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Auction: 20025 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 696

Great Britain
Public Figures
A large group (35+ items) of barristers, professors, churchmen etc. including 1689 lengthy ALS giving his opinion regarding a deed or bargain and sale between "A.B." and "C.D.", perhaps hypothetical, 1736 John Conybeare (Bishop of Bristol) signed document, 1739 ALS from John Leland (Presbyterian Minister), 1978 ALS from Lord Kenyon, William Maltby signed Free Front, Sydney George Holland, 2nd Viscount Knutsford TLS, William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury ALS (2), Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury ALS, Arthur Hobhouse, Barrister group of 3 ALS to James F Torr discussing the excess of journalists and more with signed studio portrait, William Markham (Bishop of York) signed Free Front, 1817 Thomas Denman (Lord Chief Justice) ALS to Henry Hobhouse with interesting content regarding an acquaintance of Denman's who had been harshly convicted by the Criminal Court at Bombay for killing a "brother in a duel", ALS from William Stanley Clarke (Chairman of East India Club) in response to John Hobhouse's request that Indian standard and War Trophies from their museum be sent to the King, Sydney Smith (Canon of St. Paul's) ALS, May Freeling (Daughter of Postmaster Francis Freeling) ALS enclosing her Father's papers from "the war with France" (not present).

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£580