MARKHAM SENDS HIS SYMPATHY ON THE DEATH OF HER FATHER
MARKHAM
(Sir Clements, 1830-1916, Geographer and President of the Royal Geographical Society)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Freeman, daughter of Edward A. FREEMAN
(Edward Augustus, 1823-1892, Historian), thanking. her for sending him “such a long letter at such a time; and to give such a full account of your Father’s last illness - and I cannot tell you how much it has interested me. It is very difficult to realise that he is gone in the very height of his great powers, for that third Sicily volume quite equalled anything he had ever done...I have written a short paper on the debt that geography owes to your Father, as I felt that some recognition of his great services to that science ought to appear in the Proceedings of the Geographical Society. Mr York Powell has kindly helped me... I thought the lines you send me so admirable that I have quoted them in my paper... Will you kindly let me know whether there is any objection to my quoting them in this way?... I feel for you all so much in this most sad home coming...”, 3 sides 8vo, on crested paper, Neri, 6th May
Item Date:
1892
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43699
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MARKHAM
(Sir Clements, 1830-1916, Geographer and President of the Royal Geographical Society)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Freeman, daughter of Edward A. FREEMAN
(Edward Augustus, 1823-1892, Historian), thanking. her “for kindly sending a copy of your Father’s valuable lectures on ‘comparative politics’. I should have thanked you before; but we have been sojourning out of England for three months and have only just returned. During the last ten days we were staying in the country between the Zider and the Sleë, whence came all the Angles; the three districts are still called Angela, Swansea, and Danish-wald...”, 2 sides 8vo., on crested paper, Binsted Wych, Alton, Hants, 17th October
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VICTORIA
(1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)
Autograph formal letter to Lord Rosslyn,
(whose wife Blanche was the mother of ‘Darling Daisy’, [1861-1938, Countess of Warwick, mistress of Edward VII] by her first marriage), thanking him for “sending me a copy of Blackwood’s Magazine containing his very pretty & graceful Sonnets on the Tyrol, the beautiful scenery of which she has so lately had occasion to experience. Princess Beatrice is most grateful for the copy...”, 2 sides 8vo., Balmoral headed mourning paper with monogram at the head, no date
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POLITICAL LETTER FROM WILLIAM IV OF ORANGE
WILLIAM IV
(1711-1751 Prince of Orange and Hereditary Stadtholder of the United Provinces)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed in French with translation
saying he has drawn up “the attached document along with the necessary papers, by which Your Highness may see that it was indeed as an officer, and in no way as a gentleman—as has been falsely suggested—that I placed Munnichhausen under arrest. I have kept him there still, and that for the following reasons: if I were to consider the duration of his arrest as a punishment, he could only thank me for it; and since he has made no gesture of admission or regret for having offended me, I cannot be satisfied. To release him from arrest with orders not to appear before me again would be to restore things to their former state and give him an opportunity to repeat the same insolence. To send him for a few days to the Provost seemed to me a punishment more severe than the apology I am entitled to demand; yet I have not wished to do so, in order to show all the more clearly to everyone how gently I treat him despite his unheard of obstinacy. Finally, I hesitated, on the last day of fasting, whether I should simply release him; but fearing that it would be regarded less as an act of generosity and clemency than as timid compliance—because of the intention he is said and assured to have of appealing to the States—I resolved not to do so. I have decided to wait for the Great Diet to see whether he will have the impudence to bring his alleged complaints to the States, which would be an unheard of and novel case under the sun— that a petty officer should complain of his Captain-General to the States, who entrusted the command and care of all military matters to the governor and the deputies of the province. In the times in which we live, I should not be surprised by anything that happens; thus, if part or even the majority of the States place me in conflict with the lieutenant of my bodyguards and demand an account of my conduct, I shall not be shaken. Yet I well know that by acting in such a way they will ruin the service, undermine subordination, and degrade themselves...”, 3 sides 4to., Leeuwarden, 19th January
Item Date:
1751
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