james robert cecil salisbury (8 Ergebnisse)

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4to, 3 pp. 42 lines of text. Good, on aged paper. He is sorry not to have known about Niggeman's bank holiday visit to Hatfield House: 'it would have been an immense pleasure to us all to see you. Do come down and pay us a private call some other time.' The 'points' she makes 'are just the kind of thing we want to know'. Salisbury did not 'go round the Hosue with the visitors, for I did not wish to embarrass the guides; but clearly there is a good deal more organisation needed before our machinery works smoothly'. He responds to a number of points, including one 'about people unlocking cupboards and climbing on stairs', and another about putting 'rather larger labels on the pictures'.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original embossed brick red cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, lemon end papers. 12mo. 6½ x 4¼. Merriman was educated at Winchester College and Brasenose College, Oxford; and ordained in 1833. He was curate then Vicar of Street, Somerset until he emigrated to South Africa. He rose to become Archdeacon of Grahamstown, then Dean of Cape Town before being elevated the Episcopate. Conflict arose between Merriman, who was at this time the Bishop of Grahamstown and Frederick Williams, Dean of Grahamstown regarding the status of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa versus the Church of England and the validity of the appointments of bishops. Dean Williams then excluded Bishop Merriman from his Cathedral. This action resulted in many court cases which Williams won. Contains tissue-guarded colour frontispiece of Krelli his wife and counsellor, (iv), 200 pp + 16 pp publisher's catalogue with 2 further tissue-guarded colour plates, hand-coloured fold-out map dated 1850 which shows Durban as 'D'Urban', provinces as 'Amazula', 'Sovereignty Beyond the Orange River', 'Beaufort', 'Clanwilliam', and 'Uitenhage'. SIGNED by the author to Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister for the United Kingdom three times over a thirteen year period 'To The Lord R, Cecil - with the kind regards of the Bishop of Cape Town'. From Robert Gascoyne-Cecil's private library with family crest to the front paste down, illustrated with a safari hat, six feathered arrows, spiral red and white pole and name beneath 'Robert Gascoyne-Cecil'. Cameo brick red stamp 'Hatfield House Library' (The Hertfordshire Family Estate) to the the title leaf. Member of the P.B.F.A. SOUTH AFRICA (Zuid-Afrika).