[Louisa Cornwallis, Marchioness Cornwallis.] Her Autograph Signature and votes for candidates for the Adult Orphan Institution, on its printed ‘Polling Paper for the Election of Three Contributary Wards’.

2pp, 4to. In fair condition, lightly aged, with slight damage at head from breaking of the wafer, and small spike hole at centre. Addressed on reverse to ‘Most Noble / Marchioness Cornwallis / 12 Park Crescent’. The printed statement beside this has been completed in manuscript to show that the Marchioness has twelve votes. The other side of the leaf is headed: ‘Polling Paper / For the Electio of Three Contributary Wards, / On Wednesday, December 14th, 1842, / Between the hours of Two and Four o’Clock, / At the House of the Adult Orphan Institution, / St. Andrew’s Place, Regent’s Park.’ Brief notes and a set of instructions follow. The five candidates are Miss Charlotte Jane Richmond, Miss Amelia McEw[en], Miss Amelia Pym, Miss Isabella Anne Quin and Miss Mary Ann Jones. The Marchioness has written the number ‘12’ beside each of candidates 2 to 4, and signs ‘L. Cornwallis’, dating her vote to 25 November 1842.