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AUTOGRAPHS: 18th and 19th-Century. A collection of twenty-one autograph letters signed and letters and documents signed by royalty, statesmen and politicians, 1750-1840, including:
GEORGE III. Letter signed (at the head, 'George R'), to the President and Senators of the College of Justice [in Edinburgh], St James's, 5 April 1809, 2 pages, folio, papered seal; GEORGE IV. Autograph letter signed (as Prince, aged thirteen) to the Earl of Holderness, London, 10 February 1775, describing an eruption during a discussion of America in the House of Lords when Lord Shelburne interrupted Lord Mansfield, putting the house into 'a hubub', 1½ pages, 4to, address leaf, seal; WILLIAM IV. Six autograph letters signed (as Duke of Clarence, 'William P'), including five to an unidentified peer, British Headquarters, Deal and Impregnable (at Boulogne Roads), 6 February - 1 June 1814 and one to Viscount Exmouth, Admiralty, 7 June 1827, mainly the arrangements to bring the allied sovereigns to England after Napoleon's first abdication, together 19 pages, 4to, one envelope.
other signatories including:
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of WELLINGTON (a receipt for £1176:10:9 for his pay as Field Marshal and Commander of the Forces with six aides-de-camp, printed with manuscript insertions, 25 April 1818), Henry VANE. Document signed (a warrant to pay Augustus Schutz, Master of the Robes [to George II], for one quarter's expenses, 1750); Admiral Edward BOSCAWEN (appointing Richard Bickerston to command the Aetna, 1758); and autograph letters signed by: CHARLOTTE, Queen of George III, to Lady Harcourt, (recommending some face powder, 1813); Lord George GORDON (after 'another day's business in the King's Bench' [in his trial after the Gordon Riots], 1781?); William PITT the Younger (to his mother, confirming Bonaparte's arrival at Alexandria, 'and [it] leaves us in entire suspense as to Nelson', 1798); Henry John Temple, Viscount PALMERSTON (to Count Sebastiani, on the need to increase the English fleet, with a list of the French Mediterranean fleet 1840); Charles Stewart PARNELL (supporting an enquiry into compulsory vaccination, and pronouncing sceptically on the House of Commons 1840); William WILBERFORCE (to a Commissioner for Tax, and confirming to the importance of 'independent country gentlemen' 1804); and Karl Robert, Count NESSELRODE (4 letters to Lords Strangford and Loftus, in French, on business and personal matters 1823, 1846 and n.d.); together approximately 26 pages, mostly 4to (staining and wear in most). (21)
GEORGE III. Letter signed (at the head, 'George R'), to the President and Senators of the College of Justice [in Edinburgh], St James's, 5 April 1809, 2 pages, folio, papered seal; GEORGE IV. Autograph letter signed (as Prince, aged thirteen) to the Earl of Holderness, London, 10 February 1775, describing an eruption during a discussion of America in the House of Lords when Lord Shelburne interrupted Lord Mansfield, putting the house into 'a hubub', 1½ pages, 4to, address leaf, seal; WILLIAM IV. Six autograph letters signed (as Duke of Clarence, 'William P'), including five to an unidentified peer, British Headquarters, Deal and Impregnable (at Boulogne Roads), 6 February - 1 June 1814 and one to Viscount Exmouth, Admiralty, 7 June 1827, mainly the arrangements to bring the allied sovereigns to England after Napoleon's first abdication, together 19 pages, 4to, one envelope.
other signatories including:
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of WELLINGTON (a receipt for £1176:10:9 for his pay as Field Marshal and Commander of the Forces with six aides-de-camp, printed with manuscript insertions, 25 April 1818), Henry VANE. Document signed (a warrant to pay Augustus Schutz, Master of the Robes [to George II], for one quarter's expenses, 1750); Admiral Edward BOSCAWEN (appointing Richard Bickerston to command the Aetna, 1758); and autograph letters signed by: CHARLOTTE, Queen of George III, to Lady Harcourt, (recommending some face powder, 1813); Lord George GORDON (after 'another day's business in the King's Bench' [in his trial after the Gordon Riots], 1781?); William PITT the Younger (to his mother, confirming Bonaparte's arrival at Alexandria, 'and [it] leaves us in entire suspense as to Nelson', 1798); Henry John Temple, Viscount PALMERSTON (to Count Sebastiani, on the need to increase the English fleet, with a list of the French Mediterranean fleet 1840); Charles Stewart PARNELL (supporting an enquiry into compulsory vaccination, and pronouncing sceptically on the House of Commons 1840); William WILBERFORCE (to a Commissioner for Tax, and confirming to the importance of 'independent country gentlemen' 1804); and Karl Robert, Count NESSELRODE (4 letters to Lords Strangford and Loftus, in French, on business and personal matters 1823, 1846 and n.d.); together approximately 26 pages, mostly 4to (staining and wear in most). (21)
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