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Undated. 1 page 8 x 7 inches, old marginal repairs, minor defects. Captain the Hon. Charles Napier (1730-1807), father of Admiral Sir Charles Napier. Napier became Lieutenant in 1754, Master and Commander (1758), Post-Captain (1762).

Government House, Madras, 11 July, no year given. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, a little dusty at folds. Embossed address. Francis Napier, tenth Lord Napier of Merchistoun and first Baron Ettrick (1819–1898), diplomatist and administrator in India. He served as ambassador to the United States from 1857 to 1859 and to the Netherlands from 1859 to 1861, as Ambassador to Russia from 1861 to 1864 and to Prussia from 1864 to 1866. The latter year he was appointed Governor of Madras, a post he held until 1872, when he also served as acting Viceroy of India for a short period.

Govenment House, Guindy Park [Madras], 12 January, no year given. 4 pp. 9 x 7 inches, fine. Francis Napier, tenth Lord Napier of Merchistoun and first Baron Ettrick (1819–1898), diplomatist and administrator in India. He served as ambassador to the United States from 1857 to 1859 and to the Netherlands from 1859 to 1861, as Ambassador to Russia from 1861 to 1864 and to Prussia from 1864 to 1866. The latter year he was appointed Governor of Madras, a post he held until 1872, when he also served as acting Viceroy of India for a short period.

Bath, 29 March 1836. 3 pp. 9 x 7 inches, in good condition, with the address panel, BATH Penny Post. General Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853), Governor of Sind (1843-47), Commander in Chief in India (1849-50).

London, 3 March 1829. 1 page 9 x 7 inches, fine, tipped along left edge to an old album page. William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier (1786-1834), naval officer, midshipman on HMS Defence at the Battle of Trafalgar, later envoy to China (died at Macao, 1834). In 1818 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Captain Sir John Ross (1777-1856), polar explorer.

St. Cloud, 7 May 1811. In French. 14 lines on 1 page, perfect for display, 9 x 7 inches, one pinhole, with the discreet authentication blindstamp of the Rossignol Napoleon Collection, Paris. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, duc de Feltre (1765-1818), born of Irish parents, Minister of War from 1807, and Marshal of France. Napoleon came to depend on his authority and he was instrumental in organising the administration and building the Grande Armée in 1811-12.

St. Cloud, 6 June 1806. 2 pp. 9 x 7 inches, half-mourning border, in fine clean condition. Provenance: Christies, London. A substantial letter signed during the period of Napoleon’s greatest military and political success. Napoleon writes to Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824). Prince Eugène, the son of the Empress Josephine by her marriage to Alexander de Beauharnais, was appointed Viceroy of Italy on 7 June 1805. The victory of Austerlitz on 2 December 1805, reuniting the kingdom of Italy with the Veneto and Istria, increased his authority and in January 1806 Napoleon adopted him as his son, and began to address him in letters as ‘mon fils’.

44 Montpelier Road, Brighton, 1854-1855. 6 letters, 7 pp. in good condition, lightly tipped on to an old album page, overlapping. Frederick Nash (1782-1856), watercolour painter, architectural draughtsman. His published works include: A Series of Views of the Collegiate Chapel of St.George at Windsor [1805], Twelve Views of the Antiquities of London [1805-10], and some of the drawings which were engraved for Ackermann’s History of the University of Oxford [1814].

Bevere [Claines, Worcestershire], 17 July 1797. 1 page 7 x 5 inches, in good condition, with the address leaf (pasted to old album page). Uncommon. Treadway Russell Nash (1724 – 1811), historian of Worcestershire and the author of Collections for the History of Worcestershire, an important source document for Worcestershire county histories.

New Bond Street, undated. 1 page 8 x 6 inches, trimmed, traces of mounting at corners. Treadway Russell Nash (1724 – 1811), historian of Worcestershire and the author of Collections for the History of Worcestershire, an important source document for Worcestershire county histories.

H.M.Ship Northumberland off Cadiz, 1 January 1799. 2 pp. 10 x 8 inches, in fine condition, with the address leaf (Foreign Office handstamp, probably carried on the Lisbon to Falmouth packet service). HMS Northumberland (74 Guns) was launched on 2 February 1798. She served in the Egyptian Campaign where Captain Robert Forkington was wounded (13 March 1801). The Northumberland carried Napoleon into captivity on St. Helena in 1815. “I have a pleasant Ship and she has proved a remarkably fine sailer. Sir Roger Curtis having gone through the Straits some days since with the rest of the Fleet, the Edgar and ourselves are blocking up the Port of Cadiz, and 21 Sail of the Line. This wears a very daring appearance, but as we understand the Spaniards are very pacifically disposed towards us we claim no great merit from it, nor feel ourselves under any apprehensions.”

Admiralty, 12 December 1845. Vellum 11 x 12 inches, in fine clean condition. Admiralty Seal affixed. Captain George Henry Seymour commanded HMS Carysfort in the Pacific from 1845 to 1848. HMS Carysfort was a sixth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1836 and named for the Earl of Carysfort, who had been a Lord of the Admiralty. Her first captain, Lord George Paulet, occupied the Hawaiian Islands for five months in 1843. Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Hall Gage (1777 –1864) was Second Sea Lord in the British Navy. He took part in the Battle of Cape St Vincent and the Siege of French-held Malta during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Admiralty, 14 February 1793. Vellum 10.5 x 12.5 inches, seal affixed, fold marks, in good clean condition. Admiralty wafer seal affixed. Research suggests that young Thackeray died in August 1794. Admiral Sir Samuel Hood (1762-1814), a relative of Admiral Viscount Hood (1724-1816), entered the Navy in 1776. He fought at Martinique (1781), and in May 1790 he commissioned the Juno, a 32 gun frigate, in which he went to Jamaica. In 1797 he acted under Nelson in the attack of Tenerife; and, in 1798, he served on board the Zealous at the Battle of the Nile. He fought throughout the Napoleonic Wars, losing an arm in a naval skirmish in September 1805, until his appointment as commander in chief in the East Indies (1812),

March to May, 1837. About 2800 words on 8 pp. 12 x 8 inches, horizontal folds. Provenance: Strides Auctions, Chichester, 2005. From letters we have located, we have identified the writer as Lieutenant William Robinson, setting out for South America to take up appointments in HMS Fly and HMS Stag (see O’Byrne, A Naval Biographical Dictionary). Robinson later commanded the Arrow ketch in South America and at the Cape, where he captured an armed slaver. Offered with this account is a letter by Wm. Robinson to his wife (1864) with advice on how to claim a pension in the event of Robinson’s demise, and some extracts from certificates of service of a later William C.Robinson, Assistant Paymaster, 1863-79.

Volontaire, off Marseilles, 7 September 1812. 3 pp. 11 x 7 inches, in good condition but centrefold almost separated. With a Portsmouth Dock Ship Letter mark, and a very fine oval ‘Return’d for Postage’ marking, indicating that mail to Mahon had to be prepaid. Endorsed “To the care of L.Hargrave Esq., Consul General”. An attractive maritime postal history item. The Peckston papers are in the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth. “The Scout has joined and is going to the Fleet. I have just time to tell you that I sent you a long Letter by our Prize that left us on the 5th by my old messmate Mr. Manico ...” The Volontaire Frigate (40 guns) was a British ship captured from the French in 1806.

21 July 1864. In French. 2 pp. 8 x 5 inches, in good condition, tipped on to part of an old album page. Ernest Naville, author of many works of theology, of which his most famous is probably Le Père Celeste, first published in Geneva in 1865, later translated as Heavenly Father (Lectures on Modern Atheism).

Strand, 7 March 1810. 4 x 6 inches, generally in good condition. Rare. Samuel John Neele (1758-1824), engraver, illustrator and mapmaker. The Neele family were prolific engravers who produced maps for many atlases and topographical works, including town plans. “... the following are in hand, & in a considerable state of forwardness: Spain & Portugal, Northn. U:States (these two will be finished in a few weeks, & with Southern Africa might form No. 4); The Caraccas; Germany, N. of the Marn; Austrian Territories; North Italy. &c &c.”

Florence, 7 August 1868. In Italian. 8 x 5 inches, ink blot across a few letters of the signature, otherwise good. Cristoforo Negri (1809-1896), Italian politician and writer, the first president of the Italian Geographical Society (1867-1872).

Canonmills [Edinburgh], 11 April 1831. 1 page 6½ x 8 inches, lower blank trimmed away. Uncommon. Patrick Neill (1776–1851), Scottish printer and horticulturalist, known as a naturalist. A founding member, and the first secretary, of both the Wernerian Natural History Society (1808–49) and the Caledonian Horticultural Society (1809–49), he is mainly remembered today for having endowed the Neill Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Neill's works include A Tour Through Some of the Islands of Orkney and Shetland (1806), which caused much public debate at the time, due to its descriptions of the economic misery of the islanders. He also wrote the Gardening article in the seventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. This article was subsequently expanded and published as a separate book under the title of The Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Garden, which was very popular and ran through several editions.

Canonmills, 13 February 1845. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, in fine condition, traces of corner mounting. Patrick Neill FRSE FSA Scot FLS MWS (1776 –1851), Scottish printer and horticulturalist. In 1806 appeared his Tour through Orkney and Shetland, a work which gave rise to discussion because of its reports of poverty. In 1814 he issued a translation, An Account of the Basalts of Saxony, from the French of Dubuisson, with Notes, Edinburgh. He was the author of the article "Gardening" in the seventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and it was subsequently published as The Flower, Fruit, and Kitchen Garden (several editions).