WHITBREAD
(Samuel, 1764-1815, Politician, Son of the Brewer, Committed Suicide)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent,
returning "the papers which you were so good as to entrust to my care ... I highly approve your proposed Bill & if you bring it forward it shall have my earnest & most diligent support. What is of much more consequence, you will be gratified to find how much it is approved by ... Romilly[?]. I know the subject has long been under his consideration. I send you his letter, & the short note I showed you in the H. of Comm ... The wording of the Bill, before it is printed, will require considerable alteration & much more precision in the phrases - The word Child should invariably used to designate the poor object to be apprenticed ...", 2 sides 4to., Dover Street, 13th March
slight discolouration on left hand edge
Item Date:
1811
Stock No:
11478
£65
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WHITBREAD
(Samuel, 1758-1815, Liberal Politician)
Letter signed to Mr Peart,
Rochester, sending him with "pleasure ... the inclosed from Ld. St. Vincent which will I hope be satisfactory to you ...", 1 side 4to., with original autograph address on conjugate blank, with his seal, signature, and Parliamentary date stamp 'FREE', Southill, Biggleswade, 11th July
Item Date:
1810
Stock No:
11694
£35
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WHITBREAD
(Samuel, M.P., 1720-1796, founder of the Brewery)
LS to Mr Strong,
saying "The News you sent me is sooner than I expected" and asking him "to give what directions you please as if your own case ... I apprehend you will ... go down after she is buried", he has also heard "from the Clergyman, a Mr Kerby, to give me an Account of Mrs. B.s death", 1 side 4to. and conjugate blank, addressee's name in Whitbread's hand on verso, Portman Square, London, 2nd February
slight discolouration, short tears in blank margins
Item Date:
1790
Stock No:
50961
£125
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WIGG
(George Edward Cecil, 1900-1983, Labour Paymaster-General, 1st Baron)
Typed Letter Signed to A.J Hall,
referring to Christopher Frere Smith's 'Get Britain Out' campaign, 1 side large 8vo., House of Lords, 13th January
Item Date:
1975
Stock No:
13509
£15
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WILLINGTON
(John, sometime Bailiff of Tamworth)
Autograph Letter Signed to George TOWNSHEND
(1724-1807, Soldier and Politician, from 1764 4th Viscount, from 1786 1st Marquess), saying that "the Address from this place will be sent to your Lordship by this days Mail Coach, with a letter from Mr. Oakes the Town Clerk" requesting Townshend to present it, he has "not received a letter from Mr Peel", (Robert, 1750-1830, MP for Tamworth, 1st Baronet 29th November 1800), who "probably wrote to his correspondent here", he thinks the "chief inducement" of Lord Chartley, (George Ferrars Townshend, 1778-1855, grandson of the addressee and from 1811 3rd Marquess) "going to the Continent now must be to find himself more at Liberty than under the immediate <of> eye of his parents. The conduct of the Emperor of Russia" Paul I, "seems very extraordinary", and "it seems to be a question whether we shd. not do better without any Ally", on local politics "One of Lord Uxbridges sons has joined Sr. Nigel Gresley for Lichfield in opposition to the Gower & Anson interests and has begun canvassing ...", he apologises for not having been able to wait on Lord Townshend in London "owing to an obstinate complaint" and has had "the very great pleasure ... of hearing that your Lordship, Lady Townshend and the family are well", 2 sides 4to, Tamworth, 28th May
slight closed tears in blank ends of horizontal folds
Item Date:
1800
Stock No:
56713
£125
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