EDWARD VIII
(1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor)
Fine Wartime Autograph Letter Signed in pencil to "My dear Colonel" written "In the train to MARSEILLES",
saying that "poor old Desmond's death is a fearful blow to me & I can't realise we shall never see the dear chap again. It's all too ghastly & such a rotten way of being killed; ... at Calais one would have thought one's friends were safe. All this hardly tends to cheer me up on my way East!! Claudie & Malcolm Murray are with me & we crossed to Boulogne in a destroyer ... & have passed dear old Paris. We should reach Marseilles about 9.00 am & shove off at once ... for Alexandria ... What a change it will be out there, & a pleasant one in a way tho I cant say I'm looking forward to it a bit really. I do feel the biggest shit on God's Earth deserting the DIV at this time just as you are all going up to Ypres to have a bloody awful time!! ... I don't deserve it!! I have had a frightfully busy week in London ... I only dined out twice as my family was in London!! ... So you see I was'nt v. gay ... we made up for a lot that night!! Mrs Wyndham & Patra Cadogan dined as well as Claud & my brother & we danced ... a little of that does one a world of good!! ..." he continues with news of friends and continues that he supposes "you are in camp near Popersinghe I only trust it will soon get warmer, for there has been a lot of snow in England ... My brother & I had a game of squash every morning ..." he sends love to friends in the battalion, 2 sides 8vo., France, 10th March
Item Date:
1916
Stock No:
23142
£1500
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[EDWARD VIII
(1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor)]
Good press photo, unsigned, by Paul Parker of New York City,
showing him three quarter length, in profile, cigarette in hand, in a group standing close round him, onlookers behind, apparently having told a good story to a senior RAF officer, 8" x 10", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
53774
£75
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[EDWARD VIII
(1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor), GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of Great Britain), their valet Frederick FINCH (1871-1953) and tutor Henry HANSELL (1863-1935)]
Group of 3 unsigned Snapshot Photographs,
showing them in the grounds at Sandringham, in the first the Princes, wearing sailor suits and with a satchel slung across the shoulder, are shown standing with Finch, all full length, full or nearly full face, their pet dog in front; in the second Finch has one knee on the grass and the dog perched on the other; in the third the dog looks on at Hansell (on the right) who has Prince Edward on his shoulder, and Finch who has Prince Albert (George VI) on his, 3¾" x 3" or 3¼" x 4", [Sandringham], no date, circa
traces of laying down by blank versos
Item Date:
1902
Stock No:
54441
£250
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EDWARD VIII
(1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor)
Received copy of a telegram from "Edward P", in pencil,
to Wilson-Taylor (Chairman of the Bath Club), "Thank you so much for your letter of good wishes", complete telegram form, Buckinham Palace, 25th June
frayed around edges
Item Date:
1929
Stock No:
28133
£125
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[EDWARD VIII
(1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor)]
A Pair of unsigned Press Photographs showing Edward,
dressed in a herringbone coat and bowler hat, arriving and them planting a tree at an unidentified College with many female students, 6½" x 8", no place, no date, c.
2 small marginal tears repaired
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
18243
£100
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