WOLSELEY
(Garnet, Viscount, 1833-1913, Field Marshal, C-in-C of the Army)
Fine Letter Signed to "My dear HOWARD VINCENT"
(Sir Charles Edward, 1849-1908, Soldier, Barrister and Conservative MP) regretting that he had been unable to "be present at your lunch last Saturday. I was unfortunately detained here until late and left in the evening for the country. It was very kind of you to ask me & I regret very much having missed meeting the Australian Delegates. I met them once & thought they were very interesting men full of sense & loyalty ...", 2 sides 8vo., Commander in Chief headed paper, 25th June
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
40639
£75
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WOOD
(Sir Henry Evelyn, V.C., 1838-1919, Commander-in-Chief, Egyptian Army 1882-1886, from 1903 Field-Marshal)
Fine Typed Letter Signedwith autograph subscription and corrections to Sir Robert BADEN POWELL
(1857-1941, Defender of Mafeking & Founder of the Boy Scouts) thanking him and saying that he will "live as long as I can conveniently. Perhaps I should be wiser if I stopped in doors and tried to dictate answers to some hundreds of letters I have got, than I am in going out to look for a fox in a snow storm but still as yet I have only got ninty-nine [sic] days booked and as I am unlike the American, who advised his friend, who boasted of having shot nine hundred and ninty-nine rabbits, to make it a thousand. He replied: 'Sir, do you think I would imperil my immortal soul for one rabbit.' So I am going to make up my hundred days ...", 1 side 8vo., Millhurst, Harlow, 25th March
Item Date:
1911
Stock No:
40865
£175
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WOOD
(Sir H. Evelyn, 1838-1919, Field Marshal)
Signature & date
on a scrap with the words “new Cheque book” printed on it, 3½” x 2” max, no place, 26th October
Item Date:
1897
Stock No:
42182
£30
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WORSLEY
(Henry, 1783-1820, Captain 85th Foot, Brigade Major on the Staff of Great Britain, Lt.-Colonel 1813)
Document Signed appointing Angus Macdonald of Pall Mall
his attorney to receive his pay as Brigade Major, annotated as entered "in the Audit Office Somerset Place" and "in the Office of the Paymaster General", 1 side folio, 10th March
a few tiny defects in the margins without loss
Item Date:
1810
Stock No:
51755
£225
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WREDE
(Carl Henrik, Baron of Elim, 1787-1858, Swedish Adjutant-General)
Document signed, in Swedish, with translation, to Adam Florus LILLJECRONA
(1830-1878, unpaid Sergeant in Wrede's Royal Kronoberg Regiment of the Kingdom of Sweden & Norway), printed with the details filled in by hand, saying that "Lilljecrona has been brought to my attention because of proven competence and good conduct ..." and appointing him "to become a Serjeant without Salary with the above named ... Regiment ... signed ... with my own hand and confirm it with the Coat of Arms of my Baron ...", 1 side folio with fine wax seal with his coat of arms, beehive watermark, attached inside is an attractive bank note style printed stamp duty document for 4 riksdaler, engraved in red and black with the Swedish Royal Arms, Wexjø, 1st November
Item Date:
1848
Stock No:
3901
£175
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