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COLLECTION Collection of autograph letters, etc., including examples by Charles Dickens (autograph envelope to Henry Mayhew, 23 October 1838, opened out), Fanny Nightingale (to the Whig politician Thomas Spring Rice, Lord Monteagle, 13 January 1855, a seven-page letter, full of news of her daughter at Scutari: “Knowing the kind personal interest which Lady Monteagle & you take in Florence I will tell you how happy he has made us in an outpouring of 13 hours, his testimony as to what she has achieved in 2 months is most valuable... another witness to her success is one of the medical men who went out in the Vestis with her, he says ‘I saw on arriving at Scutari the dreadful sufferings of its neglected Inmates... I have lately spent 3 days there & could scarcely believe it possible so much good could have been done in so short a time...’ ...Miss Stanley says of her first visit ‘It was with no ordinary feelings that we looked upon that pier & walked up that hill the places which had been the scenes of such intense suffering... at last we came to the Guard room, then thro’ a door into a large busy kitchen where stood Mrs Williams who seemed much pleased to see me, then a heavy curtain was raised & there sate dear Florence writing at a small deal unpainted table...”); William IV; a succession of prime ministers, including Liverpool, Canning, Wellington, Grey, Melbourne, Peel (informing the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he strongly disapproves of the suggested pension reforms), Earl Russell (to John Forster, thanking him for conclusion of his Life of Charles Dickens: “I shall have a fresh grief when he dies in your volume”), Gladstone (to the Chancellor), Disraeli, et al.; Henry Grattan (promising to deal with an unseasonable demand on his return from Ireland), Daniel O’Connell (to his old co-fighter for Catholic Emancipation Roger Therry, by then emigrated to Australia), Richard Cobden (a retrospect on his struggle for free trade), and others; plus a group of letters by James Yonge and other members of his family to their kinsman John Taylor Coleridge, largely about the piety and death of the Rev Duke Yonge in 1823