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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WILLKIE
(Wendell Lewis, 1892-1944, American Lawyer, Corporate Executive and 1940 Republican nominee for President of the United States)
Signature on card
with a postmark, 4½" x 3", New York, 14th August
Item Date:
1941
Stock No:
41302
£55
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THE AMERICAN REGIMENT
[WILMINGTON
(Spencer Compton, c. 1673-1743, 1st Baron, 1723, and 1st Earl, 1730, succeeded Walpole as Prime Minister in 1742, Wilmington in Delaware and in North Carolina are named after him)]
Finely penned Memorial addressed to the Prime Minister
“of Sundry Reduced Officers of the Forces raised in North America for the late Expedition to the West Indies”, referring to their “very great charges... in raising their Companies in North America” and “for the different Embarkations... during the course of the said Expedition”, followed by “Necessaries and Payment for their Passages to England from Jamaica where everything was excessive dear”, so that many “especially the Subalterns“ are “reduced to great Difficulties how to subsist or to procure Credit”, other memorials have already been presented “in relation to putting them on Half-pay”, and asking the Prime Minister “to move His Majesty... speedily to declare His Royal Will and pleasure”, 1 side 15” x 9¼”, title “Memorial of sundry officers of the American Regiment” on conjugate leaf, no place, no date but 1742 -
Item Date:
1743
Stock No:
42233
£775
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