MS 920 23 02 01

MS 920 23 02 01

Hannen family archive: A collection of 18th, 19th and 20th century autographs, clipped signatures and addressed envelopes

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1741-1905

1 file containing 23 items

Envelope containing signatures, some clipped from letters, visiting cards and some addressed envelopes of various British and European political, literary, artistic, scientific and cultural personalities of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, collected by various members of the Hannen family:

Envelope addressed to Charles Bowyer Adderley, Lord Norton (1814–1905), British Conservative politician, from Albert Woods, Garter Principal King of Arms, 1878

Isabel Bateman (1854 – 1934), American-British actress, 25 April 1878

Sir Henry Irving (1838–1905), English actor, 1898

Dame Alice Ellen Terry (1847–1928), English actress

Sir Walter Besant (1836–1901), novelist and historian

Horatio Robert Forbes Brown (1854 –1926), Scottish historian, specialist in the history of Venice and Italy

Robert Browning (1812–1889), English poet and playwright, at Venice, 9 Oct 1888

William Derry, [Rt Rev William Alexander, Bishop of Derry] (1824–1911)

Envelope addressed to Laura Belague by Johanna Maria Lind Goldschmidt (1820–1887), opera singer known as Jenny Lind, ‘the Swedish Nightingale’, Dec 1866

Edvard Grieg (1843 – 1907), Norwegian composer and pianist, with a line of music from Humoreske opus 6, n.d.

Envelope addressed to James Copper**? from Joseph Hume (1777–1855), Scottish surgeon and Radical MP, January 1837

Visiting card of Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828 –1906), Norwegian playwright and theatre director, with inscription in Norwegian on reverse, n.d.

Henry James, [doubtful if this signature of Henry James (1843-1916), author]

Christin[a] Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, also called Christine Nilsson (1843–1921), Swedish opera singer

Fragment of a letter from Margaret Oliphant (née Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (1828-1897), novelist and historical writer to unknown recipient; [she resided in Windsor for 30 years and produced more than 120 separate works, including novels, books of travel and description, histories and volumes of literary criticism. Both of her sons were educated at Eton College]; from Windsor Oct 2nd n.d., inscription, ‘Mrs Oliphant’ – in pencil, on reverse

John Humffreys Parry (1816 –1880), English barrister and serjeant-at-law

Envelope addressed by Sir Robert Peel (1788 – 1850), British Prime Minister to Rt Hon Sir Frederick Shaw, (1799 –1876), Irish Conservative MP and judge, January 1844

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister, signature, n.d.

Envelope addressed to William Follet Synge, author and diplomat [friend of William Makepeace Thackeray] , from Robert Lytton, poet, Jun 1878

Signature and photograph of Anthony Trollope (1815 –1882), English novelist and civil servant

Clipped letter to 'My dear ‘Bob’ [from Anthony Trollope], 39 Montagu Square, 19 April 1878

Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper (1821–1915), Prime Minister of Canada

Unidentified signature: ?L Dure [French???], signed in purple ink, letter paper of Savoy Hotel, Strand; watermark: Temple Bar, Partridge & Cooper [c. 1899-1914]

Arranged alphabetically by signatory