BRITISH HISTORY: Miscellaneous selection of A.Ls.S., a few signed pieces and free front envelope panels etc., by various 19^th century British colonial administrators, military officers and clergymen comprising James Robert Longden (1827-1891, Governor of Trinidad 1870-74, British Guiana 1874-77 & Ceylon 1877-83; referring to the expenses of his son's education, 1890), Du Pre Alexander, 2^nd Earl of Caledon (1777-1839, Governor of the Cape Colony 1807-11), William Robinson (1836-1912; last Governor of Trinidad 1885-89 and the first Governor of Trinidad and Tobago 1889-91, later Governor of Hong Kong 1891-98; regarding the omission of an applicant to Cheltenham College, 1901), James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury (1746-1820, British Minister to Prussia 1772-76, 1793-95 and British Ambassador to Russia 1776-83; discussing his travel arrangements and remarking 'I was present at the surrender of Landrecies & left the Duke of York yesterday….marching….with a corps of 10,000 men', 2^nd May 1794), Henry Hepburne-Scott, 7^th Lord Polwarth (1800-1867, Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria; in full, 'Her Majesty having dissolved Parliament, I beg to solicit the honour of your vote and interest at the ensuing election of representative Peers for Scotland', July 1847), John Moore (1761-1809, British Lieutenant-General who died at the Battle of Corunna), Marshal James Clarke (1841-1909, first Resident Commissioner in Basutoland 1884-93, Resident Commissioner in Zululand 1893-98, and the first Resident Commissioner in Southern Rhodesia 1898-1905; seeking guidance for the necessary actions to be taken in order to nominate a boy for schooling, 1895), Thomas Nettleship Staley (1823-1898, the first Anglican bishop of the Church of Hawaii as Bishop of Honolulu 1861-70; A.L.S. in the third person, asking for the relevant particulars in order to have his grandson admitted to Cheltenham College, 1896) and John Lewis (1825-1901, the first Bishop of Ontario 1861-1901; A.L.S. in the third person to the Head Master of the College at Cheltenham, 1890). A few are laid down and others show minor traces of former mounting to the versos, and all are accompanied by brief annotations in the hand of a collector. G to generally VG, 9