Beschreibung:

Early nineteenth-century album, containing letters etc., by Sir James Brooke of Sarawak, Florentia Sale, Sir Joseph Banks (signature and conclusion of an autograph letter), Earl St Vincent and Admiral Lord Hood (both regarding the Royal Naval Asylum), William Pitt the Younger (to the Governor of the Bank of England), William Wilberforce (about parliamentary business, 1803), the Rev Sydney Smith (on vibrant green paper), Julius Benedict (music), Ignaz Moscheles (music), George Smart William Crotch (soliciting an extra voice for his anthem to be performed at Exeter Hall), the Duke of Wellington (autograph letter to Lord Camden, with part of a letter signed "Arthur Wellesley", 1799), Dr Keate of Eton (1820, congratulating Walker on becoming a fellow of Trinity - "you had made the object more difficult of attainment, as I understand, by your aversion to cubes and triangles"), Provost Hawtrey of Eton, John Henry Newman, E.B. Pusey, Edward Everett (on the death of his child), Isaac D'Israeli (1829), Spencer Perceval (letter signed, with a letter to him from the Clerk to the Lords, discussing procedure), William Huskisson (writing on behalf of Spencer Perceval, 1808), Hannah More, Robert Montgomery, Leticia L. Landon, J.T. Coleridge, James 'Rejected Addresses' Smith, J.W. Croker (to Smith), the Ladies of Llangollen (Sarah Ponsonby), Adam Sidgwick, Sir James Outram, William Paley (leaf from a draft of a sermon, subscribed "Nore 1783 Carlisle 1791"), Reginald Heber (draft, as Bishop of Calcutta, of a circular about the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1825), Thomas Chalmers, and others; with prints (a fine engraving of Shakespeare by Virtue, 1719), folio, with excisions, loose material etc., disbound