Sales catalogue 454: Maggs Bros

Date:
1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/31
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 454: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1662 BURNEY (FANNY, MADAME D’ARBLAY, 1752-1840). Famous Author: AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED “ F. D’ARBLAY.” I page, 8vo.- N.D. £5 5s ‘“T should surely require no promise beyond that of meeting yourself; if the causes of the unwilling ‘ resistance’ you mention included me not in their nets; but the Theatre has already secured us.”’ Etc. 1663 BURR (AARON, 1756-1836). Vice-President of the United States. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO COL. JOHN NICHOLSON, i=pase, 4to. Phitadelphia (15th Feb, > 1795): £1 1s (79 . If agreeable to you, I should be glad that a meeting of the directors could be had this evening, and should be very glad to pass half an hour with you before the time of the meeting.”’ Ete. 1664 BURTON (SIR RICHARD FRANCIS, 1821-1890). Explorer and Scholar. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (‘‘PRIVATE’”’) TO JAMES S. COTTEN, ESQ. A pp., 8vo. Monfalane, 23rd April, 1881. | £1 10s ae . You tell me no secret when you say that the Academy has to econo- mise. I am not familiar with the details and therefore cannot propose anything positive. But if a few hundred pounds can improve its position I hope soon to have them in hand and will think severely about putting them into the concern. My object will not be to make money, but to raise the condition of the paper and to entreat its circulation. Then, if it become profitable I shall expect to profit by it. ‘* But don’t you thing you could modify the system of signing articles? It robs them of half their power—the anonymous. . . I, for one, ‘am quite ready to write anonymously in it, And so, doubtless, will be many others.’”? Ete.
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