Note
Category
Ephemera
Date
1996
Materials
Paper
Measurements
100 mm (Height); 117 mm (L)
Order this imageCollection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428305.25
Summary
Typescript note from Sotheby's sale catalogue 'Disraeli's dispatch box, containing various items/ of memorabilia, including two autograph addresses/ to him by Queen Victoria, an autograph envelope/ signed by him, and memorabilia relating to his/ funeral at Hughenden on 26 April, 1881, as well as/ to Tennyson's at Westminster Abbey in 1892./and of the Late Horace Pym, 23rd April,/ 1996.'
Provenance
Property of the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, to Horace Pym (probably after 1881), then by descent.
Marks and inscriptions
'Disraeli's dispatch box, containing various items/ of memorabilia, including two autograph addresses/ to him by Queen Victoria, an autograph envelope/ signed by him, and memorabilia relating to his/ funeral at Hughenden on 26 April, 1881, as well as/ to Tennyson's at Westminster Abbey in 1892./ £1,200-£1,500/ The Library of the Late Horace Pym, 23rd April,/ 1996.'