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May 30
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1757 Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth was born. He was an English politician who rose to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is best known for obtaining the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, an unfavourable peace with Napoleonic France which marked the end of the Second Coalition during the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1835 Alfred Austin was born. He was an author, poet, and playwright. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour. SIDMOUTH (Viscount, Henry Addington, 1757-1844, Prime Minister) Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent accepting an invitation to join a party and saying he depends "upon your joining mine at six to-morrow. If you could make it convenient to attend the Council on the Commercial Dock's Bill you would oblige Vansittart and myself. Our Solicitude respecting the Plan is solely founded on a Conviction of it's Utility ...", 2 sides 8vo., Baker Street, 30th April 1810, conjugate blank removed 18332 AUSTIN (Alfred, 1835-1913, Poet Laureate) Autograph letter signed to ‘Dear Madam’, thanking her for her “kind & feeling letter” and “the generous impulse that caused you to write it”, namely the news of Clara Schumann’s death, of which they heard while Miss Emily Skinner, (1862-1901, Mrs A.F. Liddell, at age 12 Joachim’s first female pupil), was staying with them, telling how “often & often” she has played “the compositions of Schumann, in which I take the greatest delight”, and recalling “our feelings” at the news, adding “What you tell me of your Husband & your son is also most interesting”, and hoping “you may ... have the double joy of seeing the son edit the Father’s works” and that “you will not fail to let me know”, 4 sides 8vo, Swinford Old Manor, Ashford, Kent, 30th May 1896 53117
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