POPHAM, Sir Home Riggs. SHIP'S BOND. Bond (manuscript completion in ink of a printed form) for the voyage of Popham's ship 'L'Etrusco' between Canton and Ostend, addressed to Messrs Robert Charnock & Co and signed by Popham, Jean-Baptiste Piron and Charles Constant De Rebecque. Creation dat...
POPE, Alexander. Autograph Letter Signed to his friend the portrait painter Jonathan Richardson, arranging for him to see the 'House & Pictures' of his patron Lord Burlington. Creation dates: July 1743
PEARCE, Thomas. Autograph manuscript by Thomas Pearce, clergyman of Somerset, dedicated to John Worth, of a version of his sermon preached at the funeral of John Warre, the eldest son of Edward Warre of Chipley in Somerset. Creation dates: March 1638
STOCKWELL, George, 1729-1805. Manuscript note 'This model was made May the 7 1774 by George Stockwell shipwright at Sheerness Yard', which was found inside Navy Board model 'H.M.S. Bristol' on restoration. Sotheby's, Marine Pictures and Nautical Works of Art Sale, 22 May 1991, Lot 343W. Creatio...
NAPOLEON I, Emperor of the French (1769-1821). LUTYENS, Captain Engelbert. 22 Autograph Letters Signed from Lutyens, orderly officer assigned to report each day on the activities of the captive Napoleon, to Major Gideon Gorrequer, St Helena. Christie's, 7590, 04 June 2008, Lot 143. Creation dat...
IRELAND - DOWN SURVEY. PETTY, Sir William (1623-1687). Manuscript on vellum detailing Petty's payment, in the form of land in Ireland, for carrying out the mapping of Ireland known as the 'Down Survey' which provided for land redistribution following the 1652 Act for the Settlement of Ireland. B...
YEATS, John Butler [Jack] (1871-1957). Collection of letters by Yeats: 8 Autograph Letters Signed and 15 illustrated Autograph Letters Signed to J C Miles, Nov 1896-dec 1940. Illustrated printed receipt with autograph insertions including signature, acknowledging receipt of payment from J C Mil...
COOMBE-TENNANT, Winifred. SPIRITUALISM. Samples from the Winifred Coombe Tennant archive including: Black and white photographs of Winifred Coombe Tennant, Gerald Balfour, and the young Henry Coombe Tennant. Autograph Letters from Winifred to Balfour, circa 1911-1920. Autograph Letters from Ba...
NORDEN, John. Autograph accounts sheet of expenditure on the rebuilding of Sandsfoot Castle near Weymouth, authorised at the foot by Robert Cecil, the Lord Treasurer, who adds a further order for payment for work on Anne of Denmark's new garden at Greenwich. Creation dates: July 1610
FARREN, Ellen. Manuscript volume in ink entitled 'Book of Tastes', a sort of autograph book kept by the music-hall actress in the form of questionnaires completed by various theatrical celebrities, dated on the title page 'November 31st 1864'. Creation dates: Circa 1864-1865