SEELY
(John Edward Bernard, 1st Baron Mottistone, 1868-1947, Politician & Soldier)
Typed Letter Signed to General Sir Robert BADEN POWELL
(1857-1941, Defender of Mafeking & Founder of the Boy Scouts) saying that he is "interested to hear of your visit to Canada during August and September. I should much like to see you before you start. Would it not be worth your while to have an official letter of recommendation from Crewe? Let me know, for if so, I will send you one. These letters are often of some convenience even to people like yourself who know most of the official people already ...", and inviting him to lunch, 1 side 4to., Colonial Office headed paper, 22nd July
Item Date:
1910
Stock No:
40870
£175
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THE COUNTESS OF SELBORNE ON WOMAN'S FRANCHISE
SELBORNE
(Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne, 1858-1950, wife of the 2nd Earl 1859-1942, Political and Women's rights Activist)
Exceptional Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Baddeley
saying that she thinks "your suggestion is a very good one and I have sent your book on to Mr Fyfe ... I enclose the figures of infant mortality which I spoke to you about. They are curious, whether you draw the deductions which this leaflet does or not. I was looking at those for 1911 the other day, & they are much the same. The United Kingdom is I think relatively rather worse on account of the very hot dry summer. The most inexplicable thing is the very high German figure. I think we may say that it proves that the political woman is no worse at her own job , than the political man is at his. I really don't know why anyone should have supposed she would be. It is difficult to believe that the difference in legislation is responsible for the improvement. The woman voting countries have better laws on sanitation and the protection of children, but I don't think that can make the difference between let us say 72 in Norway & 170 in Germany. I expect the difference is really moral. That the men in the countries which have given women votes, accept more often permissive standards, & also that the mothers are more deferred to in the lower classes. However, these are the figures & they certainly deserve consideration ... Figures never were my strong point & I am aghast at the number I make it. So I will state the problem for you. A population of 70 millions with a birth rate of 37 per thousand living out of every 1000 babies born 170 dies before they are a year old. Of those 170 90 might be saved. How indignant you would feel if you heard that an invading army had massacred all those children, but you only think us cranks because we are trying to suggest that somehow or other we do succeed in saving the children's lives. You won't even take the trouble to go into the evidence & see what we have to say for ourselves. Well I suppose every reformer has felt like this ...", with a postscript "the chances are you will not even work out that sum", 4 sides 8vo., 49 Mount Street, 25th February
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0
Stock No:
39781
£275
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SELBORNE
(Roundell Palmer, 1812-1895, Lord Chancellor 1872-1874 and 1880-1885, from 1872 1st Baron Selborne, from 1882 1st Earl of)
Autograph letter signed to the Rev. W. Downe
thanking him for his "letter & the card, but I think it will still be most convention for me to meet you at ... Poplar. My daughter and myself will have had our luncheon in the middle of the day and we shall not stand in need of any refreshment before service ...", 2 sides 8vo., Blackmoor, Petersfield, 27th September
Item Date:
1879
Stock No:
41510
£60
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SELBORNE
(Roundell Palmer, 1812-1895, Lord Chancellor 1872-1874 and 1880-1885, from 1872 1st Baron Selborne, from 1882 1st Earl of)
Autograph letter in the third person,
to the Council of the Yorkshire Law Students Union, assuring them "of his great interest in the promotion of Legal Education, in all branches of study, for all ranks of the Legal Profession", however he feels he is unable to advise them on "the feasibility of the particular scheme intended", his own views on "a General School of Law ... in London were frequently before the public some years ago" but "did not receive ... the public and professional encouragement ... necessary", in particular "it has not been possible ... to collect the information" about "what might now be done", his age is against taking up the subject again, but the essential thing will be "the creation of a strong and genuine public opinion" among those "directly concerned", 4 sides 7" x 4½", Blackmoor, Petersfield, 17th October
Item Date:
1892
Stock No:
54188
£75
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SELBORNE
(Roundell Palmer, 1812-1895, Lord Chancellor 1872-1874 and 1880-1885, from 1872 1st Baron, from 1882 1st Earl of)
Autograph Letter Signed 'R. Palmer' to T. Bradshaw,
saying he is "sorry to say, that it will not be possible for me to be in London on Wednesday ... nor shall I be there, effectively, till the first day of term", 2 sides 8vo., Oxford, 5th July
Item Date:
1869
Stock No:
13257
£15
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