A group of letters by Sir Henry Ellis to Captain Manby about the Athenaeum Club

ELLIS, Sir Henry (1777–1869). Three autograph letters signed to Captain Charles Manby (1804–1884), London, 10 May 1850; 28 April 1864, 31 January 1865.
 
Three letters on single sheets, two on folded bifolia, one on a single leaf, each approx. 180 × 120 mm; one headed “British Museum”, two from Bedford Square; all signed by Henry Ellis. Minor folds from original dispatch, one with a small ink stain, otherwise in clean and presentable condition. Very good or better.
 
Henry Ellis, Principal Librarian of the British Museum from 1827 to 1856, has here written to Captain Charles Manby, Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers, in a sequence of letters spanning more than twenty years. The earliest (10 May 1850), written from the British Museum, thanks Manby for cards. The second (28 April 1864) acknowledges receipt of a letter and notes that Ellis’s election at the Athenaeum Club is to be renewed. The final letter (31 January 1865) reports information received from the Secretary of the Athenaeum concerning the progress of Manby’s own proposed election and undertakes to communicate further developments.
 
The three letters together relate to administrative and social business connected with the Athenaeum Club.