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AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, mainly addressed to the Rev. Herbert William Sneyd-Kynnersley; c200 autograph letters and signatures, addressed to him while Principal of St. George’s School, Ascot (Winston Churchill was one of his pupils). some are categorised, below (with number of pages, where relevant): Royalty: Queen Victoria; Queen Adelaide; Duke of Brunswick (3pp); Duke & Duchess of Cambridge; George, King of Hanover; Prince Henry of Prussia; Duke of Holstein. MUSIC: Sullivan, Arthur S (1pp 1870, +, an address note to Mrs. Sullivan); Barnett, John Francis (2pp); Lind, Jenny 'the Swedish Nightingale' (1); Martin, Sir George Clement (1); Oakeley, Sir Herbert Stanley (6pp). SCIENCE & EXPLORATION: Fitzroy, Vice-Admiral Robert; Hooker, Sir Joseph, Dalton; Lyell, Sir Charles (2pp 1871); McClintock, Admiral Sir Francis Leopold (1pp 1871); Sainte-Claire Deville, H E (2pp 1871); Stokes, Sir George Gabriel (3pp 1870); Wheatstone, Sir Charles (1pp 1871). NAVAL & MILITARY: Wellington, Lord(1pp, dated 1851); Brunswick, Duke of; Chelmsford, Lord (5pp); Jellicoe, 1st Earl John Rushworth ( Admiral of the Fleet)(4pp 1920); Kitchener, 1st Earl Field Marshal Horatio Herbert.. LITERATURE: Baring-Gould, S; Cunningham, Allan; Ewing, Mrs. (4pp, 1880); Hall, S C & Maria Hall (3+4pp); Jessop, Augustus (3pp); Kingsley, Charles; Longfellow, H W (stamped addressed envelope sent from USA not signed); Lucas, E V; Lyall, Edna (1pp); Matlock, W H (1pp); Moore, Hannah (1pp); Newman, John Henry;, Ollivant, Alfred (1pp); Ruskin, John (2pp); Scott, Sir Walter (1pp); Shorthouse, Joseph Henry (3x3pp etc)); Taylor, Sir Henry (4pp, 1872). & POLITICS: Beust, Count Friedrich Ferdinand von (2pp; Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Austen; Coleridge, John Duke;, Cross, R A (1st Viscount Cross); Denman, Lord (3pp); Derby, Earl; Disraeli, B; Gladstone, W E; Peel, Sir Robert (2pp); Savigny, Friedrich Carl von; Wilberforce, William (2pp,seal cut out). Plus numerous others.