LACE

[Alfred E. Turner, British Army officer who served in administrative posts in Ireland] Autograph Letter Signed Alfred E. Turner, to C.H. Biddle Esq, lacemaker, concerning the manufacture and improvement if Irish Lace

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Alfred E. Turner [Major-General Sir Alfred Edward Turner (1842 ? 1918) British Army officer who served in administrative posts in Ireland]
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[Headed] Vice Regal Lodge, Dublin, 17 August 1883
£200.00

Two pages, 12mo, bifolium, fold marks, aging, damage to second leaf without affecting the text and signs of having been tipped onto another surface. Text: I am dsired by his Excellency Lord Spencer to aknowledge the receipt of your letter, and of the copy of the Hand book on Irish Lace [see note below: Irish lace : a history of the industry] for which I am to express His Excellency's thanks to you.

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Autograph Letter Signed "Evelyn Bradshaw", Principal of the Royal School of Art Needlework, to a male member of the Wrench family of Nottingham (unnamed) about lacework.

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Evelyn Bradshaw, Principal of the Royal School of Art Needlework
Evelyn Bradshaw, Principal of the Royal School of Art Needlework, ALS
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[Printed] Royal School of Art Needlework, Exhibition Road, SW, 21 June 1917
£85.00
Evelyn Bradshaw, Principal of the Royal School of Art Needlework, ALS

Four pages, 12mo, good condition. She has made "enquiries about a lace cushion & find we have a good one with 2 doz bobbins & pins . . . & this I could let the girl you are interested in have for 8/6d . . . I was much interested to see the photographs of your old lace - & the wrist ruffles are very valuable . . . I would have pleasure in putting the pieces in a special case for you - & making a little Georgian Exhibition.

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