Sales catalogue 586 : Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/129
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 586 : Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON FRENCH TRANSLATIONS OF HIS WRITINGS. 487 GONRAD (JOSEPH, 1857-1924). Novelist. LETTER SIGNED: ‘*.]. G20 DOr oC MARLE SHC HIASSE. I page, 4to. Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, 21st June, 1922. £8 10s Entirely concerning his literary work, and referring to the com- plete edition of his works which was being published by the Nouvelle Revue Frangaise. AS . The passages and articles relating to Poland I ever wrote are all to be found in the ‘ Record’ and in the ‘ Notes of Life and Letters ’ so I suppose you have seen them all except one short story which appeared years ago in the ‘Cambridge and Oxford Magazine’ but not yet in any collection in book “form. I mentioned to him [M. Jean Aubry] your letter and he told me that when last in Paris he had seen the secretary of the revue ‘ Pologne’ and that they had accepted from him his translation of that short story of which the title is ‘ Prince Roman.’ M. Aubry has translated much of my work already and is engaged in doing more for the complete edition which is now being published by the Nouvelle Revue Frangaise.’’ Ete. 488 CONSTABLE (JOHN, 1776-1837). Famous Landscape Painter. R.A. AUTOGRAPH LETTER: SIGNED 10 DD. COLNAGHE 2 PDs OVO. ND: “Atezo). £8 10s Concerning a print by Ostade and continuing in a P.S.: . . Let me know the fate of my drawing of Jacques. «cy wish much to make a picture from it, about a Kit Catt. Will you request that permission for me of whomsoever may possess it.’’ The letter is signed in full, and the P.S. with initials. 489 COOLIDGE (CALVIN, born 1872). President of the United States of America. DOCUMENT SIGNED. I pagé, large folio. -Washington, -14th July, 10252 With impressed seal. £3 3s Signed whilst President of the United States, appointing Frank G. Butts ‘‘ Notary Public for the District of Columbia.’’ 490 CORELL!I (MARIE, 1864-1924). Novelist. AUTOGRAPH, LETTER SIGNED. 5 pp., 4to. Stratford-on-Avon, 11th January, 1906. £2 7s 6d Promising to write for the Tatler and going into detail concerning the origin of a photograph of her, which was a ‘‘ discreditable insult.”’ na . Regarding the supposed ‘ portrait’ of myself which disfigured the pages of ‘The Tatler’ IT think it but right to give you the true version of the matter. Last summer, in July, I and a party of friends were greatly annoyed by a common-looking man with a camera, who followed us everywhere, riding after our carriage on a bicycle and even pur suing us up the river in a boat and climbing over a fence to follow us inte private ground. . . .-This man who said he would ‘do’ for me, is the person who has now managed to ‘ fool’ the illustrated press with what he calls a ‘snapshot’ of me. Enquiries taken up by my solicitors have proved
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