AUTOGRAPHS. An album containing approximately 386 signatures, most many to a page and some back-to-back, including the autographs of Ernest H. Shackleton, the leaf additionally signed later by Ranulph Fiennes, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, Wilhelm Ganz (with line of music), Thomas Lloyd, Maria and Guglielmo Marconi, Sebastian Ferranti, Granville Bantock (with line of music), Gladys Cooper, Clara Butt, Alice of Albany, Harry Lauder, Prince Edward, Princess Mary, Prince Henry and Prince George, Queen Elizabeth II when Princess, Lucy and Stanley Baldwin, Caradog Roberts (with line of music) and Nellie Melba. Provenance: by family repute this album was compiled by Maude Thomas and her descendants. Note: Maude Thomas was Queen Elizabeth’s Mistress of the Robes when the then princess was attending events in Wales. Maude was also an accomplished musician playing Piano, the Viola and the Harp, achieving the accolade of ‘Harpist of the Rhondda’.