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Disraeli, Benjamin autograph letter signed, discussing the "unconstitutional abolition of church rates", 3 pages, 8vo, 24 March 1861; Gladstone, W.E. autograph letter signed "I am not aware that the British Government has anything to say to the distribution of the copies of the Codex Sinaiticus" and stating "the whole thing is a gross & now admitted forgery & the Empress of Russia a dupe", with a postscript noting that the matter is discussed in the Supplement to The Guardian, 3 pages, 8vo, 23 Jan. 1863 envelope (2)