SIMPSON
(Sir James 1792-1868, General)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Culborne
saying that she could not “tire me with reading your kind notes! I am always glad to get them. Nor am I tired of Hardwick Shooting! tho’ certainly the weather has used me badly, and if next Monday seems a promising morning, I will be with your Party by Eleven o’clock. If you will kindly let me know, I will obey your Summons tomorrow, should it be agreeable to Mr Milner Gibson and yourself for me to dine with you. I returned home yesterday... a dreadful day - pouring all the way, and it was worse at night for my Ingham trip. Why did you not tell me of your disappointed Carriage Companion?...”, 3 sides 8vo., Harringar, 6th November no year
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43413
£125
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STEPHENSON
(Robert Snr, 1788-1837, Civil Engineer, Elder brother of George Stephenson, the ‘Father of the Railways’)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Bagnall,
a Civil Engineer in Liverpool, saying he has received his letter and “was happy to hear that you were fast recovering, I am sorry to inform that I shall be under the necessity of being... to a late Hour at the Colliery tomorrow Night, it will be uncertain my getting to you on Sunday, Therefore you had better come straight on to the Wool Pack Pendleton. I have not seen Mr. Gill since we parted at Liverpool. I have seen his Agent & he says we have nothing to fear. I will endeavour to see Mr. G. tomorrow, it being Market Day I hope I shall find him in Manchester, when I shall be enabled to inform you what he has done in the matter. There was nothing of great importance in the Magazine...”, 1 side 8vo., with two thirds of the integral autograph address leaf, Pendleton Colliery, 7th February
Item Date:
1834
Stock No:
43415
£175
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