BURGOYNE
(Sir John Fox, 1782-1871, Engineer, Field Marshal)
Autograph Letter Signed to Wm Parker Hammond Junr Esq
saying that "without assuming to have any claim to be classed among the 'eminent persons of science' to which you allude I can have no possible objection to contribute my autograph, to be introduced into any collection you may be forming & if you wish it in any other shape than by this note, I shall be happy to forward it ...", 2 sides 8vo., 87 Pall Mall, 29th October
Item Date:
1850
Stock No:
39133
£95
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BURGOYNE
(Sir John Fox, 1782-1871, Engineer, Field Marshal)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Sir James' EMERSON TENNENT
(1804-1869, Traveller and Politician) saying that he hopes "you will not think that I had forgotten the desire expressed in our note of 11th Inst for a Copy of certain Meteorological observations from Ceylon, but it has taken some little time to obtain the information, & now I send it with a note from Lt Col. James R.E. Superintendant of the Ordnance Survey, who has organised the system of collecting Meteorological observations, over different parts of the world, by means of the Engineer Officers. If you require the details to which he adverts, you can have access to them as he proposes. I enclose also the whole of Col. James' last Report as it may interest you to see what we are doing ...", 3 sides 8vo., War Department, Pall Mall, Ofice of Inspecror General of Fortifications, 21st November
Item Date:
1856
Stock No:
41695
£175
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[BURNHAM
(Harry Lawson Webster Lawson, 1862-1933, M.P., Proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, from 1919 1st Viscount)]
Typed Letter Signed from his private secretary B. Marwood to Sir William Treloar,
thanking him "for the excellent photograph of the three Fathers", 1 side 4to., The Daily Telegraph, Fleet Street, E.C.4., 28th June
light remains of laying down on blank verso
Item Date:
1923
Stock No:
16842
£10
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BURNHAM
(Harry Lawson Webster Lawson, 1862-1933, Proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, 1st Viscount)
Typed Letter Signed to Major E.E. Wiener, M.C.,
telling him that it "would give me great pleasure to become a member of the Société des Amis de la Médaille d'Art ... in undying memory of those who fell on the field of honour ... to show my fellow-feeling for the Belgian army and the Belgian nation", 1 side 4to., Fleet Street, 18th March
Item Date:
1921
Stock No:
12257
£20
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BURTON
(Robert, d. 1836, Lieutenant at Trafalgar, Commander, R.N. (1812) in the Peninsular War)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed in French with translation, addressed to 'Sirs' , c/o Monsieur Salis,
French Director of Hospitals, and a Prisoner of War at Vittoria, saying that "His Excellence is more than 25 leagues from here inland in pursuit of the French army, and since there is no means of communication ... I am vexed to have to tell you that you should not think of an exchange at this moment. The only basis of hope we could have, is that the day which is to bring peace to Europe cannot be long in coming", and promising "on this and every other occasion, you will find me ready to do you service, if circumstances place it within my power", 2 sides folio, address on conjugate leaf, St. Jean de Luz, 7th March
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Item Date:
1814
Stock No:
50516
£350
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