SIX OF NELSON’S CAPTAINS TOGETHER
DRAKE
(Sir Francis Samuel, 1729-1789, Naval Officer who served during the French & Indian / Seven Years War and in the American Revolutionary War, rising to the rank of Rear-Admiral of the Red), ST VINCENT (John Jervis, 1735-1823, C-in-C West Indies and Mediterranean, Admiral of the Fleet, from 1797 1st Earl), James GAMBIER (1st Baron, 1756-1833, Admiral of the Fleet), Adam DUNCAN (1st Viscount, 1731-1804, Admiral who defeated the Dutch fleet off Camperdown), Cuthbert COLLINGWOOD (1st Baron, 1788-1810, Vice Admiral, served with Nelson) and Sir Thomas Masterman HARDY (1769-1839, Admiral, Nelson’s Flag Captain)
Fine collection of signatures from similar documents
next to the printed word “Captain”, each about 4” x 1”, no place, no date but late 1700’s
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43777
£975
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TOM DRIBERG COMPLAINING BITTERLY ABOUT THE RAILWAYS
DRIBERG
(Thomas Edward Neil, Baron Bradwell, 1905-1976, Jouornalist, Politician, Anglican Churchman and possibly Soviet Spy)
Very Long Typed Letter signed with autograph additions to Sir Henry JOHNSON
(1906-1988, Chairman of British Rail) starting that “Air travel is so intolerable, particularly in the tourist season, that I have in the past come home from France, when possible, by rain and boat, usually by the night ferry from Paris. I doubt if I will continue to do this after travelling from Paris to London on the night of 5/6 September. The trains have become increasingly shabby in recent years, but one can put up with that. The service has, of course, deteriorated, but no more than service in comparable contexts elsewhere, and the breakfast-car staff on the English side are, with one exception, extremely friendly and helpful. (I need not specify the exception - he was well-meaningly guilty only of a mistimed joke.). The charge of 75p for breakfast was exorbitant... I should, however, be grateful if you will let me have a list of the increases in meal charges on trains in the last 10 years... and some indication of the extent to which British Rail took advantage of decimalisation to ‘round up’. What was really, and perhaps permanently off-putting was the absolutely disgraceful arrangement, or rather non-arrangement, for the arrival of passengers at Victoria. The French conductor of my Wagon-Lit kindly procured a porter... I carried my own bags out of the hall, assuming that there would be a line of taxis... On the contrary, in the narrow congested street there were no taxis at all... The train was crowded not so much with British passengers, who are by now inured to the general discomfort of life in this country and of our public services, but with many American and French passengers, on whom the most disagreeable impression was created. Several questions arise... Why can the customs and passport formalities not be done on the train during the night... If it is for some valid bureaucratic reason necessary to have these formalities conducted in the dreary hall at the side of Victoria Station, why cannot arrangements be made with the traffic authorities to. have the narrow thoroughfare at that side... reserved for a taxi rank...”, 3 sides A4, House of Commons headed paper, 10th September
Item Date:
1971
Stock No:
43795
£250
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[ELIZABETH
(The Queen Mother, 1900-2002, Queen of George VI)]
Typed letter signed ‘Lettice Boothby’ on behalf of the Queen to Mrs Ralph Wigram
Ava Lady WAVERLEY (1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) saying that “the Queen’s letter to you. must just have crossed yours... As one who has been thro’ the same utter desolation that you are now struggling in, may I offer you my deepest sympathy. I know only too well what it means. But nothing can ever take from us the happiness we have had & it shines on through all the years of loneliness like an afterglow. The Queen would be very glad to have the book on King Edward VII’s Coronation written by your father, & is much touched that your husband should have thought of sending it to her...”, 4 sides 8vo., on Sandringham headed paper, with original autograph envelope with Edward VIII’s stamp in the corner, 14th January, postmarked
Item Date:
1937
Stock No:
43809
£75
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FORMBY
(George, 1905-1961, Comedian & Film Star) and his wife Beryl INGHAM (1901-1960, Wife and Manager of her husband, Actor)
Typed letter signed for both by George to Hugh Francis at Regal Zonophone
thanking him for his “kind telegram of good wishes at the opening of the Show. You will be pleased to know that the Pantomime went over with a huge success, and it looks as though we are going to have a very marvellous time up here in Newcastle...”, 1 side A4, Beryldene, Mains Road, Little Singleton headed paper with the Empire Theatre, Newcastle on Tyne address as well, 1st January
Item Date:
1938
Stock No:
43775
£75
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GEORGE IV
(1762-1830, King of Great Britain) & Sir Robert PEEL (1788-1850, Prime Minister)
Fine Document signed as King, printed with the details filled in by hand,
addressed to Charles McMurdo, appointing him an ensign in the 66th Regiment of Foot, countersigned by the Home Secretary Robert Peel, 1 side oblong folio on vellum with papered seal, Court at Carlton House, 26th June
Item Date:
1826
Stock No:
43797
£450
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