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Lot 34
Argentina 1830s group of approx nine autograph letters (some extensive and cross written) 1836-38 from an ex-patriot who has moved to Argentina to run a cattle ranch. The letters are written to his family in England and provide vivid descriptions of his life in Argentina his struggles to run the cattle farm the struggles of his fellow ex-pat farmers and also describing conditions generally in the country. In particular he provides descriptions of the effects of the French blockade on Argentina and also the effects of severe weather. Some letters bear Liverpool Ship Letter marks one bears a Falmouth Ship Letter mark and one bears a Dublin Ship Letter mark
Lot 379
A famous legal case which lasted almost 70 years ! Autograph – Queen Victoria – legal document signed ‘Victoria R.I.’ at head 3pp folio dated December 22nd 1868 being a licence to plead for Sir John Duke Coleridge (Great Nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge) who at the time was the Solicitor General. Coleridge was here licensed to act on behalf of Jean Ralston Shedden in what was one of the longest running cases in British legal history and which exposed the complex law of illegitimacy in the nineteenth century and its relationship to questions of national belonging and subject-hood. The case began as Shedden v Patrick a dispute over legitimacy and property which opened in 1804 and lasted until 1869. William Shedden was born in America of a Scottish father who had married his mother but after his birth. His claim that he should inherit the Shedden family estate in Scotland as both his father`s lawful son and a natural-born British subject brought together a bewildering array of laws as formal and informal partnerships in the former colony together with the discrepant legitimacy codes of England and Scotland were brought to bear on inheritance claims based on laws of nationality and domicility. Shedden`s fight to prove his legitimacy led to the passing of the Legitimacy Declaration Act in 1858 but it also gave rise to a series of legal debates on the nature of personal status and to the complex ways in which both personal legitimacy and nationality operate as legal fictions. The original Shedden actually died before he could see his fight completed but it was taken up for him at first by his son William a noted Russian Scholar and then by his daughter – the subject of this document. By the time the case had got this far it was a matter of the Solicitor General fighting the case on behalf of the Sedden Family against the Attorney General – and in fact the case was fought in front of a Committee of the House of Lords and lasted 30 days. By the end of the whole thing there wasn’t much money left ! An unusual document signed by Queen Victoria with a fascinating history.
Lot 448
Buckinghamshire –Election 1831 fine letter written by Sir Harry Verney discussing the 1831 General Election in Buckinghamshire (where his family seat was located) 6pp 4to. Verney says that there is a move to have him proposed for the election and although he is flattered by the move he cannot believe that it is anything to do with his actions but rather ‘to the name I bear’. However he feels that he will take up the proposal to fight against the Duke of Buckingham’s candidate :’...I think the friends of independence will do wisely to defeat his game and to take all requisite measures that that purpose...’ The 1831 Election came at a time when the crucial debates which went on to create the Reform Acts were at their height.
Lot 573
John Alford (20th/21st century contemporary) 'The Great Wind on Linley Avenue' signed and dated '90, also inscribed verso, with the title, artist's address and the original purchase price of £650 oil on board, a triptych, overall size 60cm x 96cm, the centre panel 60.5cm x 50cm, the right and left panels each 60cm x 23cm The right and left panels also bear paintings to verso (double sided), the artist lived at '47, Porthill Road, Shrewsbury, SY3 8RN May be subject to artist resale rights
Lot 71
SKELTON, Robin ( 1925-1997 ) - a comprehensive collection of poetry, anthologies, literary criticism, short stories, etc. Many signed copies, also works published by him or connected to him. * Biography Robin Skelton was born in Yorkshire, after the Second World War he studied at Leeds University, he went on to teach in the English Department of the University of Manchester. An authority on Irish Poetry, he was acquainted with many leading British poets. In 1963 he emigrated to Canada, to teach at the University of Victoria. In his lifetime he was the author of more than 100 books. A longtime friend of Michael and Margaret Snow, many of the books bear personal inscriptions to them. (a lot)
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