Collection of autograph letters, predominantly by Victorian savants and men of letters, comprising autograph letters etc. by W.M. Thackeray (wittily declining an invitation), the phrenologist George Combe (on truth and falsity in religion), William Combe (author of Dr Syntax), Mark Pattison Charles Grey (on behalf of Prince Albert: "His Royal Highness has appointed Monday next for going to London to see the Frescos in the new Houses of Parliament"), Cardinal Newman (thanking his correspondent "for the friendly way in which you speak of what I have written" and wishing "that you were not only in part but altogether a Catholic in belief", 15 March 1877), John Ruskin (looking forward to seeing two young ladies), Caruso and Paderewski (presentation signatures), E.H. Shackleton (presentation signature), John Payne Collier (to Mrs Flower of Stratford, signing himself "J. Payne Collier (823/4)"), A.W. Kinglake (about giving away his books), T.B. Macaulay, Sydney Smith, Jane Porter (announcing the arrival of her "loved Brother" from Russia, 1813), J.O. Halliwell, Augustus Hare, W.E. Henley, Henry Scott Holland (of 'I have only slipped away into the next room' fame), Somerset Maugham, O.W. Holmes, Thomas Hood George Grote, S.R. Gardiner (Civil War historian, about "my little book"), Allan Cunningham (on the death of Chantrey), R.B. Cunninghame Graham, Maria Edgeworth Francis Jeffrey, the geologist Sir Archibald Geikie, George MacDonald, Robert Chambers J.M. Barrie, Joanna Baillie, Edward Lytton [Bulwer] Lytton, Theodore Hook, Douglas Jerrold (to Charles Cowden Clarke), J.G. Lockhart, John Middleton Murry, Alfred Austin (to Coventry Patmore: "I have read enough, even now, to perceive that we are substantially in accord on all matters of taste & judgement"), Sir Francis Palgrave, Dinah Maria Craik, Thomas Chalmers, Richard Cobdden, J.A. Froude, W.H. Prescott, E.B. Pusey, Samuel Rogers, E.A. Freeman, James Martineau (group), Charlotte M. Yonge, and others, the Ruskin and Thackeray letter framed, the rest in a concertina file, minor dust-staining etc.
Collection of autograph letters, predominantly by Victorian savants and men of letters, comprising autograph letters etc. by W.M. Thackeray (wittily declining an invitation), the phrenologist George Combe (on truth and falsity in religion), William Combe (author of Dr Syntax), Mark Pattison Charles Grey (on behalf of Prince Albert: "His Royal Highness has appointed Monday next for going to London to see the Frescos in the new Houses of Parliament"), Cardinal Newman (thanking his correspondent "for the friendly way in which you speak of what I have written" and wishing "that you were not only in part but altogether a Catholic in belief", 15 March 1877), John Ruskin (looking forward to seeing two young ladies), Caruso and Paderewski (presentation signatures), E.H. Shackleton (presentation signature), John Payne Collier (to Mrs Flower of Stratford, signing himself "J. Payne Collier (823/4)"), A.W. Kinglake (about giving away his books), T.B. Macaulay, Sydney Smith, Jane Porter (announcing the arrival of her "loved Brother" from Russia, 1813), J.O. Halliwell, Augustus Hare, W.E. Henley, Henry Scott Holland (of 'I have only slipped away into the next room' fame), Somerset Maugham, O.W. Holmes, Thomas Hood George Grote, S.R. Gardiner (Civil War historian, about "my little book"), Allan Cunningham (on the death of Chantrey), R.B. Cunninghame Graham, Maria Edgeworth Francis Jeffrey, the geologist Sir Archibald Geikie, George MacDonald, Robert Chambers J.M. Barrie, Joanna Baillie, Edward Lytton [Bulwer] Lytton, Theodore Hook, Douglas Jerrold (to Charles Cowden Clarke), J.G. Lockhart, John Middleton Murry, Alfred Austin (to Coventry Patmore: "I have read enough, even now, to perceive that we are substantially in accord on all matters of taste & judgement"), Sir Francis Palgrave, Dinah Maria Craik, Thomas Chalmers, Richard Cobdden, J.A. Froude, W.H. Prescott, E.B. Pusey, Samuel Rogers, E.A. Freeman, James Martineau (group), Charlotte M. Yonge, and others, the Ruskin and Thackeray letter framed, the rest in a concertina file, minor dust-staining etc.
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