THE SHRIGLEY ABDUCTION
PARKER
(Joseph, 1830-1902, Congregationalist Divine)
Autograph Letter signed to H. MERIVALE
(Herman, 1806-1874, Under-Secretary for India) saying that he had "mislaid the Pain-Pain, till it turned up this morning in a hoard of such matter. I have no authority from Philips, who gave me the copy to circulate or ascribe it to him & therefore please do not lend it. The other, the MS is not 'Private' or 'confidential'. Please return the in a week - the regulation time of literary Book-loans. Show the Duke the Wakefield-iana. His narrative is a ... French novel. Mr Turner, who was a client of mine in an Election Petition, told me that pending the abduction Trial he received anonymous letters from the 'Wakefield Family' vile beyond belief, to induce him to submit to the felony. The only member not bad & mad was the late Colonel ...", 3 sides sm. 8vo., 2 Savile Row, 18th January
Item Date:
1854
Stock No:
40298
£225
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PARMOOR
(2nd Baron, Alfred Henry Seddon Cripps, 1882-1977, Lawyer)
Contract Document signed for the purchase of a house in Cheltenham,
from Philippa Keith-Roach for a price of £3250, printed with the details filled in by hand, 1 side folio., Cheltenham,
Item Date:
1954
Stock No:
2509
£18
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PARR
(Samuel, 1747-1825, Pedagogue)
Autograph Letter Signed to Jeremiah Bawlham,
regretting that they will not see each other as "you are inaccessible every morning & I am engaged every evening. But my regard for you, my respect, I had almost said my Reverence will accompany me to the end of my existence - I have put the paper which you obligingly sent in the hands of Lady Ann Hamilton & it will be laid before the law advisers of the Queen. If Mr Roc be with you present my best compts to him - The Queen has written a firm and wise letter to her Royal Consort, But I expect little good from it ...", 2 side 8vo., with integral autograph address leaf, Cumberland Place, 9th August
Item Date:
1820
Stock No:
18270
£195
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PARTRIDGE
(Richard, 1805-1873, Surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society)
Autograph letter signed to 'Dear Cheeze'
asking for information "which you may have to communicate to me on matters concerning the welfare of King's College in which I have always taken the greatest interest ... any leisure I may have must be devoted to the examination of papers for an examination on Surgery to take place at the College of Surgeons ...", 4 sides sm. 8vo., monogrammed paper, no place, 16th May
Item Date:
1869
Stock No:
38769
£225
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PATTESON
(Sir John, 1790-1861, Judge of the King's Bench )
Charming autograph letter signed to his brother Edward,
saying his gout "while it stayed was very trifling so I had no chance of being a cook in a rage", they have had "long letters from Coley", his son John Coleridge PATTESON (1827-1871, from 1861 Bishop of Melanesia), "last date November 23rd - they got back to Auckland on the 17th. ... They visited 66 Islands & landed 81 times - never in danger from the natives but once, when two arrows were shot at their boat as they went off: one went over their heads & the other fell 10 yards short - He is very hopeful of doing good, but bitterly laments that there are so few labourers in the Vineyard & of those few many not of the right sort - How should it be otherwise, well-educated men won't go, & half-educated men do almost more harm than good", he rejoices that "you have good accounts from Franky; he is a plucky fellow to have shaken off the fever & marched up to Cawnpore &c", while "Colin ... plans & executes, careful of the lives of his men, leaving nothing to chance ... You see we have knocked up the Denison case - I was quite satisfied on carefully considering the Act of Parliament that we could not come to any other conclusion. I hope that the Archdeacon will not provoke another attack", he is "poor" but sends "a cheque for the Church £5 self - £2 Joan ... It is all very well Rowland Hill making a scapegoat of the Cullompton Postmistress, who no doubt was the primary cause: but the transmission of letters through London is shameful at the London Post Office", 4 sides 8vo.(of which one side is black edged), Feniton Court, Honiton, 9th February
Item Date:
1858
Stock No:
54263
£350
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