Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/117
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    507 ARGYLL (ELIZABETH CAMPBELL, DUCHESS OF). Wife of 1st Duke of Argyll, the Commissioner appointed to offer the Crown of Scotland to William and Mary, who was also responsible for massacre of the Macdonalds of Glencoe, 1692. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO LADY WEEM OF WEEM. 2 pp., 4to. Edinburgh, 28th May, 1712. £2 2s ‘“T bles god my daughter is very well, and the child. You may be sure iL was awake when I . . heard my daughter was in layber, but easie when found her safe abead and a fine child. I shall have thoughts of seeing you if I can possible. ‘‘T hear both my sons are to be hear this somer which [ am overjoyed at, for I hope they will make a visset to the highlands. : ‘© think the peace is further of than a month agoe.” Ete. so8 ARNOULD (MADELEINE SOPHIE, 1744-1803). Celebrated French Actress, AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO BELANGER (HER FORMER LOVER AND CONSTANT FRIEND). 8 pp., 8vo. Du Paraclet Sophie, 5th February, 1801. £7 10s Complaining of being without her correspondent’s news, speaks of the bravery of her son in the battle won by Moreau and solicits the interest of all her friends in securing for him the command of his regiment. 5090 ARNOULD (MADELEINE SOPHIE). AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO THE SAME. 4 pp., 4to. Du Paraclet Sophie, 21st February, 1795. £5 5s She refers to his imprisonment from which he has lately been released, and enters into amusing details of her household occupations and of the matrimonial adventures of her daughter. (These two letters have been published by Messrs. E. & T. Gon- court in their ‘‘ Sophie Arnould d’aprés sa correspondance et ses Mémoires inédits ’’).
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