£500 - £700
AUTOGRAPHS. A VICTORIAN ALBUM OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS including Elizabeth Barrett Browning (from Florence to the Poet Dora Greenwell, May 1st 1857, thanking her for "a too generous appreciation of my poetry expressed with a most touching grace in her sonnet"), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (from Cambridge, October 1849 to the Poet Dora Greenwell praising her poems,"...I find in them that which would escape the subtle analysis of criticism - that certain somewhat which cannot be described in words but is to a poem what expression is to a face" and "I have a great love for England...") John Ruskin (from Brantwood 14 September 1877 on the geology of Wensleydale), Caroline Norton nee Sheridan, Samuel Wilberforce, Charles MacKenzie (the year before the disastrous Zambesi expedition), Robert Moffat, Tom Taylor, John Bright, Mary Ann Stirling (Fanny Stirling), Charles Kean and Kate Terry and signed pieces by George III, Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Wordsworth, the Duke of Wellington, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leigh Hunt, Lord Brougham, W E Gladstone, Lord Palmerston, archbishops and other clergymen and many others, scarlet morocco gilt, wanting spine, 22.5 x 19cm
Provenance: Purchased by the present vendor at an auction sale at the Chelmsford Salerooms of Fred Taylor & Co in 1958 for �2.5s.0d.
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