STANHOPE Lady Hester - AL 1803 interceding for an injured captain Autograph Type_Autograph Albums and Leaves

STANHOPE Lady Hester - AL 1803 interceding for an injured captain Autograph Type_Autograph Albums and LeavesLady Hester STANHOPE (1776 1839) Autograph Letter in the third person to Lord Auckland [then Postmaster General], requesting his aid for Captain Osborne of the Diana, who is recovering from a dreadful hurt. 5 pages 4to with integral address leaf, Thomas Hotel [Berkeley Square], 9 September 1803. An early letter, with interesting associations, written nearly seven years before her travels in the Middle East. Lady Hester was, at the time, running the

Alexander Calder’s exhibition

Terndale was most likely an English civilian traveller stranded in France at the resumption of hostilities in May 1803

children and working class women

and praising the work of Monsieur Nussbaum of the Foyer school at the Pléiades in Switzerland

To our right

including Ney and Murat as well as Eugene de Beauharnais

“Just a line to say that I have got your letter & appreciate the arrangement

there was much discussion among the brothers – not only Joseph and Napoleon but also Lucien

he eventually accepted a small part in Les Enfants du Paradis

and Roman States

For a time

thanking him for a medical pamphlet