Autograph album.- Album of letters, free franks, cut signatures, letters and pen and ink sketches by Howard Payn, including: Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Robert Inglis, Garnett Wolseley, William Cobbett, Walter Crane, Canon Duckworth (Alice's Wonderland Duck), Samuel Meyrick, Birket Foster, John Ruskin, Wilkie Collins, Harrison Ainsworth, Canon Liddon (friend of Lewis Carroll) etc.; free franks, including: Lord Amherst, Lord Melbourne etc.; cut signatures, including: Gladstone, C.G. Gordon (of Khartoum), Robert Browning, Lord Leighton, Henry Irving (signed photograph), Squire Bancroft, Bulwer-Lytton, Anthony Trollope, Sarah Bernhardt (signed photograph), Lord Cardigan etc., together c. 180 items laid down, small quantity of cut signatures loosely inserted, 13 pen and ink sketched by Payn, including: "Boat Race of the Future"; "Amateur Theatricals. An Othello 'Break down'" etc., inner hinge broken, original half morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, g.e., contents v.s., oblong 4to, v.d., [c. 1850-90].

⁂ (1). William Cobbett ALs 1828. "Mr. Dean, I have made a bargain with Mr Akerman, to give up to him my business and house at Kent Street.

(2). John Ruskin. ALs. "Mr Ruskin is entirely unable to read, Letters of this kind - he returns these testimonials, or they would be lost in the heaps of his papers."

(3). "Tenniel ALs. "Dear Sir, If you will have the kindness to send on Wednesday - about mid-day, I think I may promise that the drawings shall be ready. I have been tormented by painters, paperhangers, & all sorts of annoyances, to the great hindrance of my work, else, the drawings would have been finished last week... John Tenniel."