ELISABETH of AUSTRIA. Autograph message, on printed Telegramm sheet, to Archduchess Valerie (her youngest daughter) at Schloss Wallsee, sending her best wishes. Creation date: [1897-98].
QUEEN VICTORIA. Signed document ('Victoria R'), giving Sir Charles Lennox Wyke, British Ambassador to Mexico, 'Full Power' to conduct negotiations with the Republic of Guatemala. Creation date: 22 July 1863.
ELISABETH of AUSTRIA. Brief signed message to Countess Trani (her sister Mathilde) asking to delay a visit because of 'great fatigue'. Creation date: [c. 1895].
CHAMBERLAIN, Neville. Typed letter signed to Viscount Herbert Samuel, expressing appreciation that he retains his 'approval' of his 'efforts to maintain peace'. Creation date: 20 October 1940.
Frisket sheet fragment from a liturgical manuscript with musical notation, probably 15th century France, overprinted in red ink in the 16th century. Creation date: 15th-16th centuries.
Manuscript account book of William Davenport & Co. of Liverpool, relating to voyages made by the ships Ann, Liverpool Hero, Swift, and Hector, trading between Liverpool, Old Calabar, Sierra Leone, Dominica, and Jamaica. Creation date: 1777-1784.
German letters, including letters written by Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, Hugo Wolf, Josef Kainz, C. F. Gauss, Ernst von Starhemberg, Pauline von Metternich, and Edmund Rabe. Creation date: 18th-19th centuries.
Seven autograph letters from Edward Burne-Jones to Euphrosyne Cassavetti and one autograph letter from Burne-Jones to Maria Zambaco. Creation date: c 1866-1888.
Autograph letter signed from P. T. Barnum to a doctor. Also, two carte-de-visite albumen prints showing Barnum with Anna H. Swann of Nova Scotia and with Capt. Martin van Buren Bates. At the time Bates and Swann were the tallest married couple in the world. Creation date: 1860s-1883.