Description
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An album entitled 'Military Autographs' (MS.15351), which contains fourteen photographs of British and French generals and two signatures pasted in, and which also contained a collection of autographs mostly concerning the 1st Duke of Wellington. The autographs, which were tipped in or loosely enclosed, have been removed and are kept separately (MS.15352). They consist of letters of and a few documents signed by the Duke, 1810-1847, nd, (ff.1-58), correspondence and accounts concerning dinners where he was the guest of honour, 1814-1 5, 1844-8 (ff 59-105), autograph letters of a number of contemporary generals, admirals and statesmen, 1808-77 (ff. 106-62) and a few documents relating to soldiers in the King's German Legion,1816-1817 (ff 163-5). The collection was assembled probably by or for Prince Arthur William Frederick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, whose library bookstamp is pasted inside the front cover of MS.15351. 165 ff. Folio and under
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