THE PRIME MINISTER ASKS GORST IF HE CAN PUT HIS NAME FORWARD FOR THE POST OF SOLICITOR GENERAL
SALISBURY
(Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, 1830-1903, 3rd Marquess, Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary)
Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My dear GORST’
(Sir John Eldon, 1835-1916, Lawyer and Politician) asking if he would “allow me to submit your name as Solicitor General? I make the suggestion not only as my own wish in the interests of the party & for purposes of debate - but also in the interest of the Government in matters of legal advice - acting, as I am bound to do, after due counsel with those whose opinion is of great weight in such matters...”, 3 sides 8vo., 20 Arlington Street, 26th June
Item Date:
1885
Stock No:
42949
£175
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SANTLEY
(Sir Charles, 1834-1922, English Baritone)
Fine signature and
“your faithfully” on a piece of headed notepaper with the date, 1 side 8vo., Queen’s Hotel, Eastbourne, 8th April
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
42918
£25
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SMITH
(William Henry, 1825-1891, Founder of the Railway Book Stores and Statesman, MP and First Lord of the Admiralty)
Autograph Letter Signed to “My dear GORST”
(Sir John Eldon, 1835-1916, Lawyer and Politician) saying that he has “sent your letter on to Lord Salisbury who has not communicated with me directly or indirectly as to the vacancy to which you refer. I don’t think he likes the appearance of a hurry in filling up posts of this nature when a death has occurred. I suppose your re-election at Chatham is assured?...”, 2 sides 8vo., Walmer Castle, Deal headed paper, 29th August
Item Date:
1891
Stock No:
42899
£125
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STEVENS
(Albert George, 1863-1927, Artist, Founding Member of the Staithes Group)
Original Pencil Sketch Signed in capitals with the place and date
the image shows a pine forest with a mountain background, 10” x 7½”, Cannes, 2nd April
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
42913
£375
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STOKES
(Sir George Gabriel, 1819-1903, Mathematician and Physicist, from 1849 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, 1st Bt.)
Typed “Notice” addressed to R. A. Neil,
informing him of a “General College Meeting on Monday March 18 at 2-30 p.m. :- Business, To make a Statute or Statutes altering in certain respects the existing Statues of the College. By authority of the Master...”, 1 side oblong 4to., Cambridge, 7th March
Item Date:
1895
Stock No:
42931
£175
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