Sales catalogue: Puttick and Simpson

Date:
18th January 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/16/185
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Puttick and Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    233 236 Zo7 240 2] _d the same, with seal If you will send up the young printer to whom you allude we will get him employment ee eV essis: Spottiswoode have promised to give him a-trial in their office . . . I thinkitisalinein which he will get on and in which Lockhart or I myself may occasionally have some chance of befriending him, ete. A.L.S., Ip. 4to, Abbotsford, 2 Aug. (1827), to the same, with geal Rees of Longmans house had been with me two days id elect ae ae young printers affair, etc. I can procure upon giving Assurances that you are not a eerson likely to embarrass the Indian Government by obliging them to send you home again . . . I spoke about you to John Murray who seemed very well disposed to be of service to you but that comes back on the old story of settling in London, ete. A.L.S., 2pp. 4to, Abbotsford, 16 October [1828 inked over], to A. Shortreed, with seal Laidlaw of Falmouth and some other friends had thoughts of assisting you with a sum of money to enter business on your own account . . . I have little doubt you would enter upon business with the utmost zeal to conduct it with wisdom and prudence . . . together with the favourable sentiment entertained of you by Mr. Murray, ete. A.L.S., l4pp. 8vo, Abbotsford [18th October, 1818], to R Shenrecd, alt covering wrapper and seal Mr. Alex Campbell a man of great musical talent and can find any original melodies and I will be much obliged to give him a recommendation or two to help him through his journey, etc. A.LS., 2p. 4to, Abbotsford, 6 April, 1831, to the same, with seal, relating to his bad health A.L.S., Ip. 4to, Abbotsford, 15 Sept. [1831], to the same, with sea this year, the Doctors have prescribed a foreign country as a thing necessary to mend my very indifferent health and I am willing at least to give it a trial though at the—by expense of changing all my habits at a late period of life, etc. more, Original MS. Poems, on 24pp. 8vo (incomplete) END OF SALE.
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