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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    eee a SE ee a 524 BONAPARTE (MARIA LETITIA). LETTER SIGNED AND SUBSCRIBED TO HER SON, LUCIEN. I page, 4to. Fontainebleau, 3rd November, 1809. £10 10s Stating that she has been at Fontainebleau since the Emperor’s return and giving her son the news of the family. ‘“ Je vous ecris de Fontainebleau cou je suls depuis le retour de l’Empereur, il n’a jamais été aussi bien portant. I[l ne s’est pas presenté d’occasion jusqu’ ici de parler d’affaires de famille. Ma santé est bonne mais vous savez ce qui manque a mon bonheur. . . Paulette qui est ici se porte assez mieux. Tous les autres de la famille jouissent d’une bonne santé.” Etc. 525 BONAPARTE (MARIA ALEXANDRINE, COUNTESS VALENTINI DE CANINO). Daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, younger brother of Napoleon I. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (IN ITALIAN) TO SIGNOR Dik STE: 13 pp., 8vo. Canino, 2nd December, 1844. 15s Thanking her correspondent, the Director of the Vatican Museum, for two large busts he has sent her and which she was able to place in a very good position in her house. She expresses her delight with this gift, which will always remind her of her noble friend. | She is looking forward with pleasure to his trip to Toscanella, which is not far from Canino, and where she therefore hopes to see him. 520 BONAPARTE (MARIA ALEXANDRINE, COUNTESS VALENTINI DE CANINO). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (IN ITALIAN) TO MON- SIGNORE ORSI. I page, 8vo. (16th August, 1852). 12s 6d An amicable letter thanking her correspondent for replying so quickly and faithfully to her request. She hopes to see him in Paris in October and intends to join him in Livorno. 527 [BONAPARTE (PAULINE, 1780-1825]. Sister of Napoleon I. LETTER SIGNED BY BERTHIER TO THE MEMBERS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF AJACCIO. I page, folio. Milan, 27th Prairial, An. V. ENCLOSING A CERTIFIED COPY, SIGNED BY BERTHIER, OF (Continued over)
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