CASSON
(Sir Hugh, 1910-1999, Architect and Artist, President of the Royal Academy)
Fine Illustrated Autograph letter signed to Mrs Stewart
thanking her “& Michael so much for dinner last night. I so much enjoyed it... Hope we meet in London in the Summer...” with a sketch at the bottom of a vehicle with figures riding on the roof and on the sides, British Embassy, Ankara headed paper, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41863
£145
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CASSON
(Sir Hugh, 1910-1999, Architect, President of the Royal Academy)
Exceptional Illustrated Autograph letter signed to Bevis HILLIER
(born 1940, Historian, Author and Journalist), with a pencil note of the date of receipt in the recipient's hand, asking if it would be "possible for me to borrow to read secretly and return promptly the scripts of the Festival Book? I am trying to concoct my own 'private' account & need my memory jerking from other sources. I'd be very grateful & naturally discreet!...", he hopes that his Connoisseur party went well with an asterisk and a note that it was a "Lovely issue", and he ends with the hope that he had misunderstood the chairman "when he said you were never to be allowed that again - NOT TRUE! ...", with an illustration of an Edwardian lady whose hat takes in the letterhead of the Royal Academy, 2 sides 4to., Royal College of Art, Piccadilly, but as from 35 Victoria Road, W8,
Item Date:
1958
Stock No:
38577
£275
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CHANTREY
(Sir Francis Legatt, 1781-1841, Sculptor)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent,
inviting him to "Breakfast with me on Saturday ... if you can do so have the goodness to send a note to Mr Rodgers & he will meet you ...", 2 sides 8vo., Belgrave Square, 3rd February
Item Date:
1841
Stock No:
22233
£65
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CHANTREY
(Sir Francis Legatt, 1781-1841, Sculptor)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'My Dear Sir',
saying "Your wish respecting the Casts of your Brothers Bust shall be attended to the moment Mr Jones ... is well enough ... but we are all sadly out of joint I have scarcely a man that can be considered well - several seriously ill & one beyond all hope of recovery. Your carriage will be the best conveyance for the cast intended for yourself ... any day ... after Monday next", with a P.S. dated 21st January, "The man alluded to ... is dead. This is the 2nd since Xmas & now I have another in great danger", 2 sides 8vo., Belgravia Place, 19th January
Item Date:
1837
Stock No:
54704
£75
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CHANTREY ON HIS EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF WELLINGTON
CHANTREY
(Sir Francis Legatt, 1781-1841, Sculptor)
Pair of Autograph Letters Signed to Thomas SPRING RICE
(1790-1866, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1835-1839, from 1839 1st Baron Monteagle), saying he "shall be happy to wait upon you" with "a statement of the Gun Metal" and to ask how he may reply "to the City of London Wellington Committee" (28th November 1838, endorsed "C of E saw party 29/11/38"), in the second he explains that he "refrained from acknowledging the donation of fifteen hundred & twenty pounds worth of Gun Metal for the City of London Wellington Statue" till he had met and told "the acting committee ... not only the amount of the gift, but the very ready and handsome manner in which it had been made", at "the Mansion House yesterday ... all were at a loss in what manner it would be most agreeable to you they should reply to the generosity of the Government", so Chantrey is asking whether a letter of thanks to Spring Rice as Chancellor of the Exchequer "would be a fitting manner of acknowledging ... the substantial way in which their efforts have been assisted by Her Majesty's Ministers", 1 side 8vo and 1 side 4to, Belgrave Place & Eccleston Street, London, 28th November - 26th January
Item Date:
1839
Stock No:
56564
£375
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