[INDIA]: Selection of signed Free Front envelope panels, a few signed pieces, some A.Ls.S. etc., by various British ...

[INDIA]: Selection of signed Free Front envelope panels, a few signed pieces, some A.Ls.S. etc., by various British colonial administrators, a few military officers etc., all of whom were associated with India, most serving as Viceroy and Governor-General, comprising Marquess Wellesley (Governor-General 1798-1805), Marquess of Hastings (Governor-General 1813-23), Earl Amherst (Governor-General 1823-28; addressed to Lady Maxwell in Rochester), Lord William Bentinck (Governor-General 1828-35; addressed to Lady Jane Montgomerie at Eglinton Castle), Earl of Auckland (Governor-General 1836-42), Lord Ellenborough (Governor-General 1842-44), Earl of Dalhousie (Governor-General 1848-56), Viscount Canning (Governor-General 1856-58; addressed to Lady Stuart de Rothsay at Eglinton Castle), Lord Northbrook (Governor-General 1872-76; A.L.S. to Lord Sidney, commenting 'So there has been a game of ''post'' in the Cabinet. I am very glad they have not changed me, for I am very happy where I am, & I might fail [?] to do work about which I know even less than I know about ship building & great guns', 20th December 1882), Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (1827-1905, British General who fought during the Indian Rebellion of 1857; A.L.S. regarding the disposal of shares of the Cheltenham College, 29th November 1890), Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere (1773-1865, British Field Marshal, Commander-in-Chief, India 1825-30; addressed to General Sir Henry Torrens at the Horse Guards, London), George Harris, 1st Baron Harris (1746-1829, British Lieutenant-General, Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army), James Skinner (1778-1841, Anglo-Indian Colonel with the Bengal Army), Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811, Scottish politician, instrumental in the expansion of British influence in India as president of the Board of Control for Indian Affairs 1793-1801; A.L.S. regarding the recommendation of a regiment for his correspondent, 6th December 1791) and Cecil Beadon (1816-1880, English administrator in British India, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal 1862-66; incomplete A.L., lacking the signature, in part, 'I shall be delighted to propose Andrew Hunter but you must ask his father to send me particulars as to his present position and profession and residence….', on the blind embossed stationery of the Oriental Club, 9th December 1878). Many of the free front envelope panels are laid down to portions of pages removed from an album and with a collector's neat ink annotations mounted below. Generally G, 15