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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. Collection of letters and documents chiefly by British politicians of the 18th and 19th Centuries, the correspondents including Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington (3, comprising a receipt for his pay as Constable and Chief Governor of the Tower of London, 1839, and two autograph letters, 1820 and 1834), William Pitt the Younger, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (4), Sir Robert Walpole (fragment of a document signed), George Canning, Spencer Perceval, Henry, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Sir Robert Peel (2), Lord John Russell (8), William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, H.H. Asquith (2), H. Campbell-Bannerman, Archibald, 5th Earl of Rosebery (6), A.J. Balfour, Robert, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Thomas, 1st Duke of Newcastle (2), William, 3rd Duke of Portland and others, with a group of military commissions signed by George IV, William IV (2), Queen Victoria and others, altogether approximately 68 items, a few with stamp of Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Provenance: Sotheby's, 21 February 1978, lots 271, 291, 297, 300-304 and 310.
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