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Lot 263

LITERATURE, ART AND VICTORIANA
Collection formed by Dawson William Turner, comprising letters addressed directly to him, with letters evidently given him by the playwright and editor of Punch, Tom Taylor, and secured from other sources, including Robert Browning, Anthony Trollope, John Stewart Mill, Edward Burne-Jones, Ernest Shackleton and many others

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London, Knightsbridge

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LITERATURE, ART AND VICTORIANA

Collection formed by Dawson William Turner, comprising letters addressed directly to him, with letters evidently given him by the playwright and editor of Punch, Tom Taylor, and secured from other sources; the collection with a few additions made by his descendants; comprising some 350 autograph letters, cut signatures etc., by Robert Browning, Anthony Trollope, John Stuart Mill (to Rathbone of Liverpool about a reform meeting), A.H. Clough, Matthew Arnold, William Morris (two), Allan Cunningham, George Meredith, William Holman Hunt (to Tom Taylor, who is setting off for Jerusalem in 1858: "Mr Lear is now in Syria – he will have left ere you get a photographer in Jerusalem – an old friend of mine – he will afford you information as to Lears experiences with dragoman &c"), Edward Burne-Jones, J.E. Millais, John Tenniel, John Linnell, Charles Keene (two fine Punch tailpieces in pen-and-wash), Charles Spurgeon, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Sir Richard Burton (Arabic inscription), Ernest Shackleton (presentation signature), Cardinals Newman and Manning, Dean Liddell and Robert Scott, William Younghusband, William Boxall (group, to Lady Eastlake), Thomas Hughes, C.M. Yonge, Charles Reade, Stanley Baldwin (group of affectionate letters to Mrs Woodward, one written seven days after the Abdication – "I am happy because the right thing has happened in the right way. It has been a most anxious time for many months"), Queen Victoria (two signed commissions), Garibaldi (letter signed), A.H. Layard, J.B.L. Noel (signed and inscribed commemorative card from Everest, with stamps, postmarked Rongbuk Glacier Base Camp, 10 October 1924), George Pulman (about his railway service), and others including royalty, nobility and clergy, mostly mounted on unbound album sheets, in a red Victorian folder stamped with the initials M.J.W, half calf, 4to,

Footnotes

'MR LEAR IS NOW IN SYRIA' – a wide-ranging collection, formed by the only son of the great collector Dawson Turner: for letters addressed to his nephew Joseph Dalton Hooker, see lot 59. The collection was formed for his daughter, Mary Jane (1852-1945), who married Robert Woodward of Arley Castle, Worcestershire; and has remained in her family.

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Only one of the commissions included in this lot is signed by Queen Victoria.

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