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History in Manuscript: Letters and Documents from a Distinguished Collection

Name: History in Manuscript: Letters and Documents from a Distinguished Collection | 2022 | Sotheby's
Start: 2022-04-04T13:00:00Z
End: 2022-04-13T13:00:00Z
Location: London

13 April 2022•14:00 BST

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1. Prince Albert | Autograph letter signed, on his domestic life with Queen Victoria, to a cousin, 1843

Estimate:

600 - 800 GBP

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2. Robert Aske | Autograph letter signed, arranging his visit to the monastery of Watton in Yorkshire, 1536

Estimate:

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

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3. Robert Baden-Powell | Autograph letter signed, to George Kekevich, during the siege of Mafeking, 1899

Estimate:

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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5. Léon Blum | Manuscript memorandum on the Munich Agreement, 1938

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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6. Leon Blum | Autograph manuscript, entitled Autonomie et unite du Syndicalisme, 1946

Estimate:

500 - 700 GBP

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7. Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke | Autograph letter, unsigned, to George Lyttelton, 1740

Estimate:

600 - 800 GBP

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8. Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke | Autograph letter signed, to George Lyttelton, 1741

Estimate:

600 - 800 GBP

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9. Joseph Bonaparte | Letter signed, to Joséphine Bonaparte, 1796

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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10. Joseph Bonaparte | Autograph letter signed, to Empress Josephine, on the Battle of Austerlitz, 1805

Estimate:

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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11. Brendan Bracken | Series of c.140 letters to Lord Beaverbrook, on Churchill, British politics, and other subjects, 1925-58

Estimate:

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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12. Jacques Pierre Brissot | Two autograph letters signed, with 16 other letters and documents, 1784-91

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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13. British Politics | Two letters, by Neville Chamberlain and Frederick Lugard, 1929-32

Estimate:

300 - 500 GBP

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14. Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Two autograph letters signed, to W.H. Haggard, on the invasion of Afghanistan, 1878

Estimate:

800 - 1,200 GBP

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15. Guy Burgess | His annotated copy of Lenin on Britain, c.1959

Estimate:

300 - 500 GBP

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16. William Cecil, Lord Burghley | Autograph letter signed, on the secret delivery of bullion, 1581

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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17. A. Campbell | Autograph letter signed, on the death of Clive of India, 24 November 1774

Estimate:

600 - 800 GBP

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18. Canada | Letter reporting on the fall of Quebec, 1759

Estimate:

600 - 800 GBP

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19. Caroline of Brunswick, Queen of the United Kingdom | Autograph letter signed, to Lucien Bonaparte, 1817

Estimate:

300 - 500 GBP

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20. Jean Baptiste Carrier | Document signed, with a group of other French Revolutionary documents, 1790s

Estimate:

700 - 900 GBP

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21. Catherine II, Empress of Russia | Autograph letter signed, to Alexei Orlov, on his defeat of the Turks, 1770

Estimate:

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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22. King Charles I | Document signed, ordering the arrest of the "Five Members" who had fled Parliament, 1642

Estimate:

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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23. China--Treaty of Tiensin | Document outlining compensation to be paid by China, signed by the Earl of Elgin, 1858

Estimate:

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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24. Georges Clemenceau | Series of 81 letters to Admiral Frederick Maxse, 1882-99

Estimate:

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

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25. William Cobbett | Autograph letter signed, complaining about Yorkshire politics, 28 December 1832

Estimate:

300 - 500 GBP

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26. Richard Cobden | Autograph letter signed, to Lord Lyttelton, on the Corn Laws, 1843

Estimate:

600 - 800 GBP

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27. Richard Cromwell | Autograph letter signed, to his daughter Elizabeth, on his son's election to Parliament, 1689/90

Estimate:

700 - 900 GBP

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28. George Jacques Danton | Document signed, ending the employment of Swiss Regiments in the service of France, 1792

Estimate:

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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29. Joseph Denham | Series of 108 letters to Sir William Hamilton, on Napoleon's invasion of Italy, 1796-97

Estimate:

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

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30. Benjamin Disraeli | Autograph letter signed, to Georgina Meredith, on the death of her brother, 1831

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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31. Anthony Eden | Autograph letter signed, to Lord Beaverbrook, about the Suez crisis, 1957

Estimate:

700 - 900 GBP

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32. Anthony Eden | Letter signed, to Lord Beaverbrook, on the Middle East, 18 April 1958

Estimate:

500 - 700 GBP

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33. Anthony Eden | Autograph letter signed, to Lord Beaverbrook, on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Estimate:

500 - 700 GBP

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34. Edward, Duke of Windsor | Five letters signed, to Viscount Beaverbrook, 1939-48

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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35. Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) | Printed Notice of his coronation, displayed in the House of Commons, 1936

Estimate:

800 - 1,200 GBP

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36. Queen Elizabeth I--Privy Council | Letter refusing to allow a Papal Nuncio to visit England, 1561

Estimate:

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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37. Queen Elizabeth I--Privy Council | Letters patent, signed, encouraging horsebreeding in Cambridgeshire, 1584

Estimate:

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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38. Queen Elizabeth I--Henry Middlemore | Autograph letter signed, investigating conspiracies, 1585

Estimate:

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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39. Queen Elizabeth I | Letter signed, explaining her priorities in war-torn France to her new envoy to Henri IV, 1592

Estimate:

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

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40. Queen Elizabeth I | Document signed, ordering her Military Commanders to take the fight to Spain, 1596

Estimate:

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

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41. Queen Elizabeth I--Edward Squire | Signed account of an assassination plot against the Queen, 1598

Estimate:

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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42. Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | Autograph letter signed, on his influence over Queen Elizabeth, [1594?]

Estimate:

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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43. Santi Fantoni and Luigi Federighi | Letter to Lorenzo Corsini, [Cádiz], 1590

Estimate:

100 - 150 GBP

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44. Ferdinand I, and Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperors | Series of seven letters

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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45. King Ferdinand II of Aragon | Document signed, regarding Granada and Montefrío, Madrid, 1510

Estimate:

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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46. First Anglo-Afghan War--Sir N.B. Chamberlain | Autograph letter signed, describing tension in Afghanistan, 1839

Estimate:

800 - 1,200 GBP

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47. First Anglo-Afghan War--Alexander Burnes and Arthur Conolly | Letters about the "Great Game", 1840s

Estimate:

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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48. First Anglo-Afghan War--Sir Henry Rawlinson | Letter on the situation in Afghanistan, to Sir John MacNeill, 1841

Estimate:

800 - 1,200 GBP

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49. First Afghan War--Captain Bertram Ogle | List of supplies to his Company, 1842

Estimate:

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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