WINDSOR
(Duchess of, Wallis Simpson, 1896-1986, Wife of Edward VIII)
Album of photograph including one boldly signed underneath by the Duchess,
"Wallis Windsor" showing her full length, walking up steps, wearing a summer dress, 5" x 3¾", no place, (Bahamas), the other photos cover the RAF career of Airman Ryan, one of the dentists who treated the Duchess, covering his time in the Gold Coast and then Miami, followed by over a dozen photos of the Bahamas including the Governor's residence and two others of the Duke and Duchess, one with her dog, and a menu for a RAF Christmas dinner in Nassau, 1945, signed by many of the participants, and a VE Day ribbon from Nassau, about 100 images, various place, 1940-
Item Date:
1945
Stock No:
28391
£675
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WINDSOR
(Duchess of, Wallis Simpson, 1896-1986, Wife of Edward VIII)
Fine long Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs. Emerson.
saying that she had "an idea of sending you this note by Mai, but I have just heard that it is against regulations" so explaining the delay in thanking her for "the divine and useful cigarette boxes which add so considerably to the décor of this ugly house ...", she says that she "loved having Mai here, a breath from the world of human beings, she ... has had a sad time ... there are so few people here and really nothing to do with the hotels closed ... War has at last come to the Bahamas which makes this job slightly more interesting as we now have the unemployment problem and many others … we are lashed to the mast'…" hoping she will have a "slight respite from the heat ... if so our paths might cross - I still long to see your camp - Mai has told me what a perfect place it is and the wonderful bracing air, the very opposite from here ...", 5 sides 8vo., Government House, Bahamas, together with an unsigned photo annotated on the verso as showing the Duke seated next to Mrs Emerson, with the Duchess at the head of the table with her back to the camera, 7" x 7" no place, Nassau, the letter dated Wednesday, 4th March, no date, circa
ink slightly faded
Item Date:
1941
Stock No:
28609
£750
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WINDSOR
(Lady Harriet, 1797-1869, wife of the Hon. Robert Henry Clive, Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria 1837-1841, from 1855 in her own right Baroness)
Opening part of an Autograph Letter in the third person to Captain Archer,
acknowledging his letter, 24th August 1864, with (also laid down) signatures of W.S. Dawkins, John Hullah, and Vejearam Raj, Sultan of Vejeanagrum, Baroness Windsor's letter 1 side 8vo on mourning paper, Hewell, Bromsgrove, 24th August
laid down on album leaf,
Item Date:
1864
Stock No:
13525
£20
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WINDSOR
(Duchess of, Wallis Simpson, 1896-1986, Wife of Edward VIII)
Photograph of the United Services Canteen in the Bahamas, signed "Wallis Windsor" under the picture,
of a 1930's style villa, with palm and other trees in the near and middle distance, 5" x 4", Bahamas, no date, circa
signature penned on the gloss surface a trifle thin in places but perfectly clear, including the long final stroke of the 'r', a few tiny crumples mostly in or near the margins, remains of tabs in corners of verso
Item Date:
1943
Stock No:
55024
£225
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WINDSOR
(Duchess of, Wallis Simpson, 1896-1986, Wife of Edward VIII)
Fine long Autograph Letter Signed with initials to "Dear Gray"
(Major Gray PHILLIPS, 1885-1976, Duke of Windsor's Equerry from 1939) starting that "This is not bad for me to reply to your letter of September in November - you always have so much news of our old friends of Nassau days - I find most of the people that come through Paris are rich widows and I am engaged in a continual man hunt. It is really a very dull life here ... the older I get and it quite old - the harder it is to make an effort in a foreign language - We are going to Vienna Wednesday to stop at Enzesfeld for a long weekend, Hubert Pantz is turning it into a shooting place and this is the launching ..." saying how thrilled they are to go "with all its memories for us - and I am just ready for a change of faces. We have been beset with servant problems ... chauffeurs (Mordaunt has been ill for six months), Gardeners - funny people out in the air ... from everybody some complaint ..." suggesting that he gets Biddy to help him "across and you need not deal with stairs ... you can come to the Salon upstairs by the garden way or we can remain in the little sitting room ... we could arrange the car to come to the plane - What do you think of my taking up flying I loathe every minute of it and all the people in the plane as well - and they have evidently a special person for tearing your luggage apart ..." she continues about the damage to her baggage from flying and then talks about the Hadleys who she hasn't seen for "nearly 2 years we make unsuccessful efforts to talk on the telephone but poor Eric he can't hear ... they have really spread themselves - Dorothy Killam's town house - I hadn't heard about the one on Hog Island - I think he is going to sell Great Westward. Think over the idea of coming with Biddy ... Have read Nancy Mitford's book excellent and illustrations wonderful. I am embarked on Macmillan's book but it is hard for me as it starts very early. I am not up to dealing with Spaniards in the building department ...", 4 sides 4to., 4 Route du Champ D'Entrainement, Bois de Bologne, Paris, 13th November no year.
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
29550
£750
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