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Volume of letters arranged alphabetically by correspondent, with usually no more than one letter per person, each correspondent identified at the top of the page on which the letter is mounted, in the form of an autograph book.

Letters from Prof. G. Pryme, the Bishop of Durham, the Dean of St Patrick's, Sir Thomas Fremantle, William Webb, Lord Charles Hervey, Dr Locock, the Bishop of Ely, Mr Fell, Lord Feilding, Mr Russell, the Bishop of Madras, Lord Ernest Bruce, Archdeacon Hodson, Sir John H. Lowther, Lord Mandeville, J. G. Shaw Lefevre, Rev. H. V. Elliott, Mr Buston, and Eliot Yorke.

Album containing over 250 letters, notes, documents, unaccompanied envelopes, printed items, and photographic prints carrying the handwriting and/or autographs of sovereigns, prelates, government ministers, peers, authors, and Trinity College masters and professors, with a few unusual items in addition. The material appears to have been largely culled from the correspondence of George Peacock, his wife Frances Peacock, her father William Selwyn, and her second husband William Hepworth Thompson, with a few unrelated items. Most date from the 19th century but there are a few items from the 18th century.

Among those represented are King George III, Charles Babbage, E.W. Benson, the 15th Earl of Derby, the 7th Duke of Devonshire, W. E. Gladstone, Lord Houghton, Charles Kingsley, H. W. Longfellow, Lord Macaulay, Sir Robert Peel, John Ruskin, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, and William Whewell; there are in addition a miniature handwritten Lord's Prayer in a circle no larger than 15mm across, a carte-de-visite photograph souvenir 'balloon letter' from the Paris siege of 1870 with an image of the newspaper 'La Cloche', and a photographic print of Lane's portrait of George Peacock.

Presented to Joseph Edleston by Elliott.

Notes (arranged alphabetically) on: Joseph Babington; Matthew Drake Babington; Thomas Gisborne Babington; Thomas Arthur Babington; Francis Evans Babington; Joseph Hallet Batten; Samuel Ellis Batten; John Hallet Batten; Thomas Blundell; John Henry Brasier; Thomas Henry Babington; Henry Thomas Stephen Dicey; Thomas Edward Dicey; Henry Venn Elliott; Edward Bishop Elliott; Edward King Elliott; Charles Alfred Elliott; Julius Marshall Elliott; Henry Forster; Robert Jarratt; George King; George Stainforth; Richard Sykes; Joseph Nicholas Sykes; Daniel Sykes; John Cam Sykes; John Henry Sykes; John Venn,