Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera Thursday 15 April 2010 10:30

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Lot: 1 Jeune, discussing a play which he had written: '...I went over it London Gazette approximately 10 issues of the London carefully again & the next day sent it to Mr Comyns Carr - the Gazette 1886/7, together with a copy of the will of David Poole rest is silence so far but every time the door bell rings I prepare of Knottingley, Yorks dated 1776 to receive a certain square parcel...however I am well started Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 on my new story...' Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00

Lot: 2 Autographs - Ballet album page containing the signatures of Lot: 7 Marie Rambert, Lionel Bradley, John Gilpin, Walter Gore, Cholera interesting letter to Hercules Scott, Professor of Moral Annette Chappell, Sally Gilmour, Brander Hamlyn, Stanley Philosophy at King's College, Aberdeen, dated Newby, Margaret Scott and Belinda Wright - all members of the 1832commenting that the incidents of cholera in the kingdom Ballet Rambert, together with an album page signed by Alicia appeared to have ceased but adding : '...I do not believe that all Markova and a letter from Lady Diana Cooper concerning a the cases reported were real cholera - the medical Gentlemen fund for the relief of Nijinsky in his final illness differ on the subject Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00

Lot: 3 Lot: 9 Ephemera - scrap album fine album containing a large qty of Scotland - the Highlands roads fine als of Lord Macdonald items laid to pages including chromo-lithographs, greetings dated April 28th 1809 concerning the building of various roads cards etc in the Highlands as well as the ferry landing stage for the Island Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 of Skye : 'Respecting the improvements suggested by Mr Telford and communicated to you by Mr Hope I certainly of opinion that whatever has the effect to open the communications with the continent must be of especially Lot: 4 advantage to Skye - I am therefore most willing to pay my share Royalty - George VI original copy of the ceremonial for the of the expense of making a landing place in Ardavasor Bay as coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth also of the road leading to it...' Telford launched his ambitious Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 plan to transform totally the communication network in the Highlands in 1801. The project was to take 20 years to complete. Letters of this nature relating to Telford's work in the Lot: 5 Highlands are rare. French Revolution - William Augustus Miles remarkable Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 autograph letter significantly not signed [so that it's author could not be identified if the letter were intercepted] from the British master spy William Augustus Miles to his principal contact Lot: 10 Thomas Somers Cocks (in Downing Street) dated Paris, Military - South Africa - Boer War fine collection of 10 original January 11th 1791, one page 4to with integral address panel - photographs taken during the Boer War, each annotated, two a secret letter sent by special messenger, which originally showing the British Concentration Camp at Brandfort, one contained another secret letter: '...I wish you very much to showing Boer refugees, one showing native warriors doing a deliver the inclosed yourself to your neighbour in Old Palace war dance, together with a signed cabinet style portrait of Yard [presumably the Prime Minister, William Pitt]whom I have General de Wet and an unsigned cabinet photograph of Joseph requested to give you the answer...Sunday last was a day of Chamberlain Images of a British embarrassment. It was us, and terror, humiliation and sorrow to the clergy of this Metropolis, all not Hitler who invented concentration camps as these the troops were under arms to preserve the ecclesiastics from photographs attest the fury of the population resolved upon hanging them - the Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 next Sabbath will product a similar scene...this business I am afraid will accelerate civil war so ardently desired by the enemies of the revolution - they are in momentary expectation of a revolt in the South of France - the people are under arms. Lot: 11 The disaffection is greatest at Marseilles to the new Vanity Fair prints group of four Vanity Fair prints including Marie Government A remarkable eye witness account. Miles was a Curie, August Rodin, Thomas Brook and Professor Ray significant figure in supplying intelligence to the British Lankester Government concerning the events of the French Revolution Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 which were unfolding in front of him. It seems remarkable in itself that he managed to survive, being an Englishman living and working in Paris at the time. A wealth of his Lot: 12 correspondence was published at the end of the 19th c, but this Autograph - WWII - Sir Brian Horrocks Patton: The Commander letter is unpublished and has remained unavailable to historians by H Essame, Batsford, 1974, good copy in dj, inscribed and of the Revolution since it was originally sent signed by Horrocks to inside cover: 'A Splendid Portrait of a Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 great leader by an outstanding soldier and leader himself. Brigadier Essame subsequently promoted Major General...' Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 6 Literature - autograph - Thomas Anstey Guthrie autograph letter signed 'Anstey Guthrie' dated January 4th 1893 to Lady Lot: 13

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Autograph - Sir Harry Lauder printed portrait photograph verso June 23rd 1896, with further pencil sketch of the image showing him head and shoulders signed on the base, matted also to verso and with further ms ink note 'From the Proprietors for framing of the Graphic' Built in 1881, The Drummond Castle had the Estimate: £10.00 - £15.00 distinction of carrying the first cargo of South African peaches in her 'cold chambers'. On 28th May 1896 she sailed from Cape Town under the command of Capt WW Pierce with 143 Lot: 14 passengers and 103 crew. On 16th June she was lost at night Theatre - Ellaline Terris - original watercolour attractive and in poor visibility on Pierres Vertes Reef, Molene Island off watercolour showing the Thames with a bridge in the Ushant. The sea was so calm that there were no breakers to foreground, signed by Ellaline Terris to image. Ellaline Terris warn the watch keepers that the ship was off course in the tide (Lady Seymour Hicks) was one of the leading actresses of the race. When the ship hit the reef the captain was under the late Victorian era impression that she was fast aground and ordered the lifeboats Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 to be readied for lowering. In accordance with company policy for ships at sea the lifeboats were already slung out and all that was required was for the braces and bellybands to be removed. The captain also gave the order to let off steam in case of Lot: 15 explosion. However, the ship was not fast and had overshot the Art and Artists - Edward Gorey 'Peering at the tombstone of reef. Within four minutes she had sunk before a lifeboat could Harry's Mother's Family' litho print by Gorey, matted with his be lowered and out of the 246 persons on board only three signature beneath were saved. Original artwork as used for leading magazines of Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 the late 19th c such as The Graphic rarely appear on the market. The prolific artist and illustrator Oliver Paque is best known for his portrait of Oscar Wilde at the height of his fame. Lot: 16 Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Cinema - autograph - Greer Garson an original sketch showing a female head in a bonnet, boldly signed and with an inscription (slightly smudged) presenting the portrait 'in memory of a Lot: 20 hysterically fun interview' dated March 17th 1939 Theatre - The Mousetrap typewritten letter signed by Peter Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Cotes, the original director of 'The Mousetrap'. A tetchy letter to the author Jonathan Goodman dated April 23rd 1985, taking a great deal of offence at something which Goodman was going Lot: 17 to include in a book : '...in previous correspondence I have tried Africa official retained copy of a letter dated 1891 confirming to explain my feelings in the matter at this late date, 33 years that the Isle of Matacong had been transferred from British to after the play's launching, but apparently what I've said does French territory. Together with official copies of an exchange of not satisfy you and I suggest we meet to discuss the matter and correspondence of the same date concerning a compliant of ill you can give man an idea...the matter is in public domain and I treatment by the French of a Mr Smith a British subject. The have no legal right to stop you...but having given my word to island, off the border of Sierra Leone with French Guinea was Peter Saunders in much the same way that he gave his word to claimed by Britain in 1826, occupied by the French in March me in a tacit truce after 20 years that each would not show 1879 and retaken by Britain in June of that year. For many silence on our business relationship vis a vis The Mousetrap...it years Britain and France disputed the borders of their various would surely be laying myself open to the charge of unfair play spheres of influence in the area until settled by treated in 1898. if I did more than give you my recollections of what I recall of Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 my engagement...and my contribution to its success.. the Mousetrap has been a blessing but a mixed blessing - good for the bank balance but bad for us...' It is not clear exactly what Lot: 18 'the matter' is but it is logical to assume that it was the original Women's Issues partially printed document on a single leaf of insistence of Cotes that he received a royalty of 1.5% of all vellum with ms insertions, dated April 17th 1862, being an ticket receipts from the production - which of course is the Acknowledgement of Deeds by Married Women issued by two longest running of all time - which he continued to receive over Perpetual Commissioners certifying that Juliana Elizabeth the years, despite the efforts of the Producer and Richard Haase, wife of Francis John Chute, now residing in St Andrews Attenborough, the original star of the show, to persuade Cotes in Kingston, Jamaica, had been examined by the to accept a final lump sum payment. By the time of his death in Commissioners apart from her husband and she fully 1988, the royalties had amounted to some 20million. understood the meaning of a deed which she had agreed to. A Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 second document indicates that she had agreed to relinquish her estates in Bristol. Together with two further related documents, and an early Antenuptial Agreement dated 1904 Lot: 21 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Railways -Eastern Counties Railway Co copy of the official Government report of audit of the accounts of the Eastern Counties Railway Co, 1849, folio, 817pp, modern binding, from Lot: 19 the library of the Home Office. A fine primary source of Maritime - original artwork - The loss of the 'Drummond Castle' information on the state of railways at the height of railway fine piece of original artwork by the celebrated illustrator Oliver mania Paque executed in black ink on white card approx 14x9ins in Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 very fine condition. The scene shows the burial of some of the bodies from the packet ship 'Drummond Castle' in Ushant Churchyard, with pencil identification to image, date stamped to Lot: 22

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Lancashire - Charlestown two ledges being the records of the Slavery - India edition of the Scottish Guardian for October 4th Charlestown Burial Collecting Society 1925-1955, the first being 1839 with a report of the sacrifice of slaves on the death of the Minute Book and the second being the Treasurer's Ledger Runjeet Singh in India. Apparently four princesses, his wives recording receipts with a large qty of members names etc. The and seven slave girls were burned to death to add a bit of Society operated on the basis of members paying in regular dignity to the funeral pageant contributions which were then paid out for their funerals when Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 the time came Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Lot: 30 Suffragettes edition of The Graphic for May 21st 1906 featuring Lot: 23 extensive coverage of the Women's Suffrage Demonstration Military - Field Marshall Lord Roberts important archive of with front page drawings of the event, including a depiction of approximately 57 mostly autograph letters written to Lord Emeline Pankhurst, and with reports and pictures inside Roberts by various correspondents mostly 1906-1912 Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 discussing a wide range of matters, many invitations for Roberts to attend meetings as a guest speaker, take part in Committees etc. Correspondents include Lord Meath, Lord Lot: 31 Derby, the Bishop of Manchester, Lord Strathcona, Lord Milner, Medical three attractive certificates on parchment issued by the Ian Hamilton, John Murray, the Duke of Wellington, Bishop of University of Aberdeen dated 1875 and 1878 conferring Gloucester, and many others, together with a number of other medical degrees on Alexander Anderson, each with seals of the letters of military interest and a few cut signatures including University and with many signatures of the members of the Jerome K Jerome and C B Fry An interesting archive which Medical Faculty gives much detail on the intervening years of Roberts' life after Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 the Boer War and his death just into the first few weeks of WWI. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 32 Royalty - Diary Audrey Taylor's personal diary covering the Lot: 24 period August 1st 1990 to July 15th 1991, written in a neat American War of Independence edition of the Berrow's hand on 12pp 8vo, providing revealing details into the activities Worcester Journal for December 21st 1780 with a long report of the Royal Family: '...Princess Margaret flying in from Turkey, on the continuing war in America - also mentioning Major Andre dinner at 9.30, didn't arrive till after 10 o'clock...all the family Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 away, so should have been quiet but you never can tell, Duchess of York in... arrived at Balmoral at 10 o'clock. Smaller than I thought it would be...went to the ball tonight, the Queen, Lot: 25 Duke, Prince Charles and physiotherapist, the Queen Mother, Slavery printed official report on Slavery and Free Labour in the the Princess Alexandra...danced all night, held hands with the British East Africa Protectorate, dated July 1903, folio 9pp. Queen in the Paul Jones. Small cold hands. Wore whites dress Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 with spate & tartan scarp, the Queen Mother wore old white lace dress with scarf. Duke wore red tartan with green velvet jacket... Prince Charles stayed for 10 minutes danced with all Lot: 26 the Royals in the 8 some reel. Fabulous night. A dream come Slavery edition of the Newcastle Journal for September 19th true !!' Together with a fine collection of cyclostyled sheets 1835 containing a poem taken from an American Southern providing breakfast menus for members of the Royal Family States newspaper with a list of 15 advertisements all and high ranking visitors on state occasions, and group of five concerning slaves or rewards for runaways. original briefing books for state visits containing the full Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 instructions (often timed to the minute) for everything which was to take place throughout the State Visits, and as such were restricted documents, issued only to those members of the Royal Household who were operational during the event. The Lot: 27 group cover the visits of the Sultan of Brunei, the Italian and Slavery edition of the Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser Portuguese Presidents, Lech Walesa when President of for September 7th 1787 reporting on the safe arrival of ships Poland, and Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt. from Liverpool and Bristol but the wreck of a French slaver with Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 400 slaves on board, all of whom perished in the wreck Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 33 Literature - Thomas Hardy a fine Woodbury type photographic Lot: 28 portrait of Hardy c1899, showing him in middle age half-length, Slavery edition of the Edinburgh Advertiser for December 12th looking wistfully to his left. By Herbert Rose Barraud. A fine 1800 containing news from America and reporting on an image. uprising of Negroes which has been savagely put down with 15 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 hanged already and with three more due for execution with more trials also due Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Lot: 34 Indentures - Wentworth Odianne - Sergeant at Arms at the Lot: 29 House of Commons group of approx seven indentures on

3 of 37 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com vellum, mid 18th c including property transactions, one signed signed on her calling card by Prince Charles, Duke of Grafton, one relating to Barton Mere Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 House at Pakenham, Suffolk etc, one being the will of Odianne Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Lot: 43 Autograph - Maurice Chevalier - French entertainer, signed pc Lot: 35 sized photograph showing him three quarter length smiling, with A London Wine Merchant the accounts books produced by the autograph dedication signed and dated 1960, laid to the Executor of the will of Benjamin Adams, the leading wine remains of an album leaf merchant of Lime Street, London, dated 1790, listing stock, Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 purchases, with copy letters etc relating to the winding up of the estate. A fine pair of late 18th c accounts books which yield considerable information on the London wine trade at the time Lot: 44 Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Autographs - Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine and Sir Alan Cobham, aviator signed piece by Whittle with autograph note dated 1960 together with a signed hs photograph of Lot: 36 Cobham (signature in the darker portion of the image), and a Maritime - Madeira interesting group of ms documents being signed photograph and tls of Catherine Boyle, all laid to album the accounts for a trip to Madeira by a Miss J M Dickson in leaves 1854, including the receipt for her passage via the ship 'Eclipse' Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 - for Estimate: £44.00 - Lot: 45 Autographs - Art and Artists - Henry Moore, sculptor fine Lot: 37 signature in ink on a letter head, laid to an album page with a Maritime - Acts of Parliament group of approx15 early 19th c signature of Sir Anthony Eden to verso printed Acts of Parliament all relating to maritime matters Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 including an annuity for Earl Nelson, the payment of Navy Prize money, naval dockyards at Woolwich and Portsmouth, an annuity for Sir James Saumarez, relief for shipwrecked Lot: 46 mariners etc etc. Note: miscellaneous lot not subject to return Autographs - Boxers signed photographs/pieces by famous Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 boxers including: George Charpentier, Henry Cooper, Willie Pastrano, Dave Charnley, Terry Downes, Jack Dempsey, Bombadier Billy Wells and Jess Willard, some laid to album Lot: 38 leaves with signed pieces by Alec Douglas-Home (Prime Acts of Parliament group of approx 22 early 19th c printed Acts Minister) and Sophie Tucker (First of the Hot Mamas) of Parliament, various measures including some interesting Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 trade Acts. Note: miscellaneous lot not subject to return Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Lot: 47 Autograph - athletics - Sir Roger Bannister, first man to break Lot: 39 the four minute mile fine magazine photograph showing him Child Stealing An Act for the More Effectual Prevention of Child crossing the finishing line in his epic race, signed across the Stealing, printed Act of Parliament dated July 18th 1814. image Estimate: £10.00 - £15.00 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00

Lot: 40 Lot: 48 Smuggling An Act to make more effectual provision for the Autograph - Spike Milligan, comedian and member of the Prevention of Smuggling. Printed Act of Parliament dated 'Goons' rare early photograph signed 'Spike' showing him three August 13th 1807 quarter length standing against a wall Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00

Lot: 41 Lot: 49 Autograph - Tony Hancock, comedian signed photograph Autograph - Dame Shirley Bassey rare early portrait showing Hancock half length looking at the camera, signature photograph signed showing the very young Dame Shirley to base, fine condition on an album page which also bears a looking towards the camera smiling signed piece by Michael Wilding and on the reverse a signed Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 piece by the Beverley Sisters Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 50 Autographs - political signed photographs/pieces by leading Lot: 42 politicians including Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Harold Autograph - Mary Pickford, Hollywood star autograph note MacMillan, and Emanuel Shinwell

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Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 later cards reveal the development of his musical career, with often sarcastic comments from the civil servants: '...he does not want shift work but I believe the reason for his not liking shifts is Lot: 51 because he is a member of a vocal group which is supposedly Autograph - Ingrid Bergman hs pc sized photograph signed an amateur affair. From the number of adverts one sees in the Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 local press however, it seems that this group has a good thing going...from the way he is able to dress, it would seem that Mr Woodward's little hobby is highly lucrative & this would also account for his non enthusiasm in securing employment. Lot: 52 Consider and submit as soon as possible to anything which Autograph - Liberace characteristic 10x8 bw portrait with long wouldn't dirty his fingernails (!). Nothing on offer at present...' inscription and signature, slight fraying to edges but otherwise By March 1964 there is this comment : 'No change in unblemished employment position but his vocal group is contemplating Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 turning professional within next month or so...' A month later a clearly exasperated civil servant recorded : 'His group has still not turned professional but they are in close contact with Decca Lot: 53 Records & are awaiting notification as to when they will record Autograph - Music - Sir John Barbirolli evocative 8x6 bw portrait their next record. Their first one hasn't yet been issued...states of Barbirolli conducting, boldly signed in white crayon across that the record mad by their group should be on release in two the image weeks time, once this has happened they will turn professional. Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Trefonent Estate contacted but can only offer shift work at present. Does not wish to work shifts.' The final entry, written on July 3rd 1964, makes interesting reading with the benefit of Lot: 54 hindsight : 'Claimant showed me a letter from Decca Studios Autograph - Theatre - Richard Burton bw 8x10 hs portrait confirming a recording session had been arranged. He has signed with greetings to top left hand corner been talking about 'going professional' since April but he is still Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 signing the U[nemployment]R[egister] & not autograph books. Submitted to day shift factory work.' The record was 'It's not unusual' which topped the charts later that year, and the rest, Lot: 55 as they say, is history! Provenance: these cards were rescued Autographs album containing variety of signed from a skip when the local office in South Wales went on to full photographs/pieces including examples by: Gregory Peck, Lord computerisation in the 1970s and kept ever since. ESTIMATE: Brabazon of Tara, Stirling Moss, Jessie Matthews, Sybil REFER TO DEPARTMENT A fine Beatles Collection Thorndike, Edith Evans, Bing Crosby, Compton Mackenzie, David Niven,Bob Hope, Len Hutton, Tito Gobi, Danny Kaye, Emlyn Williams, Eartha Kitt, Anna Neagle, Sevvy Balasteros, Lot: 56A and a few others Rock and Pop memorabilia - The Beatles fine collection of Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 ephemera and original photographs relating to the Beatles, including an original programme for the Beatles Christmas Show at the Finsbury Park Astoria from December 24th 1963 to Lot: 56 January 11th 1964, a qty of bw photographs, some original and Rock and pop memorabilia - Tom Jones a series of approx 6 also including publicity shots, many marked up for publication, buff coloured oblong 8vo sized record cards being the some original negatives, and one at least stamped as having unemployment benefit records of Thomas John Woodward of 3 been taken by Linda McCartney Cliff Terrace, Pontypridd - the internationally renowned singer Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Sir Tom Jones. These cards were compiled when Tom Jones was struggling to establish himself as a professional singer, during which time he was working in mundane jobs in South Lot: 57 Wales, and from time to time claiming unemployment benefit. America - Railroads group of approx 13 photographs of They were compiled in 1961 and 1964 on the very verge of his American railroad bridges and locomotives including three meteoric rise to stardom, and of course he has since become striking images of a railroad bridge collapse and shots of one of the greatest singing stars of all time. At the time these railroad construction with two group portraits of well-dressed cards were compiled however, matters were very different, and gentlemen, presumably connected with the building of the reading them graphically illustrates the continued annoyance of railroads, mounted to album leaves, some with notations in the civil servants at the Unemployment Office at the young pencil or ink c1904. singer - then in his early 20s - who they doubtless felt should Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 get a 'proper job' and frankly did not believe that he would ever achieve professional status as a singer. They also reveal that he suffered pulmonary TB in earlier life and had also been Lot: 58 involved in a criminal case. Thomas Woodward (aka Tom [Napoleon] manuscript document signed by General Bailly de Jones) is described initially as 'factory worker' with an Monthion of Napoleon's army being a signed order of the day alternative profession as 'general labourer' : ' only industrial given on the same day by General Berthier to the Grand Armee experience since leaving school has been as unskilled factory on the way to Moscow, dated September 4th 1812, ordering hand & also served 2 years of apprenticeship as glove cutter. that all grades of the Grand Armee must not confiscate from the Now desires factory work or will consider B[uilding] & C[ivil] civil and local pharmacies, medicaments without the approval of E[engineering] labouring...' Some of the cards give details of the officers in chief of the health military service. Monthion was the job interviews he attended - mostly for labouring jobs - but Chef d'Etat Major of Berthier and replaced him after Napoleon

5 of 37 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com had left Russia. 1p 4to. which is above the demand of the individual for the personal Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 satisfactions of material wealth- is for me an axiom. And as regards practical measures I am in sympathy with socialist ideals like the nationalisation of land & railways & in fact of all Lot: 59 instruments of production. But I call myself 'academic' because [Napoleon] printed document dated Moscow October 4th 1812 socialism in practice lays too much stress on purely economic being the 20th Bulletin of the Grand Armee, with news of the factors & in my view the better world is not to be created by war development in Russia : [trans.] '...Moscow one of the most changes in machinery. It demands above all things a change in beautiful and rich cities of the world doesn't exist any more. men's minds & souls. It demands that wealth shall cease to be During the 14th of September the Russians gave fire to the regarded as an ideal & shall be looked in as being at worst a Bourse, the bazaar, the hospital. On the 16th of September it burden, at best a trust imposing the most onerous obligations was a violent wind which made the first intense...everything on its possessor. It demands that men shall come to see the destroyed. Only the Kremlin was not burnt. A few hundreds of highest self-realisation not in the possession of power, but in fire provocateurs have been held and executed...' 4pp 4to in the possession of the things of the mind. It demands no doubt fine condition the lessening of economic inequalities & the securing for all of a Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 living wage independently of the fluctuations of markets & the changes of fashion ...to give people a new heart & a new soul you need something more than economic adjustment: you need a slow & toilsome process of education of rich and poor alike. Lot: 60 You need to create an attitude of mind in which the rendering of Judaica three rare postcards issued in Palestine in 1898 to service to society -whether in the form of paying dues or in high commemorate the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II when he visited forms- is regarded as a privilege & not a burden...I do not see both Jerusalem and Nazareth what is the way out - here in England or in Europe. But my own Estimate: £60.00 - £80.00 pet dream is that when our own people is re-established in Palestine it may have the stuff needed to attack the problem on better lines. After all, the development of individuality side by Lot: 61 side with a strong conviction of the paramount claims of society Judaica - Sir Leon Simon an outstanding archive of autograph is of the essence of the Hebraic attitude to life & unless we letters signed to his eventual wife Nellie covering the period of have become hopelessly corrupted by Europe (as possibly we their courtship during 1915-16, possibly 200 plus letters in all, have) it should be possible for us to work towards that ideal. So many extensive, giving details of his feelings for her, his hopes for me Socialism becomes merged in Zionism...' '..the great and aspirations, day to day life and providing an insight into his advantage of Zionism is that it throws one's reforming ardour character. In one letter he details all of the Zionist and Hebraic into a comparatively virgin field where the paucity of healthy organisations in which he is involved, either as President or growth is at least off-set by the paucity of weeds. It should be Vice President. In another he expounds at length on his own much easier to tackle problems in Palestine where (for socialist beliefs and how, in his mind they equate with Zionism. instance) something like quality of men & women is accepted In various other letters he explains his own attitudes towards from the start. Imagine a society not crushed by the dead the ongoing War and his own feelings of pacifism : 'in no weight of a long tradition of female inferiority! It is no small circumstances short of absolute compulsion will I take a hand in thing...' this vile game of murder...' '...one's fitness for a situation Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 depends to some extent at least on one's conviction of being fit for it...' '...I have become so used to regarding myself as incapable of arousing any emotion in the feminine heart beyond Lot: 62 one of merely platonic friendship, that I can't contemplate Coal Mining important archive of documents, correspondence, myself as the object of a passion without feeling it to be rather sales particulars and plans relating to the Elswick Colliery in absurd and whimsical...' '...I believe in strictly business Northumberland, dating from around 1830. Possibly 200 principles in letter writing & I demand letter for letter. I propose separate items providing a considerable amount of information to write to you once a week when I am back in London...' '...I on coal mining in Northumberland at the beginning of the 19th mean to take it easy for a bit & get as much fresh air and do as c. The papers relate to a will dispute concerning the ownership little thinking as possible. But you shouldn't try to put me off of the mines at Elswick following the death in 1811 of John working for 'the cause' by urging the absence of any reward for Orde who had bequeathed the mines to his children, one of such work. I have discounted all that & still I must go on whom was the Countess of Rowden and another General Orde. working...' '...about Hebrew - I don't in the least object to the As such the examination of the case provides considerable Bible. On the contrary I think that the main object (for us here) documentary information on coal mining at the time, including of learning Hebrew is to be able to read & appreciate the Bible. valuations, methods in use at the time, as well as a fine But I don't believe in the old method of sitting down to the Bible manuscript plan of the mine. straight away & translating. The best method, I think is to start Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 conventionally with simple words & then, when there is the nucleus of an elementary vocabulary, to use the simple narrative passages of the Bible as reading lessons, the explanations being given in Hebrew with the help of the word Lot: 63 already leant...' '...Jews are divided into two classes, English & Cock fighting interesting ms letter dated March 12th 1823 being foreign; that whatever English Jews do is right & whatever a claim for money 'for a stake paid for ...at a cockfight near foreign Jews do is wrong...' '...I put myself down as an Durham...' 1p 4to. At this time, cockfighting was legal in this academic socialist. What I take to be the underlying principle of country socialism - that man can realise himself only in & through Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 society & that the full development of each person's individuality demands the co-operation of all to a common end

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Lot: 64 with two typed documents dated 1949, one a letter from a Northumberland - legal - Alnwick bundle of legal documents branch of the Salvation Army based in French Guyana, relating relating to cases brought against the Town Council of Alnwick, to the capture of butterflies for commercial purposes and the Northumberland, including a case for the right of a citizen to second a scale of prices. These butterflies appear to be exotic become a Freeman of the Town. Note: miscellaneous lot not species captured in the tropics subject to return Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 71 Lot: 65 Maritime group of approx 23 maritime insurance certificates, Autograph - Military - General Sir Evelyn Wood and the relief of late 19th c, various vessels and duties. Good condition. Khartoum signature of approval on a letter to him from a fellow Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 officer, 1p 8vo on paper of the War Office, Cairo, dated in pencil in another hand 'Wadi Halfa November 1884'. The date and location of this letter shows that it was written during the Lot: 72 expedition to relieve Gordon at Khartoum. Wood had been Maritime group of approx manuscript letters 1830s concerning appointed commander of the Egyptian Army in 1882 but he was maritime matters, including two petitions to King William IV from not chosen to lead the expedition, being considered by Garnet Naval officers, letters from the King's private secretary Wolseley to be too desk bound for the role. This particular letter concerning naval matters etc is a request for six woollen jerseys and when you consider that Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 Gordon was in the desperate belief that the British Army was only a few miles away from Khartoum, one can believe that Wood may have been more interested in paper work than Lot: 73 actually saving Gordon ! Maritime -Bermuda 1831 series of approx 14 ms letters mostly Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 from Vice Admiral Sir Griffith Colpoys, stationed off Bermuda, to Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, discussing naval business, trade, the situations in both Nova Scotia and Lot: 66 Columbia, and the conduct of one of his captains. One letter Derbyshire extensive indenture dated 1825 on approx 15 torn losing a section the rest in good order sheets of vellum being a land exchange between Sir George Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 Crewe and Sir Francis Burdett for considerable tracts of land in Stanton Juxta Pontem and Repton in Derbyshire - with two fine large estate plans with schedules listing land holdings, Lot: 74 tenancies etc etc Maritime remarkable manuscript document in the name of Lord Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Palmerston dated October 26th 1831, five pp folio, being draft instructions to Rear Admiral Frederic Warren to head a naval force off the coast of Holland in case ' hostilities against Lot: 67 Belgium unfortunately be resumed by the King of the West Midlands - Castle Bromwich interesting group of Netherlands...you are hereby required and directed to proceed documents dated 1850 relating to the installation of a plumbing forthwith to the Downs...for the purpose of taking on board system into Castle Bromwich Hall for the Earl of Bradford, pilots acquainted with the Dutch coast from the Texel to the including two letters from the manufacturer, an advertising mouth of the Scheldt and having done this with as little delay as paper with diagram showing how the system worked and a possible you are to make the best of your way to the said ground plan of the hall showing the arrangement of the pipes Coast, stationing your ships in such a manner as will afford you etc the best and speediest means of communication with Sir Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Charles Bagot at the Hague leaving the Viper Schooner to keep up a communication with Sir Robert Adair. In the event of receiving from either of the above Ambassadors information of Lot: 68 the Dutch the Squadron under your command to detain and Ephemera - Bills and Receipts file containing a large qty of bills send into port all vessels navigating under the Dutch flag and receipts mostly shops in the Derby area. Note: wherever met with and by keeping up a strict blockade of the miscellaneous lot not subject to return Texel, the Maes and the Scheldt, seize all vessels belonging to Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Holland whether attempting to enter or come out until you shall be called on by one of the above mentioned Ambassadors to act...' Lot: 69 Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Ephemera - Cigarette Cards approx 15 series of cigarette cards in albums, c1930s, apparently all complete, in albums, various subjects including military, wildlife, sport, the coronation of Lot: 75 George VI etc, together with a few letters of interest Maritime - Vice Admiral Sir John Gore extensive manuscript Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 official report signed to Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, dated Melville, Madras Roads March 4th 1833, marked 'Duplicate', 6pp folio - being a detailed assessment of the situation in the area, and particularly in Ceylon : '...I hope Lot: 70 before any extremity can arise that the Mauritius will be Ephemera -Butterflies fine collection of approx 48 preserved tranquillized and that I shall have my whole force to devote to butterflies, each contained in an individual envelope. Together

7 of 37 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com that object. In the interim I have given Captain Plumsidge the predecessor's official reports that it is unnecessary for me to charge of the Bay of Bengal and Straits of Malacca, making add another word, to what I have written to Lord William Singapore the object of his particular attention...you are Bentinck and his enlarged reply. Boats, such as ships can pleased to ask my opinion respecting Trincomalee...at present carry, are of no manner of use against them. Small Brigs or it is, without any exception the most cruelly neglected place I Schooners that can be rowed and sail tolerably fast may effect have ever seen- everything is in a state of absolute something and keep them in check and there must be several decay...dilapidation extends so rapidly in the Country that when of those to do much. Steamers would be effectual but are not once decay is established in six months the whole is changed attainable for want of coals and this has induced me to cause some outlay at the Admiralty Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 House to save it...' Gore then continues at considerable length to discuss the need to remove stagnant water from the area and to provide the population with fresh water, as well as Lot: 78 restoring harbours and building infrastructure then adds: '...two Maritime - Dutch Wars naval dispatch written on a single page great evils have to be overcome. The obstinate indolence of the 8vo dated December 16th 1832, reporting on the strength of Cyngalese, than which it is scarcely possible to imagine greater the Dutch fleet in the Java Sea : '...four small frigates of 34 and now that forced labour is abolished and it is left as an act of guns about 600 tons each, two Corvettes of 18 Guns about 450 their own they will scarcely work to obtain their daily food ...and tons...' when added to their most filthy, most miserable residences, the Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 infections & fever which assails the Troops yearly must be mainly attributed. It would be a positive blessing if the whole of the Black Town and Bazaar could be consumed by fire and new habitations built under the direction of an oversee or engineer Lot: 79 Maritime - Mauritius fine retained copy of a naval dispatch to who would study air and cleanliness instead of disgusting pig Commodore Schomberg from First Lord of the Admiralty Sir sties in which the natives are now permitted to swarm. The James Graham, dated February 14th 1831 concerning the state other great evil is Jungle...if the French avail themselves of a of Mauritius and the threat of war from the French : '...we war with Holland and push out an expedition from Toulon of 7 continue to receive the most pacific assurances from France sail of the line and frigates with 10,000 men on board it will be and we confidently hope that the Peace of Europe will be veni-vidi-vici and in three months from the day they sail they will preserved: considerable naval armament however are in be in entire possession of Java...the French in possession of progress in the Ports of France and it is probable if unhappily Java will change the view of Trincomalee from choice to war were to take place between France and England that in the necessity and all our China trade must go through the Straits of present state of the Mauritius, that Island would be the object of Malacca...' an early & sudden attack...in the meantime without exciting any Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 needless alarm or giving rise to ill founded suspicion of approaching hostilities, it become you to be on the alert and so to dispose your force and not to be taken by surprise...' 6pp Lot: 76 folio, marked 'Secret & Confidential' Maritime - Vice Admiral Sir John Gore fine long autograph letter Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 signed to Sir James Graham dated March 7th 1833 giving his assessment of the suitability of Ports in India and Ceylon 3 pp folio : ' the Hooghly is out of the way, the navigation at the entrance and the in the River is irksome in the extreme and Lot: 80 Maritime - Dutch wars fine retained copy of a private naval though I was told the Melville could be docked at Calcutta, I dispatch to Vice Admiral Sir John Gore dated November 7th should be sorry to try the experiment and all her guns, stores, 1832 concerning a 'crisis with Holland'. '...His Majesty has been masts etc must be landed at Diamond Harbour...Trincomalie advised to lay an embargo on all merchant ships and vessels has many objections, it is generally considered unhealthy but I bearing the Dutch flag. Consider the distance of your station think this may be obviated...as a harbour for accommodation for and still entertaining a hope that the differences with Holland capability and geographical position in relation to our oriental may be speedily and satisfactorily adjusted we have not dominions it is entirely unequalled- it's secure and accessible at thought it prudent to direct you at once to give effect to the all times...it would be very dangerous for us to suffer any other embargo but if the Dutch fit out privateers or capture a single nation to possess Trincomalie and its central position makes it British Vessell you must sweep the Indian seas of their flag...' a place of great importance for us in war. In peace Bombay is Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 infinitely preferable as a port to refit at, and Madras is an incomparably central rendezvous. A sort of horror exists among Merchant men at going near Trincomalie owing to currents but as I have made clear to Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, if a Lot: 81 lighthouse was built at Foul Point it will not only do away wit this Maritime - Mauritius fine copy dispatch - but signed by Sir John objection but it would be of the utmost advantage to all ships Gore - from Gore to Sir William Nicolay, Governor of Mauritius running up and out of the Bay of Bengal... dated June 22nd 1833 concerning a publication which stated Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 that arms which were on the island had to be given up within ten days or 'the most extreme measures will be resorted to.' '..I beg leave to ask your Excellence if this publication is a fiction or Lot: 77 a fact. If it is the latter I shall take upon myself a heavy responsibility to withdraw the Melville from Port Louis at so Maritime -Pirates - India fine autograph letter signed by Vice essential a crisis...' Together with a copy of the reply from the Admiral Sir John Gore to the First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Governor, a few other copy dispatches relating to the island James Graham dated Bombay January 17th 1834, reporting on and copies of the publication referred to the state of India and in particular the problems of piracy : ' ...on Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 the subject of Piracies you have so much from my

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Lot: 82 the style of a 'stevengraph' commemorating the Coronation of Maritime - China fine copy dispatch marked 'Private' dated Edward VII - featuring a fine portrait at the centre with the January 18th 1832 issued by the Admiralty to Sir John Gore, insignia of Great Britain, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, concerning his voyage to China : '...certain secret instructions India and Australia the Union Flag and the Royal Ensign, with are given which you will not open until you pass the decorative red tassel to base, in fine clean condition. Together Equator...you will remember always our anxious desire to with two Festival of Britain exhibition catalogues. maintain the relations of amity and peace with the Chinese Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 which are the only terms on which commerce, our first object there, can be conducted and you will make allowances for the peculiar character of that Nation and not be extreme to visit Lot: 89 offences with the full measure even of just retribution...you will Quakers two autograph letters from Thomas Thorby, a Quaker, sanction no encroachments on the rights of the Chinese as an from Colchester, to fellow Quaker William Smee dated 1841 independent people and uphold no claims on the part of the and 1843 respectively discussing various affairs : 'we had a British which existing engagements and your sense of justice large Tee Total meeting. The Chair was taken by H D do not sanction Alexander. I did not attend as I am not one of its Members - I Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 cannot go as far as they do in supposing that the moderate drinkers are worse than the drinkersTitus Farmer has been sorely robbed of his Foreman- the trial was held at Chelmsford Lot: 83 and the man is transported for 14 yearswe are collecting American Civil War - bond certificate attractive certificate issued subscriptions to build a new Town Hall and a wish is prevalent by the Volunteer Soldiers Family Aid Fund of the Corporation of to take down Middle Row of houses which if carried into effect New York, dated 1862, featuring a fine engraved vignette of will make a noble street' allegorical characters with a railroad and a steamship in the Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 distance Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Lot: 90 Military - Courts Marshal - India 1813 two manuscript Lot: 84 documents dated 1813, being charges for courts marshal in Ephemera - Fire Certificate attractive certificate on a single India against members of the 25th Lt Dragoons, with list of large sheet of paper issued by the Phoenix Fire Office dated names with the cases against them. A total of 4pp folio, signed June 20th 1889 for a house in Lyndhurst Gardens, Hampstead by a commanding officer to both documents owned by William Willett, featuring a fine large vignette of a Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Phoenix rising from the flames. Partly printed with ms insertions. William Willett, now largely forgotten, invented the idea of daylight saving time Lot: 91 Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Ephemera - Cruise Ship menus good group of approx 31 decorative menus as issued on ocean liners, mainly Union Castle Line, c1950s together with a booklet on the Shaw Savill Lot: 85 Line Ephemera - Fire Certificate attractive certificate on a single Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 large sheet of paper issued by the County Fire Office dated February 15th 1869, for a number of properties at Southsea, Hants, belonging to Sir Richard King, The Hon Arthur Kinnaird Lot: 92 MP and John A Beaumont. Featuring a fine vignette of Ephemera - Lancaster House Menus group of approx 17 Britannia with a lion menus issued at Lancaster House 1960s/70s for various state Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 functions including receptions for visiting heads of state, dinners to commemorate the Queen's birthday etc Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Lot: 86 Ephemera - Fire Certificate attractive certificate on a single large sheet of paper issued by the Bath Sun Fire Office dated Lot: 93 October 31st 1835 to Thomas Harwood Gardiner for various Ephemera - menus group of menus for various state and VIP items in his household including : '...his pictures and prints occasions including a luncheon at Hampton Court for the therein...' Gardiner was the son-in-law of Thomas President of Germany, the seating plan for the opening of the Gainsborough and his collection included several Commonwealth Conference in 1973, luncheons on honour of Gainsborough masterpieces which are listed in a schedule on the Queen and Prince Philip, etc. the back of the certificate, together with valuations - including Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 that of the famous painting of Gainsborough himself with his wife and daughter, which is valued at 15. A most unusual fire certificate Lot: 94 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Ephemera - Menu fine example of a 1920s style menu issued by Frascati of Oxford Street, dated 1927, featuring decorative borders etc, 4pp folio Lot: 88 Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Ephemera - Edward VIII a fine example of a commemorative woven silk bookmark produced by B N H Ltd of Leek, Staffs in

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Lot: 95 the occupation of the Channel Isles, each completed with Ephemera - Dorset - menu commemorative menu for the details of names addresses and property owned etc. These annual dinner of the Dorset Men in London, dated May 3rd 1926 were ostensibly registration forms for the population, but their Estimate: £10.00 - £15.00 real purpose was to identify Jews - and two of these forms certainly are boldly marked 'non Jewish' Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Lot: 96 Ephemera - menus - No 10 Downing Street group of approx nine menus for commemorative events at No 10 Downing Lot: 102 Street, including receptions for King Hussein of Jordan, Hubert WWII - Occupation of the Channel Isles rare boxing programme Humphrey when Vice President of the USA etc, some with held at the Regal, Guernsey on May 31st 1943,printed on 4pp seating plans 8vo, featuring a number of local amateur boxers, but also Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 featuring slave labour workers from Holland, Spain and France who were forced to fight by the Nazis. Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 97 WWII - Aircraft recognition cards for packs of officially issued aircraft recognition cards together with printed keys to each Lot: 103 pack, issued by the Air Ministry dated July 1942. Each WWII - Occupation of the Channel Isles rare pamphlet apparently complete. concerning the funeral with full military honours for the British Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Naval personnel who were killed when HMS Charybdis was sunk off the Channel Isles. The photographs in this pamphlet show that when it came to military loss of life the German Military forces treated their enemies with considerable respect - Lot: 98 which is more than you can say for their Nazis counterparts. Ephemera - WWII - Aviation - The 'Dam Busters' original Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 programme for the repeat Premier of the film 'The Dam Busters' held at the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square on May 17th 1955. Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Lot: 104 WWII - Occupation of the Channel Isles intriguing type written letter signed by the States Supervisor of Guernsey dated May Lot: 99 18th 1943 to Mr G Gallienne, stating : '...I beg to inform you that WWII - Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp typewritten notification has been received from the German Authorities to testimony of Albin Ludtke about the conditions in the isolation the effect that the garage, packing shed etc at Le Manoir, block in the Sachsenhausen camp near Berlin, describing a Forest, belonging to your brother, Mr H Gallienne (evacuated) particularly barbaric method of killing the prisoners : 'in the are to be demolished for military reasons...' 'Evacuated' meant wash room they ran two foot baths full of water then they that he had been removed from the islands, either to work in a placed the victim so that he was sitting in one with his legs in forced labour camp in Germany or Eastern Europe, or he had the other and finally the water hose or rather a jet from it was been gassed. Whatever his fate, his premises were no clearly held against his heart area. In this manner, 7 to 8 a day and surplus to his personal requirements often more were dispatched from this world. The cause of death Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 was officially described as circulatory failure and physical debility' 2pp A4 in German with full translation Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 Lot: 105 WWII - Occupation of the Channel Isles - The Holocaust a good example of a 'Star of David' arm patch which each Jew had to Lot: 100 wear in occupied German territories. This was of course WWII - Liberation of the Channel Isles original printed produced for British Jews living in the Channel Isles who proclamation in the name of Brigadier Alfred Snow, announcing suffered the same fate as their counterparts in mainland Europe the liberation of the Channel Isles : 'I rely upon you all to work Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 cheerfully and loyally to restore the normal life of your islandsit will be my firm purpose to exercise my authority that your own Government may rapidly be restored to your Islands and that you may enjoy in peace and prosperity your customary rights, Lot: 106 laws and institutions'Printed in black on a single sheet of paper, WWII - Occupation of the Channel Isles - The Holocaust a approx 20x15ins. In effect this proclamation marked the end of similar lot the Second World War in Europe - as the Channel Isles were Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 the last territory to be liberated from the grip of the Nazis, some days after the signing of the formal surrender. As such this poster is one of the most important historical documents of the Lot: 107 20th c WWII - Occupation of the Channel Isles - rare example of a Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 German issue identity card issued on the Channel Isles - this one issued to a Robert Davidson Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 101 WWII - Occupation of the Channel Isles - the Holocaust group of approx 10 'Formula GR' forms issued by the Germans during Lot: 108

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WWII - Occupation of the Channel Isles - a similar lot, this one WWII - German Army Post letters important collection of approx issued to an Elsie Brehaut 120 army post letters from various theatres of war providing an Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 insight into the feelings of the common soldier. One of the letters discusses the news that Rudolf Hess had flown to Scotland. Another speaks of attacks by Partisans. Lot: 109 Estimate: £350.00 - £500.00 WWII - Occupation of the Channel Isles - a special postcard issued on the liberation of the Channel Isles showing a cartoon of a German soldier being kicked off Guernsey by a donkey Lot: 116 (hence the term 'Guernsey Donkies'). To verso someone has WWI scarce copy of The British Soldier's English, Arabic, written 'No wonder they were all sick as they were not asked French Pocket Guide' giving translations of everyday phrases in/but ass-ed out as you will see' as would be used by allied Soldiers in Egypt during WWI. Some Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 soiling to outer cover but otherwise intact. Unusual. Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00

Lot: 110 WWII - Occupation of the Channel Isles extremely rare tls of the Lot: 117 Bailiff of Guernsey date November 18th 1940 to the Sheriff of WWII - The Crossing of the Rhine original copy of the Evening the Island saying that the German authorities had given their Standard for March 24th 1945 reporting on Montgomery's permission for the Prison staff to wear their uniforms. This letter crossing of the Rhine, together with a Sunday Pictorial of 1943 is considered unique. reporting on the Anzio landings Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Estimate: £15.00 - £20.00

Lot: 111 Lot: 118 WWII - Occupation of the Channel Isles rare group of approx WWII - The Dresden Raid an extremely rare German casualty six Red Cross letters sent by residents on the Islands to family tag issued in Dresden and dated February 16th 1945, partially in England. printed with ms insertions in pencil and red crayon, signed by a Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Doctor to base. This ticket is a disturbing reminder of one of the most discussed incidents in the whole of WWII - and still continues to provoke emotional debate today. The RAF's raid Lot: 112 on Desden, considered by some to have no strategic WWII - the Latvian SS Regiment group of documents relating to importance in February 1942, led to mass destruction of the city Vladimirs Brasmanis, a Latvian Farmer who joined the Latvian and while there is no accurate assessment of how many were Regiment of the Waffen SS. Immediately after the war such killed in the raid, it is generally accepted that the figure people were not welcomed back to their native land, so he exceeded 50,000 - either killed directly in the bombing or in the emigrated to Canada. The paper include a rare photograph of devastating firestorm which resulted from so many incendiary him in the Waffen SS with a few colleagues, official registration bombs being dropped. This ticket identifies the victim (who documents, an identity pass and documents relating to his presumably managed to survive) as being one of the many citizenship in Canada. The rationale behind the Latvian SS 'Kampfstofferkrankte' - literally translated this term means regiment was that they believed the Germans to be a lesser of 'Sufferers of Warfare Agents'. Some have interpreted this term two evils between then and Stalinist Russia, and they felt that as indicating that he or she had been a victim of chemical they better way to protect Latvian sovereignty was to side with warfare - though it is logical to provide a less emotive the Germans. The supreme irony in all this is that such men are interpretation that in effect they had been victims of incendiary now regarded in Latvia as heroes, not villains. devices. There is still widespread scepticism that the real truth Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 behind the raid has never fully come out - particularly as Dresden fell under the East German authorities after the war. Some would have the raid as an atrocity of the greatest magnitude, while others have mounted staunch defences of the Lot: 113 Allied action. Nevertheless this ticket stands as a reminder of WWI large album containing a wealth of collected material one of the darkest days of the War for the British and RAF concerning the early months of WWI including numerous combined. newspapers of the time, maps issued to inform the public of the Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 progress of the war, and a copy of the famous recruiting poster 'Women of Britain Say Go!' (a little chipped and frayed at edges but substantially complete and a fine image) Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 119 WWII - aerial propaganda leaflet rare example of an allied aerial propaganda leaflet, featuring a map of Belgium and Luxembourg with the title 'Das War der Plan' [That was the Lot: 114 Plan], and on the reverse text under the heading Der Letzte WWII - the Great Escape - Jimmy James bw print of a Versuch [The last attempt] Wellington Bomber by Robert Evans, one of a limited edition of Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 100 signed by Jimmy James in the margin Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 Lot: 120 Lot: 115 WWII - aerial propaganda leaflet rare example of an allied

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Lot: 121 Lot: 127 WWII - Sudeten Land 'Einheit' [Unity] 'Sudeten German Anti- WWII - the Holocaust - Auschwitz rare SS field post card with Fascist Fortnightly' - a bound volume containing a complete run typed message from an SS Oberscharfuhrer from Auschwitz, for 1943. A remarkable publication produced for ethnic Czech written from Siemianowitz, Poland, sending his greetings and refugees displaced from their home in the Sudeten Land by saying [trans.] 'I only have another week in this dump, then Hitler in 1939. A particularly rare aspect of this journal is that it back to Auschwitz, you can send me any reply direct to the lists various refugees by name and their locations in England. camp via the SS Lagerkommandantur...' Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00

Lot: 122 Lot: 128 WWII - Bombing of Guernsey copy of the Guernsey Star for Military ms letter of J Bales from St Peter's College, June 29th 1940 with extensive reports on the German bombing Cambridge, dated December 14th 1826 : 'it appears to me that raid which left 22 dead and 33 badly wounded. This newspaper if there is to be a war the funds will fall eventually much lower contains the first news that the Channel Isles had been than they can at present it appears to be pretty generally the abandoned - five days after the event had actually taken place opinion here that the War will be of short duration unless Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 France should interfere in which case what noble scampering there will be - and what a famous time for the steam boats.' It is unclear which war Mr Bales is referring to, but it could be the Lot: 123 war in the USA which involved Texas and Mexico, known as WWII - Erich Raeder, German Admiral and head of the German the Fredonian Rebellion. Together with a small group of ms Navy autograph letter signed on a postcard dated November letters, and a birth certificate of the son of a professional jockey, 21st 1944 to a friend in Herford, Westphalia. [Part trans] ' My 19th c dears ! We are very concerned about you after Herford has Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 been heavily attacked twice ...unfortunately I was rather ill from the end of October until the middle of November, something which is very uncommon to me...' By this time, leading military Lot: 129 figures such as Raeder must have known that the war was lost - Autograph - America - Everard Peck document signed by Peck and of course by now he was witnessing the mass destruction as a witness to an arbitration bond. Manuscript in ink dated of German cities by the growing and relentless allied bombing. Rochester, New York, no date but early 19th c. Peck was a It is little wonder that he was sick at heart. Raeder, the first pioneer printer in America. His signature is scarce. person to attain the title of Grossadmiral since Tirpitz, was Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 sentenced to life imprisonment at Nuremberg because of his involvement in the invasion of Norway. The sentence was heavily criticised as he had merely been discharging his military Lot: 130 function. He was eventually released in 1955 and died in 1960. Autographs - The CABAL rare document signed by all five Autograph letters of Raeder are rare. members of the CABAL - Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Ashley and Lauderdale, dated March 15th 1671/2, ms in ink on a single leaf of oblong folio vellum, with signatures to base and the remains of four red wax seals. Appointing Sir Charles Lot: 124 Littleton as Sub Commissioner for the Port of London 'for the Military volume of handwritten notes on military tactics compiled care of such shipps as are sent in and deteined in his majties by G H Pengelley dated September 16th 1904, including Ports belonging to the subjects of the United Provinces and for diagrams, tables of firing patters, list of defended ports and the management of such shipps goods and merchandise as trade routes they defended etc, together with an accounts book may hereafter prove Prize...' The CABAL - derived from the dated 1946 initial letters of their names - was the powerful clique of Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 courtiers which surrounded Charles II on his restoration and became the virtual government of the country. In a sense it was the beginnings of cabinet government - though because of the Lot: 125 political intrigues and jealousies at court at the time, the term Military - the Cheshire Yeomanry The Cheshire (Earl of 'CABAL' has come to mean a sinister group bent on power at Chester's) Yeomanry, the last British regiment to fight on all costs. Documents signed by all members of the original horses. By Richard Verdin, First Edition 1971, dj present, with CABAL are rare on the market. inscription signed by the author to title page, generally good Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 condition Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 131 The Tower of London 1583 important document on a single Lot: 126 large leaf of paper, laid to card, dated 1583, being the payroll WWII group of 11 badges including those for the Labour Force, for the Lieutenant, Porter and Yeomen Warders of the Tower of

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London, signed to base by the Lieutenant, Sir Owen Hopton, those involving Sir Edward Leigh, the Earl and Countess of and listing by name a total of 30 Yeomen with their payment. Stamford, the Dowager Countess of Huntingdon, Lucy Breton Approx 18x16 ins, slight dusting but clearly legible throughout daughter of Sir Dudley Carleton, Lady Mary Morduant, Lord and with a fine signature of Hopton to base. A document of Roseberie and others considerable historical interest. Hopton was Lieutenant of the Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Tower from 1575 until 1592 and as such was in charge of the custody of some of the most famous prisoners kept there during the reign of Elizabeth I. In the same year as this document one Lot: 137 of those prisoners was John Somerville, cousin to William Ecclesiastical three attractive documents, partially printed with Shakespeare, who was tortured on the rack and died in ms insertions being admissions to livings in the Church of custody. Two years later, Hopton was implicated in the England one signed by the Bishop of London the second by the mysterious death in his custody of the Duke of Northumberland, Bishop of Salisbury and the other by the Archbishop of York, who was found in his cell with gunshot wounds in his chest. 18th c, both featuring embossed seals Hopton claimed his innocence citing testimonies from various Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Yeomen Warders - whose names appear on this document. Later in his term as Lieutenant, Hopton had custody of Sir Anthony Babbington, one of the many conspirators against the Queen. He suffered some of the most horrendous torture ever Lot: 138 Miscellaneous group of documents including indentures, legal meted out to prisoners in the Tower. Hopton was also in charge papers etc of the custody of one of the most notable of all English Catholic Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Martyrs, Saint John Paine. Such was his esteem in the government of Elizabethan England that Hopton was the dedicatee of George Gascoigne's play 'The Glass of Government' Lot: 139 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 [Louis XVI] Senegal printed edict of Louis XVI dated 1791 being the law concerning the French trade with Senegal. Woodcut vignette to head, printed on 2pp 4to with a manuscript addition. Lot: 132 Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 [Edward IV] document from his reign dated October 1st 1466, being an agreement for the sale of a messuage in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, between Thomas Lynne, John Odeham and Lot: 140 John Blakewelle, written in Latin on a single leaf of vellum Legal group of approx eight printed documents being the approx 11x8ins with four perfect red wax pendant seals explanations of various high profile legal cases 18th c including suspended by original vellum tags. Document in fine fresh those involving Dame Anne Russell, Anne Warner, and John condition, matted for framing. Caryll, friend of Pope Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00

Lot: 133 Lot: 141 [Edward IV] document from his reign dated May 5th 1467 being Political Substance of the Speeches made in the House of an agreement between John Lascy and John Kay, with one fine Commons on Wednesday the 15th of December 1779 on Mr pendant wax seal, written in Latin on a single leaf of vellum Burke's giving notice of intention to bring in a Bill after the approx 11x8ins, matted for framing. Document in fine fresh Christmas recess for the Retrenchment of Public Expences and condition. for the better securing the Independence of Parliament. London Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 J Almon, 1779. 17pp plus title 8vo Stitched, untrimmed, partly uncut. The "Substance" was evidently conveyed to Almon by Burke himself, who asserts his thesis that, "The fatal and Lot: 134 overgrown influence of the Crown" has caused "the whole of all of our grievances." He speaks out against corrupt, negligent, Ireland - Co Waterford extensive indenture on 40pp large legal self-serving, power-hungry Ministers: "the same men, in the folio for land and property in Co Waterford, Ireland between same power, sitting undisturbed before you, though thirteen Heatham Wyndham, Sir William Heathcote, Thomas Heathcote, colonies have been lost." Supporting Burke, Dempster William Wyndham and Thomas Wyndham, written in a neat responds "that the influence of the Crown is the true cause of hand in English, good condition. the mischievous origin, the destructive progress, the absurd Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 conduct, and the obstinate prosecution, without view or hope, of this cursed American war...If it continues, and goes on as it has done, I vow to God, I do not think his Majesty will sit Lot: 135 securely on his throne." FIRST EDITION. Todd 31 85 NUC Latin Documents group of documents in Latin on paper, 0972614 [1] Not in Sabin or Adams J Almon. probably property transactions, 16th-18th c, generally good Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 condition. Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Lot: 142 Autograph - Literature - William Makepeace Thackeray fine Lot: 136 autograph letter signed to Mr and Mrs Edwards of Plas Newyd, Legal group of approx eight printed documents being the dated Chester December 24th 1825 thanking his explanations of various high profile legal cases 18th c including correspondents for the produce that they send him from their

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Lot: 143 Coaching attractive receipt from the Excise Office dated Lot: 147 Edinburgh August 3rd 1767 issued to Sir Alexander Gibson for Ephemera - broadside- Crimean War - Siege of Sebastopol the sum of Four Pounds for 'once chaise being a four; wheel- scarce broadside issued by the Sunderland Herald dated carriage. Partially printed document with ms insertions, 1p October 2nd 1854 to commemorate the Fall of Sebastopol, with oblong 8vo woodcut engraved view of the City taken from the sea, and text Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 featuring the text of the official dispatch. Revenue stamp to top right hand corner, a little dusty and in need of careful pressing but otherwise unblemished. Lot: 144 Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Autograph - art and artists -Kyffin Williams, Welsh artist fine autograph letter signed dated August 1st 1991 to 'Dear Roddy' : '...after my London show which did rather well, I have sunk Lot: 148 into a state of creative lethargy if that isn't too brash a phrase & London - Paddington group of indentures on vellum and paper have been almost totally idle. The book is weighing on my mind late 19th/early 20th c all relating to properties in the Paddington & now it is out the weight still burdens me. But it is out now so I area. One involves the children of Lord Westbury, a Lord suppose I must get used to its inadequacies which are there for Chancellor the world to see. Nevertheless I send you a copy in thanks for Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 the Patagonian show you gave me in 1970. I have a feeling it helped get me elected to the RA that same year...' 2pp A4, together with a copy of 'Portraits' by Williams, signed and Lot: 149 dedicated by Williams 'for Roddy & Ursula with love, Kiffin', and Berkshire - Old Windsor small group of documents 1928 and a fine print of a gaucho on horseback initialled 'KW' by 1940 all relating to a property called 'Priest's Hill' in Old Williams. A fine group. Williams, who died only recently, is Windsor, two relating to the tenancy of Mrs Margaret Cordes, regarded as the major Welsh artist of modern times. A museum Lady of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. One with a and gallery dedicated to him is being established in his native fine colour ms plan of the property country. Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00

Lot: 150 Lot: 145 Art and Artists - autograph - Sir Edwin Landseer autograph Literature - William Wordsworth remarkable ms letter written by letter in the third person with autograph set of prices, dated an unnamed correspondent to 'My Dearest Anna' dated The January 14th 1875, concerning the cost of the 'India paper Craig, Bowness, July 29th 1839, describing his feeling at the copies', no doubt of a print of one of his paintings, and adding a landscape of the Lake District, and also describing an list of copies supplied to his correspondent with prices etc encounter with Wordsworth : '...I have been ...exceeding Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 enjoying this most beautiful scenery. I have not been in the least disappointed in it on the contrary the neighbourhood of Ambleside is more beautiful than any thing I had conceived. Lot: 151 Everything here is lovely from the distance & the hills and the Ephemera - fire policy issued by Royal Exchange Assurance glorious sunsets to the numberless wild flowers and moss...I dated 1840. Attractive partially printed document with ms have seen Wordsworth. He is peculiar but very agreeable & insertions with fine engraved vignette to head showing two kind. I delight to hear that religious takes a deeper & deeper firemen with burning building in the distance Royal Exchange hold on his mind & he has been kept back in his poem by the Assurance dated 1840. Attractive partially printed document desire of more completely describing the principles & with ms insertions with fine engraved vignette to head showing experience of a Christian than he could do...' two firemen with burning building in the distance Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Estimate: £10.00 - £20.00

Lot: 146 Lot: 152 America - Louisiana manuscript minute book of the Louisiana Medical - c18th Herbal Recipe ms recipe on a single sheet 4to, Plantation Syndicate, dated 1883, neatly written on 39pp folio in probably 18th c providing a remedy for 'A consumptive cough', a ledger with title on a gilt leather label affixed to upper cover. slightly faded but legible throughout Inside contents fresh and clear. The ledger sets out the Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00

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Lot: 153 South Africa 1910 fine and extensive letter of a Scottish Durham - Turnpike Roads interesting ms letter dated Stockton journalist working in South Africa dated 1910, describing the December 3rd 1802 concerning the turnpike road from Thirsk to situation of the country in the immediate aftermath of the Boer Yarm 'for the purpose of bringing a mail coach thro' Stockton & War and the establishment of the Union of South Africa : '...they Sunderland...Mr Clarke has wrote to me to be in London to give are going to make a damn fie mess of this Union, there has evidence or rather to prove service of notice on some persons been a lot of mud slinging over the election, the Dutchman whose houses are to be taken down to build a new bridge wants to be top dog again but it won't wash...as for Botha being (expected to be an iron one) or repair & widen the old bridge at a success as a statesman I fail to see it. I have read a lot of his Yarm...' The bridge at Yarm was indeed built out of iron with speeches...but I never can find anything substantive in them....' construction work beginning in 1803. Unfortunately it fell down He then describes in some detail a hunting trip he takes up in 1806, and ever since the ancient bridge built in 1400 has country and then in most deprecating fashion condemns the been used ! formation of a 'Women's Corps' in the army '...there is only one Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 thing in the world that a woman is useful for in war time and that is to be at a base hospital to nurse the sick and wounded .She would be a nuisance in the field, a source of embarrassment upon the line ...' A also recounts a conversation he had with a Lot: 154 local policeman in which he describes Kruger as 'an ambitious Lincolnshire - George III recovery document on a single leaf of scoundrel' only to find out that he is talking to Kruger's vellum dated 1774, for lands in South Ormesby Lincs. Together grandson...12pp 4to. with the advowson of South Ormesby. Written in a neat hand in Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 English with decorative borders and an engraved portrait of the King in an elaborate initial letter 'G', lacks seal. A little soiling in the area of the original seal, two small areas of weakness in folds, but otherwise fully legible and an attractive document Lot: 159 Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Ireland - the Troubles rare edition of 'Combat' - 'For God and Ulster' Volume 1 no 3, dated April 8th 1974, issued by the Protestant Paramilitary organisation the Ulster Volunteer Force, with the chilling headline 'We have not surrendered'. In fine Lot: 155 condition. American Civil War Correspondence respecting British and Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 American Claims arising out of the late Civil War in The United States, presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty 1867. 43pp folio plus title. A good primary source for the American Civil War, which of course affected Lot: 160 British financial interests as well as the sufferings of the A 19th c Comedian autograph letter signed by John Reeve Jnr American people the 19th c comedian dated October 27th 1848 to Robert Hunt Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 of the London Gazette thanking him for his congratulations and accepting an offer to fill a gap (presumably a column in the paper) as his father had done Lot: 156 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Grant of Arms fine example of an early 19th c Grant of Arms, issued to Elizabeth Trenchard of Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, dated July 28th 1830. Manuscript on vellum, with the Granted Lot: 161 Coat of Arms depicted in colour to top left hand corner, with An 18th c horse rustler ms document on a single leaf of paper three other Coats of Arms (one the Royal Coat of Arms) and signed by a Renfrew (Scotland) Sheriff Officer named John with two seals in ormolu skippets (detached, but easily Speir, being a witness summons for a case against Robert restored), together with the accompanying ms licence Lang, a horse rustler, dated 1717. Speir states that he served permitting the drawing up of the document, bearing the the summons on the named persons to appear in 'ye Tolbooth stamped signature of George IV, which has been witnessed by of Paisley the eleventh day of march...in the hour of cuase to the Duke of Wellington - his signature at the head of the pass upon the assize of Robert Lang in Langbank...ffor the document. Both documents housed in original red morocco cryme of theft...' This is quite a well known Scottish case. covered wooden casket bearing the Royal device of George IV. According to a handbill in the National Library of Scotland, Lang Lid of the casket has become detached but otherwise the was executed on March 28th 1717 for the theft of a grey horse documents are in fine fresh condition. which he had twice stolen Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00

Lot: 157 Lot: 162 Royalty - William and Mary - fine and extensive Chancery Medieval Manuscript 1493 attractive manuscript written on both document bearing the dual portraits of William III and Mary II sides of an oblong folio leaf, dated 1493, possibly a list of (by Robert White). A Letters Patent being an exemplification on people admitted into a hospital, written in Medieval Latin. The behalf of William Halford in a cause depending in Chancery of leaf is numbered '19' and was obviously part of a larger record. depositions etc made before the commission to assign a In fine condition. Guardian to an infant Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 Lot: 163 Lot: 158 Scotland - Carleton fine document on 8pp large folio

15 of 37 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com parchment, being a writ of Sasine for lands in favour of John Autograph - Alfred Dreyfus rare autograph letter signed with Andrews of Carleton for lands in the Barony of Carleton, dated initials on his calling card, sending his greetings for New Year. 1832. Written in Latin with witness signatures etc Autograph letters of Alfred Dreyfus who was wrongly accused Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 in an anti-Semitic plot by the French authorities and spent years on Devil's Island before his release after the celebrated publication of Zola's 'J'Accuse!' - are extremely rare on the Lot: 164 market. This is a particularly fine example in fine condition Scotland - Carlowrie document on paper being the inventory of Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 the Tithe Deeds of he land and estate of Carlowrie, dated 1848, written in ink on 5pp folio Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 170 Dreyfus Affair group of approx five contemporaneously issued postcards concerning the Dreyfus affair including a portrait of Lot: 165 him Scotland - Carlowrie document on 3pp folio parchment dated Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 1851, being an instrument of Sasine in favour of Thomas Hutchinson for lands and estate of Carlowrie and other properties Lot: 171 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Music - Autograph - Wilhelm Furtwangler, legendary German conductor rare autograph letter signed on a postcard dated April 17th 1910 apologising for not keeping an appointment as Lot: 166 he had a bad headache Scotland - Carlowrie document on 4pp vellum dated 1774 being Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 an Instrument of Sasine [delivery of feudal property] in favour of George Falconer of Carlowrie, written in Latin in fine legible condition Lot: 172 Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Autograph - Political - Ecclesiastical - Lord Robert Cecil autograph letter signed to the poet laureate, Alfred Austin dated April 14th 1906 discussing the position of the Liberal party : '...it Lot: 167 seems a great pity that the Liberals after all their talk about Royalty - Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathern being masters in their own house & the rest of it should have important indenture on a single leaf of vellum signed and capitulated to Dr Clifford & his friends. They had an unrivalled sealed by her, dated 1791 being the assignment of large tracts opportunity for really settling the question on tolerant lines. But of land and property in Pall Mall, London, including Cumberland it is I suppose too much to expect that any politicians would House, the large Palladian Mansion built originally by the Duke prefer their country to their party...' This letter refers to the of York and known as York House until his early death when it militant action by the non conformist minister Dr John Clifford, was taken over by the Duke of Cumberland and renamed. who, from 1903 fought a campaign against the Education Act Small areas of fading on the document but clearly legible which he saw was marginalising the non-conformists against throughout and with a full transcript. This document concerns established religion. various areas of land in the Pall Mall area as well as Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Cumberland House and is therefore of considerable interest for this part of Central London. Cumberland House was sold in the early 19th c and was eventually taken over by the War Office. It Lot: 173 was demolished in the early 20th c and the site is now that of Astrology interesting letter dated 1857 on astrology: '..I write in the Headquarters of the Royal Automobile Club great hurry to tell you of the success of the information you Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 gave me about your birth - do not ridicule the language of the stars. Mercury is Lord of the planetary hour - both of your birth & mine - it is their decree ...the same star rules the destiny of Lot: 168 both...' Horses and Hunting fine group of documents relating to horses Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 and hunting including a letter of attorney from Thomas Elyot of St martins in the Fields, Middx, Master of the King's Harehounds, regarding the collection of moneys due to his late Lot: 174 father, Thomas Elyott, Groom of the Bedchamber, dated May Autograph - Dwight D Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the 3rd 1679 with the seal of Thomas Elyott; a letter from Sir Allied Forces in WWII and President of the USA - football William Craven to the Earl of Craven with detailed assessment autographed sheet with signatures of General Dwight of a horse, dated May 2nd 1674; an incomplete notice for the Eisenhower and 17 others including distinguished signatories, meeting of Sir J H Preston's Harriers, undated; a manuscript Sir Firoz Khan Noon, Ernest Bevin, Sir Frederick Pile etc at the document being the appointment of a gamekeeper in the Wembley match between Chelsea and Charlton held on 15th manors of Hackness and Burmistone, Yorks, by Sir John van April 1944 single sheet approx 10x8 inches taken from Bempde Johndson Bt - a draft dated 1823, and a hunting Wembley's distinguished visitors book. The match in question permit issued in France in 1876. was the Football League (South) War Cup Final and at the time Estimate: £180.00 - £220.00 that this match took place, plans for D-Day were at a crucial stage. Eisenhower's presence at the match may have had significant bearing on the flow of disinformation aimed at Lot: 169 tricking the Germans that the invasion of France was not

16 of 37 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com imminent. It is known that the flow of disinformation was Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 extremely sophisticated - and of course it would have been a matter of supreme advantage in this regard if the Supreme Allied Commander was seen at a football match. German spies Lot: 180 would doubtless have been in force in the crowd for the game America 1826 fine ms letter from a Scottish ex pat to his family and Eisenhower's attendance would have been covered by the in Glasgow dated Pittsburgh 1826, describing his experiences news media and it natural therefore to assume that this fact in America : '...they are going to make a water works in this alone would have been a major plank in the attempts to throw town and there is talk of 2 canals going on both to start from Hitler off his guard. How could it be that a figure like this place, one of them is going on for certainty from this to Eisenhower could have attended something like a football Baltimore and the other is from this to Philadelphia...I have match with the invasion only weeks away ? We wonder been down the Ohio River 50 miles about three weeks ago however, what the future President of the United States - where there is a settlement of Highlanders. I went down merely himself a very proficient exponent of American Football in his to see the country with a highlander that wrought along with me earlier years - would have made of the Offside Rule ! all summer, the name of Stuart and in coming up again I came Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 through Harmony...' An intriguing reference. The mass clearance of the Highlands did not begin until the famines a few years later and the sheep clearances even later in the century. Lot: 175 It could be that these 'Highlanders' were those descended from Autographs - Sir Robert Baden Powell - hero of Mafeking and the remnants of Bonnie Prince Charlie's army who were founder of the Boy Scouts Movement group of four signed transported to America after Culloden in 1746. The letter bears pieces, one with the sentiment 'Never miss an opportunity to do a fine Ship Letter Liverpool strike on the address panel. a kindness', all laid to card Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £250.00

Lot: 181 Lot: 176 Autograph - Science - John Tyndall autograph letter signed to Travel and Exploration Narrative of the Expedition to the River Mr Hills, no date : 'I must thank you & wish you a Happy New Jordan and the Dead Sea by W F Lynch, London, James Year...' Blackwood, 1850. Calf boards, with blind stamp of the Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Edinburgh Institution. Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Lot: 182 Maritime - American War of Independence - Privateers probate Lot: 177 of the will of Cornelius Whitehouse, of the Privateer 'The Maritime - American War of Independence - Privateers probate Terrible', dated June 9th 1781, partially printed document with of the will of George Elliot, of the Privateer 'The Terrible', dated ms insertions on a single page of vellum and with the seal of January 4th 1782, partially printed document with ms insertions the Bishop of London. on a single page of vellum and with the seal of the Archbishop Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 of Canterbury Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 183 Maritime A table showing the sum for any quantity of days Lot: 178 when the rate per month is given not exceeding 40sh. No lower Maritime - American War of Independence - Privateers probate than 20sh. For the good ship Hannah, Mr John Dixon of the will of William Colton, of the Privateer 'The Terrible', Commander, neatly written on a single leaf of paper, folds but dated January 19th 1782, partially printed document with ms otherwise fine condition, probably late 18th. An interesting table insertions on a single page of vellum and with the seal of the probably intended for display Archbishop of Canterbury Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00

Lot: 184 Lot: 179 Autograph - Albert VII, Archduke of Austria letter signed dated America 1823 fine and extensive ms letter written by a Scottish March 18th 1615,1p folio, erosion to right hand margin affecting ex-pat to his family, dated Palatine Bridge January 20th 1823, a few words, but clear signature. Albert had taken part in the describing the country he has found: '...every four or five miles Spanish Armada and later became co-sovereign of the you will find a tavern where you will generally fall in with an Habsburg Netherlands, appointed by Spain. His wife was the excellent spring of water brought from a distance in woodland Infanta Isabella, daughter of Philip II. The letter appears to be running into large troughs in purpose to refresh the horses or addressed to an advisor in foreign affairs in Paris and the travellers who may stop there and they have all large shades subject matter appears to be Albert's questioning of France's into which they drive the horses wagons and all where the neutrality in a conflict and the answer that was given to that horses stand till the men take some refreshment...' 4pp folio, question by the French Parliament in Paris cross written in black and red (red ink somewhat faded), paper Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 has split where originally folded , in need of slight conservation, otherwise the letter is in good order. The address panel bears a Liverpool Ship letter mark (Wilcocks type M8) with other postal Lot: 185 history markings. Maria Theresa - Empress of Austria printed document in her

17 of 37 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com name dated 1775 being a grant of asylum, six pp folio, fine letter signed by a swindler posing as a bankrupt Spanish condition Prisoner asking for the expenses incurred in retrieving a Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 'handbag containing a secret drawer in which I had hidden the pieces indispensables to retire the sum [$195,000]', and offering a third of the amount. 1p ruled paper 10x8 ins, Lot: 186 annotated 'The Spanish Prisoner Swindle, sent to Mr Inglis in Scotland - an early 19th c bankrupt group of approx 7 ms New York' dated December 19th 1905 documents dated 1815 relating to the forced sale of the Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 property of Thomas Forsyth, for default on a promissory note. One signed by Robert Shertreed, Sheriff of Roxburghshire, a good friend of Sir Walter Scott Lot: 193 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Autograph - Van Gogh autograph postcard signed by E H du Quesne Van Gogh, sister of the artist Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 187 Scotland 1551 fine document on a single leaf of vellum, written in Latin, dated 1551, concerning property in the Edinburgh Lot: 194 area, one hole (original in vellum) not affecting text and one Nelson unusual edition of the Edinburgh Advertiser for knife slash to base not affecting text otherwise in good clean November 1st 1805 with a short report on Nelson - clearly condition with a fine scribe's device to base written before the news of his death had reached Scotland Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Estimate: £20.00 - £50.00

Lot: 188 Lot: 195 Canals group of approx 5 ms letters, early 19th c, addressed to Northumberland - Ewart printed sales particulars dated 1839 for the Rochdale Canal Co, discussing various aspects of the the sale of the Ewart Estate, with fine folded plan Canal Co's business, one mentioning debris resulting from the Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 building of an aqueduct another referring to the drowning of a child in the canal at Sowerby Bridge Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 196 Coal Mining - Northumberland printed sales particulars for coal mines at East Benton, Elswick and Redbarns, near Newcastle Lot: 189 on Tyne, dated April 1830, no map but detailed descriptions of Autograph - Art and Artists - Sir Thomas Woolner, sculptor each mind autograph letter signed dated March 18th 1883 to an unnamed Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 correspondent asking his help in obtaining 'official permission to fetch away the Bust of Mr Gladstone for exhibition as the time is coming to so near that I shall lose my chance of sending it Lot: 197 unless I take immediate steps...'1p 8vo on black edged paper. Royalty - Surrey - Kennington document dated October 1st The presumably refers to the bust of Gladstone made for the 1842 in the name of Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales Guildhall exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1883 and which (later Edward VII) being the Royal Letters Patent appointing was destroyed in the Blitz George Freeth as Steward of the Lordship of Kennington, Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 written in a neat hand on a single leaf of vellum, original blue silk seal tag but lacking seal. An intriguing document as Edward VII was at the time of this document 11 months old ! This must Lot: 190 therefore rate as one of the earliest, if not the earliest document Devon - Treatment of the Poor manuscript document dated c to be issued in his name. It has been thus issued as 1785 being the oath sworn by a William Triggs, residing in Kennington is part of the Duchy of Cornwall Exminster, to James Pitman, Justice of the Peace attesting that Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 he was born in the Parish of Chawley, Devon, and served his apprenticeship to Andrew Cornwall and has done not act since to seek settlement. It bears the signature of Pitman and the Lot: 198 mark of Triggs Literature - Dame Rose Macaulay small group of ephemera Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 including a photograph of her when she was 23 years old, a ms obituary in an unidentified hand, but probably that of Patrick McLaughlin with typescript copies of same, and a group of Lot: 191 press cuttings relating to her WWI - Autograph - Admiral Lord Jellicoe, hero of Jutland Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 autograph letter signed dated St Lawrence Hall, Isle of Wight, August 7th 1934 discussing aviation along the South Coast, 2pp sm 4to Lot: 199 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Manuscript estate plan - Northumberland large ms plan dated 1814 by William Fryer, showing the Toft House Estate belonging to Robert de Lisle, executed in black ink on a single Lot: 192 leaf of parchment approx 24x16ins, some soiling but legible Crime and Punishment - an early 20th c fraudster autograph throughout.

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Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 not subject to return Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00

Lot: 200 Maritime - American War of Independence - Privateers probate Lot: 207 of the will of Richard Clark, of the Privateer 'The Terrible', dated Miscellaneous ephemera carton containing a good selection of March 3rd 1781, partially printed document with ms insertions miscellaneous ephemera including letters, programmes, on a single page of vellum and with the seal of the Archbishop greetings cards, printed matter etc etc Note: miscellaneous lot of Canterbury not subject to return Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00

Lot: 201 Lot: 208 Leeds, Yorkshire James Brown's Trust (1877) - Leeds Sales Miscellaneous ephemera carton containing a good selection of 1897/8 - Duplicate Conveyances No 5 - a fine volume of miscellaneous ephemera including letters, programmes, original documents on vellum all relating to property sales in greetings cards, printed matter etc etc Note: miscellaneous lot Leeds. James Brown, gentleman son of his namesake father, a not subject to return woollen merchant, died in 1877 leaving a considerable number Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 of properties which had been in his ownership. This volume contains approx seven lengthy conveyances of large plots of land in the Harehills Avenue/Markham Avenue area in the Lot: 209 township of Potternewton, Leeds. Each is accompanied by a Miscellaneous ephemera carton containing a good selection of large folding hand coloured plan highlighting the areas being miscellaneous ephemera including letters, programmes, sold, the layout of roads etc. Gipton Beck features as a natural greetings cards, printed matter etc etc Note: miscellaneous lot boundary on a number of the plans. Each document is signed not subject to return by the various people who were parties to the transactions. A Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 total of approx 38 folio sized leaves on parchment bound in full calf boards, gilt lettering to front cover, black lettering to spine. Binding somewhat worn but interior contents fine - providing considerable information on this area of Leeds at the end of the Lot: 210 Ireland good collection of approx stereo cards issued by Berry, 19th c Kelly & Chadwick of Philadelphia, USA, showing scenes in Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Ireland, no dated but c1893-1903, generally good condition, together with a small group of albumen prints, c de v style, showing various scenes in Ireland, c1865 Lot: 202 Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Miscellaneous - Kent group of approx 12 documents on parchment 18th /19th c all concerning transfers of property in Kent. All in Latin. Note: miscellaneous lot not subject to return. Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Lot: 211 Literature Reminiscences of a Literary Life ...Part the Second, by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, London John Major 1836. Binding repaired with cloth, ex Gloucester County Library but with the Lot: 203 bookplate of the Hartland Library, Gloucester and presentation Herefordshire two printed Acts of Parliament of George II by Mrs A G Hartland of Hardwick Court, Chepstow 1936. relating to the improvement of roads in Herefordshire, the first Tipped into the book are a number of autograph letters signed dealing with the roads into Hereford, and the second with the by various people referred to in the narrative, including: R roads between Leominster and Hereford - the modern A49 Surtees, James Raine, James Bindley, George Hibbert, J H Estimate: £10.00 - £20.00 Markland, and Joseph Neeld. Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Lot: 204 Literature - poetry Hurdy-Gurdy by Nancy Price, Frederick Lot: 212 Muller Ltd, 1944, first edition, signed by Nancy Price to inside Autograph - Music - Enrico Caruso Caricatures by Enrico cover. Scarce. Caruso, La Follia di New York, 1914, large folio, 184pp plus Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 advertisements, green cloth binding featuring one of the caricatures to cover, with autograph inscription signed by Caruso to title page. Lot: 205 Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Trade Cards good group of approx 27 French trade cards, mostly copper engraved, probably 18th c, all in good condition Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 213 Suffragettes 8vo piece of headed notepaper for Kingwell Hall Nr Bath bearing the insignia of the Women's Social and Political Lot: 206 Union, and signed by various members of the Scobell family, Miscellaneous ephemera carton containing a good selection of with one signing 'Yours Votes for Womenly' and another miscellaneous ephemera including letters, programmes, signing as 'A Militant Suffragette'. greetings cards, printed matter etc etc Note: miscellaneous lot Estimate: £10.00 - £15.00

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Lot: 214 Lot: 221 Autograph - Royalty - Queen Victoria fine signature dated Royalty - George III- Ireland autograph document in the hand of January 1858 on a Buckingham Palace envelope the sculptor John Bacon the Younger, dated February 9th Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 1813, concerning his statue of George III at the Bank of Ireland : '...Mr Bacon having complete a statue of his Majesty to be erected in the Bank of Ireland will feel himself flattered in Lot: 215 submitting it to the inspection of the nobility and amateurs of art Autograph - Royalty - Queen Victoria envelope addressed to any day except Sunday...the Princess Charlotte and other HRH The Princess Royal in Victoria's hand, signed with initials branches of the Royal family have already honoured the work to bottom left hand corner, on Buckingham Palace envelope, by calling to view it. Mr Bacon will be indebted by an early call identified in ink on verso 'written on the 2nd of January [?] from those to whom it may be convenient as on a former [18]57, together with a pc photograph of Victoria, an engraving occasion during the latter days of exhibition his study was so of the infant Princess Victoria and a c de v style photograph of crowded as seriously to incommode the visitors...' Written out Prince Albert on a single leaf 4to with some ms corrections. This is probably Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 the draft for an advert. The statue of George III referred to in this document is regarded as one of the finest works by Bacon. Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Lot: 216 Autograph - Royalty - Queen Victoria envelope addressed in her hand to HRH the Princess Frederick William of Prussia (ie Lot: 222 the Princess Royal) signed 'The Queen' to bottom left hand Autograph-Royalty - George V and Queen Mary two fine bw pc corner, mounted on an album leaf together with an envelope sized portrait photographs of the King and Queen, both addressed to Prince Albert in the hand of Lord Derby (Prime mounted on larger mounts, both boldly signed on the mount Minister) signed by him to bottom left hand corner and dated by the King 1925, together with a Belgian document Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 217 Lot: 223 Queen Victoria three telegrams sent at the time of Queen Autograph - Sport - Boxing group of two boxer portraits signed Victoria's death, the first from Edward VII dated January 23rd including Charpentier, together with two other items 1901 'many thanks for your sympathy', the second from the Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Earl of Clarendon '...no order for ladies at present - a terrible national calamity', the third from Queen Victoria' Lady in Waiting ordering dress for ladies at court '...we wear I believe Lot: 224 deep band of crepe on stuff or woollen dresses...', together with Ephemera - album a fine example of an early 20th c 'country and ms document sent on behalf of the Queen dated 1842 and house' album filled with photographs and signatures of guests two photographs showing interiors of high status houses at various country house 'at homes', with signatures including Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 those by Ernest Thesiger, Edward Poynter and many others and also including a photograph of a group which included Sir Edward Goschen and Sir Henry Rawlinson. Large folio in good Lot: 218 condition Victoria, Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria delightful Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 letter unsigned dated 1866 thanking her daughter Helena for her birthday present 2pp 8vo Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 225 Maritime finely executed diagram of the layout of the ship Riop Van Winkel attributed to Vice Admiral Cornwallis Aldham, RN Lot: 219 retired, who died on board the vessel on the Nile on February Queen Victoria delightful group including an original 27th 1878 and was buried in Cairo. Executed in Indian ink on watercolour showing the Royal Infants driving in Windsor Park blue paper with schedule of dimensions etc and a view of the together with two hand colours litho prints, the first showing ship, together with three sketches of interiors of cabins and a Prince Albert driving the Queen and the Princess Royal in their small sketch map presumably by the same artist. sledge at Brighton, and the second showing the Queen and Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Albert at home with their children Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 226 Maritime a midshipman's log covering the period 1969/70 with Lot: 220 numerous observations etc. This covers an interesting period at Autograph - Royalty small group of envelopes including one the height of the Cold War. addressed in the hand of Queen Alexandra when Princess of Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Wales, one addressed by the Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria and one addressed by the Princess Royal Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 227 Maritime fine series of retained copy letters being the correspondence between Sir William Bentinck in Calcutta and Admiral Sir John Gore, 1833, discussing various topics

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Documents from this period of the great parade of Gladstone through the streets of Lowestoft. Franco-German history are most uncommon on the market. All c1880 Estimate: £350.00 - £400.00 Estimate: £10.00 - £20.00 Lot: 234 Lot: 229 Yorkshire - Doncaster vellum indenture on eight leaves dated Harrow School fine autograph letter signed by the notorious 1909 being the marriage settlement between William Humphrey Headmaster of Harrow, Charles John Vaughan to Reginald H Smith of Hatfield House, Doncaster, and Ethel Margaret Coe of Crawfaud (of Craufaud Castle, Ayrshire) dated May 5th 1858, Hampstead, London, detailing the extensive amounts of extolling the virtues of various schools : 'The Hasting's School property and investments owned by both, contained in two at Harrow is a very good one: so is also that of the Rev L J schedules, written in a neat legible hand throughout, signed Beauness of Elstree Hill, near Edgeware...' Vaughan notoriety and sealed by all parties to the end of the document Smith had was not finally exposed until the 1970s when his complicity in a extensive property interests in Cheshire, and Derbyshire and homosexual scandal which ran rife throughout Harrow was Ethel had extensive railway shares brought to light. At the time, the scandal, which led to his Estimate: £10.00 - £15.00 resignation as Headmaster a year after this letter was written and subsequent further resignation as Bishop of Rochester, was completely covered up. Vaughan himself ordered all his Lot: 235 papers to be burned on his death and so the real reasons for Newspapers group of newspapers including the Edinburgh his resignations remained a mystery for more than 100 years. Evening Courant for March 19th 1781, the Edinburgh Advertiser Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 for September 30th 1785, the Caledonian Mercury for May 31st 1792, and two copies of Chambers Edinburgh Journal for 1835 and 1838 respectively Lot: 230 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Aviation collection of approx 20 very scarce and original early aviation photographs including shots of the Barnwell Bullet 1915, portraits of the early aviators Pierre Verrer, and Barnwell, Lot: 236 the maiden voyage of the first waterplane with eyewitness Music - Mendelssohn's 'Elijah' two interesting manuscript letters account written to verso, dated 1912, and a rare set of written in 1891 and 1895 respectively concerning the photographs of the Whitehead Aircraft Co 1916 whereabouts of the rehearsals for the first performance of Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 'Elijah' in 1846. Both appear to have been written to John Bragg, who presumably was involved in the festival : '...there are two accounts, one says the rehearsals were held in the Lot: 231 King Street Chapel, the other in the old chapel Peck Lane - Aviation an original copy of the programme for the Scheider which is correct ? Or were the rehearsals held at both places...' Trophy Air Speed Contest held on September 6th & 7th 1929, The second letter raises a question as to whether the 72pp complete, with decorative wrappers. This copy bears the performing version of the first performance was actually signature of W Speller who was a technical adviser to Vickers different from the original owning to an accident : ' the part of Armstrong for the race. Rare. the recitation preceding the last chorus being either lost or Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 mislaid , Dr Mendelssohn has kindly written another ...' Together with a press cutting of an advert from one of these correspondents seeking anyone who had been involved in the first performance. Lot: 232 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Aviation - King's Cup an excessively rare copy of the programme for the first King's Cup Circuit of Britain Air Race held in 1922, signed to the back page by 14 of the pilots who took part, including Alan Cobham. The programme also bears Lot: 237 hand written notes on the times of three of the stages. Winston Autograph - Music - Beniamino Gigli postcard sized Churchill is also listed as one of the sponsors. reproduction of a pencil drawing of Gigli showing head only Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 signed by him in ink, dated 1953, two small stains affecting date only Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 233 Napoleon 1st Emperor of the French important group of approx 23 printed and manuscript documents all relating to the French Lot: 238 occupation of parts of Germany dated 1757-1813, including Music - Ferdinand Gumbert, German composer autograph documents issued in the name of Napoleon. The earlier musical manuscript signed of his song 'Das Bettelnde Kind',

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Opus 8 Title and 4pp oblong folio. The song was published in Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Berlin in 1850 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 247 Photographs - Tintypes good group of approx 11 tintypes, Lot: 239 showing portraits and groups, one in a morocco case (case Music - Autograph - Gustave Charpentier portrait postcard damaged but photograph in fine condition) and two in original bearing a printed 'Air de Louise' inscribed and signed by printed slipcases. All c1855 Charpentier on the occasion of the first performance of his Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 opera Louise at Vienna, dated March 24th 1903, central fold but in good clean condition Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 248 Autograph - Literature - William Harrison Ainsworth, novelist brief autograph letter signed, inlaid to card, dated Kensal Lot: 240 Lodge, March 3rd 1840, complying with a request Autograph - Music - Charles Dibdin Tom Tackle written and Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 composed by Mr Dibdin and sung by him in his new entertainment called Castles in the Air, 4pp engraved music, early 19th c, signed by Dibdin to base of the first page. Fine Lot: 249 condition. Maritime - Transatlantic Steamships original copy of the London Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Gazette for October 29th 1852 containing an application by the London, Liverpool and North American Screw Steam Ship company for a charter of incorporation to convey passengers, Lot: 241 emigrants, specie and merchandise to and from Britain to Postal History - stamps The Viceroy Stamp Album, with a large Canada and the USA, also containing a notice relating to the qty of stamps from around the world. funeral of the Duke of Wellington Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00

Lot: 242 Lot: 250 Miscellaneous ephemera - Norfolk interest qty of solicitor's WWI - Autograph - Paul Von Hindenburg, German President correspondence relating to transactions in Norfolk, late and WWI General document signed as President of Germany 19th/early 20th c Note: miscellaneous lot not subject to return dated July 20th 1932, with typically flamboyant signature Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 243 Lot: 251 Miscellaneous ephemera qty of Inland Revenue Legacy Autograph - theatre and film - Cecil Beaton A copy of Cecil Receipts for payment of death duties on properties 18th/19th c, Beaton Stage and Film Designs by Charles Spencer. 1977, with approx 29 documents in all. Note: miscellaneous lot not subject a loosely inserted sheet with an original water colour design to return and inscription 'To Lorna, Best wishes for Christmas & 1966 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Cecil' Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00

Lot: 244 Hampshire - Portsea document dated 1831 being the abstract Lot: 252 of title to the Bricklayers Arms public house in Portsea Ephemeras - periodical - The Ladies' Field bound volume of Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 this weekly publication covering the months March to May 1909, fine condition throughout. Many articles of interest including features on Golf by Bernard Darwin, a report on the Lot: 245 King discussing aviation with the Wright Brothers, fashion, Rugby School - School lists for Rugby School from 1899-1903, theatre etc etc marbled boards, listing all of the pupils at the school during that Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 period with their various details. Of particular interest is that this volume lists the poet Rupert Brooke who attended the school where his father was a master Lot: 253 Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Greetings Cards a fine album of greetings cards probably early 20th c, all laid to album leaves, various themes. This is probably a salesman's sample book. Each card is neatly fixed Lot: 246 to album pages and all are in fine condition Prints good group of approx 12 large steel engraved prints Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 taken from the Graphic or Illustrated London news, late 19th c, some delicately hand coloured, various subjects including a fine view of Newcastle on Tyne, an excellent depiction of the Lot: 254 Thames Embankment etc Wales - Monmouthshire the will of Valentine Morris, of

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Piecifield, Monmouthshire, dated 1788 - a later copy. Morris, Northumberland Fusiliers FYZABAD 1924, containing original who rose to be both Governor of Antigua and Jersey, leaves bw photographs showing groups of the Battn. With names and many bequests, including charitable bequests to the poor of St descriptions, some images a little faded but otherwise in good Govan's, Chepstow, Newchurch, Trostrey, Tintern, Chapel Hill order. Rare. and Pentry Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00

Lot: 262 Lot: 255 WWII - Mosely and the British Fascists two rare British Union of Autograph - Bing Crosby characteristic typewritten letter signed Fascists car stickers, proclaiming 'Britain for the British', and 'Bing' dated July 3rd 1935 to Mr Harris thanking his 'Britain First' fine condition correspondent for his good wishes 'I am always glad to know Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 how my efforts are received and to obtain any suggestions...my latest picture work was a song in 'The Big Broadcast of 1935' which is to be released late this summer. Our next picture is to Lot: 263 be 'Two for Tonight' with the beautiful Joan Bennett...' WWII - Mosley and the British Fascists exceptionally rare Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 postcard showing William Joyce (aka 'Lord Haw-Haw' standing in defiant post, half length looking to his left Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 Lot: 256 Railways a fine collection of ephemera concerning Railwayman Samuel Kellaway of the Great Western Railway who was a Lot: 264 Permanent Way Man in the Dorset/Somerset areas c1930s/40s WWII - Mosley and the British Fascists exceptionally rare including his instruction books issued by the Railway, autograph manuscript in the hand of Arnold Leese, the arch notebooks, timetable book, sundry correspondence and British fascist, written on the inside of an envelope sent to him notices, his birth certificate, various certificates etc by the Chief Constable of Guildford when he was detained in Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Brixton Prison under the Section 18B rules (which interred all those considered a threat to national security), protesting against his imprisonment and demanding the ability to make a Lot: 257 statement. This ms is the fair copy clearly retained for reference Boer War rare group of 11 original postcards showing scenes in by Leese of two letters he sent to the Home Secretary dated the Boer War 1900 and 1901, most stamped with clear marks May 30th 1941 and June 12th 1942 : '...please do not send me and writing, including the Siege of Ladysmith and Log Tom the usual (and therefore worthless) indictment form as I am not Boer artillery, as well as portraits of Kruger etc interested in the Advisory Committee & have no intention of Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 appearing before it, particularly since you yourself have now decided on grounds unknown to me that my detention original ordered by Sir John Ander5son is necessary - You will recollect Lot: 258 that the Private Secretary of HM the King passed to you my Boer War - Churchill and Baden Powell small group including a wife's letter protesting in my name against my detention...' diary page for Gunner P Hook, RGA signed to verso by Letters of this nature are of exceptional rarity - raising as they Winston Churchill, together with a visiting card signed by do disturbing questions as to what level Fascism in Britain went Robert Baden Powell dated 11-4-01 and a fine carved Boer up to pipe by l Cpl C H Dawson, 3rd Volunteer Batt. Royal Fusiliers Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 with the dates 1899-1902 Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Lot: 265 WWII - Mosley and the British Fascists - Arnold Leese rare Lot: 259 typed article with numerous ms corrections etc in the hand of Military A List of the Royal Military College [Sandhurst] 1846, Arnold Leese, entitled 'Bolshevism is Jewism', 2pp 4to blue boards with title in red label to front cover. A very early list, Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 when the Duke of Wellington was still Commander in Chief. Also on the list are: Fitzroy Somerset (later Lord Ragland) and George Duke of Cambridge, Lot: 266 Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Mosley and the British fascists - Ezra Pound The Fascist Quarterly, Volume 2 No 4, October 1936, containing an article entitled 'A Social Creditor Serves Notice' by Ezra Pound which Lot: 260 begins : 'The moment the editors of this Quarterly write ... 'We Military Military Code of the State of New York, 1871, black agree with the Social Credit Analysis' I, as economist have no cloth boards with gilt title. This was an Act to provide for the further excuse for withholding my full support...' enrolment of the Militia for the organisation of the National Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Guard of New York State. Rare. Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Lot: 267 Mosley and the British fascists British Union - Pictorial Record Lot: 261 1932-37. Brochure featuring photographs of the progress of the Military The official photograph album of the 2nd Batt, The BUF under Mosley, including shots of the infamous marches

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Lot: 274 Lot: 268 Mosley and the British fascists The World Food Shortage - a Mosley and the British fascists The National European for Communist-Zionist Plot, by B Jensen, May 1947, 75pp plus February 1965 with front cover picture showing Mosley's indes8vo, cream paper wrappers with loosely inserted blackshirts on the move with heading 'Blackshirts - They Saved promotional flyer Free Speech'. This magazine was produced by the Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 descendents of the BUF and it is baffling that it was still coming out in the mid 1960s Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Lot: 275 Mosley and the British fascists - John Amery, founder of the Britisher Freikorps 'L'Angleterre et Europe' booklet in French Lot: 269 written by John Amery, clearly in favour of the Nazis. John Mosley and the British fascists Mosley - What they Say, What Amery was hanged after the war as a traitor, he was the they Said, what he is. Booklet produced in 1947 declaring at founder of the Britisher Freikorps, the notorious British SS unit the outset : 'The object of this booklet is not to defend Mosley: Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 he has done that for himself in his book 'My Answer' which replied to all the attacks upon him in recent years...' Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 275A Mosley and the British Fascists 45rpm recording to Mosley's speech at the Royal Albert Hall in 1934, clearly issued in the Lot: 270 1960s Mosley and the British fascists 'My Answer' by Oswald Mosley, Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 1946, spine missing and top board a little loose otherwise unblemished. Mosley's defence of everything he did immediately after the war had ended. Loosely inserted is a Lot: 275B handbill advert for the book, a promotional flyer and also a Mosley and the British Fascists edition of the Patriot for August typed letter signed (stamped signature) promoting the whole of 13th 1936 Mosley's publication projects. It beggars belief that so soon Estimate: £10.00 - £20.00 after the fall of Hitler, Mussolini and all the rest of the fascist regimes that Mosley, imprisoned for a large section of the War, should have been immediately free to spread his fascist message again - but so it was. Lot: 275C Mosley and the British Fascists excessively rare sticker Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 advertising Mosley's Albert Hall speech, featuring a photograph of him hs in profile Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 271 Mosley and the British fascists We Speak for Britain - an original handbill produced by the founders of the British National Party in the early 1960s who in those days were John Lot: 275D Mosley and the British Fascists rare poster issued by Mosley's Bean, Andrew Fountaine and Major General Richard Hilton. BUF c1930s Rare. Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00

Lot: 272 Lot: 275E Mosley and the British Fascists two copies of Union newspaper, Mosley and the British fascists typewritten letter signed to issued by the BUF in the 1956 with extra stickers attacking Arnold Leese from Admiral Sir Barry Domville, who was sent to Anthony Eden - this was at the time of the Suez crisis Brixton Prison under Rule 18b, dated May 3rd 1949 discussing Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 various people and topics and of course his anti-Semitism: '...they do not realise that the harm is done and that another World War will only be playing the Jews' game. I must admit that I should be curious to see what would happen in Palestine. Lot: 275F The efforts to confuse thought seem to be more strenuous than Mosley and the British Fascists rare edition of the East London ever. It is difficult to blame people for being as foolish as they Blackshirt newspaper for April 1956 issued just before the seem...' together with a copy of Domville's book 'From Admiral General Election of that year which was won by Eden to Cabin Boy' Mosley's Earl's Court Speech Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00

Lot: 273 Lot: 275G Mosley and the British fascists Britain First being the verbatim Mosley and the British Fascists handbill issued by the BUF report on Mosley's Speech to the world's largest indoor meeting entitled 'Shall Britons be Conscripts ?' held at Earls Court Exhibition Hall, Sunday July 16th 1939, Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00

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Lot: 275H WWII - Hitler's invasion plan Hirts Englandkundliches Lesebuch Mosley and the British Fascists Pamphlet issued by the fur die Oberstufe an Oberschulen [English Textbook theory for Imperial Fascist League entitled 'Freemasonry is Jewish !' Colleges and High Schools]. A highly politicised guide to Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 England and English culture, with considerable weight played on Shakespeare as a cultural icon, and with chapters devoted to pointing out all the social imbalances in English society- the London Slums for example. There is of course considerable Lot: 276 discussion on the role of Jews in British society, and extensive American Fascists The Dearborn Independent for June 28th support for Oswald Mosley. There is also considerable 1924, Henry Ford's notorious anti-Semitic publication, dubbed coverage of so called English atrocities against India and as the 'chronicler of the neglected truth'. This one has an article Ireland. The book, published in 1942 is written in English entitled 'Zionism as it really is'. throughout - with only the appendix notes of explanation written Estimate: £50.00 - £100.00 in German. This remarkable, and excessively rare book was clearly intended as the main education for a new Nazi English speaking class, clearly born in mind for the running of Britain Lot: 277 after the successful invasion American Fascists The Dearborn Independent for September Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 11th 1920, this one carries an article entitled 'Jewish Control of the American Press'. Estimate: £50.00 - £100.00 Lot: 283 WWII - Nazi Propaganda poster printed on buff coloured card and carrying a message from Herman Goerring [trans.] Lot: 278 'Because we are united, we are strong because we are strong, American Fascists The Dearborn Independent for September we are free !' Published in 1938 - approx 14x10ins 3rd 1921, this one carries an article entitled 'The Peril of Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Baseball - Too Much Jew' Estimate: £50.00 - £100.00 Lot: 284 WWII - Nazi Propaganda Poster printed on buff coloured card Lot: 279 and carrying a message from the sayings of Horst Wessel with American Fascists Look to Germany, the Heart of Europe by a picture of a Storm Trooper carrying a Nazi flag. Published in Stanley McClatchie from the USA, 1st edition 1937, published 1938 - approx 14x10ins by Heinrich Hoffman, pictorial boards and a large qty of Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 photographic illustrations to accompany the English text, extolling the virtues of Hitler and the Nazis. Extremely rare. "Look to Germany" was written in 1936 by American, Stanley Lot: 285 McClatchie, who had lived in Germany prior to the NSDAP's WWII edition of the Daily Mirror for January 30th 1943 with the ascent to power in 1933, & was impressed by the industrial, Headline' Nazi Retreat to the West is Cut Off' together with technical & social revolution under the Nazis. He knew that his other news including Montgomery's advance against Rommel book would be seen as Nazi propaganda, & it certainly was. To in North Africa. this day the book is considered to be too dangerous to be read Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 in Germany & other European countries. Nearly all copies were destroyed by the Allies, thus it became generally unavailable. Original examples are very scarce. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 286 WWII The New Germany Desires Work and Peace, early example of a Nazi propaganda booklet in English aimed at convincing the West that Hitler had only peaceful intentions. Lot: 280 Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 American Fascists rare edition of the Palestine Bulletin for July 10th 1927 with headline 'Henry Ford's Recantation - will make amends for wrongs against Jews' - a story in which Ford is quoted as saying that he would close down the Dearborn Lot: 287 Independent permanently WWII - German soldier's photo album containing a variety of Estimate: £50.00 - £100.00 original snapshots including scenes of fleet refugees, Jewish prisoners, scenes of destruction, dead bodies (possibly executed), the destruction of Warsaw and scenes inside the Warsaw Ghetto. Lot: 281 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 WWII - the Holocaust The Voice of Thy Brother's Blood, published by the Women's International League, Washington DC. Scarce pamphlet issued in America attempting to alert the American people to the plight of the Jews in Nazi occupied Lot: 288 Europe. WWII - Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery a copy of the Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 printed Personal Message from the C-in-C issued in May 1946 on his leaving Germany top become Chief of the Imperial General Staff, together with the printed copy of his address when becoming Freeman of the Cities of London and Lot: 282 Portsmouth

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Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Nazi guard's back), plus poetry and two pages of jokes. The log also contains verbatim details of a camp notice: 'Escaping from Prison Camps has ceased to be a sport !'. Most remarkably Lot: 289 however are statements of eight fellow POWs written in March WWII - Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery El Alamein to the 1945 each a page or two in their own hands, explaining what River Sangro, Berlin, Printing and Stationery Services, British they have learned from the experience - good and bad. Finally Army of the Rhine, 1946 -first edition, with autograph inscription in the collection is the book of signatures - a total of 306 POWs signed by Montgomery : 'To Major E Budd, O.C. GHQ Printing including their warrant numbers and some ranks, block by Press with my grateful thanks, B L Montgomery, Field-Marshal, block, a page for each. A truly fine collection which will Berlin 8-1-46 A fine association copy of a scarce book. This doubtless provide scholars of WWII with invaluable information was Monty's finest work, recalling his finest achievements in on the lot of the POW under German rule. North Africa - the actions which turned the tide of WWII. The Estimate: £1,000.00 - £2,000.00 recipient was Officer in charge of No 1 GHQ Printed Press which during the war produced a huge variety and quantity of printed material including propaganda leaflets. It is highly likely Lot: 290 therefore that it was Budd who actually oversaw the printing of WWII - Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf, pocket edition 1940, signed by this seminal work, which was only issued for private circulation Adolf Hitler to inside cover on a page bearing the embossed amongst the troops. The book itself is in generally good Nazi eagle and swastika devices. Black cloth boards with Nazi condition, with only one tear that we have detected on one of eagle and swastika device in embossed metal to front cover, in the folding maps. Otherwise it appears to be a fine overall copy. 'as used' condition. Excessively rare. Copies of Hitler's book Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 signed by him rarely appear on the market. The last to appear in these rooms - a pre-publication second edition of 1925 bearing a lengthy inscription signed by Hitler to one of his fellow Lot: 289A inmates in Landsberg Prison where he wrote the book - sold for WWII - A Bomber Command POW a superb diary compiled by 18,000. This is a later edition. Hitler's signature, in black ink is Sgt n H 'Harry' Martyn, 755769, 101 Squadron RAF, while as a bold and clear. We are informed by the vendor that the prisoner of war (number 224) in Stalag Luft 1 & Stalag Luft 6 signature was obtained by his grandfather who was a radio German Prisoner of War Camps, between August 19th 1940 operator for the German army in Norway. He also lived in and to liberation in May 1945. Comprising five complete Nuremberg and he is believed to have obtained the signature volumes, together with a remarkable further volume of personally from Hitler in that city. signatures of his fellow POWs. This is one of the finest POW Estimate: £8,000.00 - £10,000.00 diaries we have ever seen - particularly from the viewpoint of its complete record which spans virtually the whole of WWII, and as such it provides scholars with a vital insight into the day to Lot: 291 day life of a typical RAF POW in the hands of the Germans as WWII - the holocaust Das Weltjudentum by Dieter Schwarz - an the war drags on from one year to the next. Martyn was extremely rare SS anti-Semitic publication, featuring many reported missing by the RAF on the night of August 28th 1940 photographs of leading Jews in the world, including Chaim as a result of operations in enemy territory. He provides an Weizman account of his capture - he was in the rear gun turret of his Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Bristol Blenheim bomber with damaged wireless and gyro and miss-navigating as a result and they eventually crash land on an airbase which they believe to be in England but in fact it is Lot: 292 Stormede in North West Germany. He was initially taken to WWII - Alfred Rosenberg a good copy of the Nazi Party Stalag Luft 1 in Barth on the Baltic and records his experiences, programme listening to Lord Haw-Haw on the radio and also mentions his Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 comrades. He describes attempts at escape, with tunnels being discovered by the Germans. He describes how they entertained themselves, playing an accordion, playing football etc, and even mentions rumours of Rudolf Hess' flight to England. He Lot: 293 WWII - Hitler's planned invasion Sturm vor Englands Tore then describes putting on plays, watching films, swimming etc [Storm before England's door] booklet predicting the invasion of and then a further attempt at escape when a colleague is shot England, with map to verso showing how the German army dead : '...his funeral was carried out with full military honours, would sweep across the Channel etc everyone paying homage to a comrade...' Further attempts at Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 escape are also foiled and an American is shot dead. In 1944 the POWs are considered too important to fall into Russian hands and therefore Martyn and his colleagues are moved to Stalag Luft 6 at Falingbostel and from here on he describes the Lot: 294 slow degeneration of the Germans - the arrival suddenly of the WWII - the Wermacht Der Dienst unterricht im here German Gestapo at the camp, and the rise of black marketeering Army training booklet dated 1937-38 amongst the inmates. Finally his existence becomes one of Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 sheer boredom with all facilities withdrawn. Eventually in a final portion of the diary he describes his liberation and final repatriation. The diary is accompanying by a remarkable Lot: 295 volume containing several sketches, humorous and otherwise, WWII - the German-Russian alliance German photo album with including an allied bomber under attack, a POW camp machine approx 154 photos compiled in the pre-war days of the German- gun post, regimental badges, a fine cartoon by another hand Russian peace pact, showing German and Russian soldiers in entitled 'The Luft Gangster' (showing POWs pilfering behind a joint operations etc

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Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 or at the very least a tampering of the evidence once he had submitted his official reports to the authorities in Italy, and wished to ensure that the truth would always be preserved for Lot: 296 posterity. As such these documents are therefore the only WWII German album containing approx 125 photos in the years original copies of these witness statements available - the ones just before the war, showing training camps, and visits by Hitler submitted by MPS Edmondson now being in national archives. and Goebbels, shots of the land army, Hitler youth etc This personal archive has never been seen in public before. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 MPS Edmondson was meticulous in his investigation. A total of 186 witnesses were interviewed - including those who had been wounded in the massacres, whom Edmondson interviewed in hospital. Some of the witness statements are extensive - many Lot: 297 contain harrowing details not only of murders but other WWII German album with approx 76 photos showing shots atrocities carried out by the German troops. The archive taken in occupied France including the taking of POWs, tanks, contains all of the witness statements, either in typewritten planes etc. form, or, as in the case of the hospitalised witnesses, in Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Edmonson's own hand. Together they form a damning indictment of the German soldiers' action at a time when Italy had capitulated to the allies and had been invaded and Lot: 298 occupied by her former Nazis friends. Accompanying the main WWII - Russian Campaign German photo album with approx archive is Edmonson's own notebook, with details of witnesses, 104 photos showing aspects of the Russian campaign, with addresses etc together with some personal observations, a route plans showing exactly where the soldier-compiler went. small photograph of a wanted criminal (though this for a Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 blackmarketeer) and Edmonson's Warrant Card. There are also two sketch maps, the first showing the areas where the massacres occurred and the second showing the deployment Lot: 299 of the various German Divisions with the names of their WWII - Eastern Front German photo album showing aspects of commanding officers. The archive also contains a 10x8 bw the Eastern Campaign including shots taken in Yugoslavia, photograph of Mussolini walking with a group of senior officers, Hungary, Poland and Russia. Approx 169 photos all with three of whom have been identified by MPS Edmondson as war captions, and the album also features route plans showing criminals. This is undoubtedly one of the most important exactly where the soldier-compiler went archives concerning war criminals to appear on the market in Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 recent years. The 'Marshes Incident' took place in the summer of 1944. Two small Italian Partisan units had been formed in the area and one of these fired on two German soldiers who Lot: 300 were passing by on a motorcycle combination and injured them. WWII German soldier's photo album showing various scenes There was a skirmish but the soldiers escaped and reported the taken in France, Poland and Russia, including shots of POWs, incident. Consequently a reprisal was ordered - with the tanks, wrecked planes etc intention that ten civilians would be killed for each German Estimate: £250.00 - £300.00 soldier. If there were any more trouble, the whole village of Ponte Buggianese would be burned down. In this first instance, the Germans went on an orgy of killing mainly old people, burning houses, looting and attempting to rape young girls. A Lot: 301 senior German officer discovered what was going on and WWII German soldier's photo album showing scenes taken in apologised. Remarkably, according to this evidence, no less a Paris, France, Russia etc etc figure than Field Marshal Kesselring himself was in the area at Estimate: £200.00 - £250.00 the time. The first instance only served to strengthen the resolve of the Partisans, and further groups were formed. This led to the public hanging of two youths accused by the Lot: 302 Germans of being Partisans - the event was photographed. The WWII German soldier's photo album showing scenes taken in, main event however took place in August. The Germans France, Russia etc etc cordoned off the area of the Marshes and went in. Soldiers from Estimate: £200.00 - £250.00 different units were sent to various parts of the Marshes in order to do the killing and all some 200 civilians were murdered. Edmonson's account reads: '...about 0600 hours on the 23 Aug Lot: 303 in the Prato Grande area, at the farm known as Tabaccala, a WWII - War Criminals - the 'Marshes Massacre' highly number of refugees, mostly women and children were important archive of original witness statements, all signed by awakened by the sound of machine gun fire...the Germans deponents, taken as evidence in the investigation into the knocked on the doors and ordered everyone outside. As the notorious 'Fucecchio Marshes' incident in which German occupants walked out they were mown down by machine gun Troops massacred a total of 184 people between July 6th and fire, some who were uninjured by the first burst had the August 23rd August 1944 in the marsh areas in the Province of presence of mind to throw themselves on the ground...the Pistoia, Italy. These witness statements were taken by a British Germans continued to fire and the dead and the dying until Military Policeman, Sgt Charles Edmondson of 78 Section everyone lay still...' The dead included a boy of nine. Special Investigations Branch, who took the unusual step for '...throughout the morning German patrols swept the area, the time of taking two copies of the witness statements he shooting at anyone, irrespective of age or sex who happened to obtained, and requiring each witness to sign both copies. This, cross their path. As will be seen from the identification according to his family's belief, was because he feared reprisals statements and hospital reports, 29 people were killed and

27 of 37 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com three women injured in the Commune of Ponte Buggianese...' defence of the realm - particularly in identifying how the system In another incident that day Edmonson reports that German was maintained and who operated it. Organised networks of soldiers came upon a 27 month old child who was crying in the beacons had been in operation since Roman times - providing arms of its dead mother: '...one of them crashed his rifle on the a swift method of sending a message of distress across a wide baby's head. The baby then went quiet...' In another incident he area. During darkness fire was used and during daytime a flag reports that a girl of 19 was raped by the soldiers then shot, and system was used - these documents relate to the maintenance in another : '...two old women stayed indoors and saw the and operation of both systems. machine guns upon fire on the innocent women and children Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 but almost immediately three German entered the house and drove them out at the point of their pistols. Elisa Arinci, upon seeing her two sons, one of whom was in clerical dress and Lot: 307 both badly wounded, knelt down to assist them and was shot in Military - a Scottish Soldier interesting group of documents all the back as she did so...' The scale of this atrocity was relating to George Young a soldier in His Majesty's Own magnified by the nature of its perpetrators - German soldiers of Borderers comprising a discharge from service document, his the Panzer Divisions, often thought of today as brave warriors paybook and two personal letters. Clearly Young was not an in their battles against Montgomery's 8th Army in the desert ideal soldier, as his conduct is described as 'unexceptional' and campaigns. This was not a massacre carried out by or ordered he was discharged on account of being 'inefficient from by the Gestapo. MPS Edmondson's prudence in retaining these weakness'. He enlisted at the age of 15 vital evidential records was well justified. War Crimes trials Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 were held against some of the leading officers involved, notably Major General Craseman and Captain Strauch. Kesselring, too was indicted, but for complicity in a variety of other incidents. However, although convicted no one was executed, and those Lot: 308 Photography Remarks concerning certain photographs who were served prison sentences of only a few years. supposed to be of early date, by M P W Boulton, London Estimate: £1,000.00 - £2,000.00 Bradbury & Evans, 1864 First Edition. An intriguing account of how an elaborate fraud was unmasked by the grandson of Matthew Boulton, the business partner of James Watt. A known Lot: 304 fraudster named Price claimed to have discovered WWII large qty of original letters (100 plus) written by a Naval 'photographs' made in the 18th c - long before the invention of rating to his parents & Mrs J Riddell of the Schoolhouse, South modern photography. The pamphlet (which went into two Charlton, Alnwick, Northumberland, covering the period 1939- subsequent editions) was Boulton's explanation of the fraud 47 reporting on his activities throughout the war. Some letters and how it was discovered. extensive Estimate: £60.00 - £80.00 Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00

Lot: 309 Lot: 305 Railways- the Manchester to Leeds railway fine portion of a Birmingham and the West Midlands Conurbation - A Planning letter dated 1830 by Thomas Sudworth to James Stansfield of Survey of Birmingham and the Black Country by the West Halifax discussing in detail the possibilities of a railroad Midland Group, 1948 presentation copy to Thomas C Kemp between Manchester and Leeds: '...there was a paragraph in signed by 20 members of the Group including members of the the Mercury sometime back saying that the Trustees of the Cadbury family. Numerous photographs and maps. Red Leeds & Whitehall road had some thoughts of selling their road morocco binding, spine a rubbed, but interior contents fine. A to a rail road company. I was glad to see this hoping that it fascinating insight into how the planners in the immediate post would be the means of introducing you to a good rail road war period viewed the development of the West Midlands - of concern...I have been lately taking into my minds eye frequent particular interest is the proposals to widen the canal systems surveys of the country from Leeds to Manchester & the result of including the Shropshire Union and Worcester and Birmingham any great scheme is this - that you adopt the proposal of the Canals to take considerably more commercial traffic- in effect paragraph & make a rail road from Leeds to White Hall ...' He producing canals of similar size to the Manchester Ship Canal. then describes in detail how such a rail road would be One wonders what transportation would have been like today constructed in the various valleys and moorland before had the plan been adopted ! dropping down into Manchester and then adding : '...this would Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 be a saving of I fancy seven or eight miles between Leeds & Manchester compared with the present turnpike road- so much greater saving compared with the Todmorden line of rail road...' Lot: 306 He then discusses the costs of tunnelling on the Sheffield line, Northumberland fine archive of financial documents being the proposes that that will be a very expensive line to build and that bills and receipts for the maintenance of the Beacon Lights in the project he proposes would be considerably cheaper and Northumberland at the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars, ends with this comment : '...I heartily wish I could be the means dated 1794-1796. An important primary source of information of getting you & Stephenson to cut jointly upon a good line...' on the manning and maintenance of the chain of beacon lights Letters of this quality from the early years of the railways are around the coast at the time of real threat to the security of the becoming scarce on the market country. The documents include receipts for payments to Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 people manning the beacons, bills for supplies for their maintenance, a letter warning that the local fund to maintain the beacon was running out of money and many other documents. Lot: 310 This archive will doubtless provide considerable new Nelson fine political letter identified as being by a J Hume information on one of the most important elements in the

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(possibly Joseph Hume the radical politician) dated January Porte Plate Circuit, Haiti for 1843, sent in the form of a letter to 20th 1806 making reference to the death of Nelson, as well as the Secretary for the Missions in Bishopgate Street, London, fears at a resurgence in support for the Jacobites: ' ...public 2pp 4to. Reporting on the state of the churches in Haiti : '...the prospects seem more gloomy than when we last parted & I members in the circuit are generally constant in their conduct & cannot help being concerned to find the pains that are taking to most of them are regular in their attendance on the means of create a general despondency all seem to think that the grace. Some have backslidden and left us during the years, Country must yield. The Old Jacobite party begins again to lift some have removed and one has died in the triumph of faith...' up its head and no one seems to have courage enough to say The report also contains news of the schools on the island: '...a that if we must fall let us fall like men. We are paying every day school has been commenced during the years which was honour that can be paid to the memory of Ld Nelson without well attended until the rainy season since the beginning of risking individually to imitate him and aspire to the same which there has been some falling off. We hope however that veneration of posterity by dying in a similar manner as if it were more children will attend as the weather becomes more settled. not better to die in the struggle than to perish miserably after Reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar and the conference being disgraced. People seem to me now to think that either catechism all in French and English are regularly taught and they may live for ever or can die more than once...you will of some of the children have made considerable progress...' course acknowledge the receipt of this and give us what Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 intelligence you can. Who is to succeed Mr Pitt if heave in its anger should take him from us...' Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Lot: 317 Herefordshire free front dated June 7th 1720, addressed 'To Mr Langston to be left at Mr Mayo's, a Goldsmith in Hereford.' Lot: 311 Estimate: £10.00 - £20.00 Ephemera - silks album containing a fine collection of printed silks, various sizes early 20th c subjects include Royalty, flags of the world, British military flags, Old Master paintings, high Lot: 318 ranking military personnel, politicians etc. Approx 117 in all Royalty - Louis Phillipe, last King of France fine ms letter dated Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Paris August 1st 1844 describing the scenes on the day of the Coronation of Louis Phillipe : '...we had a grand day here on the 29th of July, the day they put Louise Phillipe on the throne. It is Lot: 312 the same as the 4th July in America. The sity was illuminate Miscellaneous group of documents including papers concerning with lights of all colours which was beautiful. They had a grand Lady Jardine of Applegirth, papers concerning Thomas Bell, the display of fire works in the evening which the greatest thing I surveyor, a group of documents with decorative bill heads etc. ever saw ...I think there were about 6 to 700 thousand people Note: miscellaneous group not subject to return there...I saw also the grand opera of Roberts the devil by Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Mayerbere which is magnificent. I also went to the grand festival where there were 1,000 performers in the orchestra. I heard the symphony's of Beethoven and also one by Berlioz Lot: 313 who lead the orchestra...' 4pp 4to, in flimsy condition and in Ephemera - trade and industry interesting group of papers early need of conservation. One area affected by adhesive tape 20th c relating to Ord's Carpet Beating Machine, including a which should be removed as soon as possible to prevent trade catalogue, a technical drawing of the machine and a further damage, otherwise the letter is clean and legible related letter from the manufacturer throughout. Postal markings etc. Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00

Lot: 314 Lot: 319 American War of Independence edition of Berrow's Worcester Autograph- Maritime - George Anson, last of the Journal for September 7th 1780, containing a front page report circumnavigators document signed being the bottom half of an on the progress of the War, particularly the arrival of the French Admiralty order issued to Captain Saumarez, Commander of Fleet at Rhode Island. There is also a report on the hanging of His Majesty's Ship Nottingham, dated December 11th 1746: American spies. 6pp broadsheet, slight cropping to top edge '...if at any time in chasing you discover the chase to be an affecting a few words but otherwise in good order enemy and I should not take notice of your signal as in that Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 case directed you are to make the signal for seeing a fleet provided the chase is of a superior force to your self...' Anson embarked on the last of the great voyages around the world Lot: 315 Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Derbyshire - medical manuscript document showing the costs for building Alfreton Infirmary in Derbyshire, dated March 12th 1804, written in a neat hand on a single double folio sheet, sent Lot: 320 in the form of a letter with seal tear affecting one small portion American War of Independence fine ms letter from a Pelham of the document which otherwise remains clear Ross, based in Jamaica, to his mother in Scotland, dated Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Kingston April 5th 1783 (the year Britain recognised the establishment of the USA), 3pp large folio, with integral address panel, with postal history marking including a large straight line 'JAMAICA' stamp. Weakness where originally folded, easily Lot: 316 repairable in our view. Ross comments on a number of matters, Haiti manuscript report from the Wesleyan Missionaries in the

29 of 37 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com mostly to do with his family, but he comments also on the Lot: 325 nature of the times and adds: '...you will ere this reaches your Herefordshire - Pencombe and Little Cowarne printed sales hands have had an account of peace - it by no means affords particulars for the sale of the Hampton Court Estate with general satisfaction in this part of the world - the plan His properties listed in detail and a large folding map loosely Majesty has adopted to bring it about is considered as highly inserted. Slight distressing but generally in good order injurious to the British Nation in general. The Americans already Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 begin to boast of their conquest and victory and I am apt to apprehend that that continent will soon be very popular...' Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Lot: 326 Literature - Charlotte Bronte edition of the True Flag newspaper, produced in Boston USA for July 4th 1857, Lot: 321 containing an extensive memorial article for Charlotte Bronte Wales Correspondence respecting the Establishment of a who had died less than two years before. The paper also Welsh Colony on the River Chupat in Patagonia, 1867. Printed carries a verse dedicated to Florence Nightingale, and a official report 39pp plus title. An endeavour which was curious article suggesting that arsenic in wallpaper might be a successful. There are many people of Welsh descent in modern killer - it has been established only in recent years that this day Argentina today might have been the cause of the death of Napoleon on St Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Helena ! Together with an edition of the Columbian Sentinel for August 24th 1799 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 322 Ireland - the great potato famine fine ms letter dated New York July 1st 1847, addressed to the Central Relief Committee of the Lot: 327 Society of Friends in Dublin, confirming the shipment of corn Postal History two ms letters sent from William Riddell of meal by order of the Relief Committee of Louisville, Kentucky Edinburgh to a Mr Charters in 1689, both featuring integral 'for the relief of the distressed poor in Ireland...' Rare. address panels of postal history interest. Both in fine condition Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00

Lot: 323 Lot: 328 Napoleon fine long letter by Alexander Kinghorne writing from A Brandy Merchant's accounts 1761 written on 20pp large folio, his home in Kippilaw Mains, Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders to listing sales of brandy and other spirits to named customers a friend in London, dated January 17th 1804 reporting on the with receipts also listed. Some soiling to some pages but fears of the local population about the real threat of invasion by generally legible throughout, together with a further set of Napoleon : '...no news in this Country except volunteering. I accounts for disbursements on a deceased estate have been twice marked as a leader of the pikemen but have Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 luckily got off - I would willingly take a musket or broadsword but a pike I hate. In case of an invasion I have offered to serve as a guide which I think I could well do as I know almost all the roads and fords in this and the two adjoining counties...' Lot: 329 Elsewhere in the letter Kinghorne refers to the area having Post Cards large qty of picture postcards, early 20th c various suffered a hurricane, and describes in some detail the damage subjects done to the area. 2p folio The year 1804 was crucial. There Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 was a general panic throughout the country about a real threat of invasion by Napoleon - possibly through Scotland or from Catholic Ireland. Considerable efforts were made to muster Lot: 330 militias to repel the threat. It is no wonder why Nelson's victory Ephemera - banknotes small group of five Italian banknotes at Trafalgar was greeted with such widespread acclaim. dating from 1848, matted for framing Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00

Lot: 324 Lot: 331 Treatment of the Poor good letter of a Magistrate named Maritime autograph letter of John Wilson an attorney to James William Alder, dated Horncliffe July 1st 1778 concerning the Wardrop of Glasgow dated Liverpool December 17th 1835 treatment of a poor woman who had left the accommodation concerning the estate of Robert Wardrop a surgeon on board provided for her by the Overseers of the Poor in the township of the merchant ship Flora from Liverpool who died off the coast of Ross, and made her way to Alnwick, Northumberland. The Africa, informing Wardrop that because of a new law the estate reasons she gave was that the accommodation was so bad that had to be paid into the Merchants Seamans Hospital where it she couldn't live there. Alder states that he summoned the must remain on deposit until they could prove their rightful Overseer before him and ordered him to provide adequate inheritance accommodation and an allowance of three pence per week. Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Together with a copy of a letter sent to a group of men who rioted against the high prices of corn dated 1783 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 332 Miscellaneous group of ms letters including three concerning free trade matters in the 1850s, a long letter concerning the

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The diary, written on approx Lot: 337 186pp, covers the period 1814-1817 when Stevenson made the Autograph - Travel and Exploration - Henry Borth, African Grand Tour with a companion named Hall. During the tour, explorer autograph letter signed dated January 2nd 1857 Stevenson visited Paris, where he stayed for six weeks making sending a cheque and postage stamp and mentioning August extensive notes, some derogatory on the inhabitants, Peterman, the Polar explorer: '...I am sure that each of us does topography, art and architecture of the City - Geneva, where he rejoice that Mr Peterman has made so good a choice...' stayed for nine months, Turin, Bologna, Rome (where he made Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 detailed observations on the antiquities of the City), Naples where his coach companion was the eminent singer Mr Garzia and where he was involved in a terrifying coach crash. He then travelled to Naples, Pompeii, Florence, Pisa and Lucca. Lot: 338 Autograph - Royalty - Edward, Duke of Kent, father of Queen Stevenson, son of a rich businessman who became a Vicar, Victoria autograph letter in the third person as Governor of lived in Glenthorne in Countisbury, North Devon as Lord of the Gibraltar concerning the deployment of the Cambrian Rangers Manor and built Watersmeet House, Lynmouth in 1832 as a on the Rock fishing lodge. He was a classmate and friend of Shelley at Eton Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 and is quoted by Symonds as being an authority on the poet, and wrote what is widely regarded as the most endearing portrait of him in a letter to Lady Shelley : '...he was not made to endoure the rough and boisterous pasture at Eton for his was a Lot: 339 disposition that needed especial personal superintendence, to Essex indenture on a single leaf of vellum dated March 17th watch, and cherish and direct all his noble aspirations and the 1687/8 being an assignment of a mortgage between John Mair, remarkable tenderness of his heart. He had great moral alias Meeres of St Martins in the Fields, Middx and his wife courage and feared nothing but what was base and false and Jane to Benjamin White of London for a number of properties in low...' Halliday's relationship with Shelley may have extended Lowlayton (ie Leyton) Essex. Written in English in a neat further. It was at Lynmouth after all that the poet came to spend secretarial hand with three red wax seals attached to original his honeymoon in June 1812, staying in a cottage on the vellum tongues. The document is a little dusty but otherwise harbour. Here he wrote of Countisbury Hill where Halliday was unblemished and features a curious, but very attractive, initial Lord of the Manor and finished the poem Queen Mab. While portrait of a scrivener writing the document at his desk. there is no documentary evidence to suggest a connection here Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 it some only logical that Shelley should have chosen this very place because of his childhood friendship with Halliday. It is also an intriguing aspect of this diary that it covers the very Lot: 340 same period when Shelley also travelled Europe, with Mary Charles II document on four leaves of vellum, dated 1661, Godwin - the author of Frankenstein. being letters parent exemplifying a case between Elizabeth Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 Bolton and various infants and John Bide their guardian v Stephen Bolton (obviously a relative of Elizabeth) concerning the will of William Bolton late of St Leonards, Shoreditch, Lot: 334 grandfather of Elizabeth. Written in English in a neat hand with Autograph -Military - William North, 6th Baron Guildford - hero a fine initial portrait of Charles II contained in an elaborate initial of the Battle of Blenheim letter signed dated February 10th C. Fragments of the Great Seal of Charles II (two large 1728 recommending Thomas Smith of York to be a portions, with one still attached to original seal cord), one small Commissioner in Bankruptcy, with valediction and signature in hole affecting one word, otherwise unblemished and in a fresh Guildford's hand. Guildford served under Marlborough and had state. his right hand shot off at the Battle of Blenheim. A somewhat Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 uncommon autograph Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Lot: 341 William and Mary fine and highly attractive document on a Lot: 335 single leaf of vellum dated 1692, written in gothic script in Latin, Autograph- Polar Exploration - August Peterman, German polar with remains of gold highlights, being an exemplification of a explorer autograph letter signed dated Gotha, September 24th land dispute in Sussex. A magnificent document with highly 1860 introducing his friend Herr Bohm, the famous flautist who decorative borders featuring the Royal coats of arms with wishes to obtain work : '...he had the honour of playing privately allegorical figures, and superb individual portraits of the King before Her Majesty and he is desirous of obtaining some (enclosed in an elaborate initial letter 'G') and the Queen. This engagements in private families for giving music lessons on the is one of the finest William and Mary documents we have seen. Piano...' Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

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Lot: 342 Lacking seal Queen Anne - apprenticeship indenture partially printed Estimate: £60.00 - £80.00 document with ms insertions on a single leaf of paper dated May 1715 being an apprenticeship indenture for John Snowden to John Ripley, Alderman and Grocer of Ripon, North Yorks, Lot: 349 bearing a somewhat crude portrait of Queen Anne. George III recovery document for lands in Thorncombe, Apprenticeship documents from such an early time rarely Devonshire dated 1784, written in English with large engraved appear on the market. This is particularly intriguing in that it portrait of the King enclosed in an initial letter 'G', elaborate top bears the portrait of Queen Anne, and yet was drawn up in the border. Portion of seal (about 40%) attached by original vellum first year of the Reign of George I. tag. Area of erosion affecting a few words and area of Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 weakness. Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00

Lot: 343 Queen Anne fine recovery document written in English in gothic Lot: 350 script on a single leaf of vellum, with fine engraved portrait of George IV recovery document for lands in Chagford, the Queen in an elaborate initial letter 'A', with highly heading Devonshire dated 1830 written in English with fine large featuring the Royal Coat of Arms. Lacking seal, clean condition engraved portrait of the King enclosed in an initial letter 'G', Estimate: £150.00 - £300.00 elaborate top border and margins, lacking seal, document clean and fresh throughout Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 Lot: 344 George II indenture on a single leaf of vellum dated 1748 being a property transaction for property in Drayton, Cambridgeshire, Lot: 351 featuring a miniature portrait of the King enclosed in an Deed with elaborate engraved borders featuring Royal devices elaborate initial 'G'. Portrait a little smudged when originally and allegorical characters etc. This was part of a very large printed. Otherwise the document is fresh and clear, signed and recovery deed, written in English in a gothic script. A very sealed by both parties to base. attractive document most suitable for display Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00

Lot: 345 Lot: 352 George II fine recovery document for lands in Wickham Market, George II indenture on two leaves of vellum dated 1759 being Suffolk, dated June 25th 1760, written in English with fine large the resolution of a property dispute for property in Canterbury, engraved portrait of the King enclosed in an initial letter 'G', with miniature portrait of the King within an elaborate initial elaborate top border. Portion of the Great Seal (about 40%) letter 'G', document written in English and is clear and fresh affixed by original seal tag. One small original hole to top of throughout document not affecting portrait otherwise in good clean Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 condition Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Lot: 353 Royalty - Autograph - George III document signed dated Lot: 346 December 12th 1792 addressed to Maj Gen John Ginning, George II fine recovery document for lands and property in authorising him 'by beat of drum or otherwise to raise so many Tiverton, Devon, dated 1757, written in English with fine large men in any county of part of our Kingdom of Great Britain as engraved portrait of the King enclosed in an initial letter 'G', shall be wanted...' partially printed document on a single side of elaborate top border, complete example of the Great Seal paper, folio size, good fresh condition (though somewhat spalling) contained in original metal skippet, Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 document fresh and clear Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Lot: 354 Diplomatic manuscript document on 3pp folio dated 1832 being Lot: 347 an inventory of the salaries paid to British consuls throughout George III recovery document for lands in Carthorpe, the world, listing country, rank and salary. A document of Lincolnshire, dated 1787, portrait of the King contained in an considerable historic interest. The cost of running the diplomatic elaborate initial 'G', full copy of the Great Seal (in two pieces service in that year was more than 50,000 a considerable sum but easily repaired in our view), contained in original metal for the time. skippet. Document in English, document needs careful pressing Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 but clean throughout. Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 Lot: 355 Military printed document with embellishments in pink, yellow, Lot: 348 blue and gold dated 1760 being a list of the forces of the King George III recovery document for lands in Hackney, London, of Prussia, written in French, and showing each regiment by dated 1814, written in English with large engraved portrait of name with the number of troops, rank of commanding officers the King enclosed in an initial letter 'G', elaborate top border. etc. On a single leaf of paper approx 22x8 ins. Slight worming

32 of 37 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com in four places affecting only a few words, otherwise in good Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 condition and a very attractive document. A document of considerable historic interest. Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Lot: 362 Coaching printed account of stage coach duties for the stamp office, dated 1830, printed document with ms insertions, in fine Lot: 356 fresh condition on a single leaf of paper approx 19x15ins Ephemera Reward Notice fine printed notice dated 1827 Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 offering a 50 reward for the return of a lost parcel between Dudley and Stourbridge which contained banknotes and cheques intended for Hill & Co Bankers of Stourbridge. Printed Lot: 363 on one side of a leaf of paper approx 17x13ins Judaica - Menachem Begin handbill issued in the form of a Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 wanted notice for war crimes, issued by the National Front in the UK in advance of the state visit of Begin when he was Prime Minister of Israel. The handbill quotes Begin when he Lot: 357 was head of the Irgun Terrorist Organisation which fought the Ephemera - Reward Notice fine printed notice dated 1822 British during the Mandate Period in Palestine and concludes: offering a 1,000 reward for the conviction of bank robbers who '...these are ht words and actions of a sadistic homicidal stole a large quantity of 5 notes drawn by Taylors and Lloyds, maniac...but Begin is wined and dined in London...' An Bankers of Birmingham (the original firm which is today Lloyds interesting insight into the lessons of history - how yesterday's TSB), with a list of all the banknote numbers stolen. Printed on terrorist/freedom fighter (depending on your own point of view) one side of a leaf of paper approx 17 x10 ins. Fine condition can often become tomorrow's respected head of state. Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00

Lot: 358 Lot: 364 Ephemera - Election Notice for the Lindsey Division in North Judaica - the Irgun scarce printed card issued by the Irgun Yorkshire, dated 1832, issued as an open letter to the Terrorist organisation advertising an illegal radio station 'Dependent Electors' - ie those who owed their livelihoods and operating in Palestine during the Mandate Period, printed on a homes to the patronage of one of the candidates - in this case buff coloured card with the Irgun emblem Sir William Ingelby. Printed on a single leaf of paper approx Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 13x8 ins in fine condition. Together with another notice issued for the same election Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 365 Literature - Judaica Children of Vienna by Robert Neumann, first cheap edition 1946, signed by Neumann and inscribed to Lot: 359 Rebecca West Ephemera - Ireland and Napoleon fine broadside entitled 'John Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Bull to Brother Patrick in Ireland', dated 1803. Printed in the form of an open letter to the Irish discussing the intentions of the 'Corsican robber' (ie Napoleon) and warning the Irish that Lot: 366 while the English will withstand any invasion, he might turn his Judaica - Russia - Poster urging Jews to vote for the Duma (the attention to Ireland. A historically important broadside which local council), printed on one side of a leaf of paper approx underlines the growing unease at the threat Napoleon might 16x12ins pose to mounting an invasion of England via Ireland. Many Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 Catholic families in Ireland were sympathetic to the Napoleonic cause and had little love for the English - though the patronising tone of this particular broadside would have driven them more into the arms of Napoleon than anything else ! Lot: 367 Judaica - Russia - Poster written in Russian on one side of a Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00 leaf of paper approx 10x8 ins Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 Lot: 360 Ephemera - Christ's Hospital fine broadside dated 1825 providing a list of all the Governors of Christ's Hospital, London, Lot: 368 Judaica - Russia - Poster fine poster written in Russian, with each Governor listed alphabetically. Printed on one side of Hebrew and Yiddish on a single leaf of paper approx 23x14ins a sheet of paper approx 17x13ins, sent as a letter. Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00

Lot: 361 Lot: 369 Judaica - Russia - Poster written in Russian on a single leaf of Coaching fine printed form issued by the Lion Hotel Coach paper approx 23x13ins Office, Bath for the mail coach between Bath and Bridgewater Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 dated March 12th 1841, partially printed on a single sheet large folio, with ms insertions with the names of recipients, amounts to be paid, description of items etc.

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Lot: 370 Lot: 379 Judaica - Russia scarce small handbill urging Russians to take Suffragettes scarce original membership of The Women's action against Jews, with illustration showing a Russian soldier Party, unused. Printed on a small piece of buff card attacking a Jewish man Estimate: £60.00 - £80.00 Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 380 Lot: 371 Japan photo album compiled in the 1920 featuring a large qty Judaica- Russia - Poster written in Russian and Hebrew on of photographs showing scenes in the Far East including single leaf of paper, approx 17x9ins Japan, with scenes showing the devastation of an earthquake Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 Estimate: £50.00 - £70.00

Lot: 372 Lot: 381 Judaica - Russia - Poster written in Russian on a single leaf of Hitler a heavy duty tile, measuring approx 22x11ins fashioned paper approx 17x12ins out of plum coloured marble with the number '110' in blue Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 crayon to verso. This is considered the only tile from Hitler's private office in the Berlin Chancellery - a photograph of which appears on the celebrated book by Speer showing the Lot: 373 Chancellery shortly after it was built. A copy of this book Judaica - Russia - Poster written in Russian on a single leaf of accompanies the lot. The fate of Hitler's office mirrors that of paper approx 17x12ins the celebrated 'Amber Room' in St Petersburg. After the Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 downfall of the Nazi regime in May 1945, the occupying Russian forces tore the Chancellery apart, looting as much as they could carry away. The building was subsequently demolished, and the remaining tiles were taken away and used Lot: 374 in an underground railway station across the road from where Judaica - Russia - Poster written in Hebrew and Russian on a the Chancellery stood, in what became East Berlin. These tiles single leaf of paper approx 17x12ins remain today. Other tiles were used in the Berlin University Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 where they also remain. This particular example was apparently looted by a Russian soldier and his son sold it to a Berlin antiques dealer many years ago. It remained in his possession Lot: 375 until it subsequently passed to the present vendor. This artefact Judaica - Russia - Poster written in Russian on a single leaf of therefore is considered to be one of the very few items from paper approx 17x12 Hitler's personal office which are obtainable on the market. The Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 deep plum colour of the marble used to line the walls of Hitler's office was remarkable in itself - as can be seen from the images in Speer's book. The office itself - as indeed the whole of the Lot: 376 Chancellery building - was intended to be intimidating. Visitors Political - original cartoon artwork by Joseph Lee, showing had to walk along a huge wide corridor before they entered Harold Wilson with 'election date' plastered over his mouth, and Hitler's office, which was both spacious and very high. Hitler's thinking ''ear all, see all, say nowt...' Lee was cartoonist for the desk, embellished in gold was placed in a far corner under a London Evening News from 1934-65 huge golden effigy showing a typical Nazi icon of a German Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 worker. A tapestry was also on the rear wall behind Hitler's desk. Anyone entering that room must have been awestruck by the symbolism of power which Hitler wished to convey - and Lot: 377 which lay in ruins when his '1,000 year Reich' came to such a Suffragettes The Women's Suffrage Cookbook compiled by Mrs catastrophic end and with the deaths of so many millions of Aubrey Dawson, published by the Women's Printing Society. people after just 12 short years. One of the rarest suffragette works. With contributions by Mrs Estimate: £7,000.00 - £10,000.00 Bertrand Russell, Florence Buckley, Irene Dowson, Mildred Martineau and many other leading suffragettes. Each has contributed a recipe of her own - with Bertrand Russell's wife Lot: 382 contributing 'Recipe for cooking and preserving a good Suffrage Hitler etching by Emma Lowenstramm, Vienna 1909, showing Speaker'. Original boards with illustration, a little faded and Adolf Hitler playing chess with a man who has been identified rubbed, as per usual. as Lenin. Overall size approx 20x15ins. The etching has been Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 signed by Emma Lowenstramm in the border of the image, and on the back there is another signature of her, together with pencil markings which have been identified as being the Lot: 378 signatures of Hitler and Lenin. The etching is in fine condition. Suffragettes handbill advertising the fourth annual meeting of Academic debate rages about the veracity of this image, with the East Herts Women's Suffrage Society, no date but clearly some suggesting that Lenin could not be the figure in the image issued during WWI. as he was bald at the time. Others have however pointed out Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 that Lenin was known to conceal himself at this time on many occasions and the possibility that he was wearing a wig cannot be ruled out. The etching is accompanied by a 300 page

34 of 37 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com dossier of evidence painstakingly compiled by Felix Ednhofer, the anti-Semitic world he had created in the 1920s and 30s that the present vendor's father throughout his life. He devoted he owed his very early career to the tuition of a Jewish art himself to proving beyond any doubt that the image was teacher. Just how the etching and the chess set came into the authentic and was indeed executed from life by Emma possession of Edenhofer's family is also established in his Lowenstramm in Vienna in 1909. The dossier contains reports dossier. His grandmother was the housekeeper in the house at from forensic and other experts as well as testimonies from the time and continued to work for the Viennese family. When many witnesses- seeking to prove that Emma Lowenstramm Hitler annexed Austria in the Anschluse in 1938, the Jewish certainly existed, that she was certainly an artist operating in family, like so many at the time, fled Vienna, first to Trieste and Vienna at the time, and most astoundingly of all, that she was then to New York where they re-established themselves. They Adolf Hitler's personal art tutor. The provenance of the etching - left behind all but their most valued possessions and gave them as well as the chess set itself which is offered as the following to their housekeeper, Edenhofer's grandmother. The Edenhofer lot 503 - is that they both were in a high status Jewish family still retain many items from that Vienna household. The household in Vienna - where indeed the sketches for the etching itself is a work of merit. The darkness which seems to etching are believed to have been made. The house was cloak both players as they concentrate intently on the chess thrown open to free political thinkers who were either living or pieces can easily be taken as an allegory for the coming events visiting Vienna at the time. In the early years of the 20th c in the 20th c- with the century's two most evil architects Vienna, capital of a crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, was concentrating their efforts in a game of strategy which is in awash with political thinkers. It is a well established fact that the many of its forms an allegory for world domination. young Adolf Hitler was residing in Vienna at the time, eking out Estimate: £20,000.00 - £40,000.00 a living as a struggling artist by producing attractive images of landscapes and buildings as well as animals in the Vienna zoo which he either drew from life or copied from postcards and Lot: 383 sold to the tourists (see lot 500 above for an example of such a Chess Set a box chess set, containing all playing pieces. This painting claimed to have been bought from Hitler at this time). is the chess set which it is claimed was played on by Hitler and Ironically it was the Jewish community in Vienna who Lenin in Vienna in 1909 and which is featured in the etching befriended him the most and helped him to market his (Lot 502 above). It is clearly the same from comparison of the paintings. It is therefore quite possible that the young Hitler board and the chess pieces. The provenance is described with would have been a visitor to a high status Jewish household Lot 502 above such as the one in which the etching depicts. The presence of Estimate: £20,000.00 - £40,000.00 Lenin - or to give him his proper name Vladimir Ulyanov - in the etching is more difficult to decipher. Having adopted the name 'Lenin' in 1901 in order to confuse the Russian State Police who were constantly on his tracks, it is known that he operated Lot: 384 Hitler Spring flowers, still life, watercolour oncard, executed in in Germany for some years. There are some who suggest that pastel shades, signed 'A Hitler 1928', small red stamp of HOA he was in fact a German sponsored agent. His movements are Horvath to bottom left hand corner. Ms note signed 'Adolf not clear, for obvious reasons, but it is known that he did move Munchen 1933' to base - approx 290x190mm - Observation: around western Europe, visiting Paris, Switzerland and Vienna. the handwriting and the signature on the note conforms with the The noted academic, Helen Rappaport who has written a book known handwriting of Hitler at that time. on Lenin and his whereabouts at this time, has suggested that Estimate: £8,000.00 - £10,000.00 he was in Paris throughout 1909 and there is no evidence to suggest that he visited Vienna. However, it must be conceded that a year is a long time, and the exact whereabouts of someone who by his very nature needed to conceal both his Lot: 385 identity and his movements could not be precisely stated. Hitler - study of a church building, identified asKarls Kirche, Vienna in 1909 was, after all, only a few hours train ride away Vienna, executed in pastel on card, signed 'A Hitler 1913' to from Paris. Some have suggested that the figure of Hitler in the base, approx 235x195mm, pencil note to reverse 'Karls Kirche image shows him to be somewhat older than his 20 years in von der Technik aus geschen 24/III/1913 A Hitler' verso bears 1909. Whether this is the case or not, the figure playing chess oval stamp reading 'HOA Horvath Archiv FNS zeitgeschichte is very clearly Hitler, and of course this image is a piece of art, Wien', with smaller red stamp of Horvath. Observation: Karls and not a photograph. A particularly important aspect of this Kirche was a subject which Hitler painted and drew on several etching is the artist - a Jew. The concept that Hitler, the occasions. exterminator of the Jews, was in fact taught his art by a Jewish Estimate: £8,000.00 - £10,000.00 tutor beggars belief - but certainly runs true with the accepted fact that the struggling Hitler was befriended by many Jews in Vienna at this time. In Felix Edenhofer's dossier, he takes great Lot: 386 pains to establish that Emma Lowenstramm existed. Much Hitler - scene in a City Square (presumably Vienna), executed documentary evidence to that fact seems to have mysteriously in pastel on card, signed 'A Hitler' to bottom right hand corner. disappeared. It is Edenhofer's contention that she did indeed Evidence to verso of this having been framed at some stage. exist, was an art tutor in Vienna and did teach the young Adolf Verso also bears the red stamp of HOA Horvath with the pencil Hitler. Furthermore, he contends, based on testimonies annotation 'No 092' obtained during his lifetime, that Hitler protected her once he Estimate: £10,000.00 - £15,000.00 came to power, and that unlike so many fellow Jews did not suffer the terror's of Nazi anti-Semitism, nor died at their hands. She in fact lived out her life and died of natural causes in 1941. Lot: 387 The fact that so many official documents as to Lowentramm's Hitler - rocks with trees, watercolour on paper, presumably a existence and activities have disappeared adds speculation to study, with pencilled study of an Alpine scene to verso, this belief - Hitler would hardly have wished it to be known in evidence of paper having been detached from a sketchbook.

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Watercolour signed 'A Hitler' to bottom right hand corner. Verso Hitler study of a Candlestick executed in pencil on paper, bears evidence of previous rubber stamp which at some stage signed Adolf Hitler 1909, approx 10x8 ins in the past someone has attempted to remove. Verso also Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 bears the red stamp of HOA Horvath with the pencilled annotation 'No 04 17/3/41' approx 230x155mm Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 Lot: 393 Hitler study of an earthenware pot, executed in pencil and watercolour, signed Adolf Hitler 1909 with his address approx Lot: 388 10x 8ins Hitler Alpine scene with chalets, mountains and lake, oil on Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 card, signed 'A Hitler' to bottom right hand corner. Verso bears evidence of this having been framed in the past. Red smudge (consistent with being an attempt to affix the red stamp of HOA Lot: 394 Horvath), with pencilled annotation 'No 030'Approx 230x268mm Hitler study of half timbered buildings, signed Adolf Hitler 1908, Estimate: £10,000.00 - £15,000.00 approx 10x 8 - there is a ghost image of one of the other drawings in this group to verso Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 Lot: 389 Hitler A Mill in the Country, watercolour on board, signed 'Adolf Hitler' to bottom right hand corner. Verso shows evidence of Lot: 395 this having been framed at some stage. Red stamp (barely Hitler study of a Roman senator, executed in pencil, signed legible of H.O.A. Horvath) with pencilled annotation 'No 08' - Adolf Hitler with address 1908, approx 10x8ins approx 190x160mm Observation: the signature on this Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 watercolour is consistent with Hitler's signature of the late 1920s/early 1930s Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 Lot: 396 Hitler study of a male nude, viewed from behind, signed Adolf Hitler executed in charcoal, approx 10x8ins Lot: 390 Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 Hitler watercolour showing a figure (resembling Hitler himself) dressed as a foundry worker, facing an allegorical figure dressed in ancient clothing who is standing at his forge and is seen handing over his forging tools to the 'Hitler' figure. In the Lot: 397 Hitler study of a male nude, viewed from behind, signed Adolf background the Nazi swastika burns bright in the fire from the Hitler executed in ochre, approx 10x8ins forge. Signed 'Adolf Hitler 1929' to base of image, which has Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 been deliberately crafted to provide a space for the entire right hand corner of the image. The blank portion is annotated in ink '13 1/2cm' [with an indecipherable word]. It also bears an official Nazi stamp of the Eagle and Swastika device with the Lot: 398 date 3 Mai 1940 Verso bears a faint pencil sketch which could Hitler study of an urn, executed in watercolour, signed Adolf be a draft of the image. Approx 320x270mm; it is possible that Hitler, 1909, approx 15x9ins this is the design for a Nazi propaganda poster and if this is so, Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 and is the work of Adolf Hitler it is of the greatest rarity. The imagery is crude but effective. The allegorical figure could be that of Arminius, the German hero who defeated the might of Lot: 399 the Roman Army in the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9) and whom Hitler landscape with church and buildings, executed in Indian Hitler regarded as the 'founder of the Reich' in that by defeating ink, signed A Hitler, approx 12x8 ins the Romans, Arminius (also known in Germany as 'Hermann') Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 not only united the Germanic peoples but also ensured that the Germanic territories unlike anywhere else in mainland Europe, remained self-determining and apart from the all conquering Lot: 400 Roman Empire. Here, the 'Arminius' figure is seen handing over Hitler a folio sized board artist's portfolio bearing on the front a the tools by which he forged the Germanic states to a 'Hitler' stylised monogram 'AM' with the date 1859, and with a label to figure, dressed as a hard toiling worker, who presumably is bottom left hand corner bearing the signature of Adolf Hitler receiving the mantle from his ancient predecessor in order to with an address in Vienna in the same hand. At the time that continue the job. this was used to carry the various sketches and complete Estimate: £12,000.00 - £15,000.00 pictures which Hitler was producing at that time, he was living a humble existence in Vienna earning his living by producing and selling works of original art. Lot: 391 Estimate: £2,000.00 - £4,000.00 Hitler - head of a woman, executed in pencil, signed Adolf Hitler 1908, on paper, approx 12x8ins Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 Lot: 401 Hitler sketch of a woman in late middle age, shown head and shoulders looking pensively downwards, signed to bottom right Lot: 392 hand corner 'Adolf Hitler 1908', executed in charcoal and

36 of 37 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com pencil. On paper, approx 12x8ins. It is speculated that this the expense was thrown away as the line was bad and the road might be a portrait of Hitler's mother. improperly made...' The Arisaig road is today known as the Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 'Road to the Isles' as it provides tourists with the link to the Hebrides and provides residents with a vital link to the outside world. Letters of this nature relating to the building of Highland Lot: 402 Roads are somewhat uncommon Hitler sketch of an oil lamp, executed in pencil, on paper, Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 approx 10x8ins. Signed 'Adolf Hitler 1907' to bottom right hand corner Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00

Lot: 403 Hitler sketch of a young man dressed as a hunter, shown full length wading in a stream with heavy stick in his right hand. Executed in pencil on paper, approx 10x8ins. Inscribed to top 'Jaeger zum lauf' [Hunter running], and signed 'Adolf Hitler 1908' with an address in Vienna, one minor close tear in top edge and an original stain in top left hand corner. The paper is watermarked 'St Marcel-Les-Annonay' Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00

Lot: 404 Hitler The Maximilinaeum (now Bavarian Parliament) - view with bridge in foreground, signed 'A.H. 1914' to bottom right hand corner, pen and sepia ink and wash, approx size 9.5cm x 13.5 cm, framed and glazed. Provenance: Lot 869 in Phillips Sale at Blenstock House 'Memorabilia from the Two World Wars' June 6th 1985. Accompanied by photocopy of a letter from Prof Ernst Wilkinghoff of Munich, dated May 3rd 1962, stating that this item is part of the picture collection of Frau Helen Schweiger, a waitress who received them as payment in hand and that they date from the Munich period between 1913 and 1914. '...Hitler sold such pictures at this time in beer cellars and earned his living thereby. Frau Schwaiger had obtained all the pictures by giving him food without payment while she was a waitress...' Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00

Lot: 405 Adolf Hitler 'Das Siegestor' - View of the Arch, with figures in foreground, signed 'A.H. 1914' to bottom right hand corner of the image, pen and ink and watercolour, approx 13.5 x19.5cm, framed and glazed. Provenance: Lot 870 in Phillips Sale at Blenstock House 'Memorabilia from the Two World Wars' June 6th 1985. Accompanied by photocopy of a letter from Dr Karl Exner of Munich, Art Historian and nephew of the artist Willie Exner, known for his celebrated portrait of Hitler. The letter states that the painting was considered original by Prof Wilkinghoff from Hitler's Munich period of 1913-14 Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00

Lot: 8 Scotland - Arisaig Road historically important letter of H M Buchanan concerning the building of the Arisaig Road, the famous 'Road to the Isles', dated Edinburgh April 5th 1814: '... I have your letter of yesterday the sum of £3755:18:4 is entirely applicable to the road in Inverness-shire, the entire half including Argyllshire greatly exceeds £5000. Indeed it was Mr Hope who made up the slate when it was sent to the County & it must be correct and after it was sent several additions & improvements were made upon the line which occasioned a further expense not slated against the County...a great part of

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