"ALL THE GHOSTS ... ARE PEACEFUL"
MACDONALD
(J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Fine Typed Letter Signed to Mrs Nodin
thanking her for her letter and saying that he is "indeed head over ears in work, and as every day brings its own lot I do not know when I am going to get through it. I have been at home ever since I returned from Algiers. I wish you could come up and see the house and not only hear about it. It is very quiet, and all the ghosts in it are peaceful ...", 1 side A4, House of Commons headed paper, 9th February
Item Date:
1927
Stock No:
40052
£275
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MACDONALD
(J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Fine Long Typed Letter Signed with autograph corrections as Prime Minister to T. Ll. Humberstone B. Sc.
regretting “that a Cabinet Meeting will prevent my attending your Conference at Wembley... I have been looking forward to this meeting with great pleasure, as I wished to try and say something to impress upon the public the necessity of treating political questions in a scientific spirit, and not merely in a short-vision, partisan frame of mind. Until we regard administration and legislation in precisely the same manner as a scientific worker approaches his work in a laboratory, we shall never be able to get results of a permanent character, nor shall we secure respect for our public institutions. I was hoping that one of the results of the war would have been to have eliminated from the House of Commons the ‘methods of the dog fight’. Unfortunately, there are far too many signs that that hope is not to be fulfilled. The matter ultimately rests with the public, which ought to scan with scrupulous vigilance proceedings in Parliament, not merely in relation to this topic or that, but to the spirit of national concern which its debates show. If our social organisation is still so very rudimentary that the public are open to the exploitation of any interest that is placed for the moment in a position of economic advantage, it is mainly owing to the fact that scientific methods have hardly yet been applied to Society itself. I hope that as a result of your Conference a beginning will be made in the scientific consideration of the of the problems which confront Parliament, and if that happens the promoters of this Conference will have great cause to congratulate themselves on what they have done...”, 2 sides 4to., 10 Downing Street, blindstamp headed paper, 28th May
Item Date:
1924
Stock No:
41817
£325
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MACKINTOSH
(Sir James, 1765-1832, Philosopher, M.P.)
Autograph Letter Signed to "My Dear Knight of Kerry",
saying he is "a little indisposed perhaps from the heat of the Weather so that I am dissuaded from going to the House of Commons ... I am very sorry to be absent on a Motion of yours about Ireland...", 1 side 8vo. with integral autograph address leaf, Holl House, Thursday, no date, together with engraved portrait by Cochran of the picture by Thos Lawrence, 7½" x 4½",
seal removed from conjugate leaf
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0
Stock No:
1930
£25
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MAC-MAHON
(Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de, 1808-1893, Marshal of France and Duke of Magenta, President 1873-1879, also Prime Minister 1873-1874)
Finely penned Document signed, in French with translation, to the President of Peru,
(Manuel Pardo,1834-1878, President 1872-1876), recalling the French Envoy M. de Billonet, not doubting that the envoy "has taken every opportunity presented to him to express the gratitude he deeply feels for the marks of goodwill which you have shown him during his stay at Lima", with his own wishes for Peru and the President, signed also by the duc de Decazes, (1819-1886, Foreign Minister 1873-1877), 1 side folio, Versailles, 2nd June
Item Date:
1875
Stock No:
52554
£225
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MAC-MAHON
(Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de, 1808-1893, Marshal of France and Duke of Magenta, President 1873-1879, also Prime Minister 1873-1874)
Finely penned Document signed, in French with translation, to the President of Peru,
(Mariano Ignacio Prado, 1826-1902, three times President of Peru between 1865 and 1879, the first time as dictator), saying he has resolved to accredit to the President M. Domet de Vorges as Minister Plenipotentiary, mentioining the latter's "spirit of conciliation and his patriotism", asking him to place confidence in all he shall say on the writer's behalf, especially in conveying his good wishes and esteem, signed also by William Henry Waddington (1826-1894, French Foreign Minister and Prime Minister), 1 side folio, Paris, 15th December
a few short closed tears in blank portions, light creasing in right margin, small defect in top left corner
Item Date:
1877
Stock No:
52555
£250
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