Gallimaufry comprising autograph letters etc. by Henry Miller (selling books from Big Sur), the Earl of Shaftesbury (describing his hectic life, 1860), Cardinal Manning ("...Since we met the East Coast of Africa has been greatly disturbed. I hope all is tending to extinguish the Slave-trade..."), Copley Fielding (sending a drawing), Sir Richard Owen, Florence Nightingale (signed front), Alexander von Humboldt A.J. Balfour, Ludmilla Assing, and others; a wide range of printed ephemera; prints; two watercolours by Leech; a fine pen-and-ink study of a violinist playing by H.M. Brock; a commission signed by Queen Victoria (for an army superintending schoolmaster, 1869); album of lithographed autographs of members of the British Association meeting at Cambridge, 1833, with original signatures added; diary of a pit owner or manager, Merthyr, 1860; a lady's verse album of the 1830s illustrated with original watercolours; verses by Clarice M. Covell; a 19th century hymnal, etc.
Gallimaufry comprising autograph letters etc. by Henry Miller (selling books from Big Sur), the Earl of Shaftesbury (describing his hectic life, 1860), Cardinal Manning ("...Since we met the East Coast of Africa has been greatly disturbed. I hope all is tending to extinguish the Slave-trade..."), Copley Fielding (sending a drawing), Sir Richard Owen, Florence Nightingale (signed front), Alexander von Humboldt A.J. Balfour, Ludmilla Assing, and others; a wide range of printed ephemera; prints; two watercolours by Leech; a fine pen-and-ink study of a violinist playing by H.M. Brock; a commission signed by Queen Victoria (for an army superintending schoolmaster, 1869); album of lithographed autographs of members of the British Association meeting at Cambridge, 1833, with original signatures added; diary of a pit owner or manager, Merthyr, 1860; a lady's verse album of the 1830s illustrated with original watercolours; verses by Clarice M. Covell; a 19th century hymnal, etc.
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