THE QUEEN IS LOOKING FOR A PUPPY
ROSEBERY
(4th Earl, Archibald John Primrose, 1783-1868, Politician)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Starkey
Saying that he is "very much obliged to you for a letter which you wrote to Mrs Franks respecting a Colly puppy, & which she forwarded to us. The puppy of this sort, which I have been in search of is for the Queen; & I have therefore sent your letter to Lord Waterpark, who is now in waiting at Windsor, with a request that he will take the proper means for ascertaining whether it is H.M.'s pleasure to accept the one named in it. In order to save time, I have told Lord Waterpark to correspond directly with yourself ...", 2 sides 8vo., Dalmeny Park, 24th October
Item Date:
1849
Stock No:
41674
£150
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ROSS
(Sir James Clark, 1800-1862, Arctic Explorer, Discoverer of the N. Magnetic Pole)
Autograph Letter Signed "James Ross Capt. RN" to D. B. Habgood Esq.
saying that he has "much pleasure in complying with your request ...", 1 side 8vo., 12 Pall Mall, 21st November
Item Date:
1849
Stock No:
41649
£475
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RUSSELL
(Bertrand, 3rd Earl, 1872-1970, Philosopher & Mathematician, Nobel Prize Winner)
Autograph Letter Signed to a Sydney A. GIMSON
(1860-1938, from 1888 President of the Leicester Secular Society) regretting that he "cannot make any engagements during the autumn, as I am arranging a course of lectures on Social Reconstruction after the War in a number of towns. I may be giving this course in Leicester among other places. If so, the arrangements there will be in the hands of Mr W. Barrett ...", 2 sides postcard, 20 Glebe Street crossed out, postmarked London, 29th August
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41651
£375
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RUSSELL
(Lord John, 1st Earl, 1792-1878, Prime Minister)
Early Autograph Letter Signed to Monsieur Humphreys
telling him that "As I attend my intention of going thro' Geneva I could not give any ... to Mr Hertsch. But if you will be so good as to divert your letters to Thomas P. Brown Esq, 15 Norfolk St., Strand, & put on the top of the letter 'For Lord J. Russell' they will be sure to reach me. It would be very kind of you if you would pay to the postmaster at Genoa the postage of the letters he has sent to me at Paris. I hope we shall meet soon again ...", 1 side 4to., with integral autograph address leaf, Paris 8th October
Item Date:
1818
Stock No:
41650
£175
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RUTHERSTON
(Albert Daniel, 1881-1953, Artist, Brother of William,
Fine Illustrated Autograph Letter Signed to 'Albert Rothenstein' to 'My dear Miss Fothergill'
telling her that "John is busy eating & I must ..." here he has inserted a cartoon of someone seated at a table eating "eat, so I will write to him as I can wait no longer. Will you & Miss Evans come & dine with me here ... at 6.45. We had best dine at this early hour as we are to go out to a Music Hall afterwards ...", 1 side 8vo., 18 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square, Sunday evening, no year
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41665
£225
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