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Letter from Sir Gore Ouseley to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 26 June 1835

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Autograph letter addressed from "49 Upper Grosvenor Street", to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer with a request that he endorse the accompanying passport for Ouseley’s friend, Mr Johnston and his daughters.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Sir Henry Halford to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 12 April 1843

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Autograph letter addressed from "Curzon Street", to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer, referring to his presentation of a book for Van de Weyer’s library.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Sir Henry Taylor to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer

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Autograph letter addressed from "36 S. Audley St", signed, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer, inviting him and Elizabeth Van de Weyer to breakfast to meet William Wordsworth.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Sir Humphry Davy to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 29 April 1821

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Autograph letter, signed, to the Secretary of the Artists’ Benevolent Institution. Davy is unable to accept the invitation of the Steward to dine with the members of the Institution on Friday 5th May and therefore returns his dining card. Begs that the Secretary will pass on his regrets and communicate his thanks for the invitation.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Sir James Edward Smith to Francis Boott

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  • 28 August 1818

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Autograph letter addressed from "Rodney Street", signed, to Francis Boott. The letter also has MS annotations added by Boott including the date of receipt (30th August 1818).
Transcription of opening lines : “My dear Sir, I return you the crown of the Pine immediately for fear of injury by delay.”
Boott’s letter in reply is in the Linnean Society Archives, reference GB-110/JES/COR/20/118.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Sir James Kempt to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 21 November 1834

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Autograph letter addressed from "Ordnance Office", to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer, presenting his compliments and enclosing a letter from the Duke of Sussex.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Sir Martin Archer Shee to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 27 September 1837

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Autograph letter in French, addressed from "Cavendish Square", signed, to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer, enclosing his portrait and desiring to arrange a visit.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Sir Richard Westmacott to Edward Hodges Baily

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  • 10 February 1821

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Transcription of opening lines: “I have the pleasure to acquaint you that at a meeting of the Royal Academicians Club held on the 7th [?] you were elected a member”. Westmacott offers his congratulations on the occasion.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Sir Robert Adair to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 8 August 1838

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Autograph letter addressed from "Chesterfield Street", signed, to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer regarding his sending an engraving to the recipient of the letter.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Sir Robert Peel

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  • 21 July 1835

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Autograph letter addressed from "Whitehall", signed “Robert Peel”.
Transcription of opening lines: “Gentleman, I am very much afraid, that amid the occupations in which I have been engaged since my return to England, I omitted properly to acknowledge your kind and effective attention to a Request made to you by my friend, Henry Baring […]”.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Sir Roderick Impey Murchison to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 8 June 1838

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Autograph letter addressed from "2 Eccleston Street", signed, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer, inviting him to a dinner in honour of Sir John Herschel, promising that if he does attend he would be sat near Herschel and the president of the Royal Society.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Stella, 2 April 1924

Letter from Stella, 2 April 1924

Letter from Stella, believed to be Stella Cobden-Sanderson. Postmarked 2 April. Mallory used the envelope to note down the code numbers and pressures of five oxygen cylinders.
This letter was found on George Mallory's body in 1999. It was wrapped in a handkerchief along with two other letters.

Full Transcript

Forum Club,
6, Grosvenor Place,
Hyde Park Corner,
S.W.I.
[Address has been crossed out and replaced with ’23 Hertford Street. W,]

Dear George,

Just after writing to you last week, I saw in The Times that the expedition had started from Darjeeling – And now you are really on the march. I think of you so often & try to imagine what you are doing. What is the weather doing? Is it terribly hot?

I am so longing for sun & warmth that today I have definitely decided to go to my friends near Cannes for about a month from the middle of May – It won't be fashionable but a great great joy to get to the south. The flowers will be heavenly then.

My alternative was to do a round of visits in England. For a long time I was tempted to do this because I love my friends & making new ones. But I suddenly had such a desire for the south & peace. And now I am glad to have decided this.

I expect to go to Paris for Easter with the Macmillans then join the Shears & other American friends in Paris until middle of May. So I shall start with a gay time.

Last night I saw Shaws St Joan” I was very much moved & impressed with it. And I do think that its wonderful of Shaw at his age to write without exaggerating his mannerisms. Some of the dialogues are far too long – But its wonderfully written & without the desire to show his own personality too much. The acting is excellent & its most beautiful to look upon.

I had lunch with Mrss Graies yesterday at her club – Sissie is in Italy & she pressed me to go saying she was lonely & had a great many things she wanted to discuss with me. But these consisted of abuse of Macdonald because she had not seen him, that Ishbel's head had been turned, & that Macdonald had treated Sissie badly. In between this, improper stories. And all this shouted at the top of her voice in a public room. My answers having to be made equally loud down a speaking tube! Poor Sissie, I am really sorry for her.
London with the strikes has been very exhausting & terrible for the wretched daily workers. It’s amazing how good natured is an English crowd.

On Saturday the day of the boat race my brother is expecting nearly 200 as their garden goes down to the river at Hammersmith. Mother & I are not going as we have too many old associations of my father.

I am longing to hear from you since your arrival.
My love to you dear
Your affectionate
Stella

April 2

Letter from Sydney Smith to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 27 November 1837

    • Part of Old Library

Autograph letter addressed from "Berkeley Square", signed, to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer, enquiring about wine merchants and inviting him to stay in the country.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Theodore Edward Hook to an unidentified recipient

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Autograph letter addressed from "Putney", signed, to an unidentified recipient.
Transcription of extract: “I will call for your beauties on Saturday about three o’clock, when I hope I shall find them, as the song says, “encompassed in an angel frame”.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Thomas Colley Grattan to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 10 February 1839

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Autograph letter addressed from "Wilton Street, London", signed, to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer. "I have long given up verse writing & never was much of a poet. But I offer thou this, in accordance with your wish..."

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Thomas Frognall Dibdin to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 11 November 1842

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Autograph letter addressed from "Hotel de la Régence", signed, to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer regarding a parcel from Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer sent to Dibdin and his study of Burgundian manuscripts.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Thomas Joseph Pettigrew to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 7 September 1840

    • Part of Old Library

Autograph letter addressed from "Saville Row", signed, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer, saying that his friend Hudson Gurney has had a portrait engraved of his friend Prince Cimitile.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

Letter from Thomas Moore to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 1 April 1835

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Autograph letter addressed from "Sloperton", signed, to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer, apologising that he could not see him when he was in town on business and thanking him for a loan of a book Memoires.

Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat

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