Autograph letters

Autograph letters, signed (some fragmentary), previously held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1787-1818

39 items

Purchased from: Tregaskis, December 1927 (acc.68020 and 68021); Mrs. Barrett, London, March 1930 (acc.91327); Puttick and Simpson, May 1930 (acc.62824); Degranges, Paris, June 1930 (acc.67390); Foster's, June 1931 (acc.67577); Sotheby's, London, July 1931 (acc.67540), February 1932 (acc.76067 and 76072) and November 1933 (acc.67472); Stevens, London, July 1931 (acc.68194) and October 1932 (acc.68323); Glendining, London, February 1932 (acc.67677), March 1932 (acc.67624), November 1932 (acc.67740) and September 1933 (acc.67766); either Desgranges, Paris, January 1936 or Glendining, London, circa 1932 (acc.69293). No accession details of nos.1, 29, 30 recorded; provenance details of no.23 not recorded (acc.67430).

See also MSS.1049, 2826 and 5215-5219.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts