Invoice Signed, printed heading with manuscript additions, made out to a Mrs [Madeleine] Dale with other material.

Invoice, one page, 4to, minor defects, seeks payment for "Sorting & arranging a Collection of Autographs & Letters, by an Expert, with very great care . . . [£8.8s] Mounting & Guarding nearly 400 Letters, as arranged, Paper for Mounting & carefully guarding the same | Binding the collection in 9 vols 4to. & impl. 4to. in large morocco lettered [£12.12]." Bernard Quaritch has signed the receipt. With a printed receipt completed in manuscript, signed "Bernard Quaritch" (printed), one page, 8vo, good condition, acknowledging the receipt of £5.9.0 from "Mrs Madeleine Dale. These items were in a lot which also contained two letters, one with small portion missing, total 6pp., from one autograph-collector to another ([?] Hodgson, of Rose House, Carlisle, on behalf of his collector-sister, both March 1868 to [B.M.] Benthall in the first of which the former lists duplicates which his sister would like to send to Benthall (politicians mainly aristocratic), Thackeray), asking for six autographs for her if Bentham has duplicates. He also asks if he had sent Raglan and "the late Sir James Graham" (d. 1861 perhaps indicating the approximate date of these undated letters. In the second letter, he says that his sister is pleased to send some autographs to him and at receiving some from him. She regrets that she hasn't a "Wm. Pitt". There folows in list is Bentham;s hand of the autographs sent, most fololowing the word "authenticated", one described as "Genuine , but not authenticated." These letters are accompanied by 17 pp. 8vo, of lists of autographs, in two different hands, one Benthall's, 3pp., (one headed "List of the autographs Kept by B.M. Benthall" (one dated 1888); another page headed "Duplicates". The bulk of the pages are in a different hand. Note: If this material is related, perhaps Madeleine Dale inherited the Benthall collection and had it sumptuously bound. According to a webite (Cumberland News) Catherine Hodgson bought Rose House in 1868. Note; a broether writing on behalf of his siter preserves Victorian values, unusual to find a woman collector (but Brewster's daugter-in-law - anyone else? Note to be edited: This derives from an album of autograph letters and signatures created by "Annie" (Mrs Henry Craigie Brewster), daughter-in-law of Sir David Brewster. The latter helped her with her collection by giving her letters - as a letter from him to her reveals (copy available). Brewster would have known both the parties in this item.