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032-002084571

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032-002084571

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 50854

Title:

FORGED AUTOGRAPHS, mostly literary, by Alexander Howland ('Antique') Smith; circa 1886-1892. Alphabetically arranged by the names of the pretended authors. See also Add. MSS. 43787, 43798, 45102, 50207.

Paper; ff. 45. Folio.

Scope & Content:

Forgeries: By A. Howland Smith: circa 1886-1892.

Alexander Howland Smith, known as 'Antique Smith'; forger: Forged: circa 1886-1892.

Poetry ENGLISH: Forgeries by A. Howland Smith: circa 1886-1892.

includes:

f. 1 Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton; afterwards Bulwer-Lytton: Letter to J. Armstrong: n.d: Forgery.
ff. 3-7b Robert Burns, poet: Verses, 1787: circa 1790, n.d: Forgeries.
ff. 8-10b George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron; poet: Letter, etc., to J. White: n.d: Forgeries.
ff. 11-12b Thomas Campbell, poet: Verses: n.d: Forgery.
f. 13 Thomas De Quincey, author: Note by: 1832: Forgery.
f. 14 Thomas De Quincey, author: Letter to J. [Richardson?]: n.d: Forgery.
f. 16 Charles Dickens, novelist: Letter to J. [Rudd?]: n.d: Forgery.
f. 18 Charles Dickens, novelist: Letter to J. Purvis: n.d: Forgery.
f. 20 Oliver Goldsmith, author: Letter to J. Dibden: 1763: Forgery.
f. 22 John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee; of Claverhouse: Letter to Lord Linlithgow: 1679: Forgery.
f. 23 Felicia Dorothea Hemans, née Browne; poet: Verses: n.d: Forgery.
f. 24 Samuel Lover, song-writer, novelist and painter: Verses: n.d: Forgery.
f. 26 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay: Letter to J. Allan: 1834: Forgery.
f. 28 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay: Letters to J. Richards: n.d: Forgery.
f. 30 Captain Frederick Marryat, RN; novelist: Letter to F. Johnston: n.d: Forgery.
ff. 31-34b Sir Walter Scott, Baronet; author: Letters to James and John Ballantyne: n.d: Forgeries.
f. 35 Sir Walter Scott, Baronet; author: Verses: n.d: Forgery.
f. 36 Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet: Verses: n.d: Forgery.
f. 38 Robert Southey, poet: Verses: 1838: Forgery.
f. 40 James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray: Letter to Lords of Council: 1569: Forgery.
f. 41 Robert Tannahill, Scottish song-writer: Letter, etc., to — Mackenzie: 1807: Forgery.
f. 43 William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist: Verses: n.d: Forgery.
ff. 44, 45 William Wordsworth, poet: Verses, 1830: n.d: Forgeries.

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Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1881

End Date:

1892

Date Range:

c 1886-1892

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Names:

Burns, Robert, poet and lyricist, 1759-1796,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000081108515
Byron, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, poet, 1788-1824
Campbell, Thomas, poet, 1777-1844
Dickens, Charles John Huffam, novelist, 1812-1870,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000448885549,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88666393
Goldsmith, Oliver, author, ?1729-1774
Graham, John, 1st Viscount Dundee, of Claverhouse, army officer and politician, 1648-1689
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, née Browne, poet, 1793-1835
Lover, Samuel, writer, painter and composer, 1797-1868
Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, né Bulwer; writer and politician, 1803-1873
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay
Marryat, Frederick, Captain RN, novelist
Quincey, Thomas Penson, author, 1785-1859
Scott, Walter, Baronet, author, 1771-1832,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121441874
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, poet, 1792-1822
Smith, Alexander Howland, known as 'Antique Smith', forger
Southey, Robert, poet, 1774-1843
Stewart, James, 1st Earl of Moray, 1531/1532-1570
Tannahill, Robert, Scottish song-writer
Thackeray, William Makepeace, novelist, 1811-1863
Wordsworth, William, poet, 1770-1850