LOT 1266:
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Sold for: €200
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€250 - €350
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BRITISH HISTORY: Selection of A.Ls.S., Ds.S., some signed Free Front envelope panels etc., by various British politicians, military officers, and other historical figures, largely 19th century, including Sir John Barrow (2), Henry Swinburne (A.L.S. discussing the state of his finances, '….the remaining 700 L did not suffice to answer the bills which the carrying on the business of our indemnification obliged my wife to draw upon me from Paris. Tho' I offered the most undeniable landed security the circumstance of the times are just that this house bankers to the Prince &c cannot afford to advance upon it a single guinea….', 4th March 1789), Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman (3), Marquess of Douro (eldest son of the Duke of Wellington), Prince William Frederick (3; each signed Free Front envelope panels), Samuel Wilberforce, Richard Westmacott, Mary Augusta Ward, Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, George Salmon, Francis Seymour Haden, Charles Ash Windham, George Henry Rose, Sir David Baird (to Viscount Palmerston, 1811), Sir William Parker AF, Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland etc. Some age wear, G to VG, 45

