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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 219

Great Britain
Royalty
King George V
1928-9 The Illness of the King. A page of autograph notes in pencil on the reverse of an envelope addressed to his Private secretary, Lord Stamfordham, comprising rough and corrected jottings for the Message to the People published after the King's dangerous illness, together with further notes by Stamfordham and letters from him to Sir Henry Newbolt CH (novelist and historian), who had made suggestions and assisted with the text of the speech. An important group of items, certain laid down (10)

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Estimate
£300 to £350

Starting price
£250