Autograph letter addressed from "44 Gower Place ", signed, to an unidentified recipient.
Transcription of opening lines: “I feel greatly indebted to you for your friendly interference with Mr Bull. You ask me whether I shall choose to send him the manuscript? I propose to send it tomorrow”.
Autograph letter addressed from "174 Piccadilly ", signed, to Charles Mathews.
Transcription of opening lines: “My dear Canning, I mean Mathews, I have not refused to sit for you, that I know of, and I do not see that I have broken my promise to you by consenting to sit for Lord Essex.”
Parchment document in French signed by Charles the Bold. The document is cropped along the right-hand edge and therefore some of the text is missing.
Transcription by Prof. Anne Cobby:
[Je] Conte Charles duc de Bour[gog]ne et de Brabant conte de Flandres vous co<…>
avoir Receu de Nicholas de gondenas n(ost)re argenteur La somme de <...>
Mil livres de quarante gros de n(ost)re [?] de Flandres la livre <...>
par n(ost)re commandement et ordonnance Il Nous a baillie et del<...>
compartant ey nos mains ou mois de Fevrier derenierment passe e<...>
et [put'?] mois de mars y donc en faire n(ost)re plaisir en rerta[..?]><...>
dont ne voulous Icy autre declaracion estre faute . De la qu[..?]<...>
de [?] [?] Nous sommes contens Escript sou[..?] n(ost)re no<...>
xxiiiie jour d[..?] mois de mars Lan mil CCCC soixante unze an<...>
pasques
Later inscriptions added:
Inscriptions in later hands have been added to the document, including "Anno 1803"; "Finis L'ande le 3 mars 1803" and "Louis vanden Bogaerde".
Parchment document in French signed by Louis XIII. The document is slightly cropped along the right-hand edge and therefore a small amount of text is missing.
Sin título
Parchment document in French signed by Louis XIV. The document is slightly cropped along the right-hand edge and in the lower right corner, and therefore a small amount of text is missing.
The document is countersigned by Louis II Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain.
Document in French signed by Louis XVI.
A Document addressed to Jean-Baptiste Tourteau of Septeuil, General Treasurer of the Civil List, with an instruction to pay [Duras?] three thousand livres for his appointment as governor at the Château de Saint-Hubert.
Sin título
Autograph letter in French, signed as “Guillaume Pr d’Orange”, to an unidentified recipient. He acknowledges the best wishes sent to him on the birth of his second son.
Sin título
Document in French signed by Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon.
The document describes the approval of a pension to a retiring officer with rheumatism in the Régiment de Bourbon Dragons under Capitaine La Guiche (Amable-Charles de La Guiche, 1747- 1799).
Sin título
Autograph letter in French on headed paper, signed, to the Minister for War.
The letter is slightly cropped on the right hand side.
The document is dated in the French republican calendar system, and is yet to be identified.
Sin títuloReport in French on headed paper to the Comité de Salut Public, addressed from Paris, signed by an unidentified person.
The document is dated in the French republican calendar system: "le 24 frimaire de l'an troisième de la République Française".
Partial transcription:
"Paris le 24 frimaire de l’an troisième de la République Française, une et indivisible.
Rapport
Au Comité de Salut Public
Le Citoyen Henrion Directeur général des transports militaires de l’armée de Sambre et Meuse, nous fait connaitre le trait de Bravoure du C[itoye]n Pomme Charretier de la division Hautenot, qui n’a pas craint de s’exposer à une mort presque certaine en bravant le feu de l’ennemi pour sauver à la republique la perte de deux chevaux qui s’etaient échappé et avaient été sous les palissades entre la porte de la ville et le fort st jean.
Le trait de Bravoure du cit[oy]en Pomme ne doit pas rester sans récompense : mais comme la capacité et les connaissances de ce citoyen ne répondent pas à son généreux dévouement à l’intérêt de la république, il est impossible de l’élever a un grade supérieur, on ne peut que le reconnaitre par une simple gratification.
Le comité est prié de fixer la récompense que mérite le citoyen Pomme."
Autograph letter addressed from "Craven Street", to Mrs [Katherine] French, presenting his compliments and begs that she will make the seeds sent herewith acceptable to Miss [Susannah] Jennings.
Sin título
Signature of William Wilberforce, cropped from a letter addressed to Henry Thornton.
Sin título
Signature of Lady Byron ("& faithful s[ervan]t Noel Byron"), cropped from a letter.
Sin título
Manuscript poem of two stanzas in French entitled 'Les bons gendarmes' by Jacques Charles Odry, written in his hand. Signature of Jacques Charles Odry at the foot of the leaf.
Sin título
Autograph letter from Friedrich von Raumer to Lord and Lady Holland.
Transcription: "Mr v de Raumer accepts with greatest pleasure the invitation of Lord and Lady Holland for next Friday. Monday 6 April".
Sin títuloAutograph letter, signed, to an unidentified recipient.
Transcription:
"My dear Sir, I commit to your friendly care the inclosed letter and beg to offer my best regards & wishes to the ladies of your family
Yours truly obliged
J Baillie"
Autograph letter in French addressed to "Monsieur de Potter rue St. Honoré, 332. Paris", possibly Joseph de Potter-Soenens.
Sin título
Signature of Rufus King, cropped from a letter.
Sin título
Autograph letter, addressed from "[Acton?] House", signed, to Joshua Bates.
Transcription: “My Dear Sir
I hope eleven o clock this morning, will not be too early an hour for me to call to pay my respects to Mrs Bates, & to congratulate you on your safe arrival.
Yours most truly
Dan[ie]l Webster"