Sales catalogue 641: Maggs Bros

Date:
1937
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/171
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 641: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    99 JEFFERIES (RICHARD, 1848-1887). Naturalist and Author. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT ENTITLED “ WILDFLOWERS.” 44 pp., 8vo. (pages 3—4 are missing). S21 100 JENNER (EDWARD, 1749-1823). Discoverer of Vaccination. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MRS. CUMING. 2 pp., 4to. St. Georges Place, lst January, 1812. £10 10s Stating that the medicine he had prescribed for her was Paregoric Elixir. ‘*T am very sorry to find you are likely to have a return of your Cold. This is beginning the New Year badly; but still [ hope it may be the happiest that you and your tamily ever experienced. The medicine which I directed for you at Albion House, was simply Paregoric Elexir & I have sent to Paytherns’s to desire them to furnish you with some.” Etc. BooKCASE REPRESENTING SHAKESPEARE’S HOUSE. 101 JERROLD (DOUGLAS W., 1803-1857). Author. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF A SPEECH DELIVERED ON THE OCCASION OF A PRESENTATION TO LOUIS KOSSUTH. 3 pp., 8vo. &5 5s A very fine manuscript by Douglas Jerrold, being the speech delivered by him on the presentation to Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, of a bookcase repre- senting Shakespeare’s House at Stratford-on- Avon, and containing a magnificently bound copy of the works of the immortal bard. 102 JUNOT (ANDOCHE, Duc d’Abrantes, 1771-1813). French Marshal. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO ALEXANDER BERTHIER, MINISTER OF WAR. 2 pp., folio. Paris, 30 Brumaire, An XII. With General Berthier’s endorse- ment. £3 3s Respecting the appointment of Capt. Duvivier in place of Singlaut, dangerously wounded in Egypt. Junot warmly appreciates the services of Singlaut who had received a sword of honour, and who would die of chagrin if the intrigues of Duvivier caused him to lose the post which he had occupied so long with dis- tinction. 103 KINGSLEY (CHARLES, 1819-1875). Author of “ Westward Ho.” AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO (W. B. CARPENTER). 2 pp.,-8vo. Chelsea, 22nd June, 1855. al 5s “. . . I need not say that both I, & my father (with whom I am staying, & who is as fond of natural history as I am) shall be delighted to see you when- ever you may please to call. . . . In the meanwhile pray do not fancy me a scientific man. I am the merest dilettante & smatterer, loving knowledge without possessing it, as you will soon discover.”’ To Lorp KircHENER. 104 KIPLING (RUDYARD, 1865-1936). Famous Author. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO LORD KITCHENER. 4 pp., 8vo. Burwash, Sussex, 6th November, 1908. Filing holes affect one or two words. £15 15s An extremely interesting letter in which Kipling promises to help Lord Kitchener in his task of publishing a periodical for the native army in India. Kipling suggests four simple tales from his Jungle Book, Many Inventions and The Day’s Work, gives Kitchener full permission to use for the paper any verse or prose he has ever written, and expresses a wish to be in India to help with the work. 66 1 suggest that your editor could begin by translating some of my
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