HAMPDEN
(Richard, 1631-1695, Chancellor of the exchequer)
Signature with two others taken from a larger document
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0
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9693
£22
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HAMPTON
(Sir John Somerset Pakington, Bart., 1st Baron, 1799-1880, Cabinet Minister under Derby and Disraeli)
Autograph Letter Signed to Canon Rickson,
concerning Rickson's submission on education to the Committee of Council, 4 sides 8vo., 41 Eaton Square, 13th May
Item Date:
1865
Stock No:
12593
£15
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HANKEY
(Sir Maurice Pascal Alers, 1877-1963, from 1939 1st Baron)
Typed Letter Signed ‘Hankey’ to J. Lloyd Humberstone
saying he has read his “letter in the last issue of the ‘Sunday Times’ about the Kiel Canal zone. It is going to rather a difficult matter for those responsible for the peace settlement. It is not much good giving the responsibility to Denmark, which is a very weak country and not a very easy one to support under modern conditions. I even doubt if the Danes would accept it. On the other hand it is also not an easy position for any of the United Nations to occupy permanently. On the whole I am disposed to think that present and future air developments will make its neutralisation easier and its importance less in time of war. Many thanks also for the pamphlet on the public school question. I read the first half this morning with great enjoyment... In revenge I send you my Haldane Memorial Lecture... I am afraid that it does not deal with the question of the Army. You will find that set forth very fully in Lord Haldane’s own book ‘Before the War’...”, with a brief autograph note from the recipient signed with initials, saying that he had sent Hankey the Kiel Canal papers, 1 side A4, Privy Council Office, Whitehall, 29th July
Item Date:
1944
Stock No:
41864
£175
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“MY DOUBTS ABOUT THE NEW MINISTRY OF DEFENCE ARE GREATER THAN I HAVE MADE PUBLIC”
HANKEY
(Maurice Pascal Alers, 1st Baron, 1877-1963, Secretary to the Cabinet, Created the Cabinet Secretariat, Member of the War Cabinet)
Important Typed Letter Signed ‘Hankey’ with autograph additions to T. Lloyd Humberstone, marked ‘Private and Personal’
saying that “Asquith’s habit was to report really important decisions to the Cabinet verbally. I do not remember his circulating documents... Of course there were no records of the Cabinet in 1911... in fact they only confirmed (in the light of the Algeciras Crisis) the conclusions that had been reached in 1908. I am not referring the the General Staff talks with the French, which as a matter of fact never came before the C.I.D, although most of the members must have had knowledge of them. The Cabinet were not informed of them officially until 1912... As regards inspection of the C.I.D. documents, I no longer have charge of them or any responsibility whatsoever. You would have to apply to the Secretary of the Cabinet, and my impression is that he would refuse... There might be something in the Gooch Temperly collection of documents on the ‘Origins of the First War’, but I rather doubt it. Esher’s permanent membership was exclusive to the Balfour, Campbell Bannerman and Asquith eras and came to an end thereafter. Of course under the old system of elasticity anyone could be invited whom the Prime Minister wished. My doubts about the new Ministry of Defence are greater than I have made public, as I do not want to belittle what has been decided with general support. In my personal opinion, however, there is a great risk of friction either between the Minister of Defence and the Service Ministers and/or between the Minister of Defence and the Prime Minister. Imagine a man like Churchill. His claim to become Minister of Defence would be irresistible - he actually forced on Neville Chamberlain his Chairmanship of the Defence Committee in 1939. If such a man, with great knowledge, industry and ambition had been in charge for some time on the Defence preparations, and his Prime Minister had not bothered to keep himself closely in touch, as might quite well happen, the Minister of Defence would push the Prime Minister out in half a jiffy...” ending that he doesn’t want to be quoted, 2 sides 4to., Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, 8th November
Item Date:
1946
Stock No:
43228
£275
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HARCOURT
(Sir William Vernon, 1827-1904, Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
accepting an invititation to dine "with the Walnut Reform Union", 1 side 8vo., House of Commons headed paper, 7th May
Item Date:
1901
Stock No:
22546
£35
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