WHITBREAD
(Samuel, 1764-1815, Politician, Son of the Brewer, Committed Suicide)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent,
returning "the papers which you were so good as to entrust to my care ... I highly approve your proposed Bill & if you bring it forward it shall have my earnest & most diligent support. What is of much more consequence, you will be gratified to find how much it is approved by ... Romilly[?]. I know the subject has long been under his consideration. I send you his letter, & the short note I showed you in the H. of Comm ... The wording of the Bill, before it is printed, will require considerable alteration & much more precision in the phrases - The word Child should invariably used to designate the poor object to be apprenticed ...", 2 sides 4to., Dover Street, 13th March
slight discolouration on left hand edge
Item Date:
1811
Stock No:
11478
£65
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WHITBREAD
(Samuel, 1758-1815, Liberal Politician)
Letter signed to Mr Peart,
Rochester, sending him with "pleasure ... the inclosed from Ld. St. Vincent which will I hope be satisfactory to you ...", 1 side 4to., with original autograph address on conjugate blank, with his seal, signature, and Parliamentary date stamp 'FREE', Southill, Biggleswade, 11th July
Item Date:
1810
Stock No:
11694
£35
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WHITBREAD
(Samuel, M.P., 1720-1796, founder of the Brewery)
LS to Mr Strong,
saying "The News you sent me is sooner than I expected" and asking him "to give what directions you please as if your own case ... I apprehend you will ... go down after she is buried", he has also heard "from the Clergyman, a Mr Kerby, to give me an Account of Mrs. B.s death", 1 side 4to. and conjugate blank, addressee's name in Whitbread's hand on verso, Portman Square, London, 2nd February
slight discolouration, short tears in blank margins
Item Date:
1790
Stock No:
50961
£125
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WIGG
(George Edward Cecil, 1900-1983, Labour Paymaster-General, 1st Baron)
Typed Letter Signed to A.J Hall,
referring to Christopher Frere Smith's 'Get Britain Out' campaign, 1 side large 8vo., House of Lords, 13th January
Item Date:
1975
Stock No:
13509
£15
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WILKES
(John, 1727-1797, Journalist & MP for Aylesbury, most controversial Politician of his time)
Unsigned Autograph Letter to “my dear friend”
asking him to “call in Pall Mall, and mention what has passed with respect to the other person, perhaps the veteris vestigia flamma of friendship in that bosom would revive and be of efficacy. It is worth the experiment, I think, and its being made early. Good morrow...”, 1 side 8vo., no place, 17th February no year
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43571
£775
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