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Douglas, Sir Howard (1776-1861). Soldier, colonial administrator of New Brunswick, author of the "Douglas Code" for the Ionian IBiblio.com

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS REQUESTING A DRAWING FOR HIS "TREATISE ON NAVAL GUNNERY".

1860réf. 34086Green Street London: April 15 1860. 1860. Very good. - Letter penned in black ink filling most of both sides of a sheet of cream paper approximately 8 inches high by 6 inches wide bordered in black. The letter is tipped onto a slightly larger piece of card stock. Signed "Howard Douglas". There is a tiny chip to the left edge of the black border. Folded twice for mailing. Very good Howard Douglas writes to Colonel John St. George 1812-1891 Director of Ordnance at the War Office asking for the return of a drawing of a gun which he wants to include in his upcoming book "Treatise on Naval Gunnery" fifth edition revised published in 1860. "I am anxious for the return of the drawing which I sent to you of the Armstrong Naval Gun on its carriage.The omission would deprive my work of a good deal of interest.I have stopped the Press waiting for your reply". General Sir Howard Douglas 3rd Baronet 1776-1861 was a British military officer and Member of Parliament for Liverpool from 1842-1847. After entering the Royal Military Academy Woolwich he was commissioned Second Liutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1794 becoming Lieutenant a few months later. He served as Governor of New Brunswick from 1823-31 and had to deal with the Maine boundary dispute with the United States of 1828. He also founded Fredericton College now known as the University of New Brunswick and was its first Chancellor. From 1835 to 1840 he was Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands where he introduced a new code of laws known as "the Douglas code". The code infuriated the Greek Orthodox patriarchate in that it included innovations affecting family life especially marriage and divorce. Abused or abandoned women could more easily obtain a divorce. Further it legalized marriage between step-siblings and second cousins. Douglas was the author of several important military and naval treatises including the "Treatise on Naval Gunnery" of which the fifth edition is referred to in this letter. It became a standard text book and was the first publication to draw attention to its subject. Green Street [London]: April 15, 1860. unknown

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Autograph Notes from 3 of Queen Caroline's Defense Attorneys

1833réf. 858971833. Souvenirs of a Royal Divorce Trial: Lady Denman Apparently Giving to a Friend Examples of the Hands of Three of the Main Figures on Queen Caroline's Legal Defence Team Including An Example of the Hand of Her Husband Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench Manuscript Archive. Caroline of Brunswick Queen Consort 1768-1821. Autograph Notes from 3 of Queen Caroline's Defense Attorneys.2 pair of manuscripts one 7-1/4" x 4-1/2" 18.4 x 11.4 cm the other 8" x 6-1/2" 20.3 x 16.5 cm which bear the hands of three chief figures of the legal team for Queen Caroline the pair of MSS apparently having been given by Lady Denman to a Mrs. Impey in 1833 with a covering MS leaf 9" x 7-1/2" 22.8 x 19 cm whose recto gives the addressee's name likely in Lady Denman's hand above which is an endorsement likely in Mrs. Impey's hand. Typed transcripts included. Light edgewear and soiling fold lines very good condition overall. $1000. A little more than a decade earlier Denman had been one of the lead counsel on the defence team of Queen Caroline and had been conspicuously brilliant thereon. Mrs. Impey appears to have been sufficiently entranced with the celebrity of the defence team more than a decade later that she showed interest in having relics examples of the hands of three of the main figures on the team: Thomas Denman 1779-1854 later Lord Chief Justice; Henry Brougham 1778-1868 later Lord Chancellor; and Sir John Williams 1777-1846 later Puisne Justice at the Court of King's Bench. This desire was answered in full by Lady Denman who provided examples of the hands for Mrs. Impey whereupon Impey carefully annotated the group with headnotes for posterity. This is possibly the earliest example to survive of an autograph hunter seeking specifically autographs of a legal defence team from any trial: we are not aware of an earlier instance. The trial was a landmark in legal history and this clutch of autographs may well be a landmark in the history of the collecting of legal manuscripts. unknown