Miscellaneous Manuscripts. James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Sali...

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Miscellaneous Manuscripts. James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC (1748-1823), 1pp ALS, n.d. [1799-1803], written in his capacity as Lord Chamberlain (1783-1804) and addressed to the then Thomas Lawrence Esqr, Principal Painter in Ordinary to His Majesty, requesting the artist to send George III's portrait to Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), then British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, tatty with some chipped losses at creases, others including 16pp fragment of 18th century manuscript prose and verse, dated 1777 in places, including a poem addressed to The Right Hon:ble Lady Mary Drummond, disbound, an early 19th century love letter to 'Miss ***/Open in Private [...]', a typed signed letter from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on Downing Street writing-paper, dated 26th October, 1938, a Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company premium 'on the Life of Survivor of Princes Royal & Princess Helena' (1st & 2nd daughters of Queen Victoria), dated 1901, a 3pp Victorian letter touching on geometry, dated 1864, 'Sailor's Billet', a 1pp marriage proposal, coached entirely in nautical metaphor, two early 19th century impromptu poems on the 'Potatoe Sack', (9).