ROSEBERY
(Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of, 1847-1929, Prime Minister 1894-1895, three times Derby winner)
Autograph Letter Signed with initials, to 'My dear Prothero'
saying that he "ought long ago to have written to you about the article. I wrote three or four pages to start, and went through the book again with a view to my task, when a third volume arrived with the announcement that there was a fourth impending thereupon, I desisted, and desist ...", with an autograph postscript in the hand of the recipient, "Wrote Feb. 3, asking him still to send article. 4th volume will appear March but is, it seems not worth waiting for", 1 side 8vo., Durdans, Epsom headed paper, 8th January
Item Date:
1908
Stock No:
41684
£175
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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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ROSEBERY
(Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of, 1847-1929, Prime Minister 1894-1895, three times Derby winner)
Unsigned Autograph Envelope addressed to F. A. Brough
at St Enoch’s Hotel, Glasgow, on his monogrammed black edged envelope, postmarked Gorebridge and Glasgow on receipt, 20th September
Item Date:
1902
Stock No:
42034
£30
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ROSEN
(Baron Roman Romanovich, 1847-1921, Russian Diplomat)
Autograph Cheque Signed
on a Riggs National Bank printed form with a picture of the bank for $50 in Cash, 7” x 3”, Washington DC, 10th November
Item Date:
1910
Stock No:
42349
£1255
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ROTHERHAM
(Sir William Henry Holland, 1849-1927, M.P., Cotton and Worsted Spinner, from 1907 1st Bart., from 1910 1st Baron)
Typed Letter Signed to Ernest Haddock, Principal of the Leeds College of Music,
saying that "under ordinary circumstances I should have been glad to comply with your suggestion", but asking to be excused "in view of the incredible number of pressing claims" on him, 1 side 4to., 61 Queen's Gate, S.W., 18th May
Item Date:
1915
Stock No:
18814
£15
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