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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643 DICKENS (CHARLES). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO JAMES STANSFELD. 2 pp., 8vo. Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, 26th August, 1849: With addressed envelope. £6 10s ‘“T can have no objection to the alterations you propose to make in the address. | ‘‘ There are two more, equally slight, which J should like to make. For the phrase ‘almost as new in Rome as Rome is old,’ I would substitute ‘ new in Rome,’ and for the phrase ‘let us remember’ in reference to More & Ferrall, 1 would substitute the words ‘ it must not be forgotten. _“* Will you do me the favor to see that in the printing it is carefully corrected ?”’ IN FAVOUR OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH. 644 DIGBY (SIR KENELM, 1603-1665). Author, Naval Commander and Diplomatist. Chancellor to Queen Henrietta Maria. Pleaded Charles I’s cause with Pope Innocent X. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO WALTER MONTAGU, AFTERWARDS ABBOT OF ST. MARTIN’S NEAR PONTOISE, AND FRIEND OF HENRIETTA MARIA. 25 pp., small folio. Paris, 18th September, 1636. £42 10s An extremely long and interesting document on the subject of the Roman Catholic faith. It is entirely in Sir Kenelm Digby’s Autograph and the fly leaf is endorsed by him ‘‘ Copie of my letter of the 18 of 7ber 1636 to Mr. Walter Montague att Turin; wh: I not going out of the towne the next day (as when I wrote it, I intended) had meanes to take.’’ After 1630 Digby professed Protestantism, and gave Archbishop Laud the impression that he had permanently abandoned Roman Catholicism. <A letter from James Howell to Strafford shows, how- ever, that before October, 1635, Digby had returned to the Catholic Faith. On 27 March, 1636, Laud acknowledged a letter, in which Digby accounted for his reconversion. Digby was in France at the time, and published in Paris, in 1638, ‘‘ A Conference with a Lady about choice of a Religion,’’ in which he urged that a Church: must prove uninterrupted possession of authority to guarantee salvation to its adherents, but might allow liberty of opinion in subsidiary matters. The letter is addressed to Walter Montagu (son of Sir Henry Montagu, First Earl of Manchester), whose conversion to Rome was a matter of gossip at the Court. On his return to England he zealously seconded Father Con’s efforts to induce the Queen to take an active part in the propagation of the Roman Catholic religion. He also acted in April, 1639, with Digby as Her Majesty’s agent in collecting a con- tribution from the Catholics towards defraying the expense of the royal army. He became Abbot of St. Martin’s, near Pontoise.

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