AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. A collection of letters and signatures, comprising autograph letters by ROYAL AND POLITICAL FIGURES, including Queen VICTORIA (to Mr and Mrs W. Hunt, 23 June and 30 July 1877, the first in 3rd person, expressing her 'sincere hope' that the recipient will recover from his 'severe indisposition'; the second offering her condolences to Hunt's widow, for 'one who devoted himself to the service of his Sovereign & Country', together 6 pages, 8vo), Benjamin DISRAELI [Earl of Beaconsfield] (letter with signature excised, Henry, 3rd Viscount PALMERSTON (1857), Edward, 14th Earl of DERBY (1864, on his late illness), Lord John RUSSELL [Earl Rusell] (2), Archibald, 5th Earl of ROSEBERY (to A.J. Balfour, 1918), John Bright and others, including Thomas ARNOLD (1830, detailed discussion of the classical sites of Minoa and Navarino, 3 pages, 4to, yellowing, short tear and loss to last leaf), Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (a correspondence card signed to Philip Heseltine [the composer Peter Warlock], 26 November 1923, asking for words for his carols), Cecil Rhodes, Charles Simeon (fragment of a letter with signature, 'Would you believe it? Six sheets (96 Pages) did I revise yesterday'), Herbert Fisher and one other, signatures only of W.G. GRACE, the 1948 Middlesex cricket team (including Compton and Edrich) and Queen Alexandra, with 3 envelopes, altogether 21 items. (20)

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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. A collection of letters and signatures, comprising autograph letters by ROYAL AND POLITICAL FIGURES, including Queen VICTORIA (to Mr and Mrs W. Hunt, 23 June and 30 July 1877, the first in 3rd person, expressing her 'sincere hope' that the recipient will recover from his 'severe indisposition'; the second offering her condolences to Hunt's widow, for 'one who devoted himself to the service of his Sovereign & Country', together 6 pages, 8vo), Benjamin DISRAELI [Earl of Beaconsfield] (letter with signature excised, Henry, 3rd Viscount PALMERSTON (1857), Edward, 14th Earl of DERBY (1864, on his late illness), Lord John RUSSELL [Earl Rusell] (2), Archibald, 5th Earl of ROSEBERY (to A.J. Balfour, 1918), John Bright and others, including Thomas ARNOLD (1830, detailed discussion of the classical sites of Minoa and Navarino, 3 pages, 4to, yellowing, short tear and loss to last leaf), Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (a correspondence card signed to Philip Heseltine [the composer Peter Warlock], 26 November 1923, asking for words for his carols), Cecil Rhodes, Charles Simeon (fragment of a letter with signature, 'Would you believe it? Six sheets (96 Pages) did I revise yesterday'), Herbert Fisher and one other, signatures only of W.G. GRACE, the 1948 Middlesex cricket team (including Compton and Edrich) and Queen Alexandra, with 3 envelopes, altogether 21 items. (20)

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