Sales catalogue 576: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/120
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 576: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Woolner (Thomas)-—continued. University of Melbourne, the Council has appointed Mr. Bateman to lay it out in walks, shrubberies, parterres, etc., he having submitted his plans, which were approved, for that purpose. ‘He is likewise employed by the Authorities of Williams’ Town to lay out some land as large public gardens for the inhabitants. Also many private persons, old settlers in the Colony, have engaged his services to lay out garden Bronnos for them.”’ Etc. — 1324 WOOLNER (THOMAS). SEVEN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED TO ADMIRAL AND LADY HOSKINS. 15 pages, 8vo. Welbeck Street, London, 15th November, 1885 to 25th April, 1892. £1 1s With one addressed envelope. An interesting series of letters mentioning Coventry Patmore the poet, offering to get a portrait framed for the Admiral at a ‘‘ profes- sional price,’’ referring to the last book of the explorer Stanley ‘‘ In Darkest Africa,’’ and relating to the friendly relations between Germany and England which promised to postpone the expected ‘‘ European row ’’ for several years. 1325 WORDSWORTH (CHRISTOPHER, 1774-1846). Youngest brether of William Wordsworth. Master of Trinity College. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. I} pages, 4to. Trinity Lodge, Cambridge, 24th November, 1824. 7s 6d Regarding a difficulty in obtaining copies of his ‘* Who wrote Icon Basilike ?”’ 1326 WORDSWORTH (CHRISTOPHER, 1807-1885). Bishop of Lincoln. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO EDWARD MOXON. 4 pages, 8vo. Hampstead Heath, 4th December, 1850. £1 5s Regarding Moxon’s offer for the Bishop’s Memoirs of Walliam Wordsworth, his uncle the poet, with whom the bishop had been on terms of the greatest intimacy and whose lit@rary executor he became. ae ‘¢ . . . You make an offer for my Memoir of the late Mr. Wordsworth as OLLOWS :