| Description | Marked on front cover "Relating to H.C.Wise Esq".
In the first third in the book are pasted letters, extracts from letters, envelopes with names and addresses, and autographs, some items having dates, which cover the period 1813-1870, including quotation from the Bible on card sent by Queen Dowager Adelaide (1841), letter from Palmerston to W Waller, 15 Aug 1844), note by Duke of Wellington (2 Oct 1837), letter from Ernest, Duke of Cumberland [to Strangford], 13 May 1837), a brief, undated note from Tennyson (to Moxon), part of envelope addressed to Sir W Waller from Princess Sophia when nearly blind, examples of handwriting of political figures, members of the nobility, bishops and authors, and the photograph of an unidentifed young man: the remaining two-thirds of the book contain newpaper cuttings and ephemera, relating to George Wise, dated c1858-1876, including four humourous sketches of a journey in Scotland, a pencil sketch imagining him falling over when being presented to the Queen and Prince Albert at Stoneleigh [probably 1858], cuttings on agricultural topics, parliamentary elections (in which he was standing, 1868), dinners and events at which he spoke or sang, and foxhunting. |