Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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December 19
ON THIS DAY
On this day in1790 William Parry was born. He was an English rear-admiral and Arctic explorer. His 1819 voyage through the Parry Channel was probably the most successful in the long quest for the Northwest Passage. In 1827 he attempted one of the earliest expeditions to the North Pole.
In 1783 William Pitt the Younger became the youngest ever British Prime Minister at the age of 24. He left office in 1801, but was Prime Minister again from 1804 until his death in 1806. He was also the Chancellor of the Exchequer throughout his premiership.
PARRY (Sir William E., 1790-1855, Admiral, Arctic Explorer)
Autograph note signed with initials to T. Crofton CROKER (1798-1854, Irish Folklorist & Antiquary, friend of Tom Moore, Clerk of the Admiralty), sending him “A minute for Mr Wood’s consideration. A letter for the postage. A letter to answer. A letter to put by. A letter to frank. One for the post ...” and thanking him for “two days abstracts of business”, 1 side 8vo., with autograph address leaf, no place, 6th February 1837
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PITT (William, ‘The Younger’, 1759-1806, Prime Minister 1783-1801 & 1804-1806)
Autograph Letter in the Third Person as Prime Minister to Lord Amherst, (Jeffrey AMHERST, 1717-1797, Commander-in-Chief, North America, 1758-1763, of the Forces, 1778-1782 & 1793-1795, from 1776 1st Baron of Holmesdale, and from 1778 ‘of Montreal’, captured by him in 1760), taking “the Liberty of sending him an Application [not present] from Mr Cawthorn Member for Lancaster, in favor of his Brother and will be very glad if Circumstances will admit of Lord Amherst attending to it”, 1 side 4to and endorsed on receipt on conjugate leaf, Downing Street, 12th July 1794
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