Catalogue of the renowned collection of autograph letters and historical manuscripts formed by the late Alfred Morrison, Esq., of Fonthill, and now the property of Mrs. Alfred Morrison
Subtitle: Second Portion ... : which will be sold by auction ... on Monday, the 15th of April, 1918, and four following days
Publisher: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Published: 1918
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Art collections
Notes: Lots numbered 772-1769.

Sale code: Augustus.

" ... comprising three holograph letters of Mary Queen of Scots; four letters from John Keats to Fanny Brawne; seventeen letters from Charles Lamb to S.T. Coleridge; and specimens of French rulers, statesmen, artist and authors, including C.  M©♭ryon, Mirabeau, Mme. de Montespan, Napoleon I, Mme. de Pompadour, Rabelais, Racine, Robespierre, Mme de S©♭vign©♭, Catherine de M©♭dicis, Descartes, Francis I, Voltaire, etc.; British celebreties, including Montrose, Nelson, Matthew Prior, Francis Bacon viscount St. Albans, Sir W. Raliegh, Sterne, Strafford, Swift, Richard Plantagenet duke of York, Burns, Byron, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Defoe, Edward IV, Queen Elizabeth, Sir John Falstaff, etc., etc.; men famous in American history, including Emerico Vespucci, G. Washington, General Wolfe, B. Franklin, etc.; great artists, including Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, Perugino, Leonardo da Vinci, etc."

Paged comtinuously.

Date of sale:  Apr. 15-19, 1918.

Place of sale: London.