$1,000
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer part II
Auction: September 19, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
Kew [Palace], May 4, 1783. 1 1/2pp. on one 4to sheet; moderate creasing along folds, old cello tape repair and residue towards bottom of verso, forming an open frame for George III's signature; capital "G" of George III signature traversed by a vertical crease, the bottom of that "G" touched cello tape residue. To Lord Aylesbury [Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury], offering consolation after the death of Ailesbury's son, George Brudenell-Bruce, at the age of 21 years: " Lord Aylesbury is I trust too much convinced of my regard for him as well as my humanity to attribute my silence on the severe blow he has sustained to any cause but a wish of letting his own good leave calm his sorrows before I expressed any sentiments on so distressing an occasion,..."
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Contemporary manuscript copy of a letter from George III, dated, "Queens House, December 11, 1779," to an unidentified correspondent [Lord Aylesbury?]. 1 1/2 pp., 4to leaf with blank integral leaf. George III characterizes this Letter as "this Embryo of a Negotiation... [of] the earnest desire I have to unite my subjects in the present moment of danger, and to form a strong government out of the most able an respectable of all parties..."
An oil portrait of George Brudenell-Bruce( March 23, 1762 - March 28, 1783) as a boy of about 10 years of age, dressed in blue with a lace collar and holding a dove was painted by William Hoare of Bath. Both letters accompanied by a ms. docketing leaf seeming to indicate 2 letters from King George III.
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