PIUS XI
(born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, 1857-1939, Pope from 1922 and Sovereign of Vatican City from 1929)
Autograph Letter Signed “B. A. Ratti” in Italian with Translation,
thanking him “from the bottom of my heart for your kind and friendly message of the 12th of this month. I am deeply sorry when you write to me about your sorrows, and I pray that the prognosis for your brother, whom I had the good fortune to meet when I recommended to him a good man who, unfortunately, needed your help and for whom he showed unforgettable and unforgettable kindness, will not come true. If you have the opportunity, please remind him, and give him my best regards. I then immediately took to heart your precious suggestions and asked Senator Li Beltrani to come to my aid with those Galilean volumes, which he did, as is his wont, without delay. The bureaucratic deeds you recount to me are most edifying; we here say: “That’s crazy!”. And unfortunately, the fear that Galileo will be overtaken by Leonardo is legitimate. By the way, thanks for the newspaper you sent: I wasn’t aware of your article; I read it with great interest and with... continuous strings of assent. I’ve been of your opinion for a while now! Nothing about Tartaglia; a lot about Moletti, as you know: if I can help you with anything - at least in the description of the codices - please keep me at your disposal...”, 2 sides 8vo., Milan
Item Date:
1918
Stock No:
43662
£1250
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SIR GILBERT TALBOT RECOMMENDING THE VICAR OF LACOCK FOR A POST
TALBOT
(Sir Gilbert, circa 1606-1695, Dipomat and Royalist)
Fine Letter signed recommending the vicar of Lacock for the parsonage of Broughton Gifford
saying that “When I last had the honour to wayte upon yr Lp at London I took the boldness to recomend to yr Lps favour our worthy vicar of Laicock Mr Isaac Sympson for the reversion of the parsonage of Broughton Gifford within this County and in yr Lps guift when vacant. The present incumbent Dr Proby is very aged and infirme and is kept soe close up by his Curate, ye none else can know whether he be living or dead. This extraordinary concealment giveth just ground to suspect that the designe is either to reape yo profitts of the living for some time after his death or at least to gett the start of all other pretenders to yr Lps favour in petitioning for the living when it falls. To wch end I heare he hath bespoke the hands of the parishioners, and two neighbour Justices to give yr Lp a fayre testimoniall of his merite. I thought it requisite to give yr Lp this advertisement that you may not be surprised by any such importunity wch might otherwise make yr Lp forgett yr promise soe long since enterd in yr table book. I have cauled Mr Simpson to follow yr Lps directions to procure the Bps Certificat of his loyalty, orthodox... and exemplary life wch he keepeth by him, till upon the vacancy he shall waite upon yr Lp with it for yr presentation wch will oblige to yr Lp a very deserving Churchman, and give yr Lp a... title to the thanks of this family and in particular of yr Lps most obedent and more faithfull servant...”, 1 side 4to., Lacock, 15th August
Item Date:
1683
Stock No:
43597
£1275
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[UMBERTO I
(1844-1900, from 1878 King of Italy) and his wife and cousin MARGHERITA (!851-1926, Daughter of the 1st Duke of Genoa)]
Fine pair of unsigned Albumen cabinet photos his by Fill d’Alessandra of Rome
showing themhead and shoulders, he is in uniform and she is in a court dress with a tiara, 6½” x 4¼”, no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1875
Stock No:
43653
£175
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
(Ralph, 1872-1958, Composer)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Harry FARJEON
(Harry, 1878-1948, Composer and influential teacher of Harmony and Composition at the Royal Academy of Music) saying he thinks “we must stop ‘mistering’ each other). Many thanks for your letter - I have written to Mr Decca & Thatcher - but I have little hope of any result. I imagine Mr Darner Jones is one of those independent people whom one admires so much - but who are so annoying when one wants to help them...”, 1 side 4to,, with original autograph envelope, The White Gates, Dorking, 20th April postmarked
Item Date:
1940
Stock No:
43651
£975
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VEIDT
(Conrad, 1893-1943, German Character Actor)
Fine signature on a card
next to magazine photo5” x 3½”, no place, dated in another hand
Item Date:
1935
Stock No:
43652
£55
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