CRIMEAN WAR
probably Sir Alexander MONCRIEFF (1829-1906, Army Officer and Engineer)
Fine long Autograph Letter signed 'F. Berkeley' to 'Dear Moncrieff '
saying that he has "not written you for a long time because I know Walker keeps you au courant of Regimental occurrences and besides that there is really nothing to write about ..." asking him to "try and procure my Kafir Medal for me as I find other officers have got it, I believe nothing short of a Corporal and a file of the Guard will get anything from that department, I have the ribbon but I will not wear it until I receive the Medal. I perceive from what you wrote to Walker some little time ago that you consider my ideas of Officers messing by Companies to be correct, unluckily it was not so ordered from the beginning & now every mess in the Battalion would have to be broken up, but when we move in the Spring it can easily be done & I am sure ultimately to the increased Comfort of all. De Bathe has not yet turned up and I am sure I wish he never would. Stephenson, Hepburn and myself considered that it was only right that on his arrival he should be called upon to deny having used language derogatory to the honour and character of the Regiment ... We thought it better to be done officially by the C.O. than individually and run the risk of creating a party for and against him. We therefore spoke to Walker on the subject who, when he heard the language represented to have been used by de Bathe entirely agreed with us & I believe wrote to you on the subject ... It is a very unpleasant business and I do not see how de Bathe is to get out of it as Wilkinson must have had very good authority for what he wrote, and he said he thought the Battalion ought to be made aware of it. Mostyn and Wheatley arrived yesterday and come up to day, it is lucky for them they did not arrive a week ago for they would have found themselves in for a frost with the thermometer down at 4o below zero fahrenheit, it freezes here at night but the sun is warm in the middle of the day. We are all very well and jolly & had a very merry Xmas and I have no doubt but that we shall get through the winter capitally, in fact from what I hear I think the Autumn rains the worst part of it and they are over. We are not yet hutted and I much doubt our being completed at all, I do not pretend to say whose fault it is but the first division appears to me always to come second best off. We all condole most sincerely with poor Ridly's misfortune and I have no doubt he will receive a score of letters by this mail asking for all the particulars. Such a bonne fortune at his time of life does not happen to every one. I regret to say that Foley showed a great want of feeling on the subject and treated the matter with much levity threatening to write him a letter, however that exertion I think will be a little too much for him. Foley is getting quite fat and the buttons fly off his trousers. He is becoming quite uneasy about the size of what he calls his tummy I really have nothing more to write about ….", he ends with a postscript that "Young George is in great force, he has grown a good deal and is a very good looking fellow", 4 sides 8vo., Crimea, 27th December
Item Date:
1855
Stock No:
39173
£375
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CROKER
(John Wilson, 1780-1857, Historian & Essayist, Secretary of the Admiralty)
Fine signature
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
26733
£10
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CUNNINGHAM
(John 'Cat's Eyes', b. 1917, DSO (1941), Group Captain Night Operations, 1944, Chief Test Pilot for de Havillands, 1946-1977)
Signature on card on which is laid down a colour picture
of 5 Spitfires taking off, 2½" x 3¾", no date, c.
Item Date:
1985
Stock No:
50036
£20
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CURTIS
(Sir Roger, 1746-1816, 1st Bt., C-in-C Portsmouth, Admiral)
Portrait engraved by Orme jr.,
half-length in oval 4½" x 3½", overall 8¼" x 5", published 1st September
Item Date:
1795
Stock No:
20064
£35
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CUST
(Sir Edward, 1794-1878, Army officer in the Peninsula, Master of the Household to Prince Leopold, Master of Ceremonies to Queen Victoria, M.P. for Grantham, 1826, and Lostwithiel, 1831)
Signed Autograph envelope front franked to Mrs Bagnall at Chester,
3" x 4½", London, 22nd September
Item Date:
1831
Stock No:
54937
£25
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