Autograph album : manuscript, 1829-1846.

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Autograph album : manuscript, 1829-1846.

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Compiled by an unidentified person. Includes poetry (many poems on death, particularly the death of a child); engravings (many of churches); original watercolors, pencil and pen and ink drawings; quotations from essays, literature, and scripture; and autographs (signatures) in various hands, initialed, signed, and dated from Brighton; Kenilworth; Upminster, Essex; and other places in England. Includes inscriptions by John Clayton, John Clayton, Jr., William Clayton, George Clayton, Mary Clayton, and S. Clayton; an essay "Buy the truth and sell it not" by Joseph Fletcher, with inscriptions by Joseph Fletcher, Jr. and M. Fletcher; inscriptions by Margaret Sophia Dicker and Louisa M. Dicerk; Sarah Brown and A. Brown; David Blow and A. Blow; and others. Tipped in is a fragment of an autograph letter from Sir Walter Scott to Charles Tilt, bookseller of London; a letter from Lord Clinton [fourth Duke of Newcastle?]; signatures of Robert Peel, Thomas Clarkson, and others. Copied are works by Robert Southey, William Cowper, Hannah More, Caroline James, and others.

1 volume (104 leaves) : paper, col. ill. ; 24 cm.

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