EDWARD VIII
(1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor)
Fine Wartime Autograph Letter Signed in pencil to "My dear Colonel" written "In the train to MARSEILLES",
saying that "poor old Desmond's death is a fearful blow to me & I can't realise we shall never see the dear chap again. It's all too ghastly & such a rotten way of being killed; ... at Calais one would have thought one's friends were safe. All this hardly tends to cheer me up on my way East!! Claudie & Malcolm Murray are with me & we crossed to Boulogne in a destroyer ... & have passed dear old Paris. We should reach Marseilles about 9.00 am & shove off at once ... for Alexandria ... What a change it will be out there, & a pleasant one in a way tho I cant say I'm looking forward to it a bit really. I do feel the biggest shit on God's Earth deserting the DIV at this time just as you are all going up to Ypres to have a bloody awful time!! ... I don't deserve it!! I have had a frightfully busy week in London ... I only dined out twice as my family was in London!! ... So you see I was'nt v. gay ... we made up for a lot that night!! Mrs Wyndham & Patra Cadogan dined as well as Claud & my brother & we danced ... a little of that does one a world of good!! ..." he continues with news of friends and continues that he supposes "you are in camp near Popersinghe I only trust it will soon get warmer, for there has been a lot of snow in England ... My brother & I had a game of squash every morning ..." he sends love to friends in the battalion, 2 sides 8vo., France, 10th March
Item Date:
1916
Stock No:
23142
£1500
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[EDWARD VIII
(1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor)]
Good press photo, unsigned, by Paul Parker of New York City,
showing him three quarter length, in profile, cigarette in hand, in a group standing close round him, onlookers behind, apparently having told a good story to a senior RAF officer, 8" x 10", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
53774
£75
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[EDWARD VIII
(1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor), GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of Great Britain), their valet Frederick FINCH (1871-1953) and tutor Henry HANSELL (1863-1935)]
Group of 3 unsigned Snapshot Photographs,
showing them in the grounds at Sandringham, in the first the Princes, wearing sailor suits and with a satchel slung across the shoulder, are shown standing with Finch, all full length, full or nearly full face, their pet dog in front; in the second Finch has one knee on the grass and the dog perched on the other; in the third the dog looks on at Hansell (on the right) who has Prince Edward on his shoulder, and Finch who has Prince Albert (George VI) on his, 3¾" x 3" or 3¼" x 4", [Sandringham], no date, circa
traces of laying down by blank versos
Item Date:
1902
Stock No:
54441
£250
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EDWARD VIII
(1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor)
Fine Autograph Letter signed "Edward P" in blue ink to The Viscountess Curzon of Kedleston
(Grace Elvina, Marchioness Curzon, 1879-1958, American born 2nd wife of George Curzon) thanking her for her “letter about your party but much as I should like to be on it my plans are so vague & my free evenings so few & far between that I could’nt possibly suggest a date now tho its very nice of you to ask me to. If when you’ve fixed the date you’ll tell me I’ll be happy to come if I can...”, 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, Friday, no year, circa
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
42255
£425
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THE PRINCE OF WALES AND GRANDMASTER OF THE UNITED GRAND LODGE
[EDWARD VIII
(1894-1972, King of Great Britain, later the Duke of Windsor)]
Unsigned Printed Document with the details filled in by hand,,
to “Whom it may concern... These are to certify that our Brother John Shenton who hath signed his name in the Margin hereof was regularly received into Free Masonry on the 3rd day of January 1878 & was admitted to the third Degree on the 18th day of July 1878 in the Portland Lodge Ch 637, Stoke on Trent & that he is duly registered in the Books of this Grand Lodge accordingly...”, 1 side folio on vellum, with papered seal of the Grand Lodge of London, decorated with columns and other Masonic regalia, London, 30th June
Item Date:
1879
Stock No:
42343
£125
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