Autograph Collection.- Miscellaneous

Autograph Collection.- Miscellaneous

A collection of letters and clipped signatures by various notable figures, some of Scottish interest, comprising: Queen Victoria (clipped signature); W E Gladstone ( letter to and response from on a matter of Irish politics); Literature and Art (including: Sir John Tenniel ;Sir John Everett Millais, James Hall Nasmyth, Sir Hubert Herkomer, Lord Leighton, Sir Henry Rider Haggard; Jerome K Jerome, J.M. Barrie; Joseph Noel Paton); Politicians (including: Earl Balfour, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, Lord Rosebery, Herbert Asquith, Joseph Chamberlain and Mary Chamberlain, the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Cadogan, Lord Randolph Churchill, Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Goschen, George Trevelyan, Marquis of Ripon); Church and University, Scientific etc (including: Lord Kelvin, Sir William Jenner, David Masson, Walter Chalmers Smith, Sir John Lubbock, Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Henry Drummond); Theatrical (including: Ellen Terry, Sybil Thorndike, Helen Ferrers, Sir Squire Bancroft, John Lawrence Toole, Lionel Brough, Dame Emma Albani Gye, Dame Madge Kendal, Marie Roze, Sir Frank Benson, Hermann Vezin); Ambassadors (inclluding: Lord & Dufferin & Ava, Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget, Hussey Crespigny Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian, Lord Macnaghten); Naval & Military (including: Lord Roberts, Lord Chelmsford, Lord Wolseley); Insurance & Banking (including: letters and documents of the Scottish Widows’ Fund; the Insurance Company of Scotland; the Commercial Bank; the Royal Bank of Ireland; etc, etc); Legal (including: Sir Frank Lockwood, Sir Charles Edward Pollock, Lord Macnaghten, Lord Kincairney, Lord Alverstone, Lord Pearson, George Denman, Sir Arthur Kekewich ); also including: three bearer bond notes from George Keiller & Co of Glasgow dated 1764; a signed note from Sir Chay Blyth (b.1940); a letter from Princess Hélène of Orléans (1871-1951); an annotated programme for the visit by the Queen to Edinburgh in 1953 plus a souvenir Programme from the 1953 Coronation; v.s. (quantity)

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Dimensions: 29 x 9 x 27.5cm