Jordan (Dorothy [real name Dorothy Phillips], actress, mistress of William IV as Duke of Clarence, 1761-1816) Autograph note, wording to be engraved on a seal, "Bays from our Tree...", manuscript, 7 lines, contemporary inscriptions, fold, n.d. [early 19th century] § India.- William IV (King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and King of Hanover, 1765-1837) Letter signed to Mubarak Ali Khan II, Nawab of Bengal and countersigned by John Cam Hobhouse, president of the Board of Control for India, 4pp., folio, St James's Palace, 14th September 1836, thanking him for his friendly letter, presents and the portraits of himself and his son, and in return sending him a portrait of himself and conferring on him the Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order and the insignia thereof, folds, browned, tears along some folds crudely repaired with tape, framed and glazed, glass broken; and 2 others, comprising: Roscoe (William, historian and patron of the arts, 1753-1831) ALs., 2pp., sm. 4to, n.d., folds, browned (3).

⁂ First mentioned, Provenance: Ink inscription, "Written by the late Mrs. Jordan as instruction for Mr Dennis Davis to engrave on a seal with, a bay tree, which with the above verses were presented to her by the Corporation of the City of Glasgow," and a further note, "Mrs Jordan given to Mr Elmes, by the late Mr Davis Jeweller of New Bond St, who executed the seal J.E."