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![A Spirit of Ecstasy figurine on wooden base, approximately 14 cm [h], Est £20 - £40.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c1b21efe-4aa3-4f6b-ba81-aa8700de7a40/a2b4b196-b574-4d3c-96f0-aa87010178c1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 230
Stewart (Colonel Charles, 1775-1812). An important autograph letter signed, ‘Charles Stewart’, Camp before Badajoz, 25 March 1812, in brown ink in a clear hand on laid paper (watermarked 1803), 3 pages, 4to (Qty: 1)Written under extreme conditions by the Adjutant General, Colonel Charles Stewart, while British batteries were firing on Badajoz and just hours before the successful storming by 500 troops. Stewart begins with comments on his ‘ state of mind, hardly equal to the most trifling occupation’, but states, ‘ However I have determined rather than turn my back to it, to do my best, satisfied that the intention is right though the spirit may fail’. He comments on the fighting, ‘ Our Batteries, six in number & 20 pieces open’d today on Picurina, & are doing execution’. He adds , ‘Graham & Hill are moved on to the (?)Seria on Drouet’s Line of Cantonments. It is hoped they will be able to squeeze him’. Two days before this Marshal Soult had launched a force of 21,000 to try to lift the siege of Badajoz putting extra pressure on the British forces. Colonel Charles Stewart, from Banff, had enlisted in the 71st Highlanders and served in India (being wounded at Seringapatam), and was later in the West Indies and at Walcheren. Commanding a battalion of the 50th (Queen’s) Foot in the Peninsula he was very much a fighting soldier but his health broke down later in 1812 and he died that December. The letter is more private than the usual despatch and is an unusual recording of what today would be recognised as battle fatigue.
Lot 413
* Du Maurier (Daphne, 1907-1989). A group of three typed letters signed, 'Daphne du Maurier', Kilmarth, Par, Cornwall, 27 November 1978, 18 September 1980 & 20 January 1982, all to Miss Rita Room, the first to accompany a signed copy of 'The Loving Spirit', 'My first novel, written 1929-30 at Bodinnick Fowey, where my sister still lives. I remember the pleasure and interest it gave me to write, all based on the life of the boat-building family whose real name was Slade. Coombe in the novel. The figurehead still hangs on the beam at Ferryside, my sister's home. I now live across the water and a few miles from Fowey. My childhood memories I put into a book coming out in paperback in December... ', the second in response to Miss Room's enjoyment from reading 'The House on the Strand', 'It can probably be rather confusing, but it was fun to write. I myself could not make up my mind what happened to poor Dick at the end. I somehow felt he was paralysed, perhaps in body only. But I never intended him to have been Roger Kilmerth in the past. The idea originally came to me when I first rented this house...', the third a short note saying that she has been in hospital and still feels weak, and is glad that Miss Room heard the recording of the broadcast, the second letter with a postscript thanking for the Edward Thomas poems, each one page, 8vo, plus a colour photographic postcard of Kilmarth, with a message to the whole of verso signed by Daphne Du Maurier, 26 June 1980, in response to her enjoyment of the broadcast from the house, and referring to her hazy memory now that she is 73, plus the aforementioned signed paperback of 'The Loving Spirit', Evergreen Books, 1940, signed, inscribed and dated November 1978 for Rita Room by du Maurier to title in blue ballpoint pen and with a colour photograph of the author pasted to facing page and inscribed beneath by her 'Daphne Du Maurier in 1977', old sellotape repairs and stains to inner margins of early leaves, original wrappers with dust jacket, a few old sellotape marks to inner flaps, 8vo (Qty: 5)
Lot 162
A quantity of silver, silver-plate and wooden items, to include a pair of silver pepperettes by Henry Williamson Ltd, lighthouse shape, Birmingham 1920, a small silver ladle by John Brydie, London 1827, a pair of silver-plated pepperettes, urn-shaped with round pedestal base, pair of wine coasters, pair of chamber sticks, toast rack, cake slice, pestle and mortar, wooden handled mirrors, spirit levels, desk calendar etc.
Lot 107
6 Hornby O Gauge Freight Wagons. Petrol Tank Wagon BP Shell MOTOR SPIRIT BP cream example. Goods Van, GWR Flat Truck with Insul Meat container. Side Tipping Wagon McAlpine in green, Cattle Truck in Southern green and a brake van, LMS. All boxed, one associated and one a reproduction. Contents GC-VGC container paper cover damaged. Minor wear to others. £60-90
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