ROMILLY
(Joseph, 1791-1864, Registrar of Cambridge University, 1832-1861)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Paget,
wife of Dr (later Sir) George Edward PAGET, (1809-1892, of Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, from 1872 Regius Professor of Physic), saying that her “kind present of delicious pears would have been most welcome on any day but it is doubly so from coming on my birthday. By God’s mercy I have now entered upon my ‘3 score & tenth’ year, a period which Scripture mentions as the ordinary limit of a long life. God be praised mine has not only been a long life, but it has been a prosperous & a happy one full of comforts & blessings. I am very thankful to say that I enter up a new year with improved health...”, 3 sides small 8vo., no place, 9th October
Item Date:
1860
Stock No:
41965
£60
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ROMILLY
(Joseph, 1791-1864, Registrar of Cambridge University, 1832-1861)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Paget,
wife of Dr (later Sir) George Edward PAGET, (1809-1892, of Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, from 1872 Regius Professor of Physic), saying that "reiterated acts of kindness call forth reiterated expressions of gratitude, as Johnson might have said in his sonorous language. So I again thank you heartily for your fresh kindness in giving me another present of delicious pears. I have just eaten one for my dessert & found it excellent ...", 2 sides small 8vo., 13th November
Item Date:
1860
Stock No:
41655
£60
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ROSE
(Sir Alec R., 1908-1991, sailed solo round the World, 1967-1968)
Signature on verso of his visiting card,
2½" x 3¾", 38 Osborne Road, Southsea, no date, circa
Item Date:
1968
Stock No:
54413
£35
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ROTHSCHILD
(Constance, Lady Battersea, 1843-1931, Jewish woman Philanthropist, wife of Cyril Flower, 1st Baron, MP and Patron of Art)
Fine signature
on a card, 4½" x 3½", The Pleasaunce, Overstrand, Cromer, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
38737
£40
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ROTHSCHILD
(Leopold de, 1845-1917, Banker, Race Horse Breeder and member of the Rothschild Family)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Emaund [?]
thanking him for his “kindness in sending me the cutting. I had already recd your letter & thought it quite excellent, but what will please you far more is that Lord Rothschild entirely approved of everything you had written...”, 2 sides 8vo.,New Court, 31st January
Item Date:
1905
Stock No:
42436
£150
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