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Lot 5
Ephemera – photographs – Arkwright family original photograph believed to be the wedding of John Hungerford Arkwright master of Hampton Court near Leominster to Lucy Davenport in 1866. Also in the group is Henry Arkwright noted cricketer who was killed only a few months later in an avalanche while climbing Mont Blanc. Together with a cabinet style photograph thought to show John Arkwright with a male relative.
Lot 79
Maritime – Vice Admiral Sir John Gore tetchy autograph letter signed to Sir James Graham at the Admiralty dated January 26th 1831 complaining that he had been overlooked for the command in the Mediterranean :’...I may probably have not right to question the ‘political considerations which have influenced the cabinet’ to set me aside but I have a right to assert that no officer can execute the orders he may receive with more zeal and fidelity than I should have done...’ Together with a copy of an autograph letter signed by Graham giving his reply and a similar dated the following August stating that the West India station would not be available for appointment for at least 15 months and expressing his disappointment after Gore had turned down the East India command : ‘... having disappointed you with respect to the Mediterranean Command I was anxious to offer you the next which was at my disposal...’ together with related correspondence
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