Military and Maritime Autographs

DUKE OF WELLINGTON Autograph letter. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. British soldier, victor of Waterloo and twice Prime Minister (1824 and 1828-30). AL on pasteboard card.  1p.  Apsley House.  July 28th [the year 1843 added in another hand].  To the Equerry in Waiting on the King of Hanover.  Sold together with a contemporary engraved portrait."Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to the Equerry in Waiting on the King of Hanover.  He will attend his Majesty's commands at Kew on Sunday the 30th instant at ¼ before eight o'clock."  Approx 5.5 x 4 inches (14 x 10.....

DUKE OF WELLINGTON Autograph Letter signed.  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. British soldier, victor of Waterloo and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1824 and 1828-30). ALS. 1p. London. July 13th 1843.  To Admiral [Benjamin] Page, Ipswich, Suffolk.  "My Dear Admiral, I have received your letter of the 12th inst. It is very true that I have not written to you lately, nor have I had the pleasure of hearing from you.  I am concerned to hear your health is not quite so . . . [?] as I could wish.  But I do not doubt that the fine.....

HUGH WHEELER Autograph Letter Signed. Major-General Sir Hugh Massey Wheeler. English army officer of the East India Company. Killed with his entire garrison at Cawnpore in the Indian Mutiny (1857). ALS.  4pp. Julunder. February 10th 1849. To "My dear Mr Sherry".   "Thanks for yours of the 7th received this morning.  I assure you that if I could show you the sketch which went with my report to H[ea]d Q[uarte]rs, made by the field engineer, of the scene of our operations, you would be still more surprised at Downing's experiences.  I had scarcely dispatched my last to you when I.....

SIR GARNET WOLSELEY AUTOGRAPH LETTER Signed. British Field Marshal who served in many campaigns, including the Crimea and Indian Mutiny.  ALS. 1p. War Office.  11th March 1887. To [William] Woodall. "A paper has just reached me from which I send you an extract as bearing upon Mr Laurie's foolish stories about matters that he evidently knew very little. Sincerely yours, Wolseley." Bifolium. 8vo. Approx 18 x 11.5 cms. Fine. Sir Garnet Wolseley is possibly referring to an extract from the writing of the military historian William Ferguson Beatson Laurie, who had written on both the Crimean and Zulu War campaigns. .....

SIR GARNET WOLSELEY Autograph Letter Signed. British Field Marshal who served in many campaigns, including the Crimea and Indian Mutiny.   ALS.  2pp. Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin.  22nd August 1895.  To [William] Woodall. Together with a fine, large contemporary portrait photograph.   "You have paid me a great compliment in your letter of congratulations, and I prize very much the kind and flattering things you say in it.  I always found in you a most sympathetic colleague who always had the interests of the army and therefore of the country thoroughly at heart.  May I always have as kind and.....