161. [Private Materials / Peter Luke] – [Luke, Sir Harry] Luke, Peter.

Manuscript Letter by Peter Luke to his father, Sir Harry Luke, congratulating him on the promotion to Malta and on his own success in Cricket: “Dear Dad, I hope you are quite well. Congratulations on being promoted to Lieutenant-Governor of Malta. When will you come home, I hope very soon…..”.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, 1945 – 1968. Octavo. Vintage Photograph. 9 cm wide x 16,2 cm high. Very good condition. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke and his grand-daughter Georgiana. In the here included letter, in which Peter Luke writes to his father’s address on Barbados, Peter Luke also writes about his brother Micky, Michael Luke, (Peter Luke tells his father of his brother Micky’s visit to him in London: ’(he) has given up what he describes as steady employment in Paris for a somewhat doubtful opportunity of getting a part in a movie over here’).

162. [Private Materials Sir Harry Luke] – [Black Friday 1929 / Lukach, J.H.] Consolidated Gold Fields of New Zealand / Westinghouse Bremen Gesellschaft (Germany) .

Stock Certificate / Papers, correspondence and ephemera from the estate of J.H.Lukach: Interesting letters from Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Company (Sir Harry Luke has discovered that his father had shares in the Westinghouse Bremen Gesellschaft (Germany) and the several letters refer to the transfer of shares just shortly after Black Friday / Typescript of a letter by J.H.Lukach to Westinghouse, thanking him for ‘your kindness in giving me an option on 500 Shares of the Societe Anonyme Westinghouse’ / Old stocks as well as J.H.Lukach’s will including a letter from solicitor Laurence Alfred Baker (20, Copthall Avenue and Stock Exchange, London) to Harry Luke in which he urges Sir Harry Luke to destroy the certificate of the New Zealand Gold Company to prevent a query into its value cropping up again – Laurence Alfred Baker also indirectly refers to the recent crash at the stockmarket by mentioning: ‘It is most interesting, and no doubt significant, that in bad times such as these, when one might almost say that everything is falling, there is a definite and persistant demand for Consolidated Signal and Westinghouse Shares. / Also included is extensive documentation of J.H.Lukach’s estate etc. / Old IOU’s / One postcard to Harry Luke Esq. in Alt-Aussee (Austria) – from his father / One letter to Sir Harry in Kensington from a source undeciphered (1965) / Original, hungarian documentation (certificate) of the name J.H.Luke / Lease documentation of Ashley Gardens in the City of Westminster /

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London etc., c.1910 – 1930. Octavo.

163. [Private Materials Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Harry Sir / Lukach, Harry]. Luke, Peter / Luke, Michael.

Important typescript mentioning Cyprus, with manuscript annotations by Sir Harry Luke – the typescript is a copy of a letter which Sir Harry Luke wrote to his son Michael Luke on December 1st, 1963 from his residence in 96 Hellas Street, Kyrenia and Luke informs his son of Harrap (Publisher) urging him on to publish a revised edition of his Cyprus book. Luke writes: “The day before i left Harraps asked me if I would be willing to do a revised edition of my Cyprus book. I did not even know that the stock was down to its last few copies. I naturally said yes, and that is what i am working on now. It is involving, in fact, quite a bit of thought and work because I will have to trace the painful transition from British Crown Colony, which Cyprus was then, to Independent republic.” – Luke also reflects on the recent assassination of JFK: “The Dallas outrage is indeed a world tragedy. Not only is it the case that the world’s most valuable life of the moment has been taken; we have all lost something young, buoyant and infinitely engaging”.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, 1964. Octavo. Thirteen (13) letters and one Telegram and one photograph in total: 6 Letters from Peter Luke to his father, Sir Harry Luke / 2 manuscript draft – letters from Harry Luke / 2 annotated typescripts by Sir Harry Luke / 1 Letter from Michael Luke to his father, Sir Harry Luke / 1 Letter from Lloyds Bank to Sir Harry Luke / 1 Letter from June Luke (Peter Luke’s wife) in which June refers to the tragedy Cyprus is experiencing during the intercommunal violence between the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots on “Bloody Christmas”. June Luke is feeling with Sir Harry Luke “…i hear you have been through so many rebellions and revolutions that this will seem nothing ! – But all the same it must be very depressing for you to witness such turmoil in a country that you love so well”. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

164. [Private Materials Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Harry Sir/ Lukach, Harry].

‘Correspondence regarding the burial of my dear mother Eugenie Luke, who died during the War in 1941, while I was in the Pacific and her subsequent Exhumation and Cremation in Paris’.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London / Paris, 1956. Octavo. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

165. [Private Materials Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry] Fremlin, Joyce.

Collection of three (3) lengthy, multi-page letters from his wife Joyce Fremlin to Sir Harry Luke.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Chelsea (London), 1946. Octavo. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

166. [Private Materials Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry].

Collection with an abundance (more than 30 items) of PERSONAL ephemera of Sir Harry Luke. Calling cards with recommendations, Luke’s passport photograph (with Negative), Seat Reservation Card for Sir Harry on a British Overseas Airways Flight (BOAC) / BEA (British European Airways) / etc. etc. etc.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London a.o., Octavo. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

167. [Private Materials Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry].

Drawing by stonemason Hans Koebel (Steinbildhauermeister) for Sir Harry Luke’s personal Headstone for his grave.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Alt-Aussee (Austria), 1957. Octavo. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

168. [Private Materials Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry].

Five letters to Sir Harry Luke by his doctor from Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and also included some smaller notes from other doctors he consulted during the years. The letters are lengthy, often personal due to the friendly relationship to his doctor. The gourmet and food loving writer, Sir Harry, receives already in 1952 the order: ‘In the interim you must go carefully with food and drink’. Included is also some ephemera like a photograph of a procession to church in Aldeburgh and some original prescriptions.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Aldeburgh (Suffolk) / Tempsford Hall (Bedfordshire), Deben House, 1952-1957. Octavo. 5 letters and ephemera. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

169. [Private Materials Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry].

Letter from White-Hall, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, where a chivalrous Sir Harry gave a regular allowance to Carola Peyton-Jones (who was the first wife of Sir Harry Luke’s son, Peter Luke). Sir Harry Luke writes here to her mother, explaining that he can not continue to send these payments because his employment in the Colonial Service comes to an end and he will only have his pension.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Trinidad / 1946. Octavo. 1 page – Typed Letter signed (TLS). From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

170. [Private Materials Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry] Buckle, George Earle (1854 – 1935).

Manuscript Letter Signed (MLS) by english editor and biographer George Earle Buckle to Sir Harry Luke, condoling him on the death of his father, H.C.Luke. Buckle also mentions a referral Sir Harry obviously seeked to a Col. Murray an asked Buckle to broker the meeting. But Buckle reassures Luke that he met Col. Murray and Murray mentioned to him that Luke and himself went to Eton together: ’….i saw Murray later in the day + mentioned the matter + found him fully aware that he + you were together at Eton. So you can go to him without further introduction – 50 Albemarle Street – Yours with renewed sympathy G.E.Buckle.’

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Chelsea, 1930. Octavo. 1 page letter (both sides with text) including the original envelope. Tear to margins of the letter (1 inch missing). From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.