Sales catalogue 616: Maggs Bros

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/153
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 616: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    843 BEERBOHM (MAX, born 1872). Famous Caricaturist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO LOVAT FRASER. 3 pp., 8vo. Upper Berkeley Street, 2nd February, 1910. £5 5s Thanking his correspondent for a copy of his work and continuing : ‘* My only criticism, the one dash of bitterness in my case, is that there are not more than six of these brilliant caricatures. I hope this book is the fore- runner of many others. ‘‘ It is very pleasant to find that England holds (though as I gather from your name, Scotland has produced) a caricaturist besides yours truly, Max Beerbohm (not that England produced me). I am mainly Dutch.’’ 844 BEGBIE (HAROLD, born 1871). Author, Poet and Journalist. AUTOGRAPH POEM ‘“ THE BUILDER.” Comprising 5 verses of 8 lines each, on 3 pp., 4to. With autograph signature and address endorsed. £1 5s Written at the time of the Boer War. It is addressed to the spirit of Sir Walter Raleigh as the builder of England’s world-greatness. 845 BERNADOTTE (JEAN BAPTISTE JULES, 1764-1844). French Repub- lican General, and Marshal of France, elected King of Sweden under the title of Charles XIV. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO GENERAI. MARCEAU. I page, 4to. Kerlig, 18th April, 1795. £5 5s Concerning a fire that had broken out at the village of Kottz. (Trans.):—‘‘ General Barbou has just informed me my dear comrade that during the day a fire has broken out at the village at Kottz; it was started by a child who set fire to the powder in a barn. Sixteen houses have fallen a prey to the flames.’’ LKtc. 846 BERRIDGE (JOHN, 1716-1793). Evangelical Clergyman. Friend of Wesley and Whitefield. TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED TO MISS ORTON, WHO AFTERWARDS BECAME THE WIFE OF REV. THOMAS PAW lo, tne FATHER OP THE SOU TH SHAS MISSION. 6 pages, 4to. Everton and The Tabernacle, 20th March, 1771, to 2nd March, 1776. £10 10s Asking for news of Lady Huntingdon and thanking his corre- spondent for a present of some wine. vax My Heart, thro Grace has been following Jesus for some years,
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