Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros

Date:: 1932

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/117

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

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$7s4 PORTSMOUTH (LOUISE DE KEROUAILLE, DUCHESS JOF). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS (DUKE OF ORLEANS). — 3 pp., 4to. N.D. (Circa 1717). £7 10s Importuning the Duke of Orleans concerning the reduction in her pension from France pleading her services to that country, doubtless in connection with the keeping of Charles II. dependent on the French King. Trans.):—‘‘. . . You do not ignore, Monseigneur, the essential. services which I had the honour of rendering the State. The reward as you know, Mon- seigneur, is of the most mediocre. I hope, therefore, that in your kindness and justice you will not reduce it. I throw myselt therefore at the feet of your Royal Highness.”’ Itc., etc. 73¢ PROCTER (ADELAIDE ANN, 1825-1864). Poet. Daughter of B. W. Procter, ‘‘ Barry Cornwall.’’ AUTOGRAPH: »POEM’ \ SIGNED; |) JENTIEEED’ “ON) “DERE CORONATION OF QUEEN VICTORIA, JANUARY 28th, 1838.’ Comprising 3 verses of six lines each on 1 page, 8vo. £2 10s Autograph manuscript of an important poem by the celebrated writer, believed to be unpublished, signed in full, “ Adelaide Ann Procter,’? and written when only some 13 years of age. ‘¢Old England boast, her joy, her pride. On Thee all our hopes abide: With the Sceptre in thine hand The Nation bows at the command: For so young and fair a Queen In old England ne’er was seen.”’ Etc. 756 PROCTER (ADELAIDE ANN). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ‘‘ A. A. P.’’ TO MRS. ANNA JAMESON, AUTHOR OF ‘‘ SACRED AND LEGENDARY ARI,” I GW ya 34 pp., 12mo. Robertsbridge. £1 5s On interesting personal and family matters, and concluding :-— ‘‘T am very glad you liked the little song.’’$

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