159 - A COLLECTION OF CORRESPONDENCE AND DOCUMENTS FOR ADMIRAL JOHN JERVIS, EARL OF ST. VINCENT

A COLLECTION OF CORRESPONDENCE AND DOCUMENTS FOR ADMIRAL JOHN JERVIS, EARL OF ST. VINCENT approx. 48 autograph letters and documents, most autograph and some copy letters, including: Lady Jervis—Autograph letter addressed to Sir John Jervis (“My dearest Love!”) from Lady Jervis (3pp. March 29 th, 1784); 2 autograph letters by Jervis to William Locker, one of 1792 regarding the position of Governorship of the Royal naval hospital at Greenwich, and another of 1797 when Locker was Lieutenant-Governor of the hospital; order signed “Jervis”, 21 May 1797 addressed to Captain Darby of the “Bellerophon”; Admiralty order of 30 March 1804 signed by St Vincent, Sir John Trowbridge and James Adams; 14 autograph letters signed “Jervis” or “St Vincent” addressed to his cousin Thomas Jervis, Member of Parliament, on various subjects, including elections, family matters, pamphlet wars and William Pitt the Younger and Lord Melville; and 13 copy letters to Dr John Bell, Rt. Hon. Lord Grenville, Samuel Barker, Mayor of Great Yarmouth (1800), Captain Smith, and others; 2 autograph letters signed by William Henry Freemantle from Treasury Chambers, to Jervis dated 1 November 1806; autograph letter signed by William Steward, 25 July 1805 to Thomas Jervis MP, regarding his Election Account and unpaid subscription (letter torn with a little loss), with 4 page “Account of charges paid on account of Sir Thomas Trowbridge & Mr Jervis” dated 1802; Autograph document signed and sealed by Lord St. Vincent, stating “The bearer hereof is authorised to apply for tickets of admission to the House of Lords […] on the opening of a New Parliament”, dated 28 November 1812; altogether circa 106 pages, various sizes, (some slightly damaged or browned), together with an engraved portrait of Jervis (A lot) Provenance: Estate of the Late Clive Richards CBE.