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HISTORY. A collection of autograph letters and signatures comprising
HISTORY. A collection of autograph letters and signatures comprising: FRIEDRICH WILHELM I (1688-1740), King of Prussia . Autograph endorsement signed ('F.W') on a memorandum addressed to him by cabinet minister von Kynphausen, Berlin, 20 December 1728, responding to a request from the widowed Markgräfin von Brandeburg Schwedt for a loan of 8000 Reichstalers to cover the costs of her election as Abbess of Herford that the loan is to be with interest, and her son must guarantee it, 'alles zu d. 5 Procent und der Printz Friderich muhs mit die obligaci unter schreiben sonst kein Dargang', 5 lines on a memorandum of 2½ pages, folio ; Mikhail Ilarionovich KUTUSOV, autograph note, concerning the peace treaty with Sweden, two pages, 4to , and document signed ('Golenishchev Kutuzov'), giving orders for movements of the Rybinsk and Tiumen troops, 1802, one page, folio ; and letters by Karl Wilhelm, Graf FINCK von Finckenstein (n.d., in French, reporting on events at the court of Frederick the Great, 'Pöllnitz est toujours auprès du Roi, mais pas tant en grace qu'on le croiroit, a causes des lachetés qu'il commet continuellement ... On n'entens rien de Voltaire ... ', 4 pages, 4to ), M.K. GANDHI (letter in a secretial hand to B.N. Khambatta, 20 September 1934), Karl von Kamptz (Berlin, 21 May 1832, on police reform), Prince Felix Lichnowski (n.d.) and Graf von Gneisenau (signature on card), together with letters by Charles Robert, Graf von NESSELRODE (Russian diplomat, to Franz Gontard, The Hague, 1 May 1804, in French), Georgi Valentinovich PLEKHANOV (Russian revolutionary, two letters in French, to 'cher camarade', on publishing a manifesto for workers of various nations in his socialist periodicals, 'Zaria' and 'Iskra', Geneva, 7 November 1901 and 24 December 1902), and NICHOLAS I, King of Montenegro (to Grand Duke Adolph Frederick of Mecklenburg Strelitz, 20 May 1902, in French, announcing the impending marriage of his son). (11)