TITE
(Sir William, F.R.S., 1798-1873, from 1855 M.P. for Bath, Architect)
Autograph Letter Signed to William Long,
President of Bath General Hospital, saying "I have lived much in Society and have seen most of its Phases & I think I know & understand the Meaning of Party, but there is a Hostility about some of the Opposition to me I confess I cannot understand ... I have been pressed & am still, to contribute to the Benevolences of Bath (your great Hospital is a Case in point) & yet I am told that a considerable Sum has been raised by the Gentry & inferior Tradespeople to help the Uncle of one of the richest men in your County, to turn me out ... I really claim nothing on the Score of Gratitude" but he is "surprized by the Personality of this Opposition. I suppose ... I must take my Chance with the Politicians" but assures Long "how much I esteem your good Opinion", with original autograph envelope, 3 sides 8vo., 42 Lowndes Square, London, 4th June
Item Date:
1857
Stock No:
16416
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TOWNSHEND
(Charles, 2nd Viscount, 1674-1738, Statesman, Agriculturist and Lord President of the Council) & Henry HERBERT (Baron, 1654-1709, Commissioner of Trade)
Accounts Document signed twice,
listing payments to various people, giving the amounts and the dates, the first total being £3127. 3s. 6d, signed and dated 5th January 1702, the second for £2626.12s.0d, signed and dated 12th May 1704, on the verso are two further lists, signed by Lord Herbert, the first for £1489.18s.0d dated 8th March 1702 and the second for £930 signed and dated 29th March
unevenly removed from larger book on left hand edge
Item Date:
1706
Stock No:
3434
£85
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DOCUMENT SIGNED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF GEORGE II'S REIGN
TOWNSHEND
(Charles, 2nd Viscount, 1674-1738, Statesman, Agriculturist and Lord President of the Council)
Fine signature on the bottom half of a Warrant Document addressed to Edward HUGHES
(died 1734, Politician, Judge Advocate General of the Army from 1714) on the other side there are instructions relating to Courts Martial, "any Misdemeanor or Misbehaviour of any Officer or Soldier against the Rules of Military Discipline which Courts Martial are to Consist of Officers of such Rank and Quality, as are by the said Act of Parliament directed, who are to be of Our Regiments of Foot Guards, or of such other Regiments, as can be conveniently Summon'd to attend the same. And We do hereby appoint the Field Officers of Our Three Regiments of Foot Guards to be from time to time Presidents of the said Courts Martial, who are to take it in their turn, first beginning with the Eldest ...", 2 half sides folio, Court at Kensington, 28th July
Item Date:
1727
Stock No:
40678
£125
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TREVELYAN
(Sir George Otto, 1838-1928, 2nd. Bart., Liberal M.P. and Historian)
Autograph Letter Signed to Arthur Butler,
telling him that his "Irish experience, was, as kind friends like you only too indulgently feel, very dearly bought: but I hope that it may be of some service to the country at the approaching crisis" over Home Rule, which split the Liberal party, 2 sides 8vo., embossed heading of Secretary for Scotland, 28th February
Item Date:
1886
Stock No:
13416
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TREVELYAN
(Sir George Otto, 1838-1928, 2nd Bart., Liberal M.P. and Historian)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Hammond',
about the choice of a sculptor, "both my mother and myself are very anxious for Woolner. He seems to be a man of real genius; and, to speak colloquially, he is not too great a swell to do his work with his own hands ... I shall come to Cambridge tomorrow Thursday", 3 sides 8vo., 8 Grosvenor Crescent, no date, c.
Item Date:
1860
Stock No:
13415
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