Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Royal Navy. Captain Sir Bryan God...

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Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Royal Navy. Captain Sir Bryan Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett, GCVO, CMG (1863-1945), naval officer and courtier, H.M.S. Caesar's Watch, Station, Quarter and Fire Bills, printed 1895, manuscript dated 1898-99, compiled and inscribed by Godfrey-Faussett while a first-lieutenant, approx. 200pp printed &/or ink MS, including names of the seamen, a guide for training, how to prepare for armed action, abandoning ship, etc., diagrams and illustrations, similar loosely-inserted ephemera and papers, original cloth as supplied (tired), 4to, World War One, United States Navy, William Quish G.M. 2nd Class, USS Colhoun, MS diary, August 1918 - February 1919, approx. 42pp, mostly recording assisting troop ships in and around New York, including Brooklyn, and New Jersey, even sailing alongside the requisitioned RMS Mauretania, heading towards Bermuda, and on 18th November was sent to New London where a new submarine was being tried out, original cover, 12mo, a Victorian collection of ephemera, n.d. [c. 1880], tipped-in, with some loosely-inserted, mostly related to the Church of England and encompassing its High Anglo-Catholic to Evangelical creeds, including three off-prints by Alfred Gurney (1843-1898), from St Barnabas, Pimlico, nos. 85, 86, & 44, 1883-1884, ‘Expenses for altar cloth’, 1pp manuscript account, n.d. [c. 1880], a manuscript charade, citing Caroline Fiennes (née Leigh, 1825-1909), Baroness Saye and Sele, second wife of The Venerable Frederick Fiennes, 16th Baron Saye and Sele (1799-1887), the Archdeacon of Hereford; ‘Jerusalem the Glorious’ by The Rev. A. Tighe-Gregory, as a ‘Memorial to the late Hon. George Ponsonby Prittie, n.d. [c. 1871], ‘How we shall welcome our three Pilgrims!’, Miss von Zakzewska & Miss Glanford Bell, as a band and holding a flag, welcome the three pilgrims, Amy, Dora & Liza, to Germany, 19cm x 25cm, manuscript music, both libretto and score; manuscript letters and verse, including ‘On the death of my Cousin/Shipwrecked in the China Seas’ by Henry ****, n.d., 4 stanzas, pictorial letterheads, telegraph, ephemera viz. The Rambler’s Sketching Club, Fulham, newspaper clippings, including Mrs Eddy and Christian Scientists, Cardinal Vannutelli and the ‘Bishop of Animals’, Second Boer War, Recollections of a Night with the Communists, Ruskin on Architecture, etc., disbound crown folio (41cm x 31cm), Railwayana, two pieces,  [Ireland], Irish Railway's Distance Book and Sea Distances, in two parts, dated 1921, 66pp of red-ruled ink manuscript tables, ffep with indistinct inscribed name (probably the compiler's) and dated 1/3/21, original green cloth, foolscap (34cm x 21cm), a British Rail 1114/1 black cloth ledger, enclosing unassociated late 19th century and later railway ephemera, foolscap (35cm x 23.5cm), and three Edwardian and later friendship albums, dated from 1905, each typically illustrated with watercolour, pencil, &/or pen-and-ink caricatures, flowers, pictures, and vignettes; manuscript sentiments and original verse and prose composition; the medium-sized album also illustrated with tipped-in photographs of country houses, with clippings from their respective writing-paper, including Bowood, Irish houses, etc., presumably inscribed by fellow house party guests, and in other places illustrated by snapshots of the signatories; the largest album from British India, citing Bombay, Lucknow, Calcutta, etc., various calf and roan bindings, 4to & 8vo (qty)


Provenance: 1st: Captain Sir Bryan Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett, GCVO, CMG (1863-1945), Royal Navy career officer and courtier. After Greenwich and Dartmouth, Godfrey-Faussett was appointed an unofficial aide-de-camp to the then Prince George of Wales in 1890. His naval career continued, briefly, before he was later posted to the royal yacht HMS Osborne (1896-97), then HMS Caesar (1898-99), promoted to commander, and found himself in Prince George's entourage again (now Duke of York and Cornwall). On the prince's appointment as Prince of Wales, in 1901, G-F was promoted to Equerry-in-Ordinary, accompanied the heir to India (1905-06), and retired from active service in 1906 to permanently be in attendance. On the accession in 1910, G-F served the then George V as Equerry-in-Ordinary until the monarch's death, whence he was an Extra Equerry to the king's sons Edward VIII and George VI until G-F's own death in 1945.