A late 19th century album of approximately 90 autograph lett...

Hammer

£4,400

A late 19th century album of approximately 90 autograph letters and autograph clippings. Mostly 1860s, the earliest 1827 and the most recent 1913. * denotes transcripts available on request.
Provenance: Consigned by a relation of Emily Christiana Brown (1834-1916) and Helen Allan (1845-1926) (the principal compilers of lots 317, 318, 664 and 665)

AUTHORS - Charles Dickens (x2), William Thackeray (1855), Rev. Charles Kingsley (1865), George MacDonald, Jasmin fils* re his father Jacques Jasmin’s death (1865), John Stuart Mill (1866), Norman Macleod re 'The Old Lieutenant and His Son', Thomas Hughes and Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1865).

ARTISTS - George Cruikshank (1865) and Charles Samuel Keene at 239 Kings Road, Chelsea, to Mrs Colin Hunter (post 1879)

PUBLISHERS - Thomas Bywater Smithies* (editor of 'The British Workman') (1861). Four letters to Peter Jackson of the printer-publishers, Fisher, Son & Jackson at 38 Newgate, London from: James Montgomery (1826); Dr. Adam Clarke* (410 words) (1827); Robert Moffat* at the Moffat Mission at Lattakoo near Kuruman (1,350 words) (1836) and Sir George Cornewall Lewis* (1849).

MILITARY - General Sir Henry Ferguson Davie (1860), Admiral Charles Yorke, 4th Earl Hardwicke (1863) and Admiral Sir Charles Napier

ROYALTY - Louis Philippe I of France; Marie-Amélie de Bourbon; Prince Arthur (Duke of Connaught) (1886) and Princess Helena (Princess Christian Holstein-Schleswig) at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor.

ITALIANS - Guiseppe Garibaldi, Guiseppe Mazzini (1861), Alessandro Gavazzialian (1862), A. Facchella (1858)

VARIOUS – Ernest Shackleton to his father on Royal Scottish Geographical Society notepaper; Sir Joseph Paxton; Jenny Lind (‘the Swedish nightingale’); Prof. James Hadley; John Taylor Coleridge (1863); William Davidson Niven (1894); Thomas Wright re prisoners' education (1863); William Marsh (father of Catherine Marsh); Eleanor Anne Ormerod (entomolgist) (1899); Frederick Harrison (jurist & historian) and Sir Austen Henry Layard (excavator of Nimrud and Nineveh).

PEERS & POLITICIANS - Lord John Russell (1866?); Lionel Rothschild; John Bright (1860); Russell - House of Lords entry pass (1862); Thomas Dundas, Marquess of Zetland (1863); Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle (1856); George Kinnaird, 9th Lord Kinnaird (1863); Sir Stephen Glynne (1863); George Byng, Viscount Enfield (1863); Richard Spooner (1863); William Cowper-Temple; Robert Grosvenor (1st Baron Ebury); Wensleydale, 9th Earl of Carlisle?; George Sclater Booth; John Yarde-Buller; Baron Churston (1863); William Cox MP (1862); George Hammer Whalley; Hayes St Leger - 4th Viscount Doneraile; Robert Peel (1822-1895); Lord Hartington (8th Duke of Devonshire) (1865); John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1906); James Boyle (1904) and Andrew Bonar-Law (1913).

CLERICS - Bishop of Winchester (1869); Anthony Thorold, Bishop of Rochester (1863); Dr Edward Bannerman Ramsay (Dean of Edinburgh); John Lonsdale, Bishop of Lichfield (1863); Arthur Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (1863); Cardinal Carl Wiseman (1863); Cardinal Henry E. Manning (1866); Robert Moffat (1836); Meyrick Goulburn (1863); John Joseph Lynch (Bishop of Toronto); Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1863 & 4); Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury (1866); Charles J. Blomfield, Bishop of London (1838); Rev. Dr. John Cumming, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster  (1866); Cannon Frederick Anson (1863); Charles Spurgeon (1862); Rev. Robert Smith Candlish with Royal Meterological Society date stamp (1863);  Rev Thomas Green, Principal of the CMS College (1864); Rev. Alexander Raleigh re Rev. Thos. James' sermon (1863); Francis Close, Dean of Carlisle; Gilbert Elliott, Dean of Bristol (1865); Samuel Barnett, Canon of Westminster (1902); from the Office of the Chief Rabbi, Nathan Marcus Adler, re theological question (1861); Rev. Thomas Guthrie at 1 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh, re Mariners Christian Aid (1865); Bishop of St David's at Abergwili Palace, Carmarthen (1863)