ALBUM OF LETTERS BY HISTORIANS, POETS, AND OTHER WRITERS (ALBUM B)

including autograph letters signed by: Henry Hallam (4, to Francis Horner, on books for review in the Quarterly Review, the Peninsular War, and events in France following the abdication of Napoleon, 15 pages, 4to, 1805-15), Leopold von Ranke, William H. Prescott (6), Lord Macaulay, George Grote (3), Thomas Carlyle (4), George Bancroft (2, on happiness in town and country life "does happiness depend on the state of mind; the quiet being able to draw happiness from all that nature places round him & the disquiet finding care chasing him through hill & valley", 1827 and n.d.), William Lecky, George Ticknor (2, on American politics, 1848), Walter Scott (2), Charles Dickens (2, to Leonard Horner, one regretting that he "is not aware of having it in his power to assist Mr Horner in his great object" inspecting factories for their use of  child labour, 4 pages, 1841-43), W.M. Thackeray (3), Matthew Gregory Lewis (to Francis Horner, showing that he was right in a disagreement over the key to Absalom and Achitophel, "as it probably never will happen again when I differ from you, I could not deny myself the satisfaction of telling you", 1 page, "Monday"), Goethe (Document signed, Weimar, 3 August 1824), Schiller (to Siegfried Crusius, [Weimar, 7 February 1788]), August Wilhelm von Schlegel (2 autograph letters in French, signed), H.C. Andersen (about hearing Jenny Lind, who had given him a ticket to hear her sing [in the first production of Verdi's I masnadieri, which was written for her], 2 pages, London, 27 July 1847), Thomas Moore (to Francis Horner, on his disappointment "not to see the explanation in the Morning Post", relating to Moore's notorious duel with Francis Jeffrey, 1 page, postmarked 13 August 1806), Thomas Campbell (3, and 3 autograph poems, "I pledge to the much-loved land that gave us birth", 40 lines, 3 pages, 4to, postmarked 1809; 'Song on the Battle of Copenhagen, beginning "Of Nelson & the North", working manuscript with scattered autograph revisions, 6 pages, 8vo; 'The Turkish Lady a Ballad', beginning "'Twas an Emir's lovely daughter", 14 pages, 16mo), Samuel Rogers (6, 1840s), Richard Monckton Milnes (2), H. W. Longfellow (autograph quotation beginning "The very tones in which we spake"), Robert Browning (3, 1862-63), Ernst M. Arndt, Alfred de Vigny (3, 1848-1862), Tennyson (autograph manuscript poem, extract from 'The Princess', 16 lines beginning "Home they brought her warrior dead", signed, 1 page, 8vo), G. Giusti, Trollope (2); most items edge-mounted on the rectos of an album with photographic or print portraits on the facing versos, 58 numbered leaves, half black morocco on brown roan, upper cover labelled "B History Literature Poets", inside cover labelled "Leonard Lyell"; the album housed in a waxed linen bag; rubbed, some album leaves loose

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Francis Horner had been Jeffrey's second in his duel with Moore over Jeffrey's review of Moore's Epistles, Odes and Other Poems. The contest was forestalled by the authorities and allegations quickly arose in the newspapers that the guns were loaded with paper pellets. Moore's letter to Horner, asking him to publish his explanation of events, was written two days after the duel.