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Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MANUSCRIPTS—continued. 119 EARL of Essex and the EARL of SOUTHAMPTON, 1601—Speeches before Execution—Names of Persons apprehended at the same Time: neatly written in Contemporary Manuscript, 230 leaves, sm. 4to., original vellum, c. 1601 £10 From the library of the Earl of Denbigh. DICKENS (Charles) “The UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER”: one leaf of the ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, 40 lines, a portion of the chapter, entitled, “‘ A Little Dinner in an Hour,” 8vo., written in blue ink, with alterations in black [1868] £32 It is closely written and the corrections are numerous. It was first pub- lished in ‘* All the Year Round,” Jan. 2, 1869. The following is an extract :— “ . . ‘ Waiter !’ said a severe diner lately finished, perusing his bill fiercely through his eye-glass. The waiter put down one tureen on a remote side table and went to see what was amiss in this new direction. ‘ This is not right you know, waiter. Look here, there’s yesterday’s sherry one and eightpence, and here we are again, two shillings. And what does sixpence mean ?’ So far from knowing what sixpence meant, the waiter pretended he did’nt know what anything meant. . He wiped the perspiration from his clammy brow, and said it was impossible to do it—not particularizing what—and the kitchen was so far off. ‘ Take the bill to the bar, and get it altered,’ said Mr. Indignation Cocker, so to call him. The waiter took it, looked intensely at it, did’nt seem to like the idea of taking it to the bar, and submitted as a new light upon the case that perhaps sixpence meant sixpence,”’ &c. It has been backed with invisible gauze to strengthen it. EDWARD VI.—The LIFE and REIGNE of KING Epwarp the Srx, by SiR JOHN HAYWARD: CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT, neatly written on both sides of 53 folio sheets (1620), bound in are con- temporary copies of letters, from Charles I. to the King of Denmark, &c., none dated later than 1627, sm. folio, calf, rebacked, 1620-27 £8 Sir John Hayward (1564-1627), was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth, but released after Essex’s execution. He was knighted by James I. in 1619. He was one of the few historians who hinted at foul play in the death of Edward VI. He adopts the story that the young king’s end was hastened by a ‘* schoolmistress ”—a supposed agent of Northumberland. Hayward’s Life of Edward VI. was printed and published in 1630.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30483098_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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