Sales catalogue 570: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/115
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 570: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gramont (Philibert, Chevalier and Comte De)—continued. you. She did not raise any difficulty of any importance, at which I am extremely gratified, because of the wish I have to maintain my position in your honoured graces ; | beg you, Madame, to do me the favour to allow the affairs we have in hand together to remain as they’ are until the end of the month of July, by which time I will not fail to be with you and satisfy you. I would not be so late at all were it not | for the numerous things with which the King has commissioned me in this Pro- vince.’ 197 GREENAWAY (KATE, 1846-1901). Celebrated Illustrator of Children’s Books. | AUTOGRAPH MILE PIER VSIGN EI) 21 Ogee SUN Dees POETESS: 3 pp., small 8vo. Hampstead, 13th November, 1894. £3 3s A charming letter thanking Lady Lindsay for the present of a volume of her poems. ne It will live in my studio. J keep all the books I am fortunate enough ‘to be given there, because it is my favourite place. “* When I next see you I shall be able to tell you which of the Poems are my favourites. I know I liked ‘ Heavenwards’ and ‘ When the dawn has come, > and ‘Day and Night,’ but I like so many.’’ Ete. 198 GREENAWAY (KATE). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO REV. JOHN OLIVER. 2 pp., small 8vo. Hampstead, 1oth February, Igo1!. £3 3s ‘‘ | have read what you have written with great interest—not only because of Praise of myself which is sure to be pleasant but—because I have so much sympathy with that keeping of youth into age. . ‘‘T send you two copies of some [Bookplates] ‘designed by me, they are I know too pictorial—also I send you a little drawing which I hope it may interest you to possess.’’ 199 GREGORY (OLINTHUS, 1774-1841). Mathematician. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO REV. JAMES KIDD. 3 pp., 4to. Royal Military Academy, 29th September, 1834. 7s 6d 200 GRIMALDI (JOSEPH, 1779-1837). Famous Clown, of Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres. Immortalized by Charles Dickens. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF SEVEN COMIC SONGS. Occupying 22 pp. of a note-book. Post 8vo. Original stiff covers. Circa 1820. £2 2s The Songs are :— I had a Wife of my Own. The Odd Guinea. The Market Woman, Poll of Horse-lay-down. Eve and Adam. The Sailor’s Delight. Tol de rol de rol. 1 Parody on ‘‘ Said a Smile to a Tear.”’ Ain’t I the Pink of the Go. i Mrs. Muggins’ Masquerade (part One April the Ist. only). DOTY GODS MH OO~N
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