[Sir Reginald Tupper, Royal Navy admiral.] Two Autograph Letters Signed from him to Gerald Henderson, with two Autograph Letters Signed from his second wife Lady Caroline Tupper ('Carrie'), also to Henderson.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB, which states: ‘After the death of his first wife he married second, on 24 June 1933, Caroline Maud Abadie (1863–1948), the widow of General Sir Henry Richard Abadie; she was the daughter of Colonel Fanshawe Gostling, of the Royal Berkshire regiment.’ In addition to the two letters apiece from Sir Reginald and Lady Tupper, the material includes, as Item Five, a leaf carrying a 26-line postscript from Lady Tupper to a lost letter. All but Item Five below are on uniform 12mo leaves of grey paper. In good overall condition, apart from Item Three, which is aged and worn. ONE: Tupper to Henderson, 3 February 1937. 1p, 12mo. In envelope addressed to Henderson at Rex Cottage, 7 Streets Mews, Mayfair. Signed ‘Reginald Tupper’. Inviting him to dinner, ‘Dinner jacket & black tie’. TWO: Tupper to Henderson, 10 February 1937. 2pp, 12mo. In envelope as One, and similarly sign. Reassuring him with regard to a letter he sent informing the Tuppers of his wife’s illness: ‘it was not a “party” we had invited 2 clever men to meet you but hope it is only a pleasure deferred. We are moving down to Burhill next week - & hope you will be able to bring Mrs. Henderson down to see the Kings House - we are about 2 1/2 miles from Walton Station’. THREE: Lady Tupper to Henderson’s wife, 17 December 1943. 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. No envelope. Signed ‘Carrie Tupper’. She thanks her for a ‘lovely miniature’: ‘It is so good of you to have painted it for us. & Mr. Henderson, for bringing it round this morning. It was so nice to see him, but I was distressed to hear of your accident’, which has happened at ‘a trying time’. She continues with reference to Christmas and her ‘much prized miniatures’. FOUR: Lady Tupper to Henderson. 7pp, 12mo. On two loose leaves of grey paper and a matching bifolium. In envelope addressed to him at the Princess Beatrice Hospital, London. Signed as Three. 67 lines of text, written in a difficult hand for which she apologises twice in the letter, writing at the end: ‘My hand so crippled I can’t form my letters.’ The letter appears to concern her health and the recipient’s, with a reference to ‘an abscess in my foot’. FIVE: Lady Tupper (to Henderson?). 2pp, 12mo. Final part of lost letter, comprising the 26-line two-page postscript. This is clearly written with some animation, regarding a number of individuals (including members of the Abadie family), but is unfortunately practically indecipherable.