Autograph Collection.- Miscellaneous mostly from the c19th and c20th

A large and varied collection of autographs, manuscript letters, clipped autographs, signed photographs, etc, mostly from the c19th and c20th, including:

Theatre / Cinema / Entertainment - an assortment of autographs, letters, clipped autographs and signed photographs including: Ed Sullivan (US TV star, 1901-1974); George Grossmith (actor, 1847-1912); Danny Kaye (US Actor, 1911-19876); Charlie Drake (comedian, 1925-2006); Margaret Lockwood (actor, 1916-1990, signed photograph); John Lawrence Toole (actor, 1830-1906); Irene Vanbrugh (actor, 1872-1949); Julia Neilson (actor, 1868-1957); Ellaline Terriss-Hicks (actor, 1871-1971); Sir John Hare (actor, 1844-1921, signed photograph); Charles Kean (actor, 1811-1868); Herbert Beerbohm Tree (actor, 1852-1917); Laurence Irving (set designer and illustrator, (1897-1988); Fred Terry (actor 1863-1933); Ellen Terry (1847-1928); Marion Terry (actor, 1853-1930); Frank Benson (1858-1939); Janet Achurch (actor 1863-1911); Laurence Olivier (actor, 1907-1989); Johnston Forbes Robertson (actor, 1853-1937);

Music & Musicians - an assortment of autographs, letters, clipped autographs etc including: Bill Wyman (guitarist, 1936 -); Whistling Jack Smith (John O’Neill, whistler & singer, 1926-1999); John Parry (harpist, 1776-1851); Sigismond Thalberg (composer, 1812-1871); Michael William Balfe (composer, 1808-1870); Gilbert Louis Duprez ( composer, 1806-1896); Charles Villiers Stanford (composer, 1852-1924); John Stainer (composer, 1840-1901); Walter Parratt (composer, 1841-1924); Sydney Nicholson (composer etc, 1875-1947); Johann Kruse (violinist, 1859-1927); Catherine Hayes (singer, 1818-1861); etc, etc (qty)

Writers, books and literary - an assortment of autographs, letters, clipped autographs etc including: Peter Kroger (bookseller & spy, 1910-1995); Felicia Hemans (poet, 1793-1835); Frances Freeling Broderip (writer, 1830-1878); Anne Thackeray Ritchie (writer, 1837-1919); Dinah Mulock (Mrs Crail, novelist, 1826-1887); Charles Spence (author, fl.1845-1851); Eliot Warburton (writer, 1810-1852); Francis Charles Dehault de Pressensé (journalist, 1853-1914); Thomas James Mathias (writer, 1754-1835); Anna Jameson (writer and historian, 1794-1860); Martin Farquhar Tupper (poet etc, 1810-1889, with manuscript poem); William Maltby (bibliographer etc, 1763-1854); etc, etc (qty)

Artists, Art & Architecture : a small assortment of letters and clipped signatures, illustrations etc, including: Robert Crukshank: sketch for illustration “no M. Tonson lodges here…” for the book ‘Monsieur Tonson’ (with John Tayor, published 1830); Sir David Murray (painter, 1849-1933); Sir Thomas Lawrence (painter, 1769-1830); John Landseer (engraver, 1762-1852); Sir Hamo Thorneycroft (sculptor, 1850-1925); Harry Furniss (illustrator, 1854-1925); William Samuel Jay (artist, 1843-1933); Roland Green (painter & Illustrator, 1890-1972); James Orrock (artist, 1829-1913); Llewellyn Jewett (illustrator, 1816-1886); two mounted items of used Mulready stationery (William Mulready, artist, 1786-1863); etc (qty)

Politics and diplomacy: an assortment of letters, notes, clipped signatures, signed photographs etc including: William Ewart Gladstone & family – small group of letters etc; menu for the inaugural banquet of the National Liberal Club (2nd May 1883); Lord Palmerston (prime minister, 1784-1865); Lord Grey (prime minister, 1764-1845, inc. signed photograph); Joseph Chamberlain (politician, 1836-1914); two notes regarding Charles Stewart Parnell (Irish politician, 1846-1891); Lord Curzon (politician and viceroy, 1859-1925); John Snowden (politician, 1864-1937); T. P. O’Connor (politician, 1848-1929); Antony Eden (prime minister, 1897-1977); Sir Giffin Wilson (Politician & lawyer, 1766-1848, qty of papers); Harold Wilson (prime minister, 1916-1995, signed photograph); Edward Heath (prime minister, 1916-2005, signed photograph); quantity of letters and signatures relating to British India c.1935-1950 from the Viceroy’s house and others; etc, etc (qty)

Naval and Military: a large selection of letters, notes, clipped signatures etc to include: Donald Hankey (soldier & writer, 1884-1916); Charles Fraser-Smith (military inventor & missionary, 1904-1992); Professor R V Jones (military scientist, 1911-1997); Simon Weston (soldier & writer, 1961-); General Brian Horrocks (1895-1985); Air Chief Marshal the Earl of Bandon (1904-1979, papers, qty); General Sir Miles Dempsey (1896-1969); Admiral ‘Jackie’ Fisher, (1841-1920); General Lord Roberts (1832-1914); General Sir John St George (1812-1891); General Sir Henry Wilson (1864-1922); General Sir John Hackett (1910-1977); General Sir Peter de Billiere (1934 -); General Patrick Cordingley (1944-); Robert Bruce-Lockhart (diplomat & spy, 1887-1970); Slawomir Rawicz (soldier & writer, 1915-2004); Captain Gordon Steele VC (RN Captain, 1891-1981); Sir Fitzroy Maclean (soldier & writer, 1911-1996); General Sir Guy Salisbury-Jones (soldier & courtier, 1896-1985, small qty); etc, etc (qty)

Royalty: an assortment of letters, notes, photographs, clipped signatures etc including: Lord Frederick FitzClarence (1799-1854); Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904); envelope in German to William IV of the United Kingdom (n.d.); Marquess of Lorne (1845-1914); courtiers’ letters sent out from Frogmore House, Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace; Marlborough House, Sandringham, the Royal Library, etc; 1983 signed Christmas card from the Duchy of Cornwall; small archive of papers regarding General C.M.F 'Peter' Deakin (1910-1992) from Buckingham Palace.

Science, engineering, academia, medical world etc: a group of letters, notes etc including: Sir William Jenner (physician to Queen Victoria etc, 1815-1898); Richard Owen (biologist, 1804-1892); Dr Joseph Hamel (scientist, 1788-1862); Sir William Flower (surgeon & curator, 1831-1899); James Legge (translator & Sinologist, 1815-1897); Max Mueller (Orientalist etc, 1823-1900); Sir William Hamilton (physicist, 1805-1865); Rupert Bruce-Mitford (archaeologist, 1914-1994); Philip Lutley Sclater (zoologist, 1829-1913); Sir Charles Warren (soldier and Egyptologist, 1840-1927); John Lamb (marine engineer, 1890-1958, signed photograph); Jean Batten (aviator, 1909-1982); a quantity of papers etc relating to Isaac Roberts (astronomer etc, 1829-1904);

Religion & The Church: a quantity of letters, papers, etc to include: John Keble (priest & poet, 1792-1866); Samuel Wilberforce (Bishop, 1805-1873); William Jacobson (professor of divinity and bishop, 1803-1884); Philp Doddridge (Nonconformist, 1702-1751); Thomas Belsham (Unitarian minister, 17560-1829); Edward Manning (cardinal, 1808-1892); Frederick Temple (archbishop, 1821-1902); Archibald Tate (Bishop of London, 1811-1882); letter regarding the protestant chapel in Genoa, 1824, signed by many; a number of manuscript religious texts and notes of the c.18th and c.19th; etc, etc (qty)

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