GRENVILLE
(1st Baron, William Wyndham, 1759-1834, Speaker 1789, Prime Minister 1806-1807, from 1790 1st Baron) and Sir Robert LISTON (1742-1836, Diplomat)
Finely Penned Document signed by both,
first by Liston as Ambassador to the United States, (1796-1800), who “humbly craves payment... of Extra Extraordinary Disbursements incurred in His Majesty’s Service” since “the 5th Day of July... 1800... transmitting his dispatches to and from New York... Journies... by himself and others, the Purchase of Official Papers and other incidental Disbursements”, and by Grenville (as Foreign Secretary), also signed “This Bill is agreeable to Practice Jas. Hammond”, 1 side 4to, Philadelphia, 10th October 1800 and Downing Street, 11th December
Item Date:
1800
Stock No:
56570
£425
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GRENVILLE
(1st Baron, William Wyndham, 1759-1834, Speaker 1789, Prime Minister 1806-1807, from 1790 1st Baron)
Long and Affectionate Autograph Letter signed to an unnamed correspondent
thanking him for his "kindness about the swans, which will look magnificent upon our great lake. But I write to you in great anxiety from what my brother tells me of the new form in which the gout has shown itself. I know you do not like to be importuned about taking medical advice, & you know that anxious as I always am about you I do not often plague you upon that subject, but all grievances of this particular description are sources of so much misery & torment, as well as danger that I cannot help most earnestly entreating you, if not from your own conviction of its necessity, yet at least as a personal favour to myself, to let Copeland see you - you know I daresay that he is in that line as decidedly at the head of his profession as any man of that occupation ever was in any line of the whole catalogue of ills that flesh is heir to & I can speak from personal experience of him, though happily, I thank God for it, not in that way, that you will find him most attentive & pleasing in his manner, if it did not sound ridiculous, I should say attackingly so, & in every respect well fitted to produce in his patients a sincere, & I myself think a really well founded conviction, of his earnest & deep anxiety to make his skill available to their benefits. Do not pass over this entreaty of mine slightly, pray consider it, & pray, pray grant it ...", 4 sides 8vo., Dropmore, September
Item Date:
1830
Stock No:
41757
£475
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GREVILLE
(Hon. Sidney Robert, 1866-1927, Politician)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Sir',
saying that the Marquis of Salisbury "has great pleasure in sending his autograph", 2 sides 8vo, Foreign Office, 14th September
small defect in blank top left corner, browned in parts and with small adhesions in blank parts of verso
Item Date:
1888
Stock No:
17283
£10
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THE INTRODUCTION OF TRAMS IN LONDON IN 1870
GREY
(Sir George, 2nd Baronet, 1799-1882, Statesman, Home Secretary under Russell and Palmerston)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to W. Booth Scott
thanking him for his letter and "the Report sent with it which I have read with much interest. It confirms strongly the opinion I expressed in the House of Lords that if tram ways are to be laid down in the streets they should be so by some public authority and not by private companies. Your sketch of a plan for that purpose seems to me on the whole judicious, only that I should doubt the expediency of creating a new board to take charge of tramways in the Metropolis We have too many independent authorities in London already, & it seems to me that the Metropolitan Board of works would be the proper authority to be entrusted with the duty of deciding what tram ways ought to be laid down & of making such as might be found to be proper. I think the whole charge of maintaining the ordinary roads in the streets along which tram ways are laid down ought to be undertaken by the authority which has charge of them. Your calculation seems to show that there would be more than profit enough ...", 4 sides 8vo., 13 Carlton House Terrace, 14th February
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
40287
£175
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GREY
(Sir George, 2nd Baronet, 1799-1882, Statesman, Home Secretary under Russell and Palmerston)
Final page of a Licence to Plead Document Signed, addressed to William Whateley
saying that "Counsel for the said Petitioner in the trial of the said Indictment, We being graciously pleased to condescend to the Petitioner's Request do accordingly dispense with the said William Whateley and grant him Our Royal Licence and Authority to be of Counsel for the said Petitioner on the trial of the said Indictment as often as there shall be occasions. Given at Our Court at Saint James's ...", 1 side folio with endorsement on the verso, Court at St James's, 1st February
Item Date:
1850
Stock No:
40942
£150
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