Sales catalogues: Hodgson

Date:
13th- 15th June 1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/10/117
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Hodgson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    74 928 929 930 931 932 933 934 935 936 937 Third Day’s Sale, Bronté (C.) Original MS. of “‘ Verses by Lord Charles Wellesley,” 24 lines, commencing “‘ Once more I view thy happy shores,”’ 1 leaf (380n. X 2gin.), signed, “‘ C. Bronte, February 11, 1830 ”’ Bronté (C.) Original MS. of a Poem entitled, ‘‘ Memory,” 7 verses of 4 lines each, signed, “‘ C. Bronte, Oct. 2nd. 33,” 4 leaves, 8vo, mounted to roy. 8vo, with portrait, etc., red levant morocco, g.e. [1833] Bronté (C.) OnraInAL HoxtocrapH MS. or an UNPUBLISHED NOVEL [Willie Ellin], begun (but unfinished) May-June, 1853, written in pencil on 18 pages, with alterations, a particularly interesting Bronté MS., being Charlotte Bronté’s last literary effort, sm. 8vo, red crushed morocco, gilt inner borders Bronté (Emily) Original MS. of a Poem, commencing “ May flowers are opening,” § verses of 4 lines, signed “‘ EH. B. Bronté, 25th May, 1839,” 1 page (38in. x 2hin.) Bronté (Anne) Original Holograph MS. of three Poems, “ Verses by Lady Geraldine,’’ 100 lines, Dec. 1836, ‘‘ Alexander and Zenobia,”’ 274 lines, July, 1837, and “ A Voice from the Dungeon,” 54 lines, Oct. 1837, each Poem signed “‘ Anne Bronté,” on 28 pages, red crushed morocco 1836-7 Browning (KE. B.) Original Holograph MSS. of verses on “ Wisdom Unapplied,” 18 stanzas of 4 lines, with alterations, 4 pp., 8vo, and ‘The Despair & Rebuke,” 29 stanzas of 5 lines, on 6 pp., 8vo (2) Rossetti (Christina) Original Holograph MS. of ‘“‘ A Ballad of Boding,”’ ‘““ Mariana,” and ‘‘ De Profundis,” in all 13 pp., 4t0, with alterations Swinburne (A. C.) Original Holograph Manuscript of “ St. Dorothy ” (Poems and Ballads, First Series, 1866), written on 21 pages, 4to, yellow morocco extra, gilt borders and centre-piece [1866 ] Swinburne (A. C.) Holograph MS. of ‘‘ Anima Anceps ” [Poems and Ballads, First Series, 1865], 3 stanzas of 16 lines, 1 leaf, folio, unsigned, and an Autograph Album, with a Poem in William Morris’s hand (2) Meredith (G.) Two Interesting A.Ll.s. to J. W. Parker and HK. Ollier, referring to the publication of his first volume of Poems, .. . “In this first volume I hope to gain a certain position among those who best appreciate good poetry. Tennyson ... had, if I hear aright, but a doleful beginning,” signed, “‘ George Meredith,” each four pages, Weybridge, Dec. 1850, and July 1851 (2)
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