REPORT OF 1733
Fascinating report written in a sort of pidgin English addressed to Sir,
saying that “The reports which have been so frequent of late of ye Rt honble y Lord Chancellor resigning ye seals are again current as also of Mr Talbott ye Solicitor Gennll will succeed his Lordship Mr Rider be made Solicitor Genll & Mr Tustia Reeves Lord Chief Justice of England in room of Lord Raymond Deced. The Colledge or Hospitall which yr Dutchess Dowager of Malburrow has founded at St Albans is roofing in with all expedition. It is a neat Brick building situate in a very healthy soill & a good air & will be ready to receive her Grace’s pensioners about Midsummer next. Yesterday a months provisions were sent from ye Victualling Office on Board ye 2 yachts mentioned in my last which will be ready to Sale for Holland in a few days. Preparacons are makeing for another embarkation to Georgia ye trustees haveing entered last Wensday ye names of more person who were well recommended to them to be sent over. By a Holland maile this day wee have ye following Remarkable Advice. That Prince Wisnowsky’s party being increased to 1000 men & having begun to sign a Confedracy ye 14th - tending to making void ye election of King Stanislaus it was resolved to declare them enemies to their Country & to send a body of ye King’s troops to attach them which being done ye 16th, 200 more over taken & killd but ye rest marched to join the Russian Army which was come within 12 leagues of Warsaw & as y Crown Army was preparing to meet them a battle was soon expected. Meantime ye Saxon miners were orderd out of Warsaw & the Russian Ambr has had a narrown escape for his life a Polander having fired a Pistoll at him throw hsi window ye ball whereof passed between him & ye Emprs Minister. The French have made great rejoicings at Strasburg for King Stanislaw’s Election but are still quiet in Alsace. Some letters mencon yt ye Spanish fleet put to sea ye 7th Inst for Allgier to Demand the Spanish Slaves there and in case of Refuseal to release them to Bombard that City imediately...” 3 sides folio with mathematical calculations on the fourth sheet, London 22nd September
Item Date:
1733
Stock No:
43581
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REYNOLDS
(Frank, 1876-1953, Joined ‘Punch’ as an Artist, 1919, Art Editor 1920-1930, Illustrator of Dickens)
Caricature profile head of a bald-headed man signed
ono a card, 3½” x 2¼”, no place, dated in another hand 29th November
Item Date:
1926
Stock No:
43602
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ROBERTS
(Frederick, Earl, 1832-1914, V.C., K.G., ‘Roberts of Kandahar’, Field Marshal)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Theodore MARTIN
(1816-1909, Scottish Poet, Biographer & Translator) making an appointment to meet “at the United Service Club... we can have a chat either there, or at your Club which is close by. Will you kery kindly send me a line to Edgehill, Sydenham to say if this arrangement will suit you...”, 2 sides 8v., Dublin, 17th December
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
43539
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ROBERTS
(Frederick, Earl, 1832-1914, V.C., K.G., ‘Roberts of Kandahar’, Field Marshal)
Typed Letter Signed with autograph Salutation and Subscription to the Revd. Hubert G. Stanley
sending his “regards to James Baker, who you say served throughout the Indian Mutiny. I am afraid he must have mistaken me for someone else because I was never in the Light Horse; however, as he is a Mutiny veteran, I am only too glad to do anything I can to help to cheer him up...” 1 side 4to., Veteran’s Relief Fund headed paper, Englemere, Ascot, 19th March
Item Date:
1908
Stock No:
43603
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ROMILLY
(Joseph, 1791-1864, Registrar of Cambridge University, 1832-1861)
Autograph Letter Signed to Dr PAGET,
(later Sir) George Edward PAGET, (1809-1892, of Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, from 1872 Regius Professor of Physic), thanking him “for your most kind invitation to eat my Christmas dinner with you & Mrs Paget. I cannot have the pleasure of doing so as I have a nephew coming to me with his little by. The youngster is recovering from the whooping cough; had he been thoroughly well I should ere now have written to beg Edmund to be his companion. May good health & happiness attend you & Mrs Paget...”, 2 sides small 8vo, Friday night, 13th December no year
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43541
£55
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