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Collection of autograph letters, many to Mr Aaron Vail, chargé d'affaires of the United States in London 1832-36, or to Mrs Vail, including one from Jane Porter, 15 April. 1836; Theodore Sedgwick, 22 June 1836, John Sledill, Palmerston, extending a dinner invitation, 10 July 1834, Richard Wellesley, Washington Irving, 3 April 1832 and 17 Oct. 1829, , C.P. van Ness, ?M.C. Rivis, 29 May 1832; George Crabe, 19 July; Albert Gallatin, ? Van Buren, Alexander von Humboldt, undated; secretarial signature for Louix XVI, Mme. Recamier [incomplete], 18 Sept. 1833; John Armstrong, 12 June 1808; Thomas Moore to "My dear Rogers", 8 Dec. 1834; Cabanis, to Mr. Garnot, undated; Lord John Russell, undated; Lafayette, 9 April 1833, to "My dear Sir", forwarding a letter; John Hobhouse, referring to autographs, 9 July 1835; Docteur Larrey, 26 Sept. 1834, referring to a soldier's recovery; Commodore Chauncey to Washington Irving, about dispatches, 18 March 1817; Catherine de Medicis, on vellum, document incomplete and waterstained, numerous engraved and lithographed portraits, and numerous others, in six folders