DERBY
(Edward Stanley, 1865-1948, 17th Earl of)
6 Typed Letter Signed 'Yours ever Derby' to Sir Percy Lyham LORAINE ,
(1880-1961, from 1917 12th Baronet, Ambassador and Racehorse Owner), marked 'Confidential' or 'Private', with 2 file copies of letters from Sir Percy to Lord Derby, on international affairs and the turf, "There is no doubt the Windsors are doing very well and are very popular" at Government House in the Bahamas, recently visited by Oliver Stanley as colonial secretary, "I am afraid there is still a good bit of fight left in the people who support Hitler" [in Germany], from Sir Percy with congratulations on Lord Derby's "fourscore years", "Personally I think it is quite wrong of Winston to have gone abroad at such a time as this" (29th January 1946), Sir Percy writes "The Lloyd George budget ... was a flea-bite by comparison with that of Mr Hugh Dalton. The Soviet Exchequer takes 100% death duties ... and provides a reasonable life income for the widow. Mr Dalton proposes to take 75% ... where is taxable wealth to come from? ... the State ... will be the father, school-mistress and paymaster of every citizen ... Less than 2 years before his death ... I went to lunch with Edward Grey at Falloden", recounting Grey's tale about the three Achilles' heels, "Ireland, India and Egypt ... so on the whole I now find horses and racing the most congenial form of escapism", discussing the year's prospects for the Turf (28th April 1946), Lord Derby thanks him, "The Prime Minister [Attlee] himself is rather a good fellow he is surrounded by ... the very worst advisers ... I am debarred by being Lord Lieutenant from taking any part in politics" so that "I really hear nothing except from ... friends like yourself" "Winston is coming here in October, just as a guest, during the time he is attending the meetings in Blackpool ... I have got a fair lot of yearlings this year", besides "Attlee whom I like ... the only other man of consequence is Bevin", "I am sorry to hear about your mare ... I should hope that she will soon give you something worthy to carry your Colours", "I am going racing today at Manchester ... four horses ... Personally I should like to change my trainer, but that is between you and me, as my family all like him so much ... when you have got a youngish family and all of them go racing, one has to go more by what they say ... it would be a real pleasure to see you" 11 sides 4to. and 2 sides 8vo. from Lord Derby, telegram and 2 sides folio from Sir Percy, 8 items, 1945 -
pin marks in top left corners, filing hole in one letter
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
12375
£225
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DERBY
(Edward Henry, 1826-1893, Statesman, 15th Earl)
Autograph Letter in the third person as Lord Stanley, to Dr George Phillips, 1804-1892,
Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, accepting for 9th June (for dinner following the conferring of honorary degrees, including his own), with autograph envelope front, 1 side 8vo., St. James's Square, 22nd May
Item Date:
1862
Stock No:
50059
£15
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DERBY
(Edward Henry, 1826-1893, Statesman, 15th Earl)
Autograph Letter in the third person as Lord Stanley, to Dr. George Phillips, 1804-1892,
Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, "troubling him only ... to express his regret that the necessity of leaving for London on Wednesday put it out of his power to wait upon him ... for paying his respects ... as he had ... desired to do", with autograph envelope front, 1 side 8vo., St. James's Square, 13th June
Item Date:
1862
Stock No:
50060
£25
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DERBY
(Edward Stanley, 1826-1893, from 1851 Lord Stanley, from 1869 15th Earl of)
Autograph Letter in third person as Lord Stanley to Mr Sandford,
thanking him for the "interesting and important" papers "relative to Austria and Hungary", 1 side 8vo., 23 St James's Square, 27th January
laid down, monogram removed
Item Date:
1862
Stock No:
12368
£15
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DERBY
(Edward John Stanley, M.C., b.1918, from 1948 18th Earl of Derby)
Autograph Letter Signed ('John') to Sir Percy Lyham LORAINE ,
(12th Baronet, 1880-1961, Ambassador and Racehorse Owner), thanking him "so very much for your kind letter of sympathy" over his grandfather Edward, (1865-1948, 17th Earl), who "will be missed ... by every body from every walk of life ... The tributes which have come from all classes are really wonderful - How very proud he would have been to have seen them", 2 sides 8vo., Knowsley, Prescot, Lancashire, 31st March
Item Date:
1948
Stock No:
14880
£15
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