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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    Robert Feilding was noted at the Court of Charles II. as a spend- thrift, and in the reign of Queen Anne became conspicuous as a sur- viving relic of the rakes of the Restoration period, and endeavoured to retrieve his lost fortunes by marriage. The Duchess of Cleveland was at one time the mistress of Charles AY On goth Nov., 1705, Fielding was married to a Mary Wadsworth. He had been simultaneously courting the Duchess of Cleveland, whom he married 25th Nov., 1705. He appears to have bullied or beaten both his wives. The first wife, from spite or for a reward, told her story to the Duke of Grafton; Feilding was thereupon prosecuted for bigamy at the Old Bailey. He was convicted, after trying to prove, by the help of a forged entry in the Fleet Register, that Mary Wads- worth was already the wife of another man. He was admitted to bail, having the Queen’s warrant to suspend the sentence. Author of ‘‘ Phantasmion.”’ AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO THOMAS DE QUINCEY. 12% pp., 4to. Greta Hall. N.D. (1810). £2 10s Referring to mutual friends and concerning her intention to re-read Southey’s ‘‘ Curse of Kehama.’’ ‘‘ Southey, Tom and Mr. Rickmah are gone to Watenlath this fine day. Mr. R. does not profess to have any ereat enthusiasm for these Northern scenes. I am very glad you liked Kehama; I must re-read it, having only looked through the proof sheets as they came by post from the printer’s.”’ Ete. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. | 6 pp., 4to. Stratford-on-Avon, 11th January, 1906. £2 7s 6d Promising to write for the Tatler and going into detail concerning the origin of a photograph of her, which was a ‘‘ discreditable insult.”’ ‘ca way, MRegardiig tthe supposed ‘ portrait’ of myself which disfigured the pages of ‘ The Tatler’ [ think it but right to give you the true version of the matter. Last summer, in J uly, I and a party of friends were greatly annoyed by a common-looking man with a camera, who followed us everywhere, riding after our carriage on a bicycle and even pursuing us up the river in a boat and climbing over a fence to follow us into private ground. . .- .- This man who said he would ‘do’ for me, is the person who has now managed to ‘fool’ the illustrated press with what. he calls a ‘ snapshot’ of me. Enquiries taken up by my solicitors have proved 1. That his camera was purposely set ‘ out of focus.’ Oe Le negative was enlarged and every false line ‘ re-touched’ and caricatured.
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