Sales catalogue 525: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/80
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 525: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1914 WELLESLEY (RICHARD COLLEY, MARQUIS, 1760-1842). Governor General of India. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO R. MONTGOMERY MARTIN, HISTORICAL WRITER AND STATISTICIAN. 2pp., 4to. Kingston House, 25th March, 18309. £1 5s Refers to the publication of his ‘‘ Indian Dispatches.’’ ‘“Your publication of my dispatches, during my Government of India & my Embassy in Spain, has received such repeated marks of approbation from me, that I should not have supposed any: further testimony of your merits in that matter would now be required. . . . The work cannot fail to become useful in the Public Service, as it contains an authentic record of the history of the most event- ful period of the British transactions in India.”’ Ete. 1915 WELLINGTON (ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF, 1769-1852). Field Marshal. Peon neh. UE LCER OCuoIiRD PERSON) bO. THE WARDENS OF THE GOLDSMITHS COMPANY. I page, 8vo. London, 8th February, 1844. 12s 6d ‘F.M. the Duke of Wellington . . . is much concerned that he cannot attend them on Friday the 9th inst. as he cannot consistently with his Duty omit to attend in the House of Parlt., of which he is a Member, on the day on which he will sit for the discussion of publick business.”’ 1916 WELLS (CHARLES J., 1799-1879). Poet. Wrote ‘‘ Joseph and his Brethren.”’ Se hOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (UN TT EAL) TOesR) Wo. WILLIAMS, OF SMITH, ELDER & CO., THE PUBLISHERS. 4 pp., 8vo. 4th November (1874). £4 10s A long and intensely interesting letter written from France and mainly concerning the manuscript of his ‘‘ Joseph and his Brethren,’’ which Swinburne proposed to publish, also mentioning Rossetti in con- nection therewith. The letter is penned in a humorous vein. The book was eventually published by Swinburne through Chatto & Windus in 1876. ‘*.. _. You announce to me that a Mr. Algernon . . . borne, I can’t unscribble the rest . . . du reste, ‘ what is there in a name,’ proposed to pub- lish Joseph very old; but grown older still under my hands and sooth to say—for- gotten! ‘As to ranking among the Poets,’ The days of idle ambition are past: and I wouid sell you all my fame for 2d., but there are some ideals worthy the goodness and greatness of God in that poem. It is the reason why I should wish it to be published in my proper name. It is the only reason why I consent. ‘““ If I could hope to be on the Civil list as a Moe eeeeHonehin and become
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