Beschreibung:

Collection, contained in three albums and loose, comprising a large quantity of autograph letters, cut signatures etc., the majority to physicians Sir George Buckston Browne and Sir Henry Thompson by, amongst others, Robert Louis Stephenson (postcard, signed, asking him to come earlier "...I have no bad symptoms..."), Robert Browning ("...I shall be delighted to form a 'minor seventh', not venturing to hope for the position of 'sensible note', - in your 'Octave' on the 7th of May...", mentioning a picture submitted to an exhibition, presumably by his son, and thanking him for his support, 11 April 1878), Wilkie Collins (accepting an invitation), Egyptologist Amelia B. Edwards ("...the medicine you prescribed for me was sent to the wrong room..."), Marie Louise Ramé ('Ouida'), Leslie Stephen, poet Edwin Arnold, artists John Brett Val Princep, John Tenniel George du Maurier Philip Calderon, Carlo Pellegrini ('Ape'), Alma Tadema ("...Please allow this draughtsman to work from the Tarquinius..."), Marcus Stone William Powell Frith musicians Arthur Sullivan ("...I have had no violent pain again – but always feel uncomfortable...") and George Grove, scientists William Jenner ("...Has this gentleman any stone in his bladder?..."), James Paget Joseph Lister (regarding an consultation), Thomas Henry Huxley (his daughter has diptheria but is recovering), Irish physicist John Tyndall, US surgeon and pharmacologist Henry J. Bigelow, explorer George Nares (sending some Arctic crockery used aboard the Alert in 1884 "...One of our sledge parties, under Markham and Parr journied [sic] North to within 400 miles of the Pole. It is now reported that Lockwood and Brainard of the U. States Expd under Greeley succeeded in getting 3 ½ miles farther North – but no ship has beaten the 'Alert'..."), Admiral Robert Patton, Charles Spurgeon, William Gull (signed autograph envelope fragment); the second album containing mainly theatre and music hall stars (Dan Leno, Charles Reade Nellie Melba, Ellen Terry signed photographs of Percy Grainger and Gertie Millar amongst others), also Henry Morton Stanley (autograph letter accepting an invitation), George Meredith, many cut signatures including the Grossmiths, Charles Parry, Clara Schumann, Robert Peel George III, Earl Nelson, actors, nobility, politicians etc.; third album containing c.280 signed free fronts from politicians and the nobility, mostly 1820's and 30's; with a folder of c.20 loose autograph letters including Henry Irving (letter of thanks in the hand of his secretary Bram Stoker), Arthur Sullivan, Charles Spurgeon (6), the Princess Royal, Jan Smuts (letter of thanks, 1942), two from General Wavell, one from Pacific Command, Java, 1942 ("...I have a difficult job here and some dangerous and anxious times ahead, but we shall eventually check and then drive back the Japs..."), c.150 leaves in all, half roan, folio and oblong folio, the second with visiting card of Miss Buckston Browne affixed to inside front board, predominantly nineteenth century (4)