The Lisle Letters. An Abridgement
London, The Folio Press, 1983 (first thus). Selected and arranged by Bridget Boland; foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper. More
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An autograph letter signed ('E. Grey') to 'My dear Holland' (Henry Thurstan Holland, later 1st Viscount Knutsford)
'My dear Holland, I should like very much to help in your Candidature, but I have foresworn all further promises & engagements, till I have got rid of those which I now have & which will take all of my spare time till Easter. And it is only some six..... More
An autograph letter signed by Alfred Milner to 'Dear Wilson' (not otherwise identified)
'Dear Wilson, Many thanks for your letter. I hope I shall get some opportunity of looking at the return to which you give me the reference, but we can all say we most sincerely in this scramble, "we have left undone those things which we ought to have done." However..... More
El Alamein to the River Sangro. Normandy to the Baltic
London, The Arcadia Press, 1972 (first thus)/ 1948 and 1946. Number 235 of only 265 copies signed on the title page by the author (as 'Montgomery of Alamein'), and bound by Zaehnsdorf. The title page is dated 1971, but 'This Book was published on the 30th Anniversary of The Battle..... More
A manuscript document signed by Lord Sydney, directing that an unidentified petition be referred to the Lord Advocate of Scotland
As Baron Sydney he 'was British Home Secretary in the Pitt Government, given responsibility for devising a plan to settle convicts at Botany Bay. He chose Arthur Phillip as governor; on 26 January 1788, Phillip named Sydney Cove in honour of Sydney and the settlement became known as Sydney Town..... More
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