LINDORES
(Jane, née Reeve, 1759 or 1760-1837, wife of John Leslie, 1750-1813, Lieutenant-General, from 1775 8th Baron Lindores)
Autograph letter, unsigned,
addressed to her husband at Gey's House, near Maidenhead, saying that her first letter "since my necessary departure" had "opened an Opportunity of your making such Proposal for a Separation between Us as you should think proper", but to no effect, she is now required "by my Proctor to furnish those minute instructions necessary ... the heavy expence of which we must both wish to avoid", she is still open to an "amicable Separation" but otherwise must pursue protection and remedy in "the Commons", that is, Doctors' Commons near St.Paul's, where the ecclesiastical judges and lawyers resided, and requests "your answer in a few days ... directed to Mr Bogg", 1 side 9½" x 8¼", address on verso, no place, May
Item Date:
1790
Stock No:
52876
£85
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LLOYD
(General Sir Francis, 1853-1926, Commander London District 1913-1919)
Signature from foot of Typed Letter Signed,
pencil note of date
Item Date:
1918
Stock No:
17754
£20
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LOUIS JOSEPH
(Duke of Vendôme, 1654-1712, Marshal of France, Military Commander during the War of the Grand Alliance and War of the Spanish Succession)
Document in French signed with autograph addittons
the printed part lists the Duke's titles and orders, and he has written a note giving a free pass for soldiers from the Regiment of Dragoons who had been injured in the Battle of Luzzara, and signed it, there are then further entries signed by the other endorsers, 2 sides folio, given at the Camp of Sanguinetto, 4th May
Item Date:
1703
Stock No:
39146
£475
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LOWE
(Sir Hudson, 1769-1844, Soldier, Governor of St. Helena, 1815-1821)
Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Henry Edward BUNBURY,
(1778-1860, Soldier, Under-Secretary of State for War, 1809-1816), marked 'Private', sending [not present] "an Extract of the Letter of General GNEISENAU", (Graf August Neidhardt von, 1760-1831, Prussian Field Marshal), "previous to my departure from Brussels with Copy of the Remarks of the Duke of WELLINGTON which ... I communicated to General Gneisenau", the writer apprehends that "the Prussian Army would be much grateful in having a Rocket Battery ... in the same manner as was done to the Army of the Prince Royal of Sweden", (Jean Baptiste BERNADOTTE, 1763-1844, Napoleon's former Marshal, elected in 1810 to succeed the childless Carl XIII and from 1818 Carl XIV Johan of Sweden and Norway), for use against towns "when a defence might be attempted without the inhabitants or the Guards having the Means of resisting a regular Siege", 2 sides 4to., short title on conjugate leaf, London, 27th May
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Item Date:
1815
Stock No:
56211
£1750
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LOWE
(Sir Hudson, 1769-1844, Soldier, Governor of St. Helena, 1815-1821)
Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Nicholas Harris NICHOLAS
(1799-1848, Naval Officer and Barrister) sending him “the book of which you were speaking, but as I have some occasion to refer to it, shall be obliged, by your suffering me to send or call for it tomorrow afternoon... I shall probably do myself the pleasure of calling as I am always happy of any pretext for doing so...”, 2 sides 8vo., no place, no date, Monday afternoon
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
42223
£275
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