Autograph Collection.- Miscellaneous

Autograph Collection.- Miscellaneous

A varied collection of autographs, manuscript letters, clipped autographs, etc, mostly from the c19th and early c20th. Including:

Theatre / Opera/ Ballet / Music: a small assortment of letters and notes including: Dion Boucicault (1820-1890, actor and playwright) manuscript letter; G Percival Griffiths (organist, Norwich) manuscript note; letter to Sir John Martin-Harvey (1863-1944, actor); Sir Herbert Beerbohm-Tree (1852-1917, actor) manuscript letter; William J ‘Billy’ Churchill (1865-1949, comedian) manuscript letter; etc;

Artists & Architecture: a small assortment of letters, plans, photographs and clipped signatures including: Edward Prentis (1797-1854, painter) letter to an unidentified peer; John Astley (1724-1787, painter) clipped signature; Sir David Murray (1849-1933, artist) manuscript note; James Grewar Falconer (1853-1928, architect) two plans of 1910, one on cloth, for E S Gooch at Torcastle, near Fort William; three photographs of Old Bourne Mill, Colchester;

Writers and literary: an assortment of letters, notes, etc including: Sir John Murray IV (1851–1928, editor and publisher to Queen Victoria, three manuscript letters (3); Henry Taylor (1800 – 1886, dramatist and poet) manuscript letters (4); Albert E Hooper (fl. 1890-1900, writer of children’s books) letter of recommendation; Joseph Ashby-Sterry (1838 – 1917, poet, novelist and journalist) manuscript letter; John Thadeus Deland (1817-1879, editor of The Times) manuscript letter; George John Whyte-Melville (1821 – 1878, novelist) clipped signature; Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861 – 1923, novelist, poet and essayist) manuscript letter; Joseph Gleeson White (1851–1898, writer on art) manuscript note; Robert Montgomery Martin (1801 - 1868, author and civil servant) signed letter; a small group of anonymous writings to ‘Invicta’ (qty); plus a small quantity of anonymous manuscript texts and poems etc;

Academia, history and antiquarianism: a small collection of letters, notes etc: Sir Henry Farnham Burke (1859-1930, as Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms) manuscript letter; Thomas Leslie Papillon (1841 – 1926, priest and classical philologist) two manuscript letters (2); William Hepworth Thompson (1810 – 1886, classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) manuscript letter; William Priestley (1779–1860 wool clothier, antiquary and literary gentleman) autograph;

Various other: an assortment of letters, papers and other items etc including: Harbord family – small collection of c19 & c20 letters; Lucas family: a pedigree and various notes and letters; an intriguing cache of intensely personal letters to a Mrs Singleton of Hazeley House, Winchfield (& other locations), most carefully torn; Stitt family of Liverpool – letters and note; plus other letters and notes various etc.

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