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Document states: "Queens county Common Pleas Whitehead Cornwell vs. Isaac Hendrickson Plea And the said Whitehead by Alexander Hamilton his Attorney comes and defends the force and injury when (?) and Says that he is not guilt of the said trespass as the said Isaac above complains against him and of this he puts himself upon the Country and the said Isaac likewise Hamilton for Def't Queens County for Whitehead Cornwell puts him in his place Alexnder Hamilton his Attorney at the suit of Isaac Hendrickson in the plea aforesaid" (on back) "Queens County Com. Pleas Whitehead Cornwell vs Isaac Hendrickson Plea Hamilton Atty." (and in another hand) "with leave by consent to give the special matter in evidence."; 6 3/4" x 8" approx. size; no date but circa 1802; Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757-1804) American statesman; light browning along old fold lines; very good condition. Interesting documentation of an Alexander Hamilton case. Comparison of signatures from other documents does not conclusively indicate that this is his writing hand, nevertheless this piece is certainly worthy of further research; we note a small reference in the Aaron Burr papers to a Whitehead Cornwell and the Library of Congress Hamilton papers show the case as part of his legal history; perhaps there is a connection here between these two men and to Hamilton and his subsequent death in the duel that ended his life.
C 1802 Manuscript Legal Document Concerning Alexander Hamilton
(Alexander Hamilton)
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A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of Lord George Hamilton; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; Lord George Francis Hamilton (1845-1927) British politician, "...Disraeli made him under-secretary for India...(and) From 1895 Hamilton was secretary of state for India, a post he held for a record eight years...The Times obituarist (23 Sept 1927) highlighted the ‘great work he did at the Admiralty’ and his ‘long and able tenure of the Indian Office’, but felt that ‘he held fast to a tradition too austere to be popular; his own political imagination was not inflamed, and he had neither the will nor the power to inflame the imagination of others’. John Morley had found that at the India Office he was remembered as an outstanding minister. These are among many indications that he was a gifted administrator with a strong sense of duty and of loyalty to party, but limited political gifts. Hamilton was always good company, if no great orator-a man unexpectedly and misleadingly catapulted into popular electoral politics." He was a diligent defender of the independence of Indian government, even against the cabinet (John Ramsden in the DNB; photograph by Thompson Cooper, Lock & Whitfield photographers; oval Woodburytype, (photoglyptie) patented in 1864 by Walter Bentley Woodbury (1834-1885) an early form of photomechanical print, made by embossing a photographic image on paper with a metal mold containing the gelatin relief of a photographic negative: "...the tonal scale of the resultant image was highly luminous...has a continuous tone, showing neither a screen nor a grain pattern..." (Baldwin, 1991); a striking portrait of this noted British politician; in very good condition.
1876 Woodburytype of Lord George Hamilton Under-Secretary of State for India
(Lord George Hamilton)
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876.
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xx + 322 pages; index; with an original artwork landscape scene in color on the front endpaper by William Hamilton Gibson (1850-1896) American illustrator, author and naturalist, done in his characteristic highly detailed style in watercolor and ink; in the background can be made out the lettering, "Arthur T. Merrick His brook" which describes the charmingly bucolic scene in the picture, which occupies 2/3 of the page; Merrick was a fellow New York City illustrator, creating work at the same period as Gibson and evidently a friend; the book with tissue-guarded frontispiece in black and white, illustrated throughout with the same by Gibson, his natural history renderings faithful to detail; title page with dragonfly in blue-green gilt; bound in the original publishers' dark blue cloth, gilt cover and spine titles, fanciful green & white leaf-and-insect framing decoration on front cover surrounding title; some edge, tips wear to binding; in very good condition; and especially so for the beautiful gem of an original W.H. Gibson artwork.
Sharp Eyes A Rambler's Calendar of Fifty-Two Weeks Among Insects, Birds, and Flowers
Gibson, Wm. Hamilton
New York - London: Harper & Brothers, 1902.
Price: $450.00
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