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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. Autograph collection comprising letters and fragments by 19th-century writers, artists, musicians and other public figures, the correspondents including Matthew Arnold, Amelia Opie, Jenny Lind (fragment of a letter signed as 'Jenny Goldschmidt', an invitation to go for a drive), Giuseppe Mazzini (in English, [1844], referring obliquely to the interception of his post by 'my respectable, though somewhat inquisitive, friend Sir James Graham [the home secretary]'), Benjamin Jowett, Henry Hallam and others, isolated signatures (cut or on visiting cards) of Louis Spohr, Ignaz Moscheles, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, Bertel Thorvaldsen, George Cruikshank, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, T.H. Huxley, Ludwig Tieck and others, altogether approximately 115 items, the majority laid down on the pages of an album, 4to, half green morocco. Provenance: a number of the letters and fragments are addressed to the writer and translator Sarah Austin (1793-1867) or her niece Lady Markby (1841-1928); the collection appears to have been assembled by Lady Markby's niece, Hope Fairfax Taylor (inscription on front free endpaper, Oxford, Christmas 1907).
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