Autograph Collection.- Miscellaneous

A collection of letters, notes and clipped signatures signed by some prominent figures, including: Hnery Gordon Selfridge; Frank Watson Dyson (signature on 'The Royal Observatory, Greenwich' headed card); John Lavery; Horace Annesley Vachell; Randall Davidson Archbishop of Canterbury (typed letter to Archdeacon Moule); Lord Salisbury; Thomas Power O'Connor; Hugh Cecil; A. E. W. Mason; Arnold Bennett; Frank Dicksee; Field Marshal Roberts (autograph letter signed); Ellen Wood; Sydney Blow; Lord Palmerston (signed envelope panel); John Thomas Quekett (autograph letter to E.W. Cooke, saying in part "If you will give me a call, I will show you what I have in the way of corals etc that will do for your vivarium...I have also just found the long lost specimen of anchor shaped spicula"); Lord Rosebery (autograph letter saying "I had hoped...to be present at the first performance of your opera last night . Unfortunately, I was detained at the House of Lords till near midnight", 10 April 1883); Ernest Wallis Budge (group of autograph letters signed) and others; v.s., late 19th - early 20th century (quantity)