Autograph Collection.- Incl. Royalty, Aristocracy and Military

Autograph Collection.- Incl. Royalty, Aristocracy and Military

A large collection of autographs, manuscript letters, clipped autographs, comprising:

Royalty: an assortment of letters, notes, manuscripts, portrait engraving and autographs etc from the c18th, c19th and c20th including: the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (Adolphus Frederick 1774 - 1850) and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (1797 - 1889)); Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848 - 1939); Prince William Frederick (1776 - 1834); Ernst, Prince of Leiningen (1830 - 1904); letters sent from: Kensington Palace, Balmoral, White Lodge, Marlborough House, Windsor Castle, and two letters relating to Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby (1867 - 1935);

Aristocracy & Peerage: an assortment of letters, notes, manuscripts, portrait and other engravings and autographs etc including: Ladies Kilvert, Kirk, Burdett-Coutts; Dukes of Wellington (2^nd), Portland, Beaufort, Devonshire (as Lord Hartington), Leeds; Marquesses of Lansdowne, Townshend; Earls of of Kintore, Mulgrave, Orford, Bathurst, Shrewsbury, Clarendon, Spencer, Grey, Westmoreland, Listowel, Derby; Lord Walpole; Baronet: Knatchbull; Pedigree for the West family; manuscript menu for Lady Sudeley’s ‘Shakespeare Dinner’ of 1886 Written by the hon. Mrs Anstruther; a single page small vellum document in Latin dated 1813 with the name of John Townshend, Viscount Sydney (1764-1831) written in;

Military & Naval: a small assortment of letters, notes, etc from the c17th, c18th, c19th and c20th including: a cache of letters to Lt-Col Charles Kennedy-Craufurd-Stuart (1879-1942, Military Secretary to the Viceroy), many from theatre figures such as Gertrude Forbes-Robertson, Frank Benson, Henry Ainley, Fred Terry, etc. (qty); letter from General Robert Napier (d.1766); letter from Admiral Lord Charles Beresford 1846-1919); letter from General Sir Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker (1817 - 1894); very personal letter to Hon. Major Stanhope, probably Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington (1753 - 1829), letter of 1805 to a Captain Charlton letter of 1734 from a Captain Dalgleish; 1690 (December) Estimate of Repairs at Chatham and Sheerness Dockyards from the Office of Ordnance; 1782 list of invalids sent from Keith to Chatham etc; 1660 cover regarding the paying off of crew from HMS Henrietta; packet of 1930s naval & merchant marine maps, notes and statistics and diagrams of SS Duchess of Richmond; a small collection of engravings related to American General Ulysses Grant (1822-1885);

Politics and Diplomacy: an assortment of letters, notes and clipped signatures of the c19th and c20th, including: Katharine Bruce Glasier (1867 - 1950); Baron von Bunsen (1791 - 1860); George Grote (1794 - 1871); Charles Thellusson (1770 - 1815); Jesse Collings (1831 - 1920); letter to Margot Asquith (1864-1945); Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel (1829 - 1912); Sir Robert Burton-Chadwick (1869 - 1951); Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1870 - 1949); Thomas Bayley Potter JP (1817 - 1898); Sir Julian Goldsmid (1838 - 1896); manuscript notes for a speech by Jean-Baptiste-Léon Say (1826 - 1896); manuscript pedigree for the Pitt family;

Commonwealth political (Canada, Australia, New Zealand): two letters introduction to Lord Normanby (1819-1890) as governor of Queensland (1879-1884) signed by Lord Derby (1799-1869); items relating to Sir Thomas Brisbane (1773-1860); letter from Lady Dawson, wife of Sir John Dawson (geologist 1820-1899); clipped signature an officer in Quebec, 1815; letters from Lord Kelburne (1833-1915, Governor of Nerw Zealand 1892-1897); Sir William Jervois (1821-1897. Governor 1883-1889)) Lord Normanby (1819-1890, Governor 1875-1879) etc; a small selection of South Africa-related items

(large quantity)