MACDONALD
(J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Autograph Letter Signed to Sydney A. GIMSON
(Sydney Ansell, 1860-1938, from 1888 President of the Leicester Secular Society) asking him to “excuse the delay in my reply to your kind invitation to say with you... I have been trying today to get enough work through my hands to enable me to say ‘yes’ to you & so until now I could not write to you. I’ll stay with you with pleasure and travel direct to Hull on Wednesday morning...”, 2 sides 8vo., 3 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, 13th January
Item Date:
1908
Stock No:
42327
£225
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MACDONALD
(J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Fine Typed Letter Signed to Sydney A. GIMSON
(Sydney Ansell, 1860-1938, from 1888 President of the Leicester Secular Society) saying that he hears that he “would like to have a copy of the large panel poster which is in the window of my central committee room. I will send you one with pleasure when I get back to London. I am rather proud of it. It is my own idea, and I think I have been very lucky in the artist...”, 1 side oblong 8vo., Leicester Labour Party, General Election 1910 headed paper, J. Ramsay Macdonald’s Central Committee Room, 44 Belvoir Street, Leicester, 1st December
Item Date:
1910
Stock No:
42328
£175
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MACDONALD
(J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Cyclostyled Typed Letter Signed after his defeat, signed with a facsimile signature but autograph name 'Blanco White'
commisserating with him on his failure in his "courageous attempt to win a seat for Labour ... the seed will not die. You have also made a valuable contribution to that wonderful total of five million and a half voters who have placed the Party in such an unassailable position as the second in the country. We have come through an Election which has tested the Labour party to its very foundations ... you have been subject to a kind of attack, in common with the Party generally, which can produce nothing but the most unfortunate reaction on the minds of people who have wished to do their duty to their country by Democratic and Parliamentary methods ... From the Opposition benches we must rally the country to sanity of mind and enlightened policy ...", 1 side folio, House of Commons headed paper, 4th November
Item Date:
1924
Stock No:
1908
£50
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MACKINTOSH
(Sir James, 1765-1832, Philosopher, M.P.)
Autograph Letter Signed to "My Dear Knight of Kerry",
saying he is "a little indisposed perhaps from the heat of the Weather so that I am dissuaded from going to the House of Commons ... I am very sorry to be absent on a Motion of yours about Ireland...", 1 side 8vo. with integral autograph address leaf, Holl House, Thursday, no date, together with engraved portrait by Cochran of the picture by Thos Lawrence, 7½" x 4½",
seal removed from conjugate leaf
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
1930
£25
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MAC-MAHON
(Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de, 1808-1893, Marshal of France and Duke of Magenta, President 1873-1879, also Prime Minister 1873-1874)
Finely penned Document signed, in French with translation, to the President of Peru,
(Manuel Pardo,1834-1878, President 1872-1876), recalling the French Envoy M. de Billonet, not doubting that the envoy "has taken every opportunity presented to him to express the gratitude he deeply feels for the marks of goodwill which you have shown him during his stay at Lima", with his own wishes for Peru and the President, signed also by the duc de Decazes, (1819-1886, Foreign Minister 1873-1877), 1 side folio, Versailles, 2nd June
Item Date:
1875
Stock No:
52554
£225
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