Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera Thursday 15 April 2010 10:30 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers The Old Shippon Wall Under Heywood Church Stretton SY6 7DS Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1 Jeune, discussing a play which he had written: '...I went over it London Gazette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 1 of 37 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com 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.