Large Collection of Autograph and Typewritten Letters Signed photographs of, and newspaper cuttings and other printed material relating to, various Cambridge notables and others.

Assembled by Morley Stuart, editor of the Cambridge Daily News. The bulk of an interesting collection from which the "high spot" items have been removed leaving mainly local and university interest. The collection was assembled during the first half of the twentieth century, by a figure at the political, religious and academic heart of one of England's foremost cultural centres. Approximately a hundred and twenty letters, in various formats up to and including quarto, the vast majority to Morley Stuart in his capacity as editor of the Cambridge Daily News. Generally in good condition, though mounted on loose leaves from a disbound autograph album (the original from which all items have been extracted), with occasional discolouration, creasing and ruckling. Text sometimes obscured as a result of leaves being pasted over one another, or reverses of leaves being too heavily attached to the mount. Also pasted in, as well as loose, are a large number of newspaper cuttings, one of which, entitled 'CELEBRITIES OF HALF A CENTURY | Mr. Morley Stuart's Talk to the Rotary | AN AUTOGRAPH ALBUM', gives a detailed report of a talk by Morley about the collection of which these items formed a part. In it he describes how his interest was aroused by his father John Stuart's collection of 'letters from persons in the public eye half-a-century ago', and declares his preference for 'autograph letters containing something really interesting'. Also photographs among which are large ones of 'King George VI (as Duke of York)', an 'N.U.J. Banquet to Mr Lloyd George at Hotel Cecil, Oct. 12th, 1912.', and one of 'Theodore Roosevelt at Cambridge Union Society. Inside the back cover of the binding is a photograph of someone (prob. Morley Stuart) entering Cambridge Lending Library (sign evident) with notices saying the reading room and lending library was closed.The collection contains one letter to John Stuart, from Francis Schnadhorst (founder of the National Liberal Federation). The rest of the collection contains: a letter from 'C. Greene' for J. M. Barrie (accompanied by a typed extract from the Cambridge Daily News, explaining the circumstances in which Lady Cynthia Asquith adopted that pseudonym); letters from: Charles Silvester Horne (with cutting), Dr John Hunter (Minister of King's Weigh House Church, London), Halley Stuart, Margaret A. Rygate (two, discussing the books of her mother 'Alan St Aubyn', i.e. Mrs Frances West), Lord Eltisley, Alfred Tresidder Sheppard (four), J. T. Sheppard (two), Alan Melville, Archibald Marshall (two), Conrad Skinner (two), Philip Gibbs; Edward S. Woods - Bishop of Lichfield (six - several long and friendly), 'Three Bishops of Ely', a Mayor of Cambridge: E. Saville Peck; Sir George Broadbridge (Lord Mayor of London, two), Rev. H. C. Carter (of Emmanuel Congregational Church, Cambridge - two), T. R. Glover (four), Rev. M. E. Aubrey (of the Baptist Union of Great Britain & Ireland - two), Algernon Ashton, Rev. J. P. Bacon-Phillips (with cuttings describing him as 'acclaimed world's champion letter-writer to the Press'), Geoffrey Shakespeare (on the question of slum clearance), Herbert Morrah (four-page letter expressing 'gratification for the kind and appreciative notice of my book on the Oxford Union'), Edward H. Steele, Raymond Williams (of Jesus College, Oxford), Anthony Blackwell (with cutting), Sir Pendrill Varrier-Jones, A. W. Ward, Sir William Birdwood (two, with photograph), Sir Robert Donald, Harriet E. Woodhead, the historian J. Holland Rose, Harold Temperley (two, with cutting), Lord Beaverbrook (typewritten, apparently a circular, appealing for 'guidance and direction'), 'Brilliant War Correspondent' J. M. N. Jeffries, Godfrey W. James (two), A. Lascelles (on behalf of King George VI, Marjorie Wells (on behalf of her father-in-law H. G. Wells), Joan Skipsey (University of King's College, Director of Practical Journalism, two), F. J. Mansfield ('Book Reviewer to "The Journalist"), Horace Annesley Vachell, Alec Beesley (on behalf of his wife Dodie Smith), Sir G. Sims Woodhead, his wife Harriett E. Woodhead (two), Anthony Blackwell (President of Cambridge Union Society), G. H. A. Wilson (Master of Clare College and Vice-Chancellor of the University, two), Henry Montagu Butler (Master of Trinity, five), Walter Durnford (Provost of King's College), Sir A. E. Shipley (Vice-Chancellor of the University), Sir A. C. Seward (Master of Downing College), Dr Peter Giles (Emmanuel College), G. A. Weekes (Vice-Chancellor and Master of Sidney Sussex College, three), Sir Will Spens (Master of Corpus Christi College, two), Col. F. M. Rushmore (St Catherine's College), W. Langdon Brown (Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge), Alex Wood (Emmanuel College), Henry Roy Dean (Vice-Chancellor of the University), C. R. W. Adeane (Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, two), Frederick James Higginbottom ('Formerly Editor of Pall Mall Gazette), J. P. Strachey (Principal of Newham College), Robert Fleming Rattray (first Principal of University College, Leicester - two), Canon Marshall (of the Catholic Rectory, Cambridge), Tom Clarke (editor of the News Chronicle, two), the Earl of Willingdon. Half a dozen actors' autographs include those of John Stuart ('Film Star') and Emlyn Williams.The lot, £500.00