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Victorian autograph album. A COLLECTION OF CUT SIGNATURES AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, COMPRISING: about 70 complete letters, including by: americana: abraham lincoln, 15 word autograph note signed ("Lincoln") requesting "your papers and Brief (if you have any) for appointments in Washington Territory"; Edward Everett to R.W. Emerson, about a dinner engagement, 1864; Wendell Phillips, to R.W. Emerson, 2 pages; William Lloyd Garrison, brief note, 1877; Gerrit Smith, polar explorers: john franklin to Richardson, 1 page, 8vo, 15 February 1845; john richardson on the purchase of equipment presumably in preparation for his search for Franklin, 4 pages, 8vo, 3 March 1848; james clarke ross, 2 pages, 8vo, Chatham, 29 July 1839 scientists: JFW Herschel, discussing photographs and other subjects, 4 pages, 8vo, 1870; Sir William Herschel, crude autograph star chart; Richard Owen, 1 page, 8vo, 1867; J.N. Lockyer; J.R. Hind; Hugh Miller royalty: Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, and Victoria, Duchess of Kent abolitionists: Zachary Macaulay, on abolitionist pamphlets, 1 page, 4to, 21 January 1822; Thomas Clarkson, on a petition to be presented to Parliament probably for the Anti-Slavery Society, 3 pages, 4to, 8 March [?1824] politicians: the Duke of Wellington, 27 June 1830; William Gladstone, on Classical Greece, 2 pages, 10 November 1865; Pitt the younger, autograph note, 1790; WW Dundas, on Kentish defences at the time of the threatened French invasion, 2 pages, 4to, 1803; William Windham; Thomas Milner Gibson; Lord Morpeth (later 7th Earl of Carlisle); Arthur Kavanagh; 4th Earl of Aberdeen; 8th Earl of Lauderdale military figures: Lord Cochrane, on preferment, 4 pages, 4to, Lord Lynedoch, Lord Napier of Magdala, William Sidney Smith Charles Napier (incomplete) others: isambard kingdom brunel 2 pages, 8vo, 1823; the engineer Henry Bessemer; rowland hill, 1848; the doctors James Paget and J.Y. Simpson; Lord Chancellors Eldon, Cairns, Brougham, Lyndhurst, Hatherley, and Selbourne (as Roundell Palmer); other lawyers including Lord Cockburn and Sir Fitzroy Kelly; Lord Lawrence, Viceroy of India, 1869; ST Coleridge (nephew of the poet); and a promissory note signed by Lords Cromertie and Kilmarnock, 1731 approximately 200 brief notes, incomplete letters, and cut signatures of public figures including charles darwin, james buchanan ulysses s. grant, rutherford b. hayes, jefferson davis, Charles Lyell, Augustus Keppel, and Queen Victoria items mostly laid down, or in some cases mounted at edges, in a very dark blue gilt morocco album with a monogram centrepiece ("ESN"), silk endpapers, lock and key, some adhesive and other staining, wear and tear to individual items, binding rubbed in places