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Published by 21 January ; on letterhead of Hawarden Castle Chester, 1882
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
W. H. Gladstone was the eldest of W. E. Gladstone s eight children. See his father s entry in the Oxford DNB, along with those of his brothers Henry Neville Gladstone and Herbert John Gladstone. 3pp, 12mo. On bifolium of grey paper. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with spike hole through one corner of each leaf. Folded once for postage. Signed W H Gladstone and addressed to W. Farish Esq / Chester . He apologizes for having to decline Farish s request, and is returning the card Farish has sent him. I must return to London at the end of next week - and I regret also that my Brother is at present on the sea on his way to Gibraltar (it is unclear which of his other three brothers he is referring to). He continues: I do trust we shall eventually reap a rich harvest of advantage from the Local Option principle; but the movement will become (I think) doubly important when a good scheme of County Government shall have been passed & established. The Local Option was a move to give local town and city councils powers to prohibit the sale and purchase of alcohol. It was a devisive measure: there had been a riot over the issue in Cambridge in 1880.
Published by Postmarked 13 November1.45 pm. Westerham, 1936
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
The telegram, which is tipped-in onto a leaf from an autograph album, is landscape 8vo, 1 p, with the strips from the ticker-tape laid down on it. Fair, on aged and worn paper, with various official pencillings. Reads 'LOCKER LAMPSON 72 STEPHENS CHAMBERS SW 1 = | CONGRATULATIONS = WINSTON AND CLEMMIE +++'. The cause for celebration, the birth of Locker-Lampson's son, is revealed in other documents in the papers.
Published by Published by John Long Ltd., 47 Princes Gate, London First Edition . London 1944., 1944
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 192 printed pages of text. Light marks to the boards. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with short closed tears and rubs to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped 8/6. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Crawshay-Williams was the son of Arthur John Williams, a Welsh barrister and politician. He was educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Oxford. He joined the Royal Field Artillery and at the 1906 general election he stood as a Liberal candidate in the Chorley constituency in Lancashire. He had been employed by Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office from 1906 to 1908. He was elected at the January 1910 general election as MP for Leicester, serving as parliamentary private secretary to David Lloyd George. He resigned from Parliament in 1913 following his being named as co-respondent in a divorce case brought by fellow Liberal Hubert Carr-Gomm the MP for Rotherhithe. It was as he wrote in his autobiography "the death blow of my career". In June 2010, a letter written by Crawshay-Williams to Churchill, pleading with the prime minister to come to terms with Adolf Hitler, was sold by New York publishing executive Steve Forbes. It was written in 1940, before the U.S. had joined the war. "I'm all for winning this war if it can be done," the letter said, adding that "an informed view of the situation shows that we've really not got a practical chance of actual ultimate victory" and that "no questions of prestige should stand in the way of our using our nuisance value while we have one to get the best peace terms possible." Churchill's reply was bitingly brief and to the point. "I am ashamed of you for writing such a letter. I return it to you -- to burn and forget." The two letters combined fetched $51,264. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.
Published by No place. 8 January, 1784
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
1p, foolscap 8vo. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to an edge. Folded once. At bottom right are Grenville's signature ('W: W: Grenville') and a good impression of his seal in red wax. Twenty-line document, written in a secretarial hand, with two embossed tax stamps at head. Begins: 'Know all Men by these Presents that I the Right Honourable William Wyndham Grenville Paymaster General of His Majesty's Forces as well within Great Britain and without except the Kingdom of Ireland have authorized and appointed and by these Presents do authorize and appoint Isaac Phipps of Kensington in the County of Middlesex Esquire for me and in my name and stead to pay the Subsistence of His Majesty's Forces employed or to be employed in the West Indies also the Pay of the General and Staff Officers of the Hospital and Monies allowed for the Contingent Expences and all other Services relative to such Forces [ ]'. At bottom left, by two members of the Army Pay Office: 'Sealed and delivered (being first duly Stampt) in the presence of | Saml: Estwick | Rd Molesworth'. Endorsed three times on reverse of leaf: 'Entered in the Office of the Right Honble John Lord Viscount Mountstuart Auditor the 12th. Feby 1784 | Phil Deare'; 'Entered in the Office of the Rt Hble Lewis Lord Sondes Aud[itor] the 17th February 1784. | Jn. Wigglesworth Depy. Audr.' | Enter'd in the Office of the Paymr. Genl. 2D Augt. 1784 | [Jn.?] Sables'. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.