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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION -- 18th-20th century. An album of autograph letters, letters signed and documents signed, chiefly of prominent statesmen, artists and writers, including William PITT the Younger (autograph letter signed, 1792), General Sir John MOORE (autograph letter signed to Colonel Ross, Athlone, 17 June 1799 3 pages, 4to, concerning the supression of the Great Rebellion), GLADSTONE, ROBERTS, WELLINGTON (1827, in a secretarial hand), PALMERSTON (1826) and FROUDE; and Holman HUNT (autograph letter signed, 1863, 3 pages, 8vo, concerning his work), [G. CRUIKSHANK?] (manuscript fragment, with pen-and-ink drawing), Ford Madox BROWN (1869, mentioning his work, (repaired)), J. TENNIEL, John RUSKIN, Victor HUGO, Jules VERNE, H.W. LONGFELLOW, Noel COWARD (typed letter signed, 1933, 'I have been terribly busy with "Hay Fever"), Bram STOKER and Henry IRVING; and Florence NIGHTINGALE (autograph letter signed, 1883, 4 pages, 8vo); with French Republic documents signed and a group of cut signatures, including Charles DARWIN (1864).
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