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réf. 2407425 February 1911. On letterhead of Failand House Failand near Bristol. See Fry’s entry in the Oxford DNB. Dickinson was an influential proponent of the League of Nations. The present item concerns the London Declaration concerning the Laws of Naval War an international code of maritime law following on from the second Hague Conference. Great Britain as the world’s chief naval power had felt that such a court should be governed by defined principles and had convened an international concerence in London in 1908. The Declaration that was issued three years later comprised 71 articles. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition lightly aged. Folded once. Signed ‘Edw: Fry’ and addressed to ‘W. H. Dickinson Esq MP’. He begins by expressing a willingness to ‘join the General Committee to promote the ratification of the Declaration of London’ feeling that ‘if both it & the Convention for the prize Court be not satisfied our Governt. will stand in a sad position amongst the nations. We proposed the International Court at the Hague we carried it through we called the Conference of London we got what we were contented with - & if now we withdraw who will take the trouble to negociate with us’ Were Britain’s ‘food supply’ being ‘placed in peril’ then of course ‘we would withdraw & accept our disgrace - but I do not think that this is so’. 25 February 1911. On letterhead of Failand House, Failand, near Bristol. unknown
réf. 247867 February 1829. Dublin. Within a couple of years of his death Norbury’s nickname was given as ‘the hanging judge’ see ‘The Georgian Era’ vol.2 1833 and yet no mention is made of the fact in his entry in the Oxford DNB. The present document is 1p 4to. On the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium. In fair condition lightly aged. The declaration in a secretarial hand reads: ‘We the undersigned have pleasure in recommending Alexander Hawthorne of Sackville Street Glover as a person worthy of being honored with the commands of their Excellencies the Most Noble The Duke & Duchess of Northumberland having known him for many years to be an honest industrious respectable tradesman & one of the best Glove Manufacturers in Dublin’. Beneath this the Bishop of Meath writes: ‘45 Great Georges Street North / Feby 7th 1829 As far as I have knowledge I believe Alexander Hawthorne of Sackville Street to be an honest Man and a good Tradesman - Nathl: Meath’. And beneath that: ‘I know the bearer & know him a respectable Glover - 9 Gardiners row Norbury’. Norbury’s signature is largely written and heavily-inked. See Image. 7 February 1829. Dublin. unknown