Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658

Collection of letters, documents, printed pieces, and portraits of Cromwell and his associates. Contents include 9 MS of Cromwell, 13 MS of persons associated with Cromwell, 19 printed or engraved broadsides, cartoons, etc., 22 portraits of Cromwell and 20 portraits of his associates.

An artificial collection of correspondence, financial, legal, and government documents, political memoirs, military records, literary manuscripts, and autographs relating to Great Britain, 1362-1945. An anonymous essay about Charlotte Corday, memoirs attributed to George Grenville, and writings by George Grote and Sir Henry Maine are included.

A set of nineteen posters with 112 bust portraits depicting identified men and women, primarily authors, artists, scientists, monarchs, and religious and political leaders from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a group of idealized heads illustrating characteristics identified by phrenologists.