Two Original Scrap Albums Belonging to Afred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy 1845-1918 Personal scrap albums, c. 1898/1916, one album largely containing letters to Gathorne-Hardy on a variety of subjects including his father, politics, fishing and field sports, family history, publishing, railway matters, etc., correspondents including G.W. Balfour, George Edward Lodge, Horace Walpole, George O. Trevelyan, Lord Salisbury, Lord Lansdowne, C.B. Stuart Wortley, Knollys, George Earle Buckle, Earls of Cadogan, Lord Carnavon, Heathcote, Horace Walopole, John Bright, Derby, et al, the second album largely comprising news cuttings relating to Gathorne-Hardy and his published works, including reviews and correspondence from Westminster Gazette, Eastern Daily News, Daily Telegraph, Scotsman, The Field, Army and Navy Gazette, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, plus a few publisher's agreements from Longmans, 4 printed proof illustrations with detailed pencil notes for alterations in the margins by George E. Lodge (two initialled), plus a small quantity of other ephemera including 2 photographs, all pasted and tipped on to rectos and versos throughout, a total of approximately 150 autograph letters signed (mostly c. 1907-10) and a total of 260 pages. Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy was a British Conservative Member of Parliament, barrister, railway executive and naturalist and the third son of Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, and Jane Orr. Gathorne-Hardy was an observant naturalist, a keen shot and fisherman. Besides the memoir of his father, Longmans also published The Salmon (1898), Autumns in Argyleshire with Rod & Gun (1900) and My Happy Hunting Grounds: with Notes on Sport and Natural History (1914). New spines. Heavy Books.