Autograph Collection.- Art, Science, Architecture, Engineers, Medical, Academia, 18th-20th centuries

Wide collection of autographs, manuscript letters, clipped autographs, 18th-20th century, including:

Artists and Art world: an assortment of letters, notes, sketches and clipped signatures etc of the c18th, c19th and c20th, including: Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti (1843-1894, artist, author, wife of William Rosetti – part letter from Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, 1857-1944), poet & novelist); Eveleen Tennant Myers (1856-1937, photographer); John Piper (1903-1992, painter, printmaker & designer of stained-glass windows); Roger Kemble Furse (1903- 1972, painter, costume designer & production designer - illustration for Noel Coward’s ‘After the Ball’ (1954); Georgina Bowers Edwards (1836–1912, early female comic illustrator; John Seymour Lucas (1849-1923, painter); Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859, American painter); Henry Seppings Wright (1849–1937, artist); Bernard Finegan Gribble (1872-1962, artist); George Morland (1763-1804, artist - letter regarding, by another artists, J Williams, with sketch); John MacWhirter (1839-1911, artist); Robert Anning Bell (1863-1933, artist); Constance Smedley (1876-1941, artist, playwright, author); Augustus Hare (1834-1903, writer painter); Paul-Adolphe Rajon (1843-1888, French painter, printmaker & photographer); Sydney Lee (1866-1949, engraver & painter); Madeline Caroline Wyndham (1835-1920, artist in enamels & embroidery); Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912, painter);

Science, botany, chemistry, etc – an assortment of letters, notes, clipped autographs etc from the c.18th, c.19th and c.20th including: John Gould (1804-1881, ornithologist & publisher); John Lindley (1799-1865, botanist, gardener & orchidologist); Marshall Pickney Wilder (1798-1886, American politician, horticulturalist & pomologist); Francis Buckland (1826-1880, zoologist & natural historian); Samuel Hunter Christie (1784-1865, physicist and mathematician); Robert Graham (1786-1845, botanist); Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892, mathematician and astronomer); Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885-1959, chemist & inventor); Joseph Locke (1805-1860, civil engineer); John Lee (1783-1866, astronomer, mathematician, antiquarian, barrister, and numismatist); Admiral William Henry Smyth (1788- 1865, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist); Sir Robert Ball (1840-1913, astronomer); George Wilson (1818-1859, chemist and writer); Letter from Lady Anna Maria Palliser (1843–1923) regarding a memorial to her husband Sir William Palliser (1830-1882, politician and inventor) to Admiral Charles Beresford (1846-1918); William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-1872, mathematician and physicist; Solomon "Solly" Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman (1904-1993, zoologist); Notice for the 1878 Council elections at the Royal Society signed by Walter White (1811-1893, Librarian & Asst Secretary); Charles Hatchette (1765-1847, mineralogist and chemist); Frederick Hendriks (1827–1909, actuary & statistician);

Medical world etc - an assortment of letters, notes, manuscripts, clipped autographs etc from the c.18th, c.19th and c.20th including: Florence Nightingale (1820-1910, nurse -envelope from Sidney Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (1853-1913)); George Hanby De'Ath, (1861-1901, colleague of Florence Nightingale); Thomas Horder, 1st Baron Horder, (1871-1955, physician-in-ordinary to Kings Edward VII, George V, and George VI, and Queen Elizabeth II); Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, (1815-1900, physician and educator); Sir William Henry Flower (1831-1899, English surgeon and anatomist); Joseph Hume (1777-1855, surgeon and MP); Eugène Bodichon (1810-1885, physician & writer); Caleb Williams Saleeby (1878-1940, physician, writer, and journalist); Thomas Hake (1809- 1895, physician and poet); Sir Arthur Keith (1866-1955, anatomist and anthropologist; Sir Robert Christison (1797-1882; toxicologist and physician); Charles Aston Key (1793–1849, surgeon); William Clift (1775-1849, first conservator of the Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons); Sir Astley Cooper (1768-1841, surgeon and anatomist); letter to, from Sir Anthony Carlisle (1768-1840, surgeon); Colonel William Wallace Kenny (1854–1929, HM Forces’ Surgeon General); Augustus Bozzi Granville (1783-1872, physician & writer); Robert Bentley Todd (1809-1860. Physician); Thomas Wormald (1802-1873, surgeon): William Curgenven (1841-1910, surgeon and cricketer – letter to); Thomas Hornsey (1792-1880, zoologist, dental surgeon and writer); Sir Comyns Berkeley (1865-1946, obstetric physician, gynaecological surgeon and medical writer); John Carl Flügel (1884-1955, experimental psychologist etc); Letters of 1797 from a Doctor Hill of Guildford (2); letters to a Dr Reid (c.1850s) c.6 qty, including from Frances Spencer Churchill, 1822-1899, Duchess of Marlborough;

Antiquarians, Academics and Historians: an assortment of letters, notes, manuscripts, clipped autographs etc from the c18th, c19th and c20th including: Thomas Dillon Croker (1831–1912, antiquary & poet); Sir Henry Yule (1820-1889, Orientalist and geographer); Sir John Seeley (1834-1895, historian); Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer (1856-1887, missionary & Arabic scholar); Theodor Nöldeke (1836-1930, German orientalist and scholar); Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1810-1895, “the Father of Assyriology”); Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933, Assyriologist and linguist); Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815-1888, classical scholar); Robinson Ellis (1834-1913, classical scholar); Henry Morley (1822-1894, professor of English literature); Samuel Laing (1780–1868, travel writer); Daniel Rock (1799- 1871, ecclesiologist and antiquarian); Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy (1804-1878, archivist and antiquary); , Edmund Venables (1819-1895 cleric and antiquarian);

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