Marryat (Captain Frederick)

Marryat (Captain Frederick, naval officer and novelist, editor of the liberal/radical magazine the "Metropolitan Magazine", 1792-1848), Florence Marryat (married names Church, Lean, novelist, 1837-99) & Samuel Storey (Liberal politician, MP and local politician, co-founder of the Sunderland Echo, 1841-1925) [Joseph Rushbrook; or, the Poacher] found in an album of letters to Florence Marryat and from Liberal Politicians to Samuel Storey,

autograph manuscript, 1p. only (p. 14), ink inscription at tail of page: "Capt Marryat's copy of 'The Poacher', folio, [c. 1840]; letters to Storey including: photograph of Samuel Storey, Gladstone, Charles Beresford (naval officer, 1848-1919); Joseph Chamberlain, Edward Grey (Viscount Grey of Fallodon); Lord Rosebery, John Morley (Viscount Morley of Blackburn); Thomas Ellis (Liberal politician and Welsh Nationalist); Lady Megan Lloyd George (politician, first woman MP from a Welsh constituency), Austen Chamberlain, Harry Furniss, R.D. Blackmore (novelist and barrister, 1825-1900); John Ruskin, Horace Wigan (actor and adaptor of plays, 1818?-85); cut signatures; Gladstone, Lord Milner, Herbert Gladstone etc., most tipped-in, some loose, 19th century album, gilt, slightly rubbed, g.e., nineteenth/twentieth centuries.

***Letter from Ruskin to ?Storey on the Guild of St. George. "A.L.s. to "My dear Sir", 2pp., 8vo, Mrs Ravens, Coniston, 4th June 1887, "Your letter, was unanswered because when it came, I was in very serious debate with our Trustee Mr Thompson, respecting the view he took of the St. George's Guild, - and entirely doubtful myself, what to report of it to its members. More and more, its essential purpose - the holding of land under beneficent laws, becomes impossible in the present condition of English fashions and policy; and my own part in the management of it, is now confined to getting what good drawings and sculptures I can for its educational purposes. I am, for chief trouble at present in fierce contest with the Dean of Ch Ch [H.G. Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, father of Alice Liddell (1811-98)] for authority over my own Oxford Schools. I must let St George's affairs rest as they are. If you read any of the volumes of Fors [Clavigera] you may find enough account of the design of the Guild to satisfy you as to the part you would care to take in supporting it." .