Beschreibung:

Album kept by members of the Goulburn, Goldsmid and associated families, with letters to the editor S.C. Hall and to the imperial administrator General Sir Frederick Goldsmid, including autograph letters, etc., by Charles Dickens (autograph letter to Hall, 29 October 1865 – "rely upon my guinea for Leigh Hunt's grave"; with two signed envelope fronts addressed to Mrs Marchmont, Superintendent of the Bourdett-Coutts Home for Destitute Females, at Urania Cottage, Shepherd's Bush, the other care of John Forster), Hartley Coleridge (autograph sonnet "To Wordsworth"), Robert Southey (autograph letter to his brother Harry, discussing the Dutch translation of Roderick and his history of the Peninsular War, 1824), Lady Byron, Thomas Medwin (Byron's interlocutor), Thomas Moore (to Magrath of the Athenaeum), Alfred Tennyson, W.M. Thackeray, John Ruskin (two letters to Hall), Lady Anne Blount, Thomas Campbell T.F. Dibdin, Admiral Sir Sidney Smith (writing from Paris in 1815, shortly before the execution of Ney: "Ney's trial will finish today it is expected... I of course condemned the first movers of the revolt , on the evidence of the bleeding and dying French soldiers on the trodden down wet corn of Waterloo"), Sir Richard Burton General Gordon (autograph note on his correspondence written for George Birkbeck Hill, editor of Colonel Gordon in Central Africa, 1874–79 , 1881), David Livingstone (signature and conclusion of an autograph letter to Roderick Murchison, probably written in January 1865 when living at Newstead and working on Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi ), Henry M. Stanley (autograph letter to Goldsmid), E.H. Shackleton (signature), Lord Curzon (discussing Persian railways with Goldsmid), Charles Gounod, Amelia Opie, Lady Eleanor Butler, Fanny Kemble, Sydney Morgan, Joanna Baillie, Harriet Martineau, Anna Jameson (to Lady Byron), Jenny Lind, Rudyard Kipling, Harrison Ainsworth, Mary Howitt, Samuel Lover Daniel Maclise Millais, Captain Nolan and Lord Cardigan (of Light Brigade fame), Wellington, J.F.W. Herschel, Gideon Mantell, Charles Wheatstone (to Lady Burdett-Coutts), A.H. Layard, J.D. Hooker, William Jardine J.S. Buckingham and others; plus strands purporting to be the hair of Napoleon and Wellington (the latter given to Louisa Thomas, née Goldsmid, whose diary for 31 March 1846 records "went to dinner with Captn Douce, who gave me a lock of the Duke of Wellington's hair – quite grey & very short"), canvas-wrapper boards, large 4to, nineteenth-century