Search Results: Autographs&Mss from D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)

London: May 3, 1833. WELLINGTON, Arthur WELLESLEY, first Duke of [1769-1852] [Field-Marshal; Prime Minister of England (1828-30, 1834); Commander-in-Chief of the British Army (1827-1852)]. Autograph Letter in the third person, dated London, May 3, 1833. Acknowledging the receipt of a letter but regretting that he has no recollection of having received a parcel from Mr. Rowbotham. 8vo. pp. 3. (horizontal & vertical folds)

np: March 22, 1803. HASTINGS, Warren [1732-1818] [Governor-General of India (1773-1785), impeached on grounds of corruption and cruelty]. Autograph Letter, Signed, dated March 22, 1803, to George Payne. Writing to say that despite reports that Mrs. Hastings has been seriously ill, she has in fact been in uncommonly good health. [OFFERED WITH:]. 2 Engraved portraits of Hastings, one by T.Bromley dated 1797 (size of sheet: 31.7 x 21.6 cm.), the other by T.Knight after a painting by Joshua Reynolds (25.75 x 16.8 cm.), and an engraved ticket of admission (21 x 16 cm.; plate measuring 16.25 x 10.7 cm.) to the 62nd day of Hastings’ trial, signed by [Charles Stanhope, third Earl] Stanhope [1753-1816] [Politician], with wax seal (ticket with upper left-hand corner clipped & with short tear along 1 plate mark). Hastings was famously impeached in the House of Commons in 1787 on charges of personal corruption and high crimes and misdemeanours relating to his term as Governor in India. The trial, which… Read More

Stratford Place, May 9, 1785. WELLESLEY, Richard Colley, 1st Marquis Wellesley [1760-1842] [Governor-General of India (1798-1805); Foreign Secretary (1809-12); Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1821-28)]. Autograph Letter, Signed ‘Mornington’, dated Stratford Place, May 9th 1785, to Monseiur Perrigaud (?), Paris. Written when Wellesley was Earl of Mornington and a member of the English House of Commons. Wellesley promises to pay the remainder of his debt to the addressee and remit the money to Mr. Nesbitt’s before the 22nd of June, “the day to which the bond runs”. “I had hoped long before this time to have been able to pay the remainder of my debt to you, but the failure of a person in Ireland connected with my affairs, has prevented me from getting the money as soon as I expected…I have written…merely to avoid any suspicion of delay on my part, in an affair, when you have conducted yourself so liberally on yours.”. 4to. pp. 2, with integral leaf with cover… Read More

np: February 15, 1778. WIELAND, Christoph Martin [1733-1813] [German Poet & Writer]. Autograph Letter in German, Signed ‘Wieland’, dated February 15, 1778, to Mr. Mann. Thanking the addressee for his friendly exertions in undertaking to have made by Verhelfs (?) a copper-engraving of a portrait of Cardinal Ximenes and sending him the drawing of Ximenes by Kraus which is to serve as the basis for the engraving. Wieland insists he must have the proof plate by the end of March and that it must furnish 2500 impressions. He also requests that Mann greet Schwan and his Madonna and beg him to oblige him by despatching two stitched copies of Rosamund on his account to Caspar Bölling in Frankfurt and Peter Much in Amsterdam. He also writes with regards to communications with Savioli. 4to. pp. 2. (2 dampspots, edges little chipped). Offered together with a later manuscript English translation and a folio engraved portrait of Wieland by N.Schenker after F. van Kügelgen (foxed)

Brighton Rectory: Aug. 7, 1838. WILBERFORCE, Samuel [1805-1873] [successively Bishop of Oxford (1845-69) and Winchester (1869-73), best remembered today for his opposition to Darwin’s theory of evolution]. Autograph Letter, Signed, dated Brighton Rectory, Aug. 7, 1838, to the Honble Fox Maule[-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie] (1801-74), M.P. An angry refusal of a government request by Lord John Russell: “...I am not aware that the parochial clergy have any such connection with the Home Office, as will justify his Lordship in the use of this language of command. Nor is it an accidental use of improper language since 1st if it were not pretended that these extracts from the parish register were demanded by Authority the clergy would be entitled at the common law to certain fees for sending them 2ly since this mode of demanding them is new. The ascertained custom upon such occasions being for the government to communicate with the clergy through their Bishops to whom they will be always to… Read More

np: Sept. 2, 1848. DE MORGAN, Augustus [1806-1971] [English Mathematician]. Autograph Letter, Signed ‘De Morgan’, dated Sept. 2, 1848, to an unnamed recipient (“My dear Colleague”). Asking for a professional opinion regarding moving an entire roomful of books and bookcases from the ground floor to the second floor, with respect to weight-bearing capacity. “...I am meditating taking myself and all my philosophy a step nearer to heaven – but should not like to come down to earth again by the run, as the seamen say...”. 8vo. pp. 3. (mounted)

np: 19 October, 1666. MONCK, General George, first Duke of Albemarle [1608-1670] [Soldier and Politician]. Manuscript Document, Signed ‘Albemarle’, dated 19 October, 1666, addressed to John Lord Barclay and the rest of the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Ordnance. Warrant for the distribution to Lieut. Col. Sir Charles Littleton of “six barrells of powder with bullet proportionable and matches proportionable to two barells of powder...for the use of his owne Company, Capn. Bonnetts (?) and Captn. M[?]’s Company of his Royall Highness the Duke of Yorks Regiment under the command of Collonel Sr. Chichester.”. 4to. pp. 1, with integral leaf which is blank except for docket title. (horizontal & vertical folds)

np: April 7, 1666. MONCK, General George, first Duke of Albemarle [1608-1670] [Soldier and Politician]. Manuscript Document, Signed ‘Albemarle’, dated 7 April, 1666, addressed to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Ordnance. Warrant for the distribution to Lieut. Thomas Fleetwood of “Four Barrells of powder with a Double proportion of match out of his Majesties stores in the Tower of London for the use of my Regiment of his Majesties Foot Guards.”. 4to. pp. 1, with integral leaf which is blank except for docket title. (horizontal & vertical folds, some light marginal soiling & dampstaining)