Lot: 52
WW2 Immigration of European Refugees to the United States: correspondence to Erwin Hirsch of Ohio concerning applications for immigration from his brother and family, refugees from Austria and Czechoslovakia, at that time living in the United Kingdom; this archive includes Austrian & Czech ID papers, letters from the National Refugee Service (7), Department of Justice, the US Senate, the War Manpower Commission, and the US Consulate in London, plus a welcome card from The Daughters of the American Revolution with a miniature flag.
Lot: 54
Knockaloe Internment camp, 1919: a letter from the Home Office to an internee, G. Kuhl, regarding his application to remain in the UK, exempting him from repatriation as an alien enemy. Stamped signature. Lower right corner torn away.
Lot: 55
Immigration and other Official Documents 1939-56 concerning L/Cpl. Stanislaw Bukielski and his wife Cpl. Julia Bukielska, both of the Polish Army, M.E.F., both granted permission to work with the Polish Resettlement Corps in the UK, together with two documents pertaining to Stanislaw Bukielski's Naturalization as a United States citizen in 1963, and four further documents supplied by the Polish Government 1949-1970s. VG condition. (23 documents)
Lot: 77
A Salford Dispensing Chemist's Dangerous Drugs Registers (3) covering the periods 1927-1932 and 1951-1980, plus a related trade catalogue dated May 1939, and a notebook. 100s of entries. Mixed condition.
Lot: 98
M. Gordon Journal from Liverpool to Archangel, and thence to Petrosovodsky, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen and Hamburg and back, Summer 1827. A typescript on 82 foolscap sheets, single sided, front cover detached. Well written, with much attention to detail, this journal does not appear to have been previously published. On arrival at Archangel the journey to Petrosovodsky and St. Petersburg was conducted overland on horseback or on foot.
Lot: 112
George Bradshaw (1800-1853, founder of Bradshaw's Railway Guides): an archive comprising 1853 In Memoriam card, dried foliage gathered from his grave in 1856, an 1853 memorandum issued by members of the Committee of the Manchester & Salford Peace Society expressing their sorrow at the death of “their much valued friend and colleague George Bradshaw”; a clerk's copy of Bradshaw's will; offprints of Press obituaries; a photogravure of his widow (d.1875); and 1870 printed documents concerning The War Victims' Fund Committee of which his son William Bradshaw was a member. The copy will and 1853 memorandum are split the along folds requiring repair.