Beschreibung:

AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. A collection of autograph letters signed by writers, philosophers and public figures, the majority addressed to Revd George Armstrong (1792-1857) or members of his family, including letters by Walter Savage Landor (2), Joseph Hume (2), Richard Cobden (3), John Stuart Mill (3), Rowland Hill, Henry Brougham, Sir Robert Peel Lajos Kossuth, Sydney Smith, Harriet Martineau, W.E. Gladstone, Walter Bagehot, John Bright, Dr William Ellery Channing (4), Joseph Blanco White (18), George Grote, William Tait (3), Giuseppe Mazzini (2), Anne Isabelle, Lady Byron (2) and others, 1831-1918, approximately 140 letters in total , with 40 envelopes or covers, and 5 photographs.
AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. A collection of autograph letters signed by writers, philosophers and public figures, the majority addressed to Revd George Armstrong (1792-1857) or members of his family, including letters by Walter Savage Landor (2), Joseph Hume (2), Richard Cobden (3), John Stuart Mill (3), Rowland Hill, Henry Brougham, Sir Robert Peel Lajos Kossuth, Sydney Smith, Harriet Martineau, W.E. Gladstone, Walter Bagehot, John Bright, Dr William Ellery Channing (4), Joseph Blanco White (18), George Grote, William Tait (3), Giuseppe Mazzini (2), Anne Isabelle, Lady Byron (2) and others, 1831-1918, approximately 140 letters in total , with 40 envelopes or covers, and 5 photographs. The correspondence is drawn upon in Robert Henderson, A memoir of the late Rev. George Armstrong, formerly incumbent of Bangor in the diocese of Down, and latterly one of the ministers of Lewin's-Mead Chapel, Bristol (London: Whitfield, 1859). For letters by Charles Dickens to Armstrong, see lot 198.