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History in Manuscript: Letters and Documents from a Distinguished Collection
4 April - 13 April 2022 • London
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1. Prince Albert | Autograph letter signed, on his domestic life with Queen Victoria, to a cousin, 1843

2. Robert Aske | Autograph letter signed, arranging his visit to the monastery of Watton in Yorkshire, 1536

3. Robert Baden-Powell | Autograph letter signed, to George Kekevich, during the siege of Mafeking, 1899

5. Léon Blum | Manuscript memorandum on the Munich Agreement, 1938

6. Leon Blum | Autograph manuscript, entitled Autonomie et unite du Syndicalisme, 1946

7. Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke | Autograph letter, unsigned, to George Lyttelton, 1740

8. Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke | Autograph letter signed, to George Lyttelton, 1741

9. Joseph Bonaparte | Letter signed, to Joséphine Bonaparte, 1796

10. Joseph Bonaparte | Autograph letter signed, to Empress Josephine, on the Battle of Austerlitz, 1805

11. Brendan Bracken | Series of c.140 letters to Lord Beaverbrook, on Churchill, British politics, and other subjects, 1925-58

12. Jacques Pierre Brissot | Two autograph letters signed, with 16 other letters and documents, 1784-91

13. British Politics | Two letters, by Neville Chamberlain and Frederick Lugard, 1929-32

14. Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Two autograph letters signed, to W.H. Haggard, on the invasion of Afghanistan, 1878

15. Guy Burgess | His annotated copy of Lenin on Britain, c.1959

16. William Cecil, Lord Burghley | Autograph letter signed, on the secret delivery of bullion, 1581

17. A. Campbell | Autograph letter signed, on the death of Clive of India, 24 November 1774

18. Canada | Letter reporting on the fall of Quebec, 1759

19. Caroline of Brunswick, Queen of the United Kingdom | Autograph letter signed, to Lucien Bonaparte, 1817

20. Jean Baptiste Carrier | Document signed, with a group of other French Revolutionary documents, 1790s

21. Catherine II, Empress of Russia | Autograph letter signed, to Alexei Orlov, on his defeat of the Turks, 1770

22. King Charles I | Document signed, ordering the arrest of the "Five Members" who had fled Parliament, 1642

23. China--Treaty of Tiensin | Document outlining compensation to be paid by China, signed by the Earl of Elgin, 1858

24. Georges Clemenceau | Series of 81 letters to Admiral Frederick Maxse, 1882-99

25. William Cobbett | Autograph letter signed, complaining about Yorkshire politics, 28 December 1832

26. Richard Cobden | Autograph letter signed, to Lord Lyttelton, on the Corn Laws, 1843

27. Richard Cromwell | Autograph letter signed, to his daughter Elizabeth, on his son's election to Parliament, 1689/90

28. George Jacques Danton | Document signed, ending the employment of Swiss Regiments in the service of France, 1792

29. Joseph Denham | Series of 108 letters to Sir William Hamilton, on Napoleon's invasion of Italy, 1796-97

30. Benjamin Disraeli | Autograph letter signed, to Georgina Meredith, on the death of her brother, 1831

31. Anthony Eden | Autograph letter signed, to Lord Beaverbrook, about the Suez crisis, 1957

32. Anthony Eden | Letter signed, to Lord Beaverbrook, on the Middle East, 18 April 1958

33. Anthony Eden | Autograph letter signed, to Lord Beaverbrook, on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

34. Edward, Duke of Windsor | Five letters signed, to Viscount Beaverbrook, 1939-48

35. Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) | Printed Notice of his coronation, displayed in the House of Commons, 1936

36. Queen Elizabeth I--Privy Council | Letter refusing to allow a Papal Nuncio to visit England, 1561

37. Queen Elizabeth I--Privy Council | Letters patent, signed, encouraging horsebreeding in Cambridgeshire, 1584

38. Queen Elizabeth I--Henry Middlemore | Autograph letter signed, investigating conspiracies, 1585

39. Queen Elizabeth I | Letter signed, explaining her priorities in war-torn France to her new envoy to Henri IV, 1592

40. Queen Elizabeth I | Document signed, ordering her Military Commanders to take the fight to Spain, 1596

41. Queen Elizabeth I--Edward Squire | Signed account of an assassination plot against the Queen, 1598
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42. Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | Autograph letter signed, on his influence over Queen Elizabeth, [1594?]
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43. Santi Fantoni and Luigi Federighi | Letter to Lorenzo Corsini, [Cádiz], 1590

44. Ferdinand I, and Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperors | Series of seven letters

45. King Ferdinand II of Aragon | Document signed, regarding Granada and Montefrío, Madrid, 1510

46. First Anglo-Afghan War--Sir N.B. Chamberlain | Autograph letter signed, describing tension in Afghanistan, 1839

47. First Anglo-Afghan War--Alexander Burnes and Arthur Conolly | Letters about the "Great Game", 1840s

48. First Anglo-Afghan War--Sir Henry Rawlinson | Letter on the situation in Afghanistan, to Sir John MacNeill, 1841

49. First Afghan War--Captain Bertram Ogle | List of supplies to his Company, 1842