LEVERHULME

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Autograph Letter Signed ('Leverhulme') from William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, to the Scottish folklorist Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

Author: 
William Hesketh Lever (1851-1925), 1st Viscount Leverhulme [Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (1857-1930), Scottish folklorist, collector and editor of Hebridean folksong]
Publication details: 
On letterhead of The Hill, Hampstead Heath, London, NW3. 10 January 1922.
£35.00

2pp., 12mo. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. He thanks her for her letter and announces a date on which 'your two sisters your daughter and yourself' can 'dine with my sister and myself at The Hill, Hampstead'. He expects that his niece 'Miss Emily Paul' will be staying with him at that time. He ends by saying that if the hour of the dinner is too early for Mrs Kennedy-Fraser's 'afternoon engagement', it can be altered to 'whatever time is most convenient for yourself'.

Manuscript indenture: 'Deed of Trust in relation to the foundation of a Chair of Physical Chemistry in the University'. Signed by Badock, Cook and Rafter, and bearing the University of Bristol seal.

Author: 
William Hesketh Lever (1851-1925), 1st Viscount Leverhulme; the University of Bristol [Sir Stanley H. Badock, Pro-Chancellor; Ernest H. Cook, Lecturer; James Rafter, Registrar]
Publication details: 
17/11/19
£95.00

2 pp, on first leaf of bifolium of thick cream paper, dimensions roughly 40.5 x 26.5 cm. Ruled with red lines. Docketed on reverse of second leaf. Text clear and complete. In good condition, though grubby. Leverhulme ('the Settlor') is 'desirous of assisting in the foundation of a Chair of Physical Chemistry in the University', and has ('with the approbation of the Council of the University') 'transferred Five Thousand "B" Twenty per centum Cumulative Preferred Ordinary Shares of One pound each fully paid in Lever Brothers Limited into the name of the University'.

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