Lot 282
WELLESLEY, ARTHUR, DUKE OF WELLINGTON (1769-1852), FIELD MARSHAL AND PRIME MINISTER
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("WELLINGTON"), TO [HIS SISTER IN LAW] MRS STEWART
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 9 October 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
[née Elizabeth Pakenham (1769-1851)], thanking her for her kind note of the 9th 'and for your congratulations upon my son Charles' Marriage, which is highly satisfactory', 1 page, with integral blank, 8vo, together with a franked Penny Red envelope with wax seal, addressed to Mrs Stewart in Dublin, clearly in the Duke's hand but with an earlier postmark from February 1843; Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington Autograph letter signed, to Miss Georgina Harcourt, politely declining an invitation to luncheon, with integral address leaf with remnants of red wax weal and Penny Black postage stamp, some writing slightly obscured where previously mounted in an album; Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington. Document signed in the name of George IV, October 30th 1831, signed by The Duke of Wellington, Lords Bathurst and Cholmondely & the Archbishop of Canterbury in their capacity as "The Lord's Justices", raising Major General John Barlow to be a Lieutenant General in the Army, printed document with manuscript insertions, laid on a larger piece of card, folio (3, & envelope)