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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. A collection of autograph envelope covers with franking signatures, the majority addressed to Octavius Blewitt (secretary of the Royal Literary Fund), the signatures comprising: writers including Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Harrison Ainsworth and others; politicians including Wellington, Disraeli, Palmerston (3), Peel, Lord John Russell, Gladstone and others; artists including Cruikshanks, Samuel Palmer (envelope and cut signature), David Roberts (envelope and autograph letter signed to Miss Martineau, an invitation) and others; religious figures including Cardinal Wiseman and E.B. Pusey (autograph letter signed); and others, altogether approximately 155 envelope covers, letters, and cut signatures, arranged in alphabetical order in an album, 4to, roan backed.
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