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Published by No date or place
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
See his entry in the Oxford DNB. On both sides of 10.5 x 8 cm piece of paper, cut from a letter for an autograph hunter. On one side, in a larger than usual hand: Your Obed Servt / J Russell . Beneath the signature, in a tiny contemporary hand: 'Prime Minister'. At the foot is the name of the recipient: Rr. Admiral / Sir Henry Dillon Kt. A fragment of the letter is on the reverse: [.] Albert have any [wish?] on the subject of your being in the Queen s Household, I shall no doubt hear from His Royal Highnesss. But untill [sic] I do so, I [.]'. See Image.
Publication Date: 1860
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Pound (illustrator). A fine original engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, this is a wonderful opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait. Decorative and attractive.
Published by Without date or place
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
On one side of 8 x 13 cm piece of wove paper, cut from front of envelope. In fair condition, lightly aged, with minor offsetting from another document on the reverse. Reads: 'Private | Right Hon | W. E. Gladstone | J Russell'. Before 1861, when Russell was elevated to the peerage.
Published by Caldesi Blandford & Co, London, 1865
Seller: Joe Collins Rare Books, Dublin, Ireland
No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No date, place or publisher. Circa 1865. Image size 3.5 x 2" Albumen print on plain card mount. National Portrait Gallery ascribes this view to Caldesi, Blandford & Co. Full length side view portrait of Lord John Russell showing him leaning on pillar at bottom of house steps. Unusual in that the photograph was taken outdoors as opposed to in the photographer's studio. Lord John Russell (1792 - 1878) was an English Whig and Liberal politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Very good condition.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
He writes: "My dear Lord, I have received so satisfactory a letter in favour of Mr. Palmer, from Mr. Austin, to whom I had offered the Recordership of Yarmouth, that I shall now have great pleasure in complying with your wishes in favour of Mr. Palmer".Inscribed in another hand "Mr. Palmer written to 30 May 1836" and the writer identified in another early hand on lower margin. Mounting stub to left margin.
1 page. 12mo. Condition: Fine. 1 page. 12mo. Russell served twice as PM and is grandfather of Bertrand Russell and younger son of the 6th Duke of Bedford. The letter reads: "I have no objection to your trying your plan before the society for the diffusion of useful kowledge, but in my opinion it does not come within the scope of their objects.".
Published by Foreign Office Whitehall London. 30 November, 1860
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
2pp., foolscap 8vo. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper. With envelope addressed to 'David Forbes Esq | care of | Sir R. Murchison Bart | 16 Belgrave Square | SW.' and franked 'Wodehouse'. Wodehouse occupied the position of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1859 and 1861. The letter reads: 'Sir, | With reference to your letter of the 20th. Ultimo, which has reached Lord John Russell's hands through Sir Roderick Murchison, I am directed by His Lordship to inform you that the question as to the re appointment of a British Chargé d'Affaires or Consular Officer in Bolivia has been fully considered, but Lord John Russell is not of opinion that it is not [sic] necessary to revive that appointment - Lord John Russell desires me at the same time to convey to you His Lordship's thanks for the interesting Report on the state of affairs in Bolivia which you have had the goodness to communicate to His Lordship.'.
Published by Without place or date. London s or 1860s, 1850
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
3pp., 4to. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. With a couple of minor emendations. At top left of first page Elliot has written 'Copy'. Docketed on reverse of second leaf: 'Austrian Emigration'. Begins: 'In the Austrian Code (Decree of 1832) Emigration is treated of under a distinct head. | Every Austrian Subject removing to a foreign state or remaining abroad sine animo revertendi, as the Scotch wd. express it, is held to be an Emigrant.' Most of the third page is taken up with a precis of two points 'From Proclamation of Feb. 1851', following which the document ends: 'The above is not applicable to certain individuals excluded by name from the amnesty.' The document may date from Russell's second and last time as Foreign Secretary, 1859-1865, around which time the Emperor of Austria issued a proclamation granting an amnesty to emigrants from Venetia. From the Elliot papers.
Published by London, John Murray 1822., 1822
Seller: Adam Mills Rare Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, modern quarter morocco lettered in gilt, brown cloth sides. Sm.8vo, pp[2] half-title + [2] title + 87, couple of neat booklabels on endpaper, an excellent copy. ** Rare novel : suppressed by the author. *** Early novel by the youthful Lord John Russell, later grandfather to the philosopher Bertrand Russell. *** A radical liberal, Lord John Russell twice headed the British government as a major reforming Prime Minister. In his youth he had several times visited Portugal, where he met Wellington; and had also travelled to Elba to meet Napoleon. *** In this late-Gothic romantic novella Edward Pembroke, a young English officer serving in the Peninsular War, is wounded while heroically rescuing the nuns of a Portuguese convent from the inevitable depredations of a French squadron. He is nursed to health by one of the nuns, Catherine. They fall passionately in love : she determines to forsake her orders : divine punishment is, naturally enough, meted out when she rapidly succumbs to consumption. *** According to Summers : Gothic Bibliography : 'Very shortly after publication, the author determinedly suppressed the book, buying up every copy at whatsoever price and destroying it'. See also Wolff 6000a. Block : English Novel. No copy listed in Cambridge University Library, Bodleian Library, or the National Union Catalogue. Not listed in The Sandler Collection. *** *** Endpaper with 19thC bookplate of Richard Cutting of 7 St George's Square, N.W., book No.1005; and also a 20thC booklabel in the Cambridge calligraphic style of Will Carter/Reynolds Stone/David Kindersley. ***** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.