Royal Interest: an archive of letters, telegrams and other correspondence from the Private Secretaries of Queen Victoria and Edward VII, Coventry MP Henry William Eaton and other dignitaries to Albert Samuel Tomson, The Lord Mayor of Coventry, c.1874-1908, Comprising Letters re: Royal Palaces, House of Commons, Admiralty, Passports & Indentures: 1. House of Commons, 25th May 1897 –Suggestion of Honours for Lord Mayor Tomson 2. Balmoral, 30th May 1897 request ‘forward the specimens of Coventry manufacture’ –Fleetwood Edwards? 3. Post Office Telegram To Mayor of Coventry dated 1897 ‘Presents arrived safely and are greatly admired by the queen will write in a few days, Bigge’ 4. Windsor Castle June 18th 1897 ‘Dear Sir, The Queen has commanded me to convey to you her sincere thanks for the beautiful and interesting presents so kindly offered by you………’ 5. Osborne August 8th 1898, ‘Dear Sir, Would you kindly tell me the name of the firm by whom the Bicycles presented by you last year to the Queen were made. Yours Faithfully Arthur Bigge’ 6. Admiralty Whitehall, Marked ‘Private’, 13th Nov 1900, ‘Dear Mayor Tomson, I thank you very heartily for the kind manner in which you offer your congratulations – It is very gratifying to me to find that my old Coventry friends retain such warm interest in my welfare. I fear I cannot at present make any engagements….. 7. Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace S.W, 11th July 1902. The Private Secretary is commanded to express ‘The Kings Thanks to The Mayor of Coventry for the kind and loyal congratulations contained in his telegram from the poor people of Coventry.’ 8. Post Office Telegram To ‘Mayor’ Received August 4th 1902 ‘Strictly not transferable you must wear Robes and Chain If no robes uniform or court dress with Chain Norfolk Earl Marshall Norfolk House St James Square. IN RELATION TO CORONATION OF EDWARD VII (August 8th 1902) 9. Balmoral Castle, 3rd Sept 1902, Dear Sir I am sure the King will be happy to receive the address from the Corporation of Coventry direct….. 10. Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, The Colonies and India, 7th Jan 1887, Sir, The Lord Mayor has sent your letter of yesterday’s date to Sir Frederick Stub ??, the organising secretary and I am invited to inform you that the visiting at the Mansion House may be assumed to….. 11. (On Vellum) ITNOTGAOTU The Supreme Grand and Royal Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England Albert Tomson (Mayor of Coventry) admission certificate into the Great Royal Lodge of Masons signed and dated by all relevant parties 21st April 1876. 12. Four Passports of Albert S Tomson (Lord Mayor of Coventry) Passport 24th March 1874 –France signed by Foreign Secretary Edward Stanley 15th Earl of Derby (1826-1893) Salisbury (6th May 1889 –Turkey & Portugal, 12th June 1897). One of the Passports is a request to The King of Sweden and Norway for Tomson to visit Russia it is signed by ‘Spencer St John‘ British Ambassador to Sweden dated 6th September 1895. Spencer St John was British Consul in Brunei between 1856-58, he wrote about his explorations in Borneo ‘Life in The Forests of The Far East’ (1862) and wrote two biographies of Sir James Brooke -‘The White Rajah of Borneo’ in 1879 & 1899. In 1863 St John became British Charge-d’affaires in Haiti and in 1871 took up the same post in the Dominican Republic. Promoted to Minister in late 1872 he became Minister Lima, Peru 1874-1883 and awarded KCMG. In 1884 St John published a memoir of his Experience’s in Haiti; ‘Hayti: Or The Black Republic’ which caused public outrage with it’s accounts of Cannibalism and Voodoo amongst the Blacks in the Jungles’. He is also quoted as saying ‘The History of the Country (Haiti) …is but a series of Plots and Revolutions followed by Barbarous Military Executions’. (source -wikipedia) Passport Signed & Dated on Verse & Annotated in Russian by the Senior Official. All four passports are contained in their Original Green Leather Passport Case embossed in Gold: ‘Albert S T
Royal Interest: an archive of letters, telegrams and other correspondence from the Private Secretaries of Queen Victoria and Edward VII, Coventry MP Henry William Eaton and other dignitaries to Albert Samuel Tomson, The Lord Mayor of Coventry, c.1874-1908, Comprising Letters re: Royal Palaces, House of Commons, Admiralty, Passports & Indentures: 1. House of Commons, 25th May 1897 –Suggestion of Honours for Lord Mayor Tomson 2. Balmoral, 30th May 1897 request ‘forward the specimens of Coventry manufacture’ –Fleetwood Edwards? 3. Post Office Telegram To Mayor of Coventry dated 1897 ‘Presents arrived safely and are greatly admired by the queen will write in a few days, Bigge’ 4. Windsor Castle June 18th 1897 ‘Dear Sir, The Queen has commanded me to convey to you her sincere thanks for the beautiful and interesting presents so kindly offered by you………’ 5. Osborne August 8th 1898, ‘Dear Sir, Would you kindly tell me the name of the firm by whom the Bicycles presented by you last year to the Queen were made. Yours Faithfully Arthur Bigge’ 6. Admiralty Whitehall, Marked ‘Private’, 13th Nov 1900, ‘Dear Mayor Tomson, I thank you very heartily for the kind manner in which you offer your congratulations – It is very gratifying to me to find that my old Coventry friends retain such warm interest in my welfare. I fear I cannot at present make any engagements….. 7. Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace S.W, 11th July 1902. The Private Secretary is commanded to express ‘The Kings Thanks to The Mayor of Coventry for the kind and loyal congratulations contained in his telegram from the poor people of Coventry.’ 8. Post Office Telegram To ‘Mayor’ Received August 4th 1902 ‘Strictly not transferable you must wear Robes and Chain If no robes uniform or court dress with Chain Norfolk Earl Marshall Norfolk House St James Square. IN RELATION TO CORONATION OF EDWARD VII (August 8th 1902) 9. Balmoral Castle, 3rd Sept 1902, Dear Sir I am sure the King will be happy to receive the address from the Corporation of Coventry direct….. 10. Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, The Colonies and India, 7th Jan 1887, Sir, The Lord Mayor has sent your letter of yesterday’s date to Sir Frederick Stub ??, the organising secretary and I am invited to inform you that the visiting at the Mansion House may be assumed to….. 11. (On Vellum) ITNOTGAOTU The Supreme Grand and Royal Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England Albert Tomson (Mayor of Coventry) admission certificate into the Great Royal Lodge of Masons signed and dated by all relevant parties 21st April 1876. 12. Four Passports of Albert S Tomson (Lord Mayor of Coventry) Passport 24th March 1874 –France signed by Foreign Secretary Edward Stanley 15th Earl of Derby (1826-1893) Salisbury (6th May 1889 –Turkey & Portugal, 12th June 1897). One of the Passports is a request to The King of Sweden and Norway for Tomson to visit Russia it is signed by ‘Spencer St John‘ British Ambassador to Sweden dated 6th September 1895. Spencer St John was British Consul in Brunei between 1856-58, he wrote about his explorations in Borneo ‘Life in The Forests of The Far East’ (1862) and wrote two biographies of Sir James Brooke -‘The White Rajah of Borneo’ in 1879 & 1899. In 1863 St John became British Charge-d’affaires in Haiti and in 1871 took up the same post in the Dominican Republic. Promoted to Minister in late 1872 he became Minister Lima, Peru 1874-1883 and awarded KCMG. In 1884 St John published a memoir of his Experience’s in Haiti; ‘Hayti: Or The Black Republic’ which caused public outrage with it’s accounts of Cannibalism and Voodoo amongst the Blacks in the Jungles’. He is also quoted as saying ‘The History of the Country (Haiti) …is but a series of Plots and Revolutions followed by Barbarous Military Executions’. (source -wikipedia) Passport Signed & Dated on Verse & Annotated in Russian by the Senior Official. All four passports are contained in their Original Green Leather Passport Case embossed in Gold: ‘Albert S T
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