Miscellaneous Autograph Collection

Eight boxes containing a large collection of letters and documents written or signed by 393 notable people, British and foreign, including monarchs, members of the nobility, politicians, military men, divines, philosophers, writers, artists, engravers, architects, mathematicians and scientists. Many of the documents have considerable literary, political, religious or historic interest. Numerous portraits and related engravings, coats of arms and printed notices are inserted. There is no apparent arrangement to the items.

• /1: Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859), naturalist and traveller. 1 autograph letter (1871), 1 portrait.
• /2: Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745), writer and dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. 1 autograph fragment (n.d.), 1 facsimile letter, 1 portrait, 1 news cutting.
• /3: Gregory, Olinthus Gilbert (1774-1841), mathematician. 1 autograph letter (1807), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /4: Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer [formerly Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer], first Baron Lytton (1803-1873), writer and politician. 1 autograph letter (1828), 1 portrait.
• /5: Hume, Sir Abraham, second baronet (1749-1838), collector of art and precious stones. 2 short autograph letters (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /6: O'Neill, Charles Henry St. John, Earl O'Neill (1779-1841), landowner. 1 autograph letter (1835), 1 portrait.
• /7: O'Neill, John Bruce Richard, third Viscount O'Neill (1780-1855), army officer and politician. 1 autograph letter (1823?), 2 autograph address panels (1818 and 1821), 2 engraved coats of arms.
• /8: Russell, Edward, Earl of Orford (1652-1727), naval officer. 1 portrait, 1 signed receipt as Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer.
• /9: Cust, Sir John, third baronet (1718-1770), speaker of the House of Commons. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving of Belton House, 1 printed notice of Belton House.
• /10: Cobden, Richard (1804-1865), manufacturer and politician. 1 autograph letter (1845, 2 sheets), 1 portrait.
• /11: Cobbett, William (1763-1835), political writer and farmer. 1 autograph letter (1835), 2 portraits, 1 manuscript (n.d.), 1 address panel (1834), 1 printed cutting.
• /12: Gurney, Joseph John (1788-1847), banker and religious writer. 1 autograph letter (1818), 1 portrait, 1 autograph note (n.d.), 1 other engraving.
• /13: Wesley, Charles (1707-1788), Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 5 portraits, 2 autographs (n.d.).
• /13a: Wesley, John (1703-1791), Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism. 1 autograph letter (1765), 1 colour portrait.
• /14: Paley, William (1743-1805), theologian and moralist. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /15: Howitt, Mary (1799-1888), writer and translator. 1 autograph letter (1829).
• /15a: Howitt, William (1792-1879), writer. 1 autograph letter (1830).
• /16: Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), prime minister and novelist. 1 autograph letter (1857), 2 autograph notes (1838 and n.d.), 3 portraits including a 'Spy' cartoon.
• /17: Griffiths, Ralph (1720?-1803), journal editor and bookseller. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /18: Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848), writer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 portraits.
• /19: Heberden, William (1710-1801), physician. 1 autograph letter (1748), 1 portrait, 1 printed notice.
• /20: Hill, Sir John [pseud. the Inspector] (bap. 1714, d. 1775), physician and actor. 2 autograph notes (n.d. and 1769), 2 portraits, 1 other engraving.
• /21: Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703), naval official and diarist. 1 signed document (1668), 1 portrait (signed).
• /22: Clarkson, Thomas (1760-1846), slavery abolitionist. 1 autograph letter (1807), 2 portraits, 3 printed items including 'Description of a Slave Ship'.
• /23: Trollope [née Milton], Frances [Fanny] (1779-1863), travel writer and novelist. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /24: Ward, Robert Plumer (1765-1846), politician and writer. 1 autograph letter (1828), 1 portrait.
• /25: Pardoe, Julia Sophia (bap. 1804, d. 1862), writer and historian. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /26: Watts, Isaac (1674-1748), Independent minister and writer. 1 sheet of autograph notes in Latin, 4 portraits.
• /27: Hall, Robert (1764-1831), Baptist minister. 1 autograph letter (1825), 1 portrait.
• /28: Henry, Matthew (1662-1714), Presbyterian minister. 1 autograph letter (1694), 1 portrait.
• /29: Hastings, Francis Rawdon, first Marquess of Hastings and second Earl of Moira (1754-1826), army officer and politician. 1 autograph note (1801), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /30: Andrews, Henry (1744-1820), astronomer and astrologer. 1 autograph letter (1799), 2 portraits, 1 printed calendar.
• /31: Staël von Holstein, (Anne-Louise) Germaine [née (Anne-Louise) Germaine Necker; known as Germaine de Staël], Baroness Staël von Holstein in the Swedish nobility (1766-1817), writer and salon leader. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 portraits.
• /32: Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768), writer and Church of England clergyman. 1 autograph covenant (1767), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 2 printed cuttings.
• /33: Calthorpe, George Gough (1787-1851), 3rd Baron Calthorpe. 1 autograph letter (1821), 1 autograph address panel (1820), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.
• /34: Austin, Samuel (1796-1834), watercolour painter. 1 autograph letter (1828), 1 engraving after a drawing by Austin.
• /35: Allan, Sir William (1782-1850), painter. 1 autograph letter (1827), 1 engraving after a painting by Allan.
• /36: Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Melville (1742-1811), politician. 1 autograph letter (1805), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.
• /37: Charles, Thomas (1755-1814), Methodist preacher. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /38: Carey, William - ? - (1761-1834), orientalist and missionary. 1 sheet of autograph notes (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /39: Francis, Sir Philip (1740-1818), politician and political writer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /40: Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851), American Novelist 1 autograph letter (1831), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 1 printed advertisement.
• /41: Lowry, Wilson (bap. 1760, d. 1824), engraver. 1 autograph statement of account, 1 portrait.
• /42: Warren, Samuel (1781-1862), Wesleyan Methodist minister. 2 autograph letters (1837 and 1836), 1 portrait.
• /43: Boswell, James (1740-1795), lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson. 1 autograph letter (1792), 2 portraits, 1 printed notice.
• /44: Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784), author and lexicographer. 2 autograph letter (1762 and [1756]), the latter attached to a note concerning its history, 4 portraits (1 in envelope), 4 other engravings, 2 printed cuttings, 6 copies of Johnson’s letters, 1 photograph of a letter, 1 typed letter with photo attached.
• /45: Hill, Rowland, Rev. (1744-1833), evangelical preacher. 2 autograph letters (n.d. and 1779), 2 portraits, 3 other engravings (1 with miniature of Hill at top), 1 autograph note (1816).
• /46: Hill, Rowland, first Viscount Hill (1772-1842), army officer. 1 autograph letter (1733), 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /47: Hill, Sir Richard, second baronet (1733-1808), religious controversialist. 1 autograph letter (1793).
• /48: Wellesley, [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), army officer and prime minister. 3 autograph letters (1820, 1823 and 1811), 1 document signed by Wellington (1815), 3 autograph notes (n.d., 1808 and 1817), 3 portraits, 6 other engravings, 4 cuttings, 5 printed items (including map and funeral tickets), a lock of hair from the horse Copenhagen.
• /49: Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley (1520/21-1598), royal minister. 1 document signed by Burghley (1586), 2 portraits, 2 printed notices.
• /50: Gregson, Matthew (1748/9-1824), antiquary. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 autograph note (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /51: Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), poet. 1 autograph letter (1730), 2 portraits, 1 newspaper cutting, 2 other engravings.
• /52: Hooker, Sir William Jackson (1785-1865), botanist. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 portrait.
• /53: Hume, David (1711-1776), philosopher and historian. 1 autograph letter (1759, 3 portraits.
• /54: Moir, David Macbeth [pseud. Delta] (1798-1851), physician and writer. 1 autograph letter (1833), 1 portrait.
• /55: Linnaeus, Carl [later Carl von Linné] (1707-1778), naturalist and taxonomist. 2 autograph notes (n.d.), 1 other letter (n.d.), 2 portraits.
• /56: Ireland, John (1761-1842), dean of Westminster. 1 autograph letter (1804), 1 portrait.
• /57: Ireland, William Henry (1775-1835), literary forger and writer. 1 autograph letter, 1 portrait, 2 portraits of William Shakespeare, 1 manuscript forgery of a Shakespeare letter, 2 printed facsimiles of Shakespeare documents.
• /58: Grose, Francis (bap. 1731, d. 1791), antiquary. 1 sheet of autograph notes (n.d.), 2 autograph notes from Mrs Grose to Raffles (1852 and n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 engraved title page, 1 other engraving.
• /59: Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849), novelist and educationist. 1 autograph letter (1831), 1 portrait.
• /60: Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882), Italian Patriot. 1 autograph letter to his son Ricciotti Garibaldi, written from near Como (1860), 6 cuttings (3 with portraits), 1 other portrait.
• /61: Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), naval officer. 1 autograph letter to Rear Admiral Louis (Sir Thomas Louis 1758-1807), written aboard HMS Victory (1 July 1805), 4 portraits, 2 engravings (inc. a fascimile of the Trafalgar signals), 3 cuttings, 3 printed documents (including a ticket to Nelson's funeral).
• /62: Hastings, Barbara Rawdon [née Barbara Yelverton], marchioness of Hastings and suo jure Baroness Grey of Ruthin (1810-1858), fossil collector and geological author. 1 autograph letter (1828), 1 portrait.
• /63: Bèze, Théodore de (1519-1605), French Protestant theologian. 1 autograph letter in French (1574), 1 portrait.
• /64: Joyce, Jeremiah, (1763-1816), Unitarian minister and writer. 1 autograph letter (1810), 1 portrait.
• /65: Ingham, Benjamin, (1712-1772), evangelist and preacher. 1 autograph letter (1743), 1 portrait.
• /66: Milne, William (1785-1822), missionary. 1 autograph letter (1816), 1 portrait.
• /67: Taylor, Isaac (1759-1829), engraver and educationist. 1 autograph letter (1800), 1 portrait.
• /68: Heywood, Oliver (bap. 1630, d. 1702), clergyman and ejected minister. 1 autograph letter (1700) with a printed facsimile, 2 other facsimile documents, 1 portrait.
• /69: Harris, John (1802-1856), Congregational minister and college head. 1 autograph letter (1838), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /70: Toulmin, Joshua (1740-1815), Unitarian minister and historian. 1 autograph letter (1798), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /71: Hamilton, Richard Winter (1794-1848), Congregational minister. 1 autograph letter (1834), 1 portrait.
• /72: Townley, James (1774-1833), Wesleyan Methodist minister and religious writer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 cutting.
• /73: Towgood, Michaijah (1700-1792), Presbyterian minister and religious controversialist. 1 letter signed by Towgood and five others (1743), 1 portrait.
• /74: Moffat, Robert (1795-1883), missionary in Africa and linguist. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /75: Joss, Torial (1731-1797), sea-captain and unordained Methodist minister. 1 autograph letter (1778), 1 portrait.
• /76: Toplady, Augustus Montague (1740-1778), Church of England clergyman and hymn writer. 1 autograph letter (1774), 1 portrait.
• /77: Knibb, William (1803-1845), missionary and abolitionist. 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 portrait.
• /78: Thorpe, Rev. William (Independent minister?). 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 portrait.
• /79: Horne, Thomas Hartwell (1780-1862), biblical scholar and bibliographer. 1 autograph letter (1842), 1 portrait.
• /80: Burn, Richard (1709-1785), legal writer and Church of England clergyman. 1 autograph letter (1768), 1 portrait.
• /81: Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, d. 1667), Church of Ireland bishop of Down and Connor and religious writer. 1 autograph letter (1655), 1 portrait.
• /82: Vaughan, Robert (1795-1868), Congregational minister. 1 autograph letter (1833), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /83: Henderson, Ebenezer [the elder] (1784-1858), missionary. 2 autograph letters (1827 and 1832), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /84: Smart, Sir George Thomas (1776-1867), conductor and organist. 1 autograph letter (1837).
• /85: Spohr, Louis (1784-1859), composer, violinist, and conductor. 1 autograph letter in German (1840), 1 portrait.
• /86: Russell, William, Baron Russell (?). 1 autograph letter (1809), 1 autograph address panel (1789).
• /87: Russell, John [formerly Lord John Russell], first Earl Russell (1792-1878), prime minister and author. 2 autograph letters (1870 and n.d.), 2 autograph address panels (1819 and n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /88: Russell, Reverend Lord Wriothesley (1804-1886), clergyman and aristocrat. 3 autograph letters (n.d.), 1 cutting.
• /89: Bury [née Campbell], Lady Charlotte Susan Maria (1775-1861), novelist and diarist. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /90: Morrison, Robert (1782-1834), missionary and Chinese scholar. 1 autograph letter (1825), 2 portraits, 1 other engraving, 1 printed Chinese document.
• /91: Howard, George, sixth Earl of Carlisle (1773-1848), politician. 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /91a: Howard, George William Frederick, seventh Earl of Carlisle (1802-1864), politician. 1 autograph letter (n.d.).
• /92: Osborne, Louisa Catherine, Marchioness of Carmarthen, later Duchess of Leeds (c. 1791-1874), aristocrat. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /93: Dundas, Robert Saunders, second Viscount Melville (1771-1851), politician. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait (signed), 1 other engraving, 1 coat of arms.
• /94: Lamb, William, second Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), prime minister. 1 autograph letter (1835), 2 autograph address panels (1836 and 1820), 1 portrait, 3 other engravings, 1 coat of arms, 1 printed notice.
• /95: Grey, Charles, second Earl Grey (1764-1845), prime minister. 1 autograph letter (1820), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice.
• /96: Gray, Francis, 14th Baron Grey (1765-1842), official and aristocrat. 1 autograph letter (1838), 1 autograph address panel (1838), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.
• /97: Grenville, George (1712-1770), prime minister. 1 document signed by Grenville and others (1751), 1 portrait.
• /98: Grenville, Henry (1717-1784), MP Diplomat and Governor of Barbados. 1 autograph letter written at Eton (1733), 1 engraving, 1 printed cutting.
• /99: Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), politician and diplomatist. 1 autograph letter (1746), 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /100: Grey, Thomas Philip de [formerly Thomas Philip Robinson; Thomas Philip Weddell], second Earl De Grey (1781-1859), politician. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 autograph address panel (1824), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.
• /101: Judson, Adoniram (1788-1850), Baptist missionary. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 newspaper cutting, 1 specimen of printing in Burmese.
• /102: Raikes, Robert (1736-1811), promoter of Sunday schools. 1 autograph letter (1783) (2 leaves).
• /103: Locke, John (1632-1704), philosopher. 1 signature, 2 portraits, 2 other engravings.
• /104: Hook, Theodore Edward (1788-1841), writer and hoaxer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /105: Canning, George (1770-1827), prime minister and parodist. 1 autograph letter (1818), 1 draft of a speech or address with autograph amendment (n.d.), 2 autograph address panels (1825 and 1824), 2 other autographs (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /106: Lamb, Charles (1775-1834), essayist. 1 autograph letter (1820), 2 portraits.
• /107: Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh (1784-1859), poet, journalist, and literary critic. 1 autograph letter (1808), 1 portrait, 1 printed sheet.
• /108: Hood, Thomas (1799-1845), poet and humorist. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 printed advertisement for the Comic Annual (1833).
• /109: Esterhazy von Galantha, Prince Paul Anton von (1635-1713), Hungarian prince. 1 autograph letter in French (n.d.), 1 autograph address panel, 2 portraits (1 coloured).
• /110: Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809), composer. 1 autograph music score.
• /111: Campbell, John (1795-1867), Congregational minister and journal editor. 1 autograph letter (1842), 1 portrait, 1 printed notice.
• /112: Opie, John (1761-1807), portrait and history painter. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 portraits.
• /113: Maclise, Daniel (bap. 1806, d. 1870), painter. 2 autograph letters (1869 and n.d.), 1 engraving after a picture by Maclise.
• /114: Lupton, Thomas Goff (1791-1873), landscape, portrait, and subject engraver. 1 autograph letter (1836), 1 engraving by Lupton.
• /115: Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851), landscape and history painter. 1 autograph letter (1820), 1 portrait, 2 engravings after drawings by Turner.
• /116: Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist. 1 autograph letter (1790), 1 portrait.
• /117: Hollins, John (1798-1855), portrait and subject painter. 1 autograph letter (1830), 1 engraving after a painting by Hollins.
• /118: Holloway, Thomas (1748-1827), engraver. 1 autograph letter (1794), 1 engraving.
• /119: Burnet, John (1784-1868), painter, engraver and writer on art. 1 autograph letter (1827), 2 printed sheets.
• /120: Fry, William Thomas (1789-1843), engraver. 1 autograph letter (1832), 1 engraving by Fry.
• /121: Cowper, William (1731-1800), poet and letter writer. 1 autograph letter (1791), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice, 1 printed facsimile of his handwriting.
• /122: Wesley, John (1703-1791), Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism. 7 autograph letters (1772, 1782, 1788 [2], 1789 [2], 1791), 1 autograph address panel, 2 portraits, 1 other engraving (in 2 parts with key), 1 printed notice.
• /123: Howard, John (1726?-1790), philanthropist. 1 autograph letter (1770), 2 portraits, 1 other engraving.
• /124: Chalmers, Thomas (1780-1847), Church of Scotland minister and social reformer. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 portrait.
• /125: Fry, [née Gurney], Elizabeth (1780-1845), penal reformer and philanthropist. 3 autograph letters (1822 and n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 signed sketch of a bear, I printed card, 1 cutting, 1 signature.
• /126: Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban (1561-1626), Lord Chancellor, politician, and philosopher. 1 acquittance signed by Bacon (1621), 1 portrait.
• /127: Loyd, Samuel Jones, Baron Overstone (1796-1883), banker. 1 autograph letter (1850).
• /128: Hampden, Renn Dickson, (1793-1868), bishop of Hereford and theologian. 1 autograph letter (1836), 2 engravings.
• /129: Hamilton, Hugh, (1729-1805), Church of Ireland bishop of Ossory. 1 autograph letter (1776).
• /130: Huddesford, William (bap. 1732, d. 1772), museum curator. 1 autograph letter (1759), 1 engraving, 1 leaf from a book with an engraving.
• /131: Franklin, Benjamin, (1706-1790), natural philosopher, writer, and revolutionary politician in America. 1 autograph letter (1756), copy of the Pennsylvania Gazette, 9 September 1762.
• /132: White, Henry Kirke, (1785-1806), poet and essayist. 1 autograph poem or hymn, 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice.
• /133: Macaulay, Zachary, (1768-1838), slavery abolitionist. 1 autograph letter (1828).
• /133a: Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay (1800-1859), historian, essayist, and poet. 1 autograph letter (1833), 1 autographed address panel (1832), 1 printed cutting.
• /134: Henry, William (1774-1836), chemist. (Note: Born in Manchester) 1 autograph letter (1804), 1 portrait.
• /135: Guthrie, George James (1785-1856), surgeon. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /136: Twisleton, Thomas James, (1770-1824), archdeacon of Colombo. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 engravings.
• /137: Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1806-1867) American author, poet and editor. 1 autograph letter (1842), 1 portrait.
• /138: Watt, James (1736-1819), engineer and scientist. 1 autograph letter (1814), 3 portraits, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice.
• /138a: Watt, Robert (bap. 1774, d. 1819), physician and bibliographer. 1 autograph letter (1815).
• /139: Scholefield, James (1789-1853), classical scholar. 1 autograph letter (1810), 1 engraving.
• /140: Lubbock, Sir John William, third baronet (1803-1865), astronomer and banker. 2 autograph letters (1821 and n.d., but probably 1830s), 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /141: Hastings, Warren, (1732-1818), governor-general of Bengal. 1 document signed by Hastings and another (1779), 1 portrait, 1 engraving of the trial of Hastings, 2 engraved coats of arms, 2 printed notices.
• /142: Greenough, George, (1778-1855), geologist. 1 autograph letter (1820), 1 engraving.
• /143: Ord, William [Henry (?)] (1781-1855), Whig MP. 1 autograph letter (n.d., possibly 1836), 1 autograph address panel (1836), 1 engraving.
• /144: Salomons, Sir David, baronet (1797-1873), banker and politician. 1 autograph letter (1855), 1 colour-printed menu, 2 colour-printed invitations.
• /145: Warren, Pelham, (1778-1835), physician. 1 autograph letter (1826).
• /146: Bright, John (1811-1889), politician and Anti-Corn Law League campaigner. 2 autograph letters (1846 and 1850), 1 engraved cartoon, 1 printed leaf from Punch magazine.
• /147: Melancthon, Philip (1497-1560) theologian and scholar. 1 autograph letter in Latin (1544), with later transcription and English translation, 1 printed facsimile of Melancthon's handwriting and signature, 2 portraits, 1 printed notice.
• /148: Calvin, Jean (1509-1564), theologian and pastor. 1 document in Latin signed by Calvin (1551), 2 portraits.
• /149: Vattemare, Nicolas Marie Alexandre (1796-1864), ventriloquist and philanthropist (pioneer of the international exchange of books). 1 autograph letter (1825), 1 portrait.
• /150: Arkwright, Sir Richard, (1732-1792), inventor of cotton-spinning machinery. 1 fragment of a document signed by Arkwright (1783), countersigned by his son Richard Arkwright (1755-1843) in 1836, 2 portraits, 1 other engraving.
• /151: Foster, Sir Michael, (1689-1763), judge and legal writer. 1 note signed by Foster (1749), 1 portrait.
• /152: Hardinge, Henry, first Viscount Hardinge of Lahore (1785-1856), army officer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 portraits.
• /153: Brownrigg, Sir Robert, first baronet (1759-1833), army officer and colonial governor. 1 autograph address panel (1805), 1 marriage licence signed by Brownrigg (1816), 1 portrait.
• /154: Sutton, Charles Manners, first Viscount Canterbury (1780-1845), speaker of the House of Commons. 1 autograph letter (1835), 1 autograph note (1818), 1 colour portrait, 3 other engravings.
• /155: Herbert, William (1778-1847), classical scholar and Church of England clergyman (Dean of Manchester). 1 autograph letter (1817), 1 engraving, 1 printed notice.
• /156: Hughes, Joseph (born 1769), Baptist pastor and Nonconformist Secretary of the Bible Society. 2 autograph letters (1804 and 1812), 1 engraving.
• /157: Onslow, Arthur, (1691-1768), speaker of the House of Commons. 1 receipt signed by Onslow (1752), 1 portrait.
• /158: Onslow, Richard, 3rd Baron Onslow (1713-1776), British peer and politician. 1 document signed by Onslow (1759).
• /158a: Onslow, George, first Earl of Onslow (1731-1814), politician. 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /158b: Onslow, Thomas, second Earl of Onslow (1754-1827), politician and eccentric. 1 autograph address panel (1820).
• /159: Addison, Joseph, (1672-1719), writer and politician. 1 document signed by Addison (1715), 1 portrait, 1 copy of The Spectator periodical, 18 July 1711.
• /160: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, (1772-1834), poet, critic, and philosopher. 1 autograph letter (n.d., but not before 1808, due to reference to the Battle of Burgos), 1 portrait.
• /161: Elliott, Ebenezer [called the Corn Law Rhymer] (1781-1849), poet and bar-iron merchant. 1 autograph poem (1839), with a transcript and a letter to Raffles concerning the provenance of the poem, 1 portrait.
• /162: Goldsmith, Oliver, (1728?-1774), author. 1 autograph receipt (1769), 2 portraits.
• /163: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) German poet, novelist, playwright, courtier. 1 autograph note (n.d.), 3 portraits, 1 other engraving.
• /164: Burns, Robert (1759-1796), poet. 1 autograph letter (1791), 1 portrait, 3 other engravings.
• /165: Townsend, George, (1788-1857), writer and Church of England clergyman. 1 autograph letter (1830), 1 portrait.
• /166: Mather, Increase, (1639-1723), Congregational minister. 1 autograph document (1654), 1 portrait.
• /166a: Mather, Richard, (1596-1669), minister in America. 1 autograph document (n.d.).
• /167: Bewick, Thomas, (1753-1828), wood-engraver. 1 autograph document (1824), 1 portrait.
• /168: Southey, Robert, (1774-1843), poet and reviewer. 1 autograph letter (1826), 1 portrait.
• /169: Audubon, John James (1785-1851), ornithologist and bird artist. 1 autograph letter (1827), 2 portraits.
• /170: Arouet, François-Marie [known as Voltaire] (1694-1778), writer and philosopher. 1 autograph letter possibly signed by Voltaire's secretary (1768), 3 portraits.
• /171: Weston, Stephen, (1665-1742), bishop of Exeter. 1 document signed by (1725), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /172: Whitehead, Paul, (1710-1774), satirist. 1 autographed receipt (1764), 1 portrait.
• /173: Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, (1759-1821), topographer and antiquary. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 1 printed sheet relating to Whalley Abbey.
• /174: Mather, Cotton, (1663-1728), minister in America. 2 autograph leaves from a religious tract, 1 portrait.
• /175: Fox, Charles James, (1749-1806), politician. 1 autograph charade (n.d.), 1 excised signature (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 coloured cartoon (1784), 1 printed notice.
• /176: Wiliams, Helen Maria (1759-1827), writer. 1 autograph letter (1823), 1 portrait.
• /177: Gray, Thomas (1716-1771), poet and literary scholar. 1 autograph list of Roman emperors (n.d.), 1 portrait, 2 other engravings, 1 facsimile poem, 1 leaf from a printed book.
• / : Herschel, William (1738-1822), musician and astronomer. 1 sheet of autosheet notes (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 coloured engraving of a 40-foot telescope, 1 printed cutting.
• /178: Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, first baronet (1792-1871), mathematician and astronomer. 2 autograph letters (1830 and n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /179: Franklin, Sir John, (1786-1847), naval officer and Arctic explorer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 autograph note (n.d.), 2 portraits.
• /180: Opie, [née Alderson], Amelia (1769-1853), novelist and poet. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 newscutting.
• /181: Norton [née Sheridan], Caroline Elizabeth Sarah [other married name Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Stirling Maxwell, Lady Stirling Maxwell] (1808-1877), author and law reform campaigner. 1 letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /182: Watts, Alaric Alexander, (1797-1864), journalist and poet. 1 autograph letter (1834), 1 autograph letter by Mrs Watts (1836), 1 portrait of Mrs Watts.
• /183: Fox, Sir Stephen, (1627-1716), financier and government official. 1 part-printed receipt signed by Fox (1703), 1 portrait.
• /184: Wilson, John (pseud. Christopher North) (1785-1854), author and journalist. 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 portrait.
• /185: Whitefield, George (1714-1770), Calvinistic Methodist leader. 1 autograph letter (1747), bound in with a mounted copy of the Life of George Whitfield (n.d.), 2 other autograph letters (1753 and 1757), 1 portrait, 1 drawing of Whitfield's chair, 1 copy of Adam's Weekly Courant, 12 July 1748, 1 engraving of Whitfield's New Chapel (1764).
• /185a1: Henry, Matthew (1662-1714), Presbyterian minister. 2 autograph sermons and notes (n.d.).
• /185a2: Henry, Philip (1631-1696), clergyman and ejected minister. 1 autograph letter (1693).
• /185b: Huntingdon, Selina Hastings [née Shirley], Countess of (1707-1791), founder of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. 2 autograph letters (1785 and 1786).
• /185c: Wesley, Charles (1707-1788), Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism. 1 autograph letters (1746 and 1747).
• /186: Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) natural philosopher and mathematician. 1 autograph note (1713), 1 portraits, 3 other engravings.
• /187: Montgomery, James (1771-1854), hymn writer and poet. 1 autograph letter (1824), 2 sheets of autograph verses (1822 and c.1813), 3 portraits, 1 portrait of Thomas Spencer, Independent minister.
• /188: Montgomery, Robert [formerly Gomery] (1807-1855), poet and Church of England clergyman. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 portraits.
• /189: Wiffen, Jeremiah Holmes (1792-1836), poet and translator. 2 autograph letters (1824 and 1827), 1 printed broadsheet containing verses by Wiffen with an autograph letter in French on the reverse (1826), 1 annotated printed sheet (signed), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 reproduction of a pencil and pastel drawing.
• /190: Parry, Sir (William) Edward (1790-1855), naval officer and Arctic explorer. 1 autograph letter (1826), 1 portrait.
• /191: Pelham, Sir Henry (1694-1754), prime minister. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /192: Palliser, Sir Hugh, first baronet (1723-1796), naval officer and politician. 1 autograph letter (1778), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /193: Herbert, George Augustus, eleventh Earl of Pembroke and eighth Earl of Montgomery (1759-1827), army officer and landowner. 1 autograph address panel (1817), 1 engraved coat of arms, 2 other engravings, 1 printed notice.
• /194: Russell, Lady Georgiana Elizabeth (1810?-1867), daughter of John, sixth Duke of Bedford. 2 autograph letters (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /195: Curzon, Nathaniel, second Baron Scarsdale (1751-1837). 1 autograph letter, 1 engraving, 1 printed notice.
• /196: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, (Jacob Ludwig) Felix (1809-1847), composer. 1 autograph letter (1842), 2 portraits.
• /197: Bunyan, John (bap. 1628, d. 1688), author. 1 sample of handwriting (disputed), 3 tracings of autograph and handwriting, 2 portraits, 1 drawing (with facsimile autograph), 5 letters on the subject of Bunyan's autograph (1837-1858, 1 cheque signed by Robert Bunyan, 1849.
• /198: Luther, Martin (1483-1546), German theologian. 2 autograph manuscripts in Latin (1528 and 1536), one with a letter of authentication (1880), 1 portrait.
• /199: Ussher (James) (1581-1656), Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh and scholar. 1 autograph receipt (1648), 1 portrait.
• /200: Trapp, Dr. Joseph (1679-1747), Church of England clergyman and writer. 1 certificate signed by Trapp (1728), 1 portrait, 2 other engravings.
• /201: Troy, John Thomas (1739-1823), Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 portrait.
• /202: Cranmer, Thomas (1489-1556), archbishop of Canterbury. 1 warrant for payment signed by Cranmer and others (1547), 2 portraits, 2 other engraving.
• /203: Berkeley, George (1685-1753), Church of Ireland bishop of Cloyne and philosopher. 1 autograph letter, torn (1733), 1 small autograph fragment, 2 portraits, 1 other engraving.
• /204: Bentley, Richard (bap. 1708, d. 1782), writer and artist. 1 order signed by Bentley (1735), 1 portrait.
• /205: Carey, William (1769-1846), headmaster and Bishop of Exeter. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 autograph address panel (1821), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /206: Cadogan, William Bromley (1751-1797), religious writer. 1 autograph letter (1794), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /207: Ireland, John (1761-1842), dean of Westminster. 1 autograph letter (1821), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /208: Hook, Walter Farquhar (1798-1875), dean of Chichester. 1 autograph letter (1832), 1 portrait.
• /209: Irving, Edward (1792-1834), preacher and theologian. 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 portrait, 1 engraving, 1 printed cartoon.
• /210: Granger, James (bap. 1723, d. 1776), print collector and biographer. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 engraving with facsimile manuscript (1769).
• /211: Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), American essayist and poet. 1 autograph letter to Walter Langdon (18 April 1850).
• /212: Penn, William (1644-1718), Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania. 1 autograph letter (1684), 2 portraits, 1 other engraving, 1 cutting.
• /213: Penn, John (1729-1795), colonial governor. 1 autograph letter (1768).
• /214: Penn, Thomas (1702-1775), landowner [and second son of William Penn, above]. 1 autograph letter (1769).
• /215: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865), president of the United States. 1 autograph letter (1861), 1 small coloured print of the Stars and Stripes.
• /216: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882), American poet. 1 autograph letter (1850), 1 lithographic print, 1 printed poem by Longfellow on 2 sheets.
• /217: Washington, George (1732-1799), revolutionary army officer and president of the United States. 1 autograph letter (1787), 1 portrait.
• /218: Leighton, Robert (bap. 1612, d. 1684), archbishop of Glasgow. 1 autograph letter (1671), 1 portrait, 1 portrait of his father, Rev. Alexander Leighton.
• /219: Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868), Italian operatic composer. 1 autograph letter in Italian (1842), 2 portraits.
• /220: Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678), poet and politician. 1 autograph letter (1674), 1 facsimile autograph, 1 portrait (with facsimile autograph), 2 portraits, 1 letter re the Marvell letter (1847).
• /221: Cook, James (1728-1779), explorer. 1 part-printed documented signed by Cook (1759), 1 portrait.
• /222: Irby, George, third Baron Boston (1777-1856). 1 autograph letter (1827), 2 engraved coats of arms, 1 other engraving.
• /223: O'Connell, Daniel (1775-1847), Irish Nationalist leader. 1 autograph letter (in 2 parts) (1827), 2 autograph address panels (1834 and 1835), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /224: Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626), Bishop of Winchester. 1 manuscript warrant signed by Andrewes and others (1619) with a later transcript, 1 portrait.
• /225: Park, Mungo (1771-1806), traveller in Africa. 1 autograph letter (1804), 1 facsimile of the handwriting of Alexander Anderson (1804), 2 portraits.
• /226: Pratt, John Jeffreys, first Marquess Camden (1759-1840), politician. 1 autograph letter (1806), 1 autograph address panel (1831), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /227: Temple, Henry John, third Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), prime minister. 1 autograph letter (1820), 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /228: Manners, John Henry, fifth Duke of Rutland (1778-1857), Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire. 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 autograph address panel (1819), 1 engraved coat of arms, 2 other engravings.
• /229: Manners, Isabella, Duchess of Rutland (1756-1831), politician and society hostess. 1 letter (not signed, 1830), 1 autograph address panel (n.d.), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.
• /230: Ess, Leander (Johann Heinrich) van (1772-1847), German theologian. 1 autograph note in German (1823), 1 sheet of autograph music (n.d., but authenticated in 1826), 1 portrait.
• /231: Kemp, Johannes Theodorus van der (1747-1811), missionary. 1 autograph letter in Dutch (1811), 1 fragment of an autograph letter with signature (1807), 1 portrait.
• /232: Tholuck, Friedrich August Gottreu (1799-1877), theologian. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /233: Jones, Peter [Kahkewaquonaby] (1802-1856), missionary, Ojibwa Methodist minister, translator, chief and author. 1 autograph letter written from Manchester (1832), 1 autograph address panel to Raffles (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /234: Henry, Philip (1631-1696), clergyman and ejected minister. 1 autograph letter (1692/3), 1 portrait.
• /235: Manners, John, Marquis of Granby (1721-1770), army officer and politician. 1 document signed by Manners as Granby (?1759), 1 autograph address panel (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /236: Greville, Fulke, first baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (1554-1628), courtier and author. 1 autograph letter (1617), 1 portrait.
• /237: Jones, Richard Roberts [called Dick of Aberdaron] (1780-1843), linguist. 1 autograph manuscript (n.d., but c.1832-1843), 3 portraits (1 coloured).
• /238: Thomson, Andrew Melville (1779-1831), Church of Scotland minister and journalist. 1 autograph letter (1817), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving, 1 coloured cartoon.
• /239: Wren, Sir Christopher (1632-1723), architect, mathematician and astronomer. 1 printed receipt signed by Wren (1679), 1 portrait.
• /240: Newton, John (1725-1807), slave trader and Church of England clergyman. 2 autograph letters (1766, n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 engraving.
• /241: Tallents, Francis (1619-1708), clergyman and ejected minister. 1 autograph inscription (1702/3), 1 bond signed by Tallents (1685), 1 portrait.
• /242: Wolfe, Charles (1791-1823), poet. 1 facsimile autograph letter (original dated 1816), 1 autograph poem (n.d.), 1 letter (?to Raffles) to which is attached Wolfe's signature (letter dated 1848).
• /243a: Hill, Lord Arthur [?Hill, Lord Arthur Moyse William (1792-1860), Lieutenant General, son of the heir and niece of Edwyn Sandys, below] 1 handwritten letter or note (n.d.).
• /243b: Sandys, Edwin, second Baron Sandys (d.1797), politician and Lord of the Admiralty. 1 autograph letter (1766), 1 engraving.
• /244: Livingstone, David (1813-1873), explorer and missionary. 1 list of toasts given at a dinner for Livingstone, 1 printed invitation to the Court of Common Council to award the freedom of the City of London to Livingstone (1857) 2 other printed sheets (1856 and n.d.), 3 portraits, 1 printed map.
• /245: Cary, Henry, first Viscount Falkland (c.1575-1633), lord deputy of Ireland. 1 document signed by Cary and others (1630), 1 portrait [not of Henry but of Lucius Cary (1609/10-1643), second Viscount Falkland].
• /246: Norton, Fletcher, first baron Grantley (1716-1789), speaker of the House of Commons. 1 account of items delivered to Norton for His Majesty's service, signed by Norton (1770).
• /247: Norton, William, second Baron Grantley (1742-1822), politician. 1 autograph letter (1821), 1 printed notice with engraved coat of arms.
• /248: Grenville, William Wyndham, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), prime minister. 1 autograph letter (1825), 1 autograph address panel (1814),1 autograph compliment slip (1797), 2 portraits, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice.
• /249a: Tzatzoe (Tshatshu), Jan (or Dyani) (c.1792-1868) Xhosa chief and missionary. 1 portrait, 1 printed notice of a meeting of the St Helen's branch of the London Missionary Society (1836).
• /249b: Philip, John (1775-1851), missionary. 1 autograph letter re Jan Tzatzoe (1836).
• /250a: Bridgeman, Orlando, first Earl of Bradford (1762-1825), politician. 1 autograph letter (1818), 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /250b: Bridgeman, Lucy Elizabeth (née Byng), Countess of Bradford (1766-1844). 1 autograph letter (1826), 1 engraving.
• /251: Beauclerk, William Aubrey de Vere, ninth Duke of St Albans (1801-1849). 1 autograph letter (1831), 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /252a: Beauclerk, William, eighth Duke of St Albans (1766-1825). 2 autograph address panels (1821, 1825), 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /252b: Beauclerk, Maria Janetta (née Nelthorpe) Duchess of St Albans (d. 1822). 1 autograph note (n.d.), 1 autograph letter (n.d.).
• /253: Lumley, Richard, sixth Earl of Scarborough (1757-1832). 1 autograph letter (1820), 4 engravings, 3 printed notices.
• /254: Fairfax, Thomas, third Baron Fairfax (1612-1671), parliamentarian army officer. 1 autograph letter (1648), 1 facsimile of an autograph letter (1645), 1 portrait, 2 printed notices.
• /255: Butler, Lady (Charlotte) Eleanor (1739-1829), elder of the two Ladies of Llangollen, and Ponsonby, Sarah (1755-1831), one of the Ladies of Llangollen. 2 autograph letters (1826 and 1827), 3 engravings.
• /256: Russell, Edward, first Earl of Orford (1652-1727), naval officer. 1 receipt signed by Russell (1691), 1 portrait.
• /257: Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (1802-1873), animal painter. 2 autograph letters (1830 and 1838), 1 engraving, 1 drawing, 1 printed notice.
• /258a: Landseer, John George (1763/9-1852), engraver and antiquary. 1 autograph letter (1828), 1 drawing.
• /258b: Landseer, Thomas (1793/4-1880), printmaker. 1 engraving (1827).
• /259a: Orde-Powlett, William, second Baron Bolton (1782-1820). 1 autograph address panel (1822), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice.
• /259b: Orde-Powlett, Maria, Lady Bolton (née Carleton) (1777-1863), wife of second Baron Bolton. 1 autograph letter (1821).
• /260: Campbell, John, first Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin (1755-1821), politician and army officer. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 engraving.
• /261: Campbell, John Frederick, second Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin (1790-1860). 1 autograph letter (1821), 1 autograph address panel (1831), 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /262: Brudenell, Robert, sixth Earl Cardigan (1760-1837), politician. 1 autograph letter (1816), 1 autograph address panel (1818), 1 engraving.
• /263: Brougham, Henry Peter, first Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), lord chancellor. 2 autograph letters (1813, 1836 and n.d.), 1 incomplete autograph letter (1816), 1 small autograph account (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 engraving, 1 coloured cartoon, 1 newspaper cutting, 2 printed notice with coat of arms.
• /264: Cecil, James, first Marquess of Salisbury (1748-1823), Lord Chamberlain. 1 letter (1797), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 2 other engravings.
• /265: Cecil, Frances Mary Gascoyne (née Gascoyne), Marchioness of Salisbury (1802-1839), wife of the second Marquess of Salisbury. 1 autograph letter (n.d., but c.1823-1839), 1 portrait.
• /266: Egerton, Thomas, second Earl Wilton (1799-1882), politician. 1 autograph letter (1791), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice.
• /267: Ryder, Dudley, second Earl of Harrowby (1798-1882), politician, known as Viscount Sandon until 1847. 2 autograph letters (1834 and 1874), the latter addressed to Raffles, with envelope, 1 autograph address panel (1836), 1 cartoon.
• /268-269: Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832), poet and novelist. 2 autograph letters (1813 and n.d.), 1 autograph manuscript leaf from a novel, 1 portrait, 4 other engravings, 1 coloured lithograph, 1 sketch portrait, 1 printed bifolio, 1 cutting, 1 photograph of Abbotsford.
• /270a: Burke, John (1786-1848), author and genealogist. 1 autograph letter (1842).
• /270b: Burke, Sir (John) Bernard (1814-1892), genealogist and herald. 1 autograph letter (1842).
• /270c: Burke, Peter (1811-1881), serjeant-at-law. 1 autograph letter (1855),2 annotated printed sheets, 2 photographs, 1 colour printed card.
• /271: Egerton, Francis Henry, eighth Earl of Bridgewater (1756-1829), collector of manuscripts and patron of learning. 2 autograph letters (1821 and 1827), 1 autograph address panel (1814), 1 engraved coat of arms, 4 engravings.
• /272: Campbell (John). first Baron Campbell of St Andrews (1779-1861), lord chancellor. 1 autograph letter (1832), 1 lithographic cartoon.
• /273: [No file.]
• /274: St John, George Richard, third Viscount Bolingbroke (1761-1824), politician. 1 autograph letter (1807).
• /275-276: Peel, Sir Robert, second baronet (1788-1850), prime minister. 3 autograph letters (1828, 1830 and 1847 [in two parts]), 1 autograph address panel (1828) 1 autograph envelope (1847), 2 portraits, 2 engraved coats of arms, 1 cartoon.
• /277: Butler, James, second Duke of Ormonde (1665-1745), army officer, politician and Jacobite conspirator. 1 document signed by Butler and others (1701), 1 portrait (1713).
• /278: Galitzin, Alexander Nicolaievitch, Prince (1733-1844), Russian prince and politician. 1 autograph letter (1831), 1 engraving.
• /279: Gutzlaff, Karl Friedrich August (1803-1851), German Protestant missionary. 1 autograph letter (1836), 1 portrait, 2 other engravings.
• /280: Kapodistrias, Ioannis Antonios, Count (1776-1831), President of Greece. 2 autograph letters in French (1827) and Italian (1828), 1 engraving.
• /281: Oberlin, Victor, member of the Swiss Directoire. 2 autograph letters in French (1799).
• /282: Radama I (1791-1828), King of Madagascar. 1 autograph letter in (French (n.d.), 1 letter from another (signature illegible) to Raffles (1827).
• /283: Dherma Rama, Alexander (Theron Nancey) (fl. 1819-1821), Buddhist priest. 1 autograph fragment (1818), 1 facsimile of handwriting (1819), 1 coloured portrait.
• /284: William I (1772-1843), King of the Netherlands. 2 autograph notes (1800 and n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 other engraving.
• /285: Launey, Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de (1740-1789), governor of the Bastille. 1 autograph letter in French (1785), 2 engravings.
• /286: Hamilton, James, first Duke of Hamilton (1606-1649), politician. 1 portrait, 1 printed notice.
• /287: Espartero, Baldomero, Count of Luchana (1793-1879), Spanish general and statesman. 1 part-printed document in Spanish, signed by Espartero (1837), 1 portrait, 1 printed cutting.
• /288: Tappai, New Zealand chief. 1 portrait of a Maori chief, 1 engraving of Maori carvings, 1 facsimile of a pencil portrait of Tappai, drawn by himself, 1 facsimile pf a drawing of Tappai's tattooed thighs.
• /289a: North Francis, first Earl Guilford (1704-1790), politician. 1 autograph letter (1729), 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /289b: North, Frederick, fifthe Earl Guilford (1766-1827, colonial Governor (of Ceylon) and philhellene. 1 autograph letter (1815), 1 autograph address panel (1813).
• /290: Frederick Augustus, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), son of King George III. 3 autograph letters (1818, 1834, 1836), 3 autograph address panels (1815, 1822, n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 printed certificate of the Philosophical Society signed by Frederick Augustus, 1 printed sheet containing facsimiles of the signatures of members of the House of Brunswick, 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /291: Laud, William (1573-1645), archbishop of Canterbury. 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving, 1 printed notice with engraved portrait, 1 printed sheet (cropped).
• /292: Pole, William Wellesley- (formerly Wesley), third Earl of Mornington (1763-1845), politician. 2 autograph letters (1814, n.d.), 1 autograph address panel (1821), 1 portrait, 1 printed notice.
• /293: Radclyffe, Francis (d. 1704), son of Francis, first Earl of Derwentwater. 1 autograph letter (1688), 1 engraving of the Seven Bishops who opposed the 1688 Declaration of Indulgence.
• /294a: Walpole, George, third Earl of Orford (1730-1791). 1 autograph letter (n.d., but 1754 inscribed in a later hand), 1 autograph address panel (n.d.), 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 engraving of Houghton Hall.
• /294b: Walpole, Horace, fourth Earl of Orford (1717-1797). 1 receipt signed by Walpole (1791), 1 portrait.
• /295: Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873), philosopher, economist and advocate of women's rights. 1 autograph letter (1835).
• /296: Grosvenor, Robert, first Marquess of Westminster (1767-1845), politician. 1 autograph letter (1819), 1 compliment slip (n.d.), 1 autograph letter from Elizabeth countess of Grosvenor (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 portrait of Elizabeth, 1 engraved coat of arms, 3 engravings (1 coloured view of Eaton Hall).
• /297: Grosvenor, Robert, first Baron Ebury (1801-1893), politician. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 engravings of Eaton Hall.
• /298: Grosvenor, Richard, first Earl Grosvenor (1731-1802), politician and landowner. 1 autograph letter (1781), 1 autograph address panel (n.d.), 1 engraving of Eaton Hall.
• /299: Pakington (formerly Russell), Sir John Somerset, first baron Hampton (1799-1880), politician. 1 autograph letter (1853).
• /300: Parker, Sir Hyde, fifth Baronet (1714-1782/83), naval officer. 1 portrait.
• /301: Warren, Richard (1731-1797), physician. 1 portrait.
• /302: Hume, Sir Patrick, first Earl of Marchmont and Baron Polwarth (1641-1724), Scottish statesman. 1 autograph letter (1718), 2 engravings.
• /303: Walpole, Robert, second Earl of Orford (1701-1751) [Sometime Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer.] 2 documents signed by Walpole (1742, in two parts, and 1735, part-printed), 1 portrait.
• /304: Watts, Isaac (1674-1748), Independent minister and writer. 1 autograph letter (1732).
• /305: Du Limbé, Prince (fl. 1814-1818), Minister of War and of the Marine to the King of Haiti. 1 autograph letter in French (1818).
• /306: Charrier, Baron de (f. 1818), Secretary General of the Ministry of Finances and the Interior to the King of Haiti. 1 autograph letter in French (1818).
• /307: Barber, Francis (c.1745-1801), servant (Jamaican servant of Dr Samuel Johnson). 1 photograph of oil painting, with explanatory letter (1931).
• /308: Kamehameha IV (born Alexander Iolani Liholiho Keawenui) (1834-1863), King of the Sandwich Isles, and Queen Emma (née Rooke). 1 signature (1857) with an explanatory note by Raffles appended (1858).
• /309: Pomare II (c.1774-1821), King of Tahiti. 1 autograph letter in Tahitian (1816), 1 translation of the same, 1 portrait, 1 colour lithograph.
• /309a: Lavaud, Charles-François (1798-1878, Governor of Tahiti. 1 autograph letter in French (1848).
• /309b: Bonand, Louis-Adolphe (1805-1867), Governor of Tahiti. 1 autograph letter in French (?1852).
• /309c: Pomare III, Aimata (1813-1877), Queen of Tahiti. 3 autograph letters in Tahitian (1851, 1852, 1852).
• /309d: Roura, Deacon of Maha'ena. 1 letter in Tahitian (1851).
• /309e: Howe, William (d. 1863), English missionary in Tahiti. 1 autograph letter in 2 parts (1852).
• /310: Iturbide, Agustin de (1783-1824), Emperor of Mexico. 1 letter in Spanish signed by Iturbide (1822), 1 engraving.
• /311: Grey, Church of England clergyman 1 autograph letter to Nathaniel Crewe (d. 1721), rector of Lincoln College (n.d., c.1714-1721), 2 engravings of Lincoln College.
• /312: Blucher, Gebhard Leberecht von (1742-1819), Prussian general; Gneisenau, Count August Wilhelm Anton Neidhardt von (1760-1831), Prussian general, and other generals of the Napoleonic War. 1 autograph letter from Gneisenau (1815), 7 other letters in French (4 dated 1815, 1 dated 1815?, 2 dated 1819).
• /313: Deacon, Thomas (1697-1753), bishop of the nonjuring Church of England and physician. 1 autograph declaration signed by Deacon, on verso of a leaf from his printed work A Compleat Collection of Devotions (1748), with his seal.
• /314: Frederick II, the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia. 1 letter in French, signed by Frederick (1762).
• /315: Frederick William IV (1795-1861), King of Prussia. 1 autograph letter in French (1833), 1 autograph address panel with imperfect seal (1833), 1 engraving.
• /316: Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France. 1 document in French signed by Louis (1694), 1 portrait, 1 engraving.
• /317: Louis XV (1710-1774), King of France. 1 document in French signed by Louis (1747), 2 portraits.
• /318: Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France. 1 document in French signed by Louis (1785), 2 portraits (1 coloured).
• /319: Louise Philippe (1773-1850), King of the French. 1 autograph address panel (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 engraving, 1 lithograph.
• /320: Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), Queen Consort of Louis XVI. 1 in French letter to King George III, signed by Marie Antoinette, with imperfect wax seal (1776), 1 portrait.
• /321: Buonaparte, Napoleone di [later adapted to Napoleon Bonaparte] (1769-1821), Emperor of the French. 1 letter in French signed by Napoleon (1804), 1 autograph note (n.d.) with an explanatory letter (n.d.), 1 printed sheet containing an extract from the will of Napoleon and facsimile signatures, 1 facsimile letter, 2 portraits, 5 engravings (1 coloured), 3 bank notes, 1 printed booklet, 1 newscutting.
• /322: Napoleon III (1808-1873), Emperor of the French. 1 autograph letter in French (1839), with a letter to Raffles authenticating it (1852).
• /323: Philippe II, Duc d'Orléans [Louis Philippe Joseph] (1747-1793), Regent of France. 1 manuscript account in French signed by Philippe (1722), 2 portraits.
• /324: Adolphus, Frederick, first Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850), viceroy of Hanover, army officer and son of King George III. 1 autograph letter (1840), 1 autograph address panel (n.d.).
• /325a: Anne (1665-1714), queen of Great Britain and Ireland. 1 warrant signed by Anne (1709/10), 2 manuscript pages of accounts (1714), 2 portraits.
• /325b: George, Prince of Denmark and Duke of Cumberland (1653-1708), consort of Queen Anne. 1 document signedby George (1702/03), 1 portrait.
• /326: Augusta Sophia, Princess (1768-1840), daughter of George III. 2 autograph letters (1815, 1828), 1 portrait, 1 coat of arms, 1 other engraving.
• /327: Charles I (1600-1649), king of Great Britain. 1 document in Latin signed by Charles (n.d.), 1 document signed by Charles (1646) with a later transcription, 1 printed facsimile of the Death Warrant of 1648, 1 document signed by some of the regicides and others (1652), 2 portraits (1 with facsimile autograph), 2 engravings.
• /328: Charles II (1630-1685), king of Great Britain. 1 autograph letter alleged to be from Charles II to Jane Lane (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 portrait of Jane Lane, 2 engravings, 1 other letter to Raffles (1830).
• /329: Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales (1796-1817). 1 sample of handwriting as a child (1809), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.
• /330: Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658), lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. 1 warrant signed by Cromwell (1650), 1 portrait, 2 other engravings, 1 printed proclamation (19 March 1648), 1 other printed sheet (n.d.), 1 letter to Raffles (1846).
• /331: Edward IV (1442 -1483), King of England and Lord of Ireland. 1 portrait.
• /332: Edward V (1470 -1483), King of England and Lord of Ireland. 1 portrait.
• /333: Edward VI (1537 -1553), King of England and Ireland. 1 document in Latin signed by Edward (1553), 2 portraits.
• /334: Edward VII (1841-1910), King of Great Britain and Ireland, etc. 1 autograph envelope addressed to the Duchess of Cambridge (1867).
• /335a: Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767-1820). 1 document signed by Edward Augustus (1797), 2 autograph address panels (1812, 1820), 1 excised signature, 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.
• /335b: Victoria, Princess [Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld], duchess of Kent (1786-1861). 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 portrait, 1 obituary newscutting (1861).
• /336: Elizabeth, princess (1770-1840), landgravine of Hesse-Homburg, consort of Friedrich VI and daughter of King George III. 1 autograph letter (in 2 parts, 1814), 1 autograph address panel, 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 other engraving.
• /337: Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Queen of England and Ireland. 1 warrant signed by Elizabeth (1568), 2 portraits, 2 engravings, 1 photographic print of a document.
• /338: Ernest Augustus, king of Hanover, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, and Earl of Armagh (1771-1851), son of King George III. 1 autograph letter (1829), 1 other letter signed by Ernest (1829), 1 autograph address panel (1822), 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 printed notice.
• /339: Frederick,Prince, Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827), army officer and bishop of Osnabruck, son of King George III. 5 autograph letters (1795, 1805, 1817, 1818, n.d.), 2 autograph address panels (1812, 1822), 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms, 4 other engravings (including hand-coloured view of funeral procession).
• /340: George I (1660-1727), King of Great Britain and Ireland and elector of Hanover. 1 warrant signed by George (1716), 2 portraits.
• /341a: George II (1683-1760), King of Great Britain and Ireland and elector of Hanover. 1 warrant signed by George (1759), fragment of another document signed by George (n.d.), 1 portrait.
• /341b: Caroline, [Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach] (1683-1737), queen of Great Britain and Ireland, electress of Hanover and consort of George II. 1 autograph letter (1721), 1 portrait.
• /342a: George III (1738-1820), King of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover. 4 documents signed by George (1783, 1798, 1805, 1809), 1 autograph letter unsigned (1783), 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms, 2 printed folios (incomplete), 1 printed pamphlet.
• /342b: Charlotte [Princess Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz] (1744-1818), queen of Great Britain and Ireland, queen of Hanover and consort of George III. 1 signature (n.d.), 1 fascimile signature (1817), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 coloured engraving of Frogmore House, 1 printed loyal address (1820).
• /343a: George IV (1762-1830), king of Great Britiain and Ireland and king of Hanover. 1 sample of writing practice as a child (1767), 1 autograph letter (1825), 4 documents signed by George (1811, 1825, 1826, 1829), 2 portraits, 2 engravings (1 coloured), 2 printed folios.
• /343b: Caroline, [Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel] (1768-1821), queen of Great Britain and Ireland and consort of George IV. 1 signature (n.d.), 1 portrait, 1 engraving, 1 cartoon by Isaac Robert Cruikshank.
• /344: George William Frederick Charles, Prince, second Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), army officer. 1 autograph letter (1855), 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /345: Henry VI (1421-1471), King of England and Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine. 1 portrait, 2 letters to Raffles (1841 and 1862) and a transcription of a grant of arms, temp. Henry VI.
• /346: Henry VII (1457-1509), King of England and Lord of Ireland. 1 warrant signed by Henry (1496), 1 portrait, 4 other engravings, 1 later transcription of a document.
• /347: Henry VIII (1491-1547), King of England and Lord of Ireland. 1 document in English and Latin signed by Henry (1529), with an autograph dealer's description, 1 portrait, 1 engraving.
• /348: James I and VI (1566-1625), King of Scotland, England and Ireland. 1 set of manuscript accounts for the purchase of horses, signed by James (1612), 1 excised signature (1620), 3 portraits.
• /349: James II and VIII (1633-1701), King of Scotland, England and Ireland. 1 warrant signed by James (1684/5).
• /350: James III [James Francis Edward Stuart; styled James VIII and III; known as Chevalier de St George, Pretender, Old Pretender] (1688-1766), Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 1 autograph letter (1719), with printed catalogue slip.
• /351a: Mary I (1516-1553), Queen of England and Ireland. 1 document in Latin signed by Mary (1554), 2 portraits (1 with facsimile of handwriting and signature), 1 portrait of Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester.
• /351b: Philip II (1527-1598), King of England and Ireland, consort of Mary I, and King of Spain. 1 document in French signed by Philip (1579), 1 portrait.
• /352: Richard of York, third Duke of York (1411 -1460), magnate and claimant to the English throne [father of King Edward IV and Richard III]. 1 document in French signed by Richard (1447), 1 printed sheet of facsimile autographs, 2 printed sheets.
• /353: Richard III (1452-1485), King of England and Lord of Ireland. 1 portrait.
• /354: Sophia, Princess (1777-1848), daughter of George III. 1 autograph letter written as a young child (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 autograph envelope.
• /355a: Victoria (1819-1901), Qqueen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India. 1 autograph letter (1839), 2 documents signed by Victoria (1838, 1845), 2 portraits, 6 engravings/newscuttings, 2 printed folios (1 colour), 1 other letter to Raffles (1861).
• /355b: Albert [Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha] (1819-1861) Prince Consort, consort of Queen Victoria. 1 signature (n.d.), 2 portraits, 1 engraving of the funeral procession (1861), 2 portraits of Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra, 1 other letter.
• /356a: William III and II (1650-1702) King of England, Scotland, Ireland and Prince of Orange. 1 excised signature (1689), 1 documents signed by William (1688, 1695), 2 portraits, 1 sheet of the London Gazette (14-18 March 1694) containing the King's declaration for strict discipline of the Army.
• /356b: Mary II (1662-1694) Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland. 1 excised signature (1691), 1 portrait.
• /357a: William IV (1765-1837), king of Great Britian and Ireland and king of Hanover. 2 autograph letters (1805, 1828), 1 document signed by William (1830), 1 autograph address panel (1805, with seal), 3 portraits, 2 engraved coats of arms, 1 printed declaration of loyalty.
• /357b: Adelaide [Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen] (1792-1849), queen of Great Britain and Ireland, consort of William IV. 1 autograph note (1841), 3 autograph envelopes (n.d.), 1 part-printed warrant signed by Adelaide (1830), 1 portrait, 1 other engraving.
• /358: William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1756), army officer. 1 document signed by William Augustus (1749), 1 facsimile signature, 1 portrait.
• /359a: William Frederick, Prince, second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1834). 2 autograph letters (1796, n.d.), 1 other letter signed by William Frederick (1806), 1 autograph address panel (1816), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms, 1 lithograph.
• /359b: Mary, duchess of Gloucester (1776-1857), daughter of George III. 1 autograph letter (n.d.), 2 fragments of another autograph letter (1814?), 1 portrait, 1 engraved coat of arms.
• /360: William Henry, Prince, first Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743-1805). 1 order signed by William Henry (1764), 1 portrait.

Most of the letters came from the collection of the Rev. Thomas Raffles of Liverpool. Some may have been added by Enriqueta Rylands.