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MISCELLANE0US AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, signatures, etc.; 1830-1878, n.d. The letters are taken mainly from correspondence of Thomas Sansom (d. 1872), of the Custom House, Liverpool (and later of Newcastle), Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh and Associate of the Linnean Society, as Honorary Secretary of the William Roscoe Birthday Centenary Committee, Liverpool, 1853; the texts of a few are included among those published in The Liverpool Tribute to Roscoe, pp. 8-9 (reprinted from the Liverpool Times, 10 March 1853). Arranged in alphabetical order of the names of writers (which will be found in the Index to the present Catalogue) as follows:-

(a) Letters. ff. 1-167;-(b) Detached signatures, fragments, etc. ff. 168-211. Paper; ff. 211. Quarto. XIX cent. Presented by Miss Laura Beatrice Sansom.

Scope & Content:

Thomas Sansom, of the Custom House, Liverpool: Letters, etc., addressed to, as Sec., Roscoe Centenary Committee: 1853.

includes:

f. 1 Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet; historian: Letter to T. Sansorn: 1853.
ff. 1-162 passim William Roscoe, historian: Replies to the Roscoe Centenary Committee: 1853.
f. 3 Thomas Croxen Archer: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 4 Charles Barber, d 1854 President of Liverpool Academy of Fine Arts: Letter to T. Sansom: n.d.
f. 8 Reverend Miles Joseph Berkeley, FRS; botanist: Letter to -: 1846.
f. 9 A[lexanderNeil?] Bethune, of Liverpool; [afterwards Bishop of Toronto?]: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 10 Sir Thomas Bernard Birch, 2nd Baronet: Letter to J. Dickinson: 1853.
f. 12 John Ireland Blackburne, the younger; MP: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
ff. 15, 17 Joseph Boult, Secretary, Liverpool Architectural and Archaeological Society: Letters to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 18 James Scott Bowerbank, FRS: Letter to S. P. Woodward: n.d.
f. 20 Richard Brooke, FSA: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
ff. 21, 23 Jonathan Brooks, Archdeacon of Liverpool: Letters to the Roscoe Centenary Committee: 1853.
f.27 William Brown, 1st Baronet 1863; MP: Letter to J. P. G. Smith: 1853.
f. 29 William Brown, 1st Baronet 1863; MP: Letter to J. H. Genn: 1858.
f. 30 George William Frederick Howard, Viscount Morpeth; 7th Earl of Carlisle: Letter to J. Dickinson: 1853.
f.32 Charles Murray Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 33 Thomas Chamberlain, Vicar of St Thomas Martyr, Oxford: Letter to Rev. J. Sansom: [1847-1855].
f. 35 John Cheetham, MP: Letter to J. P. G. Smith: 1853.
f. 36 John Graham, Bishop of Chester: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f.38 John Graham, Bishop of Chester: Letter to J. Dickinson: 1853.
f. 40 Charles Robert Cockerell, architect: Letter to J. P. G. Smith: 1853.
ff. 41, 42 General Stapleton Stapleton-Cotton, Baron and (1827) 1st Viscount Combermere formerly Cotton; Field Marshal 1855: Letters to T. Sansom: 1853.
f.44 Sir Charles John Crompton, Justice of the Queen's Bench: Letter to J. Dickinson: 1853.
f.46 Sir Edward Cust, general and military historian: Letter to J. Dickinson: 1853.
f.47 Sir Edward Cust, general and military historian: Letter to J. H. Genn: 1859.
f. 48 B. Delessert: Letter to 0. Rich: 1842.
f. 50 Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby; Prime Minister: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 51 Richard Chenevix Trench, Archbishop of Dublin: Letter to - Gricourt: 1878.
f. 52 Joseph Dickinson, MD, FRS: Letter to -: 1853.
f.53 Joseph Dickinson, MD, FRS: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 54 Charles Wentworth Dilke, editor of the 'Athenaeum ': Letter to-: 1845.
f.55 James Drummond, botanical collector: Letter to G. Leake: 1844.
f. 59 Arthur Philip Dunlap, of St John's College, Oxford: Letter to J. Sansom: bef. 1852.
f. 60 Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, Keeper of the National Gallery; PRA: Letter to J. P. G. Smith: 1853.
f. 63 John Baker Edwards, chemist, of Liverpool: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 65 Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet; of Oulton: Letter to J. P. G. Smith: 1853.
f.67 Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere; formerly Leveson-Gower: Letter to J. Dickinson: 1853.
f.69 Sir Henry Ellis, KH; Principal Librarian, British Museum: Letter to J. Dickinson: 1853.
f.71 William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f.73 William Fitzgerald, Bishop of Cork: Letter, on behalf of the Abp. of Dublin, to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 75 Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville: Letter to J. Dickinson: 1853.
f. 77 John Edward Gray, FRS; Keeper of the Zoological département, British Museum: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 79 John Edward Gray, FRS; Keeper of the Zoological département, British Museum: Letter to G. E. Dennis: n.d.
f. 80 William Gregory, Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University 1844: Letter to -: n.d.
f. 83 George Grote, historian: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f.85 James Orchard Halliwell, afterwards Halliwell-Phillipps; Shakespearian scholar: Letter to J. H. Genn: 1866.
f. 86 Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby: Letter to J. P. G. Smith and T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 89 Arthur Henfrey, d 1859 botanist: Letter to -: n.d.
f. 90 John Hicklin, Editor of the Chester ' Courant.': Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 91 Sir William Jackson Hooker, Director of Kew Gardens: Letter to -: [1841 ?].
ff. 92, 93 Abraharn Hume, Vicar of All Souls, Vauxhall, Liverpool: Letters to T. Sansom: 1853.
f.94 Henry Noel Humphreys, artist: Letter to R. White: n.d.
f. 95 Robert Hunt, FRS: Letter to J. Al. Bates: 1870.
f. 97 William Jackson, 1st Baronet 1869: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f.99 George Payne Rainsford James, novelist: Letter to 0. Rich: 1842.
f. 100 Thomas Jevons, of Liverpool: Letter to the Roscoe Centenary Committee: 1853.
f.101 Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Letter to J. P. G. Smith: 1853.
f. 103 Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford; 8th Earl of Balcarres: Letter to J. H. Genn: 1861.
f.104 John Alexander Paterson MacBride, sculptor: Letter to C. Barber: 1853.
f. 108 William Forbes Mackenzie, Secretary to the Treasury: Letter to J. Dickinson: 1853.
f.110 William Forbes Mackenzie, Secretary to the Treasury: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
ff. 112-114 Philip Henry Stanhope, Viscount Mahon; 5th Earl Stanhope: Correspondence with the Roscoe Centenary Committee: 1853.
f.116 James Prince Lee, Bishop of Manchester: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 118 John James Robert Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland; Lord John Manners: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 120 Charles James Mathews, actor and dramatist: Letter to -: 1853.
f. 121 Joseph Mayer, antiquary and collector: Letter to the Roscoe Centenary Committee: 1853.
f. 123 Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet; geologist: Letter to the Roscoe Centenary Committee: 1853.
f. 125 Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet; geologist: Letter to -: n.d.
f. 126 Sir Richard Owen, KCB; naturalist: Letter to the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire: 1864.
f.127 Sir Anthony Panizzi, KCB; Principal Librarian, British Museum: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 130 Andrew Park, d 1863 poet: Note to R. Morison: n.d.
f. 131 Sir James Parke, Baron Wensleydale: Letter to the Roscoe Centenary Committee: 1853.
f. 132 Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, GCB: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f.133 Henry Clark Pidgeon, d 1880 water-colour painter: Letter to -: n.d.
f.134 Baron Christian Carl Josias Bunsen,; diplomatist: Letter to J. P. G. Smith: 1853.
ff. 135-138 Thomas Raffles, DD; LL.D; Congregational minister and hymnographer: Letters to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 139b George Rennie, sculptor: Certificate by: 1850.: Signed.
f. 141 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell; Prime Minister: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 143 Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St. David's; historian: Letter to J. Dickinson: 1853.
f. 145 William Scholefield, MP: Order by, to admit to the Commons gallery: 1851.
f. 146 Charles William Molyneux, 3rd Earl of Sefton: Letter to the Roscoe Centenary Committee: 1853.
f. 147 Charlotte Augusta Frederica Somerset, daughter of Henry, 7th Duke of Beaufort: Letter to M. P. Delaporte: circ. 1841.: Fr.
f. 149 Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby; Lord Stanley: Letter to T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 151 Sir James Emerson-Tennent, 1st Baronet: Letter to J. P. G. Smith and T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 153 Reverend David Thom, DD: Letter to the Roscoe Centenary Committee: 1853.
f. 155 John Tollemache, MP: Letter to J. P. G. Smith: 1853.
f. 158 Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Edinburgh: Letter to J. P. G. Smith and T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 161 George Vandenhoff, actor: Letter to the Customs: n.d.
f. 162 Nathaniel Wallich, MD; botanist: Letter to J. P. G. Smith and T. Sansom: 1853.
f. 165 Hewett Cottrell Watson, botanist and phrenologist: Letter to T. Sansom: 1848.
f. 167 Samuel Pickworth Woodward, naturalist: Letter to T. Sansom: bef. 1872.
f. 171 Peter Borthwick, MP; Editor of 'The Morning Post': Letter to -: n.d.: Imperf.
f. 172 Hugh Stowell Brown, d 1886 Baptist minister: Letter to Rev. A. Hann: n.d.: Imperf.
f. 176 Antoine Charma, Secretary, Société des Antiquaires de Normandie: Delivery note by: 19th cent.: Fr.: Partly printed.
f. 177 George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon: Letter to 1839. Imperf.
f. 178 Daniel Cooper, naturalist: Botanical label by: 1839.
f.179 Sir Cresswell Cresswell, judge: Signature, etc.: n.d.
f. 181 Francis Basset, Baron de Dunstanville: Signature: 1830.
f. 183 Gaspard Adolphus Fauche, British Consul at Ostend: Signature: 1840.: Seal en placard.
f. 184 G Haase: (?) Hanoverian diplomatist. Signature: 1839.
f.185 John Abraham Heraud, author and critic: Letter to -: n.d.: Imperf.
f. 188 John Lander, African traveller: Note by: 1839.
f. 190 Michael Henry Thornhill Luscombe, d 1846 Embassy Chaplain at Paris: Signature: n.d.
f.191 Mary Russell Mitford, novelist and dramatist: Letter to -: n.d.: Imperf.
f.194 George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster 1831; natural son of William IV: Letter to -: 1842.: Imperf.
f. 195 Sir Thomas Phillips, Mayor of Newport 1838: Letter to -: n.d.: Imperf.
f.196 John Edmund Reade, poet and novelist: Letter to -: n.d.: Imperf.
f. 200 Charles Roach Smith, FSA: Signature: n.d.
f. 201 Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford: Letter to -: n.d.: Imperf.
f. 203 David Walker, MD: Signature, etc.: 1858.
f.204 Patrick Wallace, Provost of St Andrews: Signature, etc.: 1841.
f. 205 Sir Edward Vaughan Williams, judge: Signature: 1849.
f.206 William Hughes Willshire, of the British Museum: Note by: 1842.
f. 208 Thomas Uwins, d 1857 RA: Signature: n.d.
f. 208 Frederick Richard Lee, d 1879 RA: Signature: n.d.
f. 209 William Wyon, chief engraver at the Royal Mint: Signature: n.d.
f.209 Sir Richard Westmacott, the elder; sculptor: Signature: n.d.
f. 210 Philip Hardwick, architect: Signature: n.d.

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Latin

Start Date:

1830

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1878

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1830-1878

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Laura Beatrice Sansom, daughter of Thomas Sansom: Presented: in 1942.

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Names:

Alison, Archibald, 1st Baronet, historian, 1792-1867
Archer, Thomas Croxen
Barber, Charles, President of Liverpool Academy of Fine Arts, d 1854
Berkeley, Miles Joseph, Reverend; FRS; botanist
Bethune, AlexanderNeil?, of Liverpool; afterwards Bishop of Toronto?
Birch, Thomas Bernard, 2nd Baronet
Blackburne, John Ireland, the younger, MP
Borthwick, Peter, MP, Editor of 'The Morning Post'
Boult, Joseph, Secretary, Liverpool Architectural and Archaeological Society
Bowerbank, James Scott, FRS
Brooke, Richard, FSA
Brooks, Jonathan, Archdeacon of Liverpool
Brown, Hugh Stowell, Baptist minister, d 1886
Brown, William, 1st Baronet 1863, MP
Bunsen, Christian Carl Josias, Freiherr von Bunsen, Prussian diplomat, scholar and theologian, 1761-1860
Cathcart, Charles Murray, 2nd Earl Cathcart
Chamberlain, Thomas, Vicar of St Thomas Martyr Oxford
Charma, Antoine, Secretary, Société des Antiquaires de Normandie
Cheetham, John, MP
Cockerell, Charles Robert, architect, 1788-1863
Cole, William Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen
Cooper, Daniel, naturalist
Cotton, Stapleton, 1st Viscount Combermere, army officer, 1773-1865
Cresswell, Cresswell, judge
Crompton, Charles John, Justice of the Queen's Bench
Cust, Edward, general and military historian
Delessert, B.
Dickinson, Joseph, MD, FRS
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, newspaper editor and writer, 1789-1864
Drummond, James, botanical collector
Dunlap, Arthur Philip, of St John's College, Oxford
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Knight, painter and art administrator, 1793-1865
Edwards, John Baker, chemist, of Liverpool
Egerton, Francis, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, formerly Leveson-Gower, politician, writer, traveller and patron of the arts, 1800-1857
Egerton, Philip de Malpas Grey, 10th Baronet, of Oulton
Ellis, Henry, Knight, Principal Librarian, British Museum, 1777-1869
Fauche, Gaspard Adolphus, British Consul at Ostend
FitzClarence, George Augustus Frederick, 1st Earl of Munster, army officer, 1794-1842
Fitzgerald, William, bishop, 1814-1883
Gower, Granville George, 2nd Earl Granville, statesman and diplomat, 1815-1891,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118731600,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/13068670
Graham, John, Bishop of Chester and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, 1794-1865
Gray, John Edward, zoologist, botanist and curator, 1800-1875
Gregory, William, Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University 1844
Grote, George, historian
Haase, G
Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, antiquary and literary scholar, 1820-1889,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000010895785X
Hardwick, Philip, architect
Henfrey, Arthur, botanist, d 1859
Heraud, John Abraham, author and critic
Hicklin, John, Editor of the Chester ' Courant.'
Hooker, William Jackson, Knight, Director of Kew Gardens, botanist, 1785-1865
Howard, George William Frederick, Viscount Morpeth, 7th Earl of Carlisle
Hume, Abraharn, Vicar of All Souls, Vauxhall, Liverpool
Humphreys, Henry Noel, artist
Hunt, Robert, scientist and photographic historian, 1807-1887
Jackson, William, 1st Baronet 1869
James, George Payne Rainsford, novelist
Jevons, Thomas, of Liverpool
Lander, John, African traveller; of Add MS 45879
Layard, Austen Henry, GCB, archaeologist and politician, 1817-1894
Lee, Frederick Richard, landscape painter, 1798-1879
Lee, James Prince, Bishop of Manchester
Lindsay, Alexander William Crawford, 25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of Balcarres, art historian, 1812-1880
Luscombe, Michael Henry Thornhill, Embassy Chaplain at Paris, d 1846
MacBride, John Alexander Paterson, sculptor
Mackenzie, William Forbes, Secretary to the Treasury
Manners, John James Robert, Lord John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland
Mathews, Charles James, actor and dramatist
Mayer, Joseph, antiquary and collector
Mitford, Mary Russell, novelist and dramatist
Molyneux, Charles William, 3rd Earl of Sefton
Murchison, Roderick Impey, 1st Baronet, geologist, 1792-1871
Owen, Richard, KCB, naturalist
Panizzi, Anthony, Knight, librarian at the British Museum, 1797-1879,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000080764385
Park, Andrew, poet, d 1863
Parke, James, Baron Wensleydale
Phillips, Thomas, Mayor of Newport 1838
Picton, Thomas, Lieutenant-General GCB
Pidgeon, Henry Clark, water-colour painter, d 1880
Raffles, Thomas, Congregational minister and hymnographer, 1788-1863
Reade, John Edmund, poet and novelist
Rennie, George, sculptor and politician, 1802-1860
Roscoe, William, M.P. for Liverpool, historian, 1753-1831
Russell, John, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister, 1792-1878
Ryder, Dudley, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
Sansom, Laura Beatrice, daughter of Thomas Sansom
Sansom, Thomas, of the Custom House, Liverpool
Scholefield, William, MP; of Add MS 45879
Smith, Charles Roach, FSA
Somerset, Charlotte Augusta Frederica, daughter of Henry, 7th Duke of Beaufort
Stanhope, Philip Henry, Viscount Mahon, 5th Earl Stanhope
Stanley, Edward George Geoffrey, 14th Earl of Derby, politician and prime minister, 1799-1869
Stanley, Edward Henry, 15th Earl of Derby, politician and statesman, 1826-1893
Thesiger, Frederic, 1st Baron Chelmsford
Thirlwall, Connop, Bishop of St. David's; historian
Thom, David, Reverend; DD
Tollemache, John, MP; of Add MS 45879
Traill, Thomas Stewart, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Edinburgh
Trench, Richard Chenevix, Archbishop of Dublin
Uwins, Thomas, RA, d 1857
Vandenhoff, George, actor
Villiers, George William Frederick, 4th Earl of Clarendon, politician, 1800-1870
Walker, David, MD
Wallace, Patrick, Provost of St Andrews
Wallich, Nathaniel, MD; botanist
Watson, Hewett Cottrell, botanist and phrenologist
Westmacott, Richard, the elder, sculptor
Williams, Edward Vaughan, judge
Willshire, William Hughes, of the British Museum
Woodward, Samuel Pickworth, naturalist
Wyon, William, chief engraver at the Royal Mint