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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    1050 STEELE (SIR RICHARD, 1672-1729). The famous Author and Editor of the Tatler. Friend of Joseph Addison. AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPT POETRY AND PROSE IN THE HAND OF RICHARD STEELE, including :— ‘“ Prologue not to Intimidate the Audience ’’; ‘‘ Let Booth be Orestes ’’; ‘‘ Introduce a woman drunk, to be played by Cibber ’’; ‘“ Gratitude ’’; (1 page of the draft of dedication to Marlborough of Vol. IV of the Spectator) ; Play-house and Hainpton Court Accounts ; fragments of ‘‘ The Lying Husband ’’; Verses for a Prologue, etc., etc. Extending to 33 pp., folio, 4to and 8vo. £27 10s 1051 STEELE (SIR RICHARD). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HIS WIFE. I page, small 4to. N.D. £18 18s ‘¢T dine abroad to-day. . . Ihave sent Will to the Goldsmith’s in Lombard Street fore to discount some bills. J will come home early. Since the death of my poor mother, I find a growing’ melancholy encrease upon me; but hope for every happinesse in you.’’ ‘* VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE.”’’ 1052 STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS, 1850-1894). The famous author of ** Treasure Island,’’ etc. PATTOGRAPH LE CR Re See g eel. LOuW.. Wo GOSSE. 13 pp., 8vo.. Zurich. N.D. £25 A very fine and extremely interesting letter referring to his ‘“ Virginibus Puerisque ’’ and to Gosse’s poem, ‘‘ The Cruise of the Rover,’’ mentioning the money paid by the publishers, Chatto & Windus, and Kegan Paul, for literary work, and also referring to the illness of his wife, who was thought to have cancer. ‘‘ This is merely a note to tell you what I am sure will please you. It is a little triumph over a sceptic. Henley writes ‘ Gosse’s poem, the Cruise of the Rover’ is really devilish good. I am much pleased and surprised. ‘‘T am rather in hope again. I feared my wife had cancer; I had to go down to Bern to fetch her away which I did with trouble, but I have got her so far back to Davos; and I have a great hope that her illness is not so serious. . . ‘‘ Chatto & Windus gave me £100 for my book, which Paul would (practically) none of! That as against Paul’s £20 for Virg. Puer., makes a man think. I also popns out Paul in something else. O come, come away from the Kegan Paulineum.”’ te.
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