DOWNING OF DOWNING STREET
DOWNING
(Sir George, 1623-1684, 1st Bart., Soldier and Politician, the 2nd Graduate from Harvard University)
Exchequer receipt signed, in Latin with translation, for £100,
lent to the treasury by Dr. Anthony SPARROW, 1612-1685, President of Queens' College, Cambridge, 1662-1667, vellum strip 2" x 13", no place, 14th February 1665 (new style
Item Date:
1666
Stock No:
17638
£375
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DREW
(Mary, 1847-1927, Political Secretary, Writer and Hostess, daughter of William Ewart GLADSTONE)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Branch
telling him that “these 2 envelopes are all I have left, the signed one A.E. is 10/- & the unsigned 5/-. But if you really care to give anything for them, will you let it go to the ‘Memorial’ (I sent you a paper & envelope) and then I might have the pleasure of giving you the autograph. I am sending you the April & May Parish Magazines to read, will you kindly return them? I thought you would like to know how it all happened... I try to say the beautiful little Thanksgiving Litany (in the magazine) but I find it very hard to be at all resigned & it all seems more tragic every day... Dorothy is much better, the sea voyage did her good and I am glad she is out of the shadow...”, 2 sides 8vo., on mourning paper, Hawarden Rectory headed paper, Chester, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
42006
£75
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DROUYN DE LHUYS
(Edmond, 1805-1881, French Diplomat and Statesman)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Monsieur', in French with translation,
as President of the Society of Agriculturalists of France, saying that the Society will accept his memoir "with genuine satisfaction" and include it in its Bulletin "provided that it differs from the one you read to the central society" and is unpublished, 1 side 8vo. black-edged, Paris (as from 1 rue le Peletier), 20th January
faintest traces of mending on verso
Item Date:
1873
Stock No:
22693
£65
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DU PRÉ
(Caledon George, 1803-1886, Conservative M.P. for Buckinghamshire, 1839-1874)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Lynch,
explaining that he was "detained at Pau, by illness and bad weather several days longer than I intended", regretting that he has only presented her petition "today, though for the present it will be useless", the same cause "prevented me from joining Mr Bouverie Mr Beresford Hope and others, in opposing the bill, which I should certainly have done had I been present", 2 sides 8vo, House of Commons Library, 6th May no year, circa
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
56472
£125
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DUKE
(James, d. 1873, Lord Mayor of London in 1849)
Autograph Letter Signed to Rev J. E. Cox,
saying he had visited him yesterday and that he can "Rest assured I will pay due attention to your wishes in favor of John Mumford. I have requested the Omnibus Proprietor to call upon me ... I shall be gratified if I can prevail upon them to reinstate Mumford in his position ..." 2 sides 8vo., 43 Portland Place, 9th January
some dampstaining
Item Date:
1852
Stock No:
6088
£25
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