PEEL
(Sir Robert, 1788-1850, Prime Minister)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he does not "wish to purchase the Dorhill House and property attached ... with regard to the Meadows on the opposite side of the Lane, which would induce me to recommend a departure from the usual Course of conducting business in matters of this nature. I offer a sum for the Meadows which entitles me to expect a written agreement as to the conditions of purchase and a valid Title - and my impressions are the same which I think you entertain - that the usual professional course should be adhered to ...", 4 sides 8vo., Whitehall, 9th March
Item Date:
1848
Stock No:
41673
£275
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PELHAM
(Henry, 1696-1754, Prime Minister)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Lord PALMERSTON
(Henry Temple, c. 1673-1757, 1st Viscount and Politician) saying he is "ashamed to give you any trouble on this occasion, but as the Parliament is appointed to meet on Tuesday the sixteenth of November and in all probability will proceed to business immediately, I shall hope we might expect to see your Lordship there the first day. An appearance of well wishers to their friends and their country, may possibly prevent, or at least deny the designs of the enemy, it is on these principles I venture to trouble your Lordship ...", 1 side 4to., no place, 15th October
Item Date:
1872
Stock No:
39982
£675
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PELHAM
(Sir Thomas, 1650-1712, M.P., father of Henry PELHAM)
Fine signature
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
8320
£20
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HOPING TO SEE KRUGER 'IN THE CART'
PEMBROKE
(Sidney Herbert, 1853-1914, M.P. and Cabinet Minister, 14th Earl)
Autograph letter signed to 'My dear Graham',
Col. Edward Ritchie Coryton Graham, b. 1858, Assistant Adjutant General in South Africa, saying he was delighted "to be able to do a good turn to an old friend, Bigge told me he had received the Queen's commands to write to you", he expects "most of the troops at the front have been indebted to you and your staff for what you have sent up ... I hope that the end of next week may see Kruger safely 'in the cart' ... the news from China diversifies our anxiety ... I have been able to run down here for Sunday, owing to the Khedive being too ill to land" in the Thames, complaints about the war have diminished "since Roberts' successes began", but "calling up Reservists, Royal Reservists, and embodiments of Militia" means "our Barracks are full to overcrowding", sending "some thousands of men on furlough. We have not got to the bottom of the British Army yet!", embossed monogram and coronet, 4 sides 7" x 4½", Wilton House, Salisbury, 23rd June
neat blue pencil '19' over part of side 1, spike hole touching coronet and one word
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
53521
£225
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PEMBROKE & MONTGOMERY
(Philip, 1584-1650, Lord Chamberlain 1626-1641, K.G., later a Parliamentarian, 4th and 1st Earl)
Document signed as Lord Warden of the Stannaries
to Richard Estcott, Steward for the Stannaries in Devon, in a clear hand, requiring him "by the Oath of good lawfull men of that Stannarie" to "enquire after, and seize upon the Goods and Chattles of Symon Lee, Marten Rowe, Elianor Mudge, Barnaby Hutchins, Edmond Furse, John Rich, and Richard Glawen, Tinners, attainted of Fellonie, or Felons de se ... and to be accountable to me for the same for his Ma[jes]t[ie]s use", Charles I, papered seal with the Earl's arms surrounded by the Garter, 1 side 12¼" x 7¾", short title on conjugate blank, Court at Whitehall, 9th November
slight defects in central fold, seal impression faint in second and third quarters
Item Date:
1633
Stock No:
54092
£875
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