GISBORNE
(Thomas, M.P., 1794-1852, Agricultural Writer)
Autograph letter signed to John Ellis,
(1789-1862, Chairman of the Midland Railway, M.P. for Leicester 1848-1852), telling him that it is "Electioneering first, and then culverting. Kidd[erminste]r will be about ... Septr. 3rd & 4th. It will be close, but looks well for me. The steam is up ... the will of the customers is doing the work of bribery with the publicans" in a constituency "of which more than ¼th are publicans & beer house keepers", he has no doubt "you will get well thro' the Midland meeting", he has been investing in Railways, "I think the time is come ... Midlands, Lancashire & Yorkshire, & Birmingham and Dudley", 3 sides small 8vo., Y[oxall] L[odge], Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 22nd August
Item Date:
1849
Stock No:
14949
£30
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WILLIAM GLADSTONE AND HIS FAMILY
[GLADSTONE
(William Ewart, 1809-1898, Prime Minister), his wife CATHERINE (née Glynne, 1812-1900, wife of the Prime Minister), their daughter Mary DREW (1847-1927, Political Secretary, Writer and Hostess) and their Granddaughter Dorothy Mary Catherine 'Dossie' Parish, 1890-1983)]
Collection of three Unsigned silver gelatin cabinet photos
the first by James Valentine & Sons, showing seated in a sabre leg chair with his granddaughter at his knee, Hawarden, circa 1897, the next of his wife Catherine by H. S. Mendelsshon showing her head and shoulders, leaning her head on her hand and looking thoughtful, annotated by Mary Drew underneath "Mrs Gladstone" and on the verso "for Mrs Day, 1895", and the third by G. Watwough Webster showing Mary with her daughter as an infant in a lacy dress, annotated underneath "Mary Drew, Dossie" and on the verso, "For Mrs Day from Mrs Drew, 1895", each 6½" x 4½",
Item Date:
1895
Stock No:
41256
£275
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GLADSTONE
(William Glynne Charles Gladstone,1885-1915, Liberal Party MP and the last of 4 generations to serve in the House of Commons)
Signature, dated in another hand
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
27077
£20
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[GLADSTONE
(William Ewart, 1809-1898, Prime Minister)]
Unsigned carte de visite photo by Mayall
showing him in profile, seated in a chair, reading, 4¼" x 2½", no place, no date,
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
29761
£50
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GLADSTONE
(William Ewart, 1809-1898, Prime Minister)
Early Autograph letter signed to F. F. Courtenay
asking him “to send me by return of post my ‘special list’ of applications for appointments. I should be glad also to have a quire of letter paper & a couple of quires of note paper. The former might be... length-wise for convenience of carriage. I cannot think more lightly of your aid in consequence of a note so kind & which does you so much honour as that I have just received from you. Be so good as to let the letters to Mr Rogers go immediately...”, 2 sides 8vo., Fasque, 23rd September
Item Date:
1844
Stock No:
41773
£175
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