Details
AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION -- a collection of autograph letters and letters signed, mostly by prominent English statesman, including William PITT the Younger (ALS, Berkeley Square, 28 December 1783, 1 page, 4to, signature smudged), John PITT, 2nd Earl of Chatham (letter signed, Gibraltar, 10 May 1825, 1 1/2 pages, 4to), Dr Samuel PARR, Lord PALMERSTON (Ls, 1813), Lord SEYMOUR, Sir (William) Sidney SMITH (Ls, 1833); and including letters written in Massachusetts (1830, 1841) and Connecticut (1849), together 13 items.
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