Lot 181
Album of autograph letters and signatures including
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer, A.L.S. regarding the sale of a white bull, Downing Street, 16 June 1834; George Horne, English divine, (1730-1792), two page A L S., 28 Feb. 1785; Milner, Isaac, Dean of Carlisle, two three page A.L.S. to Rev. J. Fawcett, 17 Jan., 1795 and 25 Sept. 1795; William Paley, theologian (1743-1805), one page A.L.S. to his son; James Baillie, poet, 3 page A..L.S. regarding his volume Metrical Legends, undated; William Roscoe, historian and writer (1753-1831), one page poem "As one who destin'd from his friends to part", 14 lines, 6 Aug., 1816; Jane Taylor, poet and novelist, (1783-1824), 3 page A.L.S. to Isaac Taylor regarding trip in Dorset, 3 page A.L.S. from Isaac to Jane Taylor, 4 Feb.. 1818; 3 further letters from J. Taylor and Ann and Josiah Gilbert; Robert Raikes, founder of the Sunday Schools Movement, (1735-1811), 3 page A.L.S. to Rev. M. Boucher regarding proofs "corrected by my Daughter Anne... Mrs More has given her a pretty good notion of grammar"; ?Frances Boscawen (1719-1805), incomplete 2 page A.L.S. referring to a visit to Mr Walpole, a book "The Estimate"; Lady Jean Douglas 2 page A.L.S. to My Lord, 3 Oct., 1731; and c.40 other miscellaneous letters from Rev. Legh Richmond, Rector of Turvey, James Smith (doggerel verse "Blue Ink"), & others, most 19th century, brown morocco gilt album