Palmer (Samuel) 5 Autograph Letters signed, four to John Linnell jnr. and one to William Linnell, painters, 1860-64 to William Linnell, 1861, bids the Linnells farewell on their departure for Italy, "... I hope you will fall upon the like now and then in Italy and see something which we did not, the best Italian Society", and asking for advice on how to raise a loan or mortgage to enable him to buy or lease Furze Hill House.

Garibaldi (Giuseppe) Photograph portrait signed "G Garibaldi", albumen print carte-de-visite signed on mount, in gilt frame inset in a thermoplastic hinged Union case, upper cover depicting the equestrian statue of George Washington in Washington DC, case signed F. Goll, [c. 1861].

Wagner (Richard) Autograph Letter signed to Emile Ollivier (Liszt's son-in-law, husband of his daughter Blandine, Cosima's sister), in French, 1861, on a variety of subjects including: a problem with the composer's free tickets for Tannhäuser in Paris, Wagner asks how can he find words to thank Ollivier for his quite unmerited friendship? etc.

Dickens (Charles) Autograph cheque signed "Charles Dickens" paid to "W Seagrove" for the sum of Fifty three pounds, three shillings, drawn on Messrs Coutts & Co, receipt stamp of National Provincial Bank, 1 page, printed with manuscript insertions and crossed, 1867.

Turgenev (Ivan Sergeyevich) Autograph Letter signed to "My dear friend" (?George Henry Lewes), ?Friday ?1st October [1878], announcing his return to London the next day and promising to call in the afternoon before going on to Keppel Street "which is in your neighbourhood".

Hunt (William Holman) 8 Autograph Letters signed to William Linnell, 1879-1892, with a variety of news, including: informing Linnell of the death of John L[ucas] Tupper (1824?-1879), who had been a fellow-student of the two of them; inviting him to come to view a picture; expressing his condolences on the death of Linnell's father (John Linnell, 1792-1882), and of his sister [Hannah, widow of Samuel Palmer]; asking (1887) Linnell to confirm an anecdote about John Varley (1778-1842), with Linnell's autograph copy of his response, reminiscing about Varley; a long letter written on board ship on Hunt's return voyage from his last visit to Jerusalem in 1892 etc; and another (10).

Pasteur (Louis) Autograph Letter signed [to Walter Raleigh Browne], in French, 1881, declining to write an article for Browne on account of pressing laboratory work and because he needs to write a speech in consequence of his recent election to Académie Française.

Yeats (William Butler) 3 Autograph Letters signed to [William] Linnell, 1 Autograph Letter signed to John Linnell & 1 Typed Letter signed to Katherine Riches, together 7pp., Dublin, London & Co. Galway, where Yeats was visiting Edward Martyn, [1896] & 1927, discussing the reproductions of William Blake's drawing for Yeats's articles in the Savoy Magazine (5).

Sardinia & Turkey.- Barnard (Thomas Henry).- 2 hunting journals to Sardinia and Turkey, 2 vol., typescripts, original cloth, gilt, lettered direct on upper covers, 4to, 1898 & 1902 (2).

Peard (Francis Mary, author and traveller, c.1835-1923).- Peard family photograph album, [c.1906-35].

Dickens (Charles).- Fitzgerald (Percy Hetherington) Autograph Letter signed to Israel Richards in the London office of the New-York Sun, [1910], describing the burial of Dickens in Westminster Abbey, "Though not at the funeral I attended at the Abbey in the afternoon - & went to look at the grave which had been kept open for his public to visit... and I recall being much touched as I looked down and read the letters on the coffin 'CHARLES DICKENS'".

Puccini (Giacomo, composer, 1858-1924) Autograph Letter signed ('Giacomo') to his mistress Sybil Seligman in Bournemouth, in Italian, 1917, written on his Torre Del Lago paper, but this address crossed out, concerning cloth samples he has received for a new suit and how much he misses her.

Nevinson (Christopher Richard Wynne) Autograph Letter to Pond, [1919], "I only hope my New York show at Bourgeois [Gallery] goes well. It ought to create a wild sensation as I am bringing across really good stuff... therefore it probably will not".

Shackleton (Sir Ernest Henry, Antarctic explorer, 1874-1922) and Frank Worsley (sailor and explorer, 1872-1943). Cut signatures, [early 20th century].

Artists etc.- Album mostly of loose letters to Thomas Riches, including: Bernard Berenson, Ford Madox Brown, three pamphlets describing Brown's mural in Manchester Town Hall); Laurence Binyon, Edith Holman Hunt, Sydney Cockerell, George Frampton, A.C. Benson, and several other letters and fragments, housed in a leather-backed cloth album (c. 40 pieces).

James (Montague Rhodes) Autograph Letter signed to Thomas Riches, Eton College, 1924, thanking him for photographs of manuscripts in Paris and Glasgow, promising to compare them with others, and speculating that Berenson might write "something about the style".

Housman (A.E.) Autograph Letter signed to Lady Anderson, accepting a dinner invitation, 1927.

Williamson (Henry) 2 Autograph Postcards signed and 3 Typed Letters signed (some autograph corrections) to Tom Copeman, editor of the Eastern Daily Press, Norfolk & Devon, 1941-54, giving his reasons for leaving his farm in Stiffkey, Norfolk, citing "family dissension" and the attitude of the local people, his work, and 2 typescript articles with autograph corrections for the Eastern Daily Press & a signed proof (13 pieces).

Agrippa (Henricus Cornelius) Of the Vanitie and Uncertaintie of Artes and Sciences, Imprinted...by Henrie Bynneman, 1575.