DUCKWORTH
(Robinson, 1834-1911, from 1875 Canon of Westminster, tutor to Prince Leopold, accompanied Prince of Wales on Eastern Tour, associate of Lewis Carroll)
Fine Postcard photo signed and dated
showing him half length in his clerical clothes with medals and decorations, 5½" x 3½", no place, April
Item Date:
1905
Stock No:
34671
£275
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DUNDONALD
(Louisa Harriet, c.1820-1902, wife of Thomas Cochrane, 1814-1885, 11th Earl)
Autograph Letter in the third person to Mrs. Percy,
saying that "she considers Edith Edginton a fair plain Cook general, clean & quiet, as far as Lady Dundonald knows - as to her being trustworthy, she cannot give a decided opinion, but thinks Mrs. Percy may engage her, with care and supervision", 1 side 8vo, La Brea, Buxted, Sussex, 7th April
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
17079
£35
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DUPONT FAMILY
Notice in French of the decease of Auguste Dupont of St. Vrien
(St. Vrain, near Arpajon, south of Paris), aged 42, in old-fashioned French letterpress, woodblock of a cemetery tomb at head, 1 side folio, St. Vrien, 8th September
tipped onto remains of an album leaf, slightly spotted and creased
Item Date:
1836
Stock No:
18844
£60
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DURHAM
(John George Lambton, 1855-1928, K.G., from 1879 3rd Earl)
Signature and Subscription from the end of a letter,
no date, circa
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
55825
£15
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CHOOSING A SCHOOL
DURY
(Revd. Theodore, 1788-1850, Rector of Keighley, W. Yorkshire, 1825-1840, and of Westmill, Hertfordshire from 1840)
Engaging Autograph Letter Signed to "My dear Fred[eri]c",
saying that "Barnard is a man of experience in training applemunching urchins, and his testimony in favour of Mr Trimmer's establishment, to use the fashionable term by which schools are advertised in and about London, is very strong ... young Barnard ... seems the very mirror of schoolboyhood for he can read Hebrew & construe Hecuba & yet has not reached his twelfth year", but asks if that "will teach him todiscern between the wool of a Ewe, a Lamb or a Hog ?", the name "reminds one of well trained schools & good little books ... Anne [Dury's wife] says I must write a stiff business like letter, which all the ... Sugdens from Walker up to William, including Martha in bed, may read", he talks amusingly of the recent change of Government, of the cold, "the thermometer nearly paid the debt of nature for it fell to 1½ above zero -- at Hoddesdon to zero according to Caro[line], who returned today from a visit to the Barnards", and of the plans "prepared by Mr Gill" for a new church at Keighley, for which he may have to borrow money, he gives detailed instructions for Frederic and Edwin [the writer's son] to unlock Anne's cabinet where they are stored, "Man wants but little here below", as Wellesley Pole said when courting Miss Long with 50000 a year, "upon which someone added, but wants that little Long", in a P.S. he asks "about your flittings ? Have you agreed with the Lord of Cliffe ? or the Lady of St Ives", 4 sides 4to, Westmill, 8th January
Item Date:
1841
Stock No:
52687
£275
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