Miscellaneous Autograph Collection

/1: Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859), naturalist and traveller. 1 autograph letter (1871), 1 portrait.

/2: Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745), writer and dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. 1 autograph fragment (n.d.), 1 facsimile letter, 1 portrait, 1 news cutting.

/3: Gregory, Olinthus Gilbert (1774-1841), mathematician. 1 autograph letter (1807), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/4: Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer [formerly Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer], first Baron Lytton (1803-1873), writer and politician. 1 autograph letter (1828), 1 portrait.

/5: Hume, Sir Abraham, second baronet (1749-1838), collector of art and precious stones. 2 short autograph letters (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms.

/6: O'Neill, Charles Henry St. John, Earl O'Neill (1779-1841), landowner. 1 autograph letter (1835), 1 portrait.

/7: O'Neill, John Bruce Richard, third Viscount O'Neill (1780-1855), army officer and politician. 1 autograph letter (1823?), 2 autograph address panels (1818 and 1821), 2 engraved coats of arms.

/8: Russell, Edward, Earl of Orford (1652-1727), naval officer. 1 portrait, 1 signed receipt as Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer.

/9: Cust, Sir John, third baronet (1718-1770), speaker of the House of Commons. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving of Belton House, 1 printed notice of Belton House.

/10: Cobden, Richard (1804-1865), manufacturer and politician. 1 autograph letter (1845, 2 sheets), 1 portrait.

/11: Cobbett, William (1763-1835), political writer and farmer. 1 autograph letter (1835), 2 portraits, 1 manuscript (n.d.), 1 address panel (1834), 1 printed cutting.

/12: Gurney, Joseph John (1788-1847), banker and religious writer. 1 autograph letter (1818), 1 portrait, 1 autograph note (n.d.), 1 other engraving.

/13: Wesley, Charles (1707-1788), Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 5 portraits, 2 autographs (n.d.).

/13a: Wesley, John (1703-1791), Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism. 1 autograph letter (1765), 1 colour portrait.

/14: Paley, William (1743-1805), theologian and moralist. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/15: Howitt, Mary (1799-1888), writer and translator. 1 autograph letter (1829).

/15a: Howitt, William (1792-1879), writer. 1 autograph letter (1830).

/16: Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), prime minister and novelist. 1 autograph letter (1857), 2 autograph notes (1838 and n.d.), 3 portraits including a 'Spy' cartoon.

/17: Griffiths, Ralph (1720?-1803), journal editor and bookseller. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/18: Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848), writer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 portraits.

/19: Heberden, William (1710-1801), physician. 1 autograph letter (1748), 1 portrait, 1 printed notice.

/20: Hill, Sir John [pseud. the Inspector] (bap. 1714, d. 1775), physician and actor. 2 autograph notes (n.d. and 1769), 2 portraits, 1 other engraving.

/21: Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703), naval official and diarist. 1 signed document (1668), 1 portrait (signed).

/22: Clarkson, Thomas (1760-1846), slavery abolitionist. 1 autograph letter (1807), 2 portraits, 3 printed items including 'Description of a Slave Ship'.

/23: Trollope [née Milton], Frances [Fanny] (1779-1863), travel writer and novelist. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/24: Ward, Robert Plumer (1765-1846), politician and writer. 1 autograph letter (1828), 1 portrait.

/25: Pardoe, Julia Sophia (bap. 1804, d. 1862), writer and historian. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/26: Watts, Isaac (1674-1748), Independent minister and writer. 1 sheet of autograph notes in Latin, 4 portraits.

/27: Hall, Robert (1764-1831), Baptist minister. 1 autograph letter (1825), 1 portrait.

/28: Henry, Matthew (1662-1714), Presbyterian minister. 1 autograph letter (1694), 1 portrait.

/29: Hastings, Francis Rawdon, first Marquess of Hastings and second Earl of Moira (1754-1826), army officer and politician. 1 autograph note (1801), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/30: Andrews, Henry (1744-1820), astronomer and astrologer. 1 autograph letter (1799), 2 portraits, 1 printed calendar.

/31: Staël von Holstein, (Anne-Louise) Germaine [née (Anne-Louise) Germaine Necker; known as Germaine de Staël], Baroness Staël von Holstein in the Swedish nobility (1766-1817), writer and salon leader. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 portraits.

/32: Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768), writer and Church of England clergyman. 1 autograph covenant (1767), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 2 printed cuttings.

/33: Calthorpe, George Gough (1787-1851), 3rd Baron Calthorpe. 1 autograph letter (1821), 1 autograph address panel (1820), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.

/34: Austin, Samuel (1796-1834), watercolour painter. 1 autograph letter (1828), 1 engraving after a drawing by Austin.

/35: Allan, Sir William (1782-1850), painter. 1 autograph letter (1827), 1 engraving after a painting by Allan.

/36: Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Melville (1742-1811), politician. 1 autograph letter (1805), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.

/37: Charles, Thomas (1755-1814), Methodist preacher. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/38: Carey, William - ? - (1761-1834), orientalist and missionary. 1 sheet of autograph notes (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/39: Francis, Sir Philip (1740-1818), politician and political writer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/40: Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851), American Novelist 1 autograph letter (1831), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 1 printed advertisement.

/41: Lowry, Wilson (bap. 1760, d. 1824), engraver. 1 autograph statement of account, 1 portrait.

/42: Warren, Samuel (1781-1862), Wesleyan Methodist minister. 2 autograph letters (1837 and 1836), 1 portrait.

/43: Boswell, James (1740-1795), lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson. 1 autograph letter (1792), 2 portraits, 1 printed notice.

/44: Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784), author and lexicographer. 2 autograph letter (1762 and [1756]), the latter attached to a note concerning its history, 4 portraits (1 in envelope), 4 other engravings, 2 printed cuttings, 6 copies of Johnsons letters, 1 photograph of a letter, 1 typed letter with photo attached.

/45: Hill, Rowland, Rev. (1744-1833), evangelical preacher. 2 autograph letters (n.d. and 1779), 2 portraits, 3 other engravings (1 with miniature of Hill at top), 1 autograph note (1816).

/46: Hill, Rowland, first Viscount Hill (1772-1842), army officer. 1 autograph letter (1733), 1 engraved coat of arms.

/47: Hill, Sir Richard, second baronet (1733-1808), religious controversialist. 1 autograph letter (1793).

/48: Wellesley, [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), army officer and prime minister. 3 autograph letters (1820, 1823 and 1811), 1 document signed by Wellington (1815), 3 autograph notes (n.d., 1808 and 1817), 3 portraits, 6 other engravings, 4 cuttings, 5 printed items (including map and funeral tickets), a lock of hair from the horse Copenhagen.

/49: Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley (1520/21-1598), royal minister. 1 document signed by Burghley (1586), 2 portraits, 2 printed notices.

/50: Gregson, Matthew (1748/9-1824), antiquary. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 autograph note (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/51: Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), poet. 1 autograph letter (1730), 2 portraits, 1 newspaper cutting, 2 other engravings.

/52: Hooker, Sir William Jackson (1785-1865), botanist. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 portrait.

/53: Hume, David (1711-1776), philosopher and historian. 1 autograph letter (1759, 3 portraits.

/54: Moir, David Macbeth [pseud. Delta] (1798-1851), physician and writer. 1 autograph letter (1833), 1 portrait.

/55: Linnaeus, Carl [later Carl von Linné] (1707-1778), naturalist and taxonomist. 2 autograph notes (n.d.), 1 other letter (n.d.), 2 portraits.

/56: Ireland, John (1761-1842), dean of Westminster. 1 autograph letter (1804), 1 portrait.

/57: Ireland, William Henry (1775-1835), literary forger and writer. 1 autograph letter, 1 portrait, 2 portraits of William Shakespeare, 1 manuscript forgery of a Shakespeare letter, 2 printed facsimiles of Shakespeare documents.

/58: Grose, Francis (bap. 1731, d. 1791), antiquary. 1 sheet of autograph notes (n.d.), 2 autograph notes from Mrs Grose to Raffles (1852 and n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 engraved title page, 1 other engraving.

/59: Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849), novelist and educationist. 1 autograph letter (1831), 1 portrait.

/60: Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882), Italian Patriot. 1 autograph letter to his son Ricciotti Garibaldi, written from near Como (1860), 6 cuttings (3 with portraits), 1 other portrait.

/61: Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), naval officer. 1 autograph letter to Rear Admiral Louis (Sir Thomas Louis 1758-1807), written aboard HMS Victory (1 July 1805), 4 portraits, 2 engravings (inc. a fascimile of the Trafalgar signals), 3 cuttings, 3 printed documents (including a ticket to Nelson's funeral).

/62: Hastings, Barbara Rawdon [née Barbara Yelverton], marchioness of Hastings and suo jure Baroness Grey of Ruthin (1810-1858), fossil collector and geological author. 1 autograph letter (1828), 1 portrait.

/63: Bèze, Théodore de (1519-1605), French Protestant theologian. 1 autograph letter in French (1574), 1 portrait.

/64: Joyce, Jeremiah, (1763-1816), Unitarian minister and writer. 1 autograph letter (1810), 1 portrait.

/65: Ingham, Benjamin, (1712-1772), evangelist and preacher. 1 autograph letter (1743), 1 portrait.

/66: Milne, William (1785-1822), missionary. 1 autograph letter (1816), 1 portrait.

/67: Taylor, Isaac (1759-1829), engraver and educationist. 1 autograph letter (1800), 1 portrait.

/68: Heywood, Oliver (bap. 1630, d. 1702), clergyman and ejected minister. 1 autograph letter (1700) with a printed facsimile, 2 other facsimile documents, 1 portrait.

/69: Harris, John (1802-1856), Congregational minister and college head. 1 autograph letter (1838), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/70: Toulmin, Joshua (1740-1815), Unitarian minister and historian. 1 autograph letter (1798), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/71: Hamilton, Richard Winter (1794-1848), Congregational minister. 1 autograph letter (1834), 1 portrait.

/72: Townley, James (1774-1833), Wesleyan Methodist minister and religious writer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 cutting.

/73: Towgood, Michaijah (1700-1792), Presbyterian minister and religious controversialist. 1 letter signed by Towgood and five others (1743), 1 portrait.

/74: Moffat, Robert (1795-1883), missionary in Africa and linguist. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/75: Joss, Torial (1731-1797), sea-captain and unordained Methodist minister. 1 autograph letter (1778), 1 portrait.

/76: Toplady, Augustus Montague (1740-1778), Church of England clergyman and hymn writer. 1 autograph letter (1774), 1 portrait.

/77: Knibb, William (1803-1845), missionary and abolitionist. 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 portrait.

/78: Thorpe, Rev. William (Independent minister?). 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 portrait.

/79: Horne, Thomas Hartwell (1780-1862), biblical scholar and bibliographer. 1 autograph letter (1842), 1 portrait.

/80: Burn, Richard (1709-1785), legal writer and Church of England clergyman. 1 autograph letter (1768), 1 portrait.

/81: Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, d. 1667), Church of Ireland bishop of Down and Connor and religious writer. 1 autograph letter (1655), 1 portrait.

/82: Vaughan, Robert (1795-1868), Congregational minister. 1 autograph letter (1833), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/83: Henderson, Ebenezer [the elder] (1784-1858), missionary. 2 autograph letters (1827 and 1832), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/84: Smart, Sir George Thomas (1776-1867), conductor and organist. 1 autograph letter (1837).

/85: Spohr, Louis (1784-1859), composer, violinist, and conductor. 1 autograph letter in German (1840), 1 portrait.

/86: Russell, William, Baron Russell (?). 1 autograph letter (1809), 1 autograph address panel (1789).

/87: Russell, John [formerly Lord John Russell], first Earl Russell (1792-1878), prime minister and author. 2 autograph letters (1870 and n.d.), 2 autograph address panels (1819 and n.d.), 1 portrait.

/88: Russell, Reverend Lord Wriothesley (1804-1886), clergyman and aristocrat. 3 autograph letters (n.d.), 1 cutting.

/89: Bury [née Campbell], Lady Charlotte Susan Maria (1775-1861), novelist and diarist. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/90: Morrison, Robert (1782-1834), missionary and Chinese scholar. 1 autograph letter (1825), 2 portraits, 1 other engraving, 1 printed Chinese document.

/91: Howard, George, sixth Earl of Carlisle (1773-1848), politician. 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/91a: Howard, George William Frederick, seventh Earl of Carlisle (1802-1864), politician. 1 autograph letter (n.d.).

/92: Osborne, Louisa Catherine, Marchioness of Carmarthen, later Duchess of Leeds (c. 1791-1874), aristocrat. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/93: Dundas, Robert Saunders, second Viscount Melville (1771-1851), politician. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait (signed), 1 other engraving, 1 coat of arms.

/94: Lamb, William, second Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), prime minister. 1 autograph letter (1835), 2 autograph address panels (1836 and 1820), 1 portrait, 3 other engravings, 1 coat of arms, 1 printed notice.

/95: Grey, Charles, second Earl Grey (1764-1845), prime minister. 1 autograph letter (1820), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice.

/96: Gray, Francis, 14th Baron Grey (1765-1842), official and aristocrat. 1 autograph letter (1838), 1 autograph address panel (1838), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.

/97: Grenville, George (1712-1770), prime minister. 1 document signed by Grenville and others (1751), 1 portrait.

/98: Grenville, Henry (1717-1784), MP Diplomat and Governor of Barbados. 1 autograph letter written at Eton (1733), 1 engraving, 1 printed cutting.

/99: Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), politician and diplomatist. 1 autograph letter (1746), 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms.

/100: Grey, Thomas Philip de [formerly Thomas Philip Robinson; Thomas Philip Weddell], second Earl De Grey (1781-1859), politician. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 autograph address panel (1824), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.

/101: Judson, Adoniram (1788-1850), Baptist missionary. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 newspaper cutting, 1 specimen of printing in Burmese.

/102: Raikes, Robert (1736-1811), promoter of Sunday schools. 1 autograph letter (1783) (2 leaves).

/103: Locke, John (1632-1704), philosopher. 1 signature, 2 portraits, 2 other engravings.

/104: Hook, Theodore Edward (1788-1841), writer and hoaxer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/105: Canning, George (1770-1827), prime minister and parodist. 1 autograph letter (1818), 1 draft of a speech or address with autograph amendment (n.d.), 2 autograph address panels (1825 and 1824), 2 other autographs (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/106: Lamb, Charles (1775-1834), essayist. 1 autograph letter (1820), 2 portraits.

/107: Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh (1784-1859), poet, journalist, and literary critic. 1 autograph letter (1808), 1 portrait, 1 printed sheet.

/108: Hood, Thomas (1799-1845), poet and humorist. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 printed advertisement for the Comic Annual (1833).

/109: Esterhazy von Galantha, Prince Paul Anton von (1635-1713), Hungarian prince. 1 autograph letter in French (n.d.), 1 autograph address panel, 2 portraits (1 coloured).

/110: Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809), composer. 1 autograph music score.

/111: Campbell, John (1795-1867), Congregational minister and journal editor. 1 autograph letter (1842), 1 portrait, 1 printed notice.

/112: Opie, John (1761-1807), portrait and history painter. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 portraits.

/113: Maclise, Daniel (bap. 1806, d. 1870), painter. 2 autograph letters (1869 and n.d.), 1 engraving after a picture by Maclise.

/114: Lupton, Thomas Goff (1791-1873), landscape, portrait, and subject engraver. 1 autograph letter (1836), 1 engraving by Lupton.

/115: Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851), landscape and history painter. 1 autograph letter (1820), 1 portrait, 2 engravings after drawings by Turner.

/116: Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist. 1 autograph letter (1790), 1 portrait.

/117: Hollins, John (1798-1855), portrait and subject painter. 1 autograph letter (1830), 1 engraving after a painting by Hollins.

/118: Holloway, Thomas (1748-1827), engraver. 1 autograph letter (1794), 1 engraving.

/119: Burnet, John (1784-1868), painter, engraver and writer on art. 1 autograph letter (1827), 2 printed sheets.

/120: Fry, William Thomas (1789-1843), engraver. 1 autograph letter (1832), 1 engraving by Fry.

/121: Cowper, William (1731-1800), poet and letter writer. 1 autograph letter (1791), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice, 1 printed facsimile of his handwriting.

/122: Wesley, John (1703-1791), Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism. 7 autograph letters (1772, 1782, 1788 [2], 1789 [2], 1791), 1 autograph address panel, 2 portraits, 1 other engraving (in 2 parts with key), 1 printed notice.

/123: Howard, John (1726?-1790), philanthropist. 1 autograph letter (1770), 2 portraits, 1 other engraving.

/124: Chalmers, Thomas (1780-1847), Church of Scotland minister and social reformer. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 portrait.

/125: Fry, [née Gurney], Elizabeth (1780-1845), penal reformer and philanthropist. 3 autograph letters (1822 and n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 signed sketch of a bear, I printed card, 1 cutting, 1 signature.

/126: Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban (1561-1626), Lord Chancellor, politician, and philosopher. 1 acquittance signed by Bacon (1621), 1 portrait.

/127: Loyd, Samuel Jones, Baron Overstone (1796-1883), banker. 1 autograph letter (1850).

/128: Hampden, Renn Dickson, (1793-1868), bishop of Hereford and theologian. 1 autograph letter (1836), 2 engravings.

/129: Hamilton, Hugh, (1729-1805), Church of Ireland bishop of Ossory. 1 autograph letter (1776).

/130: Huddesford, William (bap. 1732, d. 1772), museum curator. 1 autograph letter (1759), 1 engraving, 1 leaf from a book with an engraving.

/131: Franklin, Benjamin, (1706-1790), natural philosopher, writer, and revolutionary politician in America. 1 autograph letter (1756), copy of the Pennsylvania Gazette, 9 September 1762.

/132: White, Henry Kirke, (1785-1806), poet and essayist. 1 autograph poem or hymn, 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice.

/133: Macaulay, Zachary, (1768-1838), slavery abolitionist. 1 autograph letter (1828).

/133a: Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay (1800-1859), historian, essayist, and poet. 1 autograph letter (1833), 1 autographed address panel (1832), 1 printed cutting.

/134: Henry, William (1774-1836), chemist. (Note: Born in Manchester) 1 autograph letter (1804), 1 portrait.

/135: Guthrie, George James (1785-1856), surgeon. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/136: Twisleton, Thomas James, (1770-1824), archdeacon of Colombo. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 engravings.

/137: Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1806-1867) American author, poet and editor. 1 autograph letter (1842), 1 portrait.

/138: Watt, James (1736-1819), engineer and scientist. 1 autograph letter (1814), 3 portraits, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice.

/138a: Watt, Robert (bap. 1774, d. 1819), physician and bibliographer. 1 autograph letter (1815).

/139: Scholefield, James (1789-1853), classical scholar. 1 autograph letter (1810), 1 engraving.

/140: Lubbock, Sir John William, third baronet (1803-1865), astronomer and banker. 2 autograph letters (1821 and n.d., but probably 1830s), 1 engraved coat of arms.

/141: Hastings, Warren, (1732-1818), governor-general of Bengal. 1 document signed by Hastings and another (1779), 1 portrait, 1 engraving of the trial of Hastings, 2 engraved coats of arms, 2 printed notices.

/142: Greenough, George, (1778-1855), geologist. 1 autograph letter (1820), 1 engraving.

/143: Ord, William [Henry (?)] (1781-1855), Whig MP. 1 autograph letter (n.d., possibly 1836), 1 autograph address panel (1836), 1 engraving.

/144: Salomons, Sir David, baronet (1797-1873), banker and politician. 1 autograph letter (1855), 1 colour-printed menu, 2 colour-printed invitations.

/145: Warren, Pelham, (1778-1835), physician. 1 autograph letter (1826).

/146: Bright, John (1811-1889), politician and Anti-Corn Law League campaigner. 2 autograph letters (1846 and 1850), 1 engraved cartoon, 1 printed leaf from Punch magazine.

/147: Melancthon, Philip (1497-1560) theologian and scholar. 1 autograph letter in Latin (1544), with later transcription and English translation, 1 printed facsimile of Melancthon's handwriting and signature, 2 portraits, 1 printed notice.

/148: Calvin, Jean (1509-1564), theologian and pastor. 1 document in Latin signed by Calvin (1551), 2 portraits.

/149: Vattemare, Nicolas Marie Alexandre (1796-1864), ventriloquist and philanthropist (pioneer of the international exchange of books). 1 autograph letter (1825), 1 portrait.

/150: Arkwright, Sir Richard, (1732-1792), inventor of cotton-spinning machinery. 1 fragment of a document signed by Arkwright (1783), countersigned by his son Richard Arkwright (1755-1843) in 1836, 2 portraits, 1 other engraving.

/151: Foster, Sir Michael, (1689-1763), judge and legal writer. 1 note signed by Foster (1749), 1 portrait.

/152: Hardinge, Henry, first Viscount Hardinge of Lahore (1785-1856), army officer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 portraits.

/153: Brownrigg, Sir Robert, first baronet (1759-1833), army officer and colonial governor. 1 autograph address panel (1805), 1 marriage licence signed by Brownrigg (1816), 1 portrait.

/154: Sutton, Charles Manners, first Viscount Canterbury (1780-1845), speaker of the House of Commons. 1 autograph letter (1835), 1 autograph note (1818), 1 colour portrait, 3 other engravings.

/155: Herbert, William (1778-1847), classical scholar and Church of England clergyman (Dean of Manchester). 1 autograph letter (1817), 1 engraving, 1 printed notice.

/156: Hughes, Joseph (born 1769), Baptist pastor and Nonconformist Secretary of the Bible Society. 2 autograph letters (1804 and 1812), 1 engraving.

/157: Onslow, Arthur, (1691-1768), speaker of the House of Commons. 1 receipt signed by Onslow (1752), 1 portrait.

/158: Onslow, Richard, 3rd Baron Onslow (1713-1776), British peer and politician. 1 document signed by Onslow (1759).

/158a: Onslow, George, first Earl of Onslow (1731-1814), politician. 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms.

/158b: Onslow, Thomas, second Earl of Onslow (1754-1827), politician and eccentric. 1 autograph address panel (1820).

/159: Addison, Joseph, (1672-1719), writer and politician. 1 document signed by Addison (1715), 1 portrait, 1 copy of The Spectator periodical, 18 July 1711.

/160: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, (1772-1834), poet, critic, and philosopher. 1 autograph letter (n.d., but not before 1808, due to reference to the Battle of Burgos), 1 portrait.

/161: Elliott, Ebenezer [called the Corn Law Rhymer] (1781-1849), poet and bar-iron merchant. 1 autograph poem (1839), with a transcript and a letter to Raffles concerning the provenance of the poem, 1 portrait.

/162: Goldsmith, Oliver, (1728?-1774), author. 1 autograph receipt (1769), 2 portraits.

/163: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) German poet, novelist, playwright, courtier. 1 autograph note (n.d.), 3 portraits, 1 other engraving.

/164: Burns, Robert (1759-1796), poet. 1 autograph letter (1791), 1 portrait, 3 other engravings.

/165: Townsend, George, (1788-1857), writer and Church of England clergyman. 1 autograph letter (1830), 1 portrait.

/166: Mather, Increase, (1639-1723), Congregational minister. 1 autograph document (1654), 1 portrait.

/166a: Mather, Richard, (1596-1669), minister in America. 1 autograph document (n.d.).

/167: Bewick, Thomas, (1753-1828), wood-engraver. 1 autograph document (1824), 1 portrait.

/168: Southey, Robert, (1774-1843), poet and reviewer. 1 autograph letter (1826), 1 portrait.

/169: Audubon, John James (1785-1851), ornithologist and bird artist. 1 autograph letter (1827), 2 portraits.

/170: Arouet, François-Marie [known as Voltaire] (1694-1778), writer and philosopher. 1 autograph letter possibly signed by Voltaire's secretary (1768), 3 portraits.

/171: Weston, Stephen, (1665-1742), bishop of Exeter. 1 document signed by (1725), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/172: Whitehead, Paul, (1710-1774), satirist. 1 autographed receipt (1764), 1 portrait.

/173: Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, (1759-1821), topographer and antiquary. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 1 printed sheet relating to Whalley Abbey.

/174: Mather, Cotton, (1663-1728), minister in America. 2 autograph leaves from a religious tract, 1 portrait.

/175: Fox, Charles James, (1749-1806), politician. 1 autograph charade (n.d.), 1 excised signature (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 coloured cartoon (1784), 1 printed notice.

/176: Wiliams, Helen Maria (1759-1827), writer. 1 autograph letter (1823), 1 portrait.

/177: Gray, Thomas (1716-1771), poet and literary scholar. 1 autograph list of Roman emperors (n.d.), 1 portrait, 2 other engravings, 1 facsimile poem, 1 leaf from a printed book.

/ : Herschel, William (1738-1822), musician and astronomer. 1 sheet of autosheet notes (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 coloured engraving of a 40-foot telescope, 1 printed cutting.

/178: Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, first baronet (1792-1871), mathematician and astronomer. 2 autograph letters (1830 and n.d.), 1 portrait.

/179: Franklin, Sir John, (1786-1847), naval officer and Arctic explorer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 autograph note (n.d.), 2 portraits.

/180: Opie, [née Alderson], Amelia (1769-1853), novelist and poet. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 newscutting.

/181: Norton [née Sheridan], Caroline Elizabeth Sarah [other married name Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Stirling Maxwell, Lady Stirling Maxwell] (1808-1877), author and law reform campaigner. 1 letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/182: Watts, Alaric Alexander, (1797-1864), journalist and poet. 1 autograph letter (1834), 1 autograph letter by Mrs Watts (1836), 1 portrait of Mrs Watts.

/183: Fox, Sir Stephen, (1627-1716), financier and government official. 1 part-printed receipt signed by Fox (1703), 1 portrait.

/184: Wilson, John (pseud. Christopher North) (1785-1854), author and journalist. 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 portrait.

/185: Whitefield, George (1714-1770), Calvinistic Methodist leader. 1 autograph letter (1747), bound in with a mounted copy of the Life of George Whitfield (n.d.), 2 other autograph letters (1753 and 1757), 1 portrait, 1 drawing of Whitfield's chair, 1 copy of Adam's Weekly Courant, 12 July 1748, 1 engraving of Whitfield's New Chapel (1764).

/185a1: Henry, Matthew (1662-1714), Presbyterian minister. 2 autograph sermons and notes (n.d.).

/185a2: Henry, Philip (1631-1696), clergyman and ejected minister. 1 autograph letter (1693).

/185b: Huntingdon, Selina Hastings [née Shirley], Countess of (1707-1791), founder of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. 2 autograph letters (1785 and 1786).

/185c: Wesley, Charles (1707-1788), Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism. 1 autograph letters (1746 and 1747).

/186: Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) natural philosopher and mathematician. 1 autograph note (1713), 1 portraits, 3 other engravings.

/187: Montgomery, James (1771-1854), hymn writer and poet. 1 autograph letter (1824), 2 sheets of autograph verses (1822 and c.1813), 3 portraits, 1 portrait of Thomas Spencer, Independent minister.

/188: Montgomery, Robert [formerly Gomery] (1807-1855), poet and Church of England clergyman. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 portraits.

/189: Wiffen, Jeremiah Holmes (1792-1836), poet and translator. 2 autograph letters (1824 and 1827), 1 printed broadsheet containing verses by Wiffen with an autograph letter in French on the reverse (1826), 1 annotated printed sheet (signed), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 reproduction of a pencil and pastel drawing.

/190: Parry, Sir (William) Edward (1790-1855), naval officer and Arctic explorer. 1 autograph letter (1826), 1 portrait.

/191: Pelham, Sir Henry (1694-1754), prime minister. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/192: Palliser, Sir Hugh, first baronet (1723-1796), naval officer and politician. 1 autograph letter (1778), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/193: Herbert, George Augustus, eleventh Earl of Pembroke and eighth Earl of Montgomery (1759-1827), army officer and landowner. 1 autograph address panel (1817), 1 engraved coat of arms, 2 other engravings, 1 printed notice.

/194: Russell, Lady Georgiana Elizabeth (1810?-1867), daughter of John, sixth Duke of Bedford. 2 autograph letters (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/195: Curzon, Nathaniel, second Baron Scarsdale (1751-1837). 1 autograph letter, 1 engraving, 1 printed notice.

/196: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, (Jacob Ludwig) Felix (1809-1847), composer. 1 autograph letter (1842), 2 portraits.

/197: Bunyan, John (bap. 1628, d. 1688), author. 1 sample of handwriting (disputed), 3 tracings of autograph and handwriting, 2 portraits, 1 drawing (with facsimile autograph), 5 letters on the subject of Bunyan's autograph (1837-1858, 1 cheque signed by Robert Bunyan, 1849.

/198: Luther, Martin (1483-1546), German theologian. 2 autograph manuscripts in Latin (1528 and 1536), one with a letter of authentication (1880), 1 portrait.

/199: Ussher (James) (1581-1656), Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh and scholar. 1 autograph receipt (1648), 1 portrait.

/200: Trapp, Dr. Joseph (1679-1747), Church of England clergyman and writer. 1 certificate signed by Trapp (1728), 1 portrait, 2 other engravings.

/201: Troy, John Thomas (1739-1823), Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 portrait.

/202: Cranmer, Thomas (1489-1556), archbishop of Canterbury. 1 warrant for payment signed by Cranmer and others (1547), 2 portraits, 2 other engraving.

/203: Berkeley, George (1685-1753), Church of Ireland bishop of Cloyne and philosopher. 1 autograph letter, torn (1733), 1 small autograph fragment, 2 portraits, 1 other engraving.

/204: Bentley, Richard (bap. 1708, d. 1782), writer and artist. 1 order signed by Bentley (1735), 1 portrait.

/205: Carey, William (1769-1846), headmaster and Bishop of Exeter. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 autograph address panel (1821), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/206: Cadogan, William Bromley (1751-1797), religious writer. 1 autograph letter (1794), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms.

/207: Ireland, John (1761-1842), dean of Westminster. 1 autograph letter (1821), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/208: Hook, Walter Farquhar (1798-1875), dean of Chichester. 1 autograph letter (1832), 1 portrait.

/209: Irving, Edward (1792-1834), preacher and theologian. 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 portrait, 1 engraving, 1 printed cartoon.

/210: Granger, James (bap. 1723, d. 1776), print collector and biographer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 engraving with facsimile manuscript (1769).

/211: Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), American essayist and poet. 1 autograph letter to Walter Langdon (18 April 1850).

/212: Penn, William (1644-1718), Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania. 1 autograph letter (1684), 2 portraits, 1 other engraving, 1 cutting.

/213: Penn, John (1729-1795), colonial governor. 1 autograph letter (1768).

/214: Penn, Thomas (1702-1775), landowner [and second son of William Penn, above]. 1 autograph letter (1769).

/215: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865), president of the United States. 1 autograph letter (1861), 1 small coloured print of the Stars and Stripes.

/216: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882), American poet. 1 autograph letter (1850), 1 lithographic print, 1 printed poem by Longfellow on 2 sheets.

/217: Washington, George (1732-1799), revolutionary army officer and president of the United States. 1 autograph letter (1787), 1 portrait.

/218: Leighton, Robert (bap. 1612, d. 1684), archbishop of Glasgow. 1 autograph letter (1671), 1 portrait, 1 portrait of his father, Rev. Alexander Leighton.

/219: Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868), Italian operatic composer. 1 autograph letter in Italian (1842), 2 portraits.

/220: Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678), poet and politician. 1 autograph letter (1674), 1 facsimile autograph, 1 portrait (with facsimile autograph), 2 portraits, 1 letter re the Marvell letter (1847).

/221: Cook, James (1728-1779), explorer. 1 part-printed documented signed by Cook (1759), 1 portrait.

/222: Irby, George, third Baron Boston (1777-1856). 1 autograph letter (1827), 2 engraved coats of arms, 1 other engraving.

/223: O'Connell, Daniel (1775-1847), Irish Nationalist leader. 1 autograph letter (in 2 parts) (1827), 2 autograph address panels (1834 and 1835), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/224: Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626), Bishop of Winchester. 1 manuscript warrant signed by Andrewes and others (1619) with a later transcript, 1 portrait.

/225: Park, Mungo (1771-1806), traveller in Africa. 1 autograph letter (1804), 1 facsimile of the handwriting of Alexander Anderson (1804), 2 portraits.

/226: Pratt, John Jeffreys, first Marquess Camden (1759-1840), politician. 1 autograph letter (1806), 1 autograph address panel (1831), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/227: Temple, Henry John, third Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), prime minister. 1 autograph letter (1820), 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms.

/228: Manners, John Henry, fifth Duke of Rutland (1778-1857), Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire. 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 autograph address panel (1819), 1 engraved coat of arms, 2 other engravings.

/229: Manners, Isabella, Duchess of Rutland (1756-1831), politician and society hostess. 1 letter (not signed, 1830), 1 autograph address panel (n.d.), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.

/230: Ess, Leander (Johann Heinrich) van (1772-1847), German theologian. 1 autograph note in German (1823), 1 sheet of autograph music (n.d., but authenticated in 1826), 1 portrait.

/231: Kemp, Johannes Theodorus van der (1747-1811), missionary. 1 autograph letter in Dutch (1811), 1 fragment of an autograph letter with signature (1807), 1 portrait.

/232: Tholuck, Friedrich August Gottreu (1799-1877), theologian. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/233: Jones, Peter [Kahkewaquonaby] (1802-1856), missionary, Ojibwa Methodist minister, translator, chief and author. 1 autograph letter written from Manchester (1832), 1 autograph address panel to Raffles (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/234: Henry, Philip (1631-1696), clergyman and ejected minister. 1 autograph letter (1692/3), 1 portrait.

/235: Manners, John, Marquis of Granby (1721-1770), army officer and politician. 1 document signed by Manners as Granby (?1759), 1 autograph address panel (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/236: Greville, Fulke, first baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (1554-1628), courtier and author. 1 autograph letter (1617), 1 portrait.

/237: Jones, Richard Roberts [called Dick of Aberdaron] (1780-1843), linguist. 1 autograph manuscript (n.d., but c.1832-1843), 3 portraits (1 coloured).

/238: Thomson, Andrew Melville (1779-1831), Church of Scotland minister and journalist. 1 autograph letter (1817), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 1 coloured cartoon.

/239: Wren, Sir Christopher (1632-1723), architect, mathematician and astronomer. 1 printed receipt signed by Wren (1679), 1 portrait.

/240: Newton, John (1725-1807), slave trader and Church of England clergyman. 2 autograph letters (1766, n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 engraving.

/241: Tallents, Francis (1619-1708), clergyman and ejected minister. 1 autograph inscription (1702/3), 1 bond signed by Tallents (1685), 1 portrait.

/242: Wolfe, Charles (1791-1823), poet. 1 facsimile autograph letter (original dated 1816), 1 autograph poem (n.d.), 1 letter (?to Raffles) to which is attached Wolfe's signature (letter dated 1848).

/243a: Hill, Lord Arthur [?Hill, Lord Arthur Moyse William (1792-1860), Lieutenant General, son of the heir and niece of Edwyn Sandys, below] 1 handwritten letter or note (n.d.).

/243b: Sandys, Edwin, second Baron Sandys (d.1797), politician and Lord of the Admiralty. 1 autograph letter (1766), 1 engraving.

/244: Livingstone, David (1813-1873), explorer and missionary. 1 list of toasts given at a dinner for Livingstone, 1 printed invitation to the Court of Common Council to award the freedom of the City of London to Livingstone (1857) 2 other printed sheets (1856 and n.d.), 3 portraits, 1 printed map.

/245: Cary, Henry, first Viscount Falkland (c.1575-1633), lord deputy of Ireland. 1 document signed by Cary and others (1630), 1 portrait [not of Henry but of Lucius Cary (1609/10-1643), second Viscount Falkland].

/246: Norton, Fletcher, first baron Grantley (1716-1789), speaker of the House of Commons. 1 account of items delivered to Norton for His Majesty's service, signed by Norton (1770).

/247: Norton, William, second Baron Grantley (1742-1822), politician. 1 autograph letter (1821), 1 printed notice with engraved coat of arms.

/248: Grenville, William Wyndham, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), prime minister. 1 autograph letter (1825), 1 autograph address panel (1814),1 autograph compliment slip (1797), 2 portraits, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice.

/249a: Tzatzoe (Tshatshu), Jan (or Dyani) (c.1792-1868) Xhosa chief and missionary. 1 portrait, 1 printed notice of a meeting of the St Helen's branch of the London Missionary Society (1836).

/249b: Philip, John (1775-1851), missionary. 1 autograph letter re Jan Tzatzoe (1836).

/250a: Bridgeman, Orlando, first Earl of Bradford (1762-1825), politician. 1 autograph letter (1818), 1 engraved coat of arms.

/250b: Bridgeman, Lucy Elizabeth (née Byng), Countess of Bradford (1766-1844). 1 autograph letter (1826), 1 engraving.

/251: Beauclerk, William Aubrey de Vere, ninth Duke of St Albans (1801-1849). 1 autograph letter (1831), 1 engraved coat of arms.

/252a: Beauclerk, William, eighth Duke of St Albans (1766-1825). 2 autograph address panels (1821, 1825), 1 engraved coat of arms.

/252b: Beauclerk, Maria Janetta (née Nelthorpe) Duchess of St Albans (d. 1822). 1 autograph note (n.d.), 1 autograph letter (n.d.).

/253: Lumley, Richard, sixth Earl of Scarborough (1757-1832). 1 autograph letter (1820), 4 engravings, 3 printed notices.

/254: Fairfax, Thomas, third Baron Fairfax (1612-1671), parliamentarian army officer. 1 autograph letter (1648), 1 facsimile of an autograph letter (1645), 1 portrait, 2 printed notices.

/255: Butler, Lady (Charlotte) Eleanor (1739-1829), elder of the two Ladies of Llangollen, and Ponsonby, Sarah (1755-1831), one of the Ladies of Llangollen. 2 autograph letters (1826 and 1827), 3 engravings.

/256: Russell, Edward, first Earl of Orford (1652-1727), naval officer. 1 receipt signed by Russell (1691), 1 portrait.

/257: Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (1802-1873), animal painter. 2 autograph letters (1830 and 1838), 1 engraving, 1 drawing, 1 printed notice.

/258a: Landseer, John George (1763/9-1852), engraver and antiquary. 1 autograph letter (1828), 1 drawing.

/258b: Landseer, Thomas (1793/4-1880), printmaker. 1 engraving (1827).

/259a: Orde-Powlett, William, second Baron Bolton (1782-1820). 1 autograph address panel (1822), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice.

/259b: Orde-Powlett, Maria, Lady Bolton (née Carleton) (1777-1863), wife of second Baron Bolton. 1 autograph letter (1821).

/260: Campbell, John, first Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin (1755-1821), politician and army officer. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 engraving.

/261: Campbell, John Frederick, second Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin (1790-1860). 1 autograph letter (1821), 1 autograph address panel (1831), 1 engraved coat of arms.

/262: Brudenell, Robert, sixth Earl Cardigan (1760-1837), politician. 1 autograph letter (1816), 1 autograph address panel (1818), 1 engraving.

/263: Brougham, Henry Peter, first Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), lord chancellor. 2 autograph letters (1813, 1836 and n.d.), 1 incomplete autograph letter (1816), 1 small autograph account (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 engraving, 1 coloured cartoon, 1 newspaper cutting, 2 printed notice with coat of arms.

/264: Cecil, James, first Marquess of Salisbury (1748-1823), Lord Chamberlain. 1 letter (1797), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 2 other engravings.

/265: Cecil, Frances Mary Gascoyne (née Gascoyne), Marchioness of Salisbury (1802-1839), wife of the second Marquess of Salisbury. 1 autograph letter (n.d., but c.1823-1839), 1 portrait.

/266: Egerton, Thomas, second Earl Wilton (1799-1882), politician. 1 autograph letter (1791), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice.

/267: Ryder, Dudley, second Earl of Harrowby (1798-1882), politician, known as Viscount Sandon until 1847. 2 autograph letters (1834 and 1874), the latter addressed to Raffles, with envelope, 1 autograph address panel (1836), 1 cartoon.

/268-269: Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832), poet and novelist. 2 autograph letters (1813 and n.d.), 1 autograph manuscript leaf from a novel, 1 portrait, 4 other engravings, 1 coloured lithograph, 1 sketch portrait, 1 printed bifolio, 1 cutting, 1 photograph of Abbotsford.

/270a: Burke, John (1786-1848), author and genealogist. 1 autograph letter (1842).

/270b: Burke, Sir (John) Bernard (1814-1892), genealogist and herald. 1 autograph letter (1842).

/270c: Burke, Peter (1811-1881), serjeant-at-law. 1 autograph letter (1855),2 annotated printed sheets, 2 photographs, 1 colour printed card.

/271: Egerton, Francis Henry, eighth Earl of Bridgewater (1756-1829), collector of manuscripts and patron of learning. 2 autograph letters (1821 and 1827), 1 autograph address panel (1814), 1 engraved coat of arms, 4 engravings.

/272: Campbell (John). first Baron Campbell of St Andrews (1779-1861), lord chancellor. 1 autograph letter (1832), 1 lithographic cartoon.

/273: [No file.]

/274: St John, George Richard, third Viscount Bolingbroke (1761-1824), politician. 1 autograph letter (1807).

/275-276: Peel, Sir Robert, second baronet (1788-1850), prime minister. 3 autograph letters (1828, 1830 and 1847 [in two parts]), 1 autograph address panel (1828) 1 autograph envelope (1847), 2 portraits, 2 engraved coats of arms, 1 cartoon.

/277: Butler, James, second Duke of Ormonde (1665-1745), army officer, politician and Jacobite conspirator. 1 document signed by Butler and others (1701), 1 portrait (1713).

/278: Galitzin, Alexander Nicolaievitch, Prince (1733-1844), Russian prince and politician. 1 autograph letter (1831), 1 engraving.

/279: Gutzlaff, Karl Friedrich August (1803-1851), German Protestant missionary. 1 autograph letter (1836), 1 portrait, 2 other engravings.

/280: Kapodistrias, Ioannis Antonios, Count (1776-1831), President of Greece. 2 autograph letters in French (1827) and Italian (1828), 1 engraving.

/281: Oberlin, Victor, member of the Swiss Directoire. 2 autograph letters in French (1799).

/282: Radama I (1791-1828), King of Madagascar. 1 autograph letter in (French (n.d.), 1 letter from another (signature illegible) to Raffles (1827).

/283: Dherma Rama, Alexander (Theron Nancey) (fl. 1819-1821), Buddhist priest. 1 autograph fragment (1818), 1 facsimile of handwriting (1819), 1 coloured portrait.

/284: William I (1772-1843), King of the Netherlands. 2 autograph notes (1800 and n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 other engraving.

/285: Launey, Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de (1740-1789), governor of the Bastille. 1 autograph letter in French (1785), 2 engravings.

/286: Hamilton, James, first Duke of Hamilton (1606-1649), politician. 1 portrait, 1 printed notice.

/287: Espartero, Baldomero, Count of Luchana (1793-1879), Spanish general and statesman. 1 part-printed document in Spanish, signed by Espartero (1837), 1 portrait, 1 printed cutting.

/288: Tappai, New Zealand chief. 1 portrait of a Maori chief, 1 engraving of Maori carvings, 1 facsimile of a pencil portrait of Tappai, drawn by himself, 1 facsimile pf a drawing of Tappai's tattooed thighs.

/289a: North Francis, first Earl Guilford (1704-1790), politician. 1 autograph letter (1729), 1 engraved coat of arms.

/289b: North, Frederick, fifthe Earl Guilford (1766-1827, colonial Governor (of Ceylon) and philhellene. 1 autograph letter (1815), 1 autograph address panel (1813).

/290: Frederick Augustus, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), son of King George III. 3 autograph letters (1818, 1834, 1836), 3 autograph address panels (1815, 1822, n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 printed certificate of the Philosophical Society signed by Frederick Augustus, 1 printed sheet containing facsimiles of the signatures of members of the House of Brunswick, 1 engraved coat of arms.

/291: Laud, William (1573-1645), archbishop of Canterbury. 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice with engraved portrait, 1 printed sheet (cropped).

/292: Pole, William Wellesley- (formerly Wesley), third Earl of Mornington (1763-1845), politician. 2 autograph letters (1814, n.d.), 1 autograph address panel (1821), 1 portrait, 1 printed notice.

/293: Radclyffe, Francis (d. 1704), son of Francis, first Earl of Derwentwater. 1 autograph letter (1688), 1 engraving of the Seven Bishops who opposed the 1688 Declaration of Indulgence.

/294a: Walpole, George, third Earl of Orford (1730-1791). 1 autograph letter (n.d., but 1754 inscribed in a later hand), 1 autograph address panel (n.d.), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 engraving of Houghton Hall.

/294b: Walpole, Horace, fourth Earl of Orford (1717-1797). 1 receipt signed by Walpole (1791), 1 portrait.

/295: Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873), philosopher, economist and advocate of women's rights. 1 autograph letter (1835).

/296: Grosvenor, Robert, first Marquess of Westminster (1767-1845), politician. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 compliment slip (n.d.), 1 autograph letter from Elizabeth countess of Grosvenor (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 portrait of Elizabeth, 1 engraved coat of arms, 3 engravings (1 coloured view of Eaton Hall).

/297: Grosvenor, Robert, first Baron Ebury (1801-1893), politician. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 engravings of Eaton Hall.

/298: Grosvenor, Richard, first Earl Grosvenor (1731-1802), politician and landowner. 1 autograph letter (1781), 1 autograph address panel (n.d.), 1 engraving of Eaton Hall.

/299: Pakington (formerly Russell), Sir John Somerset, first baron Hampton (1799-1880), politician. 1 autograph letter (1853).

/300: Parker, Sir Hyde, fifth Baronet (1714-1782/83), naval officer. 1 portrait.

/301: Warren, Richard (1731-1797), physician. 1 portrait.

/302: Hume, Sir Patrick, first Earl of Marchmont and Baron Polwarth (1641-1724), Scottish statesman. 1 autograph letter (1718), 2 engravings.

/303: Walpole, Robert, second Earl of Orford (1701-1751) [Sometime Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer.] 2 documents signed by Walpole (1742, in two parts, and 1735, part-printed), 1 portrait.

/304: Watts, Isaac (1674-1748), Independent minister and writer. 1 autograph letter (1732).

/305: Du Limbé, Prince (fl. 1814-1818), Minister of War and of the Marine to the King of Haiti. 1 autograph letter in French (1818).

/306: Charrier, Baron de (f. 1818), Secretary General of the Ministry of Finances and the Interior to the King of Haiti. 1 autograph letter in French (1818).

/307: Barber, Francis (c.1745-1801), servant (Jamaican servant of Dr Samuel Johnson). 1 photograph of oil painting, with explanatory letter (1931).

/308: Kamehameha IV (born Alexander Iolani Liholiho Keawenui) (1834-1863), King of the Sandwich Isles, and Queen Emma (née Rooke). 1 signature (1857) with an explanatory note by Raffles appended (1858).

/309: Pomare II (c.1774-1821), King of Tahiti. 1 autograph letter in Tahitian (1816), 1 translation of the same, 1 portrait, 1 colour lithograph.

/309a: Lavaud, Charles-François (1798-1878, Governor of Tahiti. 1 autograph letter in French (1848).

/309b: Bonand, Louis-Adolphe (1805-1867), Governor of Tahiti. 1 autograph letter in French (?1852).

/309c: Pomare III, Aimata (1813-1877), Queen of Tahiti. 3 autograph letters in Tahitian (1851, 1852, 1852).

/309d: Roura, Deacon of Maha'ena. 1 letter in Tahitian (1851).

/309e: Howe, William (d. 1863), English missionary in Tahiti. 1 autograph letter in 2 parts (1852).

/310: Iturbide, Agustin de (1783-1824), Emperor of Mexico. 1 letter in Spanish signed by Iturbide (1822), 1 engraving.

/311: Grey, Church of England clergyman 1 autograph letter to Nathaniel Crewe (d. 1721), rector of Lincoln College (n.d., c.1714-1721), 2 engravings of Lincoln College.

/312: Blucher, Gebhard Leberecht von (1742-1819), Prussian general; Gneisenau, Count August Wilhelm Anton Neidhardt von (1760-1831), Prussian general, and other generals of the Napoleonic War. 1 autograph letter from Gneisenau (1815), 7 other letters in French (4 dated 1815, 1 dated 1815?, 2 dated 1819).

/313: Deacon, Thomas (1697-1753), bishop of the nonjuring Church of England and physician. 1 autograph declaration signed by Deacon, on verso of a leaf from his printed work A Compleat Collection of Devotions (1748), with his seal.

/314: Frederick II, the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia. 1 letter in French, signed by Frederick (1762).

/315: Frederick William IV (1795-1861), King of Prussia. 1 autograph letter in French (1833), 1 autograph address panel with imperfect seal (1833), 1 engraving.

/316: Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France. 1 document in French signed by Louis (1694), 1 portrait, 1 engraving.

/317: Louis XV (1710-1774), King of France. 1 document in French signed by Louis (1747), 2 portraits.

/318: Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France. 1 document in French signed by Louis (1785), 2 portraits (1 coloured).

/319: Louise Philippe (1773-1850), King of the French. 1 autograph address panel (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 engraving, 1 lithograph.

/320: Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), Queen Consort of Louis XVI. 1 in French letter to King George III, signed by Marie Antoinette, with imperfect wax seal (1776), 1 portrait.

/321: Buonaparte, Napoleone di [later adapted to Napoleon Bonaparte] (1769-1821), Emperor of the French. 1 letter in French signed by Napoleon (1804), 1 autograph note (n.d.) with an explanatory letter (n.d.), 1 printed sheet containing an extract from the will of Napoleon and facsimile signatures, 1 facsimile letter, 2 portraits, 5 engravings (1 coloured), 3 bank notes, 1 printed booklet, 1 newscutting.

/322: Napoleon III (1808-1873), Emperor of the French. 1 autograph letter in French (1839), with a letter to Raffles authenticating it (1852).

/323: Philippe II, Duc d'Orléans [Louis Philippe Joseph] (1747-1793), Regent of France. 1 manuscript account in French signed by Philippe (1722), 2 portraits.

/324: Adolphus, Frederick, first Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850), viceroy of Hanover, army officer and son of King George III. 1 autograph letter (1840), 1 autograph address panel (n.d.).

/325a: Anne (1665-1714), queen of Great Britain and Ireland. 1 warrant signed by Anne (1709/10), 2 manuscript pages of accounts (1714), 2 portraits.

/325b: George, Prince of Denmark and Duke of Cumberland (1653-1708), consort of Queen Anne. 1 document signedby George (1702/03), 1 portrait.

/326: Augusta Sophia, Princess (1768-1840), daughter of George III. 2 autograph letters (1815, 1828), 1 portrait, 1 coat of arms, 1 other engraving.

/327: Charles I (1600-1649), king of Great Britain. 1 document in Latin signed by Charles (n.d.), 1 document signed by Charles (1646) with a later transcription, 1 printed facsimile of the Death Warrant of 1648, 1 document signed by some of the regicides and others (1652), 2 portraits (1 with facsimile autograph), 2 engravings.

/328: Charles II (1630-1685), king of Great Britain. 1 autograph letter alleged to be from Charles II to Jane Lane (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 portrait of Jane Lane, 2 engravings, 1 other letter to Raffles (1830).

/329: Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales (1796-1817). 1 sample of handwriting as a child (1809), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.

/330: Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658), lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. 1 warrant signed by Cromwell (1650), 1 portrait, 2 other engravings, 1 printed proclamation (19 March 1648), 1 other printed sheet (n.d.), 1 letter to Raffles (1846).

/331: Edward IV (1442 -1483), King of England and Lord of Ireland. 1 portrait.

/332: Edward V (1470 -1483), King of England and Lord of Ireland. 1 portrait.

/333: Edward VI (1537 -1553), King of England and Ireland. 1 document in Latin signed by Edward (1553), 2 portraits.

/334: Edward VII (1841-1910), King of Great Britain and Ireland, etc. 1 autograph envelope addressed to the Duchess of Cambridge (1867).

/335a: Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767-1820). 1 document signed by Edward Augustus (1797), 2 autograph address panels (1812, 1820), 1 excised signature, 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.

/335b: Victoria, Princess [Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld], duchess of Kent (1786-1861). 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 portrait, 1 obituary newscutting (1861).

/336: Elizabeth, princess (1770-1840), landgravine of Hesse-Homburg, consort of Friedrich VI and daughter of King George III. 1 autograph letter (in 2 parts, 1814), 1 autograph address panel, 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.

/337: Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Queen of England and Ireland. 1 warrant signed by Elizabeth (1568), 2 portraits, 2 engravings, 1 photographic print of a document.

/338: Ernest Augustus, king of Hanover, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, and Earl of Armagh (1771-1851), son of King George III. 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 other letter signed by Ernest (1829), 1 autograph address panel (1822), 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 printed notice.

/339: Frederick,Prince, Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827), army officer and bishop of Osnabruck, son of King George III. 5 autograph letters (1795, 1805, 1817, 1818, n.d.), 2 autograph address panels (1812, 1822), 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms, 4 other engravings (including hand-coloured view of funeral procession).

/340: George I (1660-1727), King of Great Britain and Ireland and elector of Hanover. 1 warrant signed by George (1716), 2 portraits.

/341a: George II (1683-1760), King of Great Britain and Ireland and elector of Hanover. 1 warrant signed by George (1759), fragment of another document signed by George (n.d.), 1 portrait.

/341b: Caroline, [Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach] (1683-1737), queen of Great Britain and Ireland, electress of Hanover and consort of George II. 1 autograph letter (1721), 1 portrait.

/342a: George III (1738-1820), King of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover. 4 documents signed by George (1783, 1798, 1805, 1809), 1 autograph letter unsigned (1783), 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms, 2 printed folios (incomplete), 1 printed pamphlet.

/342b: Charlotte [Princess Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz] (1744-1818), queen of Great Britain and Ireland, queen of Hanover and consort of George III. 1 signature (n.d.), 1 fascimile signature (1817), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 coloured engraving of Frogmore House, 1 printed loyal address (1820).

/343a: George IV (1762-1830), king of Great Britiain and Ireland and king of Hanover. 1 sample of writing practice as a child (1767), 1 autograph letter (1825), 4 documents signed by George (1811, 1825, 1826, 1829), 2 portraits, 2 engravings (1 coloured), 2 printed folios.

/343b: Caroline, [Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel] (1768-1821), queen of Great Britain and Ireland and consort of George IV. 1 signature (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 engraving, 1 cartoon by Isaac Robert Cruikshank.

/344: George William Frederick Charles, Prince, second Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), army officer. 1 autograph letter (1855), 1 engraved coat of arms.

/345: Henry VI (1421-1471), King of England and Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine. 1 portrait, 2 letters to Raffles (1841 and 1862) and a transcription of a grant of arms, temp. Henry VI.

/346: Henry VII (1457-1509), King of England and Lord of Ireland. 1 warrant signed by Henry (1496), 1 portrait, 4 other engravings, 1 later transcription of a document.

/347: Henry VIII (1491-1547), King of England and Lord of Ireland. 1 document in English and Latin signed by Henry (1529), with an autograph dealer's description, 1 portrait, 1 engraving.

/348: James I and VI (1566-1625), King of Scotland, England and Ireland. 1 set of manuscript accounts for the purchase of horses, signed by James (1612), 1 excised signature (1620), 3 portraits.

/349: James II and VIII (1633-1701), King of Scotland, England and Ireland. 1 warrant signed by James (1684/5).

/350: James III [James Francis Edward Stuart; styled James VIII and III; known as Chevalier de St George, Pretender, Old Pretender] (1688-1766), Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 1 autograph letter (1719), with printed catalogue slip.

/351a: Mary I (1516-1553), Queen of England and Ireland. 1 document in Latin signed by Mary (1554), 2 portraits (1 with facsimile of handwriting and signature), 1 portrait of Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester.

/351b: Philip II (1527-1598), King of England and Ireland, consort of Mary I, and King of Spain. 1 document in French signed by Philip (1579), 1 portrait.

/352: Richard of York, third Duke of York (1411 -1460), magnate and claimant to the English throne [father of King Edward IV and Richard III]. 1 document in French signed by Richard (1447), 1 printed sheet of facsimile autographs, 2 printed sheets.

/353: Richard III (1452-1485), King of England and Lord of Ireland. 1 portrait.

/354: Sophia, Princess (1777-1848), daughter of George III. 1 autograph letter written as a young child (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 autograph envelope.

/355a: Victoria (1819-1901), Qqueen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India. 1 autograph letter (1839), 2 documents signed by Victoria (1838, 1845), 2 portraits, 6 engravings/newscuttings, 2 printed folios (1 colour), 1 other letter to Raffles (1861).

/355b: Albert [Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha] (1819-1861) Prince Consort, consort of Queen Victoria. 1 signature (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 engraving of the funeral procession (1861), 2 portraits of Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra, 1 other letter.

/356a: William III and II (1650-1702) King of England, Scotland, Ireland and Prince of Orange. 1 excised signature (1689), 1 documents signed by William (1688, 1695), 2 portraits, 1 sheet of the London Gazette (14-18 March 1694) containing the King's declaration for strict discipline of the Army.

/356b: Mary II (1662-1694) Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland. 1 excised signature (1691), 1 portrait.

/357a: William IV (1765-1837), king of Great Britian and Ireland and king of Hanover. 2 autograph letters (1805, 1828), 1 document signed by William (1830), 1 autograph address panel (1805, with seal), 3 portraits, 2 engraved coats of arms, 1 printed declaration of loyalty.

/357b: Adelaide [Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen] (1792-1849), queen of Great Britain and Ireland, consort of William IV. 1 autograph note (1841), 3 autograph envelopes (n.d.), 1 part-printed warrant signed by Adelaide (1830), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.

/358: William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1756), army officer. 1 document signed by William Augustus (1749), 1 facsimile signature, 1 portrait.

/359a: William Frederick, Prince, second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1834). 2 autograph letters (1796, n.d.), 1 other letter signed by William Frederick (1806), 1 autograph address panel (1816), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 lithograph.

/359b: Mary, duchess of Gloucester (1776-1857), daughter of George III. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 fragments of another autograph letter (1814?), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms.

/360: William Henry, Prince, first Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743-1805). 1 order signed by William Henry (1764), 1 portrait.

Scope and Content

Custodial History