WEBB
(Beatrice, 1858-1943, Sociologist, Economist and Reformer, wife of Sidney)
Typed letter signed to Mr Lloyd Humberstone
saying that her "husband and I are both of us over righty [sic] years of age and more or less invalided, and feel that we are not the right people to support an application for a Civil List Pension. We were asked by a very distinguished author who was invalided and whom we knew intimately, to make such a recommendation, which we promptly did; but the author, on enquiry as to the likelihood of getting extra Civil Service Pensions during the war did not use our remmendation [sic] as he gathered the list was closed ...", 1 side 8vo., Passfield Corner, Liphook, 2nd July
Item Date:
1942
Stock No:
38827
£55
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WEBB
(Sidney, Lord Passfield, 1859-1947, Social Reformer, Fabian)
Autograph Letter Signed to Levy,
telling him that E. R. Seligman has written from Austria "saying that he would much like to read some of the papers in the recently issued vol 2 of the transactions of the Political Economy Circle of the N.L.C. ... He thinks one may have been sent already to America ..." but wants another, 2 sides 8vo., 41 Grosvenor Road, Westminster Embankment, 23rd July
Item Date:
1896
Stock No:
3635
£35
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THE GREAT AMERICAN ORATOR
WEBSTER
(Daniel, 1782-1852, American Lawyer and Statesman)
Autograph letter signed to John Ramsay M'Culloch,
(1789-1864, the political economist), thanking him "for the copy of your Essay, which I shall read on the passage home. If I should notice any mistakes or errors, into which you may have been led, in respect to the system of Banking in the U States, I may trouble you with a letter .... No one believes more sincerely than I do, in the truth & importance of all the general principles, which I understand you to maintain. I am, with great regard", 2 sides 8vo., Brunswick Hotel, [London], 19th November
with 1 inch stub of blank conjugate leaf, into which extends a note in an old neat hand below the signature "d. October 24th 1852"
Item Date:
1839
Stock No:
16453
£350
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WEBSTER
(Richard Everard, Viscount Alverstone, 1842-1915, Lord Chief Justice)
LS to Douglas Sladen,
saying he will be "pleased for my name to appear as a member of the General Committee ... I regret that owing to the state of my health it is not possible for me to be present at the meeting ...", 2 sides 8vo, Winterfold, Surrey, 17th January
Item Date:
1914
Stock No:
3637
£10
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WELBY
(Reginald Earle, 1832-1915, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury 1885-1894, from 1894 1st Baron)
Autograph Letter in the third person to Sir William Treloar, Lord Mayor,
regretting he cannot accept for 5th July, 1 side 8vo., 11 Stratton Street, Piccadilly, 20th June
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
50703
£15
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