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Edité par 'Gr: Sq:' i.e. Grosvenor Square London. 4 August, 1861
Vendeur : Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Royaume-Uni
Manuscrit / Papier ancien
The four-line Latin poem in this letter by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe (better known as Sir Stratford Canning and cousin of Prime Minister George Canning) is apparently unknown, and certainly unpublished. The letter is 3pp, 16mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. It begins: 'My dear Lord Monteagle, | The interesting anecdote you told me in the steamer last night of Lord Wellesley, followed me home, and buzzed about my pillow.' Jokingly referring to Wellesley as 'the "Duke of Hindostan"', he wonders what he would have said, 'if you had proposed, as an appropriate inscription for his tomb something like the dog-latin lines which I submit to you below?' The four-line poem (apparently referring to Wellesley and his younger brother the Duke of Wellington) is written across the two central pages of the bifolium. It begins: 'Frater ego illius, qui, per tot bella triumphans, | Europam implevit laude Asiamque suâ, | [.]'.
Edité par Dated at foot 'July ', 1793
Vendeur : Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Royaume-Uni
Manuscrit / Papier ancien
Richard Colley Wellesley (1760-1842), 1st Marquess Wellesley [as Earl of Mornington]; John Jeffreys Pratt (1759-1840), 1st Marquess Camden [as Viscount Bayham]; John Thomas Townshend (1764-1831), 2nd Viscount Sydney of St Leonards. See their entries in the Oxford DNB. On 5.5 x 15.5 cm strip extracted from a document, and laid down on 8 x 21.5 cm part of gilt-edged leaf from an album. In good condition, lightly aged on aged and creased mount. The signatures are written above one another: 'Mornington / Bayham / J. Th. Townshend'. The only other writing, at the foot of the strip is ' / July 1793'. "Camden served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the revolutionary years 1795 to 1798 and as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1804 and 1805.".
Edité par No place or date.
Vendeur : Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Autriche
Manuscrit / Papier ancien
8vo. ¾ p. on bifolium with integral address panel. In French to Monsieur Adlung, whom he missed, asking whether he would have supper with him: "Comme vous êtes introuvable peut on diner avec Vous aujourd'hui [.]". - As Governor-General of India (1798-1805) Wellesley conquered Mysore for the British crown in 1799. - Light brownstaining and with very slight ink offsetting.