Adam's Works on Paper ONILNE Auction Ending August 10th 2020

69 Works on Paper 202 LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN MANUSCRIPT RECEIPT Manuscript Receipt:‘Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby have the pleasure to enclose Mr.André’s the amount of his Bill £9.6.0 with an addition of 4p for postage and the delay which they are sorry has Occurred in discharging it.’ Dated at Llangollen Vale 7th January 1809. Single page (18 x 23cm). Paper repair to verso. With address panel and stamp. The “Ladies of Llangollen”, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, were two upper-class Irish women whose relationship during the late 18th and early 19th century scandalized and fascinated their con- temporaries. Eleanor Charlotte Butler was a member of the Butlers, the Earls (and later Dukes) of Ormond. Butler was considered an over-educated bookworm by her family, who resided at the Butler family seat Kilkenny Castle. She spoke French and was educated in a convent in France. Her mother tried to make her join a convent because she was remaining a spinster. Sarah Ponsonby lived with relatives in Woodstock, County Kilkenny, Ireland. She was a second cousin of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, and thus a second cousin once removed of his daughter Lady Caroline Lamb. Their families lived 25km from each other. They met in 1768, and quickly became close. Over the years they formulated a plan for a private rural retreat. It was their dream to live an unconventional life togeth- er.(see note online) € 300 - 500 201 AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED BY ARTHUR GUINNESS, dated at James’s Gate, 19th March 1795 Single page (18.5 x 23.5cm) written on one side only. In this letter he discusses Mr. Gardiner’s bill which has being lodged to the credit of his account in the Bank of Ireland. Addressed to ‘My Lord’ “Inclosed yr Lordship has my Acknowl- edgment that I am to provide for payment of Your Lordships acceptance for £335.19.2 dew 15 April next.” Arthur Guinness (1725-1803) brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and dynasty. He was also an entrepreneur and philanthropist. At twen- ty-seven, in 1752, Guinness’s godfather Arthur Price, the Church of Ireland Arch- bishop of Cashel, bequeathed him £100 in his will. Guinness invested the money and in 1755 had a brewery at Leixlip, just 17 km from Dublin. In 1759, Guinness went to the city and set up his own business. He took a 9,000-year lease on the 4-acre brewery at St. James’s Gate from the descendants of Sir Mark Rainsford for an annual rent of £45. Arthur Guinness’s parents Richard and Elizabeth were both the children of tenant farmers in Dublin and Kildare. Richard’s family claimed a descent from the Gaelic Magennis clan of County Down. Recent DNA evidence however suggests de- scent from the McCartans, another County Down clan, whose spiritual home of Kinelarty included the townland of “Guiness” near Ballynahinch, County Down. Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy (1745-1798) landowner and politician. He was educated at St John’s College, Cambridge. He was the son of Charles Gar- diner by his wife Florinda, daughter of Robert Norman. His sister Anne later be- came Countess of Clancarty. In 1773 he married Elizabeth, daughter of William Montgomery, an MP for Ballynakill and later a Baronet. Their children included a son, Charles John, and a daughter Margaret, who later became Countess of Donoughmore. Gardiner represented Dublin County in the Irish House of Commons from 1773 to 1789. He was appointed to the Irish Privy Council in 1780 and created Baron Mountjoy in 1789 and Viscount Mountjoy both in the Peerage of Ireland. Lord Mountjoy was killed in action at the age of fifty three, leading his regiment at the Battle of New Ross. He was succeeded by his son Charles, who was later created Earl of Blessington. € 600 - 800