British Politicians and Statesmen, a collection of 19th Cent...

Hammer

£260

British Politicians and Statesmen, a collection of 19th Century autograph letters, including a number of letters to William Tite, Architect (Royal Exchange), Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885) (two letters), Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea (1810-61) letter dated 1861, Sir C H Codrington MP; and other autograph letters to other recipients comprising Lord Hartington, Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908), Agnes Strickland (1796-1874), historical writer and poet; Duke of Argyll; Marquis of Dufferin & Ava; John Bright MP (1811-89) radical Liberal statesman, orator and promoter of free trade politics, a hand written Rochdale speech of 1859, six leaves, signed; Henry Campbell Bannerman (Prime Minister 1905-08); Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), radical Liberal politician; Benjamin Jowett (1817-93), Reformer, Oxford University; Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), statesman, Lord High Chancellor, with a prominent role in the 1832 Reform Act and 1833 Abolition of Slavery Act - 2 letters; General C G Gordon, partial letter, another Pekin (sic) letter, signed (16 items)