INDEX

Addison, Joseph, 56, 341

Adelaide, Queen, 163-4

Agar, Welbore Ellis, 182

Albert, Prince, facsimile of letter of, 165

Aldrich, 340

d'Alençon, Duc, 34

Alexander of Battenberg, anecdote of, 144

Algarotti, letter to, 377

Alleyn, Edward, letter to, 109

Amateur d'Autographes, 58

Amelia, Princess, 134

American catalogues and books on autographs, 320, 322

American MSS., destruction of, 337;

prices, 341-2;

Civil War documents, 375

André, Major, 335-7

Arabi Pacha, 9, 11

Arago, E., 98-9

Archivist, The, 58

Arne, Dr., 365

Arnold, Christopher, 34-5

Austen, Jane, 341

Autographs, antiquity of collecting, 33-4;

tricks of collectors, 42-9;

hints to collectors, 53-9;

dealers, 60-1;

care and restoration of, 65-6;

royal, 118;

statesmen's, 172;

literary, 196-8;

naval and military, 238-41, 254;

music, drama, and art, 259-81;

collecting in America, 237-40

Bacon, Lord, quoted, 171, 361

Bailie, Mr., 37-9

Ball, Nelson's letters to Sir A. J., 370

Ball, Sir Alex., letter from Nelson to, 358

Banks, Sir Joseph, 362

Barker, Frederick, 110, 120, 197, 202, 357, 365, 370-1

Barnard, Fred, illustration by, 281

Bathurst, Earl, 111

Beaconsfield, Lord, 39, 187, 189-92, 371, 373-5

Beattie, James, 39

Beecher, H. W., 341

Beethoven, L. van, 257, 360

Belvoir, discovery of letters at, 100-1

Benjamin, William Evarts, 124

Berry, Miss, 65, 311

Bindley, James, 36

Bismarck, Prince, 40

Blackburn, Douglas, work by, 81

Blackmore, 341

Blake, William, 341

Blathwayt, R. W., 60

Blathwayt, William, 343

Blessington, Lady, 374

Blott, Mr., 38

Blücher, Marshal, 254

Bodleian Library, the, 36

Books on Autographs, 56-9, 69

Boswell's correspondence, discovery of, 96;

letter to Mrs. Thrale, 363

Bousy, Charles de, 35

Bovet, Alfred, collection of, 58-9, 69, 292

Boydell, John, 358

"Boyhood of a Great King, the," 154-5

Bradshaw, John, 355

Brahms, 365

Brandling, W., letter of, 98

Brébion, Edmund, 293

Brereton, Sir William, 355

Brewster, Sir David, 88

Bright, John, 341

Brontë, Charlotte, 353, 376, 341

Brougham, Lord, 98-9, 185

Broughton, Lord, 111

Brown, John, 341

Browne, Hablot K., illustration of, 286

Browning, E. B., 340-1

Browning, Robert, 56, 358-9

Brueys, Admiral, facsimile of letter of, 310

Bryant, W. C., 340

Buckingham, Duke of, letter of, 54;

letter to, 357

Bulletin d'Autographs, 57, 60, 292

Bunbury sale of MSS., 110-11, 366, 368-9

Burckhardt's Journal, 100

Burke, Edmund, sale of poem by, 12;

letter to from Crabbe, 65;

letter to Mrs. Montagu, 211-12;

value of autograph of, 355, 363, 368

Burns, Charles de F., 13

Burns, Robert, 341, 359, 367, 375-6

Burr, Aaron, 338

Burroughs, John, 341

Byng, Admiral John, 241-2

Byron, Lord, 69, 76, 78, 99, 341, 355, 359, 376

Caddell, Captain W., work by, 81

Cain, George, 58

Camolin Cavalry Detail Book, the, 112

Campbell, Thomas, 355, 357

"Canadie, La," 54-5

Carlyle, James, 229-30

Carlyle, Thomas, 56, 229, 341, 359, 375-6

Caroline, Queen, 139-43

Catharine of Aragon, 56

Catharine II. of Russia, 129-33

Cawdor, Lord, 105

Chamberlain, Joseph, 47

Chambers, Sir Robert, 363

Chambord, Comte de, 164, 306

Chapman, Frederic, work by, 142

Charavay, Étienne, works by, 58-9, 69, 87, 90

Charavay, Mme. Veuve G., 57, 60-1

Charavay, Noël, 13-14, 57-8, 60-1, 118, 129, 257

Charavay, the house of, 291-2

Charles Edward Stuart, 61

Charles I., 61

Charles II., 56, 365, 372

Charlotte, Queen, 162-3

Chasles, Michel, 88-9

Chatham, Lady, 38

Chesterfield, Lord, 12, 181-5, 341, 356

"Chesterfield's Letters," 67

Child, Mr., 335

Chippendale, Thomas, 357

Churchill, John, 56

Cibber, Colley, 358-9

Cleopatra, copy of forged letter from, 89

Clive, Kitty, 373

Cobden, Richard, illustrated letter of, 281;

facsimile of letter of, 287-8

Coburg, Duke of, 35, 40, 148-9, 166

Coleridge, S. T., 56, 341, 364

Collectanea Napoleonica, 110

Collingwood, Lord, 370

Collins, David, 362

Connaught, Duke of, 148

Conolly, Lady Louisa, letters from Duke of Richmond to, 368

Cooper, 341

Corot, 15

Cowley, Abraham, 365

Cowper, William, 355

Crabbe, George, 65, 100, 110, 210-11, 368

Cranmer, Archbishop, 56

Crawford, Earl of, 296

Cromwell, Oliver, 56, 120, 125, 355, 359, 376

Cruikshank, George, 277-8

Cumberland, Richard, 358

Cuyler, T. C. S., 13, 320-4, 329, 336-7, 339

Damer, Arne, 65

Darwin, Charles, 342

Davey, Samuel, 57-8

Davy, Sir Humphry, 97

Dayrolles Correspondence, 351

Deffand, Mme. du, 61

De Quincey, 341, 359

Derby, Earl of, 355

Desaix, Marshal, 303

Dibdin, Charles, discovery of songs by, 105-7

Dickens, Charles, 15, 42, 44, 56;

forgeries, 82, 84;

letters of, 220-6, 356;

value of autograph of, 356, 359, 364, 374, 341-2

Digby, Colonel, 107-8

Dillon, John, 120, 353

"Diplomatique, Manuel de," 117

Disraeli, see Beaconsfield

Doggett, Thomas, 356

Donizetti, 365

Donnadieu Sale, the, 353

Doyle, Richard, 342

Drake, Sir Francis, 359

Dreer, Ferdinand J., 338

Dryden, John, 56

Dumouriez and the Defence of England against Napoleon, 105, 369

Dumouriez, General, MS. by, 101, 102, 105, 368-9

Edward VI., 56, 372

Edward VII., facsimile of bulletin of birth of, 116;

facsimile of the early writing of, 344

Elgar, Sir Edward, facsimile of bars of a song by, 49

Elizabeth, Queen, 56, 361

"Elliot, George," 40, 357, 359

Ellis, Sir Henry, 353

Emerson, R. Waldo, 341, 376

Emmet, Dr. T. A., 13, 321-2, 324, 327, 336-7

Erskine, Nelson's letters to Sir J. St. C., 369

Evelyn, John, 201, 352

Extra-illustrating, 66-8

Facsimiles, how to obtain, 55-6

Fairfax, Lord, 355

Fairfax, Sir Thomas, 357

Fawkes, Guido, 357

Fénelon, Archbishop, 14

Fishguard Invasion, correspondence regarding the, 105

FitzGerald, Edward, 358

FitzGerald, Lord Robert, 370

FitzGerald, Pamela, 54

FitzRoy, Lord William, 38

Fletcher, Joseph, letter to, 358

Flint, Sir Charles, 129

Foote, Samuel, 357

Forbes, Archibald, 303

Forgeries, 75-91;

how to detect, 80-2, 90-1

Forster, John, 210

Fox, C. J., 111, 368

France, Anatole, 58

France, autographs of Kings of, 351

"Frank," the, 36-9

Franklin, Benjamin, letter of, 332;

facsimile of letter of, 334;

value of autograph of, 342

Frederick, Duke of York, 156

Frederick, Empress (of Germany), 168

Frederick the Great, 368, 373, 377

French autographs, 292-3

Frowde, J. A., 41

Garrick, David, 262-3, 357-8, 363

Garrick, Mrs., 263

Gascoyne, Bamber, 243

"Gatty," see Agar

Geoffrin, Mme. de, 61

George III., 56, 119, 137-42, 155, 278, 376

George IV., 161

George V., facsimile of letter of, 167

Gerothwohl, Prof., 13, 131

Gibbon, Edward, 356

Giry, A., work of, 117

Gladstone, W. E., 187-8, 342, 363, 374

Goethe, W. von, 213-4, 216, 376

Goldsmith, Oliver, 363, 368, 373

Goodspeed, C. E., 339

Gordon, General, 56, 364

Grangerising, see Extra-illustrating

Gray, Thomas, 356

Greaves, Mr., 350

Green, J. H., 364

Grenville Library, 55

Greville, C. F., 370

Greville, J., 243

Greville, Hon. Charles, 249

Grimston, Sir Harbottle, 37

Guizot, F. P. G., 40

Gulston, Miss E., 57

Gurwood, Colonel, 237

Gwinnett, Button, 321, 323-5;

facsimile of writing and signature of, 326

Haber, Louis J., sale of library of, 12-3, 211, 216, 320;

catalogue of, 340-2

Hamilton, Lady, 56, 360, 362, 367, 370, 375-6

Handel, 365

Handwriting of Kings and Queens of England, The, 117

Hanmer, MSS. of Sir Thos., 368-9

Hardy, Captain T. M., 249-50

Hardy, T., 341-2

Hardy, W. J., work by, 117

Harley, see Oxford, Earl of

Harris, J. C., 341

Harte, Bret, 341

Hawaian postage stamp, 377

Hawkins, Sir R., 359

Hawthorne, N., 341-2

Haydn, Joseph, 257, 260, 365

Hayes, William, 257

Hearne, Thomas, 36

Heber's hymn, discovery of Bishop, 96

Henrietta Maria, Queen, 355, 365, 375

Henry VII., 362

Henry VIII., 56, 118, 361-2

Heralds' College, 36

Hewson, Colonel John, 355

Hill, Sir Thomas Noël, 367

History of the Festivals of the Three Choirs, 257

Hobhouse, see Broughton

Hogarth, William, 270, 273

Holdernesse, Earl of, 155-61, 173

Holland, Lord, 368

Holmes, 341

Holmes, Thomas Knox, 263

Holst, Duke of, 34

Hood, Lord, letter of George III. to, 137-8

Hooper, correspondence of Bishop, 96

Hortense, Queen, 303

Ibrahim, Hilmy, Prince, 11

"Iconographies," the, 59

Illustrated letters, 278

Ireland, finds relating to rebellion in, 112

Ireland, W. H., forgeries of, 75-6, 196;

facsimile of, 77

Irving, Sir Henry, 341, 370-1

Ismail Pacha, 9, 11

L'Isographie des Hommes Célèbres, 58, 292

James II., 125

James Stewart, 56

Jay MSS., the, 100

Jeffrey, Miss, letter from Keats to, 363

Jekyll, Joseph, 39

Jermyn, Henry, 365

John II. of France, 118

Johnson, Dr., and Mrs. Thrale, 364, 367

Johnson, Samuel, 76, 206-10, 342, 356-7, 359, 363-4, 373

Joline, Adrian, quoted, 10, 33, 41, 66, 117, 144, 196, 337

Jones, Charles C., Jr., 338

Jonson, Ben, 372

Joseph Bonaparte (King of Spain), facsimile letter of, 299

Kean, Edmund, 80, 264

Keary, Mr. Peter, 371

Keats, John, sale of letter of, 12, 62;

facsimile of, 56;

forgery, 87;

discovery of letters of, 100;

letter of, 215;

value of autograph of, 341, 353, 359, 361, 363, 371, 374, 375

Kemble, J. P., 269

Kent, Duke of, 156

King, Thomas, 356, 358

Kipling, Rudyard, 342

Knapp, O. G., collection of, 366

Lacordaire, 42

Lamb, Charles, 216, 356, 359, 364

Landseer, Edwin, 355

Lang, Andrew, signed poem by, 343

Lansdowne, Marquis of, 80

Larochejaquelein, Louis, 110

Latimer, Bishop, 56

Lavoisier, 133-4

Lawrence, Thomas, 366

Lechmere, Captain William, 248-9

Le Neve, Peter, 36

Lenthall, William, 355

Lescure, M. de, 59

Lewes, 342

Lisbourne, Lord, 243

Liszt, facsimile of letter of the Abbé, 258

Literary Letters, value of, 352

Lloyd, Thomas, 78, 80

Lobb, Rev. Mr., 357

Lockwood, Sir F., 278;

illustrations by, 282, 285

Longfellow, H. W., 40

Longwood Household, expenses book, 111, 292

Louis XVI., 133-4

Louis XVIII., 294

Louis Philippe, 278

Lowe, Sir Hudson, 111, 254, 368

Lynch, T., 321, 323-5, 327;

facsimile of letter of, 328

Lyte, Sir H. Maxwell, 100-1

Mackey, George, discoveries amongst the MSS. of, 105

Macpherson, James, forgeries of, 75-6, 87, 342

Madan, F., 152

Mainwaring, Mrs., collection of, 373

Majendie, Dr., letter to from Prince William (William IV.), 143

Manby, Charles, 277

Marat, J. P., 359

Marie Antoinette, facsimile of letter of, 312

Marlborough, Duke of, correspondence of, 96

Marryat, Captain, 342

Marshall, collection of Mr. Julian, 364

Martin, Sir Theodore, 65, 210

Marvel, Andrew, 359

Mary, Queen, facsimile of letter of, 168

Mary, Queen of Scots, 56

Massey, Sir Edward, 355

Masson, Frédéric, 10

Mather, Cotton, 375

Mathews, Charles, facsimile of letter of, 266

Mauritius Post Office, stamps of, 31-2

Mee, Dr., work of, 259

Mendelssohn, F., 357

Meredith, George, 217, 342

Milton, John, 32, 35, 201-3, 364

Molé, Count, 309

Monmouth, Duke of, 56

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 360

Montchenu, Marquis, 111

Montesquieu, Abbé de, 294

Montrose, Duke of, 365

Montrose, Lord, 253

Moore, Colonel John, 355

Moore, Thomas, 355, 359

More, Hannah, letter of Walpole to, 206;

value of letter of Garrick to, 357

Morland, George, 274

Morris, W., autograph MS. of, 342, 363

Morrison, Alfred, collection of, 36, 68, 294, 354

Mount Norris, Earl of, 112

Mulgrave, Lord, letter to, from George III., 140

Murray, Lindley, 358

Napoleon I., 32, 62, 105;

facsimile of letter of, 123;

illustrated letter of, 278;

as letter-writer, 293-6;

value of letter of, 352, 362, 372

"Napoleon and the Invasion of England," 105

"Napoleon, Last Reign of," 111

Napoleon II., facsimile of letter of, 305-9

Napoleon, Captain James, 362

Napoleonic Correspondence, 110-11

Napoleon III., forged letter of, 90;

birth of, 303

Nelson, Lady, 244-7

"Nelson, Life of," Clarke and McArthur's, 67;

Churchill's, 78

Nelson, Lord, 32, 56, 78-80, 237, 243-9, 358, 360, 363, 366-72, 374-6

"Nelson's Hardy," 249

Nethercliff, Joseph, work by, 57

Newman, Cardinal, facsimile of autograph of, 43

Ney, Marshal, facsimile of letter of, 304

Nichols, John Gough, work by, 56

Norris, Admiral, 351

Northumberland, Duke of, 355

Norton, Hon. Mrs., 226

O'Connell, Daniel, 185-6

Oldys, William, 100

Oxford, Robert Harley, Earl of, 36

Paganini, 365

Paine, Thomas, 342

Palloy, M., 180-1

"Paradise Lost," 32, 364

Paris, Comte de, 164

Parnell Letters, forged, 90

Paston Letters, the, 99

Paterson, Colonel William, 362

Paul, Emperor of Russia, 62

Pembroke, Earl of, 358

Penn, William, 357, 359

Pennington, Mrs., letter from Mrs. Siddons to, 366

Pepys, Samuel, 374

Percy, Bishop, 357

Peters, Hugh, 357

Philbrick, Judge, K.C., 31

Phillipps, Sir Thomas, 89, 353-4

Picard, Ludovic, 42

Pigott, Richard, 90

Piozzi, Mrs., 13, 342, 363, 367

"Piozziana," 373

Pitt, William (the elder), 56, 80, 173-5, 355

Pitt, William (the younger), 175, 179-80

Poe, E. A., 41-2, 342

Pollapiolo, Antonio del, 15

Poniatowski, Marshal, 292, 303

Poole, Thomas, letter to, 364

Pope, Alexander, 202-5, 342, 368

Porson, Richard, 359

Porter, Jane, 342

Portland, Duke of, 105

Powell, S., letter to, 377

Pretyman, Bishop Tomline, 99

Prior, Thomas, 181, 361, 368

Privy Council Letter, value of, 362

Raffles, Dr., 96, 323

Raffles, Sir Stamford, visit of to St. Helena, 110;

value of autograph of, 360

Rambaud, M., 129

Ramsay, Allan, 356

Reade, Charles, 342

Reed, Lady, 138-9

Revue des Autographs, 57, 60-1, 292

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 64

Richard Plantagenet, 372

Richardson, Samuel, 342, 357

Richmond, Duke of, 368

Robertson, Ross, 55

Robespierre, 356

Robinson, John, 376

Robinson, Memoirs of Mrs., 108

Romney, George, facsimile of letter of, 274

Rose, George, 370

Rose, Dr. Holland, 10, 105, 175, 180, 293, 295

Rosebery, Lord, 41, 46

Rossetti, D. G., 342

Royal autographs, value of, 118-25;

sale of, 164

Ruskin, John, 48

Russell, G. W. E., work by, 144

St. Vincent, Earl, 358

Sala, George Augustus, 231-3

Sandby, Paul, 262

Sandeau, Jules, 42-3

Sandwich Islands stamp, 32

Scarlati, 365

Schiller, F. von, 375

Schubert, 365

Schumann, 365

Scott, Dr. H. T., 13, 57-8, 60, 65-6, 109, 201, 353

Scott, Sir Walter, 335-7, 359

Sévigné, Letters of Mme. de, 57, 76

Shakespearean forgeries, 75-9;

Wilson's letter, 109-10;

documents, 195-6

Shelbourne, Lord, 61

Shelley, P. B., 342, 370, 376

Shenstone, William, 359

Sheridan, R. B., facsimile of letter of, 265

Siddons, Sarah Martha, 84-6, 264-9, 357, 363, 366, 375

Sidney, Sir P., 351

Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Lives of the, 322

Simonides, Dr. Constantine, 89

Sims, see FitzGerald

Sloane MSS., 34

Smith, Charles John, work by, 56

Smith, William, 359

Sophia of Hanover, 126

Sotheby's, the firm of, 354-5;

notable sales at, 355-65, 369-70, 372-4

Southey, William, letter to, 359

Sprague, Rev. Dr. W. B., 323, 325, 338

Staël, Mme. de, 65

Stanhope, Lord, 180-1

Stanley, Sir H. M., 361

State Papers, 376

Steele, Sir Richard, 368-9

Stevenson, George, 98

Stevenson, R. L., 41, 342

Stoddart Sale of MSS., 375

Stowell, Lord, 370

Strafford, Lord, 368

Strode, William, 125

Sussex, Duke of, 161

Swift, 375

Swinburne, Algernon, 342

Sydney, Lord, 139

Talleyrand, C. M. de, 300-3, 311

Tayleure, William, 38

Taylor, letter to John, 374

Tedder, H. R., quoted, 348

Tefft, Israel K., 321, 323, 338

Temple, Rev. W. J., 96

Tenniel, Sir John, 44-5

Tennyson, Alfred, 216-17, 342, 356

Thackeray, W. M., 42, 56;

forgeries, 81-3;

letter of, 198, 217-20;

value of autograph of, 342, 356-8, 374

Thatcher, Benjamin B., 323

Thibaudeau, M. A. W., 68

Thiers, 40

Thoresby, Ralph, 36

Thrale, Mrs., see Piozzi

Three Dorset Captains, The, 249

Tonson, Jacob, 32

Turner, Dawson, 350

Twain, Mark, 229, 341

Tyndall, correspondence of, 96

Upcott, William, 120, 347-50;

sale of collection of, 351-3

d'Urbino, R. S., 375

Value of autographs:

Royal, 118-25;

diplomatic, 172;

literary, 196-8;

naval and military, 23-8, 41, 254;

musicians', 259;

dramatic personages, 263-4, 269;

artists', 270;

French, 303-11;

American, 342-3;

variations in, 356-77

Verdi, G., 357

Vicars, Sir Arthur, 375

Victoria, Empress of Germany, 168

Victoria, Queen, 56, 144-7, 355

Villeneuve, Admiral, 311

Voltaire, 311, 315, 355

Vrain-Lucas, 87-9, 90-1

Wallace, Dr., 110, 195

Waller, John, 120, 124-5, 238

Walpole, Horace, quoted, 8, 133-4, 205-6, 342

Washington, George, 56, 325, 329-32;

value of autographs of, 352;

facsimile of letter of, 333;

portfolio of, 372;

documents signed by, 375;

letter of, 377

Watson, G. L. de St. M., 214

Watts, Isaac, 356

Wellington, Duke of, 56, 64, 237, 253-5, 360-1, 369, 373

Wesley, John, facsimile of letter of, 232;

value of autograph of, 373, 342

West, Sir Benjamin, 369

West, James, 36

Wexford, the War in, 112

Whalley, Dr., 367

Wheeler, H. F. B., works by, 105, 112

Whistler, J. Arch., 229

White, Sir George, collection of, 68, 76, 125

White, Gilbert, 364

Whitelock's MS., discovery of, 99

Wilkinson, Miss Patty, 85

William III., 56, 126

William IV., 143, 156

William of Orange, 365

Wilson, William, 109

Wolfe, James, 375

Woollan, B. M., 248

Wordsworth, Dorothy, 56, 361

Wren, Sir Christopher, 355

Wright, Captain, 374

Yates, Edmund, 233, 356

York, Cardinal, MSS. of, 96

Young, Mr., 120, 353

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FOOTNOTES:

Transcriber's note—The following corrections have been made to this text.

Page 81: "nowledge" to "knowledge"—an expert knowledge of

Page 111: "Gourgarid" to "Gourgaud"—opinion of Gourgaud

Page 129: "Bielka" to "Bielke"—"Madame de Bielka" to "Madame de Bielke"

Page 220: "colletion" to "collection"—from the splendid collection

Page 374: "Thackerary" to "Thackeray"—Thackeray, Dickens, and others

Page 378: "von" to "van"—Beethoven, L. van,

Page 379: "Etienne" to "Étienne"—Charavay, Étienne, works by

Page 381: "Iconographics" to "Iconographies"—"Iconographies," the,