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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 110

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Royal Navy: A wide and varied selection of letters and documents which includes a group of 1600 documents being an estimate of charges for H.M. ships on the coast of Ireland; 1657 letters to the Admiralty, one endorsed "hast hast post hast", 1694 tenders by Edward Snellgrove for a third rate friggott (he built H.M.S. Orford in 1698), for a 6th rate froggott by Dalton and Gardner and for timber by John Dibble, 1735 account from the Admiralty Office signed Che Wage, S. Helton, A. Hamilton (Lord Archibald Hamilton, Lord of the Admiralty), R. Haddock (Richard Haddock. Comptroller of the Navy) and J. Standers;
1800 commission signed by Admirals James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier (just before he left the Admiralty) and Sir William Young; 1805 A.L.S. and 1806 instruction signed by Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood; 1809 letter signed St. Vincent (John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent); A.L.S. signed by Admiral Sir John Colpoys; 1823 extract from Jame's Naval History on Lord William Fitzroy and signed "William Fitzroy" plus a letter from the said William James to Admiral Sir Richard Keats asking for information; 1824 A.L.S. signed "R.G.Keats"; 1830 A.L.S. from Sir George Cockburn (Lord High Admiral); 1833 A.L.S. signed Auckland (George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland); 1844 A.L.S. signed by Admiral Sir John Napier; 1889 letter signed by Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet, Admiral of the Fleet; 1901 note signed E.H.Seymour (Admiral of the Fleet); a selection of items relating to the Royal Hospital Greenwich including several letters addressed to Sir Thomas Hardy. Condition is very variable and some letters have been stuck to album pages. A very interesting group for the naval historian

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