Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1919
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/394
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had met, the gossip she had heard, and the compliments. that had been paid her, and are studded with passionate protestations of love for Sir William (12) S15 3136 S17 31358 ep hs’, Sir William Hamilton ; and an A. L.s. inoue oi Wiltam, March 2, 1773, to Wedgwood & Bentley. Flaxman’s. letters are about ancient sculpture and his monument to Lord Mansfeld, the design for which Sir William was to approve. Hamiulton’s letter sends orders for Wedgwood’s. wares (4) ” Various Letters relating to this adventuress, 1774-5, including Two Auto. Drafts from Sir W. Hamilton to Count Orloff, sending him information, A.L.s-and A.L. from the Princess to Sir William, etc. The Princess Elizabeth pretended to be the daughter of the Empress Elizabeth and Count Alexis Razoumofski. Count Orloff was instructed to decoy her into Russia: he pretended to marry her, put her on board a Russian war- ship, and sent her to St. Petersburg, where she arrived in May, 1775, and died in prison the following December (12) DEVONSHIRE (Georgina, Duchess of) A. L.s. 3 pp. 4to, Fan. 7, 1781, to Lady Hamilton.—FoOsTeER (Lady Eliza- beth, second wife of the fifth Duke of Devonshire) Two: A. L.s. 4 pp. 4to, 1799, to the same.—HAMILTON (Sir W.) Two Auto. Drafts of Letters to the Duke of Devonshire, igo. sto, LoL (5) BRISTOL (Frederick Augustus Hervey, fourth Earl of, and: Bishop of Derry, 1730-1803) Thirty A. L.s.or A. L. mostly to Sir William Hamilton, including several from Venice or Trieste, 1797-8, describing the state of public affairs and the progress of the French ; etc. (Sle) NELSON (Lord) L. s. 4 p. folio, Sep. 24, 1781, to the Admiralty; L.s.. (copy) 14 pp. folio, to Lord Elgin, March 31, 1800 ; Extract from a private letter s. 4 p. folio, to the same, March 31, 1800.—NEPEAN (Evan) L.s. to Nelson, Aug. 20,. 17 oS (4) GREVILEEY CoH Av Lee lep +108 Deca 21 V17 88,510 °C Fox, explaining his vote against the coalition government on the India Bill; with A. L.s. to Greville, from Lord. Carlisle and Heneage Legge, the latter giving a curious. account of the Hamilton menage at Naples in 1791, just before their marriage (3):