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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION, compiled by Miss Rebecca Smith c1858-89, with 79 pieces & letters, noted Charles Dickens; British Prime Ministers - Lord Palmerston & Lord John Russell; inventor of postage stamp Rowland Hill; Medicine - Mary Edwards Walker (only woman ever to receive US Medal of Honor), Benjamin Brodie, Sir Richard Owen; theatre - Sims Reeves, Henry Brinley Richards, Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, John Hullah; painters - Abraham Cooper, William Powell Frith, Edwin Landseer, Frederick Goodall, Edward Armitage; literature - Martin Tupper, Robert Southey, Leigh Hunt, Jean Bigelow.