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English literature and history : including the archive and library of Dorothy L. Sayers ; the Ronald Segal collection of English literature and detective fiction ; important collection of papers of Nassau William Senior and his family, including letters by T.R. Malthus, Florence Nightingale, George Eliot, and G.F. Watts ; correspondence of Charles Dickens and Emmy Gottschalk and his presentation copy of David Copperfield inscribed to her ; important collection of books and manuscripts by Oscar Wilde ; collection of letters by survivors of the Lusitania ; fine first editions of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and others ; autograph letters and manuscripts by Frances Stuart ('La Belle Stuart'), Daniel Defoe, James Harris, first Lord Malmesbury, Aubrey Beardsley, R.L. Stevenson, George Moore, G.K. Chesterton, John Betjeman, Samuel Beckett, Lord Mountbatten, and others |