Née stanhope (3 Ergebnisse)

On one side of 19 x 9 cm slip of paper with Osterley Park letterhead with her crested monogram in gold and black. In fair condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. Somewhat shaky and curiously-antiquated signature. Typed note in capitals. One word and a few minor corrections to text in autograph. Reads: 'May 24 Wednesday / My dear Jim / I am here at the receipt of custom - will you come & when? Come to dine & sleep - or stay. Only I have nothing to amuse you - can you come on the Saturday, or Sunday, moreover would you come here for or during Ascot Races your aff.te / C Clevd.' See image. …

12mo, 5 pp. A substantial letter, closely and neatly written. Very good on lightly-aged paper. A graceful and jaunty letter, verging on the sycophantic. Begins 'I have as many pardons to ask of you for my long Silence as the Pope distributes in a year of Jubillee [sic]. In all Crimes a Confession of them is some Diminution of the Guilt'. 'All the French News I can tell you is that the Card[inal]: Est un Homme Confisque [.] The Faubourg St Germain is vastly emptyd lately, Lord Barrington Strange Mr Lewison and many more decamped last Week. Lord Berkeley is gone to Aubigny where he expected to meet Lord Bolingbroke [.]'.The connection between the two families came throught the first Earl of Denbigh, who married Bridget Stanhope.…

See Fores' entry in the Oxford DNB. Almack's Assembly Rooms in King Street was the most fashionable venue for the dandies and belles of Regency London. The present item, deftly hand-coloured in pink, red, light and dark blue, and yellow, is 14 x 10.5 cm, in a grey border extending out to 16.5 x 13 cm. Within the head of the border is 'Illustrations to Almack's, Page 16.', and within the foot is the caption, with Fores' publication details at bottom-right. There are other illustrations by Fores to the novel, and it may be that they were issued as a series. In any case the present item is extremely scarce, no other copy having been located, at the British Library, British Museum Prints and Drawings, or elsewhere. The present copy is in good condition, but there is discoloration and wear to the grey border. 'Almack's / A Novel' had been published anonymously in London in 1826 by 'Saunders and Otley, Public Library, Conduit Street.' It appears to be the only novel that Marianne Spencer Hudson published. The passage referred to in the caption appears on p.21 of that edition: ' "There goes a flower of a youth," said Isaac to his ancient spouse; "he'll make a figure wherever he goes, my life on it, and my blessing go with him." / "Amen," said old Molly, wiping her eyes upon her blue checked apron. / Colonel Montague had indeed been the flower of his family, [.]'. The scene, as depicted by Fores, is of a young gentleman (Colonel Montagu), dressed in the height of fashion with hat in hand, looking at an armorial shield on the wall of a castle or hall, while he is stared at by a bespectackled rake of an old woman (Molly), hands raised, while her short and plump knock-kneed husband gestures to the young man while looking up at his wife with flushed cheeks. The overall effect is deliberately absurd. See image.…