Catalogue of autograph letters & historical documents
Published: 1921
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Notes: Consisting of the official correspondence of Colonel (afterwards Lieutenant-General) Robert Monckton, during his service in North America, 1752-1763, and including thirty-three autograph letters addressed to him by his illustrious commander Major-General James Wolfe, January-September, 1759; George III's secret instructions to Wolfe, Feb. 5, 1759; Wolfe's draft articles of capitulation for Quebec, and scheme for excluding the French from North America; upwards of eighty letters from General Amherst to Monckton; a journal of the siege of Louisbourg; Monckton's letter book and orderly books; instructions and letters to Monckton from Col. Laurence, governor of Nova Scotia, including the orders for the deportation of the French Acadians which Longfellow immortalized in Evangeline; orders and letters of the marquis de Vaudreuil, governor of Canada, etc.; also the famous pictures by Benjamin West, P.R.A. of The death of Wolfe and The battle of La Hogue; with other pictures by him of The attack on Quebec and The capture of Martinique.

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: Feb. 10, 1921.