161 - ENGLISH NAVAL HISTORY: A COLLECTION OF 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS

ENGLISH NAVAL HISTORY: A COLLECTION OF 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS comprising H.M.S. Royal George: a manuscript copy of Admiral Lord Howe’s Order of sailing with the convoy, 1794, 2 pages, folio; Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, an autograph letter to Sir Robert Ainslie, dated 4 January 1793, written while ‘on my way to London with Lord Hood’s dispatches’ and giving an account of the siege of Toulon, 6 pages, 4to, signed W. Sidney Smith; Admiral Lord St Vincent, an autograph letter signed to the artist Sir William Beechey commending Beechey on his recent portraits of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Trowbridge and himself, that have been admired by Lady St Vincent and describing where they are to be hung, 2 pages, 4to, plus integral address panel and seal, 11 th April 1805; Admiral Sir John Franklin, an autograph letter signed John Franklin and dated 15 th August (1828), to Dr Fitton of the Geological Society, one page, 8vo, with integral address leaf (detached), together with an engraved portrait of Franklin; Rear-Admiral John Pasco (signal officer on board Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, who advised on the wording of Nelson's famous signal "England expects..") autograph letter signed, to the naval surgeon Page Nicol Scott, 2 pages, 4to, dated Oct., 24 th 1844, signed John Pasco; George Rose, a collection of 12 manuscript letters and notes, mostly to and from George Rose, including copy letters, circa 1801-1816, 8vo and 4to, approximately 37 pages in total; Richard Parker, autograph letter, Edinburgh, Tolbooth, March 29 th 1797, signed to an unknown recipient, defending himself against malicious comments he has been accused of about Nelson, one page, 4to, laid down; French navy and the invasion of England manuscript in French discussing preparations and considerations for the 1805 planned Napoleonic invasion of England with the Flottille de Boulogne in which the author sets out past failures due to lack of organisation and other reasons, and details the requirements of men and supplies, 18pp., folio, damp stained and worn with some loss; George FitzClarence, an autograph letter signed to Charles Hatchett (English mineralogist and analytical chemist who discovered the element niobium), discussing the formation of a society for the diffusion of knowledge […] by means of translation. It is our intention to translate and publish the most esteemed and curious works […] travels and miscellaneous writings in the various Eastern languages [the Society was established as the Oriental Translation Fund], 3 pages, plus integral address panel, 4to, 7 Nov. 1827; Nelson and the Duke of Wellington: Robert Montgomery, Lord Belhaven an autograph letter dated Dec. 24 1864, to an unidentified recipient, recounting the only meeting between Nelson and the Duke of Wellington in 1805: he & Nelson once & once only met & that by accident, it was at the Colonial Office in 1805 […] Nelson suddenly left the room & immediately returned it was evident he had gone out to enquire who the Duke was, he then entered into conversation with him on the general state of Europe […] the remarkable knowledge he possesses of everything in the Political Staet of the world made a deep impression on the Duke who said he never passed a more instructive long hour, 4pp., 8vo (A lot) Provenance: Estate of the Late Clive Richards CBE.