LYTTON
(Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1831-1891, 1st Earl, Viceroy of India, 1875-1880, during the Afghan Wars, Poet)
Final page of a long autograph letter signed ‘R.B. Lytton’
starting “have had any very deeply laid designs against the Laws of the land - that they themselves prevented her peaceable departure by sending 8 gendarmes into her bedroom, with muskets, and lodging her forthwith in gaol. That, at the speediest her trial cannot come on before the end of November... when if found innocent she will have been unjustly detained in prison for 3 months, and if found guilty is, under the present law, liable to imprisonment of from 5 to 10 years with labour in the Casa de Forza! Is not this taking a spear to stab a butterfly? The Gd Duke has been personally applied to both by Scarlett (who has been, it is just to say, most energetic and active) as well as by his own Ministers, (who disapprove of this proceeding) and others, but all in vain. I think it not improbable that the Legation will be withdrawn. I have been, for a short time, at the Baths of Lucca, and you would be astonished to know the number of Protestant Italians there. I believe more than half the inhabitants to be - not merely anti-priest-and-pope-ists but professing Protestants. All going on well at the Umbra Mina [?]. Mrs Wilson not so well, indeed, as I could wish to see her - she is thinner & eats little or nothing - I think change of air would have done her good had she been able to take it. Both Guido and the Baby, however, grow apace and are picture children. Your mother I think is looking very well, & always cheerful - write to me, my dear Arthur, when you have an idle hour and make me very happy by doing so...” ending with the Latin phrase “vive vale et tis memor mei” (Long live and remember me), and a postscript that “Your Anacreon... is guarded like the apple of my eye...”, 2 sides folio
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43261
£375
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MACAULAY
(Dame Rose, 1889-1958, Writer and Traveller)
Fine Signature on card
3¾” x 2½”, no place, dated in another hand, 17th March
Item Date:
1931
Stock No:
43279
£45
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MACDONALD
(J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Fine Typed Letter Signed to Samuel BICKERSTETH
(1857-1937, Canon of Leeds Minster and later Librarian of Canterbury Cathedral) thanking him for his letter and saying that his “heart is most thoroughly with the ‘Friends of Canterbury’ and I only wish that my purse enabled me to show it, - but I really cannot. I shall always be very glad to help you in any way I can, however. You were most kind to us on Saturday and my friends and myself saw Canterbury from a new point of view. I do hope that we did not inconvenience you and that your family have forgiven me...”, with an autograph note signed by the recipient “The letter was written by him to me after I showed him and Lord Thompson our Cathedral Library June 23 1928, & he is a little mixed in his ecclesiastical titles...”, 1 side 4to., House of Commons headed paper, 26th. June
Item Date:
1928
Stock No:
43267
£175
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MACMILLAN
(Harold, 1894-1986, Prime Minister, from 1984 1st Earl of Stockton)
Typed Letter Signed with autograph salutation and subscription to Sir Michael STEWART
(1911-1994, KCMG, OBE, HM Ambassador to Greece and Minister at the British Embassy in Washington)asking if it “would amuse you and your theatre and is followed by a luncheon at All Souls. There are various other ceremonies in the afternoon but these are not obligatory...”, 1 side 8vo., Birch Grove House, Haywards Heath, Sussex, 1st April
Item Date:
1981
Stock No:
43266
£125
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MADDEN
(Sir Charles Edward, 1st Baronet, 1862-1935, Admiral of the Fleet)
Fine Signature In full with “Admiral of the Fleet”
and the date on card, 3¾” x 2½”, no place, 8th August
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
43281
£75
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