| Description | Disbound quires from an album containing mainly letters to William Robertson Nicoll, together with some earlier letters and cut-out autographs. With Nicoll's signature and date 1887 on flyleaf, and some annotations in pencil.
Includes letters of Christina Rossetti, Maarten Maartens, Lord Palmerston (1856, on Balaclava Railway), Theodor Mommsen, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (5 pages of notes on J.M. Barrie), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Browning (1879; giving permission to include sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in "Songs of Rest") among others.
Some damp damage. |