Date Published: 1911 Binding: No binding LADY ABERDEEN GIFTING A DOG "PETER" TO LADY LAURIER Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, Autograph Letter Signed, 4 pages, dated June 30, 1911, from Hotel Great Central N.W., on "Vice Regal Lodge, Dublin" letterhead. The present letter is addressed to Wilfrid Laurier, who was apparently in..... More
Date Published: ND Binding: Holgraph Letter from Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns to Benjamin Disraeli. One page, 7-1/4 x 4-1/2 inches. On House of Lords blind embossed letterhead. Dated 16 March. Most happy to accept an invitation from Disraeli ‘en garçon' as his wife will not be in..... More
Date Published: 1854 Binding: No binding Holograph Letter from Spencer Horatio Walpole to Benjamin Disraeli. Two pages, 7-1/8 x 4-7/8 inches. Ealing Jan.17, 1854. Arranging a meeting for the next day. Spencer Horatio Walpole was a British Conservative Party politician who served three times as Home Secretary in the administrations..... More
Date Published: ND Binding: No binding Holograph Letter from John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst to Benjamin Disraeli. One page, 4-1/4 x 3-1/2 inches. Dated June 13, no year. Arranging a meeting. ‘Am I to congratulate you? In March they say!‘ John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst was a British..... More
Date Published: ND Binding: No binding Holograph Letter from Lord Westbury to Benjamin Disraeli. Two pages, 7-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches. On black embossed type letterhead with black perimiter, Upper Hyde Park Gardens. Dated July 15th. (no year) Anticipating a time to meet, and noting that he had returned to the..... More
Date Published: 1897 Binding: No binding Holograph letter. Two page, 3-3/4 x 6 inches. Melrose, Norwood, dated 9 February 1897. Sending along the autograph of Mr. Manns, promising one of Fanny Davies and requesting the opportunity to see his collection ”as I am interested in autographs." Alfred James Eyre was..... More
Date Published: 1895 Binding: No binding Holograph letter. One page, 4-1/2 x 7 inches. Blind embossed type 10 St. Peter's Square, Ravenscourt Park letterhead. Dated February 22, 1895. Regretting that he cannot attend Miss Phelps’ concert. Probably Miss Laura B. Phelps violin virtuoso. Alfred Bishop was a British actor. Bishop..... More
Date Published: 1897 Binding: Autograph letter signed. Two pages, 6 x 4-1/2 inches, on 12 Cavendish Road, St. John's Wood blue embossed type letterhead. Dated Feb[ruary] 16, [18]97. Enclosing a cheque for the amount due. Frances "Fanny" Whiteside Brough was a Paris-born British stage actress who came from a...... More
Date Published: 1897 Binding: No binding Holograph 2pp. letter to to Miss Phelps. Two pages, 6 x 3-3/4 inches. 22 Avenue Road, Regent's Park [London] letterhead. Dated Aug. 8, [18]97. Asking a friend (probably Miss Laura B. Phelps violin virtuoso), to check with her uncle the recommendation of a book..... More
Date Published: [1840] Binding: No binding Autograph letter signed. One page. 9 x 7-1/2 inches. British Consulate (Boston) Dated January 8th [circa 1840]. Some paper edges bend wrinkled, otherwise good condition. Written in third person by Grattan to John R. Mills Esq. Boston following up on an inquiry concerning Thomas..... More
Date Published: 1897 Binding: No binding Autograph letter signed. Three pages, Flat size: 7-7/8 x 6 inches, now folded to 6 x 4 inches on small blind embossed 18 Berkeley Square letterhead. Dated July 28, 1897. Thanking the recipient for a copy of his book, gratefully received. Sir Squire Bancroft..... More
Date Published: 1846 Binding: No binding BROUGHAM CONTINUES HIS FIGHT AGAINST SLAVERY! Holograph 4pp. letter. Flat 7 x 8-7/8 inches folded to 7 x 4-1/4 inches. Dated 22 June 1846. To an unnamed recipient. It reads: "My dear Mr.P... Again, I am at your feet for aid - on Wednesday..... More
Date Published: [1785] Binding: No binding Holograph letter signed, two pages 9-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches, undated circa 1785, to his aunt Juliana French, (nèe Burke) [1728-1790], the sister of Edmund Burke. Letter refers to a trip with his father and a payment of 50£ to his cousin Capt Nagle. Light..... More
Date Published: 1878 Binding: Autograph letter signed. One page, 7 x 4-1/2 inches mounted to card. Dated June 20, 1878. To W.E. Gladstone (4 time British Prime MInister). Acknowledging receipt of a letter with enclosure concerning the case of Mrs. Weldon. Signed "Shaftesbury" The reference to the case of..... More
Date Published: 1852 Binding: No binding Holograph letter. One page, 6-3/4 x 4-3/8 inches. Dated Wednesday March 24, 1852. To an unnamed correspondent "I will at once announce the Model of a Wife for Friday night in place of Pauline” Charles John Kean was an English actor-manager best known for..... More
Date Published: 1881 Binding: No binding Autograph letter signed. One page, 7 x 4-1/2 inches. Dated 15 April [18]81. Authenticating a letter by noting "the letter is genuine...[noting] ...his request for the watch is so like him." Signed ”C.G. Gordon" Letter was folded, now flat and some wrinkles, otherwise in..... More
Date Published: 1888 Binding: No binding Holograph letter signed. Three pages Flat 8 x 9-3/4 inches folded to 8 x 4-7/8 inches. Dated King's College Hospital, February 2, 1888. Acknowledging in flowery language, the great honor that Sir Frederick Young has just received from the Queen. Mosse Macdonald was Secretary..... More
Date Published: 1888 Binding: No binding Holograph letter signed. Two pages, 7 x 4-1/2 inches. Dated Clapton House, Stratford-on-Avon. January 27, 1888. A letter of congratulations on the recent honor Sir Frederick Young has received, noting it was long over-due. Sir Arthur Hodgson Anglo-Australian pioneer, squatter, politician and squire. Hodgson..... More
Date Published: 1882 Binding: No binding Holograph letter signed to Sir Frederick Young. One page, 7-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches. Dated Balmoral, June 16, 1882. Acknowledging and sending thanks for sending a paragraph that the Queen has read. Major-General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby was a British soldier and royal court official..... More
Date Published: 1876 Binding: No binding Two 3pp. holograph letters from John Forbes Watson to Frederick Young #1) Autograph letter signed. Three pages, Flat 9 x 7-1/4 inches, folded to 4-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches on India Office blind embossed logo letterhead, dated 4 January, 1876. To Sir Frederick Young. Thanking..... More
Date Published: [1834] Binding: No binding Signature of Warwick Lake, 3rd Viscount Lake on a Free-franked 5 x 3 inch envelope trimmed front Viscount Lake, of Delhi and Laswary and of Aston Clinton in the County of Buckingham, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The peerage..... More
Date Published: ND Binding: No binding Signature of François Paul Jules Grévy on a small 3-3/4 x 2-3/8 inches sentiment card Jules Grévy was President of France from 1879 to 1887, and one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republican faction. Given that his predecessors were monarchists who tried without..... More
Date Published: ND Binding: No binding Signature of Thomas Edward (Banff) 3-7/8 x 1-1/4 inches mounted on a larger sheet Thomas Edward was a Scottish naturalist born in Gosport. He was trained as a shoemaker and eventually settled in Banff, where he devoted his leisure to the study of animal..... More
Date Published: ND Binding: No binding Signature of Henry Charles George, Viscount Lascelles and Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood cut from a larger document 6 x 3-1/2 inches. Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, KG, GCVO, DSO, TD, JP, DL styled The Honourable Henry Lascelles..... More
Date Published: ND Binding: No binding Signature of Sir Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi at the end of a cut section of an 4-1/2 x 3 inch paper ALS. Sir Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi (better known as Anthony Panizzi), was a naturalised British librarian of Italian birth and an Italian patriot..... More