AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION -- A large collection of autograph letters, documents, franking signatures and fragments, 18th-20th centuries, including letters by the 1st Duke of Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester (Jamaica, 1816), 4th Duke of Montrose (4), Sir Stafford Northcote (2), Sir George Nares, J.W. Croker, Lord Roberts, John Morley (2), Earl of Rosebery (3), Octavia Hill, Viscount Wolseley, Zachary Macaulay (2), Earl of Shaftesbury, 1879; Stanley Baldwin; and many others, to various correspondents including the first Marquis and Marchioness of Aberdeen; Louis of Stolberg-Gedern, Countess of Albany (signature on a fragment cut from an autograph letter), wife of Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender; also military commission signed by Queen Victoria, countersigned by Palmerston, 1853; document signed by Ras Prince Monolulu, deed poll as to change of name, 1947; conveyances (4); printed Acts of Parliament (3); autogaph statement signed by Alix 'Hurricane' Higgins, relating to incidents during a snooker tournament in Hartlepool, addressed to 'Dear Sun, Readers. and. Snooker. FANS IN Hartlepool [sic], 1 1/2 pages, folio [1973] with newspaper cuttings relating to his role as world professional snooker champion'; altogether approximately 400 letters and documents.
AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION -- A large collection of autograph letters, documents, franking signatures and fragments, 18th-20th centuries, including letters by the 1st Duke of Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester (Jamaica, 1816), 4th Duke of Montrose (4), Sir Stafford Northcote (2), Sir George Nares, J.W. Croker, Lord Roberts, John Morley (2), Earl of Rosebery (3), Octavia Hill, Viscount Wolseley, Zachary Macaulay (2), Earl of Shaftesbury, 1879; Stanley Baldwin; and many others, to various correspondents including the first Marquis and Marchioness of Aberdeen; Louis of Stolberg-Gedern, Countess of Albany (signature on a fragment cut from an autograph letter), wife of Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender; also military commission signed by Queen Victoria, countersigned by Palmerston, 1853; document signed by Ras Prince Monolulu, deed poll as to change of name, 1947; conveyances (4); printed Acts of Parliament (3); autogaph statement signed by Alix 'Hurricane' Higgins, relating to incidents during a snooker tournament in Hartlepool, addressed to 'Dear Sun, Readers. and. Snooker. FANS IN Hartlepool [sic], 1 1/2 pages, folio [1973] with newspaper cuttings relating to his role as world professional snooker champion'; altogether approximately 400 letters and documents.
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