Show easy autograph collecting the following account Is interesting as being illustrative of the attitude ot of mind of russian state officials A russian friend of mine recently showed me an extremely valuable col lection of autographs many of which were ot of untold worth amongst them were the signatures of catherine and peter the great of russia as well as of other rulers of that great empire together with autographs of famous russian ministers and states statesmen mea members of the imperial house and the signatures of a great number ot of the other european rulers many ot of them of the and centuries on expressing surprise at the ability of such a collection having been made by one person my friend re marked that he had inherited it from a relative a lady well known at the russian court and whose family was looked upon with great favor by the Roma he ile further said she had a very large circle ot of friends and was so popular that au the state officials who knew her were delighted to give her a few examples tor for her autograph collection from the papers in their charge vanity fair |