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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION -- 19th & 20th CENTURY. A collection of autograph letters and manuscripts chiefly of politicians and public figures, including the signatures of W.E. GLADSTONE (1879), Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, a number of Lord Chancellors including Lords Eldon (including two to Horatio, Lord NELSON, 16 September 1801 and 23 June 1803, declining to award a living at his recommendation), Erskine (series), Brougham and Denman, Henry Hunt, William Beckford (1823), Pauline Viardot, Frances Trollope, A.P. Stanley, Frederick Marryat, Samuel Romilly (2), John Wilson Croker (group), Sir Sidney Smith, Robert Moffat, Sir John Ross, Lionel Nathan Rothschild, Bulwer Lytton, Guglielmo Marconi (cut signature) and many others, together with photographs signed by Gabriel Ysaÿe (1900), Joseph Joachim and W.E. Gladstone, altogether approximately 214 items.
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