SKINNER
(William, 1700-1780, Chief Engineer of Great Britain, Lieut. General)
Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Charles FREDERICK
Surveyor General of the Ordnance, regarding the "Death of Mr James Morier, one of the Overseers at Fort George, North Britain", which Skinner constructed, recommending Mr Arthur Calwall as a successor to Morier, 1 side folio, Greenwich, 12th October
Item Date:
1763
Stock No:
3122
£35
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SKINNER
(William, 1700-1780, Chief Engineer of Great Britain, Lieut. General)
Autograph Letter Signed to Thomas THOROTON
(1723-1784, M.P. Secretary to the Board of Ordnance) informing him that he knows "of no objections against the promotion of Mr Nathaniel Minshales practitioner-Engineer, nor any objections to his succeeding Mr Charles Weston ...", 1 side 4to., Greenwich, 27th July
Item Date:
1769
Stock No:
3123
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SKINNER
(William, 1700-1780, from 1757 Chief Engineer of Great Britain, Lieutenant General)
LS to Thomas Thoroton, 1723-1784, M.P.,
Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, begging him, following "the Death of the Two Gentlemen last sent to Senegal", to mention "my Grandson to the Master General [Granby] to suceed as a practitioner Engineer", hoping that his own "above fifty Year's Service and some year's Chief of the Corp's may have some little merit" towards his claim, the candidate's father "Died a Capt. on the Expedition to the West India Islands", and recalling that "his Lordship gave me some hopes on the last Vaccancy", 1 side folio, Greenwich, 16th December
Item Date:
1769
Stock No:
20041
£45
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SMITH PETITIONS FOR A CURACY ON BEHALF OF A NAVAL CHAPLAIN WHO HE HAD SERVED WITH IN THE NEAR EAST
SMITH
(Sir William Sidney, 1764-1840, Admiral )
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to "Dear Sir", HRH the Duke of CUMBERLAND
telling him that "The Chaplain late of the Tigre who was with me in the Levant (the Reverend David Lloyd) having applied to me to use my good offices towards his obtaining the living of Binfield near Windsor which has been asked of the Chancellor for him. I consider I cannot serve him better than by begging the favour of your Royal Highness to let the King know that Mr Lloyd is a man of exemplary conduct & morals, assiduous & correct in the exercise of his professional duties with a regular classical education; he took his degrees at Oxford and has had an opportunity which rarely can occur of comparing the evidences of the Christian religion contained in Holy Writ with those of tradition and local circumstances in the Holy land during the military operations in Syria & Egypt. I am persuaded more need not be said to induce his Majesty to think favourably of Mr Lloyd, I have thought it incumbent on me to say this much in his favour from my knowledge of his merits & fitness for the situation in every respect, he is unprovided for in his profession at present and I trust my anxious desire to see a fellow labourer better employed than he can be at present in a country curacy will plead my excuse for this intrusion on your Royal Highness ...", 4 sides 4to., Upper Seymour Street, London, 19th August
small piece removed from a blank part of the second sheet
Item Date:
1804
Stock No:
41576
£775
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SOAMES
(Baroness Mary, born 1922, daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, wife of Christopher, M.P. and Life Baron)
Autograph Letter signed on a coloured postcard to an unnamed correspondent
thanking them for their letter and saying that she "did get a video-cassette of the TFI program: How very shabby and mingy of Mons GOULEY not to have sent you one, AND a large case of champagne (or some other elegant attention!). I'm glad 'your' ... was all right & did not shame you! We are just finishing a blissful 10 days divided between Paris & la Normandie (including a visit to this fascinating place) ...", 1 side postcard with a picture of the kitchen in the Claude Monet Museum in Giverny, Giverny, 5th June
Item Date:
1982
Stock No:
40549
£75
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