Victorian tour albums.- Lee (Madelaine Smith Austin, wife of Henry Austin Lee, diplomat) 2 Tour albums of England, France, Russia and Egypt, together 129pp. excluding blanks, comprising: c. 500 signatures from various people in society including Mark Twain and Winston Churchill c. 300 silver and albumen mounted photographs of estate parties and views, 20 watercolours, pen and ink sketches and drawings (including 2 by Lady Dorothy Stanley (1855-1926), painter and illustrator, wife of Sir H.M. Stanley), and 8 musical notations (including 4 by Jacques Blumenthal (1829-1908), German pianist and composer), some browning, first vol. several ff. loose, some with tears along inner margins, each vol. new endpapers, first vol. modern morocco-backed cloth, second vol. original half morocco, gilt, repaired, rebacked in modern morocco, 4to, 1892-98. ⁂ Signatures, including: (1). Samuel L. Clemens signed as Mark Twain, Clemens writes: "This line is written by the 'real' onebut it can't be proven by the testimony of the next witness. Sincerely yours, Mark Twain Apl. 2/94," with Clemens drawing a downward pointing hand and immediately below, Edith Beaumont playfully identifies herself as "Next Witness," and a photograph of Clemens (2). Winston S. Churchill (3). Henry Morton Stanley autograph inscription quoting a couplet from Tennyson's Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington: "Not once or twice in our fair island-story/The path of duty was the way to glory." Stanley's favourite quote on his 1887 expedition up the Congo river (4). Adjacent page also features a photograph including Henry Morton Stanley, businessman Sir William Mackinnon, and explorer George Sutherland Mackenzie. Other signatures and inscriptions include: Signed prose manuscript by French novelist Paul Bourget; a poem signed by Irish politician Tim Healy; an autographed musical quotation by composer Alfred Scott-Gatty; Lord Salisbury, Joseph Chamberlain Neville Chamberlain, Harry Cust, Phil May (with pen and ink drawing of a head). Photographs, including: Sudbury Hall (Derby), Quarr Abbey House (Isle of Wight), Sphinx and the Great Pyramid, St Petersburg, Moscow etc. A report in the Chicago Examine, 5 March 1911, repeats a newspaper article in the French newspaper L'Action Française, charging Lady Austin Lee with spying at the time of the Dreyfus Affair.
Victorian tour albums.- Lee (Madelaine Smith Austin, wife of Henry Austin Lee, diplomat) 2 Tour albums of England, France, Russia and Egypt, together 129pp. excluding blanks, comprising: c. 500 signatures from various people in society including Mark Twain and Winston Churchill c. 300 silver and albumen mounted photographs of estate parties and views, 20 watercolours, pen and ink sketches and drawings (including 2 by Lady Dorothy Stanley (1855-1926), painter and illustrator, wife of Sir H.M. Stanley), and 8 musical notations (including 4 by Jacques Blumenthal (1829-1908), German pianist and composer), some browning, first vol. several ff. loose, some with tears along inner margins, each vol. new endpapers, first vol. modern morocco-backed cloth, second vol. original half morocco, gilt, repaired, rebacked in modern morocco, 4to, 1892-98. ⁂ Signatures, including: (1). Samuel L. Clemens signed as Mark Twain, Clemens writes: "This line is written by the 'real' onebut it can't be proven by the testimony of the next witness. Sincerely yours, Mark Twain Apl. 2/94," with Clemens drawing a downward pointing hand and immediately below, Edith Beaumont playfully identifies herself as "Next Witness," and a photograph of Clemens (2). Winston S. Churchill (3). Henry Morton Stanley autograph inscription quoting a couplet from Tennyson's Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington: "Not once or twice in our fair island-story/The path of duty was the way to glory." Stanley's favourite quote on his 1887 expedition up the Congo river (4). Adjacent page also features a photograph including Henry Morton Stanley, businessman Sir William Mackinnon, and explorer George Sutherland Mackenzie. Other signatures and inscriptions include: Signed prose manuscript by French novelist Paul Bourget; a poem signed by Irish politician Tim Healy; an autographed musical quotation by composer Alfred Scott-Gatty; Lord Salisbury, Joseph Chamberlain Neville Chamberlain, Harry Cust, Phil May (with pen and ink drawing of a head). Photographs, including: Sudbury Hall (Derby), Quarr Abbey House (Isle of Wight), Sphinx and the Great Pyramid, St Petersburg, Moscow etc. A report in the Chicago Examine, 5 March 1911, repeats a newspaper article in the French newspaper L'Action Française, charging Lady Austin Lee with spying at the time of the Dreyfus Affair.
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