Orders, Decorations and Medals

An original letter from the Duke of Wellington to Lieutenant-General Sir George Scovell inviting him to join him at Stratfield Saye, together with other Scovell family papers and items of Waterloo interest, including a cutting of hair taken from Sir George’s horse at Waterloo: the Duke’s letter dated at Stratfield Saye ‘April 18th 1853’ and addressed to Sir George at the R.M.A. Sandhurst, a letter in which he appears to plead for help in entertaining Lord and Lady Salisbury; the woven cutting of hair from Sir George’s Waterloo charger with gilt mounts and contained in an envelope with old ink inscription, ‘From the mane of the charger ridden by my uncle Sir George Scovell at the Battle of Waterloo’; a letter from Henry Elliot, dated 14 July 1859, in which he describes a Waterloo Reunion dinner at Apsley House in 1832, which event Sir George attended; one of Sir George’s calling cards; and the assorted family papers including a sheet of [coded ?] paper inscribed, ‘General BBBB went out with his CCC to the DDD and found his DD at Sandhurst UUU’, generally in good condition (Lot) £150-200