Collection of autograph letters, collected by Emslie Horniman. These have been consciously collected: Horniman was not the intended recipient of these letters.
The volume is titled: "Autographic Letters Vol. 4. Surrey House Museum"; the inside board bears the bookplate of Emslie Horniman; the inner flyleath has affixed "The Market Value of Celebrities", a list of prices for autographs of notable people. The volume includes autograph letters from:
Page 02:
Dr. J Hedderwick
Lord Advocate Macdonald
Page 03
The Earl of Mar
Page 04
Professor Hull
Page 05
Professor Allman
Sir J. Noel Paton
Page 06
Marchioness of Queensberry
Professor J Tyndall
Page 07
Lord Roseberry
Page 08
Sir Samuel Ferguson [missing]
Page 09
Lord Jervis Woode
Sir William Stirling Maxwell
Page 10
George Canning
Miss Marianne Farmingham
Page 11
Dr George Rawlinson
Alexander Anderson
Page 12
His Excellency Hon. John Welchj
Page 13
Captain Mayne Reid
Page 14
"Three American notes 1770.1774.1776 previous to the declaration of independence"
This is an empty affixed envelope and a lose signature "believe me; yours sincerely; ----- -----"
Page 15
W. de Gray Birch
?. S. Marks
Page 16
Dr Butler (missing)
Charlotte Riddell
Page 17
Dean of Windsor
Lord Darnley
Page 18
Sir Edwin Arnord [envelope only]
Charlotte Riddell [envelope only]
Bishop of Grahamstown, South Africa
Page 19
John Mosley
Sir George Nares
Page 20
Lady Manners [loose]
Frederic Harrison
Page 21
Earl of Cardigan [loose]
Sir Massey Loper [envelope only]
Sir John McLeac [envelope only]
Page 22
Lord Lymington [envelope only]
Earl Morley [envelope only]
Sir Albert Woods [envelope only]
Reverend Prebendary Acland [envelope only]
Page 23
Duke of Norfolk [envelope only]
Sir Redvers Buller [envelope only]
Hon. Sir S. H. Northcote [envelope only]
Earl Fortescue [envelope only]
Page 24
Reverend A. Northcote [envelope only]
Reverend H.H. Corteney [envelope only]
Honorable Canon Courteney [envelope only]
Lady Gertrude Rolle [envelope only]
Page 25
Sir Morrell Mackenzie, to Frederick J. Horniman, 13 July 1890
G.E. Cockayne 6 December 1886
Page 26
Richard Mallock [envelope only]
Lord Northbrook [envelope only]
N.H. Weedon [envelope only]
F.A. Leo
Page 27
Hermann Verzin 22 January 1890
Unattributed letter
Page 28
Lord Wolseley 23 December 1889, letter regarding the Committee of the Bow and Bromley Institute
Autograph album 4 with items torn out. Emslie Horniman's book plate.
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