COBDEN, Richard. PENAL REFORM. Autograph Letter Signed to the postal reformer Rowland Hill, about a Birmingham conference on reformatory schools, Nov 1853. (Letter endorsed, presumably by the recipient). Autograph Letter Signed to the judge and penal reformer Matthew Davenport Hill on the subjec...
MARY, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587. Letter Signed ('Marie R') to [William Keith], the Earl Marischal of Scotland, asking him to come to her as soon as his health will allow to advise her on money matters, and promising not to take any action in a matter raised by Keith in his letter concerning the ...
MILL, John Stuart. Autograph Letter Signed to the radical Edmond Beales, urging his support in persuading Alexander Macdonald to stand down as a parliamentary candidate for Kilmarnock in favour of the reformer Edwin Chadwick, Avignon. Creation dates: Oct 1868
BAKER, Sir Samuel White. AFRICA. Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Roderick Murchison, President of the Royal Geographical Society, discussing preparations for Baker's expedition to the Equatorial Nile basin, Alexandria. Sotheby's, LO8401, 8 May 2008, Lot 149. Creation dates: July 1869
PASHA, Emin (SCHNITZER, Eduard). AFRICA. 3 Autograph Letters Signed, written as governor of the Sudanese province of Equatoria, to the naturalist and political agent Sir John Kirk, discussing the Mahdiyah, the fall of Khartoum, and political events in neighbouring states. Sotheby's, LO8401, 8 Ma...
STANHOPE, Lady Hester. LEBANON. Autograph Letter Signed to an unidentified correspondent (addressed as 'Dear Sir' and also as 'the constant friend of humanity') about the plague in Lebanon and her own experience there, Lebanon. Sotheby's, LO8401, 8 May 2008, Lot 122. Creation dates: May 1814
ASHBOURNE HOURS. BOOKS OF HOURS. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, containing a rare set of Hours, that of the Hours of 'One's Guardian Angel', and a single miniature, that of the Crucifixion, probably commissioned for a female patron (Johanne). The arms are those of Sir John Ashbourne of Worces...
GILDON, Charles. Manuscript, being a copy of a 5-act play 'Restoration Defeated: the loves of Titus and Teraminta, a tragedy', with corrections and revisions possibly in the author's hand, being the banned original text of a late restoration political play, [England]. Sotheby's, LO8400, 13 Mar 2...