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THE LORD HALSBURY LETTERBOX OF AUTOGRAPHED LETTERS
THREE TIME LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR
130+ LETTERS & MEMORANDA COVERING 70 YEARS

January 21, 1915
    - 1st Sea Lord Fisher: Private
"This is one good step ahead and I will see to it that he soon rises again. Yours in haste. Please keep private"
                           Fisher

Dec. 5, 1916
       - Marquess Lincolnshire:
"Enclosed from Stamfordham. Your valuable advice has saved the situation. We ought to be very grateful to you."
                         Lincolnshire

17 March 1906
 - Duke Northumberland
My many thanks for your letter. I am glad to find you looked upon the matter just as I did. As you signed I signed, but growled & protested - And I feel very like the young lady who raving she could ne'er consent, consented!"
 Northumberland

THIS IS TRULY A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE, AT ONE TIME, MANY OF THE AUTOGRAPHS AND LETTERS OF THE MAJOR FIGURES THAT AFFECTED THE FATE OF GREAT BRITAIN FROM THE LATE VICTORIAN ERA THROUGH WORLD WAR I. JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE LIST BELOW THAT WILL GIVE YOU SOME IDEA OF THE MORE THAN 130 LETTERS AND MEMORANDA THAT MAKE UP THIS EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION. AN IDEAL COLLECTION FOR THE HISTORIAN, BIOGRAPHER OR AUTOGRAPH COLLECTOR OR DEALER.

Over 130 letters, notes and memoranda spanning seventy years of Giffard Family history. There is a little of everything in this multi-generational family holding. There are social invitations to tea and tennis, but there are also letters of importunity attempting to influence judicial, legislative and electoral outcomes, there are political strategies, ecclesiastic implorements, military and political appointments and actions and royal protocol. What is fascinating about this collection is its sheer breadth of coverage. This is to be expected of course of the three time Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, the titular Leader of the House of Lords and the High Court. There are letters from Princes, Marquessa, Dukes, Earls and Barons. There are letters from Field Marshals, Generals, Sea Lords and Admirals. There are letters from authors, academics, scientists, business magnates, Lord Mayors, Archbishops, High Justices, Ambassadors and Ministers.

# LTRS

DATE

NAME

TITLE/OFFICE

NOTE

STATIONARY

1

1868

Archbishop of Armagh

to Earl Cranbrook

on his promotion to Home Secretary

42 Princes Gardens

1

1868

From Henry Thomas Lowry Corry

1st Lord of Admiralty

to Giffard re Cork Appointment

Admiralty Whitehall

4

1870-1883

Sir Anthony Hiley Hoskins

First Sea Lord

to Vice Admiral Giffard

Kepwick Park, Northhallerton

3

1870-71

Duke of Beaufort

to Vice Admiral Giffard

  

On Badminton House Stationary

1

1874

Admiral Beauchamp Seymour

Lord of the Admiralty

from Prince Leiningen

Appointment to Royal Yacht

1

1879

Prince Louis de Lusignan

Libel suit intervention

marked "Private & Confidential"

Harrington Mansions, Queen's Gate

1

1880

Prince Louis of Battenberg

  

re: the Torpedo Comse.

Darmstadt

1

1885

Sir Henry Norman

to Lord Cranbrook

Would Welcome War with Russia

Kings House Jamiaca

1

1885

Rear Adm Sir George Giffard

to Lord Halsbury

  

Brightleigh,Outwood,Redhill

2

1892-96

Viscount Garnett Wolseley

Field Marshall

Commander-in-Chief/War Office

War Office London/Dublin

1

1893

Sir Albert W. Woods

Garter Principal King of Arms

Adm. Michael Culme-Seymour's KCB

College of Arms, Queen Victoria St.

2

1895

Duke of Abercorn

James Hamilton

Hampton House, Green Street

Barons Court, Ireland

1

1895

Thomas F. Bayard

American Ambassador

  

32 Princes Gardens

1

1895

General Sir Redvers Henry Buller

Victoria Cross Winner

Scapegoat of Boer War

Plain Paper

2

1896

Duke of Norfolk

Henry Fitzalan Howard

marked "Private"

Norfolk House, St. James Square

1

1898

Illegible Signature

  

on Bedlam

Hydrographic Dept, Admiralty, Whitehall

1

1900

William H.M. Christie

Astronomer Royal

On Halsbury's Astronomy photos

Royal Observatory, Greenwich

1

1900

Vice Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes

CnC Portsmouth

with Admiral Noel in the Levant

H.M.S. Canopus

1

1901

Prof W. D. Niven

Correspondent of Christie

On H's appt as Dir of Greenwich Hosp

Royal Naval College

1

1902

Joseph Choate

American Ambassador

Wedding Gift

1 Carlton House Terrace

1

1902

Mary Chamberlain

Wife of Joseph Chamberlain

Daughter US Sec of War Endicott

40 Prince's Gardens

1

1902

Archbishop of Canterbury

Frederick Temple

 Performing H's daughter's wedding

Old Palace, Canterbury

2

1902

Canon Alfred Ainger

Biographer of Charles Lamb

On music for the wedding

Master's House, Temple, E.C.

1

1902

Eleanor Roseburgh

Wedding Gift

  

12 Devonshire Place

1

1902

Sir Francis Jenne

President Divorce Court

to Monell marked "Private"

79 Harley Street

1

1902

Illegible Signature

    

Carlton Club, Pall Mall

2

1902-06

Sir Henry James

1st Baron James of Hereford

Attorney General

41 Cadogan Square, S.W.

1

1903

David Francis

Pres St. Louis Exposition

Governor of Missouri

Claridge's Hotel, Brook Street

1

1904

Comte de Labairy

Belgian Minister

  

15 W Halkin St, Belgrave Square

1

1906

Duke of Northumberland

On Parliamentary Matters

Grovsvenor Place

Syon Brentford

1

1907

Sir Charles Alfred Cripps, K.C.

1st Baron of Parmoor

Leader House of Lords

Beautiful Temple Bar Watermark

1

1907

Sir Frank Crisp

1st Baronet

Ballad of Frankie Crisp

Ashurst, Morris Crisp, Throgmorton Ave

1

1908

Sir Henry Bargrave Deane

Privy Councillor

Request Clerk Appointment

R. C. J. Probate Division, Strand

3

1908

Bishop of London

Arthur Winnington-Ingram

Contesting the Licensing Bill

London House, 32 St. James Sq

1

1908

Editor of the Times

to Sir Ralph Littler

1st Leader of Parliamentary Bar Mess

Printing House Square, The Times

2

1909

George Everard Webster

1st Viscount Alverstone

Chief Justice of England

Bornton Lodge, Pitt Street

2

1909-10

Lord Charles Beresford

1st Baron of Beresford

aboard HMS King Edward VII

Wynyard Park, Stockton on Tees

1

1910

Illegible Signature

  

Middle Temple Hall Dinner

1 Mitre Court Buildings, Temple

1

1910

Sir John Edge

Privy Councillor

marked "Private"

Brewers Trading. Brewers' Hall, Addle St

1

1910

Sir John Lubbock

1st Baron of Averbury

Friend of Darwin

Kingsgate Castle, Isle of Thanet

2

1910-11

Sir Arthur Walter

Managing Editor the Times

  

Zum Grunen Kreuz, Marienbad

3

1910-11

Rt. Hon W.R. Kennedy

Lord Justice of Ct of Appeal

23 Phillimore Gardens

Grand Hotel Klinger Marienbad

2

1911

Admiral Sir Arthur Moore

CnC Portsmouth

  

Admiralty House Portsmouth

1

1911

Illegible Signature

Walter Long

re: Sir William Dunn memorial

Junior Carlton Club

1

1912

Sir Harry Poland, K.C.

Noted Criminal Barrister

  

New Club, Brighton

2

1913

Roland Lomax Vaughn

Bankruptcy Justice

  

The Coppice, Henley on Thames

1

1913

Paul von Mendelssohn Bartholdy