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Stoneleigh Estate, Miscellaneous personal volumes

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Volume of autograph letters, mainly literary. Includes letters from: - Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre (2), 1844 - Leigh Hunt (5), 1841 - George Howland Beaumont (1), 1823. - Benjamin Disraeli (1), 1845 - Thomas Babington Macaulay (1), 1840 - Sir Robert Peel (1), 1847 - Lady Margaret Villiers (1), 1884 - Samuel Rogers (1), n.d. - Joseph Drury (1), 1805 - Lady Marguerite Blessington (1), 1842 - Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1), 1844 - Thomas Hope, (1), 1829 - Charles Holte Bracebridge (1), n.d. - Thomas Denman (1), 1827 - Mary Drew (1), 1896 - John Scott, Lord Eldon (1), 1818 - Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of York (1), 1881 - Edward George Henry Montagu, Earl of Sandwich (1), 1890 - Major General J.H. Hall (1), 1890 - J.R. Hughes concerning the death of Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth, bishop of Chichester, 1842 - Jefferson Davis (1), 1869 - John Bright, 1879 - Henry Sidgwick (1), 1864 - Henry Philpott, bishop of Worcester (1), 1891 Other items include poems by Chandos Leigh; two letters written by his mother-in-law, Margaret Williams, when a girl, 1784; and letters of congratulation on the coming of age of Gilbert Henry Chandos Leigh, signed by senior County Officers, 29 August 1872.