Collection of nine autograph letters and receipts signed ("WH Ireland"), to the journalist Sir Henry Bate Dudley (offering to "poetize" for his paper on "any subject which may strike you"); the British Ambassador to Paris, Sir Charles Stuart (two letters, the first offering plans of the Ionian Islands and a drawing by 'Velvet' Breughel, the second justifying his price for the plans and offering "two Portfolios of MS Autographs" for 100 Francs, while explaining that "I have disposed of Signatures of Francis I – Henry. 2, 3 & 4 – Charles 9th &c for 2 Guineas each and of Lewis 13, 14, 15 & 16 at One Pound each/ the collection is consequently cheap. You will have the goodness to consider this proposition"); anonymous correspondents (explaining to one that "I am every day applied to in order to show the Shakespeare Volume of which I have spoken and in a channel where I am sure to sell", and asking the other to "state those that are to be in Sheets – Boards or Extra Boards"); the antiquarian bookseller and publisher Robert Triphook (touching him for two sovereigns); the bookseller [?Robert] Spence (looking forward to examining his "Caxtons Siege of Troy & Legend of St Robert in MS"); with an agreement signed with Colnaghi for the sale of a possible Correggio and other pictures; and a receipt in the third person for the sale at £4 of "two Miniatures of Napoleon Bonaparte", 13 pages, some tears, dust-staining etc., some mounted, 4to and 8vo, c.1809-1823