Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/839
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lor 854—continued. (27) ‘len A... s. and Four Notes. Chelsea, 22 Feb., 1861, 4 pp., 4 March, 1 p., 6 June, 2 pp., 13 June, 2 pp., 17 Aug., 4 pp., 30 Oct., 1 p.. 31 Dec., 1 p., 17 Apr., 1862, 2 pp., 18 June, 3 pp., and 18 Dec., 4 pp.: June 6th, 1861. ‘“ You might mention also my astonishment at the sublime sum of money he (Tauchnitz) pays me for their Cromwell, no less than £15 per large 8vo vol.! A thing for a man to grow rich upon... I do feel the price to be scandalous; and wd have the fat blockhead apprised that I do, ... in case of future application on his part.” (14) (28) Fourteen A. L.s. and Twelve Notes. Chelsea, 2| Jan., 1863, | p.; Alresford, 10 Sept., 4 pp.; Chelsea, 6 March, 1864, 2 pp., 9 May, 2 pp.; St. Leonards, 18 May, 2 pp., 4 June, 2 pp., July 3, 2 pp., 14 July, 2 pp., and Chelsea, Oct. 7, 1 p., Nov. 10, 1 p., Nov. 30,2 pp., 9 Dec., 2 pp., Jan. 2, 1865, Lips! ait TES pp: On May 9, before the visit to St. Leonards, undertaken on account of Mrs. Carlyle’s health, he writes: I am packing up my fools (a thing I never tried before, and find to be like a Fredk. Campaign, in a sort), my tools and goods; settling with laggard Printers, laggard etceteras of all kinds, and very miserable in my weak flurry and morbid want of skin. God help me to get through this Book in opposition to the whole world and the Devil to back, as it seems tome... I read Schneiderwind nearly out last night: he has some sense, but writes as if for idle young people accustomed to the Liberal Newspapers. (26) (29) Four A. L.s. and One Note. Chelsea, 18 May, 1865, 1 p.; Annan, 7 July, 2 pp., 8 July, 4 full pp 4to, and Mentone, 20 Feb., 1867, 4+ full pp. 8 July, A MAGNIFICENT LETTER, giving his views of mankind from the remoteness of Annandale. and a passage on J. S. Mill of whom Neuberg has sent him news; the letter from Mentone is also a fine one, the last of the series, as Neuberg died in the Spring of this year. He had been too ill during 1866 to receive letters, which explains the intermission of the correspondence during that year (5) 430) CARLYLE (T.) Small Sheets or Slips, wholly or partly in his handwriting, containing Notes for Irederick the Great ; and Carlyle’s Visiting Card, with a note in blue pencil in his handwriting (34) (21) CHAMBERS (R.) A. L. s. 3 pp. 8vo, Hdinburgh, 31 May, 1852, on the Ballad of Hind Etin, with a long note in Carlyle’s handwriting on the same ; and others (7) (32) Darwin (Charles) A. L. s. 2 pp. 8vo, Down, Bromley, Kent, 21 June, 1862, to his brother Erasmus Darwin, giving Carlyle an introduction to Mr. T. Reeks, Secretary of the Geological Museum, Jermyn Street, with two signed notes in blue pencil in Carlyle’s handwriting on the letter itself, and two other similar notes sent to Neuberg with Darwin’s letter, 7n the original envelope
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