Collection of autograph and signed documents and letters, 1853-1860

This material is held atSociety of Antiquaries of London

  • Reference
    • GB 118 CEL/13
  • Former Reference
    • GB 118 SAL/MS/444/13
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1853-60
  • Physical Description
    • pp. 152 Half leather binding, green, with red lettering-pieces.

Scope and Content

Includes:- Amelia Opie (poem, 1825, and note, 1833), p. 10; Charles Kemble (als, 1836, to Edmund Byng), p. 28; Le Mercure Galant, 1 Jan. 1859, p. 36; Crimean War (ephemera), pp. 38, 74, 81, 83-4, etc.; Mary Russell Mitford (ten lines of verse written in the presence of Augusta Herbert, afterwards Lady Vincent), p. 42; Charlotte Bronte (als, as C. B. Nicholls, 5 Jan. 1855, to Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, Bt.), p. 44; Eugène Sue (note, 1844?, to Alfred d'Orsay), p. 94; Louis Spohr (als, 1852), p. 110; Rev. Dionysius Lardner (als, 1833, to Michael Faraday), p. 114; Leigh Hunt (als), p. 124; loose insertions relating to the Crimean war, including The London Gazette Extraordinary, 5, 7, 8 Oct., 22 Nov. 1854; forms of prayer, 1854-9, relating to the Crimea, and India.

Other Finding Aids

https://collections.sal.org.uk/cel.13

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