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Autograph collection. A COLLECTION OF ABOUT 570 LETTERS, DOCUMENTS, AND CUT SIGNATURES, MOSTLY NINETEENTH CENTURY, HOUSED IN THREE ALBUMS WITH SOME LOOSE i) Red morocco gilt album labelled on spine "Autographs. Composers, Poets, Authors, and Bishops", including letters by: COMPOSERS: Rossini (fragment); WRITERS: Charles Dickens (to William Empson, 2 pages, 8vo, 24 September 1857), Amelia Opie, Robert Browning (signature), George Crabbe, Thomas Carlyle (to Empson, giving his response to a book, 4 pages, 8vo, 24 March 1852), Thomas Hughes, Wilkie Collins (signature), C.L. Dodgson (fragment), Maria Edgeworth Alphonse Lamartine (letter signed), John Keble, Thomas Arnold; OTHER: W.C. Macready, Michael Faraday (brief note), Charles Bell ii) Red morocco gilt album labelled on spine "Autographs. Royalty. Statesmen", including letters by: ROYALS: Edward VII as Prince of Wales (3 pages, 8vo, 1 Feb 1863), the Duc D’Orleans (1866),William III as Prince of Orange (portion of a DS), and cut signatures of William IV, George III and IV; POLITICIANS: James Brooke Rajah of Sarawak, William Cowper Temple, Francis Jeffrey, Francois Guizot, G. Garibaldi, Talleyrand (document signed), Robert Walpole (document signed, 1741); MILITARY FIGURES: Sir John Burgoyne, Sir Henry Storks, Lord de Saumarez (document signed, fragment), and a group of naval signatures from the age of Nelson including Nelson (signature with his right hand), Collingwood, Howe, Jervis, T.M. Hardy; ARTISTS: William Holman Hunt Frederick Lee, J.D. Harding D. Maclise, George Cruickshank, Paul Naftel, Thomas Phillips James Sherwood Westmacott A.E. Chalon, John Mogford James Sant John Everett Millais John Pettie Val Princep, F.L. Chantrey; OTHER: John Ruskin (2 pages, 8vo), E.M. Ward iii) Brown roan album lettered in gilt "Autographs" on the upper cover, including letters by: ROYALS: Edward, Duke of Kent, Victoria of Prussia, Frederick the Great (DS), Friedrich Wilhelm Karl of Prussia; POLITICIANS: Joseph Hume, Wellington, Disraeli (signed “D”); ARTISTS: Holman Hunt (fragment), W.P. Frith, James Sant John Everett Millais Richard Ansdell Charles Kingsley; OTHER: Thomas Campbell iv) loose letters, including by: Edward Benson (Archbishop of Canterbury), W.C. Macready, Richard Monckton Milnes, Princess Sophia, Prince Alfred Duke of Edinburgh, John le Capelain