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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    Burney (Fanny, Madame D’Arblay)—continued. of my honoured Father that you have transmitted to me in a MS. of his own hand- writing ? viz. :— ‘“ “Tt is a very great satisfaction to me that dependent as I was upon a laborious profession for myself and family, I never had a thought of any thing belonging to the sweet soul but her person and mind. Her own £5,000 jointure was almost all gone by Gomme’s bankruptcy in Russia many months before our Marriage. I knew this; and that she would lose 100 a year whenever that marriage COCR DIaCete eet Vote, 544 BURNEY (FANNY, MADAME D’ARBLAY). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (WITH INITIALS) TO HER SISTER, MRS. ESTHER BURNEY. 4 pages, 4to. Bolton, 23rd April, 1824. £6 6s A long letter entirely on domestic affairs. Giving her sister news of mutual friends, and also regarding her son Alexander, his failure as a preacher, etc. 545 BURTON (LADY ISABEL, 1831-1896). Authoress and Explorer. Wife of Sir Richard F. Burton. ; AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO LEONARD SMITHERS, Pee BIISHER: 23 pp., 8vo. London, 30th October, 1891. £1 1s Concerning the publication of a new edition of her books. F I do not think Messrs. Kegan Paul have any contract of a second nature, and they could not have given me £100 for the Second Edition if I had sold the Copyright at first, and so if a second contract turns up it will apply to the cheap edition only and not to the Original two vols. which is the only one I sh. care to reproduce.’’ CIPHER LETTER. 540 GARLISLE (LUCY HAY, COUNTESS OF, 1599-1660). Beauty and Wit. Daughter of oth Earl of Northumberland. Praised and addressed by Carew, Herrick, Suckling, Waller and D’Avenant. Intimate friend of Queen Henrietta Maria, also of Strafford and Pym; revealed intended arrest of five members. A VERY RARE AUTOGRAPH LETTER (PARTLY IN CIPHER) TO ROBERT, EARL OF LEICESTER, THE FATHER OF ALGERNON SIDNEY. 3 pp., folio. 17th October, 163g. £21 A very long and most important letter (written partly in a number cypher) to the Earl of Leicester, then on an Embassy in France. The (Continued over)
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