Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November-December 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/662
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1634 Frepertck, DukE or York, Commander-in-Chief, L.s. 14 pp. folio, Horse Guards, 8 Apri, 1816, to Sir Hudson Lowe, saying that the two second batallions of the 53rd and 66th Kegts. would be relieved by the first battalion of the 66th, A. L. (third person), $p. 4to, 1823 (2) 1635 CockBuRN (Rear-Admiral Sir George), A. L.s. 4 pp. 4to, [St. Helena| Castle, 22 May, 1816, to Sir Hudson Lowe: . with a view to keeping slaves and people of colour from the establish- ment of Longwood, I was induced to give my consent for a certain number of the seamen of the Northumberland to go thither as servants. .. provided the remuneration for their services and in short the whole expenses of their being there were defrayed from the private resources of those they were to serve. . I beg to observe that in consequences of the persons of Longwood not having actually with them, the necessary private funds...I have been obliged to do so from the Public money... 16386 O’MEARE ied Medical Officer, R.N. attached to Napoleon, Ale si 14 pp: 8vo, Longwood, 18 June [1816] to Major nua Saying that the chief cook has had an accident with his right thumb and will be incapacitated for at least 5 or 6 days and requesting that another person may be sent who understands French dishes, . You have no idea what consternation has appeared upon the counten- ances of more than one, at the idea of sucha calamitous circumstance taking place, or their being deprived of the skill of Maitre Le Page for such a length of time as a week or ten days. I have been requested with lengthened visage to make a szynal to you with all haste, as if the fate of Cesar and of Rome depended upon it. 1637 Reape (Sir Thomas) Deputy Adjutant General, A. L.s. 3 pp. Ato, St. Helena, June 6th, 1818, to J. Ashley : . Weare getting on very dully here—Bonaparte is still sulky and refuses to see any body—how long matters will remain thus it is impossible to say. He certainly does not show himself the Great Man by it... 1638 BertTranp (Lt. General. H. G. Comte) A. L. s. $ p. 4to, Longwood, 15th June, 1818, to Sir Hudson Lowe : Thanking for ‘‘The Times” for the month of January also for ‘* The Morning Chronicle.” 1639 Baxrer (Dr. Alexander) Medical Officer at St. Helena, A. L.s. 1 p. 4to, 10 July, 1818, to Sir Hudson Lowe : It is quite impossible to say positively what disease Napoleon Bonaparte is afflicted with from these symptoms. He has repeatedly had them all, with the exception of the irregular pulse. ‘The increase of pain of the Hypochondrium would indicate the advancement of the Hepatic affection, ete. 1640 Prampin (Rear-Admiral B.) A. L.s. 1 p. 8vo, 19 May, 1818, to Sir Hudson Lowe: . Your observations relative to the Port regulations, and the means of preventing clandestine correspondence between the people at Longwood and their friends in Europe shall have our consideration.
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