Collection contained in three handsome albums, comprising autograph letters etc. by Horatio Nelson (clipped signature, with his right hand, taken from an official document, dated in pencil 1781), document listing silver acquired for the use of Charles I, signed by James Marquess of Hamilton, 1639 (faded), Sir John Moore (return of 100 named recruits for the 60th enlisted at Chatham Barracks, 1788, signed and subscribed), Thomas Clarkson, T.F. Buxton, William Huskisson, Sydney Smith, Thomas Moore [M.I.] Brunel, B.R. Haydon ("...I enclose you Wordsworth's Sonnet which I received this day He says it is not only warm from his Brain but piping hot - It came into his head in the Wood close to his Cottage...", 13 June 1831; with three pages of sketches), C.J. Fox (despatch rider's bill, signed, 1806), Sir Charles Wheatstone Sir Thomas Picton (Captain Picton's recruiting account for the 75th, 1780-81, signed), Sharon Turner, the Duke of Marlborough (part of a document signed), Lady Blessington, Charles Dibdin William Buckland Thomas Stothard (receipt for "two Painting from Lear", 1794), Victoria (commission), and others; plus a Napoleon I passport, printed cards for meetings of the radical London Corresponding Society, 1794, etc., in 3 volumes, one bound for the family of Field Marshal Viscount Combermere, the other 2 in white vellum with coloured morocco inlays, 4to
Collection contained in three handsome albums, comprising autograph letters etc. by Horatio Nelson (clipped signature, with his right hand, taken from an official document, dated in pencil 1781), document listing silver acquired for the use of Charles I, signed by James Marquess of Hamilton, 1639 (faded), Sir John Moore (return of 100 named recruits for the 60th enlisted at Chatham Barracks, 1788, signed and subscribed), Thomas Clarkson, T.F. Buxton, William Huskisson, Sydney Smith, Thomas Moore [M.I.] Brunel, B.R. Haydon ("...I enclose you Wordsworth's Sonnet which I received this day He says it is not only warm from his Brain but piping hot - It came into his head in the Wood close to his Cottage...", 13 June 1831; with three pages of sketches), C.J. Fox (despatch rider's bill, signed, 1806), Sir Charles Wheatstone Sir Thomas Picton (Captain Picton's recruiting account for the 75th, 1780-81, signed), Sharon Turner, the Duke of Marlborough (part of a document signed), Lady Blessington, Charles Dibdin William Buckland Thomas Stothard (receipt for "two Painting from Lear", 1794), Victoria (commission), and others; plus a Napoleon I passport, printed cards for meetings of the radical London Corresponding Society, 1794, etc., in 3 volumes, one bound for the family of Field Marshal Viscount Combermere, the other 2 in white vellum with coloured morocco inlays, 4to
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