rome, 4th 

December 1914 

[SD9487]£75 

In 1891 Matilde Serao founded ‘Il Mattino’ still one of the most 

popular Italian newspapers today.


CHURCHILL REPLIES TO A TOAST 

374. SAVAGE CLUB (E.E. Peacock, Hon. Sec.) 

Pictorial Menu of the club’s 44th Anniversary Dinner with 

a mass of cartoon portraits by Oliver Paque of leading 

figures of the day, including guests Sir L. Alma Tadema 

and Winston Churchill M.P., who is shown hauling a bottle 

of champagne on a miniature gun-carriage labelled 

‘Pretoria’, and Archdeacon Sinclair standing by a mitre 

marked “nolo episcopari” (“I don’t want to be a bishop”), 

on the verso are the toasts and the names of no fewer than 

28 entertainers including Courtice Pounds, printed in black, 

verso also in red and gold, 2 sides card 14¼” x 11”, Hotel 

Cecil, 7th December 1901, short tear in fold without loss 

[51783]£675 

This is very early Churchilliana, dating from the immediate post 

Boer War period. 

375. SHEARER (Norma, 1900-1983, Canadian actress, 

widow of Irving Thalberg) 

Portrait photo by Ruth Harriet Louise, MGM photographer, 

signed and inscribed to the actor and director George 

Barraud “Every good wish always to you and ‘wifie’ ”, 

showing her head and shoulders, head turned full face 

across her shoulder with a lovely smile, wearing long drop 

earrings, no place, no date, c. 1935 slight crease on top 

right hand corner [52449]£275 

From a group inscribed to George Barraud, b. 1893, the British 

film actor and screen writer. 

376. SHREWSBURY (Henry John Chetwynd Talbot, 

1803-1868, Admiral, 18th Earl) 

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear Sir’, saying that 

Wellington College is “a very good place to put a young 

lad”, though “Alfred my boy is a very reserved & shy 

young fellow & did not much like it”, and is now at a 

private tutor’s, he mentions the Church accounts and asks 

his correspondent to follow up a reference for a Mr. Boyd 

seeking a living “and what his Church tenets are”, 4 sides 

8vo., Ingestre, 18th December 1864, traces of transparent 

strip in blank margin of fourth side [SD50099]£125 

The Earl was at Navarino in 1827, commanding the ‘Philomel’, 

and was later Naval ADC to Queen Victoria. 

377. SIGNAC (Paul, 1863-1935, French Neo- 

Impressionist Artist) 


‘Dear Sir’, saying that “if M. Dujardin-Beaumetz does not 

send my collection to the Luxembourg, I will recommend 

the Museum at Le Havre; but if you have a dispute with the 

curator there, it will be the attic or the cellar !”, and 

thanking him for his “kind sympathy”, printed monogram 

“PS”, 2 facing sides 8vo., 16 rue LaFontaine, Paris, no date, 

c. 1910, small original blot in blank portion, tiny splits at 

edges of 3 folds without loss, tab on blank fourth side 

[52464]£450 

Paul Signac used patches of colour, most strikingly in his sailing 

pictures, and studied the emotional effect of lines of differing 

slope. Henri Charles Étienne Beaumetz, (1853-1913, known as 

Dujardin-Beaumetz ), was under-secretary for Public Education 

and Fine Arts, and in charge of the École des Beaux Arts, 1905- 

1912. 

COLLECTION OF COMPOSERS 

378. SIBELIUS (Jean, 1865-1957, Finnish Composer), 

Sir Frederic COWEN (1842-1935, English Composer 

and Conductor), Granville BANTOCK (1868-1946, 

Composer), Sir Edward GERMAN (1862-1936, 

Composer), Sir Henry WOOD (1869-1944, Conductor, 

Founder of the ‘Proms’), John COATES (1865-1941, 

Tenor), Sir Hamilton HARTY (1879-1941, Composer), 

Sir Adrian BOULT (1889-1978, Conductor of the 

L.P.O.), Leff POUISHNOFF (1891-1959, Russian 

Pianist), Bruno WALTER (1876-1962, German 

Conductor and Composer), Willem MENGELBERG 

(1871-1951, Dutch Conductor, great Mahlerian) and 

Alfred PICCAVER (1884-1958, Operatic Tenor) 

Fine musical Autograph album, compiled by F. Wheaton, 

each signature boldly signed on an individual card, some 

dated, also included is a letter from Christopher STONE 

(1882-1965, in 1927 the BBC’s first disc jockey), 

identifying a recording (1939), 12 sides 4¼” x 6¼” (versos 

and 8 leaves blank), neat in mottled green hard covers, the 

signatures 1931-1932 and the letter 1939 [52681]£475 

Christopher Stone’s letter has a charming heading, showing an old 

fashioned gramophone which is building a “castle in the air”. 

THE COW JUMPS OVER THE MOON 

379. SIDDONS (William Young, 1815-1851, Lieutenant 

in the 63rd Native Infantry, later Captain, Deputy 

Commissioner at Jubbulpore) 

Delightfully illustrated Autograph Letter Signed to Nelson 

Dartnell, Surgeon to H.M.’s 53rd Foot, (the Shropshire 

Regiment), sending “an Oriental ditty for the Child of earth 

with the golden hair, the translation is not my own, which I 

confess at once, rather than be hereafter accused of ... 

prigging”, incorporating his delightful drawing of ‘Hey 

Diddle Diddle’, with the cat, cow, moon, dog and dish, and 

the words in Hindi, beginning “Tunny nunny durry dun, 

Wah ! Sarungee, wah ! Bilao”, regretting Dartnell’s 

departure, as do all those “who had the pleasure of meeting 

Mrs Dartnell and yourself”, with a P.S. “Your Bandies 

started with the lightest loads I ever saw, yesterday 

morning”, 1 side folio, Jubbulpore, Central Provinces, 

India, 23rd January 1848, edges a bit frayed, the light india 

paper has been mended and laid down [51528]£325 

The Shropshires landed in Bengal on 30th December 1844. They 

had now been ordered to Lahore, to join the army of the Punjab, 

where they took part in the 2nd Sikh war of 1848-1849. 

Siddons was a grandson of the famous actress. His father George 

Siddons went out to Sumatra, where William was christened. At 

this time William was seconded to civil employment in 

Jubbulpore, where his chief, Major James Macadam, 33rd Native 

Infantry, commanded the 1st Bn., Saugor Military Police. 

380. SQUIRE (Ronald, 1886-1958, Actor-Manager) 

Autograph Letter Signed to Hermann Augustin Piehler, 

1888-1987, Editor of Baedeker’s and Dent’s Guide Books, 

explaining that he “has been very worried lately” and 

neglected his correspondence, and inviting him and “your 

young friend” to “lunch with me at the Garrick”, 1 side 

4to., 17 St. John Street, Adelphi, London, no date, c. 1935 

[SD19087]£15


381. SKINNER (William, 1700-1780, from 1757 Chief 

Engineer of Great Britain, Lieutenant General) 

LS to Thomas Thoroton, 1723-1784, M.P., Secretary to the 

Board of Ordnance, begging him, following “the Death of 

the Two Gentlemen last sent to Senegal”, to mention “my 

Grandson to the Master General [Granby] to suceed as a 

practitioner Engineer”, hoping that his own “above fifty 

Year’s Service and some year’s Chief of the Corp’s may 

have some little merit” towards his claim, the candidate’s 

father “Died a Capt. on the Expedition to the West India 

Islands”, and recalling that “his Lordship gave me some 

hopes on the last Vaccancy”, 1 side folio, Greenwich, 16th 

December 1769 

[SD20041]£45 

Skinner was employed for 22 years at Gibraltar, including its 

second siege (1727), and built Fort George on the Moray Firth, 

completed in 1759. 

THE FOUNDER OF MODERN BREMEN 

382. SMIDT (Johann, 1773-1857, from 1821 

Bürgermeister of Bremen, Founder, 1827, of Bremerhaven) 

Finely penned document signed as President of the Senate, 

in German with transcription and translation, to Ramón 

Castilla, (1797-1867, Provisional President of Peru, 

President 1845-1851 & 14th July 1855-1862), thanking him 

for his letter of 7th January 1855 saying he “had been 

appointed as Provisional President of the Republic of 

Peru”, and for “the friendly sentiments that Your 

Excellency nurtures towards Our Free State”, 

congratulating him and indulging “in the gratifying hope, 

that the friendly relations which till now have so happily 

and unvaryingly existed between both States to our mutual 

advantage and welfare, will continue and develop under 

Your Excellency’s auspices”, signed also ‘Breuls’ by the 

Secretary of the Senate, 2 sides 12¼” x 7¾” and conjugate 

blank, Bremen, 2nd April 1855, small defect in blank inner 

margin [52394]£175 

Bremerhaven, on a separate parcel of land 35 miles nearer the sea, 

was bought from the King of Hanover and developed as the 

modern port, trading especially with the Americas. Together the 

two cities form the smallest state in the Federal Republic. 

383. SOTO (Bernardo, 1854-1931, President of Costa 

Rica 1885-1889) 


translation, to the President of Peru, (Andrés Avelino 

Cáceres, 1836-1923, President of Peru 1886-1890 and 

1894-1895), announcing Soto’s election in his own right on 

8th May 1886, (having filled out the remainder of the term 

of Próspero Fernández, d. 12th March 1885), and looking 

forward “to enjoying Your Excellency’s invaluable 

cooperation” in drawing closer the relations that unite them, 

signed also by Foreign Minister Ascensión Esquivel, 2 

sides folio, Presidential Palace, San José, 11th May 1886 

[52564]£250 

384. ST JOHN (Florence, d. 1912, Comic Opera Singer) 

Cabinet Photograph Signed and inscribed “Ys Very 

Sincerely”, showing her seated three quarter length with 

tiara and bouquet, notice of her funeral affixed to verso 

with stamp-paper, no date, c. 1885, light adhesion at top 

and bottom in plain portion of photo [SD19922]£35 

385. STERN (G.B., 1890-1973, Author) 

Her copy of G. K. Chesterton’s “St Thomas Aquinas”, 

signed on the front end-paper, 8vo., Hodder & Stoughton 

Ltd, London, 1947 

[SD3961]£20 

386. STRAIGHT (Sir Douglas, 1844-1914, M.P., Editor 

of the Pall Mall Gazette 1896-1909) 

Tactful ‘Private & Confidential’ Autograph Letter Signed 

to Dr Maurice Ernst (later Ernest, 1872-1955), the London 

correspondent of the Neues Wiener Tagblatt, replying to his 

circular letter of 14th December 1906, and saying that “No 

sane man can for a moment wish to foment ill feeling 

between the peoples of Germany and England” nor is “the 

real mass of German opinion ... animated by a spirit of 

aggression against England ... but many of us ... are not so 

sure of those who direct the destinies of Germany ... Their 

diplomatic methods ... do not seem to appreciate that other 

countries are not without patriotism or self respect ... one 

wishes at times [the Kaiser] would take advice before 

committing himself to utterances not intended to offend” 

but “open to misconstruction”, 2 sides card, Newton Street, 

Holborn, W.C., 1st January 1906 [SD19089]£20 

As a Judge in India, Straight helped establish the University of 

Allahabad, and was its Professor of Law. 

THE SOUTH SEA FIASCO 

387. SUNDERLAND (Charles Spencer, 1674-1722, 

Statesman, Bibliophile at Althorp, from 1702 3rd Earl), 

BAILLIE (George), TURNER (Sir Charles, brother-inlaw 

of Sir Robert Walpole, Teller of the Exchequer 1729- 

1738) 

Signatures on portion of a document, as Lords of the 

Treasury, addressed to George Montagu, Earl of Halifax (d. 

1739), Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, ordering a 

large payment under 5 George I c. 19 (1719), in respect of 

people who had exchanged anticipated lottery proceeds for 

South Sea stock, 2 sides 4¼” x 6½” remargined to 6¼” x 

7½”, 28th March 1721, lacks bottom portion of first side, 

also line ends (easily supplied from title of the Act, see 

transcription), text on second side appears complete apart 

from addressee’s style, tears in line 5 without loss 

[SD51666]£675 

To fund the war with France in Queen Anne’s reign, the National 

Debt was increased by voluntary loans to the Exchequer and 

lottery subscriptions. Even blank lottery tickets paid a small 

amount of interest for a term of 32 years. The interest or annuities 

on these and previous loans was supposed to be secured by 

introducing more and more taxes, but Exchequer payments were 

increasingly in arrears. In 1710 the South Sea Company was set 

up to combine the various arrangements, by inviting creditors to 

exchange Exchequer debt for South Sea Stock, and till the Bubble 

burst in 1720, more and more people did so. 

The £87,342 4s 5d payable by this document was due annually to 

those who had bought lottery tickets under 8 Anne c. 4, 1709, and 

who had exchanged under 5 George I c. 19 in 1719. See the 

marginal note to s. 6 in Pickering’s Statutes at Large, 1765, Vol. 

14, p. 71. 

In 1721, although the directors were under investigation, there 

was a general feeling that Sunderland was responsible for the 

South Sea fiasco, and he was forced to resign within days of 

signing this document.

58 Sophie Dupré, XV The Green, Calne, Wilts, SN11 8DQ, Tel: (01249) 821121 

388. SULLIVAN (Sir Arthur, 1842-1901, Composer of 

‘Gilbert & Sullivan’) 

Fine LS to Mrs Trower, telling her that his “nephew is off 

for his holiday (yachting) this week, & I alas! am debarred 

from dining with you, by the inexorable law I have made 

for myself - never to dine out, or rather never to engage 

myself to dine out whilst I am in the throes of composition. 

It has often happened that my inclination for work, & my 

engagements have clashed ...”, 2 sides 8vo., Dorney House, 

Weybridge, Thursday morning no date, [SD30661]£425 

QUAKER MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE 

389. SWIRE (Henry) and ROBERTS (Mary, both of 

Wooldale, near Holmfirth, south of Huddersfield) 

Certificate of their marriage, after declaring “their 

Intentions of taking each other ... before several Meetings 

... in the County of York”, with their declarations just 

made, “Friends, in the Fear of the Lord, and before this 

Assembly, I take this my Friend”, with an impressive array 

of signatures, namely the couple, 15 relations, and 41 other 

Friends, vellum, 1 side 15½” x 21¾”, Wooldale, 

Yorkshire,16th 6th mo. (June) 1796 [51498]£225 

Henry was a “clogger”, his father Hezekiah a Yeoman from 

Kildwick in the Aire valley, and Mary’s father Thomas a local 

clothier. Surnames occurring most frequently in the signatures 

include Bottomley, Brook, Dickinson, Earnshaw, Lees, Lockwood 

and Woodhead. 

390. TALLEYRAND (Charles Maurice, Prince de 

Benevento, 1754-1838, French Statesman under Napoleon) 

Letter signed to Jean De Bry, (1760-1834), Minister 

Plenipotentiary to the Congress at Rastadt “for making 

peace with the German Empire”, saying he has forwarded 

to the Treasury “an order in your name for 3,500 francs for 

the second fortnight of your salary for ... Floréal”, and 

another for “the salary and expenses of the secretariat of 

Citizen Rosentiel ... I do not yet know if any one has been 

able to deal with the money due to your unfortunate 

colleagues Roberjot and Bonnier”, printed heading with 

symbolic woodblock, with a French engraved portrait of 

Talleyrand, 7” x 5¼”, no date, c. 1820, the letter 2 sides 

4to., Paris, Ministry of Foreign Relations, 21st Floréal year 

VII, 10th May 1799, old neat restoration of blank bottom 

margin [51739]£375 

Written during the closing months of the Directory, for which 

Talleyrand was Foreign Minister from July 1797 - July 1799. He 

regained his old post after Napoleon’s coup that autumn, and held 

it another 8 years, a force for moderation against Napoleon’s 

increasing ambition. 

Rastadt in Baden is near the right bank of the Rhine. In 

October 1797 negotiations began for recompensing the German 

princes whose territory on the left bank had been seized by the 

French. The talks dragged on till 28th April 1799 (9th Floréal), 

when some Hungarian soldiers attacked the French 

plenipotentiaries as they left the town, killing Claude Roberjot and 

Ange Bonnier, and wounding De Bry, who escaped by feigning 

death. One theory is that the Austrians wished to get hold hold of 

their papers, to avoid damaging disclosures about Austria’s 

designs on Bavaria. Others think it was the work of French 

emigrés, or of the French party that wished to continue the war. In 

fact the Directory renewed the war on a wide front, but the 

reverses suffered led to its downfall. 

391. SUE (Eugène, 1804-1857, French novelist), 

Autograph note signed with initials, in French with 

translation, asking his correspondent to thank “Pauline for 

her regards”, and hoping “she will be happy in marriage 

with the good fellow she has chosen and that her 

circumstances will remain as good as she finds them now”, 

with a P.S. “My health is not very good but is holding out”, 

1 side 8vo., old identification in French at head, Annecy, 

6th January 1855 

[SD51543]£175 

Sue served as a surgeon in Spain (1823) and at Navarino (1827). 

He wrote a great number of novels idealizing the poor, and had a 

profound influence on Victor Hugo, whose Les Misérables has 

much in common with Sue’s Les Mystères de Paris (1843). A 

republican deputy in 1851, he was driven into exile and died at 

Annecy. 

THE POET LAUREATE ADVISES THE 

QUEEN 

392. TENNYSON (Alfred, Lord, 1809-1892, Poet 

Laureate) 

Autograph letter signed to Queen Victoria, telling her that 

he had “arrived here from my cruise in the ‘Pembroke 

Castle’ last night, and found your Majesty’s letter. To me 

all the quotations which I suggested seemed more or less 

applicable but since your Majesty’s choice has fallen upon 

the anonymous one, I have no doubt is the most so ...”, 1 

side 8vo., Aldworth, Haslemere, Surrey, no date, 1857 

[SD31817]£850 

SCHOOLBOY SKETCHES BY 

THACKERAY 

393. THACKERAY (William Makepeace, 1811-1863, 

Novelist) 

Rudiments of the Latin Language ... Greek Language for 

the Use of Charterhouse School, bound in one volume, the 

second title page transferred to the front and inscribed by 

Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812-1881, the botanist 

and Indian Civil Servant, half brother to Maria) to his 

nephew William (1835-1863, son of his brother Francis), 

with a note inside the front cover by Pakenham’s daughter 

Harriet Jane (Mrs Arthur Grey Butler) saying that the 

sketches in the Greek portion, pp. 40 and 11 are by 

Thackeray, Pakenham’s fellow pupil at Charterhouse, 6to, 

7” x 4¼”, London, T. Wilkie, 1822 and 1823, both covers 

detached, worn but everywhere readable, the two title 

pages joined with old paper and loose in places 

[53046]£225 

As a young man Thackeray was attracted by art, and spent a short 

time in Paris, but was forced to make his living in journalism. He 

applied to illustrate ‘the Pickwick Papers’ (1835), and made his 

own drawings for his ‘The Rose and the Ring’. The drawing on 

page 11 is of a demon’s head, with horns, pointed ears and a 

snout. That on page 40 is a back view of a schoolboy in short 

jacket and Eton collar. There are a dozen or so other drawings 

(very likely by Pakenham), including several heads with crowns or 

a ‘mortar board’ (inside back cover), a list of surnames, apparently 

fellow pupils, written in Greek letters with suggested Greek words 

from they might come, a quotation from Horace about home, and 

‘Holdsworth’ in the schoolboy code made from a 3 x 3 grid (verso 

of Latin title page). The grammars are lucid and helpful; the Latin 

wisely begins with a 10-page introduction to English. A note 

loosely inserted by C.V. Butler, (tutor in Economics at St Anne’s, 

Oxford), confirms the identification by Mrs A.G. Butler.


394. THYRA (Amelie Caroline Charlotte, 1853-1933, 

daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark, sister of Queen 

Alexandra and wife of Ernst August, Duke of Cumberland) 

Charming Wartime Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs 

Melchior, thanking her for “the photo’s [sic] your daughter 

had taken during our delightful afternoon with you all. 

Dagmar & I send you these enclosed photo’s which we 

took of you that memorable day, We trust you will give 

them to yr two children & yr husband from us. It was 

exceedingly amusing to see where I flirted with your 

husband trying in that way to persuade you to join our little 

group - but you were firm! We were exceedingly lucky as 

it has been pouring with rain almost ever since ...” she 

hopes that things are improving with her “poor wounded 

relatives - & that the good news may come one day for 

everybody ...”, 3 sides 8vo., Charlottenlund Slot, 5th 

August 1915 damaged on left hand edge by former 

mounting, some creasing on the top edge [SD30011]£250 

395. TODD (Thelma, 1905-1935, also appeared as Alison 

Loyd, American Silent and Sound Film Actress) 

Exceptional portrait photo by John Miehle, signed with 

both her stage names, and inscribed “Sid Pearce Most 

Cordially”, showing her head and shoulders, three quarter 

face, with a serious gaze, strongly back lit giving a halo 

effect, 9¾” x 7¾”, no date, c. 1930, pinholes in corners 

[52037]£575 

Thelma Todd was with the Marx Brothers in ‘Monkey Business’, 

1931, and was the leading lady in the film “You Made Me Love 

You”, 1933, with Stanley Lupino. In 1935 she died in suspicious 

circumstances, possibly from a gang trying to take over her 

sidewalk restaurant in Los Angeles. 

396. TRAVERS (Sir Eaton Stannard, 1782-1858, Rear- 

Admiral) 

Autograph Letter Signed to the Secretary of the Norwich 

Music Festival, saying he has “much pleasure” in becoming 

a Vice-President, and “shall make a point of attending with 

my family”, 1 side 8vo., Great Yarmouth, 15th July 1845 

[SD50182]£45 

Travers is said to have engaged the enemy over 100 times. 

397. TWAIN (Mark, 1835-1910, pseudonym of Samuel L. 

Clemens, American Author of Tom Sawyer) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed ‘S. L. Clemens’ to ‘Dear 

Sir’, (Mr. H. Speight]) saying “No, it was at the Plow inn 

Ottenhöfen . .. a girl of about 18, the landlord’s daughter. 

There was nothing German about her form or features ... 

These were American decidedly - but she was German, 

born & bred. After several months of uninterrupted 

German uncomeliness, she was to me superhumanly 

beautiful ...”, 1 side 8vo, together with original envelope in 

another hand (postmarked Elmira, New York), Hartrford, 

8th July 1884 small pinhole rust marks on upper margin 

[SD31792]£1,950 

See Mark Twain’s ‘A Tramp Abroad’ (1881) pages 186 “We took 

our meal of fried trout one day at the Plow Inn in a very pretty 

village (Ottenhöfen)” & 438. “And I remember that the only 

native match to her I saw in all Europe was the young daughter of 

the landlord of a village inn in the Black Forest. Why don’t more 

people in Europe marry and keep hotel?”. 

398. TWAIN (Mark, 1835-1910, pseudonym of Samuel L. 

Clemens, American Author of Tom Sawyer) 

Superb photo by the Falk Studios in Australia, signed, 

inscribed “sincerely yours” to Mr Robeson and dated, on 

the photographer’s mount, he is shown, head and shoulders 

looking intently in front of him, 5” x 4”, Australia, 10th 

July 1896 

[SD30701]£3,250 

In the 1890s Twain lost most of his earnings in financial 

speculations and in the failure of his own publishing firm. To 

recover from bankruptcy, he started a world lecture tour, during 

which one of his daughters died. Twain toured New Zealand, 

Australia, India, and South Africa. 

399. U.S.S. NAUTILUS (the world’s first nuclear 

powered submarine, SSN 571) 

Striking photograph of the vessel at speed on the surface, 

signed by Lt Donald P. Hall, Lt W.A. Cole, William 

O’Neill and William R. Anderson, with an attractive 

illustrated folding card describing its conception in 

1947, building, testing, and in 1955 its maiden voyage, and 

the many records it soon set for distance travelled and time 

spent submerged, diagrams of the conversion of nuclear 

energy to steam, and a description of the start up procedure, 

on the back is printed a Walt Disney cartoon showing No. 

571 as a whale surrounded by atomic particles, printed in 

blue and black, extending to 8¼” x 16¼”, the photograph 

8” x 10”, no place, no date but c. 1955, edges of the 

photograph lightly browned not affecting the image of the 

submarine or the signatures [52590]£175 

The photo was given to Mrs Delia Perks visiting Portland Defence 

Base in 1958, where her father worked. 

400. UMBERTO I (1844-1900, from 1878 King of Italy) 

Finely penned Document signed, in Italian with translation, 

to the President of Peru, (Andrés Avelino Cáceres, 1836- 

1923, President of Peru 1886-1890 and 1894-1895), saying 

he has resolved to accredit Cavaliere Davide Segre as 

Resident Minister, mentioning his “distinguished personal 

qualities and his proved ability and prudence”, and the 

King’s own wishes for the prosperity of “your illustrious 

Republic”, signed also by Francesco Crispi (1819-1901, 

Prime Minister & Foreign Minister 1887-1891, Prime 

Minister 1893-1896), 1 side folio and conjugate blank, 

Rome, 22nd June 1888 [52566]£275 

401. UZANNE (Octave, 1851-1931, French bibliophile 

and founder of the review ‘Le Livre’) 

MS contribution, in French with translation, to the 

autograph collection of Howes Norris, jr., praising 

handwriting as “the physiognomy of character” and 

forming “a record perhaps more valuable than that of the 

picture of a man from the artist’s interpretation or 

photography”, and saying that from the “utility” of 

autograph collectors he “would gladly write their 

vindication”, 1 side 8vo on Howes Norris’ headed paper, 

with a contemporary English translation neatly tabbed to 

conjugate leaf, Saint-Cloud, Paris, 20th January 1914, light 

traces of tabs on blank fourth side [52525]£75 

Uzanne’s writings are luxuriously illustrated in fin-de-siecle style.


402. VANDERSTICHELEN (Jules, 1822-1880, Belgian 

Foreign Minister) 


to the Peruvian Foreign Minister, saying that “the letter 

which was sent enclosed to his Office dated 11th August 

last has reached its high destination”, enclosing Leopold 

II’s reply [not present], and renewing his own assurance of 

his “high regard”, annotated in another hand in Spanish 

“Lima, 18th December 1868. Publish a corresponding 

notice. Bonifaz.”, 1 side folio and conjugate blank, 

Brussels, 24th October 1868, small original ribbon slits in 

left margin, one just touching one letter [52568]£175 

For the enclosure of 11th August, by which José Balta (1816- 

1872) notified Léopold II of his election as President. 

403. VICTORIA (1819-1901, from 1837 Queen of Great 

Britain) 

Document signed, to the President of Peru, (Ramón 

Castilla, 1797-1867, President 1845-1851 & 1855-1862), 

saying that she has “received from the hands of Don 

Francisco de Rivero” the President’s letter of 26th 

December bringing to an end his post as “Minister Resident 

of ... Peru at Our Court”, assuring him that the minister’s 

“language and conduct” have always “been such as to merit 

Our Approbation and Esteem” in maintaining “that 

Friendship which We trust will ever subsist between Us and 

the Republick”, and recommending the President “to the 

Protection of the Almighty”, signed also by Foreign 

Secretary Malmesbury, (1807-1889, 3rd Earl), 2 sides folio 

and conjugate blank, Buckingham Palace, 4th March 1859, 

small defect near foot of conjugate blank and other marks 

on blank fourth side [52492]£500 

Castilla was responsible for bringing peace and prosperity to his 

country, apart from Vivanco’s insurrection in 1856-1858, after 

many years of generals contending for power. 

WEDDING OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL, 

VICTORIA WITH PRINCE FRIEDRICH 

404. [VICTORIA (1840-1901, Empress Frederick of 

Germany, wife of Frederick III, eldest child of Queen 

Victoria & mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II) & FRIEDRICH 

III (Wilhelm Nikolaus, 1831-1888, son-in-law of Queen 

Victoria, Emperor of Germany for 99 days)] 

Form of Solemnisation of Matrimony 6 pages printed in red 

and black, sm. folio, bound in moiréed white cloth with gilt 

crown & monogram with the place and date on the front 

cover, all edges gilt, Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, 25th 

January 1858 

[SD30280]£375 

Any material relating to Friedrich III is uncommon due to his 

early death from throat cancer. He only survived his father 

Wilhelm I by three months. As Crown Prince his position was 

made very difficult by his opposition to Bismarck and also as his 

wife Victoria, Empress Frederick antagonised the Prussian people 

with her aggressive & tactless Englishness. 

405. VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain) 

“Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands”, 

signed, inscribed “To the Hon. Maude ... from Victoria 

R.I.”, and dated on the front free end paper, Balmoral, 21st 

October 1884, 8vo., Smith Elder & Co, London, 1868 

[SD31042]£450 

406. VICTORIA (1840-1901, Empress Frederick of 

Germany, wife of Frederick III, eldest child of Queen 

Victoria & mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II, ‘Vicky’) 

Part Album, assembled by Mrs Mary Ann Wakelin, (b. 

1837 or 1838, née Conway, later Mrs William Morter, 

nanny to Vicky’s children from about 1860 till 1878), of 

coloured embossed monograms, greetings cards, and 

‘scraps’, the monograms from letters addressed to Vicky as 

Crown Princess of Germany by European and British 

Royalty, including a card inscribed by the Crown 

Princess “For Nana, wishing her and her children a happy 

new year 1877, Berlin” with, loosely inserted, 10 

unstitched sides 8” x 5¾” from a similar collection of about 

100 items by Mrs Wakelin’s daughter Gertrude, with many 

identifications in Mrs Wakelin’s hand, Mrs Wakelin’s has 

over 170 items on 13 remaining sides of ‘The Boy’s Own 

Scrap Book’, whose upper cover bears in colour a little boy 

drumming a saucepan with a kitchen ladle, 9½” x 7¼”, n.p., 

c. 1874 - 1877, leaves mostly detached and loose in 

original covers, one pair of scraps roughly detached 

leaving a hole but could be replaced [52677]£325 

Many items are identified in Mrs Wakelin’s hand. Her children 

John and Gertrude, (b. 1860, later Mrs Henry Drury), joined their 

mother in 1873. Gertrude was the same age as Vicky’s eldest 

daughter, Princess Charlotte. Gertrude boarded at the Empress 

Augusta Stiftung in Potsdam, a school set up for daughters of the 

household, and her leaves include contributions by her fellows 

there, Monica Cunliffe-Owen, Louise M. Bowles, Ella 

Farquharson, and verses on the ‘Rights of Women’ signed by 

friend ‘Maye’, “... The right to labour and to pray ... the path in 

which the weak grow strong ...”. 

From the high water mark of the embossed monogram. Notable 

are an ‘AE’ “from the Prince of Wales menu card in India - 

January 1876”, a ‘Louise’, later Duchess of Argyll, with the letters 

of her name strung out on a spear at 45 degrees, her coronet 

dangling from the end, and a (Queen) ‘Victoria’ with all the letters 

of her name, in black and gold. Princess Charlotte’s, as Duchess 

of Saxe-Meiningen, resembles a snake’s head. Two bear an 

identification added in fine roman penmanship by Friedrich (III) 

himself - Carl, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Grand Duke 

Stefan of Austria. A card to Mrs Wakelin, in beautiful colour, has 

the Crown Princess’ pencilled writing on the back, wishing “dear 

Nanna ... and her children a happy New Year 1877”, while another 

has a bouquet “painted by a wounded Soldier at Mainz during the 

Franco-German war of 70-71”, which the artist has inscribed on 

the back. 

Inside the back cover is a touching telegram of 1874 to Mrs 

Wakelin at the Neues Palais from Vicky, sending “Love to 

children. Wish you to take them to their little brothers grave 

tomorrow as it is his birthday” (Prince Sigismund, 15th September 

1864 - 19th June 1866, buried in the Friedenskirche, Potsdam). 

407. VICTORIA MELITA (1876-1936, wife of Grand 

Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and secondly Grand Duke 

Kirill Vladimirovitch of Russia, granddaughter of Queen 

Victoria) 

Fine photo by Thiele, signed and dated, showing her full 

length, seated in a chair with a large torchere behind her, 

holding a bunch of flowere, 7¾” x 4”, no place, 1900 

[SD32301]£475


408. VIKTORIA MARGARETE (Princess, 1890-1923, 

only daughter of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, wife, 

1913, of Heinrich XXXIII of Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz, 1879- 

1942) 

Long autograph letter signed ‘Agra’, in German, to her 

cousins Princesses Olga and Maria (‘Dicky’), who are now 

back in St Petersburg, daughters of Prince Albert of Saxe- 

Altenburg, 1843-1902, by his first wife Princess Marie of 

Prussia, saying she missed them at the Life Guards 

celebrations, at which she danced “with verve” (‘tüchtig’), 

“yesterday was the Society’s evening at the Opera” where 

they saw “The Merry Wives of Windsor” which she found 

rather long-winded, she was so glad the sisters were able to 

visit her again in Berlin, her Papa asks if they can give him 

recipes for various dishes such as Sakuskapasteten which 

he got to know when serving in Russia, or at least an 

address to write to, she wonders if she might visit the 

sisters at Serrahn this year, she is pretty sure her parents 

would allow her, and is sending her picture in fancy dress 

as the beautifully behaved ‘Werther’s Lotte’, in a P.S. she 

apologizes if she has spelt the names of the Russian dishes 

wrong, 7 sides 8vo., gold crowned embossed VM, 

Glienecke, 17th March 1908 [53169]£175 

Viktoria Margarete and Maria married brothers, Maria marrying 

Heinrich XXXV in 1911. Olga and Maria were brought up at 

Oranienbaum near St Petersburg and at Serrahn in Mecklenburg 

Schwerin by their stepmother Helene, 1857-1936, greatgranddaughter 

of Paul I, Princess of Russia and of Mecklenburg 

Strelitz, whose father, like Prince Albert, was in the Russian army. 

THE NEW KINGDOM OF ITALY 

409. VITTORIO EMANUELE II (1820-1878, from 

1861 First King of Italy) 

Finely penned document signed, in Italian with translation, 

to the President of Peru, (Ramón Castilla, 1797-1867, 

President 1845-1851 & 1855-1862), beginning with his title 

“by the grace of God and by the will of the nation King of 

Italy”, saying “The events which have been in preparation 

since 1860 in the Italian peninsula and which have been 

effected by the free and firm will of the people, have 

resolved Us to sanction the law passed by the Parliament by 

which We have assumed for Us and for Our successors the 

title of King of Italy ... in recognising this Our new title, 

You, and in the name of the Republic of Peru over which 

You so worthily preside, will be showing Us a new mark of 

Your favour ... and of Sympathy with the Italian Nation”, 

and praying that “God may keep you ... Our good Friend, in 

His holy and worthy care”, signed also by Baron Bettino 

RICASOLI, (1809-1880, Italian Patriot, Chief Minister 

1861-1862 & 1866-1867), 1 side 14” x 9½” and conjugate 

blank, note in Spanish on side 2 to acknowledge and 

publish signed ‘Ribeyra’, Turin, 5th January 1862 small 

tear on central fold [52398]£975 

ORIGINAL SKETCH OF A CAT 

410. WAIN (Louis, 1860-1939, Artist famed for his 

Comic drawings of Cats) 

Charming original pen and ink sketch signed on a card, the 

rather cross looking cat is walking above his signature and 

the tail is extended to the top of the signature, 4” x 3”, no 

place, dated in pencil in another hand 30th May 1930 

[SD30689]£575 

THE WEDDING OF QUEEN IOANNA 

411. VITTORIO EMANUELE III (1869-1947, King of 

Italy 1900-1946) 

Fine document signed, in Italian with translation, to the 

President of the Governing Military Junta of Peru, (Colonel 

Luís Sánchez Cerro, 1894-1933, President 1930-1931 & 

1931-1933 when assassinated), informing him of “the 

marriage of Our Beloved Daughter, her Royal Highness the 

Princess Royal Giovanna Elisabetta Antonia Romana 

Maria, to His Majesty Boris III, King of the Bulgars ... on 

the 25th October 1930 in Assisi”, sure of “the joy with 

which You will receive the notice of such a happy event for 

all Our Royal Family”, renewing “the expression of Our 

perfect esteem and constant friendship” and praying “that 

God may keep You ... in His Holy care”, lithographed with 

manuscript additions, 1 side 14¼” x 9”, Rome, 11th 

December 1930, two neat filing holes in blank margin 

[52402]£425 

During the war, King Boris III found himself a most unwilling 

ally of Hitler. Both he and Queen Ioanna, 1907-2000, were 

responsible for saving Jews, he from the concentration camps, and 

she in obtaining transit visas to escape to Argentina. 

412. VITTORIO EMANUELE II (1820-1878, first King 

of Italy) & Camillo CAVOUR (1810-1861, Prime 

Minister of Piedmont, President of the Council of Ministers 

and the architect of Italian unity) 

Finely penned document signed as King of Sardinia, in 

Italian with translation, appointing Cav. D. Giuseppe 

Dabormida, (1799-1869, Foreign Minister, later Count), as 

his plenipotentiary to conclude a treaty of friendship, 

navigation and commerce with the Republic of Peru, 

signed also by Camillo Cavour, vellum, blind embossed 

papered seal with the Royal Arms, 1 side folio and 

conjugate blank, Stupinigi, 12th June 1853, [51993]£425 

An early document of its kind, reflecting the peace and increasing 

prosperity under Peru’s President Ramón Castilla. 

THE NAVY BOARD 

413. WAGER (Admiral Sir Charles, 1666-1743, knighted 

for his defeat of the Spanish fleet near Carthagena in 1708), 

Charles SERGISON (Clerk of the Acts, 1690-1719), 

Richard BURTON (Controller of Victualling Accounts, 

1714-1717), Dennis LYDDELL (Controller of 

Treasurer’s Accounts, 1691-1717), J. FAWLER (Extra 

Commissioner), and Charles CORNWALL (Controller 

of Storekeepers’ Accounts, 1714-1716), 

Letter signed as comptroller of the Navy, with the other 

official signatures discussing the payment of “One Hundred 

Pounds for damage done to His Ma Ship the Dover, by the 

Marlbrough Merchant Ship. But having this day received 

an order from the Rt Hon the Lords of the Admiralty, 

directing us not to insist on the Payment of the said damage 

we send you inclosed a Copy of the Lordships said Order 

for your complyance therewith ...”, 1 side folio, Navy 

Office, 13th April 1716, trimmed down the sides not 

affecting the signatures 

[SD31633]£175 

Sir Charles Wager was first lord of the Admiralty in Sir Robert 

Walpole’s ministry.


414. WAKEFIELD (Henry Russell, 1854-1933, Bp. of 

Birmingham, 1911-1924) 

Autograph Letter Signed to the Revd. (Sir) James 

Marchant, 1867-1956, the Free Church minister and social 

activist, saying he “is really sad to read of the Bishop of 

Durham’s death” (H.C.G. Moule), “He was a man ... You 

know ... that I am to change my see Durham with its 

working people appeals to me. But I cannot advance 

myself” and wondering if Marchant can drop a hint, though 

Wakefield is “quite happy here”, 2 sides 8vo black-edged, 

Bishops Croft, Birmingham, 8th May 1920 [SD20177]£45 

415. [WALPOLE (Horace, 1717-1797, of Strawberry 

Hill, Twickenham, author, from 1791 4th Earl of Orford)] 

Document signed by George ONSLOW (1731-1814, 

from 1776 4th Lord), the Hon. Charles TOWNSHEND 

(1728-1810, from 1797 Baron Bayning) and Francis 

Seymour Conway (1743-1822, Viscount BEAUCHAMP , 

2nd Marquis of Hertford 1794, husband of the Prince of 

Wales’ mistress), as Lords of the Treasury, ordering 

payment to Horace WALPOLE, as Usher of the Receipt 

of His Majesty’s Exchequer, a total of £902 0s 3½d 

“without Account, for Necessaries by him delivered to the 

Several new Offices ... in the half year ending at Lady day 

1773”, listing the nine exchequer accounts that are to be 

debited, which range from the “14% Annuities and 

Survivors” (a very old account, opened in 1693, the original 

‘National Debt’) to “Supplies 1772 charg’d on Supplies 

1773”, and the amounts to be taken from each, with many 

detailed sums and notes addressed to all four Tellers of the 

Exchequer in charge of these accounts, and receipted on the 

verso by Joseph TULLIE (d. 1774), Horace Walpole’s 

deputy as Usher, in respect of a final group of three items 

totalling £92 6s 6d, 2 sides 14” x 9¼”, 6th May 1774, 

remargined, barely touching the letters at the beginning of 

a few lines 

[SD51710]£425 

In 1738, as son of the Prime Minister, Horace had been given 

three lucrative posts in the Exchequer, which could all be 

performed by deputy, and which in 1780 were bringing him £4000 

a year. The post of Usher was abolished when Horace died. 

There is a good story about Joseph Tullie in Horace’s 

‘Correspondence’, Vol. 23. Tullie had an estate in Yorkshire, and 

had arranged to buy a horse, but was rather unwilling to let the 

farmer have his brand new guineas from London, as Yorkshire 

money was generally much clipped. The farmer equally refused 

them, saying that “there are so many coiners in these parts, that if I 

was seen to have so many new guineas, I should be sent to prison 

as one of the gang”, and waited till a hundred bad guineas could 

be fetched from Gisborough. 

This document is unusual in being complete, and in revealing so 

much of the Exchequer’s accounting methods. 

416. WELLS (H. G., 1866-1946, Novelist) 

The Happy Turning - A Dream of Life”, with Autograph 

Letter Signed inserted to “Dear Old Countryman saying 

that he “may quote as much or as little as you like of the 

but not the whole book. I think the bits you have looked at 

are very well chosen & an excellent advertisement. Take 

some more ...”, 1 side 8vo., 13 Hanover Terrace headed 

paper, 14th February 1945, the book 8vo., with dust jacket, 

Heinemann, London, 1945 mounted with a photo 

[SD31090]£275 

417. WELTI (Emil, 1825-1899, President of the Swiss 

Confederation six times, 1869-1891) 


to D. José Antonio García, Foreign Minister of Peru, 

thanking him for his note of 3rd August “conveying the 

letters by which His Excellency Don Mariano Ignacio 

Prado announces his nomination as constitutional President 

of Peru”, asking him to convey the Federal Council’s reply 

[not present], and assuring the Foreign Minister of their 

“high regard”, signed also by Johann Ulrich Schiess, 

(1813-1883, Chancellor 1848-1881), 1 side folio and 

conjugate blank, Berne, 4th October 1876 [52575]£225 

WERFEL AND VERDI 

418. WERFEL (Franz, 1890-1945, Austrian-born Poet 

and Novelist) 

Autograph Letter Signed, in German with translation, to 

Herr Wolf, saying that he is “not editing ‘I Vespri 

Siciliani’, however I take the greatest interest in your 

project”, he considers the opera has “the weakest libretto 

that Verdi ever set to music” and has spent 15 years 

thinking “how the wonderful music of this opera might be 

rescued ... Perhaps you have a good basic idea”, Werfel 

points out the obstacles, “moral and legal”, to altering 

Verdi’s words and music, “In Italy, every real or imagined 

retouching of the original will be fiercely savaged in the 

press”, but he has “a lively interest in your and your 

brother’s revision of the Vespers. Could you somehow 

make it available to me ?”, and suggests Wolf telephone 

him in Vienna on the 21st, 2 sides folio, Breitenstein 

Südbahn, 16th June 1930 [52457]£1,000 

To Werfel singing was ‘the most holy symbol of the lonely 

dialogue between God and men’, as, for example, in his famous 

novel about Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes. He saw singing as 

dethroned by symphonic instrumental music, especially Wagner’s. 

In 1926 Ricordi published ‘La Forza del Destino ... freely adapted 

and revised for the German Opera stage’ by Werfel, which greatly 

contributed to the Verdi revival in Germany, along with his novel 

about Verdi and, with Paul Stefan, the first German collection of 

his letters. Werfel married Mahler’s widow Anna, and together 

they emigrated to France in 1938 and to the USA in 1940. 

419. WESTCOTT (Brooke Foss, 1825-1901, New 

Testament Scholar, from 1890 Bishop of Durham) 

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Mrs’ Holte, (he jokes that 

Holte’s letter was addressed to ‘Mrs’ Westcott), about 

reviewing some memorial essays, remarking that “a 

schoolmaster lives from day to day in an atmosphere which 

is supposed to inspire the affectation of universal 

knowledge. At best he gives judgment on everything with 

a readiness and confidence on w[hich] it is alarming to 

reflect”, but on this occasion he will have “the satisfaction 

of recalling R. Dundas for whom I had a true affection ... it 

will be a pleasure to me to do anything which would have 

gratified him”, and asking for “(if possible and lawful) a 

specimen of the usual critique”, 3 sides 8vo., Harrow, 24th 

March 1866 

[SD50708]£75 

At Harrow School, where he taught from 1852 to 1869, Westcott 

wrote some of his most influential works, followed at Cambridge 

by important Commentaries on individual books of the N.T., and 

collaborating with his former pupil Hort on his famous Greek 

Text. At Durham, Westcott influenced every part of church life.


420. WHITE (Pearl, 1889-1938, American Principal Boy 

and ‘Queen of the Silent Serials’) 

Postcard photo, signed, showing her seated, three quarter 

length, in profile but with face turned thoughtfully towards 

the viewer, and wearing an old fashioned long young man’s 

jacket with white cuffs and soft hat, 5½” x 3½”, no place, 

date pencilled below 16th October 1925 [52359]£225 

421. WHITWORTH (Charles, 1752-1825, Ambassador 

to Poland, Russia, and France, 1st Viscount 1813, 1st Earl 

1815) 

Signed power of attorney to George Aust, “to demand and 

receive from the Tellers of His Majesty’s Exchequer ... all 

... sums ... due to me ... as His Majesty’s Minister 

Plenipotentiary” to the Court of Warsaw, in a neat hand, 

with Whitworth’s seal of a fine Greek head, 1 side 12¾” x 

8”, 22nd August 1785 [SD51713]£100 

422. WILBERFORCE (Samuel, 1805-1873, Bishop of 

Oxford and Winchester) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to “My dear Admiral” telling 

him that his “young groom has orders to ride off the 

moment the rain slacks to Holmewood. You will 

remember that the mare is quite un made for Sale; just as 

she had come out of the breakers hands ... I think ... to be 

useful & exceedingly gently & quiet. If you want such a 

horse I hope she may suit you ... if you do not keep her will 

you send her back to Cuddesdon ...” suggesting that if that 

is the case he will be away but his son Ernest can deal with 

the matter, 4 sides 8vo., Wytham Abbey, Oxford, 13th July, 

no year., 

[SD30000]£125 

423. [WILHELM I (1797-1888, King of Prussia and first 

German Emperor)] 

Finely penned document, in German with translation, 

addressed to Dr. Barrenechea, (José Antonio, 1829-1889, 

Foreign Minister of Peru), from the Prussian Foreign 

Minister (Count Bismarck) and signed on his behalf, 

enclosing the King’s reply [not present] to the letter from 

Col. José Balta, (1816-1872, from 1868 President of 

Peru), announcing his election as President, and assuring 

Dr Barrenechea of his most distinct repect, at the top and 

bottom are two contemporary notes in Spanish, the first 

explains the content of the document, the second orders its 

official publication, 1 side folio and conjugate blank, 

Berlin, 20th October 1868, small ribbon slits in blank inner 

margin, contemporary note in Spanish at top overlaps the 

text, touching a few letters [51995]£125 

424. [WILHELM II (1859-1941, German Emperor 1888- 

1918)] 

Finely penned document, in German with translation, 

ratifying the agreement with the Republic of Peru, signed in 

Lima on 31st December 1909, to accept parcels over 5 kg 

without declaration of value, signed ‘Jensen’ on behalf of 

the Chancellor (Theobald Bethmann Hollweg, 1856- 

1921, Chancellor 1909-1917), large blind-embossed 

Imperial German eagle, 1 side folio and conjugate blank, 

26th February 1910, small spike hole in blank top left 

corner [51996]£125 

425. WILHELM II (1859-1941, German Emperor) 

Finely penned document signed, in German with 

transcription and translation, to the President of Peru, 

(Remigio Morales Bermúdez, d. 1894, President from 

1890), saying “Great and good Friend ! From your letter of 

the 18th August of this present year, I learn that you have 

been elected President”, congratulating him “on this 

expression of the confidence of your fellow citizens” and 

reciprocating his good wishes for their respective countries, 

adding that “it is My Government’s endeavour to maintain 

and extend the good relations that exist between the 

German Empire and the Republic of Peru”, as does the 

President, and conveying “the expression of my highest 

respect”, signed also by Baron Warschau, with, tipped in, a 

contemporary translation in Spanish, the letter 2 sides folio, 

Neues Palais, 2nd November 1890 [52527]£325 

426. WILLIAMSON (John, d. 1799, Lieutenant in 

‘Resolution’ on Cook’s last voyage, 1776, Commander of 

the Bomb Vessel ‘Vesuvius’ and at Camperdown Captain 

of ‘Agincourt’) 

Document signed certifying to the Lords of the Admiralty 

that “Mr William Collis served as Lieutenant of His 

Majesty’s Bomb Vessel Vesuvius under my Command 

from the 2nd November 1781 to the date hereof”, and 

complied with “the general Printed Instructions”, 1 side 

5¾” x 7¼”, Spithead, 10th April 1782 [51763]£775 

In 1797 William Collis served as 1st Lieutenant of ‘Goliath’ at the 

Battle of Cape St. Vincent. The same year, at Camperdown, 

Williamson, as Captain of ‘Agincourt’ was convicted of 

dereliction of duty and sent to the bottom of the post list. 

Williamson is mentioned in the primary account of Cook’s Third 

Voyage (1780) as he was in charge of the launch that landed 

Captain Cook with the marines onthe day he was killed (14th 

February 1779), and was criticised for not have done more to help. 

‘Resolution’ in 1776 was apparently his first post as an officer. 

427. WINDSOR (Duchess of, Wallis Simpson, 1896- 

1986, Wife of Edward VIII) 

Photograph with fine signature “Wallis Windsor” depicting 

the couple stood before an aeroplane propellor signed, with 

stamp on the back asking for a credit line for Stanley 

Toogood A.R.P.S. Nassau, Bahamas if it is reproduced, 5” 

x 6¾”, Nassau, c. 1940 

[SD32063]£575 

Taken during the Duke’s time as Governor visit to The Bahamas, 

428. WINTERBOTHAM (Henry, 1837-1873, M.P., 

Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department) 

Autograph Letter Signed to the Revd. Henry Allon, 1818- 

1892, President of the Congregational Union, saying he 

does not know “the personal composition of the Committee 

... By all means hand up a memorandum. You can either 

read it ... or hand it to a friendly peer for your examination. 

Otherwise ... ‘take no thought what you shall speak’. There 

are no limits to the questioning ... I think they want to coax 

the weak-knee’d dissenters”, 3 sides 8vo., 7 New Square, 

Lincoln’s Inn, 11th March 1871 

[SD19938]£20 

429. WRIGHT (Edward Richard, 1813-1859, Actor) 

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My dear Sir’, saying “You win 

your wager. I am on the wrong side of thirty. I hope it is 

for a good sum if so I would like to share it with you”, 

Merton Villa, 27th August 1850 

[SD19939]£30


430. WOOD (Sir Evelyn, 1838-1919, V.C., Field- 

Marshal) 

Autograph Album compiled by his daughter Marcella 

Caroline Mary, (d. 1946), known as Ella, from 1902 wife of 

Colonel Edward Augustine Blount (d. 1936), with her 

father’s signature and those of other notable soldiers, 

including Herbert Kitchener, Maj.-Gen. P de Courcy- 

Hamilton, V.C., (1825-1908, received the VC on 11th May 

1855 at Sebastopol), Sir Evelyn Wrench, and Lord 

Denbigh, also Sister Agnes Keyser, founder of King 

Edward VII’s Hospital for Officers, Francis of Teck (1870- 

1910, Queen Mary’s brother, served in the Sudan), Sir 

Rudolf Slatin (prisoner of the Mahdi for 11 years, 

administrator of Darfur in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan), and 

actors Lewis Waller and Maud Beerbohm Tree, 29 sides, 

with at the back an interesting series of quotations and 

extracts on 24 sides, 8¾” x 7”, red-brown leather, 23 

Devonshire Place and Southwell Cottage, Worth, Sussex, 

1895 - 1913, a few leaves loose in place, spine a little worn 

and edges rubbed [52678]£225 

The quotations, verses and thoughts, are more substantial and 

thoughtful than those usually found. They include longer 

passages on Time, Love, Sorrow, Ruskin on a knight buckling on 

his armour as “the type of an eternal truth”, and a sensitive 

“Parting of Launcelot and Guinevere”, 35 lines by Stephen 

Phillips after Tennyson, about Launcelot visiting Guinevere in the 

nunnery. 

Ella was hostess to her father after her mother, Mary Paulina, 

sister of the 4th Viscount Southwell, died in 1891. Three of her 

brothers rose to be colonels, including Evelyn M. Wood, 1869- 

1943, present here. 

HENRY WOOD AND THE PROMS 

431. [WOOD (Sir Henry J., 1869-1944, Founder in 1895 

of the Promenade Concerts)] 

Splendid volume of signatures of musicians associated with 

the ‘Proms’, written in a fine early 19th century blank book 

bought for the purpose, mottled calf with roll tool borders, 

spine richly tooled gilt in compartments, inner dentelles and 

marbled end papers, MS dedicatory leaf explaining that 

“the Henry Wood Proms Circle had hoped to present to Sir 

Henry Wood this One Hundred and Fifty Year Old Album 

containing the signature of every Artiste appearing ... 

during the Fiftieth Season of Promenade Concerts. Fate 

however willed otherwise”, and that the volume was 

acquired by Sir Louis Sterling as the highest bidder to the 

Henry Wood National Memorial Fund, 3rd March 1945 

tiny defect in one compartment of spine, a little rubbing at 

edges and head and foot of spine but in attractive condition 

[52682]£425 

Over 160 signatures, including not only Basil Cameron, Solomon, 

Isobel Baillie, Eva Turner, Benjamin Britten, Myra Hess, Heddle 

Nash,Moura Lympany, Moiseivitch, Stiles-Allen, Irene Kohler, 

Pouishnoff, Ida Haendel, Phyllis Sellick & Cyril Smith, and Léon 

Goossens, to name a few, but also George Stratton (leader) and all 

the members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra “from the opening 

Concert on June 10th until the last concert on June 29th”. 

432. WOOLF (Virginia, 1882-1941, Novelist, Critic & 

Essayist) 

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Lucy Clifford sending 

her “with my love a little book of my father’s which we 

have just brought out, thinking you may like to have it. I 

only wish it were nicer to look at, but owing to our going 

away, the printers have made it look rather cheap and nasty 

...” but she still likes it and thinks that she may as well, 1 

side 4to., 52 Tavistock Square, WC1, no date. c. 1924 

[SD30141]£1,750 

She is referring to Sir Leslie Stephen’s book ‘Early Impressions’. 






433. [ZAWDITU (Judith) (1876-1930, from 1916 

Empress of Ethiopia)] 

Magnificent document, in Ge‘ez and Amharic with 

translation, headed in Ge‘ez “The Lion of the tribe of Judah 

has prevailed”, followed by her titles “the appointed of 

God, Queen of Queens of Ethiopia Zawditu, daughter of 

Menelik II, King of Kings”, and continuing in Amharic “As 

kings who are revered in their ... wisdom ... reward their 

warriors, their friends and their servants, We too have 

awarded to Iacopo Gasparini, Governor of Eritrea [1923- 

1928] of the Kingdom of Italy, the Star of Honour of 

Ethiopia, 1st Class, with the Plaque, with Our permission to 

wear it on the left side”, with, above, the stamp of the 

Empress and, below, that of her cousin and heir the regent 

Ras Tafari Makonnen, (1891-1975, Emperor as Haile 

Sellassie 1930-1974), all in a splendid border in red, green, 

yellow and orange of interlaced vines, chromolithographed 

by Georges Michau & Cie., Orléans, with manuscript 

additions in red or black, vellum, 21½” x 15¼”, no place, 

16th Ginbot 1919 (Ethiopian era), 24th May 1927 weak 

impressions of the stamps, a few tiny defects in blank 

margin, otherwise in fine condition [51795]£475 

Iacopo Gasparini, (1879-1941), was the last Governor of Eritrea in 

the pre-fascist mould. His policy of restoring authority to the local 

chiefs and bringing them to the governor’s table was as dear to his 

heart as it was hated by his officials. When he arrived, Eritrea was 

on the point of collapse after the earthquakes of 1921, with fourfifths 

of the town and port of Massowa destroyed. He rebuilt the 

city, improved communication by sea and inland, and developed 

agriculture, notably by the dam on the Gasc river. He also 

prevented the exploitation of the highlands by the colonists of the 

plain. 

After his term of office he returned to agriculture in the colony. 

During the occupation of Ethiopia the Duke of Aosta made him 

Commissioner for the Economy and Supplies. In 1941 he was on 

the last plane out of Addis Ababa, and, refusing to return to Italy 

although ill, was in Asmara when the British troops arrived. 

The pen strokes at the end are probably those of the Empress’ 

secretary for such awards. 

We are grateful to Dr. David Appleyard for his help with this 

note.


434. ZEDDELER (Alexander Loginovich, Baron, 

husband of the ballerina Julia Kschessinska, b. 1866, and 

brother-in-law of the ballerina Matilda Kschessinska 1872- 

1971) 

Long Typed Letter Signed “Your uncle Ali”, in Russian 

with translation, to his nephew Slava Kschessinsky 

(Astafiev, d. 1976), telling him that they “received here 

your whole series of letters: 1) of 7th Sept. / 25 Aug. to 

Tantochka [his wife Julia], 2) of 12th Sept. / 30th Aug. to 

me ... on my name day [30th August] ... and the two 

postcards of 14th and 17th Sept. N[ew] S[tyle] ... it is 

unfortunate that we are so far ... it is almost impossible to 

carry on a regular correspondence ... we have received here 

a registered letter from your professor with medical 

certificates, however we are not quite sure what to do with 

them, apparently you need them ... when you see the 

Russian consul ... when we get to Petrograd we will find 

everything out ... It is the same with the books ... we will 

check with the shop ... and remind them about sending you 

Soikin’s book ‘1000 Hints on Rural Economy’ which you 

need so much ... we go back on Sunday 30th and will be 

home on 1st November ... we are fearful of returning to the 

slush of Petrograd ... I have been having treatment very 

diligently ... it feels like ants on all my left half, which is 

very ... tiresome but on the whole I feel well and cheerful 

... Your friend ‘Vyeksha’ (Meksh) has also been called up 

and is now a soldier in the Preobrazhensky Regiment ... he 

wrote us a very anxious letter. Yesterday dear Tantochka 

was very distressed by a telegram to say Uncle Fili had 

died. He, poor chap, had been ill for a long time ... but he 

always held on”, earlier in the year “he got so much better 

that he made the journey to us at Peterhof ... Please ... write 

immediately without fail about this to your Mama”, (the 

ballerina Serafima ASTAFIEVA, 1876-1934), “and send 

her a big kiss from us. To be on the safe side, go ... to the 

Russian Consul and ask ... when to present yourself, can 

you present yourself in Lausanne, what documents are 

needed for this? If in Petrograd, then when is the latest 

time you can attend, and write to us with all the details”, 4 

sides 8vo., with gilt coronet at head, Sevastopol, 20th 

October / (2nd November) no year., [1916], slight defect at 

end of horizontal fold and short slit across same fold 

without loss 

[SD20971]£225 

Slava was the son of Julia & Matilda’s brother, the actor Joseph 

Kschessinsky (1868-1942), and his first wife Serafima 

Alexandrovna Astafieva (1876-1934), known as ‘Sima’. Sima 

was with Diaghilev 1909-1911, then left Russia and set up her 

ballet school at 152 Kings Road, Chelsea, in 1916. Slava married 

Margot Luck (d.1976), one of his mother’s pupils. Other pupils 

included Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin and Margot Fonteyn. See 

Matilda’s memoirs, ‘Dancing in Petersburg’, translated by Arnold 

Haskell, 1960. 

Baron Zeddeler was a close friend of Tsar Nicholas II (1868- 

1918). They were young officers together in the Preobrazhensky 

Regiment, and the Baron was one of five officers at the select 

dinner party given by the Tsar on the evening of his wedding. The 

Baron’s family were originally Austrian, who transferred to the 

Russian service in 1813. 

435. WOOLF (Leonard, 1880-1969, Author, Publisher 

and husband of Virginia) 

Interesting Typed Letter Signed to Miss A. L. Barker 

saying that he has re-read her book and is pleased that “we 

are publishing it. I think it is extreme good. I am afraid the 

sales of your books must have disappointed you and this 

one so far has not sold nearly as well as it deserves. But 

you are one of the writers who for years may not sell 

anything like the number which they ought to ... it is not a 

publisher’s excuse. Your books are so good and original 

that in any case they are the kind which it takes a long time 

for the people who appreciate them to get hold of and I am 

sure you must be aware that there is something in them 

which is part of their being so good but at the same time, a 

large number of intelligent readers would not appreciate ... 

I hope you will go on writing out of yourself no matter 

what ...”, 1 side 8vo., Hogarth Press headed paper, 22nd 

November 

[SD29984]£175 

In 1947 A. L. Barker was winner of The Somerset Maugham 

Award for a book by an author under the age of 35 with her book 

Innocents published by Hogarth Press. 

436. WORDSWORTH (William, 1770-1850, Poet) 

Autograph quotation from Thomas Gray, signed and dated 

“The paths of glory lead but to the grave”, 1 side oblong 

8vo., Rydal Mount, 30th September 1836 [SD22230]£875 

Taken from Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country 

Churchyard’ 

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, 

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, 

Awaits alike th' inevitable hour, 

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 

The poem was begun in 1742 and was probably taken up again in 

the winter of 1749, upon the death of his aunt Mary. It was 

certainly concluded at Stoke Poges, and was then was sent to 

Walpole in a letter dated 12 June 1750. 

CHARLES II & DUNKIRK 

437. WRIOTHESLEY (Thomas, 4th Earl of 

Southampton,1607-1667, Charles II’s Lord High Treasurer) 

Treasury warrant signed, addressed to “My loving ffriend 

Robert Long” (d. 1673, Auditor of the Exchequer, member 

of the Privy Council), authorising the “payment of ye sum 

of seventeen thousand four hundred and fifty pounds five 

shilling and eight pence into Sir John Shaw Kt. and Edward 

Backwell esqure, Receivers and Paymasters of ye garrison 

of Dunkirke or their assignees being for two months pay for 

the said garrison ...”, 1 side folio, 5th June 1662 

[SD21718]£475 

Dunkirk was besieged by the English and French who defeated the 

Spaniards at the Battle of the Dunes, 4th June 1658. The town 

was awarded to England but Charles II sold it to France for 

£180,000 in 1662. Thomas Wriothesley was the supporter of 

Charles I who endeavoured to bring about peace between the King 

and Parliament. After the King’s execution Southampton watched 

over the body. Charles II met him at Canterbury, re-admitted him 

to the Council, created him K.G. and on 8th September 1660 

created him Lord High Treasurer. Edward Backwell (d. 1683) 

was a celebrated London Goldsmith, an alderman and the 

principal founder of the banking system in England. He beam 

banker to Oliver Cromwell and then to Charles II. In October 

1662 he was sent to Paris to receive the £180,000 payment from 

the French for Dunkirk. His shop in Exchange Alley bore the sign 

of the Unicorn.


UNSIGNED VINTAGE 

PHOTOGRAPHS 

438. ALBERT (Prince, 1843-1902, of Saxe-Altenburg, 

cousin of Duke Ernst I, officer in the Russian army, 

husband of Princess Marie of Prussia, 1855-1888, and 

(1891) of Princess Helene of Russia and Mecklenburg- 

Strelitz, 1857-1936, great-granddaughter of Paul I) 

Photo, by Boissonnas & Eggler of St Petersburg, unsigned, 

of his portrait in oils by Henri Gervex, showing him full 

length, full face, in full dress Russian uniform, highly 

embroidered on the arms and legs, 7” x 3½” in margins 

13¼” x 8¼”, circa 1896 somewhat worn but a striking 

image [53150]£125 

With a note on the back in German, in the later hand of Prince 

Albert's daughter Olga, that the original was sketched as part of 

the Coronation in Moscow, 1896. She adds that it ‘probably 

belongs to the Bolsheviks but may be in the Stieglitz museum’. 

439. [ALBERT VICTOR (Christian Edward, Duke of 

Clarence, 1864-1892, Eldest Son of Edward VII) and his 

siblings GEORGE (1865-1936, King of Great Britain), 

Princess LOUISE (Alexandra Dagmar, 1867-1931, 

Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife, Daughter), Princess 

VICTORIA (1868-1935) and Princess MAUD (1869- 

1938, later Queen of Norway)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo by Hills and Saunders, 

showing the children with Albert Victor standing at the 

back and his younger siblings sitting in front of him, the 

girls are wearing white fur trimmed outfits and hats and the 

boys are wearing Scottish dress, 4” x 2½”, no place, no 

date, circa 1871 

[SD31722]£475 


Clarence, 1864-1892, Eldest Son of Edward VII) & his 

fiancée MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953, later Queen of 

George V)] 

Pair of unsigned cabinet photos by W. & D. Downey and 

Russell & Sons, taken at the time of their engagement, the 

Prince is half length standing, wearing his Hussar’s 

uniform, and the Princess is also half length, seated, 

wearing a white dress and holding a fan, 6½” x 4½”, no 

place, no date, 1891 

[SD32204]£325 

The wedding was fixed for 27 Feb. 1892, but on 14 Jan. 1892 the 

duke died of pneumonia following influenza at Sandringham. 

May is wearing black which upset Queen Victoria and so another 

official photo had to be taken so this is a very rare image - only 

fifty copies were produced. She is holding her gloves so that her 

engagement ring is visible. 


Clarence, 1864-1892, Eldest Son of Edward VII)] 

Charming pair of early unsigned carte de visite photos by 

Hills and Saunders the first showing him head and 

shoulders in profile with rather long hair and a bow tie, and 

the other shows him seated on a stool wearing a kilt, 

looking down at a shotgun, 4” x 2½”, no place, no date, 

circa 1875 

[SD32590]£275 

THE OFFICERS OF H.M.S. BACCHANTE 

442. ALBERT VICTOR (Christian Edward, Duke of 

Clarence, 1864-1892, Eldest Son of Edward VII) & 

GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain) 

Exceptional original large photo showing the officers 

grouped together on the deck of the Bacchante, Eddie is 

seated crosslegged in the front and George is standing in 

the next row, all are in uniform, 11” x 7” in mount with the 

manuscript title, 12” x 10”, Bacchante, circa 1882 

[SD32241]£1,250 

The Princes were privately educated until 1877, when they were 

sent to join the training ship Britannia at Dartmouth, despite the 

fact that Prince George was only 12. In 1879 they went on a three 

years' cruise in H.M.S. Bacchante, which sailed round the world 

and visited most of the British colonies. 

In 1882 they left the East and returned by Colombo to Suez, spent 

a month's sightseeing in Egypt, after which they crossed to Jaffa 

and made their way on horseback through the Holy Land. On 6 

May they rejoined the Bacchante at Beirut and crossed to Athens, 

where for ten days the brothers were the guests of their maternal 

uncle, King George of the Hellenes, before returning home 

through the Mediterranean. 

443. [ALEXANDER II (‘The Liberator’, 1818-1881, 

Emperor of Russia from 1855)] 

Unsigned carte-de-visite photograph by Levitsky & Son, 

showing him head and shoulders in military uniform, 4” x 

2½”, St. Petersburg, no date, circa 1870, traces of laying 

down 

[SD50856]£95 

From the collection of Grand Duke Kyril & Victoria Melita 

THE ROYAL FAMILIES OF RUSSIA, 

DENMARK, GREECE & ENGLAND 

444. [ALEXANDER III (1845-1894, Emperor of Russia 

from 1881)] 

Exceptional unsigned Danish Imperial cabinet photo by 

Stergade of Copenhagen, showing the Royal family 

grouped together around Queen LOUISE of Denmark 

included in the picture are the Empress MARIE, the 

future Queen ALEXANDRA, King CHRISTIAN IX, 

the Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark 

FREDERICK & LOUISE, GEORGE & OLGA of 

Greece and VALDEMAR of Denmark , 10” x 6½”, no 

place, Bernsdorff, 1870, top right hand corner missing not 

affecting the image 

[SD28899]£950 

QUEEN ALEXANDRA’S BEDROOOM ON 

THE ROYAL YACHT 

445. [ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, his 

Queen) 

Superb original photo taken on board the Royal Yacht 

Victoria and Albert showing the Queen’s bedroom in 1907, 

in the middle is her magnificent bed with draped canopy 

which she subsequently moved to the Danish villa of 

HVIDÔRE, there is a table and chair at the end of the bed 

and a dressing table on one side, the shelves in the corner 

are covered in framed phtos and there is a cross on the 

headboard of the bed, 8” x 6½”, no place, no date, circa 

1875 [SD29927]£375


446. [ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, Queen of 

Edward VII)] 

Large format unsigned photo of Queen Alexandra taken by 

Prince Edward, later Edward VIII, with his aunt Princess 

Victoria in the background on their way to Cowes for the 

Tsar’s visit, on board the Royal Yacht, 15” x 12” in mount 

21” x 15”, no place, circa 1880 mount damaged and foxed 

[SD30957]£225 

This slightly blurred snapshot, which has been enlarged, came 

from Queen Alexandra’s own collection and was sold at the sale 

of the Danish villa Hvidore 

447. [ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, Queen of 

Edward VII) 

Charming unsigned cabinet photo by Walery showing a 

youthful looking Alexandra wearing a very elaborately 

decorated dress with a veil from her tiara and a splendid 

choker, 6½” x 4¼”, London, no date, circa 1875 

[SD31767]£125 

448. [ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA (1872-1918, the 

Tsarina of Nicholas II of Russia) 

Fine original unsigned Cabinet photo of a portrait, showing 

the Tsarina half length, from behind in profile wearing a fur 

coat & tiara, 6½” x 4½”,no place, no date [SD25490]£325 

449. [ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA (1872-1918, the 

Tsarina of Nicholas II of Russia) & the Tsarevitch 

ALEXEI (1904-1918)] 

Fine unsigned postcard photo by Rotary showing the 

Empress with her young son in her lap, 5½” x 3½”, no 

place, Tsarskoe Zelo, no date, circa 1913 [SD32219]£325 

450. [ALEXEI (1904-1918, The Tsarevitch, 

Assassinated with his family after the Revolution)] 

Fine original unsigned Russian postcard photo showing the 

young boy, full length dressed like a Hussar, with a long 

coat, fur hat and sword, seated on a horse, titled underneath 

in Russian, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date circa 1910 

[SD9996]£125 

on the Standart at the time of his visit to Hesse Darmstadt 

451. [ALEXEI (1904-1918, The Tsarevitch, 

Assassinated with his family after the Revolution)] 

Fine original unsigned postcard photo showing the young 

boy in Naval cadet standing on the deck of the Royal yacht, 

5½” x 3½”, no place, no date circa 1910 [SD31608]£275 

Taken on the Standart at the time of his visit to Hesse Darmstadt. 

It is hard to find images of the children on the Imperial yacht. 

452. [ALFONSO XIII (1886-1941, Last King of Spain, 

husband of Ena of Battenburg)] 

Fine large photo of the King, from the Queen’s Album 

showing the King jumping his horse, wearing military 

uniform, 9” x 6½”, no place, (Madrid), no date, circa 1909 

laid down 

[SD29049]£275 

One of Queen Ena’s favourite pictures of her husband. 

Unfortunately, by this time they were already unhappy as she had 

bought haemophilia into the Spanish Royal family (as Queen 

Victoria’s granddaughter) for which the King never forgave her. 

The Queen went as far as to pad the trees in the park to protect her 

two eldest sons. From her private album. 

453. [ALFRED (Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg 

Gotha, 1844-1900, 2nd Son of Queen Victoria)] 

Fine large format unsigned photo, from 1868, showing 

surrounded by his entourage, wearing Naval unform, the 

men are standing around him and leaning on pillars, 11”x 

9”, no place, no date, 1868 [SD29914]£175 

A superb original photo taken during his tour of the West Indies 




Empress of Russia)] 

Unsigned cabinet photo by Hills and Saunders showing her 

with her husband Louis Grand Duke of Hesse, and all of 

their children, Victoria, (1863-1950), Ella (1864-1918), 

Irene (1866-1953), Ernie (1868-1937), Alix (1872-1918, 

Future Empress of Russia) and May (1874-1978), 6¼” x 

4¼”, no place, Windsor, no date, circa 1877 

[SD31313]£475 

A fine cabinet portrait of the Princess and her children in the year 

of her tragically early death from diptheria 




Empress of Russia) 

Fine hand tinted cabinet portrait photograph, by Hills & 

Saunders, London, unsigned, showing her in near profile to 

the right, nearly full length, hands together and slightly 

pensive, in a long dress edged with ruching and a bustle, 

hair curled on top and short at the sides, no date, circa 1875 

cropped on bottom edge [53092]£225 

ALICE ON HER SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY 

456. [ALICE (Princess, Countess of Athlone, 1883-1981, 

Daughter of Leopold, Duke of Albany, Grand-daughter of 

Queen Victoria, wife of Prince Alexander of Teck, Queen 

Mary’s brother)] 

Fine unsigned photo by Hay Wrightson showing the 

Princess half length, seated, with Queen Victoria’s pearls 

around her neck and the bracelet that was given to her by 

her brother-in-law George V, 8” x 6½”, no place, 1934 

[SD32578]£275 

Alice became the longest lived born Royal to date and was the last 

of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren. 

457. [ANASTASIA (1901-1918, Youngest Daughter of 

the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia)] 

Charming unsigned postcard photo, showing her seating on 

a sofa in a white lacey dress, 5½” x 3½”, no place, 1912 

[SD32226]£325 

458. [ANASTASIA (1901-1918, Youngest Daughter of 

the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia)] 

Charming unsigned postcard photo, showing her seating on 

a sofa in a white lacey dress, 5½” x 3½”, no place, dated 

underneath, 1911 

[SD32070]£325


459. ANDERSON (John, first Viscount Waverley 1882- 

1958, Administrator and Statesman) 

Disbound collection of 30 souvenir large format photos by 

Bourne & Shepherd, showing Lord Waverley, then 

Governor of Bengal, on his visit to Rangpur, with the 

detached front cover printed “Respectfully presented to His 

Excellency the Right Honble Sir John Anderson, D.C., 

G.C.B., G.C.I.B, Governor of Bengal. By the public of 

Rangpur from October 31 to November 2 1936”, the 

images take him from his arrival at Rangpur through 

inspections of troops and introductions to various 

dignitaries, visiting a Gurkha settlement, meeting the Raja, 

visiting farms and inspecting the public health laboratory, 

30 leaves and cover, 10½” x 9”, Rangpur 1936 

[SD31063]£350 

460. [ARTHUR (1883-1938, 2nd Duke of Connaught, 

Major General)] 

Delightful unsigned cabinet photo by Alexander Bassano, 

showing him three quarters length, wearing uniform with a 

sword at his belt, 6½” x 4¼”, no place, no place, circa 1886 

[SD23502]£125 

From the collection of Lady Patricia Ramsay, daughter of the 

Duke of Connaught. 

461. [BATTENBERG (Prince Henry Maurice, 1858- 

1896, Colonel, and his wife Princess BEATRICE, 1857- 

1944, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, and 

MAURICE , 1891-1914, their youngest son, grandson of 

Queen Victoria)] 

Delightful unsigned cabinet photo by Hughes & Mullins, 

showing the Prince standing behind his wife leaning down, 

cradling their infant son, titled at the bottom, 6½” x 4½”, 

no place, no date, circa 1891, annoted on verso 

[SD29659]£125 

462. [BEATRICE (Mary Victoria Feodore, 1857-1944, 

Princess, Daughter & Companion of Queen Victoria) & 

Prince Henry Maurice of BATTENBERG (1858-1896, 

Colonel, Her Husband)] 

Excellent unsigned cabinet photos by Hughes & Mullins, 

showing them on their wedding day surrounded by their 

attendants, including Alexandra, the future Tsarina of 

Russia, Maud, the future Queen of Norway, and Marie 

the future Queen of Roumania, Princesses Irene of 

Hesse and Victoria Melita and several other family 

members, all listed underneath, 6” x 4¼” no place, no 

date, 23rd July 1885 

[SD30126]£625 

463. CADBURY (Richard, 1835-1899, J.P., son of John, 

1801-1889, founder of the Cadbury cocoa and chocolate 

firm, Quaker family of Birmingham) 

Exceptional unsigned cabinet photo by Mowll, showing 

him half length, as a bearded old man, with a small boy 

wearing a velvet dress with a lace collar (presumably a 

grandchild) standing beside him holding an open pocket 

watch to his grandfather’s ear, 6½” x 4½”, Birmingham, no 


[SD30921]£175 

464. [BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861, Poet, 

wife of Robert Browning)] 

Fine unsigned carte de visite copied from a Daguereotype, 

showing head and shoulders in profile, 4” x 2½”, no place, 

4th August 1873 

[SD25532]£225 

465. [BURTON (Sir Richard Francis, 1821-1890, 

Traveller, Explorer and Linguist) 

Rare unsigned carte de visite photo by M. Manenizza, 

showing him half length, wearing an open necked shirt, 4” 

x 2½”, Trieste, no date, circa 1880, rather indistinct and 

faded 

[SD22673]£475 

Trieste was Burton's home from 1872 when he took over the 

Consulship, till his death. 

466. [CETYWAYO (d. 1884, Zulu King who defeated the 

British at Isandhlwana)] 

Fine unsigned carte de visite photo, showing the King 

sitting in a chair, wearing a suit and a hat in an oval, 4” x 

2½”, no place, no date, slightly faded [SD28066]£375 

467. [CHARLES (1887-1922, Emperor of Austria)] 

Pair of real photographs of the Emperor taken in the middle 

of the First World War, shortly after he became Emperor, 

in both he is in uniform, and in the first he is taking a salute 

in a town square and in the other he is addressing a couple 

of soldiers, each 4Charles did everything in his power to 

stop the First World War, as he was quite far sighted and 

realised that without Franz Joseph the monarchy would 

die” x 3Charles did everything in his power to stop the First 

World War, as he was quite far sighted and realised that 

without Franz Joseph the monarchy would die”, no place, 

no date, circa 1917 

[SD31976]£275 

Charles did everything in his power to stop the First World War, 

as he was quite far sighted and realised that without Franz Joseph 

the monarchy would die 

468. [CHURCHILL (Sir Winston Spencer, 1874-1965, 

Prime Minister)] 

Fine large unsigned original photo showing him riding a 

large black horse wearing a suit and bowler hat, holding a 

whip, 11” x 9¼” slightly yellowed [SD28255]£225 

469. [CONSTANTINE I (1868-1923, King of Hellenes) 

with his wife SOPHIA (Princess, 1870-1932, daughter of 

Friedrich III of Germany)] 

Very rare pair of unsigned cabinet photo’s by W. Höffert, 

showing the Crown Prince and Princess of Greece, he is 

wearing uniform and a sash, the Princess wearing a black 

dress, each 6¼” x 4¼”, no place, no date, 1889 trimmed at 

top, slight spotting, annotated on verso [SD29787]£375 

King Constantine abdicated twice, firstly in June 1917 for himself 

and his eldest son George but he was restored to the throne by 

plebiscite after the death of his second son Alexander I in 

December 1920. He abdicated again in favour of his eldest son in 

1922. 

470. DAY (Frances, 1907-1984, Singer in Musicals) 

Portrait photo by Dorothy Wilding from a magazine, signed 

and inscribed, showing her in a glamorous pose, sitting on 

steps, 8” x 7”, circa 1927 [52126]£45


471. [DIMITRI PAVLOVNAVITCH (1891-1942, 

Grand Duke of Russia, son of Grand Duke Paul 

Alexandrovitch, in 1916 he was involved in the murder of 

Rasputin)] 

Unsigned Russian postcard photo showing him full length 

in uniform with his hands on the hilt of his sword, 5½” x 

3½”, no place, no date, circa 1910 [SD30272]£250 

After 1916 Dimitri never spoke publicly of the murder. Before 

that time he had been viewed as a possible husband for Grand 

Duchess Tatiana. By his banishment to Persia he was saved from 

the Revolution. 

472. [EDISON (Thomas Alva, 1847-1931, American 

Inventor of the Phonograph), Alexander Graham BELL 

(1847-1922, Scots-born American Inventor of the 

Telephone) & Sir Jooseph Wilson SWAN (1828-1914, 

English Physicist, invented an electric lamp which 

anticipated Edison’s and later produced the incandescent 

lamp) 

Excellent vintage unsigned group photo showing the three 

scientists in a group standing and seated at a table with a 

telephone (?) on it, annotated on the verso with the names 

and place, 6½” x 5” in mount 10” x 8”, Mento Laboraties, 

no date, circa 1885 

[SD29971]£500 

473. [EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Alexander Bassano, taken 

as Prince of Wales, showing him half length in profile 

wearing his military uniform, with medals and sash, titled 

underneath, 6½” x 4¼”, slightly spotted [SD29497]£150 

474. [EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain)] 

Fine original unsigned large format photo of the King in his 

motorcar on his way to meet Alice Keppel in Marienbad, he 

is seated on the back seat of his splendid open topped car 

with various servants in attendance, 15” x 12” in mount 21” 

x 15”, Marienbad, 1910 mount damaged and foxed 

[SD30959]£250 

The king used to like to spend his days with Mrs Keppel in 

Marienbad when he was free of his public duties. It was well 

known that the King liked to meet his mistress, privately at this 

resort. 

THE ROYAL FAMILY ON THE ROYAL 

YACHT 

475. [EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain) 

& ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, his Queen), 

their children ALBERT VICTOR (1864-1892) 

GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain), & his 

sisters Princesses VICTORIA ALEXANDRA (1868- 

1935, Princess), LOUISE (1867-1931) and MAUD 

(1869-1938)]] 

Unsigned original photo showing the entire Wales Family 

an unusual image of the Prince and Princess of Wales with 

their sons Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, and George and 

daughters Louise, Victoria and Maud on board the Royal 

yacht, the Prince and his sons are in naval uniform and the 

girls are wearing matching outfits with striped shirts and 

boaters, 3½” x 2½”, no place, (Royal Yacht), no date, circa 

1883, slight damage, repaired, laid down [SD32058]£275 

It is rare to find the Duke of Clarence pictured with his parents. 

Lovely intimate family shot 

476. [EDWARD VIII (1894-1972, King of Great Britain, 

Later the Duke of Windsor)] 

Charming early unsigned cabinet photo by W. & D. 

Downey showing the infant prince in a white dress, resting 

his elbow on his mother’s cross-stitching which is at his 

side, 6½” x 4¼”, in a charming leather and mother of pearl 

frame decorated with fleur de lys, London, no date, circa 

1895 [SD24629]£375 

THE CHILDREN OF GEORGE V 


Later the Duke of Windsor), GEORGE VI (1895-1952, 

King of Great Britain), MARY (Princess Royal, 1897- 

1965, Countess of Harewood) and HENRY (Prince, 1900- 

1972, Duke of Gloucester) 

Charming unsigned cabinet photo by F.Ralph showing the 

four children, the boys standing wearing sailor suits with 

Mary in the middle, with the infant Henry sitting in his cot, 

6½” x 4”, Sandringham, no date, circa 1900 slightly spotted 

with pin hole at the top 

[SD28393]£250 

478. EIFFEL (Gustaf, 1832-1923, engineer, designer of 

the Eiffel Tower) 

Fine woodburytype photo by Walery, showing him, three 

quarter length, sitting crossed legged in a chair, with 

facsimile signature, accompanied by a printed biography, 

16½” x 12”, no place, no date, library stamp in top left 

hand corner 

[SD25688]£225 

479. [ELISABETH (1837-1898, Empress of Austria, wife 

of Franz Joseph I)] 

Excellent unsigned cabinet photo by Rabending showing 

her full length, seated on a sofa, with her large dog at her 

feet, 6½” x 4½”, no place, (Vienna) no date, slightly faded 

and slight wear on one edge not affecting the photo 

[SD23240]£625 

It is very rare to find photos of the Empress as she was not 

photographed after 1874. 

480. [ELISABETH (1837-1898, Empress of Austria, wife 

of Franz Joseph I)] 

Charming unsigned photo, showing her sitting on a striped 

sofa with a large dog at her feet, 5½”x 3½”, no place, no 

date, slightly faded 

[SD25398]£175 

481. [ELISABETH (Alexandra Louise Alice, 1864-1918, 

Grand Duchess of Russia, daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand 

Duke of Hesse, wife of Sergei of Russia, became a nun and 

was murdered by the Bolsheviks)] 

Fine unsigned Russian postcard photo, showing her three 

quarters length, standing, in her Nun’s robes with veil and 

crucifix, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date, circa 1912 

[SD30278]£575 

Elisabeth was Empress Alexandra’s elder sister. After the 

assassination of her husband in 1905, Ella, considered one of her 

generation’s great beauties, gave up her position in society and 

became a nun. She was murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918 by 

being thrown down a mineshaft. Kaiser Wilhelm did his utmost to 

save her, but she thought the Russian peasants would not hurt a 

nun. She is considered a Saint in Russia.


482. [ELIZABETH (The Queen Mother, 1900-2002, 

Queen of George VI)] 

Lovely unsigned postcard photo by Beagles, titled ‘Lady 

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon’ at the bottom, showing her as a 

young women, head and shoulders in profile wearing a 

double string of pearls, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date, circa 

1923 [SD29513]£145 

This would have been issued for the engagement of Elizabeth and 

George VI 

483. [ELIZABETH II (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain) 

& her sister Princess MARGARET (Rose, 1930-2002, 

Countess of Snowdon) 

Delightful unpublished photo by Marcus Adams showing 

the two young princesses with one of their corgis, Elizabeth 

is sitting on a table and the dog is sitting in front of her, a 

smiling Margaret is leaning over to stroke the dog, the girls 

are wearing matching check blouses and skirts, 6½” x 4½”, 

Buckingham Palace, annotated at the head with their ages, 

1941 [SD29320]£700 

From the studio of Marcus Adams. 

484. [EUGÉNIE (née Montijo, 1826-1920, wife of 

Emperor Napoleon III) & her son NAPOLEON (Louis 

Eugene Jean Joseph, 1856-1879, Prince Imperial, killed 

while out with a reconnoitring party at Ulundi, Zululand)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo showing them both on 

horses, 3¼” x 2”, no place, no date, circa 1865 faded 

[SD28159]£200 

485. [FAISAL I (1885-1933, from 1921 King of Iraq)] 

Unsigned Press photo by News Photos (London), showing 

him being driven in state through the streets of London 

drawn by six horses, with the mounted escort behind and 

crowds lining the street, 6½” x 8½”, [London], no date, 

circa 1930, tiny defect in one corner [50987]£125 

Faisal was the principal commander in the Arab Revolt of June 

1916, and entered Damascus with Lawrence on 3rd October 1918. 

486. [FEODORA (of Saxe-Meiningen, 1879-1945, 

daughter of Bernard III, committed suicide at at Neuhoff 

Castle on August 26, 1945)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by The Court Studio, showing 

her half length holding a posy of flowers and smiling, 6½” 

x 4¼”, no place, no date, circa 1890 [SD29994]£275 

487. [FRANZ JOSEPH I (1830-1916, Emperor of 

Austria, King of Hungary, his attack on Serbia in 1914 

started World War I)] 

Press photograph by Record Press of London, unsigned, 

showing him out riding, past a wooden lodge building, 

three quarter face to the camera, in Austrian hat and shorts, 

with two other riders behind, a game keeper and grooms 

accompany them on foot, 9” x 11¾”, no place, no date, 

circa 1912, edges frayed and in parts defective, but main 

image is unaffected except for closed tear 5 inches in from 

right margin, mended on verso with stamp paper 

[52629]£150 

488. [FRANZ JOSEF I (1830-1916, Emperor of Austria, 

King of Hungary, his attack on Serbia in 1914 started 

World War I)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo by Angerer showing him 

half length, seated, in profile, 4¼” x 2½”, no place, 

(Vienna), no date, 

[SD22963]£250 

489. [FRIEDRICH (Wilhelm Nikolaus, 1831-1888, sonin-law 

of Queen Victoria, Emperor of Germany for 99 

days) with his son WILHELM II (Frederick William, 

1859-1941, Emperor of Prussia] 

Superb unsigned Imperial Cabinet photo by Selle & 

Kuntze, showing the Emperor, seated, in uniform, with his 

young son standing at his knee, also in uniform and holding 

a sword, resting his other hand on his father’s knee and 

they are smiling at each other, 12” x 8½”, Potsdam, no 


[SD30281]£275 

Any material relating to Friedrich III is uncommon due to his 

early death from throat cancer. He only survived his father 

Wilhelm I by three months. As Crown Prince his position was 

made very difficult by his opposition to Bismarck and also as his 

wife Victoria, Empress Frederick antagonised the Prussian people 

with her aggressive & tactless Englishness. 

490. [FRIEDRICH (Wilhelm Nikolaus, 1831-1888, sonin-law 

of Queen Victoria, Emperor of Germany for 99 

days)] 

Fine unsigned Cabinet photo by Hills & Saunders showing 

him three quarters length, in semi profile, standing holding 

his gun wearing a velvet suit, 6½” x 4½”, no place, no date, 

circa 1866 

[SD32573]£275 

Photographed after a Sandringham shoot by the Royal 

photographers. It is unusual to find an image of the Crown Prince 

with his gun. The velvet suit was a gift from Queen Victoria and 

this was a private family photograph, coming from the album of 

Princess Louise. 

491. [FRIEDRICH III (Wilhelm Nikolaus, 1831-1888, 

son-in-law of Queen Victoria, Emperor of Germany for 99 

days) & his wife VICTORIA (1840-1901, Empress 

Frederick of Germany, eldest child of Queen Victoria & 

mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II) & their children WILHELM 

II (1859-1941, Kaiser after his father), CHARLOTTE 

(1860-1919), HEINRICH (1862-1929, Grand Admiral), 

SIGISMUND (1864-1866) 

Fine unsigned carte de visite photo by Hills and Saunders, 

showing the Emperor standing holding his youngest son, 

with his wife seated in front of him surrounded by the other 

children, 4” x 2½”, no place, no date, circa [SD31728]£250 

492. GALSWORTHY (John, 1867-1933, Author of ‘The 

Forsyte Saga’, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature) 

Superb unsigned portrait photo, signed in pencil on the 

mount by the photographer, showing him head and 

shoulders, full face, 12” x 9” in mount, 14” x 9½”, no 

place, no date 

[SD9833]£250


493. [GARFIELD (James Abram, 1831-1881, 20th 

President of the United States)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Emerson, showing him 

head and shoulders, with a printed signature in the negative, 

6½” x 4½”, no place, (New York), no date, 

[SD22983]£225 

494. [GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of England) & 

MARY (b. 1867-1953 of Teck,his Queen)] 

Fine unsigned carte de visite photo, showing the Duke and 

Duchess of York, three quarter length stood together, 4” x 

2½”, no place, circa 1895 

[SD25475]£125 

495. [GILBERT (Sir William Schwenk, 1836-1911, 

Librettist of Gilbert & Sullivan)] 

Woodburytype photo by Walery, showing Sullivan, three 

quarter length, with facsimile signature, accompanied by a 

printed biography, 16½” x 12”, no place, no date, library 

stamp in top left hand corner, slight stain on forehead 

[SD25672]£225 

496. GUSTAF ADOLF (Edmund, 1906-1947, Prince of 

Sweden, killed in a flying accident) 

Fine photo by Jaeger, signed “Edmund” and dated, showing 

the young Prince half length in uniform, 9” x 6½” in mount 

11½” x 9”, no place, 1926 [SD23545]£250 

From the collection of Lady Patricia Ramsay, daughter of the 

Duke of Connaught. 

THE WEDDING OF PRINCESS MAUD, 

FUTURE QUEEN OF NORWAY 

497. [HAAKON (Prince Christian Charles, 1872-1957, 

1st King of Norway on its independence from Sweden) & 

his wife Princess MAUD (Charlotte Mary Victoria, 1869- 

1938, Daughter of Edward VII, Queen of Norway) and 

their son Olav (1903-1991) 

Delightful unsigned cabinet portrait by Gunn & Stuart, 

showing the bride seated with her husband standing behind 

her, with the young bridesmaids sitting on the floor at her 

feet and the older ones standing on either side, 6½” x 4”, no 

place, (Buckingham Palace), no date, 1896 [SD29922]£225 

The bridesmaids include the two princesses of Connaught, two 

princesses of Denmark, princess Helena Victoria, Victoria of 

Wales, Alice of Albany and Lady Alexandra Duff. It is extremely 

rare to find the future Queen of Norway with the entire younger 

generation of the wedding group. 

THE ENGAGEMENT OF PRINCESS 

MAUD, FUTURE QUEEN OF NORWAY 

498. [HAAKON (Prince Christian Charles, 1872-1957, 

1st King of Norway on its independence from Sweden) & 

his wife Princess MAUD (Charlotte Mary Victoria, 1869- 

1938, Daughter of Edward VII, Queen of Norway) and 

their son Olav (1903-1991) 

Delightful unsigned cabinet portrait by Downey showing 

the couple on their engagement seated on a double stool, 

she is facint forward and he is seated behind her looking to 

the front, 6½” x 4”, no place, Sandringham, December 

1895 [SD31721]£225 

Maud is extremely collectable as she was the first Queen of 

Norway. 

499. [GRANT (Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885, American 

Soldier & 18th President of the United States)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo showing him head and 

shoulders in uniform, 4¼” x 2½”, no place, no date, 


500. [HELEN (Princess of Waldeck, 1861-1922, wife of 

Leopold, 1853-1884, 1st Duke of Albany, son of Queen 

Victoria)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by W. & D.Downey, showing 

her three-quarter length in profile in wearing her wedding 

gown and veil, reading a book, 6½” x 4¼”, Windsor, 27th 

April 1882 slightly spotted 

[SD29781]£100 

Taken on her wedding day, 27th April 1882 which took place in St 

George’s Chapel, Windsor. 

501. HELENE (Princess, 1857-1936, daughter of Prince 

Georg of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1824-1876, 2nd wife, 1891, 

of Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg, 1843-1902) 

Portrait photo by A. Pasetti of St Petersburg, unsigned, 

showing her head and shoulders, in semi-profile, in a dark 

dress fastened at the neck with a brooch, identified on the 

back in another hand, trimmed to 5¼” x 3¾” oval (cut 

square in the top margin), no date, circa 1890 [53149]£75 

Prince Albert had family connections with the Russian Imperial 

family. He went to serve in the Russian Army, in which Helene’s 

father had been a General who lived at Oranienbaum near St 

Petersburg. In 1891 Helene became step-mother to Olga and 

Maria, Albert's children by Princess Marie of Prussia, 1855-1888. 

After Prince Albert died, they divided their time between St 

Petersburg and Serrahn in Mecklenburg-Strelitz or Remplin in 

Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Helene’s mother was a granddaughter of 

Paul I, so that Helene was also a Princess of Russia, a friend of 

Empress Alix and her elder sister Grand Duchess Elisaveta 

Feodorovna (‘Ella’). 

THE WIVES OF HENRY VIII 

502. [HENRY VIII (1491-1547, King of England)] 

Collection of 3 unsigned carte de visite’s taken from 

portraits by E. & H. Anthony and Desmaisons, showing 

Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour and Catherine Howard, all 

head and shoulders full face, 4” x 2¼”, no place, no date, 

[SD29784]£225 

503. [HUGO (Victor, 1802-1885, French Poet and 

Author)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo by Bertall, showing him 

three quarters length, with his arms folded, 4¼” x 2½”, no 

place, (Paris), no date, dated on the verso 1874 

[SD22952]£125 

504. HVIDÔRE 

Very unusual pair of postcard photos, one shows the 

Dowager Empress’s sitting room and the other the bedroom 

that she finally died in. These anti-bolshevik postcards 

were produced in 1925 for the Russian Refugee fund - it 

was the one time that the Dowager Empress allowed her 

home to be photographed, 5½” x 3½”, Hvidore, no date, 

circa 1925 

[SD29912]£375 

These photos were issued by the Imperial Family via the Anti- 

Bolshevik fund and only 60 of each were produced. At the time 

they were incredibly expensive.


505. [ISABEL II (1830-1904, Queen of Spain 1833- 

1868)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo by Franck, showing her full 

length, wearing a huge white dress, 4¼” x 2½”, no place, 

(Paris), no date, 

[SD22973]£125 

506. [JOHN (1905-1919, Prince, Son of George V & 

Queen Mary)] 

Rare unsigned postcard photo by Underwood showing him 

full length, with his bike on the grounds of the 

Sandringham estate, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date, circa 

1912 [SD31929]£165 

THE CHILDREN OF GEORGE V 

INCLUDING ‘JOHNNIE’ 

507. JOHN (1905-1919, Prince, Son of George V & 

Queen Mary) with his elder brothers and sister EDWARD 

VIII (1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of 

Windsor), GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of Great 

Britain), HENRY (1900-1974, Duke of Gloucester), 

GEORGE (1902-1942, Duke of Kent) & MARY (1897- 

1965, Princess Royal, Duchess of Harewood), 

Exceptional cabinet photo by W. & D. Downey, unsigned 

showing all the children, the Princess stands in the centre 

on the back row with the two future Kings on either side, 

the youngest Princes are wearing sailor suits and their 

brothers have their hands on their shoulders, Prince Henry 

in a formal suit stands in the centre with his sisters hand on 

his shoulder, 6½” x 4¼”, no place, 1910 [SD32188]£575 

An interesting and rare photograph taken just after the death of 

Edward VII. Both Princes Edward Albert are wearing black arm 

bands. Probably taken at Marlborough House. 

508. KARL (1830-1909, from 1880 last reigning Prince of 

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen) 

Carte-de-visite studio portrait photograph, unsigned, by A. 

Beckmann of Doberan and Heiligendamm, showing him 

full length, three-quarter face, in a suit with hat, walking 

stick and dog, 4” x 2½”, no date, circa 1905 [53151]£65 

The Prince married in 1869 Princess Marie, 1845-1930, sister of 

Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg, 1843-1902. After 1909 the two 

Schwarzburg principalities were united. 

509. [KYRIL (1876-1938, Grand Duke of Russia, married 

to Princess Victoria Melita, which caused Tsar Nicholas II 

to strip him of his medals and uniform, declared himself 

head of the Romanoff family in 1924 to the Dowager 

Empress’s disapproval) with his wife VICTORIA 

MELITA (1876-1936, wife of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig 

of Hesse and secondly Grand Duke Kirill, granddaughter of 

Queen Victoria) with their children] 

Fine unsigned German postcard photo by Agimm Gotha 

showing the couple with their eldest daughter MARIE 

(1907-1951), Kyril is seated with his wife standing and the 

child between them, 5½” x 3½”, Coburg, no date, c, 1908 

[SD31647]£225 

Taken when the couple were banished from Russia 

510. [LANGTRY (Lillie, 1853-1929, Lady de Bathe, 

English Actress, Mistress of Edward VII, ‘The Jersey 

Lily’)] 

Fine unsigned carte de visite photo showing her head and 

shoulders, full face, 4” x 2½”, no place, no date 

[SD30941]£175 

511. LENNART (Prince of Sweden, 1909-2004) 

Rare unsigned postcard photo showing the young Prince 

wearing a sailor suit, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date circa 

1914 [SD31652]£75 

Prince Lennart was the last member of the Romanov family to die. 

His death in 2004 ended an era. 

512. [LEOPOLD (George Albert, 1853-1884, 4th Son of 

Queen Victoria, Duke of Albany, a haemophiliac, died after 

an accident on 28th March in Cannes)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Bassano showing him three 

quarters length in uniform holding his helmet and gloves, 

6” x 4”, no place, no date, circa 1883 [SD31720]£125 

513. [LEOPOLD III (1901-1983, King of the Belgians 

1934-1951, abdicated in favour of eldest son) and his first 

wife ASTRID (1905-1935, niece of Gustav V of 

Sweden)] 

Fine group Postcard photo, by R. Lonthie, unsigned, of the 

wedding couple, showing them seated, he in uniform, she 

in the gown chosen for the religious ceremony in Brussels, 

and wearing a fine lace cap, to the right is Elisabeth, Queen 

of the Belgians, standing behind her Christian X of 

Denmark, to the left, seated, is Princess Ingeborg, the 

bride’s mother, and standing behind her the tall figure of 

the bride’s father, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, in all 

17 people, 5½” x 3½”, Brussels, 10th November 1926 

[51151]£125 

On 4th November 1926, after the civil ceremony in Stockholm, 

Leopold sailed from Gothenburg to Ostend, while his bride 

followed in the ‘Fylgia’ from Malmö to Antwerp. On the 8th, 

Leopold was waiting on the quay with an immense crowd who 

cheered wildly when he embraced her, the religious ceremony 

following two days later. 

514. [LIVINGSTONE (David, 1813-1873, Scottish 

Missionary & Explorer)] 

Original unsigned carte-de-visite photo by J.H.Kay, 

showing him three quarter length, resting his hand on his 

cap which is on a table, 4” x 2½”, no place, no date 

[SD25924]£225 

515. [LOUIS (Eugene Jean Joseph, 1856-1879, Prince 

Imperial, killed while out with a reconnoitring party at 

Ulundi, Zululand) 

Fine unsigned carte de visite photo showing the Prince 

Imperial three quarters length seated with his arms folded, 

4¼” x 2½”, no place, no date, circa [SD31852]£150 

516. [LOUISE (1818-1898, Queen of Denmark) ] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo by Southwell Bros., showing 

the Queen sitting at a bureau wearing a white and black 

dress with her hands on her lap, 4” x 2½”, taken in London, 

October 1863 

[SD25486]£125


517. LOUISE MARGARET (Alexandra Victoria, 1860- 

1917, Daughter of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Wife of 

Arthur, Duke of Connaught) 

Charming unsigned cabinet photo, showing her threequarter 

length in profile with her hands resting on the back 

of a chair holding a fan, 6½” x 4¼”, 1901 [SD29810]£175 

518. [LUDWIG II (1845-1886, Mad King of Bavaria who 

built Magnificent Castles & was a patron of Wagner, 

drowned in the Starnberg Lake)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo by J. Albert, Munich 

showing him head and shoulders in uniform, 4¼” x 2½”, no 

place, no date, trimmed 

[SD23201]£225 

519. [MARGARET (Rose, 1930-2002, Princess, Sister of 

Queen Elizabeth II, Countess of Snowdon)] 

Stunning portrait photograph, unsigned, by Cecil Beaton, of 

her head in three quarter width profile, 10” x 8”, no place, 

no date, circa 1955 [51949]£225 

520. [MARIA (6th June 1888 - 12th November 1947, 

younger daughter of Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg, 

1843-1902, and Princess Marie of Prussia, 1855-1888, 


Köstritz, 1887-1935)] 

Charming cabinet portrait photo, unsigned, by A. Pasetti of 

St Petersburg, showing her nearly half length, three quarter 

face, in a dress with a Russian embroidered top and 

neckband, dated on the verso in her sister Olga's later hand, 

6½” x 4½”, no place, 1895- 1896 [53146]£80 

Prince Albert had served in the Prussian Army, then the Russian, 

where he had several family connections. His wife died not long 

after Princess Marie was born, and in 1891 Prince Albert married 

Princess Helene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, whose father and 

brothers were also in the Russian service. Through her mother, 

Helene was a great-granddaughter of Paul I and so a Princess also 

of Russia. After Albert’s death, Helene brought up the children. 

521. [MARIA ALEXANDROVNA (1824-1880, née 

Princess of Hesse and by Rhine, first wife (1841) of 

Alexander II)] 

Unsigned carte-de-visite photograph by Desmaisons from a 

portrait, showing her three-quarter-length in a fine 

embroidered and flounced dress, her hair elegantly 

arranged high in plaits intertwined with pearls, 4” x 2½”, 

Paris, no date, circa 1860 

[SD50873]£150 

From the collection of Grand Duke Kyril & Victoria Melita 

522. [MARIE (1875-1938, Princess of Great Britain, 

daughter of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and Queen of 

Ferdinand I of Romania)] 

Delightful unsigned cabinet photo by Giacomo Brogi 

showing her three quarters length wearing an elaborate 

flowery dress, sitting on a chair holding flowers in her lap, 

6½” x 4½”, no place, no date, 1898 traces of mount on 

verso 

[SD29803]£125 

523. [MARIE (Grand Duchess, 1824-1880, wife of 

Alexander II of Russia, daughter of Ludwig II of Hesse)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo by the London Stereoscopic 

Company, showing her head and shoulders in an oval 4” x 

2½”, no place, no date 

[SD29806]£125 

524. [MARIE (1875-1938, Princess of Great Britain, 

daughter of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and Queen of 

Ferdinand I of Romania)] 

Unusual unsigned cabinet photo by Heath, in Plymouth, 

showing the Edinburgh Princesses, Marie, Victoria and 

Alexandra, half length in a row wearing identical outfits, of 

lacy shirts and French berets, 6½” x 4”, no place, no date, 

circa 1898 

[SD30962]£350 

What made this photograph so fantastic, was that it was taken 

when their father was stationed at Plymouth where he was a 

serving Naval officer. 

525. [MARIE (1854-1920, Grand Duchess, wife of Alfred 

Duke of Edinburgh, daughter of Alexander II, Tsar of 

Russia)] with her son ALFRED (1874-1899, Duke of 

Edinburgh, eldest grandson of Tsar Alexander II, 

committed suicide, a fact that was covered up by the 

family) 

Unsigned cabinet photo by Hills and Saunders showing her 

half length in an oval, with her infant son on her lap 

wearing a lacy dress, 6½” x 4½”, no place, no date, circa 

1874 [SD31708]£250 

526. [MARIE FEODOROVNA (Russian Empress, 1847- 

1928, wife of Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II )] 

Unsigned Russian Red Cross hand coloured postcard photo 

showing her three quarters length wearing court dress, 

leaning on the back of a chair, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no 

date, 1865, 

[SD31651]£275 

Taken after she had become the Dowager Empress. 

527. MARIE FEODOROVNA (Russian Empress, 1847- 

1928, wife of Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II ) 

and her sister ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, 

Queen of Edward VII) 

Charming unsigned private carte de visite photo showing 

the entire family of Alexandra and Dagmar, including King 

Christian IX, Queen Louise, the future King Frederick, the 

future King George of Greece, the Prince and Princess of 

Wales and Dagmar at the age of 15, 4½” x 3”, no place, no 

date, circa 1863, slightly scuffed on verso [SD31923]£275 

528. [MARIE FEODOROVNA (Russian Empress, 1847- 

1928, wife of Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II ), 

with her sisters ALEXANDRA (1844-1925, Queen of 

Edward VII), and THYRA (1853-1933, Duchess of 

Cumberland, dejur Queen of Hanover), GEORGE I (of 

Greece, 1845-1913, assassinated), King FREDERIK VIII 

(of Denmark, 1843-1912) and VLADIMIR (1858-1939, 

Prince of Denmark)] Unsigned group postcard photograph 

showing them standing on the steps of the Danish King’s 

Palace, 5½” x 3½”, no place, 1883 [SD31953]£375 

It is unusual to find the brothers and sisters grouped together in a 

photograph that truly shows a family of Kings. 

529. MARIE-JOSÉ (Charlotte Amélie, 1906-2001, 

daughter of Albert I, King of the Belgiums, married King 

Umberto II, of Italy) 

Delightful unsigned postcard photo, showing her as a 

young girl, seated with her legs up on a sofa, wearing a 

white frilly dress, 5½” x 3½”, no place, (Brussels), circa 

1912 [SD30426]£125


530. [MARY ADELAIDE (Princess, 1833-1897, 

daughter of the 1st Duke of Cambridge, wife of the 1st 

Duke of Teck, and mother of Queen Mary) & her children 

MARY (1867-1953, Queen of George V), ADOLPHUS 

CHARLES (1868-1927, 1st Marquess of Cambridge) and 

FRANCIS JOSEPH (1870-1910) 

Unusual unsigned carte de visite photo by Window & 

Grove showing the Duchess seated, surrounded by her three 

eldest children, the future Queen is seated by her lap while 

her two brothers sit and stand by their mother , 4¼” x 2½”, 

no place, no date 

[SD31723]£175 

Their marriage was a love match, but she was HRH and he was 

SRH which caused friction throughout their relationship, and left 

him feeling slighted. She was very popular with the public and 

the original ‘people’s Princess’. 

THE WEDDING OF PRINCESS MAUD, 

FUTURE QUEEN OF NORWAY 

531. [MAUD (1869-1938, Queen of Norway) with her 

mother, ALEXANDRA( of Denmark, 1844-1925, his 

Queen), and her sisters LOUISE (1867-1931, Princess 

Royal) & VICTORIA ALEXANDRA (1868-1935, 

Princess) together with the oldest bridesmaid’s daughter 

and flowergirl Lady Alexandra DUFF (1891-1959, 

created a Princess in 1905 by her grandfather Edward VII) 

Delightful unsigned cabinet portrait by Gunn & Stuart, 

showing the bride full length, surrounded by her mother, 

sisters and niece 6” x 4”, no place, (Buckingham Palace), 

no date, 1896 

[SD23881]£275 

EXCEPTIONAL CORONATION PHOTO 

532. [MAUD (Charlotte Mary Victoria, 1869-1938, 

Princess, Daughter of Edward VII, Queen of Norway)] 

Fine unsigned portrait photo by Hay Wrightson, showing 

her full length in her Coronation Robes at the Coronation of 

King George VI, with her train trailing in front of her, 10” 

x 8”, no place, 1937 

[SD32575]£275 

Queen Maud was the only member of Edward VII’s family that 

attended the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth 

in 1937. She was in an unusual position because, as a Queen 

Consort, she would not normally have been allowed to attend. 

However, she decided to attend as a British Princess which is what 

makes this particular portrait particularly unusual. She wanted to 

attend as “Darling Bertie and sweet Elizabeth need my support”. 

This is the only portrait photograph of Maud on her own from the 

Coronation. It came from the collection of Princess Patricia of 

Connaught. Queen Maud was, sadly, to die suddenly the 

following year. Her dress was exhibited in the V & A in 2006 to 

show how slight the Queen was. 

533. [MAXIMILIAN I (1832-1867, King of Mexico, 

formerly Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary and 

Bohemia, shot at Queretaro)] 

Fine unsigned carte de visite photo by Neurdein, Paris, 

showing him head and shoulders, wearing uniform, medals 

and ermine stole, 4¼” x 2½”, no place, no date 

[SD23217]£200 

Photos of Emperor Maximilian are unusual as he was shot in 

1867. 

534. [MICHAEL (Grand Duke, 1878-1918, Tsar 28th- 

29th March 1917, Youngest Brother of Tsar Nikolai II)] 

Fine original unsigned postcard photo showing him half 

length, in uniform, as a young man, with a splendid 

upturned moustache, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date, 1902 

[SD31650]£225 

Michael became heir to the throne after George died in 1899, till 

the Tsesarevich Alexei was born in 1904. Nikolai II abdicated for 

himself and his son on 28th March 1917, but Michael refused to 

ascend the throne without the will of the people and himself 

renounced the throne on 29th March. He was killed by the 

Bolsheviks at Perm about 28th July 1918. 

THE FRENCH IMPERIAL FAMILY 

535. [NAPOLEON (Louis Eugene Jean Joseph, 1856- 

1879, Prince Imperial, killed while out with a reconnoitring 

party at Ulundi, Zululand)] 

Charming unsigned carte-de-visite photo showing the 

young Prince on a rocking horse, 4” x 2½”, no place, no 


[SD27683]£195 

536. NAPOLEON (Prince Imperial, 1856-1879, only son 

of Napoleon III, killed in Zululand) 

Charming unsigned carte de visite photograph, by L. 

Crémière & Cie., showing him as a boy in military tricorne 

and short coat with large horizontal buttonholes, his elbow 

on a pile of rocks against a countryside background, 4” x 

2½”, Paris, no date, circa 1865 [51953]£225 

537. [NAPOLEON III (Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, 1808- 

1873, Emperor of the French, Nephew of Napoleon I) 

Fine unsigned carte de visite photo, by Disderi, Paris 

showing him head and shoulders with an impressive waxed 

moustache, 4¼” x 2½”, no place, no date, circa 

[SD23186]£125 

538. [NAPOLEON III (Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, 1808- 

1873, Emperor of the French, Nephew of Napoleon I) with 

his wife EUGÉNIE (née Montijo, 1826-1920, wife of 

Emperor Napoleon III) & their son LOUIS (Eugene Jean 

Joseph, 1856-1879, Prince Imperial, killed while out with a 

reconnoitring party at Ulundi, Zululand)] 

Fine unsigned carte-de-visite photo by Chislehurst, 

showing the Emperor seated resting his arm on a table, with 

his son sitting at his side with his arms crossed, and his 

wife standing behind them, 4” x 2½”, no place, no date, 

[SD27901]£275 

539. [NICHOLAS ALEXANDROVITCH (1843-1865, 

Eldest son of Alexander II, brother of Alexander III) and 

his fiancée MARIE FEODOROVNA (Dagmar, 1847- 

1928, daughter of the King of Denmark, married Alexander 

III on the death of her fiancée, their successful union 

produced Nicholas II) 

Fine pair of unsigned carte de visite photos, his by G. 

Leyde, showing them both head and shoulders, 4” x 2½”, 

no place, no date, circa 1862 

[SD23311]£375


540. [MUHAMMED REZA (Pahlavi, 1919-1980, Shah 

of Iran)] 

Fine large unsigned portrait photo showing him in profile 

as a young man wearing uniform, 9” x 7”, no place, 1967 

[SD29833]£175 


1894, Assassinated after the Revolution), Empress 

ALEXANDRA (1872-1918) with the Emperor & 

Empress of JAPAN ] 

Fine unsigned postcard photo showing the Tsar & Tsarina 

together with 4 small pictures of The Emperor and Empress 

of Japan and their respective admirals of the Fleet, printed 

title “Russia and Japan - The War in the Far East”, 5½” x 


annotated underneath in another hand 

THE LAST GROUP PHOTO OF THE 

IMPERIAL FAMILY 


1894, Assasinated after the Revolution), ALEXANDRA 

FEODOROVNA (1872-1918, the Tsarina) with their 

children OLGA (1895-1918, Grand Duchess), 

TATIANA (1897-1918), MARIA (1899-1918), 

ANASTASIA (1901-1918) & ALEXEI (1904-1918, The 

Tsarevitch)] 

Exceptional unsigned group postcard photo showing the 

family half length, standing in a row with the girls standing 

next to the Tsar the Tsarevitch next to the Tsaraina, 5½” x 

3½”, no place, no date circa 1916 [SD30273]£375 

THE FAMILY OF NICHOLAS II 





TATIANA (1897-1918), MARIA (1899-1918), 


Tsarevitch)] 

Unsigned group postcard photo showing the family 

grouped together at Tsarskoe Seloe, with the Tsarina 

holding the infant Tsarevitch in her arms, 5½” x 3½”, 

Tsarskoe Seloe, September 1905 [SD31611]£275 

This is the christening photo of the tsarevitch Alexei 





TATIANA (1897-1918), Dowage Empress Marie 

Feodorovna, Princess Irena of Russia, (1895-1970), Prince 

Andrew of Russia, (1897-1981), Princess Victoria of Wales 

(1868-1935), King Christian IX (1818-1906), King George 

of Greece (1845-1913), the future King and Queen of 

Denmark and Prince Waldemar (1858-1939) 

Charming unsigned group postcard photo showing the 

family in 1899 after the death of Queen Louise, they are 

surrounding the King with love and affection, 5½” x 3½”, 

Denmark 1899 

[SD31928]£275 


1894, Assassinated after the Revolution), ALEXANDRA 

FEODOROVNA (1872-1918, the Tsarina), with their 


TATIANA (1897-1918), MARIA (1899-1918), 


Tsarevitch) & ALEXEI (1904-1918, The Tsarevitch)] 

Delightful unsigned group original postcard photograph 

showing the young tsar and his wife with their growing 

family, 5½” x 3½”, Tsarskoe Selo, no date 1906 

[SD32256]£275 

What is particularly charming about this image is that it is rare to 

find the young daughters and the tsarevitch surrounding their 

parents in postcard format. This postcard was taken to prove that 

after the first revolution of 1905 the Tsar and his family remained 

happily content within their palace. 

THE CHRISTENING OF THE 

TSAREVITCH 

546. [OLGA (1895-1918, Grand Duchess), TATIANA 

(1897-1918), MARIA (1899-1918), ANASTASIA 

(1901-1918) & ALEXEI (1904-1918, The Tsarevitch)] 

Delightful unsigned Russian group postcard photo, 

showing the children in their christening clothes, gathered 

around their baby brother on a sofa, 5½” x 3½”, no place, 

n.d 1904 

[SD30275]£575 

The verso of the card is printed with the distinctive green (usually 

red) marking of the special limited edition cards which were 

distributed by the Imperial family. 

547. OLGA (Grand Duchess, 1882-1960, daughter of 

Alexander III & sister of Tsar Nicholas II) with her fiancée 

PETER (Duke of Oldenburg, 1868-1924, son of Duke 

Alexander of Oldenburg) 

Fine unsigned Russian postcard photo showing the couple 

seated together in the year of their engagement, wearing 

black, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date, 1901 [SD31649]£325 

She is one of the most collectible of Romanovs and it is rare to 

find postcards of her. 




Delightful unsigned group postcard photo, showing the 

children, three-quarter length, wearing imperial clothes, 

1906 small pinhole in the corner not affecting the image 


THE CHILDREN OF NICHOLAS II IN 

TSARSKOE ZELO 




Very rare unsigned Russian group postcard photo showing 

the Imperial children Grand Duchesses clustered around 

their young brother, 5½” x 3½”, no place, (Tsarskoe Zelo), 

no date 1910 

[SD32276]£375 

You can see in the photo that the tsarevitch has his leg bent. He 

had recently fallen badly from his bicycle and had damaged the 

ligaments in the back of his knee. It took him several months to 

recover and then the accident at Spala, the Royal Hunting Lodge a 

short time afterwards nearly killed him.


550. OLGA ELISABETH (17th April 1886 - 13th 

January 1955, née Princess of Saxe-Altenburg, wife, 1913, 

of Lt.-Gen. Count Carl-Friedrich von Pückler-Burghauss, 

1886-1945) 

Group of 7 early photographs, unsigned, the first 4” x 4” on 

thick card, the rest in cabinet format 6½” x 4¼”, of Olga 

and her parents Prince ALBERT of Saxe-Altenburg, 

(1843-1902, cousin of Duke Ernst I), and Princess 

MARIE of Prussia, (1855-1888, whose soldier father 

Friedrich Karl, ‘The Red Prince’, was a nephew of William 

I), showing her with her parents, another with her mother 

watching over her on a cushion (both at 14 weeks, July 

1886) annotated by her mother “Olga Elisabeth14 

weeks old, 1886”, propped up in her wheeled cot with a 

huge bonnet (December 1886), her mother alone halflength 

in profile, wearing a hat with a large bow at the side 

(1887), Olga aged about 2, standing by her cot, (1887 or 

1888, these five all by Hanfstaengel of Dresden), Prince 

Albert seated nearly full length with his daughters OLGA 

& MARIA (1888-1947, later Princess Heinrich XXXV of 

Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz) on his knees (by Emil Tiedemann 

of Dessau etcirca, circa 1891), and the two sisters, full 

length, full face, Olga rather serious with a little whip, 

Maria smiling and holding three dogs on leashes, with their 

names in Olga's later hand on the verso (by F. Fiedler of 

Sondershausen, circa 1893), together 7 photos, 1886 - circa 

1893 somewhat faded but still attractive, the first has one 

corner defective in blank portion [53145]£275 

Princess Olga was born near Dresden at Schloß Albrechtsberg, the 

castle built by her mother's relative Prince Albrecht of Prussia. 

Dessau was the home of Princess Marie's mother, and 

Sondershausen of Prince Albert's sister, another Marie, married to 

Karl, reigning Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. 

551. OLGA ELISABETH (Princess, 1886 - 1955, 

daughter of Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg, 1843-1902, 

and Princess Marie of Prussia, 1855-1888, wife, 1913, of 

Lt.-Gen. Count Carl-Friedrich von Pückler-Burghauss, 

1886-1945) and her sister MARIA Princess, 1888-1947, 


Köstritz, 1887-1935) 

Charming portrait cabinet photo, unsigned, by Emil 

Tiedemann of Dessau etcirca, of Princess Olga, standing 

full-length, almost full-face, holding the hand of Maria, not 

yet one year old, who is propped up in a wicker chair in a 

long gown, dated on the back in Olga’s later hand, 8” x 

5½”, no place, circa 1889 [53147]£75 

Dessau was the original home of the late Princess Marie’s mother, 

Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt, wife of the Prussian ‘Red Prince’ 

Friedrich Carl. 

552. [PASTEUR (Louis, 1822-1895, French chemist, 

developer of pasteurisation)] 

Fine woodburytype photo by Walery, showing him, three 

quarter length, standing leanting against a piece of 

furniture, with facsimile signature, accompanied by a 

printed biography, 16½” x 12”, no place, no date, library 

stamp in top left hand corner 

[SD25689]£375 

553. [PETER II (1923-1970, King of Yugoslavia until 

1945, married to Alexandra, Princess of Greece)] 

Press photo of the then Crown Prince with his English 

tutor, taken after he arrived to begin his English education 

in Surrey, showing them both full length walking down 

Brook Street, 7½” x 4½”, London, 20th September 1934 

[SD29753]£150 

It would be less than one month before his father, Alexander was 

assasinated and the 11 year old Crown Prince would become Peter 

II, reigning under a council of Regency from his accession in 1934 

until 1941. He lost his throne when the Monarchy was abolished 

in 1945. 

554. [RAINIER III (1923-2005, from 1949 Prince of 

Monaco)& his sister Princess ANTOINETTE (Baronne 

de Massy, b. 1920)] 

Fine pair of unsigned pastel drawings showing the children 

head and shoulders, Rainier is about 5 years old and his 

sister about 8, both circular, 13 inches diameter, no place, 

no date, circa 1928, some marks [SD24585]£275 

555. [RANJITSINHJI (1872-1933, from 1906 Jam Sahib 

of Navanagar, from 1918 Maharaja, Cricketer)] 

Press photo, unsigned, showing him full length, full face, 

with, on the left facing the camera, the Revd. A.S.R. 

Brooke, from 1882 Rector of Slingsby, whose church 

bazaar Ranji has come to open, on the right in profile is the 

Revd. Louis Borissow, 1840-1917, Rector of Gilling, who 

was Ranji’s guardian at Cambridge, and on the far left two 

of Ranji’s nephews, 6” x 8”, Slingsby, Yorkshire, no date, 

circa 1912 [52658]£125 

Ranji’s astonishing career produced many records. He was 

particularly known for the left glance which he invented at 

Cambridge, and which revolutionized stroke play. He came up to 

Trinity, where Mr. Borissow was chaplain, gained his blue in 

1893, and captained Sussex 1899-1903. From 1902 he was 

informally engaged to Edith Borissow (1873-1942), an 

engagement broken off by her a few years after the death of her 

father. When Ranji became ruler in 1906, it was agreed that he 

might visit England once in four years, beginning in 1908. He 

took a great interest in his nephews’ cricketing skills. 

556. [RUDOLF (1858-1889, Crown Prince of Austria 

who shot himself at Meyerling)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Wien, showing him head 

and shoulders in uniform, 6½” x 4½”, no place, Vienna, c 

1884 [SD22601]£175 

The young Prince’s excesses with women were numerous and it 

was decided to marry him to a suitable Catholic Princess. He 

married the daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium and treated 

her appallingly. He soon slipped back into his bachelor habits 

and met the beautiful Baroness Marie Vetsera, whom he shot 

before killing himself on 30th January 1889. This enormous 

scandal rocked Imperial Vienna. Empress Zeita of Austria, who 

died in 1989 always claimed that Rudolf had in fact been 

murdered. This picture is unusual because the couple were 

seldom together. 

557. SPACE PHOTOS 

Three NASA photos the shuttle taking off and in orbit and 

the Earth and Moon taken by Voyager 1, each 10” x 8”, no 

place, no date, circa 1978 

[SD29932]£50


558. [THACKERAY (William Makepeace, 1811-1863, 

Novelist)] 

Fine unsigned carte de visite photo by Caldesi & Co., 

showing him head full length resting his hand on a chair in 

front of a glass door, 4” x 2½”, no place, no date 

[SD29745]£125 

559. SERGEI ALEKSANDROVICH (Grand Duke, 

1857-1905, Governor of Moscow, Uncle of Nicholas II) 

Rare unsigned Russian carte de visite showing him as a 

boy in Cossack uniform, 4½” x 2½”, no place, no date, 

circa 1865 

[SD28931]£450 

Grand Duke Sergei was assassinated in the rising of 1905. His 

wife Elisabeth of Hesse was the elder sister of the Tsarina, 

founded a nursing order. She was murdered by the Bolsheviks at 

Alapaievsk in 1918 and was canonized in 1991. A very rare 

image of the fourth son of Emperor Alexander II 

560. [SOPHIA (Dorothea Ulrica, 1870-1932, Princess of 

Prussia, daughter of Frederick III Emperor of Prussia, wife 

of King Constantine I of Greece) & her sister VICTORIA 

(1866-1929)] 

Glorious photo of the sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II, in 

mourning for their father, the Emperor Frederick, 6” x 4”, 

no place, no date, 1888 

[SD23438]£275 

Queen Sophie was the third daughter of Emperor Friedrich 

Wilhelm III, and Victoria, Empress Frederick. She was a granddaughter 

of Queen Victoria and married Constantine on the 27th 

October 1889. Princess Victoria’s second marriage to Alexander 

Zoubkoff was disastrous as he left the Princess in a dreadful 

financial state. 

561. [TATIANA (Constantinovich, 1890-1970, granddaughter 

of Nicholas I of Russia, wife of Prince Constantin 

Alexandrovich)] 

Rare unsigned Russian Postcard photo, showing her full 

length wearing a lacy white dress, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no 

date, postmarked 1914 

[SD22886]£165 

Her husband was killed in action in 1915 and she became a nun, 

Mother Tamara, Abbess of the Orthodox Convent of the Mount of 

Olives 

PRINCE PHILIP’S SISTERS 

562. THE FAMILY OF PRINCE ANDREW OF 

GREECE WITH TSAREVITCH ALEXEI [Princess 

MARGHARITA (b. 1905) and her sister THEODORA 

(1906-1969) with their cousins the sons of the grand duke 

of Hesse, Princes GEORGE (1906-1937) & LUDWIG 

(1908-1968) and Tsarevitch ALEXEI (1904-1918, of 

Russia, killed in 1918)] 

Charming unsigned postcard photo showing the five 

children sitting on a doorstep in a row, 5½” x 3½”, no 

place, no date, circa 1910 

[SD22891]£250 

563. [VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain) ] 

Fine unsigned carte de visite photo by W.& D.Downey, 

showing the Queen, three quarters length with her hands 

resting on a chairback, 4”x 2½”, together with an 

engraving by Butterworth of the photo, no place, engraving 

dated 1st April 1868 

[SD29814]£125 

564. [THYRA (Amelie Caroline Charlotte, 1853-1933, 

daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark, sister of Queen 

Alexandra) & her husband ERNST AUGUST (1845- 

1923, Duke of Cumberland & of Brunswick-Lüneberg) 

Very unusual unsigned postcard photo showing the couple 

with their son ERNST AUGUST (1887-1953, Prince of 

Hanover), daughter in law, VICTORIA LOUISE (1892- 

1980, daughter of the Kaiser), and their daughter Princess 

MATHILDE (1889-1922) and their grandchildren, 5½” x 


565. [VICTORIA (1840-1901, Empress Frederick of 

Germany, wife of Frederick III)] 

Exceptional hand coloured unsigned Carte-de-visite 

photograph by L.Hasse & Co., full length, in a bonnet and 

crinolined dress, 4” x 2½” no date, [SD25244]£225 

566. VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain) & 

Princess VICTORIA of Hesse (1863-1950) 

Charming original photo annotated under the image “Queen 

Victoria & her grand daughter Victoria of Hesse” with the 

date, showing the Queen dressed in black holding her 

grand-daughter on her lap, 4¼” x 3¼”, no place, no date, 

1866 [SD28078]£500 

567. [VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)] 

Very rare unsigned cabinet photo titled “Her Majesty’s 

Gracious Smile”, showing her head and shoulders, smiling 

out of a carriage, holding a bouquet of flowers, 6½” x 4¼”, 

no place, no date, 

[SD31707]£325 

568. VICTORIA (Empress of Germany, 1840-1901, 

Princess Royal of Great Britain) 

Charming Private photo in carte de visite format of the 

Princess Royal showing her full length seated wearing 

mourning dress, taken at Osbourne when she was in 

mourning for her father the Prince Consort,4” x 2½”, 

Osbourne, March 1862 

[SD31938]£350 

Unusually this photo was taken by Prince Alfred 

THE QUEEN ADVERTISES FREEMAN, 

HARDY & WILLIS 

569. [VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)] 

Exceptional unsigned cabinet photo with credits for 

Freeman, Hardy and Willis underneath showing the queen 

half length, seated, at the time of her 80th birthday, 6½” x 

4¼”, no place, no date, 1899 

[SD31954]£225 

Freeman, Hardy and Willis got themselves into a lot of trouble 

with the Palace for daring to use the Queen’s image on an 

advertisement for their shop. As a result copyright laws were 

passed. 

570. [VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain) 

with John BROWN (1826-1883, Queen Victoria’s 

Highland servant) and ALBERT VICTOR (Christian 

Edward, Duke of Clarence, 1864-1892, Eldest Son of 

Edward VII)] 

Unsigned original photo showing the Queen in her carriage 

with her grandson which is being driven by her gilly, 6½” x 

3½”, Balmoral, no date, circa 1870, laid down on card 

[SD32205]£525


571. [VICTORIA EUGENIA (1887-1969, 

Granddaughter of Queen Victoria, daughter of Princess 

Beatrice of Battenberg &, Wife of Alfonso XIII of Spain) 

& her father HENRY (1858-1896, Prince of Battenberg)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Jabez Hughes, showing her 

as a child wearing a white dress with neckscarf and bonnet, 

sitting on her fathers knee, 6” x 4½”` 1893 [SD25527]£425 

572. [VICTORIA MELITA (1876-1936, wife of Grand 

Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and secondly Grand Duke 

Kirill Vladimirovitch of Russia, granddaughter of Queen 

Victoria)] 

Fine unsigned postcard photo, showing her seated looking 

to one side, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date, c, 1907 

[SD31653]£225 

Taken at Coburg when she was in disgrace with most of the 

Sovereigns of Europe because she had decided to have a love 

affair as a married Grand Duchess of Hesse. 

573. [VLADIMIR (Grand Duchess, Marie Pavlovna, 

1854-1920, wife of Grand Duke Vladimir)] 

Fine unsigned postcard photo showing her full length in 

exile in Paris, holding one little dog in her arms and with 

the other, a Boston Terrier, seated on the kerb next to her, 

5½” x 3½”, no place, (Paris), no date, circa 1921, sellotape 

markings 

[SD23719]£250 

THE CROWNED HEADS OF EUROPE 

574. [VLADIMIR (Grand Duchess, Marie Pavlovna, 

1854-1920, wife of Grand Duke Vladimir)] 

Fine unsigned postcard photo by W. & D. Downey 

showing her at the Royal Gathering at Windsor to celebrate 

Edward VII’s birthday, included in the group are Edward 

VII and Queen Alexandra, George V and Queen Mary, 

Princesses Louise and Maud and many others, 5½” x 

3½”, Windsor, 17th November 1907 [SD32071]£225 

The King had his 66th birthday gathering on 17th rather than the 

9th which was his actual birthday. 

575. [VLADIMIR KIRILLOVICH (1917-1992, Head of 

the Imperial House of Russia)] 

Collection of 7 unsigned photos relating to the painting of 

his portrait, there is one large 8½” x 6” image showing him 

sitting in a chair with the artistt and the portrait in the 

foreground with 6 small (3½” x 2½”) photos of him and the 

painting, no place, 1950 

[SD32230]£325 

It is unusual to find photos of the pretender to the Russian throne 

576. WILHELM II (1859-1941, Kaiser 1888-1918) 

Rare unsigned cabinet photo by Reichard & Lindner, 

showing him half length in profile, wearing uniform, 6¼” x 

4¼”, Berlin, 1894 

[SD30937]£175 

He hated having his portrait in profile, Taken at the time of the 

future Tsar’s engagement to his cousin Princess Alex of Hesse. 

577. [YAMAMOTO (Count Gombei, 1852-1933, 

Japanese Admiral, Navy Minister during the Russo- 

Japanese War and then Prime Minister)] 

Unsigned Press photo by International News, showing him 

full length in ceremonial Naval uniform, 8½” x 7”, no 

place, no date 

[SD29819]£65 

THE CHILDREN OF WILHELM II 

578. [WILHELM III (Friedrich Viktor August Ernst, 

1882-1951, Son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Crown Prince of the 

German Empire & of Prussia, renounced the throne in 

1918), EITEL FRIEDRICH (1883-1942, Major- 

General), ADALBERT (1884-1948), AUGUST 

WILHELM (1887-1949), OSKAR (1888-1958) 

JOACHIM (1890-1920) and VIKTORIA (1892-1953) 

Charming unsigned cabinet photo by Arthur Funger, 

showing the children grouped together, the future Wilhelm 

III is standing at the back in uniform, the next three 

younger boys are wearing sailor suits but Joachim is still 

young enough to be in a dress, Viktoria is sitting on a chair 

at the front, 6½” x 4½”, no place, (Berlin), no date, circa 

1894 [SD31766]£275 

THE FAMILY OF GRAND DUCHESS 

XENIA 

579. XENIA (Grand Duchess, 1875-1960, Sister of 

Nicholas II of Russia and Wife of his Cousin Grand Duke 

Alexander) with her husband Grand Duke ALEXANDER 

(1866-1933), and their children IRENA (1895-1970), 

ANDREW (1897-1981), FEODOR (1898-1968), 

NIKITA (1900-1974), DMITRI (1901-1980), 

ROSTISLAV (1902-1978) & VASSILI (1907-1989) 

Glorious unsigned Russian postcard photo of GD Xenia 

and her entire family consisting of six sons and 1 daughter 

the Duke and Duchess are seated with children on their laps 

and the rest of the family is seated around them, 5½” x 


580. [XENIA (Grand Duchess, 1875-1960, Sister of 

Nicholas II of Russia and Wife of his Cousin Grand Duke 

Alexander) with her daughter IRENA (1895-1970)] 

Original unsigned photo showing the elderly mother with 

her daughter, standing together in a garden 3½” x 3½”, no 

place, (Denmark), no date, circa 1925 [SD31606]£350 

Grand Duchess Xenia and her daughter Irena photographed at her 

mother’s home. Irena was the wife of Prince Yusopov who was 

one of the murderer’s of Rasputin. She was considered a great 

beauty, but she retreated into a private life after her glittering life 

before the Revolution. 

581. YUSUPOV (Prince Feliks Feliksovich, 1887-1967, 

Organized murder of Rasputin) & his wife IRENA (1895- 

1970, Princess of Russia) 

Original unsigned photo a very rare image of the couple in 

old age, standing together me outside a building, 4½” x 

2½”, n.p, no date, circa 1961 

[SD31605]£275 

Yusupov (Youssoupoff), a fervent monarchist, married in 1914 

Irina Alexandrovna (1895-1970), daughter of Nicholas II’s sister 

Xenia. Rasputin was invited to a supper at Yusupov’s palace on 

15th December 1916, and shot dead, after a strong dose of 

potassium cyanide in his wine had failed to kill him. See 

Yusupov’s ‘Le fin de Rasputin’, (1927), and his memoirs ‘Avant 

l’exil’, (1952) (in English ‘Lost Splendour’), and ‘En exil’, 

(1954).


SIGNATURES & FRAGMENTS 

582. ALBANI (Dame Emma, 1847-1930, Canadian 

Soprano) 

Fine signature and date on a card, Birmingham festival, 

1900 [SD26728]£12 

583. ALFRED (Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg 

Gotha, 1844-1900, 2nd Son of Queen Victoria) 

Signature from the end of Autograph Letter Signed with 

subscription 

[SD27230]£30 

584. ALLENBY (Edmund Henry, 1st Viscount, 1861- 

1936, Soldier, Field Marshal, High Commissioned in 

Egypt) 

Fine signature on card as “F.M.”, no place, no date 

[SD30691]£225 

585. ASQUITH (Margot, Countess of Oxford & Asquith, 

1864-1945, wife of the Prime Minister) 

Fine signature taken from Autograph Letter Signed 

[SD26996]£15 

586. AUSTIN (Alfred, 1835-1913, Poet Laureate) 

Fine signature on a on Swinford Old Manor, Ashford, Kent 

headed paper, printed “With Best Thanks for Kind 

Congratulations”, June 9th 1896 

[SD27218]£15 

587. BALFOUR (John Blair, 1827-1905, Lord President 

of the Court of Session, 1899, 1st Baron Kinross of 

Glascune) 

Signature and subscription from a letter, n.y., circa 1890 

[SD24332]£10 

588. BANCROFT (Marie Effie née Wilton, 1839-1921, 

Actress, Wife of Sir Squire Bancroft) 

AQS “Mark not what I do on Sundays, but watch me 

through the week”, pencilled note ‘written for the A.V. 

Bazar’, 1 side 8vo., 31 Cavendish Square, 10th October 

1878 [SD12140]£18 

Lady Bancroft was a child actress in the provinces, and came to 

the Strand Theatre, London, in 1856. She married (Sir) Squire 

Bancroft in 1867, after which she joined his memorable 

management of the old Prince of Wales Theatre. She wrote ‘Mr 

and Mrs Bancroft on and off the Stage’, 1888. 

589. BARRETT (Wilson, 1846-1904, Actor Manager) 

Autograph quotation signed, “I see, I understand, I know, 

Claudian”, 1 side oblong 8vo., August 20th 1886 

[SD27140]£25 

590. BEDFORD (John Russell, 1710-1771, K.G., 

Secretary of State 1748-1751, from 1732 4th Duke) 

Signature on fragment of an account, allowing it “by H. 

Maj.ties special command”, no date. but 1748 - 1751 

[SD51688]£30 

591. BELASSA (Sándor, b. 1935, Hungarian Composer) 

Signature on an 8vo. sheet, identification in Dutch neatly 

typed in one corner, no date, circa 1960 [51527]£25 

592. BEDFORD (John Russell, 1710-1771, K.G., 

Secretary of State 1748-1751, from 1732 4th Duke) 

Signature on verso of fragment of an official document, as 

receipt for payments from the Exchequer, 2½” (max.) x 

7¾” (max.), 6th June 1753, another signature removed, just 

touching bottom of ‘Bedford’ and top of ‘Fane’ 

[SD51693]£20 

Signed also ‘Fane’ (Charles, d. 1766, British Resident at Florence, 

Turin and Constantinople, 2nd Viscount) and on recto by clerks 

for Lord Macclesfield and (Horatio) Walpole, Tellers of the 

Exchequer, adding interest of £75 for 2 periods of 3 months. 

593. BENEDICT XV (born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni 

Battista della Chiesa, 1854-1922, Pope from 1914 to his 

death, succeeded Pope Pius X) 

Fine signature on an album leaf “Benedictus PP XV”, 6” x 

3½”, no place (Vatican), no date, circa 1920 


Benedict XV's pontificate was dominated by World War I, which 

he called "the suicide of Europe", and its turbulent aftermath. 

Benedict's first encyclical extended a heartfelt plea for an end to 

hostilities. His early call for a Christmas truce in 1914 was 

ignored. The Pope organized significant humanitarian efforts 

(establishing a Vatican bureau, for instance, to help prisoners of 

war from all nations contact their families) and made many 

unsuccessful attempts to negotiate peace, but his pleas for a 

negotiated peace made him unpopular, even in Catholic countries 

like Italy, among many supporters of the war who were 

determined to accept nothing less than total victory. His best 

known intervention was the seven-point Papal Peace proposal of 

August 1917, demanding a cessation of hostilities, a reduction of 

armaments, guaranteed freedom of the seas, and international 

arbitration. Only Woodrow Wilson responded directly, declaring 

that a declaration of peace was premature; in Europe each side 

saw him as biased in favour of the other and were unwilling to 

accept the terms he proposed. This resentment contributed to the 

exclusion of the Vatican from the Paris Peace conference of 1919. 

594. BERESFORD (Admiral Lord Charles, 1846-1919, 

M.P. for Portsmouth, Lover of ‘Darling Daisy’, Frances, 

Countess of Warwick) Small signature [SD27144]£12 

595. CALVERT (Sir William, d. 1761, Lord Mayor of 

London 1748-1749) and ADAMS (Richard, Recorder of 

London 1748-1753, later Baron of the Exchequer) 

Signatures from a vellum document, no date, circa 1749 

[SD51684]£45 

596. CLIFFORD (Sir Thomas, 1630-1673, from 1672 1st 

Baron, Lord High Treasurer, 1672-1673, the ‘C’ of the 

CABAL ) 

Signature on a fragment of an Exchequer document, in full 

discharge of £180,000 ordered under the Privy Seal to be 

paid to “his Highness” (the Duke of York), 1 side 1½” x 

9¼”, no date, circa 1670, small defect just touching two 

letters of signature 

[SD51628]£125 

Clifford was one of the three ministers (including the Duke of 

York) who refused to conform to the Anglican church in 1673, 

and resigned his post. 

597. COBHAM (Sir Alan J., 1894-1973, Aviator) 

Fine signature in pencil on back of the Mayor of 

Canterbury’s business card 

[SD27157]£15


598. COWEN (Sir Frederic Hymen, 1842-1935, English 

Composer and Conductor) 

Signature and “Yours Truly” on album leaf [SD27171]£10 

599. COWEN (Sir Frederic Hymen, 1842-1935, English 

Composer and Conductor) 

Signature from end of Autograph Letter Signed, inscribed 

Yours Truly 1932 

[SD27174]£10 

600. CROKER (John Wilson, 1780-1857, Historian & 

Essayist, Secretary of the Admiralty) 

Fine signature 

[SD26733]£10 

601. CRUIKSHANK (George, 1792-1878, Artist & 

Caricaturist, Illustrator of Dickens) 

Signature 

[SD26985]£35 

602. DAMPIER (Sir William Cecil Dampier, 1867-1952, 

F.R.S.) 

Signature from the end of a letter, no date, circa 1930 

[SD19642]£20 

Dampier applied science in many fields - physics, agriculture, 

economics and sociology. 

603. DANNREUTHER (Edward George, 1844-1905, 

German Pianist, friend of Wagner) 

Autograph Musical Quotation signed on album leaf 9” x 

7¼”, two staves in red ink, no place, 17th April 1889, 

[52840]£75 

With another signature below. Laid down on the verso is an 

autograph letter signed, in German with translation, from Sophie 

Minter to ‘Dear Sir’, saying she will discuss the date of her 

concert when she comes to London next week, 1 side 8vo., Paris, 

6th April 1890. 

604. DAVIES (William Henry, 1871-1940, Poet & 

Author) 

Unsigned business card inscribed, With Compliments 

traces of mount on verso 

[SD27131]£18 

605. DICKENS (Charles, 1812-1870, Novelist) 

Fine autograph envelope front signed in full to “H. H. 

Gladders Esquire and John H. Guy Esquire” at “Mechanics’ 

Institution, Workington, Cumberland”, with a datestamp 

paid , 1 side envelope, no place, no date, postmarked 6th 

December 1847 

[SD29904]£475 

606. DICKENS (Charles, 1812-1870, Novelist) 

Fine autograph envelope front signed in full to Spencer 

Hall Esquire at the Athenaeum, 11th February 1841 slight 

foxing 

[SD30650]£375 

607. DODINGTON (George Bubb, Baron Melcombe, 

1691-1762, writer and wit, Treasurer of the Navy, from 

1761 Baron Melcombe), SUNDON (William Clayton, 

1671-1752, whose wife controlled much of George II’s 

court patronage, from 1735 1st Baron), and 

CHOLMONDELEY (George, 1703-1770, 3rd Earl, Lord 

Privy Seal 1743-1744) 

Signatures from the end of a document as Lords of the 

Treasury, circa 1735 - 1736 

[SD51673]£25 

608. DONAT (Robert 1905-1958, Actor) 

Signature, first name of signature faded, 

[SD26734]£30 

609. DU MAURIER (Sir Gerald, 1873-1934, Actor- 

Manager) 

Signature and subscription taken from an Autograph Letter 

Signed 

[SD26983]£10 

610. DUPPLIN (Thomas Hay, 1710-1787, Viscount, from 

1758 8th Earl of Kinnoull) and NUGENT (Robert, 1702- 

1788, Politician and Poet, Baron, 1766 and Earl, 1776) 

Signatures on fragment of a document as Lords of the 

Treasury, 1 side 5¼” x 5”, no date. but 1754 - 1755 

[SD51695]£50 

With at foot “His Maj.ts Privy Purse without Acco.t” in a clerk’s 

neat hand. 

611. EARHART (Amelia, 1897-1937, Aviator, 

disappeared on her last flight) 

Fine signature on card dated in pencil in another hand, 28th 

May 1932 

[SD30692]£750 

612. EASTLAKE (Mary Alexandra, née Bell, wife of the 

landscape painter Charles) 

Signature taken form the end of Autograph Letter Signed 

with subscription 

[SD26950]£15 

613. EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain) 

Fine address panel signed with initials (‘A.E.’) addressed to 

“Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia, 

Hamburg” 

[SD27160]£75 

An address panel to his sister 

614. FORDYCE (John, Surveyor General of the Land 

Revenues of the Crown 1794-1809) 

Signature from a receipt for £50, December 1804 

[SD51720]£20 

615. FOX (Charles James, 1749-1806, the famous Whig 

orator, opponent of Lord North over America, friend of the 

Prince of Wales), DYSON (Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Clerk 

of the House of Commons, 1748) and TOWNSHEND 

(Hon. Charles, 1728-1810, from 1797 Baron Bayning) 


Treasury, 1 side 8” x 4½” (max.), 19th January 1774 

[SD51709]£125 

It is remarkable that Fox was only in office for very short periods 

- here as a Lord of the Treasury (under Lord North !), from which, 

owing to his independent action, he was dismissed by the King. 

In 1806, as Foreign Secretary, he moved the bill to abolish slavery 

a few days before his death. 

Dyson “was nicknamed ‘Mungo’ (the ubiquitous negro slave in 

Isaac Bickerstaffe’s ‘Padlock’) from his omnipresence in 

parliamentary business” (DNB). He discontinued the practice of 

selling the subordinate clerkships in his office. He was a friend of 

the novelist Richardson and settled a pension on Mark Akenside, 

the poet and physician. 

Signed also at the foot by Henry Fiennes Clinton, 1720-1794, 

from 1768 2nd Duke of Newcastle , from 1751 Auditor of the 

Receipt of the Exchequer.


616. FOX (Henry, 1705-1774, from 1763 1st Baron 

Holland) and ARUNDELL (Hon. Richard, d. 1759, 

Master of the Mint 1737-1744) 

Signatures from a document as Lords of the Treasury, no 

date but 1744 - 1746, slight fault and tiny trimming in 

second signature, laid down 

[SD51682]£65 

Henry Fox amassed a huge fortune as Paymaster General, 1757- 

1765, during the Seven Years’ War. He bought Holland House in 

1767. Arundell was the only brother of John, 4th and last Baron 

of Trerice in Cornwall. 

617. FREMANTLE (Sir Sydney R., 1867-1930, Admiral) 

Fine signature on headed paper, 30 Bullingham Mansions, 

Kensington Church Street, W8 traces of mount on verso 

[SD27168]£10 

618. GALLWAY (or GALWAY) (Jane, d. 1788, 2nd 

wife, 1734, of John Monckton, 1695-1751, Commissioner 

of the Revenue for Ireland 1734-1748, 1st Viscount) 

Signature ‘J Gallway’ on a fragment of an Exchequer 

document of 25th June 1751 in favour of her late husband 

(who d. 15th July 1751), receipted by her, with pleasing 

elaborate flourishes in the clerk’s hand, 2 sides 2¼” x 6¾”, 

8th November 1751 

[SD51687]£35 

The payment is “by virtue of his Majesty’s General Letters Patent 

Dormant” and is therefore probably for salary, as Surveyor 

General of the Land Revenue for England from 1750. 

619. GARTH (George, d. 1819, as British Colonel led the 

Connecticut Coast Raid with 1500 men, 1779, General) 

Signature by way of receipt from a fragment of an order to 

pay, 1 side 3” x 3½”, [Ju]ly, 1788 [SD51715]£200 

During the American War of Independence he moved from 

Colonel in February 1779 to Brigade Commander, Connecticut 

Coast raid in July. In September he was appointed to Replace 

Prevost in Georgia and he was then captured by the French aboard 

the Experiment off Georgia and exchanged. He served as Major- 

General in the West Indies & was promoted to General in 1801. 


“Mad” signature taken from a document, circa 1812 

[SD27086]£85 

621. GEORGE IV (1762-1830, King of Great Britain) 

Signature as Prince Regent, taken from a document 

beneath, “In the name and on the behalf of his Majesty” 

mounted on card 

[SD26883]£95 

622. GILBERT (Sir Alfred, 1854-1934, Sculptor of 

‘Eros’ in Piccadilly Circus etc) 

Autograph note, sending his complimets, May 28th 1894 

[SD27175]£25 

623. GRAHAM (James, 1755-1836, K.G., Marquis, later 

3rd Duke of Montrose), ELIOT (Hon. Edward James, 

1758-1797, brother-in-law of Pitt the younger) and 

MORNINGTON (Richard Colley Wellesley, 1760-1842, 

elder brother of the Duke of Wellington, Governor General 

of India 1797, 1st Marquis Wellesley 1799) 


date but 1786 - 1789, laid down 

[SD51716]£35 

624. GRAHAM (James, 1755-1836, K.G., Marquis, later 

3rd Duke of Montrose), ELIOT (Hon. Edward James, 

1758-1797, brother-in-law of Pitt the younger) and 

AUBREY (Sir John, 1739-1826, 6th Bart. of Llantrithyd) 


date but 1786 - 1789, laid down 

[SD51717]£40 

625. GREY (Charles, 1764-1845, second Earl Grey, 

Viscount Howick, and Baron Grey, Statesman) 

Fine signature as “Howick” from the end of Autograph 

Letter Signed inscribed, Your most humble and obedient 

servant laid down, slightly spotted [SD27232]£35 

626. GRIGG (Edward William Macleay, 1879-1955, First 

Baron Altrincham, Politician) 

Fine signature as Altrincham traces of mount on verso 

[SD27226]£30 

627. HALIFAX (George Montagu, d. 1739, from 1714 

Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, from 1715 Earl of 

Halifax) 

Signature on a fragment of a Treasury document, for a 

payment including interest of £89 15s 10d, as Auditor, 

approximately 2” x 6”, 30th June 1738, [SD51677]£15 

FOUNDER OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND 

628. HALIFAX (Charles Montagu, 1661-1715, K.G., 

established the Bank of England, from 1700 1st Baron, 

from 1714 1st Earl), ONSLOW (Sir Richard, 1654-1717, 

Speaker, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1714-1715), St. 

QUINTIN (Sir William, circa 1660-1723, 2nd Bart.), and 

WORTLEY (Edward, d. 1761, later Wortley-Montagu, 

Ambassador to Constantinople, 1716, husband (1712) of 

Lady Mary, the writer and promoter of inculation) 

Signatures from a Document as Lords of the Treasury, 3½” 

x 2¾”, no date. but 1714 - 1715, laid down [SD51663]£175 

Halifax had been Auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer, 1700-1714 

and was now 1st Lord of the Treasury. As a Lord of the Treasury 

in 1692 his proposal to borrow £1,000,000 from the public in 

return for Life Annuities originated the National Debt; and in 1694 

he moved the Bill establishing the Bank of England. Among his 

other measures were the great recoinage of 1696, and the 

consolidated fund to bring together the various loans to 

government. Edward Wortley so signs his name. His father 

Sydney Montagu, son of the Earl of Sandwich, had changed his 

name to Wortley on marriage, but he and Edward later resumed 

the ‘Montagu’. Edward’s daughter married the Marquess of Bute, 

the Prime Minister. 

629. HASTINGS (Warren, 1732-1818, Governor-General 

of India) 

Signature and autograph wording on a cheque form to pay 

£30 to Mr. Josua Patrick, with a striking portrait of 

Hastings by George Stubbs , engraved by his son George 

Townely Stubbs, 4½” x 5½” in margins 8¾” x 6¼”, 

Marylebone, 30th April 1795, the cheque drawn on Messrs 

Gosling, 19 Fleet Street, London, 17th May 1794, the two 

laid down together [51740]£225 

Warren Hastings was impeached on the grounds of corruption and 

cruelty in his Indian Administration. This trial of 145 days ended 

with his acquittal but cost him £70,000.


630. HALLÉ (Sir Charles, 1819-1895, Conductor, 

Founder of the Hallé Orchestra) 

Signature 

[SD26873]£10 

631. HALLOWES (Odette, née Bailly, 1912-1995, 

French-born Resistance Agent) 

Signature sticker laid down on card [SD27075]£25 

632. HELENA (1846-1923, Princess of Schleswig- 

Holstein, 3rd Daughter of Queen Victoria) 

Fine signature and inscription, on Cumberland Lodge paper 

traces of mount at corners of verso [SD27138]£30 

633. HERBERT (Victor, 1859-1924, Irish-born American 

Cellist and Composer of Operettas) 

Signature and inscription, with a broken chord of C Major, 

on card 2¼” x 3½”, no place, no date, circa 1900, faint 

trace of laying down on blank verso [52517]£250 

Herbert also wrote ‘Natoma’ (1911), one of the best American 

grand operas, besides the musical scores for the Ziegfeld follies of 

1919, 1921 and 1924. 

634. JERSEY (George Bussy Villiers, 1735-1805, Vice- 

Chamberlain of the Household 1765, 4th Earl of Jersey, 

husband of the Prince of Wales’ mistress) 

Signature on verso of an Order under the Privy Seal, 

requiring the Exchequer to pay him “£302 2s 5¾, without 

Account, for 21 days and one Quarter of a Year”, 2 sides 

7¼” x 9½”, the order dated 21st February 1770, lacks lower 

half 

[SD51706]£65 

635. JOACHIM (Joseph, 1831-1907, Hungarian Violinist 

& Composer) 

Signature taken from Autograph Letter Signed with 

subscription, Most truly yours 

[SD27068]£75 

636. KERBELA (Saied Mandhi Saied Sannef Saied 

Salleh, Caliph of) 

Signature in Arabic and English, on card, with two 

photographs 4¼” x 3¼” and 3¼” x 2¼”, showing him full 

or nearly full length, in turban and long coat with 

embroidered hems, and two attendants, in his courtyard, 

Kerbela, Iraq, 18th January 1905, the photos laid down on 

an album leaf, with identification by Miss Franklin, 

daughter of Col. D.F. Franklin, traces of tabs on verso of 

card and on album leaf [52476]£225 

Kerbela and Nejef are the sacred cities of the Shi’ite Muslims, 

west of the Middle Euphrates, and contain the golden mausoleums 

of Hussein (‘Ali’s son, murdered in 680 AD) and ‘Ali himself (the 

Prophet’s son-in-law, killed 661 AD). To be buried near them 

was a sure entry to paradise. Kerbela was a hereditary and 

virtually independent caliphate till 1843 when, after intense 

bombardment, it submitted to Turkish administration. The caliph 

is a direct descendant of the Prophet. 

637. KERR (Deborah, b.1921, British Actress) 

Signature and inscription on the verso of a sheet headed 

“British Legion (Uganda)” , with a pencilled note (by Louis 

B. Frewer of the Oxford Playhouse Guild) that it was 

signed “on location ... making ... ‘King Solomon’s Mines’ 

”, Uganda, 1949 [52099]£30 

638. LANDOR (Walter Savage, 1775-1864, Poet, 

Playwright & Critic) 

Signature taken from Autograph Letter Signed, Yours very 

truly slightly faded 

[SD27202]£50 

639. LANKESTER (Sir Edwin Ray, 1847-1929, 

Zoologist) 

Autograph note signed, Many thanks for nautilus 

references, Tuesday July 16th 1895 [SD27235]£20 

640. LAWRENCE (T.[homas] E.[dward] 1888-1935, 

‘Lawrence of Arabia’ British soldier, scholar and author of 

‘The Seven Pillars of Wisdom’) 

Fine signature “T. E. Lawrence” dated in pencil in another 

hand, 1920, very slight foxing 

[SD30672]£975 

At the height of his career before he changed his name. 

641. LYALL (Sir Charles J., 1845-1920, F.B.A., Judge 

and Chief Commissioner in Assam, then Central Provinces, 

translator of Arabic poems) 

Signature and address taken from Autograph Letter Signed, 

“53 Harley Street, London” April 24th 1865 [SD27066]£25 

642. LYVEDEN (Robert Vernon Smith, 1800-1873, M.P., 

from 1859 1st Baron) 

Address panel signed to the Duke of Richmond at 9 

Cavendish Square, no date, circa 1835 [SD19075]£15 

Vernon Smith was President of the Board of Control (of India) 

under Palmerston, 1855-1858. 

643. MACAULAY (Thomas Babington, Lord, 1800- 

1859, Poet and Statesman) 

Signature from Autograph Letter Signed [SD27115]£10 

644. MANCHESTER (Robert Montagu, circa 1710-1762, 

Lord of the Bedchamber 1739-1761, from1739 3rd Duke) 

Signature from a document, April 1759 [SD51701]£50 

645. MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH (Grand Duke, 1861- 

1929, grandson of Nicholas I) 

Signature in English from the end of a letter, no date, circa 

1900 [SD50381]£35 

Though of Alexander III’s generation, the Mikhailoviches were 

close in age and friendship to Nicholas II. 

646. MORE (Hannah, 1745-1833, Evangelical Writer) 

Autograph Address Sheet, unsigned, with her name above 

the address of a letter addressed to Lord Radstock at 

Portland Place, marked “2y Post” in another hand, and 

stamped ‘TwoPy Post Unpaid Chas. St Westmr.’, 1 side 

4to., postmark neatly divided on opening, 5th March 1813 

[50919]£35 

Lord Radstock (1753-1825, Admiral, 3rd in command at St. 

Vincent) worked with Mrs More for many years. She would write 

to him if he was within reach of the Twopenny Post, to be paid on 

delivery. For her handwriting, see e.g. BL Add 42511 ff. 2-5. 

647. NEAGLE (Dame Anna, 1904-1986, Actress) 

Signature on piece, no date, circa 1940 [SD18616]£10


648. NAPIER OF MAGDALA (Robert Cornelis, 1810- 

1890, Field-Marshal, from 1868 1st Baron) 

Signature from the end of a letter, circa 1870, together 

with Lord Napier’s cartoon portrait in colour by ‘Spy’, 

showing him three-quarter length in civilian dress, from 

‘Vanity Fair’, 1 side 14½” x 9½”, 20th April 1878, light 

traces of laying down on versos 

[SD50384]£95 

Lord Napier served many years in India, excelling in military and 

civil engineering, C-in-C India 1870. He took his title from the 

Abyssinian expedition of 1867. 

FOR CHRIST’S HOSPITAL 

649. NEWCASTLE (Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1693-1768, 

Prime Minister 1754-1756 and 1757-1762, Lord Privy Seal 

July 1765 - July 1766, from 1715 1st Duke) 

Signature on fragment of an Order under the Privy Seal to 

the Exchequer, in Latin, for payment of £185 5s to Thomas 

Smith, for whom E. Wilford has power of attorney, in 

connection with the boys of Christ’s Hospital, 1 side 4¾” x 

4¼”, titled “Xts Hospital” on verso, no date. but 1765 - 

1766 [SD51703]£95 

The payee may well be the Writing Master at Christ’s Hospital. 

The Thomas Smith who held that post in 1749 prepared Warren 

Hastings as a day boy for the East India Company (see Pearce’s 

Annals, 1908, p. 66). Such private pupils were allowed to join the 

boarders’ classes. 

The text mentions a computation “at 19s”, of which 195 would 

make the sum mentioned. With two different clerks’ proxy 

signatures ‘Henley’ for Robert, Lord Henley, later 2nd Earl of 

Northington, Teller of the Exchequer. 

650. NEWCASTLE (Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1693-1768, 

Prime Minister 1754-1756 and 1757-1762, Lord Privy Seal 

July 1765 - July 1766, from 1715 1st Duke) 

Signature on fragment of an Order under the Privy Seal to 

the Exchequer, in Latin, for a payment of £15 16s 8d, 1 

side 4½” x 3¾”, April no year but 1766, laid down 

[SD51704]£75 

With two different clerks’ proxy signatures ‘Hardwicke’ for Philip 

Yorke, (1720-1790, from 1764 2nd Earl of Hardwicke), Teller of 

the Exchequer. 

651. NIGHTINGALE (Florence, 1820-1910, Nurse & 

Hospital Reformer) 

Autograph envelope in pencil, not signed, addressed to 

“Mrs Verney or Miss F. Verney, 92 Onslow Gardens or 6 

Onslow Gardens”, marked “Immediate” at the head 

together with a typed noted of authenticity signed by her 

Great Nephew Harry C. W. Verney, with the place Claydon 

and date 11th December 1968, the envelope is dated 12th 

June 1892 

[SD25986]£175 

Written when she was 72 

652. NORTH (Frederick, Lord, 2nd Earl Guilford, 1732- 

1792, Prime Minister), ONSLOW (Hon. George, 1st Earl, 

1731-1814, Politician) and CORNWALL (Charles 

Wolfran, 1735-1789, from 1780 Speaker) 


Treasury, signed also by Henry Fiennes Clinton, 1720- 

1794, from 1768 2nd Duke of NEWCASTLE, as Auditor of 

the Receipt of the Exchequer, 1 side 8¾” x 3¾” (max.), 

19th October 1774 

[SD51711]£75 

653. NOEL (Roden Berkeley Wriothesley, 1834-1894, 

Poet) 

Signature from the end of a letter, no place, no date, circa 

1890 [SD18638]£15 

654. O’SHEA (Tessie, British Music Hall Singer) 

Fine signature & inscription “Sincerely”, on cartoon card 

picturing two women with a caption, “Of course he’ll 

always be my favourite movie act, but i’ve never decided I 

don’t want to marry him”, June 22nd 1953 [SD26754]£15 

655. ONSLOW (George, 1731-1814, Baron, 1776, and 

1st Earl 1801) and DYSON (Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Clerk 

of the House of Commons, 1748) 


date but 1768 - 1774 

[SD51708]£75 

Onslow, son of Speaker Onslow, was embroiled in the controversy 

over John Wilkes, and moved that his re-election for Middlesex in 

1769 be declared invalid. He was present at the secret marriage of 

the Prince of Wales to Mrs Fitzherbert in 1785. 

Dyson “was nicknamed ‘Mungo’ (the ubiquitous negro slave in 

Isaac Bickerstaffe’s ‘Padlock’) from his omnipresence in 

parliamentary business” (DNB). He discontinued the practice of 

selling the subordinate clerkships in his office. He was a friend of 

the novelist Richardson and settled a pension on Mark Akenside, 

the poet and physician. 

656. ORFORD (Robert Walpole, d. 1751, son of the 

Prime Minister, from 1739 Auditor of the Receipt of the 

Exchequer, from 1721 Baron Walpole, from 1745 2nd Earl) 

Signature ‘Orford’ on a fragment of an Exchequer 

document for payment of £125, 1 side 1¾” x 6”, 1747 

[SD51683]£45 

With a clerk’s proxy signature ‘Walpole’ for Horatio, 1678-1757, 

brother of the Prime Minister, Ambassador at The Hague, 1733- 

1740, from 1741 Teller of the Exchequer, from 1756 Baron 

Walpole of Wolterton. As usual, the Teller’s ‘signature’ is the 

surname only, although not yet a peer. 

657. PAGET (Sir James, 1814-1899, Surgeon) 

Signature and inscription from the end of Autograph Letter 

Signed, I am truly yours 

[SD26889]£15 

658. PALMERSTON (Henry John Temple, 1784-1865, 

Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, 3rd Viscount) 

Autograph envelope signed, marked ‘Private’ and 

addressed to the Earl of Clarendon at the Foreign Office, 

mounted with a National Portrait Gallery photograph of a 

painting by Frederick Cruickshank [SD21959]£35 

659. PELHAM (Hon. Henry, circa 1695-1754, from 1743 


Signature on a fragment of a document as a Lord of the 

Treasury no date but 1721 - 1724 laid down, defects at top 

touching three letters of signature [SD51668]£50 

While the political power was in the hands of his brother the Duke 

of Newcastle, Pelham had a good head for business and finance. 

660. POWER (Tyrone, 1913-1958, American leading 

man) 

Signature on album leaf, inscribed Sincerly [SD27217]£95


661. QUILLER-COUCH (Sir Arthur Thomas, 1863- 

1944, Professor of English Literature at Cambridge) 

Signature and inscription 

[SD27005]£12 

662. RACHMANINOFF (Sergei, 1873-1943, Russian 

Composer & Pianist) 

Excellent signature on card, with a small photo inset, dated 

in pencil, 4th November 1929 

[SD30671]£300 

663. RANJITSINGHI (Prince, 1872-1933, Maharajah of 

Nawangar, Indian Cricketer) 

Exceptional signature “Ranjitsinghi of Nawangar” on card 

dated in another hand, 2nd August 1930 [SD30653]£225 

664. ROBESON (Paul, 1898-1976, American Singer & 

Actor) 

Fine signature & inscription “Many good wishes”, on an 

album leaf, August 23rd 1931 

[SD27054]£70 

665. ROCHFORD (William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 

1717-1781, K.G., Ambassador to Turin 1749-1755, later to 

Madrid and Paris, from 1738 4th Earl of Rochford) and 

BEDFORD (John Russell, 1710-1771, K.G., Secretary of 

State 1748-1751, from 1732 4th Duke) 

Signature ‘Rochford’ on a fragment of a Bill totalling £100 

1 side 4¾” x 5”, Turin, 17th / 28th November 1750, and 

allowed by the Duke of Bedford on 26th February 1751 

(old calendar), new style calendar 1752 [SD51689]£100 

666. RUSSELL (Lord John, 1st Earl, 1792-1878, Prime 

Minister) 

Signature with some text from an Autograph Letter Signed 

glue marks at corners 

[SD26749]£15 

667. SANDYS (Samuel, circa 1695-1770, Chancellor of 

the Exchequer 1742-1743, 1st Baron), RUSHOUT (Sir 

John, 1684-1775, father of the House of Commons when he 

retired in 1768, 4th Bart.) and GYBBON (Phillips, 

Surveyor General 1726-1730) 


date. but 1742 - 1743, laid down 

[SD51679]£75 

668. SANDYS (Samuel, circa 1695-1770, Chancellor of 

the Exchequer 1742-1743, from 1743 1st Baron), 

COMPTON (Hon. George, 1692-1758, M.P. for 

Northampton 1727-1754, from 1754 6th Earl of 

Northampton), RUSHOUT (Sir John, 1684-1775, father 

of the House of Commons when he retired in 1768, 4th 

Bart.) and GYBBON (Phillips, Surveyor General 1726- 

1730, Lord of the Treasury 1742-1744) 

Signatures on a fragment of a document as Lords of the 

Treasury, 1 side 7” x 3¾”, 7th April 1743, a little light 

marking from damp, small internal tear in blank portion 

[SD51681]£65 

The document is for future repayment, out of the duty on brandy 

levied since Michaelmas 1736, of a loan to the Exchequer. With 

clerks’ proxy signatures ‘Walpole’ for Robert Walpole, d. 1751, 

1st Baron Walpole and 2nd Earl of Orford (1745), as Auditor of 

the Receipt of the Exchequer from 1739, and ‘Townshend’ for the 

Hon. Thomas Townshend, circa 1702-1780, 2nd son of the 2nd 

Viscount, as Teller of the Exchequer from 1727. 

669. SARGENT (Sir Malcolm, 1895-1967, Conductor) 

Fine signature, 

[SD26976]£30 

670. SEBRIGHT (William, 1541-1620, Town Clerk of 

London 1574-1609) 

Signature ‘Sebright’ on a fragment of a document, 1 side 

2½” x 7¾”, no place, 1602 [SD51618]£75 

The Town Clerk is the highest non-elected official of the 

Corporation of London. Sebright had a large house in Lombard 

Street, and another amid 20 acres in Bethnal Green, then in the 

country, with a conduit that sent fresh water to Broad Street. With 

the Bethnal Green property he endowed the Sebright School at his 

birthplace Wolverley, near Kidderminster, which continued till 

about 1970. William was a younger brother of Edward, ancestor 

of the Sebright baronets. 

As is normal with high-ranking Clerks, the document is signed 

with the surname only. We are grateful to Juliet Bankes, City 

Archives Manager, for her help with this note and in matching the 

signature. 

671. SELWYN (George Augustus, 1719-1791, Paymaster 

of the Works, M.P. and Wit) 

Signature on fragment of an Order to the Exchequer to pay 

him £40,000 “for the Service of His Majesty’s Works”, 1 

side 2” x 6¾”, 5th February 1772 [SD51707]£75 

Selwyn was obsessive about ensuring that letters he wrote were 

destroyed - he was always afraid they might be read aloud at some 

salon and a trifling point held up to ridicule. His letters to the 5th 

Earl of Carlisle at Castle Howard were published by the 

Commission for Historic Manuscripts, Report 15, Appendix 6 

(1897), and a selection of these in ‘George Selwyn: His letters 

and life’ (1899). ‘George Augustus Selwyn and France: 

Unpublished Correspondence’, ed. Rex A. Barrell (1990), gathers 

some scattered letters, but otherwise we have not found anything 

published, and there are only one or two at the British Library. 

John Heneage Jesse’s 4 volumes, 1843-1844, contain only letters 

to him. 

Selwyn nearly adopted ‘Mie-Mie’, the daughter of the Marquis 

and Marquise Fagniani, whose real father may have been the Duke 

of Queensberry. 

672. SHIRLEY (Sir Robert, 1629-1656, Royalist, co-heir 

to the Barony of Ferrers, 4th Bart.) 

Splendid signature ‘Robert Shirley s[enio]r’ and autograph 

note from a document, saying “I have examined this 

account, and allow thereof as I do hereby signify under my 

hand”, 1 side 2” x 5”, no place, no date, circa 1655, laid 

down by two margins [51751]£775 

In 1653 Sir Robert built the well known church at Staunton Harold 

in Leicestershire, one of the few built during the Commonwealth. 

An inscription on the church reads ‘He did the best of things in the 

worst of times and hoped them in the most calamitous’. He was 

imprisoned many times as a Royalist. In 1656 arms were found in 

his dwelling and he was taken to the Tower where he died. 

Charles II in exile wrote his widow an expressive letter of 

sympathy. 

For this rare signature, not in the British Library, see Stemmata 

Shirleiana, 1841. His son, Robert junior, was born in 1650 and 

was the father of the first Earl Ferrers. 

673. SIM (Alastair, 1900-1976, Scottish comedy actor) 

Fine signature and inscription, With pleasure 

[SD27043]£75


674. SMITH (Albert Richard, 1816-1860, Author & 

Lecturer) 

Autograph ticket, Royal College of Surgeons Huntarian 

Museum, Admit Two 

[SD27049]£30 

675. SMYTH (J.), PYBUS (Charles Small) and 

THYNNE (Lord George) Lords of the Treasury. 

Signatures from a document as 1 side 2¼” x 2½”, no date, 

circa 1801 

[SD51719]£25 

676. SPENDER (Sir Stephen, b. 1909, Poet & Critic) 

Fine signature on album leaf, Maida Vale, May 6th 1951 

[SD27048]£35 

677. STANHOPE (James, 1673-1721, Soldier and 

Statesman, 1st Viscount 1717, 1st Earl 1718) 

Signature on fragment of a document as Secretary of State, 

1 side 1½” x 6”, Whitehall, 28th September 1715 

[SD51664]£125 

During the War of the Spanish Succession, Stanhope played an 

important part as Colonel of Foot Guards under Marlborough and 

in Spain, being a prisoner of the French for two years. On his 

release he worked hard to support the Hanoverian succession, and 

had chief charge of suppressing the rising of 1715. 

678. STORRS (Sir Ronald, 1881-1955, Orientalist) 

Good signature, 8th November 1947 [SD27208]£15 

679. STRAVINSKY (Igor, 1882-1971, Composer) 

Fine signature with place and date on a card, London, 13th 

March 1933 

[SD30687]£225 

680. STRICKLAND (Agnes, 1796-1874, Poet) 

Fine signature and subscription taken from an Autograph 

Letter Signed 

[SD26971]£25 

681. TAFT (William Howard, 1857-1930, 27th President 

of the USA) 

Fine signature on card, 4” x 2”, no place, no date, circa 

1910 [SD31058]£375 

Although this signature is not dated it came from a collection 

which had all been assembled at about this time, so it may be that 

it was signed as President. 

682. TROLLOPE (Anthony, 1815-1882, Novelist) 

Fine signature on part of a sheet of headed paper, signed 

again on the verso, with a small contemporary magazine 

image 

[SD26485]£225 

683. TUPPER (Martin Farquhar, 1810-1889, F.R.S., 

Writer and Inventor) 

Signature on a fragment of a letter to Mr Mathison, about 

keeping a fern “in the coldest East corner you can find, as 

any coddling will kill it”, no place, no date, circa 1860 

[SD50773]£20 

Tupper’s ‘Proverbial Philosophy’, which came out in four series 

from 1839 to 1867, was at first thought by the American writer 

N.P. Willis to be a work of the 17th century. Tupper began 

expressing his love for his wife in the manner of Solomon’s 

Proverbs, whence his articles on Marriage, Love, Friendship, and 

so on. 

684. VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain) 

Signature and inscription from a document “App[rove]d 

Victoria R”, with a cabinet photo by Webster of London, 

circa 1900, of the Queen’s attractive portrait, as engraved 

by B.P. Gibbon after William Fowler the elder, 1838, 

showing her head and shoulders, décolletée, nearly full 

face, with coronet and garter star, and wearing an ermine 

tippet, mounted in an oval from a Victorian photo album, 

and framed circa 1900 with the signature below, 12” x 10”, 

the signature circa 1850 [52113]£225 

Underlying the inscription, faintly pencilled, are the words “[H]ere 

Her Majesty will graciously be pleased to [si]gnify her 

commands”. The engraving is a fine copy of the portrait now at 

Windsor, differing only in that the top of the dress is in simple 

folds rather than fine embroidery. 

685. WILLIAM IV (1765-1837, King of Great Britain) 

Autograph address panel signed as ‘Clarence’, to “Lady 

Smith, Romford Essex” 1816, laid down [SD27192]£65 

686. WILLIAMSON (Sir Adam, 1736-1798, Lieutenant- 

General in the Engineers, Governor of Jamaica) 

Signature on fragment of accounts, no place, no date, circa 

1775 [SD20045]£10 

687. WINNINGTON (Thomas, 1696-1746, Treasurer of 

the Admiralty, 1736-1741, Cofferer of the Household, 

1741-1743, Paymaster General of the Forces, 1743-1746) 

and EARLE (Giles, circa 1678-1758, Colonel and M.P., 

Chairman of Committees of Elections 1727-1741, wit and 

boon companion of Walpole) 


date, but 1737 - 1741, trimmed just touching loops in 

signatures, laid down 

[SD51678]£35 

688. WOLSELEY (Sir Garnet Wolseley, 1833-1913, 

Field Marshal and Writer, 1st Viscount) 

Signature, addressed in his hand to his wife 

[SD26743]£25 

689. SYDNEY (Henry, 1641-1704, Viscount 1689 and 

Earl of Romney, 1694, Envoy to the Hague, Partisan of 

William III) 

Signature on portion of a Bill submitted to the Lords of the 

Treasury, detailing his expenses, including £115 “at the rate 

of £5 per diem ... being the same that is allowed by the 

States Generall to the Heer van Amerong[en] their Envoy 

for the same voyage”, also £27 10s for “Waggons, Post 

horses and coach horses, ships, boats: Porters: &c”, van 

Amerongen was allowed double, and £20 “Interest of mony 

borrowed for the above occasions”, 2 sides 2¾” x 6½”, 

Whitehall, 12th November 1691, lacking top and bottom 

portions 

[SD51641]£125 

Sydney adds below his signature “This Bill is all for Extraordinary 

Services, except the last Article”. Sydney was known as “the 

handsomest man of his time”. 

690. ZOG I (Ahmed Bey Zogu, 1895-1961, King of 

Albania 1928-1939, and his Queen, GERALDINE , b. 

1915, née Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi) 

Fine pair of signatures on card, no date circa 1960 

[SD19861]£425

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