Sales catalogue 634: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/170
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 634: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a ? 575 BEARDSLEY (AUBREY, 1872-1898). Black and White Artist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (INITIALS) TO LEONARD SMITHERS, THE PUBLISHER. I page, small 8vo. Paris, 29th September, 1897. With addressed envelope. £5 5s “So very many thanks for the cheque. J’étais stoné. ‘** Am glad you like the bookplate. Wagner, by the way, is not yet arrived. ‘““I am at work this very morning as ever is, at the Maupin; and love the book as much as heretofore.”’ 570 BEATTIE (JAMES, 1735-1803). Scottish Poet. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO WILLIAM STRAHAN. 2 pp., 4to. Aberdeen, 3rd December, 1782. £5 5s Written to his publisher, asking for copy-money for his ‘‘ Disser- tations Moral and Critical,’’ which was published in 1783. ‘IT wrote about six weeks ago in answer to your obliging favour of the 10 October, which inclosed the first sheet of my book; the type, the paper, and the correctness whereof are all entirely to my mind. I wish a copy of each sheet, as it comes corrected from the press, could be sent to me in franks; that I may have time to give a leisurely perusal to the whole, before publication. “I did not think, that I should have occasion to touch any of the copy- money for some time: and so I think I wrote to Dr. Rose. But I am just now in want of seventy pounds, and should be very much obliged to you and Mr. Cadel, 1f you could make me a remittance to that amount.” Ete. 577 BEGBIE (HAROLD, b. 1871). Author, Poet, and Journalist. A COLLECTION: OF EIGHT AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED TO MR. DUNN. boypp. ove. &Citca Teo1-2. ALSO THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS OF ELEVEN POEMS EXTENDING 10 17 PAGES. 8vo and Ato. £5 5s In the letters Harold Begbie mentions his literary work, and makes the following reference to his first novel :— ‘“ Knough to say that you are the first to whom I send my first’ novel and trod bless ye, Sir! ‘ But it will make a great trial of your interest in my career. It is badly done, shockingly done; some parts, when I recall them lying sleepless in my bed, make me go hot all over. At the same time it is not a pretentious book, it is just a story, & as such I fondly hope it may interest you for one of your fireside hours. Forgive its blemishes, & I promise you that my next novel shall try your faith less severely.’’ The titles of the poems are as follows :— Haters of War. The Loyalists. In-the-end-Plumer. Spring, In a Blockhouse. Pax Britannica. Midsummer’s Call. In the Garden at Khartoum. Furlough. Song of the Four Marines. Reveillé. The Loyalist.
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