History in Manuscript: Letters and Documents from a Distinguished Collection
4 April - 13 April 2022 • London
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1 Prince Albert | Autograph letter signed, on his domestic life with Queen Victoria, to a cousin, 1843
2 Robert Aske | Autograph letter signed, arranging his visit to the monastery of Watton in Yorkshire, 1536
3 Robert Baden-Powell | Autograph letter signed, to George Kekevich, during the siege of Mafeking, 1899
5 Léon Blum | Manuscript memorandum on the Munich Agreement, 1938
6 Leon Blum | Autograph manuscript, entitled Autonomie et unite du Syndicalisme, 1946
7 Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke | Autograph letter, unsigned, to George Lyttelton, 1740
8 Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke | Autograph letter signed, to George Lyttelton, 1741
9 Joseph Bonaparte | Letter signed, to Joséphine Bonaparte, 1796
10 Joseph Bonaparte | Autograph letter signed, to Empress Josephine, on the Battle of Austerlitz, 1805
11 Brendan Bracken | Series of c.140 letters to Lord Beaverbrook, on Churchill, British politics, and other subjects, 1925-58
12 Jacques Pierre Brissot | Two autograph letters signed, with 16 other letters and documents, 1784-91
13 British Politics | Two letters, by Neville Chamberlain and Frederick Lugard, 1929-32
14 Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Two autograph letters signed, to W.H. Haggard, on the invasion of Afghanistan, 1878
15 Guy Burgess | His annotated copy of Lenin on Britain, c.1959
16 William Cecil, Lord Burghley | Autograph letter signed, on the secret delivery of bullion, 1581
17 A. Campbell | Autograph letter signed, on the death of Clive of India, 24 November 1774
18 Canada | Letter reporting on the fall of Quebec, 1759
19 Caroline of Brunswick, Queen of the United Kingdom | Autograph letter signed, to Lucien Bonaparte, 1817
20 Jean Baptiste Carrier | Document signed, with a group of other French Revolutionary documents, 1790s
21 Catherine II, Empress of Russia | Autograph letter signed, to Alexei Orlov, on his defeat of the Turks, 1770
22 King Charles I | Document signed, ordering the arrest of the "Five Members" who had fled Parliament, 1642
23 China--Treaty of Tiensin | Document outlining compensation to be paid by China, signed by the Earl of Elgin, 1858
24 Georges Clemenceau | Series of 81 letters to Admiral Frederick Maxse, 1882-99
25 William Cobbett | Autograph letter signed, complaining about Yorkshire politics, 28 December 1832
26 Richard Cobden | Autograph letter signed, to Lord Lyttelton, on the Corn Laws, 1843
27 Richard Cromwell | Autograph letter signed, to his daughter Elizabeth, on his son's election to Parliament, 1689/90
28 George Jacques Danton | Document signed, ending the employment of Swiss Regiments in the service of France, 1792
29 Joseph Denham | Series of 108 letters to Sir William Hamilton, on Napoleon's invasion of Italy, 1796-97
30 Benjamin Disraeli | Autograph letter signed, to Georgina Meredith, on the death of her brother, 1831
31 Anthony Eden | Autograph letter signed, to Lord Beaverbrook, about the Suez crisis, 1957
32 Anthony Eden | Letter signed, to Lord Beaverbrook, on the Middle East, 18 April 1958
33 Anthony Eden | Autograph letter signed, to Lord Beaverbrook, on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
34 Edward, Duke of Windsor | Five letters signed, to Viscount Beaverbrook, 1939-48
35 Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) | Printed Notice of his coronation, displayed in the House of Commons, 1936
36 Queen Elizabeth I--Privy Council | Letter refusing to allow a Papal Nuncio to visit England, 1561
37 Queen Elizabeth I--Privy Council | Letters patent, signed, encouraging horsebreeding in Cambridgeshire, 1584
38 Queen Elizabeth I--Henry Middlemore | Autograph letter signed, investigating conspiracies, 1585
39 Queen Elizabeth I | Letter signed, explaining her priorities in war-torn France to her new envoy to Henri IV, 1592
40 Queen Elizabeth I | Document signed, ordering her Military Commanders to take the fight to Spain, 1596
41 Queen Elizabeth I--Edward Squire | Signed account of an assassination plot against the Queen, 1598
42 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | Autograph letter signed, on his influence over Queen Elizabeth, [1594?]
43 Santi Fantoni and Luigi Federighi | Letter to Lorenzo Corsini, [Cádiz], 1590
44 Ferdinand I, and Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperors | Series of seven letters
45 King Ferdinand II of Aragon | Document signed, regarding Granada and Montefrío, Madrid, 1510
46 First Anglo-Afghan War--Sir N.B. Chamberlain | Autograph letter signed, describing tension in Afghanistan, 1839
47 First Anglo-Afghan War--Alexander Burnes and Arthur Conolly | Letters about the "Great Game", 1840s
48 First Anglo-Afghan War--Sir Henry Rawlinson | Letter on the situation in Afghanistan, to Sir John MacNeill, 1841
49 First Afghan War--Captain Bertram Ogle | List of supplies to his Company, 1842