AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION - 41 leaves with 44 signatures of mainly British famous people.

Various formats, both complete letters, cut-off autographs and signatures penned on collector's cards. 19th and 20th centuries. From writers, painters and politicians to bishops, journalists, various Scots, actors and a car manufacturer. Bernard Barton (1784-1849), ‘The Quaker Poet’ Geoffrey Bennett (1909-1983), Historian and author Maeve Binchy (1939-2012), Irish writer (Arch)bishops of Cambridge, Canterbury, Manchester, Southwark and St. Asaph (not clear which), together on two leaves Robert Blatchford (1861-1943), British spirited left-leaning journalist John Gerard Braine (British novelist, 1922-1986) Peter Brook (British director, 1925-2022) Herbert Ashwin Budd (1881-1950), British painter Charlie Burchill (born 1959), founder of the Simple Minds Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909), British author of popular and children’s literature Lord Robert Cecil (British politician, 1864-1958) Envelope adressed to Hugh E.C. Childers (1827-1896), British politician Isabel Colegate (1931-2023), British author and publisher Fanny Corbaux (1812-1883), British painter Josephine Cox (1938-2020), British author Sarah Jayne Dunn (born 1981), British actress Oliver Elliott (signature of 1931; actor in the company of Hamilton Deane) Marcia Williams, baroness Falkender (1932-2019), secretary of Harold Wilson Marjorie Fischer (signature dated 1929, pulp author) James Follett (1939-2021), British author Paul Mackintosh Foot (1937-2004), British journalist Margaret Forster (1938-2016), British novelist Sir John Foster Fraser (13 June 1868-1936), a Scottish travel author. Agnes Giberne (British children's author, 1845-1939) Elizabeth Goudge (British author, 1900-1984) Robin Guthrie (1902-1971), British painter Edna Healey (wife of Denis, sign. 1986) Ian MacLaren (= John Watson, 1850-1907), Scottish author Martin Middlebrook (1932-2024), British military author Annette Mills (1894-1955), English actress William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (1877-1963), of the Morris car factory Naomi Royde-Smith (1875-1964), British author John Henry Shorthouse (1834-1903), British novelist Miriam Stoppard (born 1937), British medical author and journalist Colin Thubron (born 1939), a British travel author Joanne Trautmann, editor of Virginia Woolf’s letters John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916), an American antislavery author Donald Mackenzie Wallace (Scotland, 1841-1919), Russian correspondent of The Times J. Fisher White (British actor, played in two dozen early films, 1865-1945) Woodrow Wyatt (British politican, 1918-1997)