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Collection of autograph and signed documents and letters, 1845-1852

Reference code
CEL/12
Title
Collection of autograph and signed documents and letters, 1845-1852
Date
1845-52
Level of description
Series
Extent and format
pp. 144
Half leather binding, green, with red lettering-pieces.
Scope and content
Includes:-

Sydney Smith (als 1827), p. 16;

Thomas Hood (2 alls and fragment of a poem, 'The Haunted House', Part II), p. 18;

pencil sketch of a gun carriage by Benjamin Haydon, p. 24;

Gaetano Donizetti (als), p. 58;

Chateaubriand (als, 1833), p. 60;

uninscribed epitaph on Owen Lloyd by Hartley Coleridge, p. 72;

William Wordsworth, a few lines of blank verse, 1841, p. 90;

Honoré de Balzac (als), p. 94;

Mary Godwin Shelley (note), p. 98;

J. Fenimore Cooper (note to Mr Bulwer), p. 102;

royal visit to Liverpool, 1851, pp. 115-16;

Great Exhibition, 1851, pp. 117-18;

Thomas Moore (als, 1830, note), p. 134;

Duke of Wellington, mainly relating to his death including an admission ticket for Lady Vincent to his funeral, pp. 137-44;

fragment of copy of Voix des Femmes, 30 March 1848, p. 144.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/444/12
Finding aids
A detailed index to this collection exists on index cards in the Society of Antiquaries library.