Sales catalogue 601: Maggs Bros

Date:
1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/140
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 601: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    652 ARNOLD (SIR EDWIN, 1832-1904). Poet and Journalist. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED OF A POEM ENTITLED ‘“ TOUJOURS EN AVANT.?”’ Comprising four verses of eight lines each on 1 page, 4to. £1 5s The first verse of this poem reads :-— ‘‘ His Mother was a Prince’s child, His sire a crowned king ; There lacked not to his wishes wild What the broad earth could bring: Strong knees were supple at his whim Swords glimmered at his will: Brave Fortune! yet it wearied him His spirit thirsted still! ’’ Etc. THE FAMOUS RECONCILIATION LETTER. 653 BACON (SIR FRANCIS, 1561-1626). Lord Chancellor. AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO THE EARL OF BUCKINGHAM DIGNE DDS bh Ro BACON tree! I page, folio. 22nd September, 1617. With Bacon’s small wax Armorial seal. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, FRONTISPIECE). £500 Of the greatest interest and importance, being the famous letter of reconciliation from Bacon to Buckingham following their differences occasioned by the proposed marriage between Sir Edward Coke’s daughter and the Earl of Buckingham’s elder brother Sir John Villiers. Bacon was against the marriage and wrote to the King to protest against it. This occasioned a serious quarrel between Bacon and Buckingham, who were previously most intimate friends. This reconciliation letter reads as follows :— ‘‘'Yor Lps. penne or rather pencile hath purtraied towards me such mag- nanimity and nobleness and true kyndness as me thinketh I see the image of these tymes. It is the tyme of my life and not the lynes of my letter that must express my thankfullnesse, whearin if I faile then God faile me, and make me as miserable as I thinke myselfe at this tyme happy by this revyver through his Ms, singular clemency and yor incomparable love and favor.’? Etc. Accompanying the letter is the very rare portrait of Bacon by S. de Passe, 1638, which bears Bacon’s Arms at head. In 1617 Sir Edward Coke agreed to a proposal, which he had formerly opposed, of a marriage between his youngest daughter, then only fourteen, and the elder brother of the Duke of Buckingham. Bacon saw in the project, what it no doubt really was, an attempt once more to ingratiate Coke with the King. He accordingly took part with the young lady’s mother, who opposed the match, and wrote to James to protest against it. Lady Hatton took away her daughter (Continued over)
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