1830s Cambridge Undergraduate Collection Singular by John Godolphin Huish Undergraduate Trinity (1 results)

Postal history collection of 65 free franks compiled by an undergraduate at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge in the 1830s. Quarto bound in half red roan with gilt decoration over marbled boards; rubbed and marked; upper hinge weak. Bookseller's label of 'Ackermann & Co Repository of Arts. 96 Strand' to the front pastedown, below the bookplate of 'Huish Fide et Taciturnitate' with the mark left by a later and removed bookplate over it. Opposite is the manuscript title page written by Huish in red and black with a paginated contents list on mixed coloured paper stock. John Godolphin Huish matriculated at Trinity Hall in 1835, later being admitted to the Middle Temple and presumably practising as a lawyer. The collection includes a free frank sent to him by Baron Auckland as 'J Huish Esq.r Market Hill Cambridge' and another to his father, also John Huish in Derby, as well as numerous other envelopes to friends in Cambridge as well as friends and family in the Nottinghamshire area. The 65 free franks (a mark applied by hand-stamp to signed parliamentary mail in Britain 1652-1840 to indicate that the mailed item did not require postage) that make up the collection are arranged with priority given to the 4 Royal Dukes include William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire and Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk followed by 3 further Dukes; then Marquesses (4) who include Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 1812 (saw extensive action in the American Revolutionary Wars). The Earls (16) include John Lumley Savile, 7th Earl of Scarborough (1834) and Earl Manvers writing to Murray Wilkins at Caius College (1835), Earls Burlington and Lichfield, St Vincent followed by the Marquis of Lansdowne alone and then the Viscounts (6) led by Viscount Melbourne, writing in 1832 as Home Secretary to 'R Cominys Eqr Cambridge'. 24 Barons follow, including William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (great uncle of the poet) and a single Scottish and one Irish Representative Peer. 5 English bishops appear, among them the Archbishop of York, Edward Venables-Vernon, and a single Irish bishop, Stephen Sandes, Bishop of Killaloe who completes the collection. Huish's Cambridge friends who contributed to the collection include the pioneer philologist John William Donaldson, Trinity College (Baron Audley) 'A Dover' and several other undergraduates at Trinity Hall. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.