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[The Artisans Labourers and General Dwellings Company Limited, London.] Two vellum indentures regarding their Shaftesbury Park Estate in Battersea, one with the Mutual Life Assurance Society; the other a mortgage with Lords Wolverton and Kinnaird.

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[Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company Limited; Shaftesbury Park Estate, Battersea; Victorian social Housing in London; George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton; George Kinnaird, 9th Lord Kinnaird]
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[The Shaftesbury Park Estate, Battersea, London.] 2 January 1879 (with covering letter of 11 January 1890) and 17 September 1879.
£500.00

Both items in good condition, lightly aged, and both laid out in the customary fashion, with tax stamps and embossments. ONE: On three vellum skins. Endorsed, with signatures of various Company officials, on reverse of third skin: 'The Artizans Labourers and General Dwellings Company Limited to The Mutual Life Assurance Society | Mortgage for securing £35000 and Interest'. Large coloured map of the estate (Brassey Square, Latchmere Road, Tyneham Road, Eversleigh Road, Sabine Road, Kingsley Street Morrison Street, Ashbury Road, Holden Street, Grayshott Road) on reverse of third skin.

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[Sir Thomas Dakin and Thomas Quested Finnis, both Lord Mayors of London.] Signatures of 'Thomas Dakins' ('Lord Mayor') and 'Thomas Q Finnis ('Alderman and Chairman of the Committee of Governors') on manuscript circular concerning 'Emanuel Hospital'.

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Sir Thomas Dakin (1808-1889), tea merchant and Lord Mayor of London, 1870; Thomas Quested Finnis (1801-1883), Lord Mayor of London, 1856 [Emanuel Hospital, Westminster. now Emanuel School, Battersea]
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Mansion House, London. 12 April 1871.
£90.00

1p., folio. In fair condition, aged and worn, with two punch holes at head. The letter begins by drawing the recipient's attention to an 'enclosed statement relating to Emanuel Hospital. | The principals involved are of great public interest and apply to every educational endowment throughout the kingdom | They involve: - | The confiscation of property | The arbitrary removal of Governors against whom no complaint is alleged. | Entire disregard of the charter of foundation | The absolute prohibition of the gratuitous education of the poor except as the result of competitive examination'.

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Autograph Manuscript musical score, 'From Mass in C minor. | for five voices', signed by 'Ronald M. Burnker'.

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R. M. Brunker [Ronald M. Brunker], choirmaster and organist, St Bartholomew's, Battersea
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Dated 'June 28th. 1927'.
£100.00

On one side of a leaf of green paper, roughly 17.5 x 23.5 cm, removed from an autograph album. Good, on lightly aged paper. Thirteen bars, with staves for soprano, alto, tenor and bass. Covering the greater part of the page, and followed by 'From Mass in C minor. | for five voices. | [signed] Ronald. M. Brunker. | June 28th. 1927'.

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Autograph Letter Signed ('John Burns') to an unnamed male correspondent [the M.P. J. W. Logan?].

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John Elliot Burns [John Burns] (1858-1943), Independent Labour Party Member of Parliament for Battersea
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28 August 1893; on parliamentary letterhead.
£56.00

8vo: 1 p. 14 lines of text. On aged and spotted paper, laid down on a piece of card, and with the head of the letter (not affecting the text but causing the loss of the top half of the letterhead) worn away. Originally a 2-page 12mo bifolium, but with the text from the second page laid down below the first.

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