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Credit: Sales catalogue 597: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Burney (Charles)—continued. modesty to please himself in composing. ... I just wanted to hint to you that Charles’s judgment and success in making bargains have not augmented my good opinion of them in the late theatrical transaction. He is sanguine and pompous in his demands in a way that may do mischief if not complied with. If by hawking and merchandising your work he shd. make enemies of the 3 great book- sellers who seem to have offered very liberal terms, they are able to ruin, or at least check the sale of any work be its merit what it will. I shd. not wonder, if during this delay in giving an answer, it were to prepare other dependent book- sellers for treating with yr. [agent] and it shd. not be a trifling advantage that shd. make you reject the [offer of] the Triumvirate.’’ Etc. 306 BURNEY (FANNY, MME. D’ARBLAY, 1752-1840). The Famous Novelist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HER NIECE CHARLOTTE FRANCIS. 3 pp., 4to. West Hamble, 6th July, 1801. £21 Written to her niece, wishing joy to the family upon the birth of a ‘‘ fine little man.’’ The third page of the letter, also in the hand of Fanny Burney, is written as from her son Alexander. ‘¢ Joy to you, my dear Charlotte, joy to dear Marianne, and Clement, and to Mr. Broome, and to your dear mama a thousand times joy. Tell her I am delighted with the truly satisfactory account you have been enabled to send me of her safety, and her spirits, and her fine little man. . . . My Alexander is so charmed with your message, he insists on dictating his own answer.”’ Lic. 307 BURNEY (FANNY, MADAME D’ARBLAY). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (WITH INITIALS) TO HER SISTER, MRS. ESTHER BURNEY. 4 pp., 4to. Bolton, 23rd April, 1824. £6 6s A long letter entirely on domestic affairs. Giving her sister news of mutual friends, and also regarding her son Alexander, his failure as a preacher, etc. On ‘‘ Don JUAN ”’ AND ‘‘ THE ISLAND.”’ 308 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD, 1788-1824). Poet. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (INITIALS) TO JOHN HUNT. I page, 8vo. oth April, 1823. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. IV). £100 Of great literary interest and importance, mentioning ‘‘ Don Juan ’’ and ‘“‘ The Island.”’ ‘¢ T add a few lines to what I wrote last week to request that you will have ye goodness to mention to Mr. Kd. that it is essential for me to have the remaining Cantos in proof immediately that I may correct the press, as also those of ‘ The Island,’ a poem in four Cantos now received in London. The number of unpub- lished C’s of D.J. (including the 15th lately sent) is ten in all, forming three series or even three vols. with only nine, allowing three for each. ‘‘T open my letter (so do not calumniate the post) to say that I have just seen a young man late clerk to Galignani of Paris, who tells me that of all my works D. Juan is the most popular, and sells doubly in proportion, especially amongst the women who send for it the more it is abused.’’ Ete.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31663321_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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