Sales catalogue 597: Maggs Bros

Date:
1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/138
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 597: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LETTER SIGNED (TYPEWRITTEN) WITH TWO AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS, TO DEAN FARRAR. I page, 4to. Greeba Castle, 4th December, 18096. £1 10s ‘‘ A friend sent the other day an old newspaper which is very interesting to me, but may easily be ten-fold more interesting to you, and a hundred-fold more interesting to your children. It is only a worn and discoloured old copy of the ‘ Manx Sun’ of 1847, containing a report of the Prize Day at King William’s College, when you read your prize poem and also your prize essay, and occupied your place as the head of the school; but it seems to me that if 1 were your son it would be worth more to me than its weight in gold.’’ Etc. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. | 14 pp., 8vo. Cheyne Row (June, 1850). £1 10s A letter of condolence and urging her correspondent to visit her at Cheyne Row. ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. 4 pp., 4to. Chelsea, 1st May, 1856. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. V). . £25 A very fine letter of advice to a young man who wished to follow a literary career. ‘¢T do not pretend to say that you might not, with industry, come by and by to write verses as well as very many persons do who follow that business as their trade at present. At the same time, I will explicitly advise you to renounce all thoughts of writing verse, otherwise than perhaps as an amusement and also by no means to think seriously of trying literature, in any form, as a stepping stone towards some improvement of your position in life. . . . Be chary of speech; ‘ watch well your tongue’; what you will utter and not utter; that was ever, and is still, and will ever be, the advice of the wise man to an ingenuous inquirer. Do not watch your tongue at all; try to utter everything; spend your life in pumping everything out of you in the shape of words; that truly is pretty much the universal unconscious advice just now; but you may assure yourself (so far as My poor word can assure you) it is bad advice, not to be followed; and I think the longer you live with any manfulness of purpose, the better will you see how bad such advice is.’”’ Etc. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO R. RICHMOND. 4 pp., 8vo. Chelsea, 18th September, 1845. £21 An extremely interesting letter of advice on literary matters, refer- . ring his correspondent to a letter written by Carlyle which appeared in Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal. “¢., . In general, my decided advice is that you should read a great deal of ‘history’; that you should in all ways earnestly strive to make yourself acquainted with what does exist, or has existed, as fact in this universe—properly the one kind of knowledge worth a reasonable creature’s attention, so far as I can see ;—and should exercise a very vigilant eye indeed against all that of ‘ Fiction’ ‘Poetry’ ‘Art’ ‘Fine Art’ &c. &c. as we have it in these days, which is
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