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Royalty

Great Britain

King George III - nice vellum commission in which the King appoints a lieutenant of volunteers as Great Britain expands its home defense during the Napoleonic Wars, 6-27-1798, unframed

Queen Victoria - letter to The Queen from Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, with Queen Victoria’s signature approving his proposed appointment of a Major General as commandant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, 3-12-1852, unframed

Queen Mary of Teck - early autograph letter signed in which the future British queen asks for help with a garden party for friends and neighbors, unframed

King Edward VIII - The Duke of Windsor - bold handwritten sentiment signed and dated by the former King in April 1951, when he released his memoir, A Kingʼs Story, unframed

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor - album page boldly signed by the Duke and Duchess in 1956, the year the Duchess published her memoir, The Heart Has Its Reasons, unframed

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - very scarce typed letter signed sending thanks for an art print while nonetheless offering to give it up for charity, 11-19-1982, unframed

 

World Leaders

Austria

Kurt von Schuschnigg - scarce signed postcard photograph of the Austrian chancellor who opposed Hitlerʼs takeover of Austria, unframed

Canada

Brian Mulroney - beautiful inscribed, signed formal portrait of the conservative Canadian Prime Minister, unframed

China (Nationalist)

Madame Chiang Kai-shek Archive - We are privileged to offer an archive of personal letters by Madame Chiang Kai-shek spanning the years from 1959 to 1975.  Madame Chiang remains as relevant and popular as she was when she died at age 105 in 2003.  These letters range from routine to outstanding political and philosophical content.  We will be posting them online with images and full descriptions as we can.  They are offered separately, but we can offer special pricing for acquisition of the entire archive.

●  Madame Chiang Kai-shek - typed letter signed sending thanks for a homecoming gift, 6-25-1959, unframed

 Madame Chiang Kai-shek - typed letter signed sending thanks for birthday remembrances and discussing her recovery from a severe virus attack, 3-12-1960, unframed

 Madame Chiang Kai-shek - typed letter signed sending President Chiang Kai-shek’s thanks for birthday remembrances and discusses their trip—a dangerous one—to the embattled island of Quemoy, which both Nationalist and Communist China claim, 11-9-1960, unframed

●  Madame Chiang Kai-shek - excellent letter in which Madame Chiang writes of the morale of Nationalist Chinese troops, the cooperation between the United States and the Republic of China, and the bonds of friendship between nations, 2-11-1961, unframed

●  Madame Chiang Kai-shek - Madame Chiang sends New Year’s greetings and a gift of vegetables from her own garden, 2-13-1961, unframed

●  Madame Chiang Kai-shek - Madame Chiang sends thanks for birthday wishes and candy to Nationalist Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek and expresses her delight that her correspondents were back on Taiwan, 11-6-1961, unframed

Cuba

Fidel Castro - Castro signs, in person, a copy of the centerpiece of his revolutionary reforms:  the Cuban Agrarian Reform Act of 1959, with documents of provenance, unframed

Egypt

Gamal Abdel Nasser - early letter by Nasser, sending his autograph, three years after the revolution that overthrew Egyptian King Farouk I, 5-11-1955, unframed

Germany

Adolf Hitler - scarce early Nazi party document expelling a member for failure to attend an SA meeting, signed by Hitler and Nazi party Supreme Court president Walter Buch, 3-31-1927, unframed

[Adolf Hitler] - Hitler’s personal war-related books—three concerning Nazi Germany’s military operations during World War II—from his massive personal library

Philippines

Carlos P. Romulo - typed letter signed regarding his appearance on the television reality show This Is Your Life, 1-15-1959, unframed

 

World Military

Germany

Werner von Blomberg - rare personal handwritten letter by the German Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, 7-1-1938, unframed

Albert Speer - Hitlerʼs chief architect and Nazi Reich Minister of Armaments sends thanks for reviews likely of his first book, Inside the Third Reich, 3-24-1971, unframed

Great Britain

Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, GCB, PC, 1st Viscount Hardinge - letter to The Queen from Viscount Hardinge with Queen Victoria’s signature approving his proposed appointment of a Major General as commandant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, 3-12-1852, unframed

 

 

Holocaust and WWII Related Items

Adolf Eichmann - rare and important war-dated directive by Eichmann to Theodor Dannecker, Nazi head of the Jewish Department in Paris, to create a register of Jews for efficiency in actions against Jews, 9-28-1941, unframed

Rudolf Höss - extremely rare letter by Höss, the Commandant at Auschwitz, requesting the assignment of more staff officers for the infamous Nazi extermination camp, 7-16-1944, unframed

Pastor Martin Niemöller - autographed letter signed on a postcard by the German anti-Nazi dissident sending birthday greetings to a friend, 6-15-1976, unframed

 

Miscellaneous World History Fields

Authors

Brendan Behan - typed letter signed to the editor of The Atlantic Monthly expressing his eagnerness to write an article, 5-18-1958, unframed

Alexandre Dumas, fils - autograph note signed by the author of The Lady of CamelliasCamille—expressing his regret at missing a visitor, unframed

T. S. Eliot - typed letter signed declining to publish the poems of Howard Nemerov, later a Pulitzer Prize winner, 10-26-1955, unframed

 

 

 

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