Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:: December 1921

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/514

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

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$784 O’CoNnNELL (Daniel) called the “ Liberator.’’ The holograph MS. of his well-known work ‘‘ Observations on Corn Laws, on Political Pravity and Ingratitude, and on Clerical and Personal Slander ; in the shape of a ‘ Meek and Modest’ reply to the Second letter of the Earl of Shrewsbury, Waterford and Wexford, to Ambrose Lisle Philips Esq., by Daniel O’Connell, Lord Mayor of Dublin ”’: Oh well may we call her, like thee, the ‘‘ Forsaken ” Her proudest are vanquished, her boldest are slaves, And the harps of her bards when gayest they waken Have breathings as sad as the wind over graves. This important work of O’Connell runs to 128 pages, large folio, and was published in 1842. With a copy of the printed book, 8vo, wrappers, and three printed pamphlets by the Earl of Shrewsbury, 8vo, cloth, and a typewritten article of 5 pp. folio concerning the MS. 785 Lytton (E. Bulwer, Lord) famous novelist. A very large and interesting correspondence consisting of some 175 A. L. s. (mostly signed with initials), addressed to Camelia Ernest, wife of the well-known musician and composer, and herself, an actress of marked ability. The series were mostly written between 1863-1866, and amount to nearly 600 pp. 8vo, and deal with the topics of the day, mentioning Dickens’s New Serial, the approaching end of his essays to be published in four volumes, Thackeray, Tennyson, his son, the plays “‘ Lady of Lyons” and ‘* Richelieu,” etc., etc. Written from Knebworth, Copped Hall, St. James’s Place, the South of France, Bath, Torquay, and other places. With drafts of poems, in his hand, 9 pp. folio, and 4 A. L. s. of his son, the first Karl Lytton, 7854 DicKENS (Charles) A. L.s. lp. 8vo, Gad’s Hill Place, July 4th 1869, to J. G. Perry, thanking him for a correction of dates ‘“‘in that wonderful. story. ... There is great material in it; and I want to see its capabilities ‘ all round’ before devising a scoop upon it,’ with franked envelope 786 [Cuarues II] A. L. s. “ Rob Jackson,” the pseudonym of Capt® Timothy Paulden, author of “ History of the third Siege of Pontefract,’ then in exile at Brussels. The letter, written to his mother, dated Bruzelles 23 Sept. 49, describes his movement since his escape from England. He mentions the business of Jreland... . which we are confident is not so desperate as our enemies report it. The King is safely arrived in Jersey . . . expecting the issue of Ireland. Refers to “My Lord Mountvoises designe for Scotland—ete.$

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