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Duke of Wellington

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Duke of Wellington

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Auction Date:2012 Dec 12 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS signed “Wellington,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.5 x 9, April 19, 1851. Letter to Edgar A. Bowring upon the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. Wellington copies out Bowring’s initial letter and then responds, in part: “You have informed me that the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 were desirous of having placed a large East Indian Tent and thirty small Tents sent from Tunis for Exhibition as an Arab Encampment…I consider it my duty to give my sanction to any arrangement for the promotion of the Exhibition which Her Majesty‘s Commissioners may think proper to propose…l venture to recommend that the fence by which the Encampment may be surrounded may be made as strong as may be practicable with only one opening or mode of access.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, one vertical fold passing through a single letter of the signature, and light scattered toning.