Sales catalogue 464: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/35
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 464: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    998 COLERIDGE (SAMUEL TAYLOR, 1772-1834). Poet and Prose Writer. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO W. DAVIES (CADELL & DAVIES). Boo ato. Highgate, 20th fipril; 1310. Inlaid to folio size, and bound, together with four portraits, in limp morocco. £7 7s A very fine letter,. speaking with fatherly pride of his eldest son’s success at Oxford, and concluding with a reference to the small pay- ment he received for his literary work. a I have got one other Son, whose Abilities, Principles, and Industry, are as great a Blessing to me as his Brother is. I am in hopes that [ shall be able to send him to college in about a year, at least, I shall struggle very hard for it—and it is this which more than all else makes me anxious to form some honourable engagement that may bring me in something. For hitherto my literary toils have been more profitable to others than myself, in fact, with exception of the five guineas a week which I earned during the time I wrote regularly for the Morning Post and Courier, I have lost money instead of gaining. But God’s Will be done! I have retained a calm Conscience, and my Children will inherit my Principles at least, and have been educated in the best sense of the word. And these are Blessings for which even Poverty and Detraction are but light Counterweights.’’ Ete. 999 COLERIDGE (SAMUEL TAYLOR). ROLOGR Al GREEOVERSI SIGNED COS.T-C.”*) Comprising 4 lines on. 1 page, oblong 8vo. N.D. Circa 1822. £1 1s A verse originally composed by the Poet when 15 years of age. 1000 GOLLINS (W. WILKIE, 1824-1889). Novelist and Dramatist. MOOT OGRAPTCEE TITER SIGNED TO HOLLINGSHEAD. 2 pp., ovo.. Gloucester Place, rst:|ume, 18060. 7 £1 5s A very fine letter as to a dramatic novel he was writing. ‘‘ As to my piece, I have been making some changes in it (taking out the bedroom scene for one)—and I have been considering the end. JI am not at all sure that it won’t be Tragic. At any rate, it will be strong drama. I suspect making the flesh of ‘ drawing room audiences ° creep, and the hair of women (if they have any of their own) stand on end. Under these circumstances I have decided on trying this story in the book-market as well as on the stage, and its dr ae production is therefore inevitably put off. ‘As a novelist, I can hold my audience, when I have once got them, and lead ee (whether they like it or not) to the end.” Etc.
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