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Papers of Edmund Burke and of his literary executor Walker King, the archive comprising: (i) Burke (Edmund) Autograph letter signed ("EB"), to Walker King ("My dr Walker"), urging publication in the face of obstructions raised by committees ("...a thousand times better it had been that the Paper had gone to press with a thousand Errours than be Delayed so long from the Press. You see another Committee has started up. God send they may not knock their heads together, or at least distract & dissipate the Efforts, & particularly disorder the distribution. Ought not somebody wait on Sr George Thomas [chairman of a committee for the relief of French refugees] thanking him & wishing to unite the Committees..."), and hoping that [Thomas] Hussey will be in town "with our Ideas, and Lord Buckinghams [later a trustee of Burke's émigré school at Penn] name & subscription", one page, 4to, "Friday" [?early 1796] (ii) Burke (Edmund and Jane) Joint autograph letter signed, the first half by Mrs Burke ("Jane Burke"), the second by her husband ("Edm Burke"), to Walker King (Jane addressing him as "My Dear Doctor", Edmund as "My dear Walker"), Jane congratulating Mrs King on the birth of "your little stranger" and pressing their claims to serve as godparents; Edmund also congratulating him on the birth, but grumbling at the slow progress of his own affairs [i.e. the pension from Pitt, which King was handling for him] ("...the unpleasant account of my miserable affairs of which Mr Pitt is not yet brought to bed. I fear it will be but too literally a Changeling at last... But I must submit to the Will of God - My Letter to you [dated 30 June] will be ostensible - if in prudence you think it right it should be so - At any rate I see no objection to your shewing it to the Chancellor..."); autograph address panel (the name written by Jane, the address by Edmund), postmarked, 3 pages, 4to, 1 July 1795 (iii) Burke (Jane) Autograph letter signed ("J - B"), to Walker King, summoning him to her husband's side ("...My Dr Sir, I am commanded to tell you that your advice assistance Company - &c &c &c is so necessary to Your friend at Beaconsfield, that until he sees you, he will not have a Moments ease: I can tell you, that knowing at an important Moment that you are at his Elbow, will give quiet to his Mind, and make his labours ten times easier to him, though he were not to open his mouth to you on business the whole time of his being in the Country..."), 2 pages, 4to, docketed "Mrs Burke", integral leaf removed and torn at folds, no place or date (iv) Burke (Richard, Senior) Draft for the opening of a letter, beginning: "My Lord/ It is very possible that the subject on which I venture to write, may give your Lordship some trouble..."; the letter seeking to remedy "some coolness that has grown upon the part of Sir G[eorge] S[avile] to your Lordship", prompted by "his affection to Mr Hartley" [David Hartley MP being Savile's protégé], and offering to resign his seat as Secretary to the Treasury, 2 pages, folio, split at folds and dust-stained, [the context of this letter suggests that it was written by Edmund's brother, Richard, to the Marquess of Rockingham, when serving as Secretary to the Treasury between April and July 1782, at which time Savile's relations with Rockingham were strained] [April-July 1782] (v) Burke (Thomas) Autograph letter signed ("Thomas Burke"), to his kinsman [Edmund Burke], sending his pedigree which he obtained from family papers in Munster ("...There I got Hold of some Family-Manuscripts, particularly that of Dr Browne of Emly, whose Grandmother was the 7th Daughter of Theobald Bourke, your Great-grandfather, whom in the Pedigree you see married to Baggot of Baggotstown. So this Pedigree is as accurate & authentic as the Nature of such Affairs in this Kingdom can bear... Your father more than once told me, that it was Counsr Gerald Burke prevailed upon him to write his Name Burke & not Bourke..."); congratulating him on his late