LANKESTER
(Sir Edwin Ray, 1847-1929, Zoologist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Maurice H. Ernest,
(formerly Ernst, 1872-1955) saying that he attributes “to me words which I have not used. I can not discuss the question of a ‘lease of life’ - with you individually - buy you should read my ‘Comparative Longevity’ & works cited there. Also the recent essay by Sir Humphry Rolleston...”, 1 side postcard, with autograph address on the verso, no place, 20th September
Item Date:
1923
Stock No:
43475
£85
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LAW
(Andrew Bonar, 1858-1923, Prime Minister)
Typed letter signed to Miss Ethel Young
regretting “that I am unable to accept your kind invitation to become a Patron of the Victory Club for Ladies but I am afraid, however, that my official work makes this impossible...”, 11 Downing Street headed paper, 17th July
Item Date:
1919
Stock No:
43456
£125
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THE COMTE DE PARIS WRITES TO AN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR GENERAL
LOUIS PHILIPPE
(Louis-Philippe Albert of Orléans, Comte de Paris, 1838-1894, grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French)
Autograph Letter Signed to “My dear General”
saying that he had gone “to present my respects to Mrs Smith and to see you yesterday just at the time you went to Richmond. I regretted it very much and being very anxious to see you before you leave England I write this note to you to ask you to come with Mrs Smith to dine with us tomorrow... Being in deep mourning we are quite alone, therefore it is a country dinner quite ‘sans cérémoniè’. You may easily come down by rail and return in the evening as York house is within five hundred yards of Twickenham Station... I understand that you leave London Thursday...”, 3 sides 8vo., York House, Twickenham, 8th May
Item Date:
1866
Stock No:
43474
£175
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LOUISE CAROLINE
(1848-1939, Princess, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Duchess of Argyll, Sculptress)
Autograph Letter not Signed to ‘Dear Toto’, (Lady Helen Lacey),
sending her the address of a place in Bath where they could stay, “there were two bedrooms & servants rooms & a sitting room ordered - then since that, today has been ordered a bedroom & a maids room. Please impress on the maid that she must not say its the Lord & Lady Archibald Campbell, if any questions are asked are coming, otherwise say nothing. I shall arrive at 1.30... please impress on the maid all the same. I can send carriage for you from K.P. & then you pick up maid if that suits you, or you come to K. Pce & then my servant takes on yr luggage with what there is of the maids... Miss Hubert is the maid. Keep her in her place in some ways she is very nice but she’s been a trouble & suffers from a serious malady called curiosity. I hope this will do, at any rate I will send William Footman to see you tomorrow... Excuse scribble chattering all the time & I can’t write properly...”, 7 sides 8vo., no place, no date
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
43472
£125
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LOUISE CAROLINE
(1848-1939, Princess, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Duchess of Argyll, Sculptress)
Autograph Letter not Signed to ‘Dearest Toto’, (Lady Helen Lacey),
thanking her “for the lovely calendar & the letters Ben’s, children’s, & all. I will try & make the 16th suit but it makes me go up & down to the Isle of Wight I fear. I’ve been so worried by the S.S.H.S. messing up the S.S.F.A. in Scotland behind my back! Private. now Lady Jane has turned out (George disturbed) to be not true, & her daughter worse it’s an awful go. But I hope to master her & keep her too but she’s kicking, & making herself most unpleasant & acting anything but what I shd have expected - not the Lady! Burn this please at once. Pat’s wish of a Happy New Century is rather frightning!...”, 4 sides 8vo., Sandringham, Norfolk headed paper, 1st December
Item Date:
1901
Stock No:
43473
£175
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