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![[ELGAR EDWARD]: (1857-1934) English Composer. ELGAR CAROLINE ALICE (1848-1920) English Author, wife of Edward Elgar. Series o](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/35396/2800196/495-2010910163546_468x382.jpg)
Lot 495
[ELGAR EDWARD]: (1857-1934) English Composer. ELGAR CAROLINE ALICE (1848-1920) English Author, wife of Edward Elgar. Series of 32 A.Ls.S., C. A. Elgar, and a couple signed with initials C. A. E., also including a few unsigned notes or incomplete letters, seventy five pages (total), 4to and 8vo, Brinkwells, Fittleworth, Sussex, May-December 1918, to Mrs. Wright, the Elgar`s housekeeper at Severn House in Hampstead. Elgar writes to her housekeeper regarding various domestic matters, asking for furnaces to be lit and hot water bottles prepared for their return to London, enquiring whether the gardener has attended to the grapes, advising her of a delivery of wood and giving instructions on where it is to be stored, also congratulating her and her husband on the birth of their child, and in some letters also makes reference to her husband, in part, `Could you find some stockings of Sir Edward`s & post them to me. I think there are 2 or 3 pairs, & he wears them so much here, I did not bring enough...` (undated note, unsigned), `The police want a list of missing things-I had no time to examine suits in Sir E`s wardrobe. Would it be giving you or Mr. Wright too much trouble to send me a list of coats & trousers &c wh. are on the shelves. Then I cd. say what is gone....I left the room as I found it in case a detective shd. want to see it` (undated note, unsigned), `Sir Edward wants to have the piano now in the drawing room sent down here` (n.d.), `I am glad to say the piano arrived all safely this morning & the men managed to get it across the garden into the studio & Sir Edward has been playing some lovely things already.` (n.d.), `Sir Edward much wants some more music paper as soon as possible. Would you kindly get it for him from Severn House & post it....The paper is on the seat at the end of the billiard room...Sir E. wd. like about 30 sheets...` (8th December 1918). Some light age wear, generally G, 32 Edward Elgar worked on his Quintet in A minor for Piano and String Quartet Op.84, and two other major pieces of chamber music during the summer of 1918 while staying at Fittleworth. The composer`s biographer, W. H. Reed, considered that all three were `influenced by the quiet and peaceful surroundings during that wonderful summer.`
![[GEORGE VI]: (1895-1952) King of the United Kingdom 1936-52. An unusual chair, specially commissioned and designed for use at](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/35396/2800196/656-2010910164158_468x382.jpg)
Lot 656
[GEORGE VI]: (1895-1952) King of the United Kingdom 1936-52. An unusual chair, specially commissioned and designed for use at the Coronation of King George VI in Westminster Abbey on 12th May 1937. The chair has a limed English oak frame, covered in green velvet with gilt thread trimming to the seat and back and with a gilt and red thread embroidered crown and letters GR VI to the back. Makers stamp of W. Hands & Sons Ltd., 1937 to the base of the seat, with a second stamp reading GR VI (crown) Coronation alongside. Some light overall age wear, and an eleven inch cut to the velvet at the rear of the back support, about G
![[CHARLES]: (1948- ) Prince of Wales. An unusual armchair designed by Lord Snowdon and made for the investiture of the Prince](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/35396/2800196/657-201091016420_468x382.jpg)
Lot 657
[CHARLES]: (1948- ) Prince of Wales. An unusual armchair designed by Lord Snowdon and made for the investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle on 1st July 1969. The bright red stained beech wood chair, with a woven upholstered padded seat, is of a simple, stylish design and features a gilt Prince of Wales feathers to the back support. With makers stamp and date 1969 to the base of the seat. Some very light overall age wear, about VG Lord Snowdon, the Prince of Wales uncle, was commissioned along with the stage designer Carl Toms, to design the setting and furniture for the investiture. Traditionally, at Coronations, a number of chairs were provided for peers who kept them afterwards. On this occasion the armchairs were made and sold for £12 each at the end of the day. Lord Snowdon bought six.
Lot 361
A 19th Century mahogany framed Bergère two seat sofa, the shaped back and arms with moulded decoration and single caned back, arms and seat above a plain frieze on turned and reeded tapering front legs to brass caps and castors, bears label to underside of seat rail inscribed "Viscountess Boyne", 137 cm wide (ILLUSTRATED)
Lot 398
An early 19th Century hoop back Windsor armchair in beech, ash and elm, the stick back with central pierced and shield carved splat flanked by shaped open arms above, the shaped seat raised on turned and ringed legs united by an H stretcher (attributed to Buckinghamshire circa 1820-1850) (ILLUSTRATED)
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