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HASTINGS, Warren [1732-1818].
Autograph Letter, Signed.
np: March 22, 1803..
4to. pp. 3 with address panel. (seal torn off, the holes not affecting text, horizontal & vertical folds). HASTINGS, Warren [1732-1818] [Governor-General of India (1773-1785), impeached on grounds of corruption and cruelty]. Autograph Letter, Signed, dated March 22, 1803, to George Payne. Writing to say that despite reports that Mrs. Hastings has been seriously ill, she has in fact been in uncommonly good health. [OFFERED WITH:]. 2 Engraved portraits of Hastings, one by T.Bromley dated 1797 (size of sheet: 31.7 x 21.6 cm.), the other by T.Knight after a painting by Joshua Reynolds (25.75 x 16.8 cm.), and an engraved ticket of admission (21 x 16 cm.; plate measuring 16.25 x 10.7 cm.) to the 62nd day of Hastings' trial, signed by [Charles Stanhope, third Earl] Stanhope [1753-1816] [Politician], with wax seal (ticket with upper left-hand corner clipped & with short tear along 1 plate mark). Hastings was famously impeached in the House of Commons in 1787 on charges of personal corruption and high crimes and misdemeanours relating to his term as Governor in India. The trial, which lasted for a total of 145 days over a period of seven years and three months, cost Hastings £70,000, and almost bankrupted him. In April of 1795 he was acquitted of all charges, and in 1814 he was made a Privy Councillor.
$899 USD Book Number: elala2185 Order / Enquire

HILLS, George [1816-1895].
Autograph letter, signed.
[London]: 1864..
8vo. 3 pages. (fold marks, traces of old mount on inner margin of blank). HILLS, George [1816-1895] [First Anglican Bishop of British Columbia (1860-92)]. Autograph letter, signed 'G. Columbia', dated [London, England], February 8, 1864. "I am to be in Bath next week. Three young men King & one Harding. all worthy - I have seen something of in Columbia. I should like to see the family of the former.& I (.?) to ask whether a meeting could be got together of the neighbourhood to hear particulars of the Columbia Mission.".
$225 USD Book Number: elala793 Order / Enquire

HOTHAM, William, first Baron Hotham [1736-1813].
Manuscript Letter, Signed.
Hamourze (?): August 4, 1769..
one-page folio, verso blank except for ms. docket title. (horizontal & vertical folds, several tears at folds repaired, paper loss at upper right corner - repaired & dated added in later hand). HOTHAM, William, first Baron Hotham [1736-1813] [British Admiral (1795], Commander of the Mediterranean fleet (1794-95). Manuscript Letter to the Honble. Navy Board, signed by Hotham, stating that the Monthly Muster Book of HMS Hero was delivered the day before. Dated Hero in Hamourze (?), August 4, 1769.
$100 USD Book Number: elala5036 Order / Enquire

HUME, Joseph [1777-1855].
Manuscript Letter, Signed.
London: June 28, 1842..
folio. pp. 2 with conjugate blank leaf (horizontal folds). with signed cover with remnants of seal. HUME, Joseph [1777-1855] [Scottish Doctor and Radical Politician]. Manuscript Letter, Signed, dated Bryanstone Square, June 28, 1842, to the Master of Dulwich College. A plea for the granting of two or three days a week free admission to the public to view the art collection at the College. The oldest public art gallery in England, it was founded in the early seventeenth century by actor and philanthropist Edward Alleyn as part of Alleyn's College of God's Gift. The Dulwich Art Gallery houses one of the country's finest collections of Old Masters, especially rich in French, Italian and Spanish Baroque paintings and in British portraits from Tudor times to the 19th century. "...the formation of the National Gallery and theIr facilities have clearly proved that the people of this country, as much as any people in the world, are alive to the influence and objects of art and intellectual interests and their excellent conduct at all those exhibitions has called forth the unanimous applause of the officers and attendants of the various places of exhibition...I request your perusal of the Evidence of Colonel Rowan, Chief Commissioner of Police before the Select Committee...I send you a copy of the Report of the late Select Committee...on National Monuments; and also of several reports...which contain a statement of the very beneficial results of the increased liberality in the free admission of the Public at the British Museum National Gallery Hampton Court East India Museum...it is my intention early in the ensuing month to call the attention of the House of Commons to the Report of 1841, and I shall be pleased to be able to notice your concurrence in the recommendations therein offered...".
$400 USD Book Number: elala5037 Order / Enquire

HUNTER, Peter [1746-1805] [second Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (1799-1805) & Commander-in-Chief of the forces in Canada].
Printed and Manuscript Document on Vellum: Grant of 300 Acres in the Township of Elmsley in the County of Leeds to George Chisholm, dated May 7, 1803, entered with the auditor September 5, 1804, signed & initialed by Peter Hunter, also signed by Peter Russell [1733-1808; former president and administrator of Upper Canada (1796-99)].
np: 1803..
with wax seal. An early Upper Canada land grant, complete with the original wax seal of the province (imprinted with anchor, crown and sword). The grantee, George Chisholm, was a United Empire Loyalist who was settled in the Township of Flamborough East, near Hamilton. His son, William Chisholm, became a prominent Upper Canada politician and businessman who founded the town of Oakville.
$1249 USD Book Number: elala0004 Order / Enquire

INCHBALD, Elizabeth [1753-1821].
Autograph Letter in the Third Person.
np: May 18, 1804..
8vo. pp. 2 (short splits at edges of horizontal folds). INCHBALD, Elizabeth [1753-1821] [British novelist, actess & dramatist]. Autograph Letter in the third person, dated May 18, 1804, to 'Mr. Hamilton'. "...she shall pay the utmost attention to the contents of his letter when the time arrives for printing the work. But that is...at present unfinished & which she feels a strong inclination to postpone it for as long as possible."
$400 USD Book Number: elala5038 Order / Enquire

JAMESON, Anna Brownell [1794-1860].
Autograph Letter, Signed.
np: nd..
12mo. pp. 4. (horizontal & vertical folds). JAMESON, Anna Brownell [1794-1860] [British Writer]. Autograph Letter, Signed, undated, to a Mrs. Coleman. Regretting that she was unable to meet her due to the arrival of a friend from London and hopes that Mrs. Coleman can visit her the following week. She mentions that she has just returned from a sojourn in Brighton and at present is suffering from pain and weakness in her eyes, which makes writing an effort.
$150 USD Book Number: elala5039 Order / Enquire

JAPANESE CANADIAN INTERNMENT.
Collection of 9 typed and manuscript letters and original documents, most relating to the internment during World War II of Eitaro Aida originally of Cumberland, B.C.
vp: 1911-1951..
[ff. 24]. Aida was born in Japan in 1880 and first came to Canada in 1907, living in Cumberland, Vancouver, and again in Cumberland where he owned four properties including a tailor shop, until he was evacuated in April, 1942. He stayed at Hastings Park for five months before being moved the interior housing centre of New Denver in the Kootenays. There he remained in detention for four years until he was released and able to relocate to Toronto. Aida was one of some 21,000 Japanese Canadians living in British Columbia detained and dispossessed under the War Measures Act following the attack on Pearl Harbour. The papers document the seizure and forced sale of Aida's properties and personal possessions at auction, all itemized with prices realized, in four typed letters, dating from 1945 to 1948, from the Canadian Department Of The Secretary of State, Office of the Custodian, Japanese Evacuation Section in Vancouver, B.C. Also included here are Aida's 1911 Japanese Passport, his 1947 request for compensation, his 1949 application for naturalization papers, and his 1951 Certificate of Canadian Citizenship.
$1250 USD Book Number: elala5681 Order / Enquire

KELLY, James Butler [1832-1907].
Autograph letter, signed.
[London]: 1867..
8vo. one page, with integral blank leaf (horizontal folds). stitch in paper wrs. KELLY, James Butler [1832-1907] [Anglican Coadjutor Bishop of Newfoundland; Bishop of Newfoundland (1876-77)]. Autograph letter, signed 'James B.Kelly', dated 2. S. Katharine's, Regent Park N.W., [London], Sept. 25, 1867. Promising Miss Mackenzie he will promote the circulation of the 'Net' in Newfoundland.
$100 USD Book Number: elala797 Order / Enquire

KEMPT, Sir James [1764-1854].
Autograph letter, signed.
np: 1825..
8vo. 2 pages. (fold marks, very small tear at centre fold). KEMPT, Sir James [1764-1854] [Quartermaster-General in British North America (1807-1811); Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia (1820-28; with intermittent leaves of absence); Administrator of the government of Lower Canada (1828-30)]. Autograph letter, signed, dated April 18, 1825, to Colonel Cochrane of the 3rd Foot Guards. Acting in his capacity as Colonel of the 81st Regiment, Kempt expresses his interest in a Macdonald of the 3rd Foot Guards. "The Adjutantcy of my Regiment (the 81st) being now vacant - in Consequence of the recent promotion of the Adjutant to a Company in the Corps - I have heard good Character of Sergeant (?) Major Macdonald of the Battalion under your Command that I am induced through you to make him an Offer of that Situation, under the impression that he is every way qualified to fill it with credit to himself and advantage to the Division.".
$150 USD Book Number: elala799 Order / Enquire

LANSDOWNE, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, Fifth Marquess of [1845-1927].
Photo on card, signed.
np: nd..
4 3/8" x 3 3/8". framed. LANSDOWNE, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, Fifth Marquess of [1845-1927] [Governor-General of Canada (1883-1888)]. Photo by Lafayette on card, signed 'Lansdowne'.
$175 USD Book Number: elala804 Order / Enquire

LAURIER, Sir Wilfrid. [1822-1892] [Prime Minister of Canada (1896-1911)].
Typed letter written and signed on behalf of Laurier by his Private Secretary, Rodolphe Boudneau.
Ottawa: 1906..
4to. 1 page on Prime Minister's Office letterhead. LAURIER, Sir Wilfrid. [1822-1892] [Prime Minister of Canada (1896-1911)]. Typed letter written on behalf of Laurier by his Private Secretary; Rodolphe Boudneau, signed 'Rodolphe Boudneau', dated Ottawa, 16th October, 1905, to William Murray Esq., Athol Bank, Hamilton. 4to. pp. 1, with integral blank. (horizontal folds). With free-franked envelope. Thanking Murray for his past letter.
$400 USD Book Number: alysser190 Order / Enquire

LAW, Edward, first Earl of Ellenborough [1790-1871].
Autograph Letter, Signed, dated Northampton, April 16, 1830, to W.Hatch (?).
Northampton: 1830..
8vo. pp. 2 with conjugate blank. LAW, Edward, first Earl of Ellenborough [1790-1871] [British Politician, Governor-General of India (1842-44)]. "...The two statements Mr. Kearney (?) is represented ...to have made with respect to me, ..."that his claim was noted" and "that the matter lay with you" are falsehoods." Ellenborough at the time was president of the Board of Control in Wellington's government. "[Ellenborough's] Indian administration of two and a half years, or half the usual term of service, was from first to last a subject of hostile criticism...The events chiefly in dispute are his policy towards Afghanistan and the army and captives there, his conquest of Scinde, and his campaign in Gwalior." (Wikipedia)
$150 USD Book Number: elala5064 Order / Enquire

LAW, Edward, first Earl of Ellenborough [1790-1871].
Autograph Letter, Signed, dated Southam, Nov. 19, to Mr. Phillips.
Southam: nd..
1-page 12mo. LAW, Edward, first Earl of Ellenborough [1790-1871] [British Politician, Governor-General of India (1842-44)]. Noting that the Chancellor is very seriously ill. "[Ellenborough's] Indian administration of two and a half years, or half the usual term of service, was from first to last a subject of hostile criticism...The events chiefly in dispute are his policy towards Afghanistan and the army and captives there, his conquest of Scinde, and his campaign in Gwalior." (Wikipedia)
$100 USD Book Number: elala5065 Order / Enquire

LE VASSEUR, Michel [c1699-1755].
Autograph document, signed.
Chambly: 1737..
small 4to. one page. LE VASSEUR, Michel [c1699-1755] [Recollet, parish priest at Chambly, 1724-45, and at Berthierville, 1745-51]. Autograph document, signed, dated Chambly, March 23, 1737. Ratification of sale of property by Jacques Gauthier and his wife, Marie-Louise Tessier, to Geofroy Lefebvre. Also signed by Pierre De Forest and Joseph De Niverville (probably Joseph Claude Boucher de Niverville [1715-1804], of Chambly, who was a lieutenant in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War, superintendent of the Indians in the district of Trois-Rivières, and colonel of militia.
$250 USD Book Number: elala806 Order / Enquire

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