[AUTOGRAPHS]. Signatures of British notables, including REYNOLDS, HARDY, ELIOT, and DOYLE.

More than 30 signatures of British notables, including politicians, artists, authors, and actors. Collection is highlighted by the following:

REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua (1723-1792). Autograph document signed ("Joshua Reynolds"). London, [?] November 1783. 1p, 8 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. (creasing, toning, loss from binder hole at top center). Receipt in the amount of "one-hundred sixty-three pounds five shillings being the amount of an account due to me by the late Earl of Errol...."

HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Autograph letters signed ("T. Hardy"). Max Gate, Dorchester. 14 November 1907. 1p, 4 1/2 x 7 in. (creasing at fold, toning, light soil). Letter to a publish giving permission to use a passage from his novel The Trumpet Major.

[With:] Additional signatures from: T.S. Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Bernard Shaw, William Makepeace Thackery, 1st Baron Lytton, Duke of Wellington, Robert Walpole, Sir David Wilkie, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Percival Christopher Wren, James Montgomery, Anthony Hopkins, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Alistair Cooke, Harold Pinter, Judi Dench, John Winston Spencer-Churchill, William Pitt the Younger,

[Also with:] A group of approximately a dozen documents and letters from English religious figures, highlighted by an ALS from theologian John Keble. Signatures from Rev. E. Henderson; John C. Holland; Rev. Thomas Binney; and others.

Property from the Augustana Collection

This lot is located in Cincinnati.