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Set of family albums], 1853-90, 4 volumes, [approximately 230, 500, 300, and 300 pages], containing some 800 autograph letters nearly all to or from De Winton or his wife Evelyn, in envelopes docketed with details of senders and contents and mounted rectos and versos to plain leaves, volume 4 page 103 with autograph letter signed from Henry M. Stanley dated Victoria Nyanza, 2 September 1889, granting de Winton power of attorney to arrange his affairs in London pending his return from Africa, volume 2 page 256 with autograph letter from Ottoman statesman Ahmet Vefik Pasha, and pages 406-9 with one autograph letter signed from each of Redvers Buller and Baden Powell, 2 from George V as the duke of York (and 3 clippings of his signature, 1 erroneously docketed as George Washington's), 2 from his wife Mary of Teck, and the clipped signatures of Queen Victoria, Henry Layard, Lord Palmerston and Lord Clarendon, together with numerous further letters from various figures spread throughout all the 4 volumes, including many from Fenwick Williams, and from Marquess Lorne and Princess Louise the duke and duchess of Argyll (for de Winton's connection to these 3 figures see below), with 1000s of additional documents pasted in, including newspaper clippings, topical engravings from the Graphic and the Illustrated London News, albumen prints (mainly studio portraits of family members), invitations to state and other occasions, banquet menus, theatre programmes, telegrams, memoranda and more, with 2 published works pasted in to the rear of volume 3: Correspondence respecting the Recent Expedition against the Yonnie Tribe adjacent to Sierra Leone, London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1888, folding map, OCLC traces Northwestern, McGill, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Erfurt Gotha, no copies in UK libraries, and Yonnie Expedition, Staff Diary, Intelligence Report and Medical Report, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, [no date], number 33 of an unknown number of copies, marked "strictly confidential", no other copy traced, 10 plates including folding maps and colour lithographs, contents of all 4 volumes with occasional soiling and staining, some material loose, but generally well-preserved, volumes 1 and 4 with water-damage front and back but contents generally spared, all bound in red half roan, marbled sides, gilt titles ("Family Records, F. W. de W vol. 1 [-Evy de Winton vol. 1, 2 and 3]") volume 1 binding very worn, rear board detached, volumes 2 and 3 worn but intact, volume 4 very worn, covers detached and spine defective, folio, together with an extensive archive of correspondence and documents, including: 11 additional autograph letters from Princess Louise (including her letter of condolence to Evelyn on de Winton's death) and 3 from Marquess Lorne; 17 further signed letters of condolence to Evelyn from various figures including George V as the duke of York and Clements Markham; de Winton's masonic pouch, containing 2 masonic certificates on vellum (dated 1858 and 1870), with leather and silk masonic apron; manuscript journal titled "Turkey, Journey to Sofia, Day & Memorandum Book", sheep, oblong 8vo; additional journal apparently relating to his time in North America and discussing Native American chieftains, green quarter cloth, 8vo; manuscript fair copy of de Winton's report, "Sketch of the Swaziland Question", with sketch map, and collection of related documents; manuscript fair copy of de Winton's "Itinerary of the Journey of His Excellency the Governor General in the North West, 1881"; 8 offprints and galley proofs of various papers on Africa and North America; 15 maps, all folding, some linen-backed, mainly depicting Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Canada; 4 mounted and annotated albumen prints of Sierra Leone and collection of 15 original snapshots of Khartoum, and more; with a further carton of miscellaneous correspondence and ephemera Sir Francis Walter de Winton (1835-1901) was a British soldier and courtier. After