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With the Battle of Britain Imminent, Winston Churchill Strongly Opposes Evacuating the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to Canada by Winston Churchill

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Title: With the Battle of Britain Imminent, Winston Churchill Strongly Opposes Evacuating the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to Canada
Author: Winston Churchill
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: Jun-40. A remarkable set of 2 manuscripts bearing the handwriting of both Churchill and his predecessor Neville Chamberlain Two memos from June 1940 retained for posterity by Churchill’s private secretary John Colville, affixed by him in a form of journal entry, with Colville’s handwritten explanationsOn evacuation:Evacuation of children in Britain from the cities to the countryside started in September 1939, in the wake of seeing the German bombing of Poland. In the spring and summer of 1940, with the threat of German invasion in the air, the British government began evacuating children to dominion countries such as Canada and Australia. Moreover, some of the wealthy and influential British families began privately evacuating their children to the USA and Canada. The result was an impression of grave social injustice. When the Conservative MP Henry “Chips” Channon delivered his son Paul for overseas evacuation, he recalled that “there was a queue of Rolls-Royces and liveried servants, and mountains of trunks. It seemed that everyone we knew was there.” Those sent overseas at their parents’ expense included children with the surnames Mountbatten, Bowes-Lyon (the Queen’s maiden name), Sitwell and Guinness, families high in the upper echelons of British society. One atypical evacuee, Jessica Mann, the daughter of German Jewish refugees whose parents were determined to ensure her safety, recalled hearing children who fled the UK called “horrid little cowards who ran away”. In the end, about 13,000 were evacuated abroad.Churchill’s private secretary at this time was John Colville, whose diaries, now in the Churchill Papers at Cambridge, form a prime resource for the times.Despite the opprobrium, there were a lot of people, at that moment of danger, who felt that the Royal Family should be sent to Canada for safety sake, or at least the young princesses (Elizabeth, the present Queen, and Margaret Rose). We learn from this memo that one of these was the Lord President, Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain, who had been Prime Minister and was a friend of the King, was concerned for his family.Autograph note, in the hand of Chamberlain: ""The King and Queen have asked me to see them this afternoon. Could I have 2 minutes with the Cabinet alone to raise points which I think they will wish to talk?"" Churchill has slashed an energetic red line across the paper indicating his refusal. Colville has notated Chamberlain proposed subject and Churchill’s response: ""The points which the Lord president wishes to discuss with the War Cabinet alone were the proposals to evacuate the Princesses to Canada. This the Prime Minister, who has ticked this note in red pencil, strongly opposed and the plan was dropped.” Churchill felt that if the Royal Family left the country, it would be bad for morale, and strongly opposed such a plan. Moreover, he had just given his famous never surrender speech, “we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…” Such a man was unlikely to approve of the Royal Family leaving their stations.In any case, the Queen (later known as the Queen Mother) insulated the Royal Family from public resentment by choosing not to send princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to Canada because, as she said, “The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the king will not leave the country in any circumstances, whatever.”King George VI refused to leave and stated that he wished to stay, fight and ""get my German"", prompting Winston Churchill to lend his own personal Tommy gun to the Royal Family. The 14-year-old Princess Elizabeth and her sister Margaret, ten, alongside the Queen Mother, were given shooting lessons in the grounds of Buckingham Palace to ready them in the event of a raid by Nazi parachutists. The Queen Mother said that if the Germans came, armed with her gun, she would take some Nazis with her. The King and Queen remained at Buckingham Palace throughout the war. They sent their daughters to Windsor Castle part of the time, hoping it would be safer. Buckingham Palace suffered nine direct hits. And the King and Queen did not hide in the Palace; they toured many of the areas that had suffered from heavy bombing. They showed the people of London that they cared for them. And in October 1940, Princess Elizabeth gave her first speech - to the children of Britain. “Before I finish I can truthfully say to you all that we children at home are full of cheerfulness and courage. We are trying to do all we can to help our gallant sailors, soldiers and airmen, and we are trying, too, to bear our own share of the danger and sadness of war. We know, everyone of us, that in the end all will be well; for God will care for us and give us victory and peace. And when peace comes, remember it will be for us, the children of today, to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place. My sister is by my side and we are both going to say goodnight to you.”On enemy aliens:Upon the declaration of war on September 3, 1939, some 70,000 UK resident Germans and Austrians became classed as enemy aliens. By September 28, the Aliens Department of the Home Office had set up internment tribunals throughout the country headed by government officials and local representatives, to examine every UK registered enemy alien over the age of 16. The object was to divide the aliens into three categories: Category A, to be interned; Category B, to be exempt from internment but subject to the restrictions decreed by a Special Order; and Category C, to be exempt from both internment and restrictions. Some 120 tribunals were established to examine the detainees. By February 1940 nearly all the tribunals had completed their work assessing some 73,000 cases. The vast majority (66,000) of enemy aliens being classed as Category C and let go. Most, but by no means all, of the 55,000 Jewish refugees who had come to the UK to escape Nazi persecution in the early and mid 1930s found themselves in Category C. Some 6,700 people were classified as Category B and 569 as A. Those classified in Category A were interned in camps being set up across the UK.In May 1940, the German blitzkrieg exploded over Europe and the Germans conquered the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Norway. France was invaded and struggling to survive. On June 10, Italy declared war on Britain, and Italians resident in Britain were also considered for internment. Some 4,000 resident Italians who were known to be members of the Italian Fascist Party and others aged between 16 and 70 who had lived in the UK for fewer than 20 years, were ordered to be imprisoned. Then, on June 25, France fell and it seemed clear that Britain would soon be invaded. This led to a fifth column scare, that enemy aliens would endanger Britain’s already precarious position by spying and reporting important information to the Axis. Even anti-fascists and Jews were not exempt, as it was feared that spies or saboteurs would be placed among those groups, endangering Britain from that quarter. The internment of 27,000 “enemy aliens”, principally German, Austrian and Italian, occurred at the height of this fifth column scare. Even Winston Churchill, at this time Prime Minister for about a month, was not immune, and is reported as having said of the enemy aliens, “Collar the lot.”But by August 1940, with the risk of invasion reduced, it had become clear that most of the interned refugees were no threat. When one internment camp officer discovered that most of his charges were Jewish, he reported: “Dammit – we’d got the wrong lot.” The British government soon began vetting the internees and releases started in the fall; 10,000 had been freed by the end of 1940, leaving some 19,000 still interned in camps in Britain, Canada and Australia. By March 1941, 12,500 internees had been released, rising to over 17,500 in August and by 1942 fewer than 5,000 remained interned.The second of these memos, affixed to the other side, the content of which proclaims its date as June 1940, shows Churchill’s interest in a strict internment policy, while wanting to avoid the War Cabinet’s having to be constantly involved at every level when there was a war to run. At this time, Churchill was of course Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain was Lord President, the Home Secretary (whose department was in charge of the interment program) was Sir John Anderson, and Labor MP Arthur Greenwood was Minister Without Portfolio.Manuscript, June 1940, in the hand of Churchill. Churchill writes in ink, ""How would it be to ask M. without Portfolio to confer with Home Sec. with a view to greater stringency?"", and this is followed by Neville Chamberlain's reply in pencil, ""Yes, if that will enable us to stop the H.S. [Home Secretary] talking any more about it here”. Colville has affixed this to a notepaper sheet with blue ink comment on the side, saying ""The Cabinet were rushed by public opinion into interning all enemy aliens, a policy they subsequently regretted. Sir John Anderson's plea for proceeding gradually was overruled. The Minister without Portfolio was Mr. Greenwood, the Home Secretary Sir John Anderson. Question by the Prime Minister, reply by the Lord President [Neville Chamberlain]”. This memo makes it clear that the Cabinet felt pressed by public opinion, to an uncomfortable extent, yet felt the need to go along. The suggestion to move slower was rejected. Yet in time this internment policy was regretted, explaining how by the end of 1940 it had been reversed.Churchill at War: in June 1940Here we have two important mementos of Churchill’s first months in office. There is the refusal to consider sending the Royal Family overseas lest it harm morale; and the note on enemy aliens with the very rare combination of handwritings of Churchill and Chamberlain. Both are fully annotated in Colville’s hand. Truly extraordinary and rare remembrances of Churchill in World War II.

Rip Van Winkle (Signed limited edition) by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Washington Irving

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Title: Rip Van Winkle (Signed limited edition)
Author: Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Washington Irving
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1905. Deluxe edition. Near Fine. Number 163 of 250 copies signed by the artist on the limitation page. 50 color plates on heavy brown paper with lettered tissue-guards at end, with one facing title page. Bound in vellum with gilt title on spine and title and image of the title character on front cover, replaced silk ties. Front inner hinge just starting. Interior text pages clean with minor foxing on fly leaves and interior paste-downs. Top of text block gilt with rest of edges uncut. "The first book illustrated wholly by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition" (Riall). "Arthur Rackham's illustrations for Rip Van Winkle were the first major works of his career as a book illustrator, and they established Rackham as the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period. These were also the first of many of his works to be displayed at the Leicester Galleries in London, an opportunity which both allowed Rackham to make extra money from the sale of his prints, and also establish illustration as a notable work of art in its own right rather than a mere adornment of a literary masterpiece" (Hudson). Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Riall 69. Near Fine.

Letters from Friends to Tracy Peck, Connecticuter Living Abroad by [Civil War – Politics – Americans Abroad] Peck, Tracy

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Title: Letters from Friends to Tracy Peck, Connecticuter Living Abroad
Author: [Civil War – Politics – Americans Abroad] Peck, Tracy
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Generally very good or better with one showing water damage, though legible.
Description: United States, Germany, and others, 1869. Seven letters, approximately twenty-six total pages, most about 8 x 5 inches. One letter dated 1862; one dated 1863; two dated 1864; one dated 1869; two without date. Two of the letters are written in French (untranslated). Generally very good or better with one showing water damage, though legible.. Tracy Peck (1838–1921) was born in Bristol, Connecticut, to a family who had been in the Hartford area since the 17th century. According to his obituary in The Classical Journal (Vol. 17, No. 6), Peck studied at Yale and then abroad in Germany, returned to the United States to teach Latin at Cornell and Yale, and then went back to Europe again, where he served as the Director of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome until his death. Offered here is a group of letters from friends and family to Peck, mainly written during the American Civil War, when Peck was studying in Germany. The letters update Peck on the war, politics, and the activities and fortunes of various friends. Many of Peck’s friends were academics, and avoided involvement in the Civil War nearly as well as Peck himself did. Not all were so lucky, though. A friend, probably a Yale classmate, writes from Massachusetts “with a notice of the death of F.S. Davis”: “He died, poor fellow, in the hospital at Chattanooga about the middle of April. After leaving college he spent the first winter at home, + joined the ‘Memphis Southrons’ in March (‘62) He was at many battles, and suffered untold hardships for one year when [he] died, the first martyr of our class.” (August 17, 1863) Another friend, Sheldon, had just completed his service: “He had been in several severe battles, had been captured, and taken to Richmond[.] While in service he met Bob Stiles who wouldn’t shake hands with him, but tried to prove that unionism was oppression”. Though the war would continue for several more years, the friend writes that zeal for it is already waning: “The war goes on languidly. The enthusiasm has died out. Everyone expects the war to close, by the south yielding to reasonable conditions. There is no apprehension felt as to the final issue. It has about ceased to be talked of.” That same friend would later travel abroad as well, though his aspirations would be less intellectual than were Peck’s. He writes from Egypt, where it is so hot that “Except for some luscious oranges which we got of a lightly-clad nymph we should have perished of thirst”, about a comical scene: “A tall muselman at one of the intermediate [train] stations had lain down his silk mantle and turning to the east gave through the prostrations + prayers of his religion with great fervor and to the intense satisfaction of the ladies. Suddenly he touched his forehead to the ground + leaped up. Their interest redoubled + their attention with it when to my great amusement he squatted down, unbuttoned his trousers + began to pump ship in full view. The abrupt descent from prayer to pissing was too much for the females while I stifled a laugh in a cough + my jacket handkerchief.” (No Date) A later comment in the same letter, where he describes being escorted up one of the pyramids and then “shout[ing] ‘be quiet’ to the clamoring Egyptians”—whom he also describes as a “rapacious brood”—is likewise revealing of his attitude towards the locals. The latest letter in the group, from Richard Harck, is more high-minded. Harck inquires whether, as Peck’s “foot [...] again walks on hallowed native soil”, he has “acquired such a situation among the lumina of your country, as your knowledge and learning deserve” (July 30, 1869). Harck is in Germany, where there “is an utter stagnation in politics” as they approach the unification: “The particularities and sectional ideas of the southern population and their sovereigns, the antagony of the there powerfull clergy and the partly illiberal constitution and laws of the North German Union. Bismarck may be a great statesman and minster for foreign affairs, but not a fit man to rule the interior of a constitutional state. [...] But he cannot stop the progress [of] the ever advancing ideas of liberalism and freedom; the powerful public opinion overwhelms him [...]”. Overall, a look at the effects on ordinary lives of several important political upheavals of the mid-19th century.

Watercolour "Isle of Procida" Lady laeaning against a rock in native costume

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Title: Watercolour "Isle of Procida" Lady laeaning against a rock in native costume
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Framed and glazed
Description: 1850. with title at bottom. Image 9 x 7 inches. Framed and glazed. with title at bottom. Image 9 x 7 inches. Procida is one of the Phlegraean Islands off the coast of Naples. The island is between Cape Miseno and the island of Ischia. It is a municipality of the City of Naples.

The Cattle Killing (Signed Association Copy) by WIDEMAN, John Edgar

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Title: The Cattle Killing (Signed Association Copy)
Author: WIDEMAN, John Edgar
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780395785904
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 212 pages. A well received novel from this African American writer. A very near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with a previous bookseller's pencil note to the half title page and in a near fine dust jacket. Signed and warmly inscribed by Wideman on the title page to fellow writer James Tate. A nice association copy.

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Flaubert;s Parrot by Julian Barnes

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Title: Flaubert;s Parrot
Author: Julian Barnes
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780224022224
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Description: Jonathan Cape, 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In Like Jacket Without Wear.Ink Ownership Inscription. First Edition.Beautiful Copy..

Composition For Photographers. An Artist's Guide. With 38 Reproductions...and 32 sketches and diagrams. by Simpson, Charles.

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Title: Composition For Photographers. An Artist's Guide. With 38 Reproductions...and 32 sketches and diagrams.
Author: Simpson, Charles.
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Description: London: H.F.&G. Witherby, n.d. (1937). Book. 8vo, cloth, top of spine chipped, edges worn; internally a good copy..

Die Musik in Hannover: Die musikalischen Strömungen in Niedersachsen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Musikgeschichte der Landeshauptstadt Hannover by SIEVERS, Heinrich

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Title: Die Musik in Hannover: Die musikalischen Strömungen in Niedersachsen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Musikgeschichte der Landeshauptstadt Hannover
Author: SIEVERS, Heinrich
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hannover: Sponholtz, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo. Full green cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. 168 pp. With illustrations in text and illustrative plates, some in color; DGG 45 rpm of Venturini's Sonata in E minor in rear pocket. Former owner's name in ink to upper outer corner of free front endpaper. In dustjacket.

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