Manuscripts
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![[NEW ZEALAND; JUDAICA] Two letters written by Samuel Samuels, a Jewish gold miner in the Grey Valley, West Coast, South Island, during the Great War.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/07/27144022/2017_DSFB_2997-300x300.jpg)
# 16015
SAMUELS, Samuel
[NEW ZEALAND; JUDAICA] Two letters written by Samuel Samuels, a Jewish gold miner in the Grey Valley, West Coast, South Island, during the Great War.
Newspaper notices from the 1870s inform us that Samuel Samuels was a pioneer settler in the Ahaura district of Westland. Like many others, he had arrived during the West Coast gold rush and had been involved in gold mining ventures. By 1917, when Samuels wrote both of these letters to one of his nephews (in …
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![[MARITIME] Letter from the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to shipping line owner R.W. Cameron regarding the conveyance of mails on the new Panama Route to Australia](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/07/27143939/2017_DSFB_2995-300x300.jpg)
# 16014
REEP, Richard Thompson; [CAMERON, Roderick William, 1823-1900]; [ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY]
[MARITIME] Letter from the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to shipping line owner R.W. Cameron regarding the conveyance of mails on the new Panama Route to Australia
London, 12 August 1859. Entire letter, 2 pp small quarto, on the engraved letterhead of the ‘Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, No 55, Moorgate Street, London’, from Richard Thompson Reep, Secretary of the RMSCPC, to R.W. Cameron, owner of the R.M. Cameron & Co. Shipping Line, New York; Reep’s message is a reply to Cameron’s enquiries about …
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![[NEW ZEALAND] Letter to an early Hutt River settler, Dr. Relph, from his sister in England, 1842](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/04/27134117/2017_DSFB_0949-300x300.jpg)
# 15423
SILCOCK, Harriet Eleanor; [RELPH, H.B.]
[NEW ZEALAND] Letter to an early Hutt River settler, Dr. Relph, from his sister in England, 1842
Entire letter, single sheet folding to form [4] sides, quarto, neatly written manuscript in ink on 3 sides (cross written on the last page), headed ‘Enford, near Chippenham, July 10th 1842’, addressed to ‘My dear Brother’; signed at the foot ‘Your only affectionate and sincerely attached Sister, Harriet Eleanor Silcock’; outer side with address panel, to …
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# 14146
D'ENTRECASTEAUX, Antoine Bruni [Bruny] (1737-1793)
Document signed by Antoine Bruni d’Entrecasteaux, dated 8 May 1781
[Toulon : 8 May 1781]. Manuscript in black ink on single sheet of wove paper, 170 x 220 mm; document written by the lieutenant of the ship Castellan, signed lower left in brown ink 'Bruny Entrecasteaux' [French naval officer and explorer Bruni d'Entrecasteaux]; the document is in support of a sailor, Joseph Augustin Recours, who, whilst …
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![[MARITIME] Manuscript documents relating to the prize San Cristoforo, captured by HMS Anson, 1804](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16145519/2013_DSFB_5168-300x178.jpg)
# 5668
[GEORGE III]
[MARITIME] Manuscript documents relating to the prize San Cristoforo, captured by HMS Anson, 1804
The Spanish ship San Cristoforo was captured in the Mediterranean by HMS Anson, under the command of William Cracraft, on December 8 1804. She was carrying a cargo of hides and other products from Montevideo in the New World and was bound for Barcelona. The Anson was at the time acting independently of the rest …
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![[LORD SYDNEY] Note of Fees on Swearing The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Sidney](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16121634/2014_DSFB_2621-245x300.jpg)
# 7916
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 brown 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 …
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# 7041
BENN, Anthony Neil Wedgwood (1925 - )
Tony Benn : signature on House of Commons card with typed message, 1984
House of Commons mailing card with official letterhead, 85 x 135 mm, from British politician Tony Benn to Leslie Abbey and family, Royston, Herts., 'Bless you for your lovely message which I deeply appreciated, Best wishes [signed] Tony', in fine condition. Tony Benn, arguably Britain's most popular politician of the second half of the twentieth …