BARROW
(Sir John, 1764-1848, Secretary of the Admiralty)
Fine Autograph Letter signed to Sir Graham HAMOND
(1779-1862, Admiral of the Fleet) saying that he has "laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 7th December ... enclosing on from Commodore Mason, on the subject of the storehouses at Valparaiso. I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you to cause one store only to be continued until further orders ...", 1 side folio, Admiralty, 9th March
Item Date:
1836
Stock No:
39681
£200
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BARROW
(Sir John, 1764-1848, Secretary of the Admiralty) and George ELLIOT (1784-1863, Admiral, served in the Napoleonic Wars and the First Opium War)
Fine Document signed, printed with the details filled in by hand by Barrow, to Mr James Mayning
Boatswain of H.M.S. Donegal appointing him "Boatswain of His Majesty's Ship Talavera ...", from the Commissioners of the Lord High Admiral, signed at the end by Barrow, Elliot and Troubridge, 1 side folio with blank address leaf annotated Talavera N7, Admiralty, 19th March
Item Date:
1836
Stock No:
39673
£225
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EXPERIMENTS ON HORSE POWER
BASTARD
(Lieutenant, Lieutanant and Commander in the Navy during the Napoleonic Wars)
Small collection of Autograph material addressed to Lieutenant Bastard R.N.
comprising two long letters from James Brown, the first says that "in looking over the memo of Firebrands Experiments, I perceive the Cause why your friends in their mode of reckoning came so near the truth as to the result of the Speed per hour, and if you will again look over the times you will perceive, the up and down Exp. vary only about a minute. The nearer therefore those approximate the closer will this mode approach the truth. But, now take and Extreme case ... suppose you had continued your trials ... you would have had the current stronger with and against you, consequently you would have completed the mile down in less time and the one up in a longer period ..." and then he calculates the average speeds, and ends that "you may in case of further conversation entrap your opponent by suggesting a case similar to the above ...", the next letter hopes he has recovered from his Party and tells him that he will send the tools he has ordered on to him at "Falmouth. This arises from their only having been ordered by the Admiralty on the 12th Inst ... Boiler complete with Steam Box & Chimney ... Engines complete ... Coal Box ... Duplicate Piston ..." and gives their total weight, together with a manuscript account headed "Horse Power", "Consider that a horses power is equal to raising 33,000 lbs through the space of one foot in one minute, and on this data the power of the Steam Engine is calculated ... each square inch of the Piston is supposed equal to 7 lbs ..." he goes on to give examples and calculations relating to Safety Valves, Injection of water, Paddle Wheels and Coals per hour, in total 6 sides 4to., the letters no place and 25 Jewry Street, no date and 27th October 1832 together with his handwritten notebook with pages of different notes with pages titled "Tide Table", "Magnetic Bearings & Distance in Nautical Miles" and "City of Edinburgh and James Watt Engines 26 Nov. 1821" which has listings of the various strokes of the engines, the paddle wheel and the rings and then the original of the manuscript account on Horses Powerand the calculations from the experiments, the leatherbound notebook 4½" x 3", 34 sides are written on, May
a few pages from the notebook removed
Item Date:
1829
Stock No:
39457
£775
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"SHALL I SEND YOUR DOG DOWN TO YOU"
BASTARD
(Lieutenant, Lieutanant and Commander in the Navy during the Napoleonic Wars)
Small collection of material relating to Captain Richard Bastart R. N., including an Autograph Letter addressed to him
on H. M.. S. Flamer, saying that he had seen him arrive "at Woolwich in the Napier, I have sent this line to ask you if I shall send your Dog down to you. He is in high preservation and I think you would like him. He is what you may call a clear color viz black and tan, rather large, and a capital watch dog, but at the same time very good natured ..." asking him to send him a line and he will get him deliver "or perhaps I had better send him to my own livery stables and any of your party coming up might send there for him ...", 3 sides 8vo., with integral autograph address, Taplow Court, Maidenhead, 21st January 1834,
together with a later printed document with the details filled in by hand from the Bank of England concerning a transfer of stock, 19th February 1853 and an autograph envelope of 1862
Item Date:
1834
Stock No:
39805
£175
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BATTENBERG
(Prince Louis, 1854-1921, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, Admiral, assumed the surname Mountbatten in 1917)
Signature and subscription from end of an Autograph Letter Signed,
“Yours very sincerely”, 4½” x 2½”, no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
42133
£35
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