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Credit: Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![631 [HAMILTON (EMMA, LADY, 1761-1815). Friend of Lord Nelson. Wife of Sir William Hamilton. ] AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED FROM ALEX. McKINNON ADDRESSED TO VISCOUNT MELVILLE. 5 pp., 4to. London, 2nd June, 1807. ALSO PRINTED LETTER SIGNED BY McKINNON TO A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. London, February, 1802. £2 10s Two extremely important letters from McKinnon, who had been a merchant at Naples. Pleading for restitution of his property, to the value of £40,000, and giving an account of his sufferings whiist in Naples which, he states, had been ‘‘ chiefly directed by Lady Hamilton in the name of the British Envoy.’’ 632 HARRADEN (BEATRICE, born 1864). Novelist. Authoress of “ Ships that pass in the Night.’’ AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MR. COLLES. 3 pp., 8vo. 17th January (1894). 14s On her novels. 633 HELVETIUS (ANNE CATHERINE DE LIGNEVILLE, 1719-1800). Wife of the Philosopher. She was known by her kindness and her famous salon at Auteuil, which became the rendezvous of many celebrities of the time, amongst them Sargot and Benjamin Franklin. AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO MADAME DE GRAFIGNY, IN PARIS. 2pp., 4to. roth August, 17906. £3 10s Thanking her correspondent for her kindness. 624 HENRIETTA MARIA (1609-1669). Queen of Charles I. of England. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HER BROTHER-IN-LAW, THE DUC DE SAVAGE. I page, 4to. 1628. £30 A fine letter recommending the Earl of Carlisle, he being sent as Ambassador from England to Lorraine and Piedmont.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31814153_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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