WILLKIE
(Wendell Lewis, 1892-1944, American Lawyer, Corporate Executive and 1940 Republican nominee for President of the United States)
Signature on card
with a postmark, 4½" x 3", New York, 14th August
Item Date:
1941
Stock No:
41302
£55
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THE AMERICAN REGIMENT
[WILMINGTON
(Spencer Compton, c. 1673-1743, 1st Baron, 1723, and 1st Earl, 1730, succeeded Walpole as Prime Minister in 1742, Wilmington in Delaware and in North Carolina are named after him)]
Finely penned Memorial addressed to the Prime Minister
“of Sundry Reduced Officers of the Forces raised in North America for the late Expedition to the West Indies”, referring to their “very great charges... in raising their Companies in North America” and “for the different Embarkations... during the course of the said Expedition”, followed by “Necessaries and Payment for their Passages to England from Jamaica where everything was excessive dear”, so that many “especially the Subalterns“ are “reduced to great Difficulties how to subsist or to procure Credit”, other memorials have already been presented “in relation to putting them on Half-pay”, and asking the Prime Minister “to move His Majesty... speedily to declare His Royal Will and pleasure”, 1 side 15” x 9¼”, title “Memorial of sundry officers of the American Regiment” on conjugate leaf, no place, no date but 1742 -
Item Date:
1743
Stock No:
42233
£775
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WILSON
(Sir James Harold, 1916-1995, Labour Prime Minister 1964-1970 and 1974-1976)
Fine large Portrait Photograph, signed, inscribed and dated,
showing him seated half length at his desk, full face, with a thoughtful but pleasant look, hands together holding his pipe, 12" x 8½" in window mount 15" x 11", together with a typed Letter Signed to Mrs. Maureen P. Callaghan, saying he was "very pleased and honoured to receive" her request (for a photograph to go in the new 'Whitehall' Conference Room at her hotel), 1 side 4to., no place, 21st June
Item Date:
1983
Stock No:
66237
£175
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WILSON
(Sir James Harold, 1916-1995, Labour Prime Minister 1964-1970 and 1974-1976)
Postcard photo signed
showing him half length, full face, seated at his desk holding his pipe, 5½" x 3½", no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
36765
£75
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WILSON
(Woodrow, 1856-1924, 28th President of the United States)
Typed Letter Signed to Kark K. Kitchen in New York
saying that he "could not find time to dictate an article if my life depended upon it, but I am none the less obliged to you for your thought of me ...", 1 side 4to., State of New Jersey Executive Department headed paper, 28th April
Item Date:
1911
Stock No:
39179
£275
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