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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.

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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

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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

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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

Letter from Thomas Noon Talfourd to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 13 August 1842

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Autograph letter, signed, to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer, presenting his compliments, requesting a passport his son, and enclosing a copy of a book.

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

Letter from Trafford Leigh-Mallory, 2 April 1924

Letter from Trafford Leigh-Mallory, 2 April 1924

Letter from his brother Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory. This letter was found on George Mallory's body in 1999. It was wrapped in a handkerchief along with two other letters.

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65 Longridge Rd
London SW5

Ap 2nd 1924

My Dear George

Many thanks for your p.c. Both children had flu about a week after I had it, & then I got a second dose. However we are all splendid now.

As you will see from the address, we have moved. The children were beginning to get a bit out of hand & we always seemed to be catching one disease or another. We are awfully comfortable now in very nice rooms. We have got two double bedrooms, a single bedroom for Tom, & a sitting room. Tom’s bedroom is ordinarily a sitting room, so nurse can have the children down there when we don’t want them. I like it ever so much better than the Hotel, because I now have somewhere quiet to read & write.

I suppose you see a few papers, & know what a series of strikes we are having just now. It would appear that the Trades Unions regard this as a good moment for getting the best possible terms. The most serious thing I think is the development of strikes organised by Communists against the advice of the Unions. I hope they will get the firm handling they deserve.

I went to a most interesting meeting at the B.I.I.A. [British Institute of International Affairs] last night, on ‘the Balkans’. I find that one gets a lot of most useful information there, which is good from an educational point of view.

Mother stayed a night here on her way to Aix Les Bains. I am not quite sure whether she is particularly pleased with it now she has got there.

I am going up to Birkenhead to stay with the old man over Easter & hope to see Avie & her family at the same time.

I imagine you have now started your trek. I have seen one article in the Times so far, but that just dealt with the administrative arrangements & the composition of the party.

A Trafford cousin has suddenly turned up. He is normally a cantonment magistrate in India & home on leave. He is an odd piece of work & seems to have a passion for getting to know relations. We had him to supper one night & he took us to Diplomacy last Saturday. The revival of Diplomacy is excellent. I never thought anything of Gladys Cooper as an actress, but I must say she seems to have improved tremendously lately.

The children are bursting with life & I think very happy.

Good luck to you
Your affectionate brother
Trafford

Letter from Ulick John de Burgh, 1st marquess of Clanricarde, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer

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  • 28 November 1840

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Autograph letter addressed from "St James’ Square", signed, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer in which Clanricarde requests a letter to ensure his passage at Ostend. He wishes Van de Weyer a merry Christmas and hope to have the pleasure of seeing him in the spring.

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

Letter from Warren Hastings to Messrs Davison, Noel, Templer & Co.

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  • 2 December 1815

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Autograph letter addressed from "Daylesford House", signed, to Messrs Davison, Noel, Templer & Co. Hastings writes to confirm that he has today sent his banking book to them by the Worcester coach and requests that they return the book to him closed to the end of the year.

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

Letter from Washington Irving

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Autograph page from a manuscript of A Tour on the Prairies. Page numbered 202 begins “a beautiful grove, watered by a fine spring and rivulet. Our journey had been about fourteen miles”.

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

Letter from William Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer

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Autograph letter, signed, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer, in which Baring regrets to write that it is not within Lord Fitzgerald’s power to facilitate the exchange concerning Dr Davies, since the number of appointments is very limited and a writership is generally considered to be worth two cadetships.

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

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