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[Duncan Robertson, wig maker and perfumer.] Two Manuscript Itemised Accounts and one Signed Manuscript Receipt, with General Robertson of Lawers and his wife.
[Duncan Robertson, wig maker and perfumer; Lieutenant-General Archibald Robertson of Lawers]
Published by The receipt dated from Edinburgh 12 January The accounts for the periods December 1808 to April 1809 and January to December 1809 1810
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The three items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The accounts are both 1p., foolscap 8vo., and written in a sprawling uneducated hand. The first account is headed 'Genl Robertson to Duncan Robertson', and deals with the period from December 1808 to April 1809. Totalling £6 18s 2d, it includes 'two box Dubessons opiate',… 'two bottles oil of rose', 'Two Crop wigs', 'Blacking', 'Riggs magnetic Tablet', 'a lib of old windsor soap', 'pott pomatum'. The second account is headed 'Mrs Genl Robertson to Duncan Robertson'. Totalling £8 13s 0d, it includes: 'a box Dubissons opiate', '3 pr fine Gloves', 'necklace & Snaps', 'Black broch', '4 Square Berry Soap', 'a fine Shell Dressing Comb'. The receipt is on a slip of 8 x 21 cm paper, with two embossed twopenny tax stamps. It reads: 'Edinh 12 Jany 1810 Received by the Hands of Mr Dundas W S for account Rendered to Genl & Mrs Robertson of Lawers fifteen pounds Eleven Shillings Sterling being i full of all Demands to this date | Duncan Robertson'. Docketted on reverse: 'Genl. Robertson | Receipt by Duncan Robertson Wigmaker for £15 . 11/ paid 12 Jany 1810'.
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Hand coloured aquatint, 220 x 160 mm. imprint cropped from bottom edge, laid down. A satirical print showing a clueless Englishman asking for directions in Paris.
[ Lincoln's Inn, 1858. ] Material relating to the calling to the bar of Richard Harington (later 11th Baronet), including bill and receipt from 'The Honorable Society', 'Copy of Order', notices, correspondence from the robe maker and wig maker
Sir Richard Harington of Ridlington, 11th Baronet (18351911) [ Michael Doyle, Steward, Lincoln's Inn; Joseph Ede, robe maker; Burton Ravenscroft and J. R. Metherell, wig makers; ]
Published by Lincoln's Inn London 1858
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10 items. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. All but the last in manuscript. ONE: 'Copy of Order on Call to the Bar', Lincoln's Inn, 'Dated Michas Term 1858.' 1p., 8vo. Signed at foot 'Ml Doyle | Steward.' Reads: 'At a Special Council there held the Sixteenth day of November, in the Twenty second year of the Reign of our…Sovereign Lady Victoria, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty eight. | Ordered that Richard Harington Esquire a Fellow of this Society, whose Petition was read at the last Council, and whose Call to the Bar was moved by John George Phillimore Esquire, having passed with Honour a Public Examination in Michaelmas Term One thousand eight hundred and fifty eight, kept Twelve Terms Commons, attended three Introductions and two Receptions, attained the age of Twenty one years, and conformed himself to the rules of this Society be Called to the Bar on Wednesday the Seventeenth day of November instant, on paying all his arrears of dues and duties, and the customary Fines, to the Treasurer of this Society, and that he be published in the Hall on the said Seventeenth day of November.' TWO and THREE: Printed notices made out in manuscript, both signed by Doyle, The first (2pp., 12mo), 3 November 1858, regarding Harington's 'Petition to be Called'. The second (1p., 12mo), 13 November 1858, regarding the process of being called to the bar. FOUR: Harington's bill from the Society for Michaelmas Term 1858. 1p., 4to. A copperplate printed form, filled out in manuscript. The bill totals £73 4s 4d, and includes 'Eating Commons', 'Gowns', 'Chapel &c. and Pensions', and fees on being called to the bar, 'to the Society | the Library | for Stamps'. FIVE: Receipt signed by Doyle for payment of Item Two above. SIX: Receipt for £1 16s 0d, 'for Wine & Dessert on the occasion of his Call to the Bar', signed by Doyle 'for John Punt second Butler'. SEVEN: Autograph Letter Signed to Harington from 'J: Ede', on his letterhead as 'Robe Maker, To Her Majesty, Fleet Street, Corner of Chancery Lane, And at 29, King St. Cheapside'. 4 November 1858. Reads: 'Being inform'd by Mr Doyle (Steward of The Honble. Society of Lincolns Inn) that it is your intention to be call'd to the Bar I have taken the liberty to enclose my Card, Soliciting the honor of Making your proper Gown If favor'd with the Order you may depend on Me for giving Satisfaction'. EIGHT: Autograph Letter Signed to Harington form 'Burton Ravenscroft', on his letterhead as 'Law Wig Maker. | Hair-cutter & Perfumer.' 4 November 1858. He takes 'the liberty of encloseing [sic] a card', and solicits 'the honor of making you a Forensic Wig'. NINE: Autograph Note Signed to Harington from 'J. R. Metherell', 47 Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn. 5 November 1858. Stating that he would charge '4 or 5 Guineas' for a 'Bar Wig'. TEN: Newspaper cutting with note by Harington: 'Extract from ye Globe Nov 17th 1858'. Regarding the 'gentlemen' who were 'this day called to the Degree of Barrister at Law by the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn', including 'Richard Harington, Esq., B.A., Oxford (Certificate of Honour First Class)'. Harington succeeded to the baronetcy in 1877. From the Harington family papers.
Published by On letterheads of North End House Rottingdean Sussex. Two from the others from 1967 1968 and 1969. 1965
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The nine letters are in good condition, lightly aged. They total nineteen pages, on a mixture of 4to and 12mo leaves, and cards. A chatty and gossipy correspondence, written in a flowing loose hand, going well beyond business matters. The first letter, 9 May 1965, is signed 'Enid B.', the others being signed 'Enid'. It is the on…ly letter in its envelope, which is marked 'Private' by EB and addressed by her to 'Stanley Hall Esq | Wig Creations | 25 Portman Close | Baker Street | London W.1'. The tone of the first letter is representative. She states of one wig: 'I was getting desperate about mini it looked like coir door mat but two [buzzy?] to leave theatre. I'm afraid it will all be no good (play) She cant remember her lines sufficiently to get gaiety into it so its all played on downbeat, like a funeral. Oh dear oh dear I wore new wig last night to dine to meet Harold Pinter. I set out full of self-admiration but when I got back at midnight I realised why I had sat straight upright mum & severe. It was because somehow I looked like a retired Royalty living at Chislehurst. Too gold. Too many insistant [sic] curls. You are so patient you not only make beautiful wigs but you allow me to grumble.' In the second letter (15 May 1968) she asks for a wig to be 'dyed carbon-black in mourning for my lost play Terry sd last night "It's a massacre of your play but it might just be entertainment." I have a spare stall (with me) if you'd like to be in at the funeral?' In a letter of 19 July [no year] she gives directions, with a crude drawing, to her home: 'A sort of Cockeyed double house "North End House" with blue plaque "Sir Edward Burne Jones" attached to wall'. On 17 January 1968 she writes of Dame Sybil Thorndyke: 'Rehearsals on Monday Dame Sybil already knew every word unlike the lady bitch I saw look so pretty in your wig (too low over forehead, dear!) & waited. Sang her famous notes so "Modestly". As for me Im not even weaving the topnot [sic] (I must get Gordon to set it) & tonight Diana's rank & fashion assemble her at my house as the semi-hostess (Duff Cooper Memorial Party) will sit in a very expensive dress but bought eleven years ago, & my "charming" hair brushed up over pearly-pink baldness who cares when they've got rehearsals on?' In the last letter, 24 October 1969, she writes, following 'John's party (which was lovely - & how I liked Tyrone Guthrie)', that she 'felt so tired I almost then & there vowed I'd never go to London for the night again. Thats nonsense, of course. But what isn't nonsense is this: that just now what I have been wishing for for at least 3 years has come to pass that I am writing happily excitedly & rhymithically [sic] each day reconstructing my childhood & so on especially girlhood (& the first agonising coping with men plus what I thought was the disaster of my looks!)'. Derek Granger, in an obituary in the Independent, 14 January 1994, describes Hall as 'the undisputed master of his trade', 'in his great heyday without peer in his craft', employing 150 workers 'to sort the hair and weave and dress the wigs' in his Portman Close premises. Granger adds that Hall's 'buoyant sociability made him the friend and confidant of many of those whose heads he so cleverly adorned. [] he also began to flourish as a lavish London host and party-giver'.
