BURTON, Sir Richard Francis. Autograph Letter Signed to 'Padre' (the Arabic scholar, Rev George Percy Badger), reporting on his recent prospecting expedition to Midian where he was looking for gold. Bonhams, 19386, 29 March 2011, Lot 379. Creation dates: July 1877
BURNEY, Frances (Fanny). 2 Autograph Letters, one signed to her friend Sarah Martha Holroyd reporting on her health following her husband's death, dated Dec 1819, and the other unsigned to her brother Dr Charles Burney ('My dearest Carlos') expressing a desire to go to Westminster Abbey, Aug-Sep...
LEWIS, Matthew Gregory. Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Henry Petty, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, suggesting new taxes. Bonhams, 19386, 29 Mar 2011, Lot 151. Creation dates: [1806 or 1807]
MARTINEAU, Harriet. Autograph Letter Signed to Richard Hengist Horne with reference to her own deafness. Bonhams, 19386, 29 Mar 2011, Lot 161. Creation dates: April 1844
BENTHAM, Jeremy. Autograph draft of a letter unsigned to Sir Francis Burdett, politician and reformer, referring to Bentham's scheme to build a Panopticon prison. Bonhams, 19386, 29 Mar 2011, Lot 362. Creation dates: March 1826
BUCHANAN, Robert Williams. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Autograph Letter Signed from the poet and novelist Buchanan, when 18 years of age, to Thackeray asking him to publish two of his (Buchanan's) poems in the Cornhill Magazine. Bonhams, 19386, 29 Mar 2011, Lot 29. Creation dates: [1860]
ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. 3 Autograph drafts entitled 'The Portrait in the Library' (which became his poem 'The Portrait'). Bonhams, 19386, 29 Mar 2011, Lot 190. Creation dates: [Circa 1850]
BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Autograph revisions of printed page proofs of two sonnets, 'Bereavement' and 'Consolation'. Bonhams, 19386, 29 Mar 2011, Lot 26. Creation dates: [Circa 1845]