CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819-75); QUEEN VICTORIA (1819-1901) & OTHERS

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CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819-75); QUEEN VICTORIA (1819-1901) & OTHERS
A 4° autograph album containing approximately 21 autograph letters and 25 signatures (four clipped), of various nineteenth century dignaturies, including a 2-page autograph letter in purple ink, signed by Kingsley, from Boston, March 17th, 1874, to: "My dear Lord Bishop" turning down an invitation to speak: "unfortunately I can only spend two nights in Montreal ... I am unable to lecture more than once in one day. Regretting my inability" (sewn along the fold); other signatures include those by Queen Victoria (on monogrammed paper), William Cowper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Edward Bulwer Lytton (all clipped).

Lot Essay

This was to be Kingsley's last tour to America and Canada. Soon after he left Canada, he suffered a severe attack of pleurisy which was the start of a series of illnesses that was to lead to his death the following year on 23rd Januanry 1875.

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