Sales catalogue 538: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/93
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 538: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To: CARLYLE. 98 COOPER (THOMAS, 1805-1892). Poet and Chartist. AUPTOGRAGCE LELIER SIGNED TO THOMAS CARLYLE. 2 pp., 8vo. Stoke Newington Green, 7th February, 1855. 12s 6d ‘‘T sent a copy of my new novel for Mrs. Carlyle yesterday. . . . I have even been compelled to submit to have my book baptized by the milk and water name of ‘The Family Feud.’ They would not let me call 1t ‘ Cain Colton’ lest old maids should faint at the title.’ Etc. gg GOPPARD (A. E., born 1878). Author. AU ROG AR DE TTER SIGNED tO “ DEAR CLARK.” I} pp., 4to. Henley-on-Thames, 29th December, 1928. £2 10s An interesting letter dealing with his correspondent’s literary as- pirations, etc. “Thank you very much for the book of ‘ Notes.’ Although I must confess that I have no sort of liking for the work of W.W.G., I think it very nice indeed of you to send it, and if you will not feel hurt or annoyed by this unfeeling con- fession I shall think you nicer still. ‘“ You seem to be getting your MSS. on the ‘ move,’ so keep it up and enjoy a mass of success in 1929, a combination of figures that strikes me as concealing a mystical promise of the deuce knows what! But good—O certainly !. ‘* As for your ambitions, I am a little alarmed at your ‘ desire to do good.’ Fore God, that is the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire pursued by every proselytising hermaphradite from Calvin to Joynson-Hicks. The one golden rule for the artist in his work is: I must please myself. All art should be an exercise in the way of perfection—and nothing else.’’ Ete. 100 COQUELIN (CONSTANT, 1841-1909). Famous French Actor. MOLOGRAPE LETEER SIGNED -TO HIS. PICTURE DEALER: Ota April. N.Y. I page, 8vo. £1 1s Expressing his regret at being unable to attend the opening of the exhibition of paintings by M. Menpes; he asks, however, that a cata- logue with the prices and measurements of the most important pictures should be sent to him.
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