DULEEP SINGH (Prince Frederick, 1868-1926, Younger Son of Duleep Singh, Maharajah of Lahore from 1843 to 1849)

Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent saying that he “had heard formerly, thro’ Mr Walter Rye & again yesterday thro’ Mr Turey that you have some portraits which you are so good as to say I may see. As I shall be motoring near Walton tom-morrow (Monday) morning I propose calling on the chance of finding you at home. It would be, probably about 11 am...”, 3 sides 8vo., Blo’ Norton Hall, Thetford, Norfolk, 29th October

Prince Frederick wrote articles for the Norfolk Archaeological Society, ‘The Connoisseur’, and ‘The Burlington Magazine’. His father Duleep (Dhuleep) Singh, 1837-1893, was deposed in 1849 after the Sikh wars and given a large pension, with part of which he bought Elveden Hall in Suffolk, where his shooting parties were famous. However, his father overspent, and after failing to get more money from government, and being prevented from returning to the Punjab, settled in Paris on his pension.

Item Date:  1911

Stock No:  43006      £375

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