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Elizabeth, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth [ [nee Lady Elizabeth Berkeley; Elizabeth Craven, Lady Craven] (1750-1828)Biblio.com

‘The Beautiful Lady Craven’: Elizabeth Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth playwright travel writer and source of scandal. Three Autograph Letters Signed one asking ‘Mrs. Roe’ to look out for flannel and a mantua maker.

Best.-Nr. 24510No dates or places. A friend of Horace Walpole she was described by Boswell after a dinner with her and Dr Johnson as ‘the beautiful gay and fascinating Lady Craven’. See her entry in the Oxford DNB. The three items are laid down with eight other items see the end of this description on pieces of paper cut down from two leaves of an album. Somewhat discoloured with age but in fair overall condition. The recipient or recipients of the second and third letters laid down on the same piece of paper are not named although the third is written to a member of her ‘fishing gentry’. All three letters are signed ‘Elizabeth’. The second letter contains a reference to her son Keppel Richard Craven 1799-1851 who has his own entry in the Oxford DNB. ONE: Dated ‘Tuesday’. Begins: Dr. Mrs. Roe - / I’ll thank you to see in Newbury if thers sic any fine sort of flannel - Look at them as for yourself - if you can get me some Patterns - I’ll call this Evening between Six & Seven - if you know of any good Mantua Maker - & appoint her about that hour - it is something I want made for Miss Bentham - I hope you caught no cold last night’. TWO: Begins: ‘I have not had Time to thank you for the Piano - which is Dumb. Keppel is around in London - & I may Expect him any moment - & my niece Arundell - if we are not all Killed by the Thunder’. She ends by stating that she will be glad to see the receipient ‘whenever you can come to me’. THREE: Reads: ‘I am oblig’d to go to Southampton to Consult Hacket being very unwell - I return tomorrow - I have told Major Roper who remains here with his Daughter that my fishing gentry were to Come & so he will receive you as if I was at Home’. On the reverse of the piece of paper which the first letter is attached to are laid down eight items including a note in the third person by ‘Lord Redesdale on Batsford Park letterhead the 1866 signature of Lord Rollo two fragments with signature of Lord Lifford and the front of a letter said to be addressed in the autograph of Agnes Strickland. No dates or places.. unknown

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Hunting [Captain Charles Gould; George Charles Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley; the Lymington Hunt]:Biblio.com

Fox-hunting; Lymington Hunt Manuscript copies perhaps in Berkeley's hand of two letters from Gould to Berkeley with two of Berkeley's replies.

Best.-Nr. 464127 to 30 November 1842. Berkeley was an author and sportsman 1800-1881. Six pages quarto. Good though grubby and on discoloured paper. Removed from a letter book and with the letters all in the same hand numbered 4 to 7. Concerns a dispute within the Lymington Hunt. LETTER 4: Gould to Berkeley 27 November 1842 Muddiford near Christchurch. 'On my return Home late yesterday Evening I found that Mr. O'Kelly had been waiting for some hours to consult with me relative to your letter to him of the 25th inst. . I understand from Mr O'Kelly that 25 Copies of the Papers alluded to were privately printed about 15 only of which were circulated for the use of our Committee & Members of the Hunt to save the Secretary time & trouble in going into an explanation with the several parties interested in the settlement of thte question. I have Mr. O'Kelly's assurance that in adopting this course he never meant any personal offence to Coll. Keppel .'. Only one of Keppel's letters has been printed containing 'Lord Fitzhardinge's decision on the point which had so long been in dispute .'. LETTER 5: Berkeley to Gould 28 November 1842 Charborough Park. Gould is 'not in possession of all the facts of the case'. O'Kelly 'infringed the rule by circulating Copies among those in no way connected with the Lymington Hunt as in the instance of Mr. Morant and Mr. Powell of the Grenadier Guards. . though Coll. Keppel was himself the largest contributor to our Lymington Harriers he was kept profoundly ignorant of the whole transaction of printing' . to use Coll. Keppel's words to Mr O'Kelly in his note to him of the 22d I care not what mere publicity has been given to that part of the transaction but it is the printing and publishing of a private correspondence coupled with objectionable remarks for which I still demand redress.' LETTER 6: Gould to Berkeley 29 November 1842 Muddiford near Christchurch. '. I am decidedly of your opinion that the Copies ought to be withdrawn from those persons . not being connected with the Lymington Hunt .'. LETTER 7: Berkeley to Gould 30 November 1842 Charborough Park. He is 'perfectly satisfied with the Conclusion at which matters have arrived'. 'From the notoriety which the affair has obtained it will now be my duty to give the Correspondene which has passed through my hands to the public journals.' 27 to 30 November 1842. unknown

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Velters Cornewall Berkeley (1754-1804), Royal Navy officer who served in the American War of Independence and the French RevolutBiblio.com

Captain Velters Cornewall Berkeley RN. Autograph Letter Signed as captain of HMS Emerald requesting that the Commissioners of the Navy will pay the company of HMS Juno who have been ‘turned over’ to the Emerald.

Best.-Nr. 25127‘Emerald Nore the 12 Decr 1795’. At the time of writing Berkeley’s newly-constructed HMS Emerald had just completed her coppering and fitting-out at Woolwich. Sailing to join Jervis’s Mediterranean fleet within less than a year she would be involved in controversy. Following the Battle of Cape St Vincent 14 February 1797 in which HMS Emerald was too lightly built to take part the victorious Jervis sent Berkeley off with a squadron of five ships in search of the disabled Spanish flagship Santisima Trinidad. On 20 February Berkeley declined to engage when he sighted her under tow. This decision was widely criticised and there were calls for Berkeley’s court-martial. Two months later on 26 April 1797 HMS Emerald was cruising with the Irresistible off the Spanish coast when they captured two enemy frigates one of which sank at sea. 1p folio. In fair condition on aged and worn paper with slight chipping to corners and edges. Addressed to ‘Principal Officers & Commrs. of HMs. Navy’. Reads: ‘Gentlemen / His Majesty’s Ship under my Command having arrived here this day I have to request you will cause the necessary Steps to be taken for the Payment of the Company of His Majesty’s Ship Juno who have been turned over to serve in the Emerald as soon as possible as I am in hourly Expectation of receiving Orders to proceed to Sea - / I am / Gentlemen / Your humble Servt / J. Cornewall Berkeley’. Docketed on reverse: ‘12 Decr. 95 / Captn Berkeley / Emerald / desires he may be paid’. Also on reverse: ‘Will the Board please to Order the Juno’s Pay Books which were paid in Tower to be forwarded to Shearness. sic / P. H. / 14 Decembr.’ and the following with the initials of three commissioners ‘Let the Books be sent accordingly / CH Captain Charles Hope Deputy Comptroller of the Navy 1795-1801 JH John Henslow 1730-1815 Surveyor to the Navy 1784-1806 GM / Acquaint Captn’. ‘Emerald, Nore, the 12 Decr 1795’. unknown

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