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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826 THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE, 1811-1863). Novelist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (INITIALS) Wilh THE CON? CLUSION. WRITTEN INSIDE ENVELOPE, JO MRS PERRY 2 pp., Svo. Past Cape Race, 22nd October (1855). £37 10s A most interesting and amusing letter, written while on his second voyage to America, where he was to give a new series of lectures. ‘c.,)6.)«6hThis day week [ think it was we passed Cape Clear. The week has seemed about a year. It has been awfully stupid: it has blown every way, soft, hard, very hard, in our teeth, in our starn; the sea has been mountings high; it has not been sick that is the present heroic Nelson has not except once a very little in the midst of a very little shivering fit. ie, ‘¢ Shall [I give you sarcastic accounts of my fellow passengers? of that con- founded old Massachusetts Ex-lady-school-mistress who talks platitudes all dinner and breakfast & tea & lunch too, only I don’t go there. . . No, we won’t make tun of the passengers. We are too old to care for those jokes. What do we care that some of the Americans are not over refined; the Germans very greedy especi- ally that broot who sits opposite and I declare has taken port & currant jelly, cucumbers & oil and vinegar, all with the same knife. There are Jews of Poland & Almagne who are both odious and amusing, but at our age, with our matured politeness, these details become insignificant and disagreeable even. Heaven bless the man! Why he has nothing to say? . . . What a comfort it is that women in our country are unlike the women of this and are comfortable & pleasant to look at. This is suggested by a wizened old American hag of 35 who passes. She was a beauty 15 years ago (suppose the wind should blow this paper to her & her husband or she pick it up & read it? Lor!) We remain quite good looking up to 50, 60, 70, don’t we? Time doesn’t hurt the dear kind old faces.’’ Ete. 827 THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. I page, 4to. Ferrybridge, 15th lebruary, 1657- £8 15s Regarding his lectures. ‘¢T received your letter this morning as | was leaving Halifax and exceedingly regret that I should have caused trouble and disappointment to my Auditory at Leeds. I would not communicate sooner with you hoping until the last that | should have been able to keep my engagement for Friday, but even on Saturday night I had only just strength to get through my work at Halifax.’’ Ete. BOMBARDMENT OF COPENHAGEN, 1807. 828 THORKELIN (GRIM JONSSON, 1752-1829). Famous Danish Anti- quary. Keeper of the Royal Archives of Denmark and Norway. A LENGTHY AUTOGRAPH LETTER StanE DN ENGLISH) 20 THE LARL OF BUCHAN: 9 pp:, 4to. . Copenhagen, 21st April, 1812. £7 10s A very lengthy, important and most pathetic letter descriptive of the destruction of Copenhagen by the British in 1807; also relating what was being done to restore to Copenhagen its lost treasures ; and listing the more important work that Danish presses were then busy printing. 66 [t proves to me that you abhor the wicked, treacherous, and flint-

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