Sales catalogue 628: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/165
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 628: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    formed at the Haymarket Theatre, London, in 1603. [me acting’ of Buckstone and Wigan contributed to a highly successful run, but Lady Dufferin neither acknowledged the authorship, nor was she present at a single representation. ‘“I have been very much disappointed at learning that the Play is not to appear this year. There would have been no objection to its appearance, and I fully expected that it would have been brought out. Could you not arrange to do so still? ‘“ When my mother gave it to you, it was for the purpose of its being acted, and she authorizes me to say that if there is no certain prospect of your being able to bring it out she must ask you to let her have it back as she would then alter it and have it produced in some shape or other, though of course under less advantageous circumstances than if it were to appear under your auspices. ‘* If you go on keeping it in yr. pocket we shall be all dead and buried before it.is heard of.’ Htc. ewe I am most anxious to devise every means that I can think of to occupy my mother’s thoughts and to turn her attention away from the sad subjects which have been occupying her of late. If I could only get her to take some literary labour as a distraction, I feel that a great deal will have been gained and it was on that account that I had been looking forward eagerly to the appearance of her play. If that effort meets with the success, which I feel certain your assistance will insure it, it will be likely to encourage her to do something more of the same kind.’’ Etc. “. . . «I am only sorry to have given you the trouble of writing so often at a time when I dare say you are very busy; but as I had determined to be present at the first night and wd. have had to alter my plans here, in order to have crossed in time, had the day named, been the 4th. [ was anxious to know what had been settled as soon as possible. ‘“ | hope you are still pleased.”’ Dramatist. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED ENTITLED “LA CRISE 3 pp., folio, £3 10s Autograph Manuscript on the Revolution in Italy. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT ENTITLED “ CAT IANO?’ 14 pp., folio, £1 10s DOCUMENT OF THIS REIGN, I page, narrow oblong 8vo (vellum) with two seals. C. 1300. £7 10s Grant by Roger Chaumpeneys, of Erlham, and his wife Margaret, to Gilbert, son of John of Erlham, of 4d. annual rent, at Michaelmas, issuing out of two acres, of land held by the Abbot and convent of Langele.
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