A LARGE COLLECTION OF ENVELOPES AND LETTERS CIRCA ADDRESSED TO JOHN AUGUSTUS TULK, son of Swedborgian and politician Charles Augustus Tulk (1786-1849), Most dated 1850-1870's and addressed to Mr Tulk at Spring Grove House in Isleworth, Perridge House in Longdown, near Exeter and to Champs-Élysées Paris. Some covers with early French, American, Italian and English stamps of possible philatelic interest. Most covers containing letters on various subjects from various senders. Most notable is one from the Royal College of Physicians enclosing a form for acceptance of membership, another from the Caisse Alliance, Paris. Along with a Persian prayer translated into French.

A RARE 19TH CENTURY VISITOR'S BOOK WITH EXTRAORDINARY MONOLOGUE BY GIDEON ALGERNON MANTELL (1790-1852) AND SIGNED BY CHARLES WATERTON (BRITISH, 1865 - 1782), AMONGST MANY OTHERS, With hand painted illustrations and drawings. Probably from Yorkshire country house. The entry written by Gideon Algernon Mantell, geologist and palaeontologist, Chester Square, Pimlico, December 1849: 'If I have been so fortunate as to kindle in the hearts of others, that intense desire for the acquisition of natural knowledge which I feel in my own: - or have illumined the mental vision with that intellectual light, which once kindled can never be extinguished, and which reveals to the soul the beauty and wisdom, and harmony of the works of the Eternal. I shall indeed rejoice for then my exertions will not have been in vain and although my humble name may be soon forgotten, and all record of my labour be effaced. Yet the influence of that knowledge which has emanated from my researches will endure forever, and by conducting to new an inexhaustible fields of inquiry, prove a never failing source of the most pure and elevated gratification. For to one imbued with a taste of natural science, Nature unfolds her hoarded poetry and her hidden spells: for him there is a voice in the winds, and a language in the wave, and he is ...even as one... Who by some secret gift of soul or eye. In envy spot beneath the smiling sun. See's where the springs of living writers lie!' Signed 'Gideon Algernon Mantell'.

AN ETHIOPIAN BIBLE SIGNED BY EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE OF ETHIOPIA, Signed by Selassie in 1964. Sent to Conservative MP Sir Charles Taylor (1910-1989) as a gift from the Imperial Ethiopian Embassy London with letters of correspondence addressed to Sir Charles 'Dear Sir Charles, I have much the pleasure in sending you herewith the Ethiopian Bible autographed by His Majesty, the Emperor of Ethiopia. Kindly let me have an acknowledgement of receipt. Yours sincerely, Assefaw Ledges, Charge d'Affaires a. i.' Another letter from Sir Charles Taylor to Selassie's son Prince Asfan Wossen 'My wife and I should indeed be honoured if you and the princess were free to join us for dinner during the French Festival at Grosvenor House, of which I am Chairman' and two other letters of thanks. The bible inside a large red cover.