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Auction archive: Lot number 19

Letter signed by H.S. Conway as British secretary of state, regarding the Tripoline ambassador's baggage

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 19

Letter signed by H.S. Conway as British secretary of state, regarding the Tripoline ambassador's baggage

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Title: Letter signed by H.S. Conway as British secretary of state, regarding the Tripoline ambassador's baggage Author: Conway, Hugh Seymour Place: St. James Publisher: Date: Nov. 12, 1765 Description: 14 lines, in ink, on single sheet 12x7½. Hugh Seymour Conway (1721-1795), once a lieutenant-general who fell from rank, recently appointed secretary of state under the Marquis of Rockingham, finds that no detail is too small for his office, addressing the Clerk of the Stables, "The Tripoline Ambassador having applied to me for an order to have his Baggage brought from the Ship it is on board of & to be deposited where he shall direct, I am to desire that you will please to give Orders that the Ambassadors goods may be conveyed accordingly as has been usual..." Provenance: A West Coast institution. Lot Amendments Condition: Adhesion damage along left margin; very good. Item number: 202675

Auction archive: Lot number 19
Auction:
Datum:
14 May 2009
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Letter signed by H.S. Conway as British secretary of state, regarding the Tripoline ambassador's baggage Author: Conway, Hugh Seymour Place: St. James Publisher: Date: Nov. 12, 1765 Description: 14 lines, in ink, on single sheet 12x7½. Hugh Seymour Conway (1721-1795), once a lieutenant-general who fell from rank, recently appointed secretary of state under the Marquis of Rockingham, finds that no detail is too small for his office, addressing the Clerk of the Stables, "The Tripoline Ambassador having applied to me for an order to have his Baggage brought from the Ship it is on board of & to be deposited where he shall direct, I am to desire that you will please to give Orders that the Ambassadors goods may be conveyed accordingly as has been usual..." Provenance: A West Coast institution. Lot Amendments Condition: Adhesion damage along left margin; very good. Item number: 202675

Auction archive: Lot number 19
Auction:
Datum:
14 May 2009
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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