Melbourne Lord (9 results)

264, (2) S. + 7 Tafeln, OHalblederbd. (Rücken verblasst u. etw. berieben). Sonst gutes Exemplar. * Melbourne gilt als Mentor Königin Victorias. Nach ihm wurde die Metropole Melbourne in Australien benannt.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 394 pages. missing dj, cloth marked, minor foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Dust Jacket unclipped. We are closed 14th-23rd July items ordered after 9:00am on the 13th July will be shipped on 25th July, shipping times have been updated. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

1p., 8vo. On aged paper worn at extremities (not affecting text). The note reads: 'Nov 6 1790 | Srs | I received your letter by cover of Mr Herbert & will have ye honour to return an answer on Wednesday next | & am your Obedt Humble Servant | Melbourne'.

On 4to bifolium, with the account of charges on the recto of the first page, and Brewster's letter on the recto of the second. In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed, with Nottingham and Derby postmarks, on the reverse of the second leaf, to 'John Goodall Esq | Solr. | Derby'. Docketted: 'Brewster Jno. | Under Shff of Nttm | with acct. of Charges in Grammer at Melbourne | Same at Hides'. The letter reads 'Inclosed I forward you the Account of Charges relating to these and shall feel obliged by a Check for the amount at your convenience.' The account of charges is in a different hand, and headed 'John Goodall Esq | To the Undersheriff of Notts.' The charges amount to £5 18s 0d, and include the cost of preparing warrants and summonses, and paying bailiffs. Also: 'In consequence of countermand of notice by Defendants Attorney preparing Notices to Jurors countermanding their attendance' and 'Paid Messengers and expences in countermanding including '. The 1853 'History, Directory and Gazetteer' of Nottingham gives the context of the case: 'Greasley, commonly called Greasley Moor Green, from its being included in that constablewick, is situated seven miles N.W. by N. of Nottingham; it is a small bnt pleasant village containing about 360 inhabitants; Lord Melbourne is the principal owner and lord of the manor; but Thomas Grammer, Mrs. Marshall, and the Misses Grammers have also estates here.'.

Condition: Good. Tinted Lithograph. 11" x 14". Good with minor losses & tears.

n.d. (Watermark, 1804) `), 4pp., 4to, (2pp., of text, 44 lines), not bound, 2 stab marks, printed by J. Barfield, Wardour St, Soho, nr fine. It opens, "Ah e'er I sail for Naples to attend/ The last sad moments of my dearest friend . . . This was the Epilogue to the ill-fated Drury Lane.production of May 1802. It was also published within a discussioln of the play in "Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852 (3 vols, 1865), II.194-199, and is also printed in the 1802 edition of Miss Mary Berry's Works. Only separate issue.

7pp, 4to. Containing 112 lines of text on two bifoliums. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded three times. Headed 'Private', and with the heading, date and place written by Halliday at a different time from the rest of the text. A long and impassioned letter, in which Halliday offers to become inspector of 'all the public and Private Asylums in England and Wales', at a payment of no more than £150 a year in expenses. The letter begins: 'My Lord | I have had some correspondence, and one short interview with your Lordships Brother Mr George Lamb [(1784-1834), MP for Dungarvan] on a subject of some importance and in which I have long taken a very deep interest; on the number and condition of Insane persons in England and Wales. Three years ago as you must well know some improvement was made in the Law relative to this large and interesting Class of the Community; but the Acts then passed will expire in this Session and Mr Robert Gordon has a motion on the Journals for the 1st. of next month for new Bills.' He states that a clause in the acts 'giving Authority to the Secretary of State and the Lord Chancellor to send a Medical or other person to inspect & examine all the public and Private Asylums in England and Wales' has never been implemented, and that it is 'of great and urgent importance that it should be accomplished before the New Acts are passed'. His reasons for holding this view are, 'because my Lord nothing but a personal examination of the various and new multiplied establishments can detect the abuses that require to be checked, or the faults that must be corrected by legislature enactment'. Halliday has 'felt most anxious to undertake this duty; in the first place because I have already once in my life (now twenty six years ago) performed it, without power or Parliamentary Authority and in the 2d place because the Subject is I believe more familiar to me than to any other man in the Kingdom; and lastly as I consider the present Law as in some measure my own I am perhaps as well qualified as any other to judge of the way in which it has been worked throughout the Kingdom'. Halliday is as able as any of his 'Brethren' of laying a 'faithfull [sic] detail before Melbourne. 'I am ready to dedicate to this good Cause the whole time that may be necessary, and sacrifice the emoluments of a Physician in no despicable private Practice also; and as I stated to your Brother I should only ask for my bare expences during my tour, and would even limit them to a very moderate sum £150'. urges Melbourne to 'decide at once' and allow him to 'consult' with his brother. 'The question is do you as a Minister wish to have the best information or not? [] The Law gives you the power of seeking for that informaion in your own way & without the bias of any other opinion[.] The question is will you avail yourself of the advantages the law gives or will you like your Predecessor in Office suffer others not much better informed than yourself to go blundering on passing laws which are either again tp be repealed or that it is found necessary to alter and amend every Session?' He hopes Melbourne will 'pardon this long letter', concluding: 'If I did not know something of your Lordships good heard Sound head and love fore your fellow Creatures I should not have taken the trouble of inditing such an Epistle'. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.

also signed [illegibly] on behalf of the Secretary at War, with paper seal and revenue stamp affixed, part-printed, with the details added by hand, dated 8th August 1833 (with the later date stamp 'London 13.6.34' just below the revenue stamp). Broadside on vellum (30 cm. x 40 cm.), faintly soiled, with light vertical and horizontal creases from folding, with inked annotation ('Charles John Whyte Reg. Captain in the 67th Regiment Foot') on reverse above the pencilled note 'My father's commission'. The King's large signature is in the upper left corner above the white paper seal. The signature of the Home Secretary, 'Melbourne', is at the bottom right. *William IV (1765endash 1837), King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 1830 until his death in 1837. Less than a year after this document William Lamb, Second Viscount Melbourne (1779endash 1848) was appointed Prime Minister. The Secretary at War ran the War Office, with responsibility for the administration and organization of the Army, but not over military policy. In 1883-4 Edward Ellice, the elder (1781endash 1863) held the office. Signed.