Miscellaneous from Sophie Dupre

issued by the Russian Government for one Billion Roubles in 1916, with 6 of the original 20 coupons still attached, 1 side folio printed in Green Ink with the Czarist Eagle at the head, Moscow

thanking him for his "kindness in sending me the cutting. I had already recd your letter & thought it quite excellent, but what will please you far more is that Lord Rothschild entirely approved of everything you had written...", 2 sides 8vo.,New Court, 31st January New Court (also known as The Rothschild Headquarters) is a collection of… Read more about this item

showing him head and shoulders in profile, wearing his clerical clothes with a dog collar, 5¾" x 4¼", no place, no date, circa

listing three requests "1. Will you meet the Bp at luncheon here on Saturday. 2. Can you come on Wednesday week to hear a Crimean Chaplain talk in the School Room for S.P.G. at 7 p.m., Tea or some such meal will be here at 5. 3. Wd you mind writing to the Revd Wm David, Training School, Exeter,… Read more about this item

issued by the City of Moscow in 1908, with coupons, text in both English and Russian, folio with attractive vignette at the head of a knight slaying a Dragon, Moscow At the end of the 19th century, Europe lived under the law of alliances. As Germany and Russia move away, Saint Petersburg and Paris get closer. Russia… Read more about this item

Best wishes" showing him full length playing tennis, 7" x 5", no place, no date

showing him half length, in his boxing kit, 5½" x 3½" laid down on card, place and date added in another hand, London,

asking if he had ever thanked him "for that most excellent Wimborne? Finding your letter still lying about has given me qualms. It wasn't really a Wimborne, so I have invented a special page for freak contributions, which at present includes yours, and a page from a local time-table, headed 'where to shop in High Wycombe' and quite blank… Read more about this item

with a fine round photo by G. Felicif, Roma, at the head showing him seated on his throne giving a blessing, underneath the text is illuminated with gold and red, the blessing is for Joseph Kinsley and his family, there is a faint impression of the papal seal, the photo 6½ inches across and the document 14" x 11",… Read more about this item

(1830-1921, Unitarian Minister and writer who advocated non-Darwinian evolution) saying that "In the passage which you quote the connnexion of Andes[?] would be correct thus: 'who trusted in thee, and were not not ashamed', i.e. both of them Past Aorists. But this would make them both historical, and limit the statement to a definite transaction, over and gone. It… Read more about this item

to "the very Rev the Dean of Salisbury, Salisbury", 5" x 4", postmarked Birmingham, 2nd November He was a theologian, academic, intellectual, philosopher, polymath, historian, writer, scholar and poet, first as an Anglican priest and later as a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the… Read more about this item

sending his "heartfelt thanks for the precious booklet 'Bergamo in Numbers' which reflects such honour on the Chamber of Commerce and its illustrious and dear President: Congratulatoins on the increasing number of mankind's children in the land of Bergamo. I wish you continued growth without interruption in physical prosperity, and spiritual elevation. Would, perhaps, a retrospective glance be useful?… Read more about this item

saying that "this was left out by chance in the Envelope. If you think it worth while I should propose to insert it after the Preface, & refer to it by a note as on the other side of this...", 1 side 8vo., Hursley Vicarage, 20th May

with a fine round photo by G. Felicif, Roma, at the head showing him seated on his throne giving a blessing, underneath the text is illuminated with gold and red, the blessing is for Joseph Kinsley and his family, there is a faint impression of the papal seal, the photo 6½ inches across and the document 14" x 11",… Read more about this item

annotated in another hand as being Mrs Buckeridge, asking that she "cause the inclosed Letter to be safely deliver'd to Sister... on to Mrs Lewis...", 1 side 4to., Bath, 21st October Ralph Allen was a British entrepreneur and philanthropist, who was notable for his reforms to England's postal system. He was born in Cornwall but moved to… Read more about this item

asking why he is "to receive such repeated messages from Mr Walsh and his insulting solicitor. They know my determination to abide by Sir Saml Romilly's opinion and why shd I be again asked about Count Rice? He is a poor Moravian Minister now at Bristol with the mere German title of Count but this is nothing to me… Read more about this item

annotated in another hand as being Mrs Buckeridge, saying that "under this Cover I do send you the counterpart of the Lease to Price your Tenant in Herfordshire; the writing, are too many to be sent at one by the post so that I will either send them by degrees or bring them up when I go to London,… Read more about this item

saying that his "wife has asked me to write and ask if Mrs Brough and you to come ad take lunch with us on Weds next at 1.30, if you will we shall be glad...", 1 side 8vo., The Mansion House headed paper, 14th April James Rowland Brough was born in 1852 and had an illustrious career.… Read more about this item

sending him "just a lie of thanks for you kind letter of congratulation..", 1 side 8vo., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge headed paper, 29th September His brother Ernest was the Bishop of Worcester from 1919 to 1930. Pearce was ordained in 1899. His career began with a curacy at St James, Muswell Hill. He was then Vicar of… Read more about this item

saying that "Josiah Forster from London returned to Paris with his friend Elisabeth Fry from London, she proposes to visit the prisons for women of Paris. A subject that has interested her for a long time. She has learned that two gentlemen, Berenger and du Metz, are interested in the same cause. J.F. met the last one this morning… Read more about this item