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lot of 3 albums, each in half brown leather and black cloth boards, each ca 36pp, containing at total of 72 clipped signatures, TLS', ANS' and signed drawings. Included are the following: Painters/Artists: A self portrait of the cartoonist Thomas Nast dated July 27, 1897; a drawing of a Brownie by Palmer Cox; a small sketch of a beautiful young woman by W. Granville Smith; self portrait caricatures of F. M. Howarth and Albert B. Wentzell; a caricature of an old man by Eugene Zimmerman; autographs of Thomas Moran;; Augustus Saint-Gaudens; Alice Barber Stephens; and others. Writers and Poets: includes autographed cards by W.D. Howells; Beatrice Harraden; Lew Wallace; Lillian Bell; William Adams; Clara Louise Burnham; Ruth Ashmore (2) on Ladies Home Journal stationary as well as other luminaries. In addition the album includes the following AQs': James Whitcomb Riley (2); Julia Ward Howe -- "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Coming of the Lord"; as well as short poems by Robert Burdette; Thomas Bailey Aldrich and Elizabeth Akers (2) and an ALs by Edward E. Hale. Actors and Actresses include: Olga Nethersole, De Wolf Hopper, Jessie B. Danis, Sol Smith Russel, Sarah Bernhardt Henry Irving, John Drew, AN by W.H. Crane Louis Dew, Nat C. Goodwin, E.M. Holland, Joseph Holland, Francis Wilson Fanny Brice, Julia Marlowe Taber, Ada Renan, Henry Clay Barnabee, Edward H. Sothern. A fine collection Condition: Most VG to EXC., minor wear to boards.