'…I feel more & more strongly that its absolutely legitimate to lie…' EDWARD VIII: (1894-1972) King of the United Kingdom January - December 1936. Later Duke of Windsor. A fine, long A.L.S., David, (twice; at the conclusion and again at one interval in the letter, and a further three times with his initial D at other intervals in the letter), fourteen pages, 4to, Calgary, Banff and other places, 15th - 21th September 1919, to his mistress Freda Dudley Ward ('Fredie darling darling one'). The Prince writes his letter, in bold pencil, over a period of a week whilst travelling by train across Canada during his official tour, stating, in part, 'I really am down & out to-night sweetheart & feeling like death as I've never taken such a hopelessly miserable & despondent view of life as I do now!! It's hell beloved one & all on account of having had to do the P of W stunt & play to the gallery till I can do it no more!! This trip has been a huge success up to the present, I'll take a little credit for that as I have worked hard & no mistake; but its partly fear of not being able to keep it up & letting down the staff & spoiling the whole trip which has put me in this hopeless state of mind!! I feel….that I'm not ½ big enough man to take on what I consider is just about the biggest job in the world!! Can't you picture your poor little boy….struggling with a long & important speech for tomorrow which he knows he's going to crash over & so spoil his reputation!!….Your little boy is quite silly to have cracked just now when the worst stunts are over & he's going to have a very easy & perhaps pleasant week before reaching Vancouver…I like Calgary…I was taken straight to church where I had to dedicate a war memorial; then we lunched at the golf club tho it was too maddening not to be able to play on the fine course & all I got was a mouldy walk!!….I've just got away from a very wet & noisy dinner at the Ranchman's Club, though I think the title implies tight men doesn't it darling? They are a fine crowd of Westerners, but God they drink….it was stiff cocktails & scotch to-night followed by dirty songs. I guess I was lucky to escape before midnight having only been roughly handled by one drunken tho it was kind roughness…' (15th September), '…we rode off to the "round" up of cattle which was an amazing stunt; I rode a nice locally bred horse in a "stock" saddle…We were in time to help the cowboys & Indians round up the last odd hundreds of cattle & they collected close on 2000.…it was quite good fun & I got lots of hard riding doing my best imitation of a cowboy….it's a real good life that ranching darling tho a very hard one & one's got to be real tough to take it on as a living….I've been listening to the queer & funny experiences of the whole staff who all had an adventure or experience with one or more women to-night'. (17th September),'Of course I'm as usual terribly sad & lonely sweetheart tho only on top tho that is the part of me that I work on; the deep down part is always always the same blissfully happy because WE love each other!! I ask for nothing in this world except that my precious darling beloved little Fredie Wedie shld love me as I know SHE does….I owe my Mama 2 letters & my father 3 tho they do write such balls that they are hardly worth answering tho I suppose I shall have to make an effort soon!!….I had a good game of golf with Godfrey this afternoon & was playing better; a nice 9 hole course tho he beat me 3 up but only because I messed up the last 3 holes!!…There are ½ dozen nice Canadian girls here darling all of them hideous but good dancers & cheery & gt fun & good for any thing I shld say tho that doesn't interest this little boy….' (18th September), '…I was on the verge of tears reading all the marvellous divine things you say to me sweetheart & did want you want you beloved one & just held out my arms (I did really!!) tho alas nothing happened & I felt more hopelessly lonely than ever!!….Oh!! Its useless my trying to tell you what your last letter & everything in it means to your vewy vewy own devoted adoring little David…I had 2 rounds on the 9 hole course at Banff yesterday morning tho I was hopeless on account of a gale of wind & being worried by people coming up to shake hands or snap me; & the limit came when a hideous Yank girl in huge spectacles came up to me & called me "dear sweet child" to my face just after I had missed a long drive shot & was using the foulest language!!….But this is a marvellous spot….& I adore it because you do & because you've been here & I figured out your divine lovely little face on the glacier at the end of the lake. We've been dancing….to-night with those Canadian girls who I'm ashamed to say we brought up in our train from Banff & we had them to dinner again…don't be thulky Fredie darling & we only gave them a lift as they missed the train having planned to come on here anyway & if only you could see them you wouldn't possibly be thulky!!…I got more than fed up & bored with those very plain girls we've had more or less in tow since Calgary & am glad to be quit of them!!!!….I enclose a few more photos (no longer present) angel which may amuse you; that Indian rig (complete with feathered head dress) was given me by the Stony Indians yesterday when they made me a "chief" and called me "Morning Star"…did anyone ever feel less like a star in the morning than your little boy darling; such an inappropriate name to give me!!' (19th September), '…You see I tell you every thing as you know beloved one & as I promised to; of course there have been funny incidents the whole time particularly at the queer parties we go to tho. they don't happen to me only to the staff!! But these women out here are as hot as hell most of them & one has to be more than on one's best behaviour and never release oneself a scrap when dancing or talking to them as they are merely waiting for the least hint for a flirtation & they squeeze one's hand & say the most amazing things tho all that merely revolts me. They don't get any change out of your little boy sweetheart….I can't possibly reach England before 20th Nov & my visit to the States is still very vague…New York is going to be cut out….I shld like to have spent a few hrs in N.Y. having heard so much about it merely to see the amazing city….' (20th September), 'We spent a terrible 4 hrs….yesterday afternoon as after all the balls we were solemnly driven up to the top of a bl_ _d _ mountain (1 ½ hrs) in cars to unveil some mouldy tablet to commemorate my visit!! Christ! Your little boy was peeved & fierce over the whole stunt as it didn't do any good to anyone & it was a case of "Gud I'm cold" when we might have had a good climb by ourselves!!….Bless you sweetie mine for this last divine letter & for Mr. Thpider's photo on that angellic (sic) seal which I love & which has made me so happy & Mrs. Thpider is delighted wiv it too & says it's a good photo!! How you do spoil me Fredie darling & its so so sweet of you to have put Mr. Thpider on yr. pearl necklace….everything you've given me is sacred sweetheart, yr. photos & sponges….And we use the same scent, soap & tooth paste etc. so that I'm only thinking of YOU darling one even when I'm cleaning my teeth!!….I feel more & more strongly that its absolutely legitimate to lie & that we are more than within our rights to do so when it concerns our own private affairs angel....' OWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE-SALEROOM WE CAN NOT PUBLISH A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THIS LOT - PLEASE CONTACT IAA LTD DIRECTLY FOR A FULL DESCRIPTION
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An oak two drawer canteen on cabriole legs, the two drawers opening to reveal a large set of "Old English" pattern silver cutlery comprising a set of 12 dessert forks, pickle forks, 12 table forks, 4 salt spoons, 2 mustard spoons, 6 egg spoons, 12 teaspoons, a pair of sugar tongs, a sugar spoon and butter knife, a set of cheese knives, table knives, beef carvers and game carvers, 12 dessert spoons, 12 soup spoons, 6 tablespoons, 2 sauce ladles, 1 gravy spoon, 1 ladle, silver bladed fish servers and crumb scoop (Walker & Hall, Sheffield, 1919), 161.55 oz approx total including handles, together with a matched set of six electro-plated fish knives and forks
Millais (John Guille) - The Natural History of British Game Birds, first edition , number 238 of 550 copies, 18 colour plates after Millais and Archibald Thorburn, 18 other plates, all but one photogravure, tissue guards, slight staining to upper edge of first few leaves and stain to p.95, some light marginal foxing to a few leaves, engraved bookplate of James Harold Cuthbert, original buckram-backed cloth, t.e.g., spine faded, boards a little damp-stained, [Nissen IVB 636], folio, 1909.
Ogilvie-Grant (W.R.) & others. - The Gun at Home and Abroad: British Game Birds and Wildfowl, one of 950 copies, photogravure portrait of King George V (spotted), colour plates after George E.Lodge, captioned tissue guards, light staining to fore-edge of front free endpaper, original crimson morocco, gilt, te.g., others uncut, spine faded, 1912 § Dixon (Charles) The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands, chromolithographed plates after Charles Whymper, original pictorial cloth, upper cover lightly stained at fore-edge, Sheffield, 1900 § Folkard (H.C.) The Wild-Fowler, second edition, engraved additional vignette title and plates, frontispiece lightly spotted, 24pp. catalogue at end, original pictorial cloth, gilt, recased, 1864, all a little rubbed, 4to & 8vo (3)
Yarrell (William) - A History of British Fishes, 2 vol. including supplements bound at ends, first edition , engraved portrait, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, contemporary half morocco, spines gilt, t.e.g., spines a little faded, [Nissen ZBI 4488], 1836-60 § Lamond (Henry) The Sea-Trout, plates, some colour, light foxing, 1916 § Holder (Charles Frederick) The Game Fishes of the World, pictorial title, plates, first leaf of Preface foxed, 1913 § Maxwell ( Sir Herbert) British Fresh-water Fishes [and] Aflalo (F.G.) British Salt-water Fishes, together 2 vol., Woburn Library of Natural History, plates, some foxing, 1904, all but the first original cloth, most pictorial gilt, very slightly rubbed, 8vo & 4to (6)
Roosevelt (Theodore) - African Game Trails, An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist, ink inscription to front free endpaper, overall a very good copy, New York, 1910; Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, central crease to spine and a couple of gatherings becoming loose, some spotting, bookplate to front pastedown, New York & London, 1886 § Schillings (C.G.) With Flashlight and Rifle, 2 vol., 1906, first editions , plates and illustrations, original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed ; and 4 others, by C.G. Shillings and A.Chapman, 8vo (8)
Selous (F.C.) - Recent Hunting Trips in British North America, first edition , plates. some light foxing to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, gilt, some light rubbing to extremities, New York & London, 1907 § Dollman (Guy) and J.B. Burlace, editors . Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game: African and Asiatic Sections, tenth edition, with the scarce addendum , filled-in by a contemporary hand, ink ownership inscription, plates, original cloth, 1935 § Burrard ( Major Gerald) The Modern Shotgun , 3 vol., first edition , plates and illustrations, scattered foxing to prelims, bookplates, original cloth, spines slightly dulled, 1931-32 § Sharp (Henry) Modern Sporting Gunnery, first edition , frontispiece and illustrations, light spotting to endpapers, ink ownership inscription, original cloth, spine slightly faded, a little rubbed, 1906; and 3 others, 8vo & 4to (9)
COLLECTION OF PEARLWARE PLATES including a commemorative plate titled 'I hope the time will come when every poor child in my dominions will be able to read the bible', plate in Game Keeper pattern, 'Worcester' Herculaneum pierced plate, Washington, Gracefield by Adams, City Hall New York (Ridgway), also with items by Rogers, Stevenson etc. (13)
Collection of 37 complete sets contained in 5 modern albums & slip cases, sporting interest, cigarette & trade issues noted, sets include Churchman - Sporting Trophies (standard size), Devlin - Irish Fishing, Ogden - Prominent Racehorses of 1933, Carreras - The Greyhound Racing Game (L size with instructions), Wills - Racehorses & Jockeys, Morris - Golf Strokes Series, Ritchie - Fairway Favourites, etc this lot includes many sets that are not catalogued VG - EXC cat value £875
19th-early 20th century AD. A tall pot carved from a section of bamboo stem with figural scenes including two musicians playing by a bridge, a bearded man resting beside a building, four men playing a board game. 422 grams, 17cm (6 3/4). London private collection, acquired 1985-1995. Fine condition.
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