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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    1016 COX (DAVID). le age LETTER SIGNED DOr THE SANDE. pp., 8vo. Harbourne, 24th January, 1353. £1 18s - q have sent the small picture which you commissioned me to aes for Mr. Bickerstaff, which I hope he will like.’ ‘Ete. ON A upd ACCIDENT. Fo 1017 GOXWELL (HENRY TRACEY, 1819-1900). Aéronaut. Made some 700 ascents, on one occasion reaching a height of seven miles. Managed War Balloons for the Germans in the Franco-German War, 1870. Established the “‘ Aérostatic Magazine.”’ AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO DR. CORRY,-OF BELFAST. APD. 3.8VOi 2-0. D £4 10s A long letter as os a balloon accident by which he and the other passengers nearly lost their lives; the accident being due to malicious damage having been previously done to the balloon. ‘¢* All’s Well that ends Well,’ and I am sure none of our Aerial party should be dissatisfied. Had the Valve line broke before so large a quantity of gas had escaped we might all have been killed. ‘* When I exhibited the Balloon at the Crystal Palace I found the day before leaving for York that some malicious person had cut the upper part of ‘the net work, and the connecting cords of the valve. . . The consequence was that the strong pulling broke them and this, no doubt, was the design of the scoundrel who did it.’’ Ete., ete. 1018 COXWELL (HENRY TRACEY). AUTOGRAPH LETIER SIGNED [O:DR. CORRY (OF BELT AST, 4 pp., 8vo. Tottenham, 11th July, 1865. £3 3s ‘“‘ First, I ascended at Nelson on Thursday, and I ascended yesterday from the Crystal Palace, and I perceive an extract from my letter to Dr. Corry in some of the London papers to-day and this evening; and IT am very glad of it because + uth will in the long run come out, and it is of importance in my case that it should € 80. ‘‘ But how [are] the poor fellows who were hurt. How is intrepid Wilson and the immortal Runge. ‘Tell him he has handed down his name to posterity by being slow. Some are too fast, but he, it appears, was slow and yet sure. But for the valve line and the unsuitable country all would have gone well. : ‘“ Last evening we had a pleasant trip of about 25 miles into Essex—Captn. Woodgate, of the 2nd Life Guards, and Mr. R. B. McMahon, related to the illus- trious French Marshal (am Irishman by the bye) accompanied me.”’ * ** On the fourth pase Gf the wetter (yerevis 2 etait or about 2 square inches, but the text is quite decipherable through it.
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