1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c
1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c

1785-1840's WESLEYAN & METHODIST Autograph & Holograph Collection - John Wesley, George Dawson, &c

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64 autograph items originating from the estate of the Grime family. James Grime had been a close personal friend of Adam Clarke and other early Methodists. Most of the present seem to have been obtained in person if in the autograph book and largely assembled by Grime if not. 

A total of 30 items loose and note included in the album, though some still addressed to the Grime family. The album, that of Emily Grime, James' daughter, includes 34 inscriptions, most a full page or more. 

Items include:

Two autographs and inscriptions by Jewish Missionary, Joseph Wolff.

An early handwritten copy of an unpublished letter by John Wesley [1785].

Autographs by Wesleyan Divine, John Hannah; Baptist, William Gadsby, Congregationalist, Thomas Raffles.

Autographs by Wesleyan Divine, Robert Newton; early Methodist convert and preacher, Cornelius Bayley [autograph passage from when he was an Anglican; just an extract from a minutes book or similar; inscribed by Grime]; Charles P. Villiers, one of the founders of the Anti-Slavery Society

1833 Autograph letter re: his father's books from Theodore Samuel Clarke [son of Adam it seems]

Autograph inscription of Wesleyan divine, Daniel West. 

Autograph inscription of Wesleyan divine, Joseph Beaumont

Autograph letter by English Nonconformist divine, George Dawson

1825 2pp ALS by Wesleyan Divine, James Townley

Signed quotation from John Lomas, President of the Wesleyan Conference

Signed quotation from Timothy Clarkson Ingle, Wesleyan divine

Signed quotation by Benjamin Wood, Wesleyan divine

Signed quotation by Edmund Grindrod, Wesleyan divine

Signed quotation in Tamil and English by Thomas Hall Squance, pioneer Methodist missionary to India

Full page composition by Charles Prest, President of the Wesleyan Methodist Society

Full page inscription by Mary Squance, Wife of Thomas and pioneer Methodist missionary to India

Full page inscription of Wesleyan divine, George Browne Macdonald

Full page inscription on "The Millennium" by John Morris, Wesleyan divine

And inscriptions by other Wesleyans, William Wears, John Bacon, Edward Royle, Robert Jackson, Robert Calvert, etc., etc. etc. 

Autograph album with boards detached. All generally in good, complete condition.