East India Company & British Army. 10 autograph letters of recommendation & similar, 18-19th century
Sold for £800
[East India Company & British Army]. Group of autograph letters signed, 18-19th century, including:
1) Edward Clive (1754-1839; later 1st Earl of Powis) to Henry Strachey (1768-1810), 3 August 1794, concerning his expected creation (as 1st Baron Clive of Walcot) by Pitt the Younger, and referring to his father Robert Clive,
2) ?Lord Macleod? (probably John Mackenzie, 1727-1789, Scottish Jacobite) to Colonel Alexander Ross (1742-1827) as adjutant-general, India, Edinburgh, 25 March 1787, recommending his nephew Captain Jabez Mackenzie to Lord Cornwallis,
3) Sir Henry Calder, 4th Baronet (c.1740-1792) to Alexander Ross as adjutant-general, India, 17 October 1788, introducing a friend (George Hall) en route to Bengal,
4) Lady Louisa Conolly (1743-1821), philanthropist, to ?My Lord?, 31 August 1771, seeking a commission for one Thomas Ogilvie,
5) Samuel Stanton, Lieutenant, 97th Regiment, to Thomas Townshend, 1st Baron (later Viscount) Sydney (1733-1800) as Home Secretary, 12 April 1787, seeking preferment and detailing service and imprisonment in Africa in Anglo-French War (1778-83), all single bifolia, 4to, and 5 similar letters (of which one, by Sir James Hope Grant to Lord Augustus Loftus, possibly secretarial)
(Qty: 10)
Edward Clive, anxious to improve upon the Irish title given to his father Robert Clive, transferred his support to Pitt after the collapse of the Fox-North coalition in 1784. He was rewarded with the creation of a British peerage in 1794, and himself went to India in 1797 as governor of Madras, overseeing the defeat of Tipu Sultan at Seringapatam in 1799.
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[East India Company & British Army]. Group of autograph letters signed, 18-19th century, including:
1) Edward Clive (1754-1839; later 1st Earl of Powis) to Henry Strachey (1768-1810), 3 August 1794, concerning his expected creation (as 1st Baron Clive of Walcot) by Pitt the Younger, and referring to his father Robert Clive,
2) ?Lord Macleod? (probably John Mackenzie, 1727-1789, Scottish Jacobite) to Colonel Alexander Ross (1742-1827) as adjutant-general, India, Edinburgh, 25 March 1787, recommending his nephew Captain Jabez Mackenzie to Lord Cornwallis,
3) Sir Henry Calder, 4th Baronet (c.1740-1792) to Alexander Ross as adjutant-general, India, 17 October 1788, introducing a friend (George Hall) en route to Bengal,
4) Lady Louisa Conolly (1743-1821), philanthropist, to ?My Lord?, 31 August 1771, seeking a commission for one Thomas Ogilvie,
5) Samuel Stanton, Lieutenant, 97th Regiment, to Thomas Townshend, 1st Baron (later Viscount) Sydney (1733-1800) as Home Secretary, 12 April 1787, seeking preferment and detailing service and imprisonment in Africa in Anglo-French War (1778-83), all single bifolia, 4to, and 5 similar letters (of which one, by Sir James Hope Grant to Lord Augustus Loftus, possibly secretarial)
(Qty: 10)
Edward Clive, anxious to improve upon the Irish title given to his father Robert Clive, transferred his support to Pitt after the collapse of the Fox-North coalition in 1784. He was rewarded with the creation of a British peerage in 1794, and himself went to India in 1797 as governor of Madras, overseeing the defeat of Tipu Sultan at Seringapatam in 1799.
