Autograph Collection.- Miscellaneous

Autograph Collection.- Miscellaneous

A very varied collection of autographs, manuscript letters, clipped autographs, etc to include a significant group from the archive of Hunter Davies and Margaret Forster, comprising: a large selection from their personal archive, many annotated, including drafts and proofs of articles for Punch magazine and the Sunday Times; invitations top social and royal events, postcards and personal and professional letters including from: Melvyn Bragg; Alan Bennett; Michael Winner; Clare Tomalin; Cartmen Callil; Susan Hampshire; Alan Sillitoe; Peter Ackroyd; Thomas Keneally; Arnold Wesker; Jilly Cooper; Victoria Glendinning; Bel Mooney; Marina Warner; Al Alvarez; Deborah Devonshire; Eric Malpass; Peter Schaffer; Michael Frayn and others, v.s.; the lot also includes: a small collection of c.19^th autograph letters by religious figures, including Edward Bouverie Pusey; letters, notes and clipped signatures by the Duke of Wellington, John Bright, Robert Peel, Richard Cobden, Margaret Ethel Macdonald, Dorothea Beale; theatre programmes and associated memorabilia including: programmes for a gala opera performance at Covent Garden for British & Danish Royalty (1914); the royal openings of the Severn Bridge (1967) Gloucester Shire Hall (1963); the National Theatre (1976); letters of thanks from various private secretaries including Sir Henry Knollys; letter from Margaret of Teck; signatures of princesses Louise, Beatrice, Helena Victoria and Prince Alfred; two handwritten notes, possibly by Queen Alexandra; unsigned notecard of Edward and Wallis Windsor; invitation cards related to the 1902 coronation; cover of a letter to Prince Adam Wiszniewski from the office of emperor Napoléon III; letters and clipped autographs by Lord Macaulay; Edmund Gosse; Henry Newbolt, Hugh Walpole; John Drinkwater, Charles Kean, Charles Kemble, Ellen Terry; Sir Henry Irving; Sir Ralph Richardson; Sir Michael Redgrave; Ninette de Valois, Sir David Wilkie; Simeon Solomon, George Storey; George Frederick Watts; Edward Linley Sambourne; Sir Alfred Gilbert; Stanhope Forbes, William Leighton Leitch, Edward Poynter, Eric Kennington, Sir William Rothenstein, David Shepherd, Hans Richter, Sir George Grove, Peter Maxwell-Davies, John Barbirolli, Adrian Boult, Oliver Messiaen; Sir George Solti, Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Malcom Sargent, Edmund Rubbra, Virgil Thomson, Yehudi Menhuin, Joan Sutherland , Sir Patrick Moore, Frank Bradshaw Wood, with a number of letters from the Lockheed company and others regarding space shuttle launches, manuscript notes of second world war action, c. 19th quartermasters’ notes and returns and others, v.s. 19th-20th century (large quantity)

(Quantity:large quantity)

Dimensions: in a box measuring 39 x 31 x 9cm