CHURCHILL REPLIES TO A TOAST
[SAVAGE CLUB
(E.E. Peacock, Hon. Sec.)]
Pictorial Menu of the club's 44th Anniversary Dinner
with a mass of cartoon portraits by Oliver Paque of leading figures of the day, including guests Sir L. Alma Tadema and Winston Churchill M.P., who is shown hauling a bottle of champagne on a miniature gun-carriage labelled 'Pretoria', and Archdeacon Sinclair standing by a mitre marked "nolo episcopari" ("I don't want to be a bishop"), on the verso are the toasts and the names of no fewer than 28 entertainers including Courtice Pounds, printed in black, verso also in red and gold, 2 sides card 14¼" x 11", Hotel Cecil, 7th December
short tear in fold without loss
Item Date:
1901
Stock No:
51784
£675
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SCARBROUGH
(Frances, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Anne, wife of Richard Lumley, d. 1721, 1st Earl) and GODOLPHIN(Sidney, Earl of, 1645-1712, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Anne)
Receipt Signature "F Scarbrough"
on the verso of a portion of a manuscript Order signed by the Lord High Treasurer, the Earl of Godolphin, for £250, being a quarter of her Annuity as Lady of the Bedchamber due at Christmas 1707, 2 sides 3¾" x 9½", 28th January 1707, new style
lacks top and bottom portion
Item Date:
1708
Stock No:
51649
£75
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SEAMAN
(Rev. Sir Keith Douglas, b. 1920, Methodist and Uniting Church Minister, Governor of South Australia 1977-1982) and his wife Joan SEAMAN
Christmas card signed in full by both,
at the foot of a double-page reproduction of a fine pencil drawing of the wide frontage of Government House (built 1840), small gilt crown on upper cover, 2 facing sides within outer covers 6" x 8", Government House, Adelaide, Christmas no year, circa
light traces of laying down by blank fourth side
Item Date:
1980
Stock No:
54269
£75
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SEELY
(John Edward Bernard, 1st Baron Mottistone, 1868-1947, Politician & Soldier)
Typed Letter Signed to General Sir Robert BADEN POWELL
(1857-1941, Defender of Mafeking & Founder of the Boy Scouts) saying that he is "interested to hear of your visit to Canada during August and September. I should much like to see you before you start. Would it not be worth your while to have an official letter of recommendation from Crewe? Let me know, for if so, I will send you one. These letters are often of some convenience even to people like yourself who know most of the official people already ...", and inviting him to lunch, 1 side 4to., Colonial Office headed paper, 22nd July
Item Date:
1910
Stock No:
40870
£175
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SELBORNE
(Roundell Palmer, 1812-1895, Lord Chancellor 1872-1874 and 1880-1885, from 1872 1st Baron Selborne, from 1882 1st Earl of)
Autograph letter signed to the Rev. W. Downe
thanking him for his "letter & the card, but I think it will still be most convention for me to meet you at ... Poplar. My daughter and myself will have had our luncheon in the middle of the day and we shall not stand in need of any refreshment before service ...", 2 sides 8vo., Blackmoor, Petersfield, 27th September
Item Date:
1879
Stock No:
41510
£60
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