Autograph Letter Signed ('David Beatty') from Rear-Admiral David Beatty [later Earl Beatty], setting up with the London publishers Hutchinson & Co. a subscription for his son to the periodical 'The Marvels of the Universe'.
Author:
Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty (1871-1936), 1st Earl Beatty [Admiral Beatty], commander of the Royal Navy battlecruisers at the Battle of Jutland, 1916 [Hutchinson & Co., London publishers]
Publication details:
On letterhead of Brooksby Hall, Leicester; 'Thursday' [stamped with date 12 February 1912].
£80.00
SKU: 11655
2pp., 12mo. On aged paper, with two ring-binder holes at the head of each leaf. Date stamp in purple ink. He asks for back numbers and future issues of 'The Marvels of the Age or Universe [sic]' to be sent 'to Master David Beatty Hanover Lodge Regents Park'. A postscript concerns 'the engraved Portraits'.