INDEPENDENCE

[ Lord John Russell's private secretary, Hon. George Elliot; Italian Independence; Risorgimento ] Autograph Manuscript memorandum regarding 'Austrian Emigrants'.

Author: 
Hon. George Elliot [ George Francis Stewart Elliot ] (1822-1901) [ John Russell, 1st Earl Russell [ Lord John Russell ] (1792-1878), Prime Minister ]
Publication details: 
Without place or date. [ London, 1850s or 1860s. ]
£220.00

3pp., 4to. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. With a couple of minor emendations. At top left of first page Elliot has written 'Copy'. Docketed on reverse of second leaf: 'Austrian Emigration'. Begins: 'In the Austrian Code (Decree of 1832) Emigration is treated of under a distinct head. | Every Austrian Subject removing to a foreign state or remaining abroad sine animo revertendi, as the Scotch wd. express it, is held to be an Emigrant.' Most of the third page is taken up with a precis of two points 'From Proclamation of Feb.

[ Admiral Northesk; Trafalgar; Bullen ] Autograph Note Signed "Northesk" to the Honourable William Cornwallis, Admiral of the White, e&c.

Author: 
Admiral William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk GCB (1758–1831)
Publication details: 
Bri[tannia] - off Ushant Aug. 14th 1805.
£750.00

One page, 15x 16cm, obviously lower half of a larger piece of paper (indicating a shortage of paper onboard?), with some illegible writing just showing at top. " Sir, | I have the Honor to enclose a letter from Capt. Bullen desiring to be superseded in the command of this ship, which I request may be transmitted to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty [...]". Note: Apparently Bullen (see Wikipedia) who served in the American War of Independence like Northesk, and had a distinguished naval career, kept his post.

[ American War of Independence. ] Manuscript British Treasury order and receipt signed 'M Rowe', for money 'To be by him paid over to sundry persons who have been sufferers during the Disturbances in America on account of their Fidelity & Attachment'

Author: 
Milward Rowe (1717-1792) of Kensington Palace, Chief Clerk of the Treasury and Commissioner of the Salt Duties; Thomas Gibbons [ The American War of Independence ]
Publication details: 
[ His Majesty's Exchequer, London. 4 November 1779. ]
£320.00

2pp., 8vo. In fair condition, on aged and lightly-creased paper. On single leaf, with first page with light diagonal clerical mark. Reads: 'Milward Rowe | Esqr. | Order is taken this 4th. Day of Novr 1779 By Virtue of his Majesty's General Letters of Privy Seal bearing date the 5th. Of Novr. 1760. And in pursuance of a Warrant under his Royal Sign Manual dated the 4 day of Novr. 1779. That You deliver and pay of such his Majesty's Treasure as remains in your charg Unto Milward Rowe Esqr.

[ Tass Agency, London. ] Number ('Evening Bulletin') of 'Soviet Monitor', with two articles: 'The Situation in India | Lecture by Academiciann Zhukov' and 'The Former "Siberia of Siberia" | Object-Lesson of Yakutia's Development'.

Author: 
[ Tass Agency; Soviet Union; Evgenyii Mikhailovitch Zhukov of the USSR Academy of Sciences; Jimmy Shields (1900-1949) ]
Publication details: 
Issued by Tass Agency, Chronicle House, 72-78 Fleet Street, E.C.4., London. No. 8669, 28 June 1947.
£90.00

5pp., folio. Duplicate typescript on three leaves. In fair condition, on aged paper. The first article, produced on the eve of Indian independence, begins: 'Moscow radio broadcast an account of a lecture given by Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Zhukove on "The Situation in India" at the Polytechnical Museum in Moscow.' It proceeds with a summary of Zhukov's lecture, the view he expounds including the following: 'Britain's new policy derives from the economic changes which took place in India during the years of the Second World War.

[ General Alexander Ross; Gunning ] Autograph Letter Signed "George Gunning" to Alexander Ross, sometime General, due in days to become Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. With copy of Ross's note, both about his engagement to Gunning's sister.

Author: 
[ General Ross ] George Gunning, Sir George Gunning, 2nd Baronet (1763-1823), of Horton, Northamptonshire, politician.
Publication details: 
Horton, 5 July 1795 [copy London, 3 July 1795]
£90.00

Both letters one page, cr. 8vo, bifolia, edges dusted and sl. worn, second leaf (a blank) of Ross's letter torn, texts clear and complete. ROSS's letter (file copy) says that Gunning would have heard of his sentiments from his sister, and her father has given permission, but he would also appreciate Gunning's approval "of the connexion [sic] that I am soon to join with your family." He asks for a reply to be sent to the Board of Ordnance" (hius new posting, see above).

[ Prince Constantin Czartoryski, Polish patriot. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('Pce. Constantin Czartoryski'), in French, requesting that a letter be forwarded to his brother who is en route to Italy.

Author: 
Prince Constantin Czartoryski [ Konstanty Adam Czartoryski ] (1777-1866), Polish patriot who served under Napoleon, raising a regiment at his own expence
Publication details: 
Paris, 26 September 1819.
£250.00

For more information on Czartoryski, see his entry in the Annual Register for 1860, p.407. 1p., 12mo. On bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The recipient is not named, but is an Italian-speaker, as the letter is docketted 'Parigi 1819 | 26 Sett. | Princp. Cost. Czartoryski'. Fifteen lines of text, requesting, in florid tones, that a letter be forwarded to his brother, 'qui doit être dans ce moment ci à Livourne pour y faire prendre des bains'.

[ Admiral Edward Thornbrough. ] Autograph Signature ('Edwd: Thornbrough') on part of letter.

Author: 
Edward Thornbrough (1754-1834), Royal Navy Admiral, who served with distinction in the American War of Independence
Publication details: 
No place. [ August 1816.]
£100.00

On one side of 13 x 9 cm. piece of paper cut from letter. In good condition, on aged paper. The date 'Augt: 1816' is at bottom right, apparently in another hand. Reads: '<...> the men all examined - | <...> their being sent out in | <...> are sad set to keep on board | <...>pose we shall soon see | <...>il for the distribution of | <...>to keep my Cruizers out | <...>way her Bowsprit but | <...> few Days Lieutt. Jewry is | <...>man | Yours most faithfully | Edwd: Thornborough'.

[ Pamphlet. ] The Repeal of the Union Conspiracy; or, Mr. Parnell, M.P., and the I.R.B.

Author: 
[ Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1892), Irish nationalist member of the British parliament; the Irish Republican Brotherhood ]
Publication details: 
London: William Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly, W. 1886.
£90.00

64pp., 12mo. Frontispiece in red and black, with diagrammatic pyramid with 'Rank and File or "Soldiers."' at the base, and 'C. S. Parnell, M.P.' at the apex. At foot of the frontispiece is printed 'The Assassination Oath of the I. R. B.' Disbound pamphlet without covers. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper.

[Radziwill] Autograph Letter Signed "Prince Ferdinand Radziwill" to Lady Arthur [ Lady Arthur Russell (Laura de Peyronnet) or Lady Arthur Lennox [?]]

Author: 
Prince Ferdinand Radziwill [Ferdynand Fryderyk Radziwill], Polish nobleman and Polish-German politician, Polish patriot,
Publication details: 
Berlin, 20 November 1861.
£180.00

Four pages, 8vo, large handwriting, fold marks and miniscule remnants of an album page. He thanks her, in his "bad English" for "Miss Constance's photograph [..] which reminded me of many an agreeable hour I had the honour to spend in your society." He has remembered his promise to send her a photograph of himself at Kissingen. "I hope Miss Constance will favourably reeive this one. There is already a good reminder of our Kissingen fellow-sufferers or rather play mates in my collection, from England especially I have besides Miss Constance's Sir Henry and Lady Fletcher, Mr. Campbell's Mr.

[Pamphlet] Important Address by President Cosgrave

Author: 
William Thomas Cosgrave; W.T. Cosgrave, President of the Irish Free State, 1922-1932
Publication details: 
Cahill & Co. Ltd, Parkgate Printing Works, Dublin, [1927]
£320.00

Pamphlet, 16pp., 8vo, grey printed wraps, sunned at edges, stapled as issued, staple rusty and contents partly detached, a couple of pencil annotations, some rust marks, contents mainly good. It commences, "[p.1] "Dublin Chamber of Commerce | President's Address | Delivered Wednesday, 26th January, 1927".

[Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Liberal politician and author.] Autograph Letter Signed ('G O Trevelyan') to 'Dear George' [George Harvey], declining to contribute a piece to the North American Review, as he must concentrate on 'writing a history'.

Author: 
Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928), Liberal politician and historian, nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay [George Harvey (1864-1928), proprietor and editor of the North American Review]
Publication details: 
On letterhead of Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. 15 December 1899.
£56.00

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The letter begins: 'Dear George, | The idea contained in your letter is very interesting, and I am honoured to be thought of in connection with it. I am now reading Stevenson's letters, (admirable they are,) and I know from his dealings with American magazines and publishers that the terms offered by the Review are extremely handsome. But I am very late in the day, - in my day, - to be a writing a history; [i.e.

[Lieutenant General Archibald Robertson of Lawers.] Manuscript 'Extract from Decree Arbitral by Adam Rolland Esq | In the Submission between Mrs. Catherine Austen or Robertson and The Trustee of Lieut General Archd. Robertson of Lawer'.

Author: 
Lieutenant-General Archibald Robertson (1745-1813) of Lawers, Perthshire [Adam Rolland]
Publication details: 
[Scotland.] Made 19 December 1814; recorded 1833.
£35.00

2pp., foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Docketted on reverse of second leaf, including the information that this is the second recording (the first being made at the time of the document in 1814). The extract ('Sexto') concerns the payment of an 'Annuity of Eleven hundred pounds Sterling bequeathed to he said Mrs. Catherine Robertson by the said Lieut. General Archibald Robertson'. Robertson is the subject of a portrait by George Romney, now in the Museum of Fine Art, St Petersburg, Florida.

[Franco-Tunisian Protocol.] Seven duplicated typed documents, in French, starting with 'Note | Protocole Franco-Tunisien signe a Paris le 21 Avril 1955 entre le Gouvernement Francais et le Gouvernment Tunisien sur l'Autonomie interne de la Tunisie'.

Author: 
Salah Ben Youssef (1907-1961), Secretaire General du Neo-Destour [Tunisia; Franco-Tunisian Protocol, 1955; the Maghreb]
Publication details: 
'Le Caire, le 16 Mai 1955.' [Cairo, Egypt. 16 May 1955.]
£500.00

The Encylopaedia Britannica gives the background to these items: 'The Neo-Destour was formed in 1934 by discontented young members of the more conservative Destour. After a bitter struggle with the parent organization, it became the predominant party under the leadership of Habib Bourguiba in 1937. It was harassed by French authorities throughout the 1940s and began an armed rebellion in 1953 that led to Tunisian independence in 1956. | A Neo-Destour government was then formed. In 1958 Bourguiba was appointed the first premier of Tunisia, and in 1959 he was overwhelmingly voted president.

[Privately printed booklet, in French, on Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse and his role in the American Revolution.] Appel aux Etats-Unis. Un Grand Oublié.

Author: 
[Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse (1722-1788), commander of the French fleet at the Battle of Chesapeake; Lady Marie de Grasse Evans (d.1907), American-born wife of Sir Francis Henry Evans]
Publication details: 
Imprimerie des Orphelins d'Auteuil, 40, rue La Fontaine, Paris. No date.
£220.00

16pp., 12mo. Stapled. In cream wraps, with the title in brown on front cover. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with vertical fold and slight rust staining to cover from staple. From the Evans family papers, which include those of de Grasse's descendant Lady Marie de Grasse Evans [née Stevens]. No copy traced, either in English-speaking libraries or the Bibliotheque Nationale.

Autograph Translations by Robert Proud of Pennsylvania, of 'On Gardens, From the Latin of Lord Bacons Essays &c' and the 'Laus Mortuli' of Virgil. With printings of Proud's 'Autobiography' and Charles West Thomson's 'Notices'.

Author: 
Robert Proud (1728-1813), English-born American loyalist, author of 'The History of Pennsylvania in North America' [Charles West Thomson]
Publication details: 
The autograph of 'On Gardens': 'Translation by R. P. Anno. 1802.' Thomson's 'Notices': 'Read before the Council, August 16, 1826.' The 'Autobiography' from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, January 1890.
£350.00

ONE: Autograph translations by Proud. 14pp., 12mo. Unbound, stitched into a booklet of laid watermarked paper, with deckled edges. In very good condition, neatly and closely written on lightly-aged paper. Upwards along the inner margin of the first page Proud has written: 'Translation by R. P. Anno. 1802.' The translation of 'On Gardens, | From the Latin of Lord Bacon's Essays &c' covers the first 12pp., paginated 1-12; the 'Laus Mortuli. Translated at Hackney near London from a Lat. Epigram of Virgil, abt. the year 1752. by R. P.' covers the last two pages, and is unpaginated.

[Pamphlet} The Basques and the Communists

Author: 
Matxin de ONDARTZAPE
Publication details: 
Euzko Deya (England) Ltd, 1939.
£145.00

Printed wraps, [16]pp., 12mo, wraps grubby and chipped in on corner, contents also grubby in parts and detached from rusted (staining) staples (no longer present), closed tear on one page, pinholes (slightly larger), through several pages, poor[ish] condition but complete. COPAC and WorldCat list only two copies each. Scarce.

[Pamphlet] The Irish Cause and The Irish "Convention"

Author: 
William O'Brien, M.P.
Publication details: 
Dublin & London, 1917.
£65.00

The Irish Cause and The Irish "Convention". By Wm. O'Brien, M.P. Authorized Report of Speech delivered May 21, 1917, in the House of Commons, in the Debate on Mr. Lloyd George's Irish Proposals (Dublin and London: Maunsel & Company, Limited, 1917). Pamphlet, 15pp., 12mo, good condition.Five copies on COPAC, several of which are of a later printing, containing 'Correspondence with the Prime Minister'.

Issue of The Irish Citizen newspaper, 21 September 1912,

Author: 
[The Irish Citizen]
Publication details: 
1912.
£65.00

Issue of The Irish Citizen newspaper, 21 September 1912, largely devoted to women's suffrage (during the hunger strikes of Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans in Mountjoy Gaol, Dublin) and with strapline: 'For Men and Women Equally | The Rights of Citizenship; | From Men and Women Equally | The Duties of Citizenship.' Newspaper, 8pp, fol., good condition.First article on front page begins 'The situation in Mountjoy Prison remains unchanged. Mrs. Leigh and Miss Evans are still being forcibly fed, and the condition of the former grows daily more desperate.' Headline, p.141: 'DEATH, MADNESS, OR RELEASE?

[Handbill] "The Senate" of Ireland's "National University"

Author: 
F. Hugh O'Donnell [Frank Hugh O'Donnell (1848-1916)]
Publication details: 
[1914].
£95.00

"The Senate" of Ireland's "National University"! (date and place not stated [1914]). Handbill, one page, 4to, wear to extremities, mainly good condition.. It begins 'Your injustice to the Noble Proletariat of Louvain [destroyed by the German Army, 25 August 1914] is not excused by your venerable chestnut about the Destruction of the Alexandrian Library', ending, 'The majority of the Belgian population is Liberal, Socialist, and Anti-Clerical - just like the Allies of Mr. Redmond. What better end could a mere Church of Reaction have than to perish in the service of the French Republic.

[Handbill] To Irish Protestant Home Rulers - Throughout the United Kingdom

Author: 
Irish Protestant Home Rule Committee
Publication details: 
[1913]
£125.00

To Irish Protestant Home Rulers - Throughout the United Kingdom (n.p., [1913]). Handbill, 4pp., 4to, some foxing and minor damage, mainly good condition.It responds to the Home Rulers desire to show a reasonable face (Roman Catholics not "intolerant"), planning a public protest at the Memorial Hall, London. Committee and executive Committee named.Not listed.

[Handbill] The Flag on the G.P.O. Easter 1917. By J. J. Walsh.

Author: 
J[ames]. J[oseph]. Walsh.
Publication details: 
[c.1917].
£235.00

The Flag on the G.P.O. Easter 1917. By J. J. Walsh. (Date and place not stated [c.1917]). Handbill poem, one page, 12mo, creased laid paper, mainly good condition. It is headed 'THE Flag on the G.P.O. | Easter 1917. | By J. J. Walsh', and with 'J. J. Walsh.' again at foot. The first of three stanzas reads: Why gather the crowd in O'Connell Street? | Why throng all the people there? | What eminent personage do they greet? | With the shouts that fill the air? | Who comes this morning or what's to be seen | That they hurry and push them so?

Issue of The Irish Citizen newspaper, 21 September 1912,

Author: 
[The Irish Citizen]
Publication details: 
1912.
£65.00

Issue of The Irish Citizen newspaper, 21 September 1912, largely devoted to women's suffrage (during the hunger strikes of Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans in Mountjoy Gaol, Dublin) and with strapline: 'For Men and Women Equally | The Rights of Citizenship; | From Men and Women Equally | The Duties of Citizenship.' Newspaper, 8pp, fol., good condition.First article on front page begins 'The situation in Mountjoy Prison remains unchanged. Mrs. Leigh and Miss Evans are still being forcibly fed, and the condition of the former grows daily more desperate.' Headline, p.141: 'DEATH, MADNESS, OR RELEASE?

[Handbill] The Flag on the G.P.O. Easter 1917. By J. J. Walsh.

Author: 
J[ames]. J[oseph]. Walsh.
Publication details: 
[c.1917].
£235.00

The Flag on the G.P.O. Easter 1917. By J. J. Walsh. (Date and place not stated [c.1917]). Handbill poem, one page, 12mo, creased laid paper, mainly good condition. It is headed 'THE Flag on the G.P.O. | Easter 1917. | By J. J. Walsh', and with 'J. J. Walsh.' again at foot. The first of three stanzas reads: Why gather the crowd in O'Connell Street? | Why throng all the people there? | What eminent personage do they greet? | With the shouts that fill the air? | Who comes this morning or what's to be seen | That they hurry and push them so?

Issue of The Irish Citizen newspaper, 21 September 1912,

Author: 
[The Irish Citizen]
Publication details: 
1912.
£65.00

Issue of The Irish Citizen newspaper, 21 September 1912, largely devoted to women's suffrage (during the hunger strikes of Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans in Mountjoy Gaol, Dublin) and with strapline: 'For Men and Women Equally | The Rights of Citizenship; | From Men and Women Equally | The Duties of Citizenship.' Newspaper, 8pp, fol., good condition.First article on front page begins 'The situation in Mountjoy Prison remains unchanged. Mrs. Leigh and Miss Evans are still being forcibly fed, and the condition of the former grows daily more desperate.' Headline, p.141: 'DEATH, MADNESS, OR RELEASE?

[Handbill] The Flag on the G.P.O. Easter 1917. By J. J. Walsh.

Author: 
J[ames]. J[oseph]. Walsh.
Publication details: 
[c.1917].
£235.00

The Flag on the G.P.O. Easter 1917. By J. J. Walsh. (Date and place not stated [c.1917]). Handbill poem, one page, 12mo, creased laid paper, mainly good condition. It is headed 'THE Flag on the G.P.O. | Easter 1917. | By J. J. Walsh', and with 'J. J. Walsh.' again at foot. The first of three stanzas reads: Why gather the crowd in O'Connell Street? | Why throng all the people there? | What eminent personage do they greet? | With the shouts that fill the air? | Who comes this morning or what's to be seen | That they hurry and push them so?

[Pamphlet] The Avenue to Peace in 1921 | Ireland's Claim to Independence | How England met this Claim in 1782

Author: 
M. Sidney Parry
Publication details: 
[1921].
£50.00

The Avenue to Peace in 1921 | Ireland's Claim to Independence | How England met this Claim in 1782 (London: Burt & Sons (M. & B., Ltd.), Printers, Bayswater, no date [1921]). Pamphlet, 24 pp, 12mo, good condition. With compliments slip, and printed circular facsimile of Typed Letter Signed (12mo, 1 p) from the author. 8 Onslow Gardens, SW7; 25 April 1921. It begins 'As I am an Elector in both countries, I am perhaps more vitally concerned in finding a solution to the Irish Problem than the average Englishman.'Seven copies on COPAC and WorldCat.

The Lord Mayor of Cork. Miss Mary MacSwiney & the Portsmouth Congress

Author: 
Mary MacSwiney; Art O'Brien
Publication details: 
[1920]
£225.00

The Lord Mayor of Cork. Miss Mary MacSwiney & the Portsmouth Congress (place and date not stated [1920]). Mimeograph, one page, fol., fair condition, headed in type: 'For publication. With compliments, Art O'Brien.' Statement, signed in type at end by Terence MacSwiney's sister Mary, beginning, The papers this morning mention that I visited Portsmouth yesterday, and gave Mr. Thomas's statement to the Labour Congress. | I should like to give my view of the affair.Not listed.

[Pamphlet] The Sinn Fein Fellowship

Author: 
Mrs Francis Acland
Publication details: 
1921.
£90.00

The Sinn Fein Fellowship (London: the Peace with Ireland Council, undated ['Reprinted by permission from the Westminster Gazette of April 29, 1921']). Handbill, 4pp, 12mo, poor condition, on browning chipped high-acidity paper, with thin strip at head of each leaf lacking, with loss to two lines of text on pp. 2-4.Copies at NLI and LSE.

Issue of the newspaper Éire: The Irish Nation for 20 January 1923

Author: 
[Éire: The Irish Nation]
Publication details: 
1923.
£250.00

Issue of the newspaper Éire: The Irish Nation for 20 January 1923, with front page headline: 'DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF DAIL EIREANN. | First Parliament of the Irish Republic, 21st January, 1919.' Dublin: The Irish Nation Committee. Newspaper, 8pp, 4to, a few closed tears fair condition.

The North Dublin Election News | 10th February 1932

Author: 
[Government Party]
Publication details: 
1932
£90.00

The North Dublin Election News | 10th February 1932 | Support President Cosgrave | Vote for the Government Party | Six Candidates | in the order of your choice | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (Dublin: Published by P. F. O'Reilly, Solicitor, 66 Dame St., Dublin, Agent for the Candidates, and printed by Cahill & Co., Ltd., Dublin [1932]). Handbill, 4pp., 4to, good condition.Photographs of the six Government Party candidates on p.1, including Michael Collins's sister Mrs Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll.Not listed.

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