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Disraeli, Benjamin, first Earl of Beaconsfield. COLLECTION OF 28 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS to Mary Anne Weld Forester, Lady Forester (26), and her husband (George) Cecil Weld Forester, 3rd Baron Forester (2), congratulating them on their marriage, on Parliamentary business, personal engagements, with repeated apologies that the House of Commons keeps him from dinner engagements ("...Thus disappointments repeat themselves, like everything else in life..."), the critical illness of the Prince of Wales ("...Telegram just arrived from Sandringham, & dated 6 o'clock announced 'decided improvement'...", 15 December 1871) and Prince Leopold ("...who has been very unwell, & is only slowly recovering in the wildness of the Highlands..., 22 November 1877), and family affairs including letters of congratulation to both parties on the marriage of George and Mary Anne, 65 pages, chiefly 8vo, Hughenden Manor and London (various addresses), 14 October 1862 to 7 September 1878, 17 autograph envelopes (some fronts only), mounted in an album together with three autograph letters signed by Disraeli's secretary Montagu Corry, two letters by Sarah Disraeli on the marriage of George Cecil Weld Forester, a letter of condolence by Sir Pope Hennessey fondly recalling Lord Forester (14 June 1886), signed photographs of Disraeli and Corry, press cuttings, a dinner invitation and menu, some items with extensive contemporary notes in an unknown hand, two pages with pencil inscription and signature by the writer Shane Leslie, two notes relating to the binding of the album loosely inserted, half blue morocco with gilt lettering piece on upper cover ("Letters of Rt Honble. B. Disraeli"), adhesive tape marks at the edges of some letters, binding rubbed