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

This material is held atSociety of Antiquaries of London

  • Reference
    • GB 118 CEL/12
  • Former Reference
    • GB 118 SAL/MS/444/12
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1845-52
  • Physical Description
    • 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.

Other Finding Aids

https://collections.sal.org.uk/cel.12

A detailed index to this collection exists on index cards in the Society of Antiquaries library.