Beschreibung:

Military, Medicine, Politics, Clergy, etc. A collection of approximately 140 autographs of British military men, politicians and civil servants, nobility, surgeons and doctors, academics, etc., mid 19th to mid 20th century, including: Birdwood (William Riddell Birdwood, 1865-1951). Autograph Letter Signed, Fort William, Calcutta, 24 February 1908, to Colonel Walton, sending the Chief’s thanks for sending the sports programme, Commander in Chief in India embossed stationery, 4 pages, 8vo, Roberts (Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl Roberts, 1832-1914), Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Roberts’, Royal Hospital, Dublin, 24 January 1897, to (?)Sichhart, sending a copy of his Indian Reminiscences in the hope that it is worthy of a place in the Regimental Library, 1 page with integral blank leaf, 8vo, plus a second autograph letter signed by Roberts, 21 October 1888, to Keir, concerning plated tumblers received and saying what he need is ’10 tumblers, 10 wine glasses, 10 finger bowls, 4 peg tumblers to put one inside the other…’, 3 pages, 8vo, an incomplete autograph letter signed from General Sir L. Simmons, autograph letters signed from Thomas Babington Macaulay, Randolph S. Churchill, Benjamin Jowett, F. W. Farrar, Dr King, Bishop of Lincoln, W. E. Norris, Roundell Palmer, Earl of Selborne (incomplete letter), Henry Brougham, Lord Eldon, Lees Knowles, Bill Croker, Henry Ponsonby, John Bright, Sir Henry McCallum, Sir Charles Warren; autograph envelopes signed by Lord Brougham, [Archibald Campbell Tait], Archbishop of Canterbury, [Samuel Wilberforce], Bishop of Winchester, William Maule, Earl of Lothian, signatures of Garnet Wolseley, George Bruce Malleson, Friedrich Max Muller. H. Bismarck, Lord Brassey, 7th Earl Cowper, Stanley Lane-Poole, Piers Claughton, Harold Browne, 1st Baron Revelstoke, Michael Hicks Beach, Henry Hobhouse, Lord Winchelsea, Bernard Coleridge, etc., plus some medical interest including autograph letters signed from John Lubbock (1834-1913) x 2; Friedrich von Esmarch (1823-1908, German surgeon who developed the Esmarch bandage), in German to John Furley, 1891; Prescott Hewett (1812-1891); Morell Mackenzie (1837-1892); Thomas Longmore (1816-1895); Francis H. Champneys (1848-1930); Henry Drummond (1851-1897); Dr [Emile] Roux (1853-1933); Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919), Royal Society printed form letter signed; autograph signatures of Robert Christison (1797-1882); William Henry Dallinger (1839-1909); pencil sketch of a running dog, early 20th century, inscribed in ink, ‘rough sketch by Professor [?Julian] Huxley, J.W.’; plus other miscellaneous autograph letters and signatures including politicians and Indian civil service, military, clergy, academics, etc., together with the autograph collection’s original embossed morocco album and bespoke leather box with monogram E.M.R.L. to upper lid, album in fine condition with ties, oblong folio, box heavily scuffed and lacking key, 28 x 34 x 7 cm Provenance: From the family of autograph collector Emily Mary Rose Lee (1869-1949), wife of Colonel William Crawford Walton (1864-1937). Emily was the daughter of William Lee Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow from 1874 to 1886, and granddaughter of John Lee (1779-1859), Principal of Edinburgh University from 1840 to 1859.