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Archive of Letters
Starting Bid: $140
Estimate:
$300 - $600
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Timed Auction
191 The Collection of John Elliot Lawford | Part 2: Online Auction (lot 95-432)
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Archive of Letters
Manuscript Letters - Roberts to Surgeon General Taylor [19x] and others
Field Marshal Frederick Roberts to Surgeon General Taylor, dated between 1896 and 1904, most of them on letterhead note paper which includes: 47 Portland Place W.; The Royal Hospital Dublin, [4x] 1896-1897; Snowden. Simla, [1x] 1892; War Office, London, S.W. letters 1902-1904 [10x] letters; Mackellar’s Hotel London one 1897; Portland Place, [1x ]1903; Eighteen letters in total, some with envelopes.
Several pages of letters on 42 Portland Place letter head from Lady Roberts to General Taylor appear to be regarding nursing services.
Also to General Taylor letters from Viceregal Lodge Simla [3x], [1]x from Viceroy’s Camp, and [1x] from Government House Calcutta all undated various authors.
Letter to General Taylor from Frances of Teck dated ‘09.
Letter on Windsor Castle letter head in original envelope addressed to Surgeon Colonel W. Taylor, P.M.O. Ashanti Expeditionary Force, 18 Victoria Streets, London, from Sir James Reid [Physician to the Queen] to General Taylor dated 1996 regarding the death of Prince Henry of Battenberg.
Two Visitors cards from Lady Curzon at Home to Surgeon General W. Taylor. Six of the original envelopes, some postmarked.
Vanity Fair ‘Spy’ lithograph - ‘Bobs’. Cartoon of General Roberts in uniform, signed by him in ink on the bottom margin. Framed.
Provenance: Estate of John Lawford.
Manuscript Letters - Roberts to Surgeon General Taylor [19x] and others
Field Marshal Frederick Roberts to Surgeon General Taylor, dated between 1896 and 1904, most of them on letterhead note paper which includes: 47 Portland Place W.; The Royal Hospital Dublin, [4x] 1896-1897; Snowden. Simla, [1x] 1892; War Office, London, S.W. letters 1902-1904 [10x] letters; Mackellar’s Hotel London one 1897; Portland Place, [1x ]1903; Eighteen letters in total, some with envelopes.
Several pages of letters on 42 Portland Place letter head from Lady Roberts to General Taylor appear to be regarding nursing services.
Also to General Taylor letters from Viceregal Lodge Simla [3x], [1]x from Viceroy’s Camp, and [1x] from Government House Calcutta all undated various authors.
Letter to General Taylor from Frances of Teck dated ‘09.
Letter on Windsor Castle letter head in original envelope addressed to Surgeon Colonel W. Taylor, P.M.O. Ashanti Expeditionary Force, 18 Victoria Streets, London, from Sir James Reid [Physician to the Queen] to General Taylor dated 1996 regarding the death of Prince Henry of Battenberg.
Two Visitors cards from Lady Curzon at Home to Surgeon General W. Taylor. Six of the original envelopes, some postmarked.
Vanity Fair ‘Spy’ lithograph - ‘Bobs’. Cartoon of General Roberts in uniform, signed by him in ink on the bottom margin. Framed.
Provenance: Estate of John Lawford.
