Lot 178
Royal Correspondence; Legal Documents; Derbyshire Account Book; Newcastle upon Tyne Fire Office
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 13 January 2016 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Royal Correspondence: letter to the Prince of Wales from Lord Lavington, 1802, from "Barbuda" concerning sending a turtle to Brighton Pavilion for Turtle soup; Copy of Prince Henry's Will, ALS to Capt. Payne, the Prince of Wales's equerry from the Duke of York, 1792; and Lord Malmsbury, 1790?; [Legal Documents.] Forster, John William Bacon A bundle of letters and documents concerning the estate of J.W.B. Forster, c. 75 items, 1757-1795, including letters to Charles Wren, a Newcastle lawyer, ms. petition to the Master of the Rolls, and letters detailing the complexities of Forster's estate, which consisted of extensive properties including lead mines in the North-East; [Burton, Derbyshire] Account book of a person of property in Burton, original green vellum, 4to., pp.49, 1825-26, detailing household accounts with separate entries given over to "meal accounts" and rents from property in the Burton area; Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Fire Office. [Insurance companies] Contemporary manuscript accounts from 1780 to 1810. 21 loose leaves