“WHAT A GREAT BLESSING... TO HAVE HAD A HAPPY CHILDHOOD”
ADAMS
(Richard George, 1920-2016, Novelist, Author of Watership Down, Shardik and Plague Dogs)
Typed Letter Signed with Autograph salutation, subscription and annotation to Miss Pearse,
thanking her for her “charming letter... In the *autobiography, I was particularly trying to make younger people more aware of how completely different everything was before the second world war. Although I was born as recently as 1920, I have always thought that the first world war, despite the appalling casualties, did not have anything like the same effect upon English society and institutions as Hitler’s war did. There really is a great gulf between the pre-war world that existed up till 1940, and the world which succeeded ii... the car you refer to must have been a De Dion Bouton. I know my father had one during the Edwardian decade... What a great blessing it is... to have had a happy childhood...”, his annotation says “*Days Gone By - Author of many books including Watership Down”, 1 side oblong 8vo., on a folded card with a picture of Church Street and Market Place, Whitchurch, 14th November
Item Date:
1990
Stock No:
40138
£475
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SUPPLYING ARMS TO THE GARRISON AT CHESTER CASTLE
ALBEMARLE
(Sir George Monk, 1608-1670, Restorer of Charles II, 1st Duke)Sir
Document signed “Albemarle” addressed to the “right Honble Sir William COMPTON...”
(1625-1663, Master of the Ordnance and Privy Councillor) desiring him “to take care of sending to His Majstys Garrison in Chester Castle three score and one snaphance muskets and three score and two Collars of Bandaleeres a partisan a halberd one Drum eight barells of powder and eight barells of bullett to bee delivered to Sr Theophilus Gilbey Governor of the said Castle or whom he shall appoint for the role of the sd Garrison. Dated at ye Cockpitt 8 Aug 1662...”, 1 side oblong 4to., 1 side oblong 4to., with an engraving of Monk, the Cockpitt, 8th August
Item Date:
1662
Stock No:
39773
£2250
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FINE SIGNED PHOTO PRESENTED AT A PRIVATE INTERVIEW
ALBERT VICTOR
(Christian Edward, Duke of Clarence, 1864-1892, Eldest Son of Edward VII)
Fine cabinet photo by Barraud, signed and dated,
showing him half length wearing a high buttoned jacket, 6½” x 4¼”, no place, annotated on the verso by the recipient Rev. W. W. Dickinson, “Presented to me by H.R.H. Prince Edw. at a private interview at Marlborough House, April 26 1885 & signed by himself on the occasion. W.W.D.”, together with a piece of Marlbrough House headed paper with the same information written on it and an envelope, Marlborough House, 26th April
Item Date:
1885
Stock No:
41293
£1750
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THE KING ANNOUNCES THE BIRTH OF HIS SON
ALEXANDER I
(1888-1934, King of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes, from 1929 of Yugoslavia, he was assassinated in 1934 by Macedonian Terrorists)
Fine Letter Signed, in French with translation, signed ‘Alexander’ in Cyrillic, to the President of the Republic of Bolivia,
saying that it is his “pleasure to announce to Your Excellency that Her Majesty the Queen, my beloved Wife, has successfully given birth to a Prince who has received the name of Andrew on the baptismal fonts. The ties of friendship which unite our two countries are a sure guarantee that your excellency will take part in the great joy inspired to me and to her majesty the Queen, as well as to my dear people whose destiny is entrusted to me, this event that will contribute so effectively to our personal happiness. It is with these feelings that I take with great pleasure the opportunity to express to your Excellency the great esteem and constant friendship...”, 1 side folio, Belgrade, 28th October
Item Date:
1929
Stock No:
38383
£775
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RALPH ALLEN WRITING FROM BATH
ALLEN
(Ralph, 1694-1764, Postmaster and Philanthropist, Squire Allworthy of Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’)
Autograph Letter Signed to “Dear Sister”
annotated in another hand as being Mrs Buckeridge, saying that “under this Cover I do send you the counterpart of the Lease to Price your Tenant in Herfordshire; the writing, are too many to be sent at one by the post so that I will either send them by degrees or bring them up when I go to London, therefore do reply you will tell me which you do choose to have done. I order’d my clerk by the last post to (tell) you what hinder’d me from sending of the Lease sooner, our Services attend all my family...”, 2 sides 4to., Bath, October
Item Date:
1735
Stock No:
42143
£750
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