Sales catalogue 513: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/70
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 513: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2369 D’ALENCON (FRANCOIS, DUC DE). LETTER SIGNED AND SUBSCRIBED ‘‘ VOTRE BON AMI FRANCOIS.” TO HIS SOLICITOR-GENERAL Me TEAXION: 4-page, folio. Du Plessis-les-Tours, 27th August, 1576. £7 10s An interesting letter referring to the answer which Catherine de Medici had given to his correspondent on some affair concerning the writer. Asking his solicitor to do his best; he himself will write a letter in which | ‘‘T humbly entreat her that for my contentment she should make no diffi- culty in this order and promise me especially that what concerns me should be sent to me.”’ 2370 DARWIN (ERASMUS, 1731-1802). Physician, Naturalist and Poet. Published the ‘‘ Botanic Garden,’’ etc. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED addressed to Mrs. Greaves at Lichfield. I page, 4to. Derby, 18th March, 1799. £5 5s A very fine letter from Erasmus Darwin, prescribing for Miss Greaves. ‘* As the medecines had previously so well agreed with Miss Greaves & then suddenly produced sickness, & that even when taken in half the dose, one should think some accidental mistake had been made in making them up. ‘‘ At all events, as she is now considerably. better, & has taken medecines so long, I think she had better for a time discontinue the use of them, or certainly not take any more of this parcel, which has so evidently disagree’d with her.’ Kite. 2371 DAVIDSON (JOHN, 1857-1909). Poet and Dramatist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. I page, 8vo. Grosvenor Club, 14th April, 1896. 18s ? ah! Bo . am very glad ‘In the brown’ gave you so much pleasure. Unfortunately I haven’ t a Copy left, and in all possibility it will not be published.’’
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