CHURCHILL REPLIES TO A TOAST
[SAVAGE CLUB
(E.E. Peacock, Hon. Sec.)]
Pictorial Menu of the club's 44th Anniversary Dinner
with a mass of cartoon portraits by Oliver Paque of leading figures of the day, including guests Sir L. Alma Tadema and Winston Churchill M.P., who is shown hauling a bottle of champagne on a miniature gun-carriage labelled 'Pretoria', and Archdeacon Sinclair standing by a mitre marked "nolo episcopari" ("I don't want to be a bishop"), on the verso are the toasts and the names of no fewer than 28 entertainers including Courtice Pounds, printed in black, verso also in red and gold, 2 sides card 14¼" x 11", Hotel Cecil, 7th December
short tear in fold without loss
Item Date:
1901
Stock No:
51784
£675
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SCARBROUGH
(Frances, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Anne, wife of Richard Lumley, d. 1721, 1st Earl) and GODOLPHIN(Sidney, Earl of, 1645-1712, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Anne)
Receipt Signature "F Scarbrough"
on the verso of a portion of a manuscript Order signed by the Lord High Treasurer, the Earl of Godolphin, for £250, being a quarter of her Annuity as Lady of the Bedchamber due at Christmas 1707, 2 sides 3¾" x 9½", 28th January 1707, new style
lacks top and bottom portion
Item Date:
1708
Stock No:
51649
£75
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SEAMAN
(Rev. Sir Keith Douglas, b. 1920, Methodist and Uniting Church Minister, Governor of South Australia 1977-1982) and his wife Joan SEAMAN
Christmas card signed in full by both,
at the foot of a double-page reproduction of a fine pencil drawing of the wide frontage of Government House (built 1840), small gilt crown on upper cover, 2 facing sides within outer covers 6" x 8", Government House, Adelaide, Christmas no year, circa
light traces of laying down by blank fourth side
Item Date:
1980
Stock No:
54269
£75
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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
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39781
£275
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