Poltalloch autograph album,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

Reference
- GB 210 NLW MS 16599E.
Alternative Id.
Dates of Creation
- [20 cent., first ½].
Language of Material
- English.
Physical Description
- 66 ff. (original foliation 1-28, 31, 33-34, 36-44, 46-57 continued to end; ff. 1, 57-70 blank) ;270 x 410 mm.Red morocco with double gold fillets, marbled endpapers and gilded page edges; 'AUTOGRAPHS', 'POLTALLOCH' and 'VOL. V' (stamped in gold on front cover).Some fifteen leaves excised, in all probability prior to their accession at NLW.Some fifteen leaves excised, in all probability prior to their accession at NLW
Location
- ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

An album containing ninety-three holograph letters and documents, 1810-1915, apparently one of a series of at least five volumes brought together, [20 cent., first ½], by a member of the Malcolm family of Poltalloch, Argyll, Scotland, as a collection of the autographs of prominent legal, political, ecclesiastical and other public figures.
Fifty-six of the letters, 1894-1915, are addressed to George Cave, [later Viscount Cave] (ff. 5-7, 13-28, 36, 38-40, 42-44, 46-54, 56); three, 1868-1874, are to his father, Thomas Cave, MP (ff. 13, 31, 49). The typescript index to the contents on f. 2 records items, no longer present, from Winston Churchill, Benjamin Disraeli, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Queen Victoria, George IV and others.

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