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GEORGE III (1738-1820); JOHN MANNERS, MARQUESS OF GRANBY (1721-70); ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843) & OTHERS
An autograph album, 4°, containing about 50 letters and documents, among them a part manuscript, part engraved military commission on vellum, dated May, 1796, appointing Alexander Hume as Lieutenant Colonel in the Scotch Bridgade, signed 'George R' at the head and by William Henry Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809) at the foot; a 4pp. petition, folio, dated Zelle, 4th February 1763, from Conrad Mamberg to John Manners, begging for the money which is due to him 'for Provisions delivered to the Allied Army'; a 1½pp. a.l.s. from Thomas Frognall Dibdin to an unnamed correspondent, regarding a bill for ¨100; a note signed by Bulwer-Lytton; an uncharacteristically interesting 1p. letter from Robert Southey to James Nichols, dated Keswick 17 Aug. 1835, regarding the books he needs to bring out an improved edition of his life of Wellington; and a signed note by John Thaddeus Delane (1817-79), editor of the Times, all pasted down, 19th-century red half morocco.
An autograph album, 4°, containing about 50 letters and documents, among them a part manuscript, part engraved military commission on vellum, dated May, 1796, appointing Alexander Hume as Lieutenant Colonel in the Scotch Bridgade, signed 'George R' at the head and by William Henry Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809) at the foot; a 4pp. petition, folio, dated Zelle, 4th February 1763, from Conrad Mamberg to John Manners, begging for the money which is due to him 'for Provisions delivered to the Allied Army'; a 1½pp. a.l.s. from Thomas Frognall Dibdin to an unnamed correspondent, regarding a bill for ¨100; a note signed by Bulwer-Lytton; an uncharacteristically interesting 1p. letter from Robert Southey to James Nichols, dated Keswick 17 Aug. 1835, regarding the books he needs to bring out an improved edition of his life of Wellington; and a signed note by John Thaddeus Delane (1817-79), editor of the Times, all pasted down, 19th-century red half morocco.