GLUBB PASHA
(Sir John Bagot, 1897-1986, Commander of the Arab Legion, 1939-1956)
Autograph Letter Signed
to Mr Priestley, thanking him "for your kindness in rescuing my wife and myself when we were broken down in Tidebrook, and for driving us back to Mayfield ... Thank you for being our Good Samaritan", 2 sides 8vo, West Wood St Dunstan, Mayfield, Sussex, 8th April
Item Date:
1978
Stock No:
56357
£175
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GODWIN
(Sir Henry Thomas, 1784-1853, K.C.B., Major-General, served in the Peninsula, C-in-C 2nd Burmese War 1852-1853)
Signature on fragment of a letter
thanking the Society of Antiquaries for electing him a member, and recalling his friendship with the late Thomas Fisher, F.S.A., "from whom I imbibed even in my boyhood a sincere veneration for antiquity", 2 sides part 8vo., Newbury, 23rd February
Item Date:
1841
Stock No:
52067
£75
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GOLDIE
(Sir George Leigh, c.1791-1863, from 1862 General)
Document signed signed as Major, being the Monthly Return of Quarters
of the 66th Regiment of Foot, addressed to the A.Q.M.G. at Portsmouth, manuscript tables ruled in red, showing 1 sergeant, 13 rank and file present and fit for duty, 5 invalids, and 4 detached, 1 side oblong folio, title on verso, Winchester, 19th September
remains of mounting on left hand edge
Item Date:
1817
Stock No:
20076
£25
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GOODALL
(Thomas, 1767-c. 1832, the 'Admiral of Haiti')
Signature on a receipt to Messrs Clementson & Dewton
for "one Guinea & a half on Account", with his portrait engraved by Ridley Blood after Drummond, for the European Magazine, showing him head and shoulders in uniform, pub. by J. Asperne, Cornhill, 1st June 1808, the receipt no place, 27th May
Item Date:
1786
Stock No:
52068
£175
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GORDON
(George Grant, 1836-1912, served in all the chief engagements in the Crimea with the Scots Guards and as to ADC Sir James Simpson, Equerry and Comptroller to Prince and Princess Christian, Colonel)
Autograph Letter in the third person to Messrs A & J Cooper,
conveying Princess Christian's acceptance as patron of 'the Exhibition', with on the conjugate leaf a draft reply in pencil, naming the event as 'A Music Room, the decorations after the Greek', and noting other possible patrons including the King of Greece, the letter 2 sides 8vo., Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Park, 8th March
Item Date:
1886
Stock No:
52069
£75
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