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[ Angela Burdett Coutts, Victorian philanthropist. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('A G B Coutts') to Lady Murchison, regarding her votes in an election, and 'our friend the Rajah' in Borneo (presumably Sir James Brooke).

Author: 
Angela Burdett-Coutts [ Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, born Angela Georgina Burdett ] (1814-1906), Victorian philanthropist [ Lady Charlotte Murchison (1788-1869) ]
Publication details: 
Stratton Street [ London ]. 18 [February?] 1860.
£35.00

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with negligible traces of mount on blank reverse of second leaf. Written in a somewhat difficult hand. The letter begins: 'My Votes are I am happy to say at liberty I enclose them'. She continues by expressing her 'distress' at the health of one of her sisters, who has been 'at St Leonards - she is I am thankful to say now out of danger'. She sends the best wishes of 'Mrs Burns', noting that 'the Election is in April'.

Autograph Letter Signed to [the Duchess of Argyll] [Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll & 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon], Society beauty etc]

Author: 
Donald Campbell, intermediary for the Nabob of Arcot
Publication details: 
"Argyll Street, Wednesday", no date.
£400.00

Three pages, 4to, some marking, but text clear and complete. Campbell claims to be in "habits of confidence" with "the Nabob's [Nabob of Arcot]" and is requesting that a high level letter give full "redress for grievances" rather than having a "hackneyed stile". The letter contains references to people and events which demand close knowledge of this period of Indian history, particularly revealing of relations with at least one Indian Ruler.

Attractive woodcut illustration, captioned 'SUCHET SINGH', depicting an Indian warrior leading a large horse. Probably distributed as a handbill.

Author: 
[Rajah Suchet Singh [Rajah Sucheyt Singh] (1801-1844), Indian Sikh warrior [street ballads; handbills; Seven Dials; the Raj; India]
Publication details: 
[London, circa 1846?]
£85.00

On one side of a piece of 15 x 17 cm paper. In good condition, on lightly aged and creased paper. The illustration is roughly 10.5 x 16 cm, and shows a bearded oriental warrior, with plumed headpiece, spear and knife in belt, leading an oversized horse. The disproportionate nature of the composition suggests that the male figure was added to the existing illustration of the horse.

Autograph Letter Signed by 'Mohindro Ranjan Raj of Kokina' [Mahima Ranjan Rai Chaudri; Mahendra Ranjan Roy Chowdhury] to his governess Miss Campbell Brewster, writing in English on the occasion of her retirement.

Author: 
Mohindro Ranjan Raj of Kokina [Mahendra Ranjan Roy Chowdhury; Mahima Ranjan Rai Chaudri] (b.1854), Raja of Kakina, Rangpur [Bangladesh; Campbell Brewster]
Publication details: 
2 March 1913; on letterhead of the Palace, Kakina [Rangpur, Bangladesh].
£95.00
Autograph Letter Signed by 'Mohindro Ranjan Raj of Kokina'

8vo, 3 pp. Bifolium. 50 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper. In original envelope, addressed by the Raja to 'Miss Cambell [sic] Brewster | The Palace | Kakina'. He is enclosing a cheque for a month's salary 'as a parting present from the Ranu & myself'. She has been 'precisely like one of the family', and her 'leaving us & the children for good, is a very great wrench to us all'. 'Bunna & Tootie' will miss her 'terribly', and 'it will be not an easy matter to get the place you are vacating, filled in suitably'.

[Printed pamphlet.] Meeting in Honor of the Hon. D. F. Carmichael [Member of the Madras Legislative Council.

Author: 
'The Carmichael Entertainment Committee' [Hon. David Fremantle Carmichael (1830-1903), Member of the Madras Legislative Council, 1873-1882] [Maharajah of Vizianagram; Rajah of Pittapur; Madhava Row]
Publication details: 
[India. 1884.]
£500.00
The Carmichael Entertainment Committee (Madras)

4to, 19 pp. Stitched and unbound. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Folded, and addressed in manuscript from India (with postmark and stamp) to C. H. E. Carmichael in London. Begins: 'A meeting of the friends and admirers of the Hob'ble D. F. Carmichael, of the Madras Civil Service, was held in a Shamiana, on the grounds attached to "The Mansion," the residence of the Hon.

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