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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    Cromwell (Oliver)—-continued. to as neere an issue as they are capeable off (I not beeinge att libertye by reason of publicke occasions to waite upon you) I thought fitt to send Mr. Stapleton instructed wth my minde to see how neere we may come to an understandinge one of another therein, and although I could have wished the consideration of thinges had beene- betweene us two it being of so much concernment, yett Providence for the present not allowinge I desire you to give him credence on my behalfe . . . . desiring the Lord to order this affaire to his glory and the comfort of his servants.’’ * * * Richard Major has written in shorthand on the blank fly-leaf of the letter evidently a:draft of his reply. 1022 GROMWELL (OLIVER). LETTER SIGNED TO COLONEL RICHARD NORTON, I page, 4to. Whitehall, 19th November, 1655. £21 ‘‘T understand Colo: Goffe will be at Winchester to-morrow. I hope you will assist him wth yr countenance. He is honest, & soe is his business, whosoever shall say to the contrary, and if securitie be judged necessary to be provided for against: Malignts and Papists, if Reformation of wickednesses be a part of the returne wee owe to God, then my Assertion is true.’”’ Ete. * * *> Thevetteras justva. littlesstained, Golle was-one of Crom— well’s principal followers. He fled to Massachusetts at the Restoration. 1023 CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE, 1792-1878). Artist and Caricaturist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO ROBERT HUNT, ESQ. 2 pp., 8vo. Hampstead Road, 30th December, 1864. £2 2s e I had the proof sheets brought up to me, & have been reading the whole of the first series through again . . . . but I cannot tell until I get into my studio whether there are any more sheets or not of the second series. I trust that I shall be able to get to work again in a day or so.’”’ Ete. 1024 GRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO C. R. JOHNSON, ESQ. I page, 8vo. Hampstead Road, 2nd February, 1866. £1 18s ‘“Mr. Dorsett, the secretary of the ‘ Havelocks,’ wrote to me to request: that J should send a cheque to you by post—for the Rent of our ‘ Headquarters.” As I do not like to send cheques by post, I write to say that I shall be in the city on Saturday or Monday.”’
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