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Autograph Album AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF ABOUT 150 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS comprising c.116 letters in the album together with additional free franks and cut signatures, also another c.32 letters loose in an envelope, including autograph letters signed by: British politicians: C.J. Fox, George Canning, Robert Peel (1st Bt and 3rd Bt), the 7th Earl of Elgin (to Marquess Wellesley, on diplomatic affairs, 8 pages, Constantinople, 10 May 1800), John Cartwright Lord Rosebery, A. Bonar Law, Lord Milner, Stanley Baldwin, Lord Ripon Indian affairs: Marquess Wellesley (3 letters, one to Henry Addington as Prime Minister, on military successes against the Marathas by various officers including his brother, the future Duke of Wellington, of whom he records his "glorious and splendid victories at Assaye, & on the plains of Argaum, & with the entire ruin of Scindiahs French Troops & powerful artillery in the Dekan", 5 pages, Barrackpore, 31 December 1803), Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington (on Indian politics at the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Maratha War, 3 pages, 23 April 1803), Castlereagh (to Marquess Wellesely, 3 July 1804), Lord Valentia (Lucknow, 1803), and Sir James Brooke, Raja of Sarawak French politicians: Prince Talleyrand, Henri Grégoire, Marquis de Pastoret Writers: William Wordsworth (with thanks for "the interesting Relique of my Ancestor", 4 pages, 18 June 1840), Walter Scott Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Thomas Moore Robert Southey, Samuel Rogers, S.T. Coleridge (1 page, 9 July 1833), Sydney Smith, Harriet Martineau, Jane Porter, Maria Edgeworth Lucy Aikin, Joanna Baillie, Amelia Opie (2 letters), Charles Dickens (1 page), Henry Hallam, Arthur Sullivan, Frederick Treves (2 letters) Scientists: Alexander von Humboldt Michael Faraday, John Leslie ("...I think your idea of deducing the place of the absolute zero from the expansion of hydrogen gas very ingenious...", 4 pages, Edinburgh, 9 December 1828), Georges Cuvier (manuscript fragment of Règne Animal, 1 page), Robert Brown (botanist), Johann Spurzheim, Sir George Sinclair, Charles Babbage Explorers: John Franklin (2 letters), Sir Richard Collinson, Sir Edward Parry, Military: Basil Hall, W. Sidney Smith Sir Charles Napier, Sir H.R. Popham, Lord Cornwallis (to Lord Mornington, Dublin Castle, 18 March 1799) Artists: Thomas Lawrence John Martin (2 letters), jean-david-d-angers" title="Pierre-Jean David d'Angers">Pierre-Jean David d'Angers (to M. Pentland, written with his left hand following an injury, returning a proof in plaster, 1 page, 8vo, n.d., integral address leaf) Church leaders: W.B. Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon (2 letters) the album with 139 numbered pages, maroon morocco gilt, three leaves of album looose, one letter loose,occasional creasing to letters, split at upper joint