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(Dorothea, 1784-1857, Princess, née von Benckendorf)]
Autograph account of the Princess by Harriet,
(née Howard, 1806-1868, Mistress of the Robes, wife of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland), saying she "shall always think her 'a woman nobly planned'.- The good part of her nature may have been marr'd by marrying, young, a man she could not love or look up to", but doubting whether "any domestic happiness would have ... weaned her" from her passion for "society and politics", "how true her friendship was to Ld. Aberdeen - what clever men she always seemed to attack if she would, Mr Canning & Ld. Grey", and listing "the charms of her conversation ... its zest ... lucidity ... pungency ... sometimes its charming naiveté - its perfect décence without prudery ... the virility of man's intellect ... the tact of woman's ... one could not imagine vulgarity shewing itself in her presence - & all the many vulgars must have disliked her ... She loved the game of politics too much - if she thought it all the work of men & perhaps did not see that 'God moves them in a mysterious way ... let us trust that before the end ... she did see this", talking of "the man who in her affliction ... pointed to the highest comfort, as I know he did ... in that supreme moment ... of the change from the pigmy, restless interests of life to the blessed hope of eternal Rest", blue embossed crowned 'S', 3 sides 9" x 7¼", no place, no date, with a letter from Lady Clarendon (wife of the 4th Earl, Foreign Minister) to Mr Reeve, (probably Henry, who had been foreign editor of The Times), praising his own letter [not present], "it is well to screen the dead from unmerited abuse - but - she had weak or rather hard points in her character - the world has perhaps nothing to do with them ... the Dss. of Sutherland's letter is curious, the style more forceful than I should have imagined ... the sentiments charitable", 3 sides 8vo, Grosvenor Crescent, 9th February
Item Date:
1857
Stock No:
53976
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LIMA E SILVA
(Francisco de, 1785-1853, Soldier and Politician), José da COSTA CARVALHO, (1796-1860, Magistrate and Politician), and Joao BRÁULIO MONIZ (circa 1796-1835), Regents of Brazil for Pedro II, 1831-1835
Document signed, in Portuguese with translation,
appointing Antonio PINTO CHICHÔRRO DA GAMA, (1800-1887, Appeal Judge, Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice, 1860-1875), as President of the Brazilian province of Alagôas in place of Ignacio Accioli de Vasconcellos, saying "you will be invested in office at that Post with the due and customary formalities, receiving from the President and the Municipal Council of the Capital, instructions concerning the Public Service; enforcing the strict observance of the said Charter" of 1823 "for the prosperity and security of the People entrusted to you", signed notes of registration at the provincial capital, 2 sides 14¾" x 9¼" and conjugate address leaf bearing papered seal of Brazil, Palace, Rio de Janeiro, 25th October
Item Date:
1832
Stock No:
53052
£225
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LIMA E SILVA
(Francisco de, 1785-1853, Soldier and Politician), Joao BRÁULIO MONIZ (circa 1796-1835), Regents of Brazil, 1831-1835, for Pedro II, and Joaquim José RODRIGUES TORRES, (1802-1872, Journalist and Politician, three times Prime Minister of Brazil)
Document signed, in Portuguese with translation,
appointing Antonio PINTO CHICHÔRRO DA GAMA, (1800-1887, Appeal Judge, Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice, 1860-1875), as Minister and Secretary of State for Imperial Affairs, signed notes of registration at the Treasury Tribunal and at the General Audit Office, 2 sides 13" x 8¼" and conjugate blank, Palace [Rio de Janeiro], 10th October
Item Date:
1833
Stock No:
53053
£225
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LIMA E SILVA
(Francisco de, 1785-1853, Soldier and Politician), Joao BRÁULIO MONIZ(circa 1796-1835, Regents of Brazil, 1831-1835, for Pedro II), and Aureliano DE SOUZA E OLIVEIRA COUTINHO (1800-1855, in turn Minister of Justice and then of Foreign Affairs)
Document signed, in Portuguese with translation,
relieving Judge of Appeal and Secretary of State for Imperial Affairs, Antonio PINTO CHICHÔRRO DA GAMA, (1800-1887, Appeal Judge, Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice, 1860-1875), of the additional post of interim head of the Department of Financial Affairs, "thanking him and praising him for the good services rendered in that Office", signed note of registration at the Treasury Tribunal, 2 sides 12¾" x 8" and conjugate blank, 7th October
Item Date:
1834
Stock No:
53055
£225
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LIMA E SILVA
(Francisco de, 1785-1853, Soldier and Politician), Joao BRÁULIO MONIZ (circa 1796-1835), Regents of Brazil, 1831-1835, for Pedro II, and Manoel do Nascimento CASTRO E SILVA (1788-1846, Lawyer and Politician, Finance Minister)
Document signed, in Portuguese with translation,
saying that "the Regency, in the Name of the Emperor Dom Pedro II, considering the representation of Judge of Appeal Antonio Pinto Chichôrro da Gama",(1800-1887, Appeal Judge, Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice, 1860-1875), "and his reiterated requests to be relieved of the Post of Minister and Secretary of State for Imperial Affairs, has thought fit to accept his resignation, thanking him for the many and considerable Services rendered while in that office", 1 side 11¼" x 9" and conjugate leaf, Palace, [Rio de Janeiro], 16th January
previously worn at folds, professionally repaired
Item Date:
1835
Stock No:
53056
£200
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