LONDON
(Metropolitan Board of Works)
Fine large Agreement between the Metropolitan Board of Works,
the Mayor & Corporation of London (as Governors of St Thomas's Hospital), the Archbishop of Canterbury (Charles Thomas Longley) and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the Board owned land by the Albert Embankment and wished to create a 60 foot carriage way 'Palace New Road' (now Lambeth Palace Road), involving a realignment of Lambeth Palace Wall, included are a map showing land belonging to or to be transferred to St Thomas's (green, blue and red), or by the Archbishop to the Board (yellow), and the fine architectural drawings of the proposed wall, detailing the patterns in the brick courses and the gothic railings above, complete with the large papered seals of the four parties, the agreement on vellum, the drawings on a strong linen paper, three sheets 22½" x 28¾", London, 15th January
Item Date:
1867
Stock No:
53977
£325
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LONDON RAGGED COLONIAL TRAINING SCHOOL OF INDUSTY AND DORMITORY
Title leaf of the Second Annual Report
of the School at 9 Great Smith Street and 13 & 28 St. Ann's Street, Westminster, established 1848, "Read at the Public Meeting in the Hanover Square Rooms on ... May 9th 1851, the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury in the Chair", an Earl's coronet at head, with on verso an Autograph Note saying that "Lieut. Blackman, R.N., will be most happy to wait upon you to give information respecting the Male and Female Dormitory, 27 Gloster Place Camden Town", the title page "Printed by the Inmates: at the Institution", 2 sides 8vo., London,
corners defective from former mounting
Item Date:
1851
Stock No:
15085
£15
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LONGLEY
(Charles Thomas, 1794-1868, from 1862 Archbishop of Canterbnury)
Autograph letter signed to 'Dear Sir',
saying he has no objection "to your having the Wednesday Evening service occasionally in the School" for "your remote Parishioners ... when it comes near them", 1 side 7" x 4½", Addington Park, Croydon, 2nd December
Item Date:
1865
Stock No:
54172
£35
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SIGNED CIGARETTE CARD
LONSDALE
(Hugh Cecil Lowther, 1857-1944, 5th Earl, Sportsman, donor of the Lonsdale Belt for Boxing )
Coloured caricature from the John Players series of 50 entitled "Straight Line Caricatures", signed on the verso
with "Yours truly" and the date and a small biography printed on the verso, 2¾" x 1¼", no place, December
Item Date:
1928
Stock No:
41396
£100
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LORIMER
(George Claude, 1838-1904, D.D., Scottish-born Baptist Minister at Tremont Temple, Boston)
Autograph Letter Signed to Sampson Low, Marston & Co.,
saying that, with regard to Miss Bell's books, "Mr Brooks of the 'Pall Mall' has promised to ... see that justice is done ... Mr Goudy ... as 'United Press' agent has some influence with the 'Chronicle' and may himself prepare a review", Lorimer suggests they send the volumes to Goudy "with your compliments", 2 sides 8vo., London, 3rd August
Item Date:
1898
Stock No:
51236
£75
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