
Letters.- Album of letters to
Letters.- Album of manuscripts, letters to Bishop Henry Philpotts, Rev. E. Coleridge & others,including: Sir Godrey Kneller, D.s. "G Kneller", authorising Edward Byng as his agent to sell "One hundred pounds Interest or Credit in the... Company... trading to the South Seas", 7th November 1722; Elizabeth Gaskell, Alfred Tennyson, Edward Jenner, Sir Humphry Davy, Sir John Herschel, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Clarkson, Otto Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, empowering a person to receive their pension, Harburgh, 1581; Castlereagh, Robert Peel, R.B. Sheridan, William Wilberforce (son of the philanthropist and reformer); Gladstone, Kinglake, Thackeray, Christopher Wordsworth, Allenby,Thomas Hughes, Edward Irving (preacher and theologian, 1792-1834); Edmund Gosse, letter torn in half; Samuel Wilberforce, Samuel Bagster the elder (publisher, 1772-1851); J.S. Mill, George Richmond, Samuel Rogers, Joseph Mazzini, samples of manuscript pages: Thomas Carlyle & Thomas Arnold; cut signatures & Free Franks, including: Palmerston, Canning, Agnes Strickland, C.M. Yonge, Charles Kean, W.M. Rossetti, Southey, Longfellow, John Keble, together numerous items, most tipped-in with thick tape, many loose, original leather album, rubbed, corners bumped, spine detached, 4to.
***A fine collection of literary, artistic, political and religious writers. Letter signed from Thomas Clarkson to Edmund Peckover, sm. 4to, 1st May 1807, "As our Committee feel a considerable degree of uneasiness in the present situation of things, I have to request the favour of you to endeavour to make thou Candidate, who may ask your support at the ensuing Election promise in case they should join the present Administration; that they will oppose them in one particular case, namely if they should attempt to reverse the late Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade Yours truly T. Clarkson I entreat you, for the sake of Suffering Humanity, to get all the support you can for Wilberforce - He writes to me with fear & trembling - If he fall, our cause will fall also - Lascelles is agt us -." Autograph Letter signed from Florence Nightingale to "My dear Sir", 1p. with conjugate blank, 8vo, Old Burlington Street [London], May 1857, thanking him for sending him a copy of his book on "Tropical Climate's", and reporting, "H.M. has signed the Warrant for our 'Commission'". Autograph Letter signed from Elizabeth Gaskell to "My dear Sir", 2pp., 8vo, Plymouth, 13th May, n.d., "I have packed up. I am sending by rail the autographs you name, - likeness of Charlotte Brontë, photographs of her father & the house she lived in... .".




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