Military & Naval Autographs. An assorted collection, 18th/19th c.

Sold for £540

Military & Naval Autographs. An assorted collection of approximately 120 autograph letters and signatures, 18th & 19th century, including Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Onslow (1741-1817), Letter Signed, on board HMS Cambridge, 6 July 1796, to Captain Durham of HMS Anson, directing him to make a survey of the ship’s clothes, 1 page, folio; William Roy (1726-1790), Major-General Royal Engineers, 2 autograph letters signed, 1778, to Simon Frazer, the first directing to reduce the supply of the two Camps of Cocksheath and Warley Common from two weeks’ supply to one and that the surplus be sold immediately at auction, the second concerning rations of wood and coal, both 1 page, some soiling and marginal fraying, folio, plus the draft of a reply to Roy; and a large group of assorted mostly military and naval letters and signatures, including autograph letters (some in the third person) from Brigadier General R. Stewart to Sir John Moore, 1808, Sir William Johnston, 1802, Lieutenant T. Hinton x 4, 1806-07, Major General Sir John Lambert x 2, 1816 & 1817, Sir Daniel Lysons, 1896, Angus MacDonald, 1815, Major A. Moncrieff, 1871, General Melville, 1797, Major Thomas Metcalfe, 1806, Sir Charles Middleton, 1803, and cut signatures including FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, Charles Beresford, Major F.M. Alison, Marquis of Anglesey, Admiral Keith (cover), John Lawrence x 3, Edward Lugard, Stephen Rumbold, Lord Lynedoch, Charles Napier x 4, Lord Raglan, etc., plus some related engraved portraits, etc.

(Qty: approx. 120)