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Add MS 50745
- Record Id:
- 040-002084416
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002084414
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001356.0x000103
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 50745
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- Scope & Content:
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Vol. II, ff. 23
Forgeries: Autographs, mostly literary,: late 19th cent.
includes:
- f. 2 Robert Burns, poet: Signed notes beg. `For my own affairs I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent',: 1786: Forgeries.
- f. 5 George Cruikshank, artist and caricaturist: Signature,: n.d: Forgery.
- f. 7 Sir John Franklin, Arctic explorer; d.1847: Signature,: n.d: Forgery.
- f. 9 Samuel Johnson, LLD; lexicographer: Note to Dr D. C. Solander,: 1772: Forgery.
- f. 10 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet: Signatures,: n.d.
- f. 11 George John Whyte-Melville, novelist; d.1878: Signatures,: n.d: Forgeries.
- f. 12 George Meredith, novelist: Signatures,: n.d: Forgeries.
- f. 13 Florence Montgomery, novelist: Signature,: 1872: Forgery.
- f. 14 Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson: Subscription and signature,: n.d: Forgery.
- f. 15 Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein, pianist and composer: Signed extracts from his Op. 88,: n.d: Forgeries.
- f. 16 John Ruskin, author, artist and social reformer: Signature,: n.d: Forgery.
- f. 17 John Speed, historian: Signature,: n.d: Forgery.
- f. 18 Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson; Poet Laureate: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1876: Forgery.
- ff. 20-23 Art. Portraits: Portraits of Italian Renaissance worthies, by I. Migliavacca,: 19th cent: Engr.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002084414
040-002084416 - Is part of:
- Add MS 50744-50745 : TWO ALBUMS OF FORGED AUTOGRAPHS, mostly literary, and many patently in one hand; late 19th-early 20th cent.
Add MS 50745 : Vol. II, ff. 23Forgeries: Autographs, mostly literary,: late 19th cent.includes:f. 2 Robert Burns, poet: Signed notes beg. `For my… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002084414[0002]/040-002084416
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 50744-50745
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1860
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- Late 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Sidney Hodgson, auctioneer and writer: Presented, in 1961.
f. i 'Reverend Mahony', of St Giles, Reading: Spurious inscription of provenance, late 19th cent.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Burns, Robert, poet and lyricist, 1759-1796,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000081108515
Cruikshank, George, artist and caricaturist
Franklin, John, Arctic explorer, 1786-1847
Hodgson, Sidney, auctioneer and writer
Johnson, Samuel, author and lexicographer, 1709-1784
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, poet, 1807-1888
Mahony, —, clergyman, of St Giles Reading, fl late 19th century
Meredith, George, novelist, 1828-1909
Montgomery, Florence, novelist
Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson, naval officer, 1758-1805,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121400634
Rubinstein, Anton, pianist and composer, 1829-1894
Ruskin, John, author, artist and social reformer, 1819-1900
Speed, John, historian
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson, poet, 1809-1892
Whyte-Melville, George John, novelist, d1878