Manuscripts
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![[TERRITORY OF MISSOURI] Letter of Administration, signed by William Clark as Governor and Commander in Chief of Missouri Territory, 29 March 1814.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/04/2025_DSFB_2298-300x300.jpg)
# 47053
CLARK, William (1770-1838)
[TERRITORY OF MISSOURI] Letter of Administration, signed by William Clark as Governor and Commander in Chief of Missouri Territory, 29 March 1814.
Single leaf, 308 x 187 mm, laid paper without visible watermark; pro-forma document printed on the recto, headed TERRITORY OF LOUISIANA, with LOUISIANA struck through and amended to Missouri in manuscript; dated at Saint Louis, Missouri Territory on 29 March 1814, the document has manuscript entries which record the granting of power of authority over …
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# 45888
HUC, Évariste Régis, Abbé (1813-1860)
Manuscript letter written by Abbé Huc, sent from Macau in November 1846, addressed to his parents in Toulouse and reporting on his just-completed epic journey through Tartary and Tibet.
Macao, 1er. Novembre 1846. Entire letter, manuscript in ink on a single folio sheet of Chinese paper, folded to form 4 pages, written on 3½ pages; the panel on the outer side addressed to ‘Monsieur Huc, Rue Pargaminières 73, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne’, circular postal markings in black ‘Paris 8 Janv. 47’ and ‘Toulouse 11 Janv. 47’; …
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# 47213
HUMBOLDT, Alexander von (1769-1859)
Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer : autograph letter to a Captain Gowan, arranging a meeting at the Hôtel de Londres. Paris, c.1830.
1 page, quarto (260 x 200 mm). Manuscript in ink on fine wove paper with a monogram watermark; written entirely in the third person in French in Humboldt’s idiosyncratic scrawl, the letter is dated simply ‘a mardi’ (Tuesday) and is addressed (indirectly) to a Captain Gowan, whom Humboldt invites to a rendezvous at 2 o’clock the following …
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# 47163
STEPHEN, Alfred, Sir (1802-1894) & REID, David, jun. (1821-1906)
Correspondence between Sir Alfred Stephen and wealthy pastoralist David Reid Jnr., re. donation of funds for the establishment of St. Paul’s College, University of Sydney. October, 1855.
I. Sir Alfred Stephen, [Sydney] to David Reid [Jnr.], Goulburn. 2 October 1855. Manuscript letter, [4] pp., octavo; headed ‘In Court, Tuesday’, the letter is signed ‘in haste yours very truly Alfred Stephen’; the letter has some foxing and browning, but is complete and legible, tipped onto a nineteenth-century album leaf, along with the original …
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![[STOCKTON & DARLINGTON RAILWAY] 3rd Earl of Darlington : autograph letter, signed. Raby Castle, 13 September 1825.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2667-300x300.jpg)
# 47164
William Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington (later Duke of Cleveland) (1766-1842)
[STOCKTON & DARLINGTON RAILWAY] 3rd Earl of Darlington : autograph letter, signed. Raby Castle, 13 September 1825.
Manuscript in ink, written on the first two sides of a bifolium of watermarked wove paper, 180 x 110 mm; headed ‘Raby Castle, Sepber. 13 1825’, the letter is addressed simply ‘Dear Sir’, and is signed at the foot ‘your very obedt. Servant, Darlington’; original folds, extremely well preserved, the last side with some paper …
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![[PRISON REFORM] Elizabeth Fry, Quaker, reformer and philanthropist: autograph letter, signed. Upton (Ramsgate), July 1838.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2850-300x300.jpg)
# 47214
FRY, Elizabeth (1780-1845)
[PRISON REFORM] Elizabeth Fry, Quaker, reformer and philanthropist: autograph letter, signed. Upton (Ramsgate), July 1838.
Manuscript in ink, 1 1/2 pp., written on the first two sides of an octavo bifolium of wove notepaper (180 x 110 mm); headed ‘Upton, 7/18 1838’, and addressed simply ‘My dear Friend’, the note is written entirely in the hand of Elizabeth Fry and is signed by her at the foot ‘Affectionately & gratefully …
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![[FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Small archive of Masonic documents associated with Lodges in Hong Kong, 1890s-1930s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/01/2025_DSFB_0081-300x300.jpg)
# 45932
[BAKER, Henry George]
[FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] Small archive of Masonic documents associated with Lodges in Hong Kong, 1890s-1930s.
A group of five original documents that chart the history of Henry George Baker as a Freemason in Hong Kong. Baker arrived in Hong Kong from Bristol in 1882 and worked in the Hong Kong Police Force until 1913, when he retired at the age of 52 with the rank of Chief Inspector. I. Grand …
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# 47133
BROWNING, Robert; LOGSDAIL, William; PASSINI, Ludwig; FILDES, Luke; BLAAS, Eugène de; RUBEN, Franz Leo
Autograph signatures of poet Robert Browning, and artists William Logsdail, Ludwig Passini, Luke Fildes, Eugene de Blaas, and Franz Leo Ruben.
Piece of notepaper mounted on section of an album leaf, 125 x 110 mm, bearing the original autograph signatures (in ink) of six notable writers and artists of the late nineteenth century: Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet and playwright; William Logsdail (1859-1944), British artist; Ludwig Johann Passini (1832–1903), Austrian artist; Sir Samuel Luke Fildes RA (1843-1927), British …
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# 41889
TOLLET, Casimir (1828-1899)
De l’assistance publique et des hôpitaux jusqu’au XIXe siècle. Plan d’un Hotel-Dieu attribué a Philibert Delorme. (With the author’s manuscript for the second edition)
Par C. Tollet, ingénieur. Paris : chez l’auteur, 49, rue d’Amsterdam, 1889. Large quarto (325 x 260 mm), later cloth binding (boards a little flecked), spine with printed title label; original wrappers bound in (darkened and lightly marked); pp. x, 104, with 32 plates and numerous in-text illustrations; text in French; fore- and bottom edges …
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# 47222
BEIT, Henry (1826-1881); SANDILANDS, Edward Vincent (1847-1871); GUTSCHMID, Felix von (1843-1905)
Group of correspondence from Henry Beit, land agent, Sydney, to E. V. Sandilands, cotton grower and Vice-Consul, Fiji. 1870-71.
Sydney businessman Henry Beit (1826-1881) was a land agent specialising in the sale of properties in outback New South Wales and Queensland, and also in the Fiji Islands. His correspondent, Edward Vincent Sandilands (1847-1871), was a young English cotton grower in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji, whose acquaintance Beit had presumably made when Sandilands had been …
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# 47225
COWPER, Charles, Sir (1807-1875)
An early item of official of correspondence from the Sydney Railway Company, rejecting an application for the position of Engineer. 3 January, 1851.
Manuscript in ink on wove paper, on the lithographed letterhead of the Railway Office, Sydney, dated 3 January 1851. Quarto bifolium (225 x 185 mm), [4] pp, written on the first side only; a holograph note by Charles Cowper, Director of the Sydney Railway Company, to Mr. H. Biddulph, c/- Post Office, Wollongong, advising him …
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![[LORD SYDNEY] Note of Fees on Swearing The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Sidney One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State the 23d. Decr. 1783.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16121634/2014_DSFB_2621-245x300.jpg)
# 47223
TOWNSHEND, Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733-1800)
[LORD SYDNEY] Note of Fees on Swearing The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Sidney One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State the 23d. Decr. 1783.
Manuscript in ink on single folio sheet with “GR” watermark by Jubb, 185 x 230 mm, above title in upper margin “Council Office”, below title a list of various expenses incurred by the swearing in of Lord Sydney for his second term as Home Secretary: “To the Clerks of the Council…£10:0:0d., To the Under Clerks…£4:0:0d…To …
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![[TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/11/21164456/2017_DSFB_5075-300x300.jpg)
# 47220
[TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.
Manuscript in ink, single folio sheet, 370 x 235 mm, folded, headed ‘Circular Head, August 27 1847’, signed at the foot ‘Yours truly, W. [Shepman?]’; outer side addressed to ‘W. Johnstone Esq. Launceston’ and endorsed ‘[Per] “Mercury”‘ / Paid’; old loss at 2 corners, small perforation from letter spike, but the letter itself is complete …
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# 47224
[Anon.]
Two menus handmade and illustrated by a French child, 1918-19.
Pencil on paper, on the rectos of two sheets thick paper, each 240 x 160 mm, one dated December 8 1918 and the other February 2 1919; charming juvenilia, in good condition.
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# 47058
CORELLI, Marie [pseud. of Mary MACKAY, 1855-1924]
Marie Corelli, novelist : autograph letter, signed, dated 5 July 1888.
Manuscript in ink, 3 pp., on bifolium of octavo notepaper (180 x 113 mm); headed ’47 Longridge Road, Earl’s Court, S.W.’, the letter is addressed to a Mrs. Bateman, to whom Corelli apologises for being unable to attend a theatrical performance by Mrs. Bateman’s daughter, May (possibly the young writer, May Bateman); the letter is …
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# 47054
MICHNIEWICZ, Onufry et al.
Manuscript testimonial for Polish revolutionaries Roch Rupniewski and Severin Dziewicki, written and signed by Polish political refugees at Portsmouth, 1835.
[Portsmouth, 11 March 1835]. Single sheet, 230 x 200 mm, mounted on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf, along with the envelope in which it was originally contained; manuscript in ink, with a five-line declaration written in French at the head: ‘Nous [les] sous signés cértifi[ons par la] présente que [Sls?] Roch Rupniewski et …