LEIPNIK
(Dr. Ferdinand L., 1869-c.1924, Hungarian Journalist and Connoisseur, intermediary between Austria-Hungary and Great Britain in WWI)
Collection of over 200 visiting or business cards
from diplomats, journalists, shipping and railway industrialists, academics, publishers and connoisseurs, many naming their official positions, some introducing Leipnik or thanking him for named favours, over 15 countries are represented, especially Hungary, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Japan and Sweden, some duplicates, over 200 items, c. 1905 - c.
Item Date:
1922
Stock No:
19044
£325
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LENNOX
(Lord George, 1793-1873, M.P. for West Sussex, brother of the 5th Duke of Richmond)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Sir Harry',
saying "My brother Lord Sussex Lennox", (1802-1874), "has asked me to introduce to you the son of a great friend of his and of your Judith - Mr James Money Simms, best known at Sandhurst as Gentleman Gordon Simms", 1 side 8vo black-edged, 7 Oriental Place, Brighton , 28th June
Item Date:
1862
Stock No:
17729
£15
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LEWIS
(David, Conservative MP for Carmarthen 1835-1837)
Address panel signed for free postage
to Mrs Hudleston of Sackville Street, Dublin, London, 20th March
Item Date:
1835
Stock No:
17741
£15
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LEWIS
(Sir George Cornewall, 1806-1863, Statesman & Author)
2nd half of a document signed as Lieutenant for the County of Oxford, n.p., n.d.
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
18369
£15
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[LIEVEN
(Dorothea, 1784-1857, Princess, née von Benckendorf)]
Autograph account of the Princess by Harriet,
(née Howard, 1806-1868, Mistress of the Robes, wife of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland), saying she "shall always think her 'a woman nobly planned'.- The good part of her nature may have been marr'd by marrying, young, a man she could not love or look up to", but doubting whether "any domestic happiness would have ... weaned her" from her passion for "society and politics", "how true her friendship was to Ld. Aberdeen - what clever men she always seemed to attack if she would, Mr Canning & Ld. Grey", and listing "the charms of her conversation ... its zest ... lucidity ... pungency ... sometimes its charming naiveté - its perfect décence without prudery ... the virility of man's intellect ... the tact of woman's ... one could not imagine vulgarity shewing itself in her presence - & all the many vulgars must have disliked her ... She loved the game of politics too much - if she thought it all the work of men & perhaps did not see that 'God moves them in a mysterious way ... let us trust that before the end ... she did see this", talking of "the man who in her affliction ... pointed to the highest comfort, as I know he did ... in that supreme moment ... of the change from the pigmy, restless interests of life to the blessed hope of eternal Rest", blue embossed crowned 'S', 3 sides 9" x 7¼", no place, no date, with a letter from Lady Clarendon (wife of the 4th Earl, Foreign Minister) to Mr Reeve, (probably Henry, who had been foreign editor of The Times), praising his own letter [not present], "it is well to screen the dead from unmerited abuse - but - she had weak or rather hard points in her character - the world has perhaps nothing to do with them ... the Dss. of Sutherland's letter is curious, the style more forceful than I should have imagined ... the sentiments charitable", 3 sides 8vo, Grosvenor Crescent, 9th February
Item Date:
1857
Stock No:
53976
£150
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