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Lot 12

CADOGAN CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondence of the Earl of Cadogan, formerly Chief of Staff to the Duke of Marlborough, while British Minister to the Hague, Paris, Vienna, Stockholm, Rome, The Hague and elsewhere, 23 January 1715/16 to 5 August 1720

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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CADOGAN CORRESPONDENCE

Correspondence of the Earl of Cadogan, formerly Chief of Staff to the Duke of Marlborough, while British Minister to the Hague, comprising incoming letters, retained copies of outgoing letters, and documents, including eight letters by Eugene of Savoy, the Earl of Stair, British Ambassador to Paris (on Jacobite plots, his distrust of the French finance minister John Law, "an open declared enemy to our country", etc.), the Duke of Parma, Anthony Compton (concerning Cadogan's plans "to march speedily against the Enemy...in putting an End to the most Unnatural Rebellion that was Ever Known") and others, 80 pages, 4to and folio, some dust and damp staining, some tears and creasing, Paris, Vienna, Stockholm, Rome, The Hague and elsewhere, 23 January 1715/16 to 5 August 1720

Footnotes

Included in the lot is a collection of nearly seventy letters, by Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, in his capacity as Colonel of the 15th Light Dragoons, or his A-d-C, Captain Heiliger, to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Ballard Long of the same regiment, extracted from a letter book (now in a solander box), 1806-1807.

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