Beschreibung:

Fine collection, including autograph letters etc by William Morris Lafayette, Talleyrand, Sir Walter Scott George III (half-pay warrant signed, 1785), George IV (autograph letter - "As I know that You have no objection to Masquerades, I have taken the liberty of enclosing You two Tickets for Mrs Panton's, for Tonight", 1808, torn), Queen Victoria (pardon, signed, for two prisoners sentenced to transportation, 1850, with an autograph design and inscription for a casket to be given to a Spencer godchild), Elizabeth Fry (declining to authenticate a letter), Prince Kropotkin (preparing for a lecture), Soult, Massena, Edward VII (sketch), James Hadfield, assailant of George III (autograph verses from Bethlem Hospital), Richard Mounteney (1669), Dickens (signature), Sir John Stainer (group, about music education etc - "A good teacher knows exactly what course will be best for each child's special case: a casual inspector cannot tell, but yet will meddle with the Teacher"), Hubert Parry, Norman Shaw (group - "you could laugh at your leisure at the mistakes an architect can make when he builds his own house"), Cardinal Fesch, the Chartist Thomas Cooper, Napier of Magdala, Mary Linwood (an invitation to her needle work exhibition at Leicester Square, 1829), Walter Crane (group), Frederick Goodall E.W. Cooke, Edward Poynter, William Huggins Charles Eastlake, Frederic Leighton H.S. Marks, Seymour Haden Thomas Chalmers, Hiram S. Maxim, Hubert von Herkomer William Simpson Alma Tadema, Birkett Foster, George du Maurier Adam Clarke (series), J.E. Millais, G.F. Watts, many Liberal politicians, Field Marshal Roberts (group), W.H. Flower, E. Ray Lankester, and many others; with a wide range of printed ephemera, including attractive menus, programmes and invitations, in six albums, folders, or boxes, and loose, mostly 19th century