CASTLE
(Bernard Alan, 1898-1970, Observer Sub.-Lt. R.N.)
Autograph Note Signed recording his Legion d'Honneur
conferred "on Nov. 2nd 1917 for work accomplished with a French Bombing Squadron ... over Ostend on the 3rd March 1917 ... there were 40 French machines engaged, & my machine, the only British ... Five French were attacked by 15 Bosche", the British machine "whilst breaking them up brought 3 down", 1 side 8vo, Kent College, Canterbury, no date, c.
light traces of tabs on conjugate blanks
Item Date:
1917
Stock No:
16874
£20
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CATHCART
(Charles Schaw, 9th Lord Cathcart, 1721-1776, Lieutenant-General, Soldier and Diplomat, Chief of the Clan Cathcart)
Autograph Letter Signed 'Cathcart' to an unnamed correspondent
saying that “your letter of the 25th of Novr last was sent from London to Doncaster in the expectation that I should receive it upon my Road from Scotland, and been but just retuned to me from that Place which is the reason why I have not taken an earlier opportunity of thanking you for it. Give me leave to do it now, and to request the farther favour of you to send the Box addresst to me in Dover Street, either by Land or Water Carriage as the size of it may render most advisable. If its bulk makes a Water Carriage preferable you will be so good as to address it to the Car of Mr Henry Foot in Durham Yard in the Strand...”, 1 side 4to., Dover Street, 21st January
Item Date:
1768
Stock No:
41767
£375
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CATHCART
(Charles Murray, 1783-1859, from 1810 Lord Greenock, from 1843 2nd Earl, Commander in Chief, British North America, 1846-1849)
Autograph Letter Signed 'C.M. Cathcart Maj & AQMrG',
to Lieutenant Trant, Assistant Quarter Master General, saying "for the Information of the Quarter Master General that a warrant was Signed by Lord Cathcart", (1756-1843, the writer's father), "at Copenhagen for two months Pay for me as a Permanent Assistant Quarter Master General from the 25th of September to the 24th of November 1807", 1 side 4to., Edinburgh, 15th January
Item Date:
1808
Stock No:
55427
£225
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PORTUGAL 1847
CHABROL
(Christophe André Jean, 1771-1836, French Minister of the Navy 1824-1828, Comte de)
Document signed, in French with translation, to 'Dear Count',
(probably the French representative in the Spanish colony of Cuba), saying that "the Chamber of Commerce of Nantes has sent me a memorandum ... on the duty, imposed by the Customs at Santiago de Cuba, of 2 piastres on French ships, although United States ships pay only 1½ per ton", making it impossible to compete, it being all the more unjust since on the Continent, French and Spanish dues "have been settled on a completely reciprocal basis", he has asked the Foreign Minister to take this up with the Spanish Government, and now asks his correspondent to join Admiral Jurien in approaching the Governor of Havana directly, in a P.S. he says that the French papers have copied an English report of a reduction, but he has heard nothing officially, 2 sides folio, Paris, 12th August
Item Date:
1824
Stock No:
51250
£225
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[CHARD
(John Rouse Merriott, 1847-1897, V.C., Colonel Royal Engineers, Hero of Rorke's Drift)]
Fine unsigned Woodburytype Portrait Photograph, by Lock and Whitfield,
showing him head and shoulders, in profile, looking to his right, in military uniform, in an oval, 4½" x 3¾", in mount 10½" x 8", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
40701
£425
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