Sales catalogue 652: Maggs Bros

Date:
1937
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/176
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 652: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    851 SIDDONS (SARAH, 1755-1831). Famous Actress. SEVEN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED AND ONE AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HER NEPHEW HORACE TWISS. 14 pp., 8vo and 4to. £10 10s Regarding an Address which Twiss had written to her ‘‘ entire satisfaction ”’ but begging him to consult less partial critics; congratulating him on his approach- ing marriage; explaining that she would not proceed with a certain prosecution ; condoling on her nephew’s loss. Ete. ““’THALABA HAS Monopo.izep Me.” 852 SOUTHEY (ROBERT, 1774-1843). Poet Laureate. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HIS MOTHER. 4 pp., 4to. Cintra, 22nd August, 1800. £12 10s A long and very interesting letter giving a delightful picture of his life at Cintra where he had gone to stay after a serious illness, and referring to his work n “* Thalaba.”’ ee Since we left Lisbon I have written scarcely any letters & have a weeks work to settle my accounts with Tom. ‘Tell him that Thalaba has monopolized me, that by the King George in her next voyage (about 3 weeks hence) I send over his copy, together with that for the Press. His direction at Plymouth Dock I have forgotten, so the parcel shall be directed to Danvers, who will read & forward it. The press copy also goes to him, lest Rickman should not be in London, which he will know. I shall manufacture letters for the occasion. A plague upon writing letters! except to Bristol & to Tom I have neglected all my other correspondents. Actually I have not time. I must ride, I am visited, & the correcting Thalaba & transcribing it is a very serious job. . . . I wish I could settle here, the climate suits me so well, that I could give up society, & live like a Bear by sucking my own paws. You like the Catholics. Shall I give you an account of one of their Lent plays upon Transubstantiation which is lying on the table? It begins by the Father turning Adam out of doors. . . . I could fill sheet after sheet with these Bunyanisms, & send you miracles as strange as any in Thalaba.”’ Etc. 853 SOUTHEY (ROBERT). AUTOGRAPH COMMONPLACE BOOK, BEING NOTES AND QUOTA- TIONS FROM INNUMERABLE SOURCES, AND ON A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS. Contained on over 190 pp., small 8vo. &6 6s This interesting little Commonplace Book contains quotations from a number of the famous poets, dramatists, etc., including Beaumont and Fletcher, Chaucer, Ben Jonson, Bacon, Middleton, Dryden, Defoe and Fuller. Other notes in the volume deal with the Catholic Church. The following are a few short extracts :— ‘What truth, what knowledge What anything but eating is good in her? T’ would make a fool prophecy to be fed continually. Inspired with full, deep cups who cannot prophecy ? A tinker out of ale, will give predictions.’’ —Beaumont and Fletcher. ‘“ Weeds are counted herbs in the beginning of Spring; nettles are put in pottage, and sallats are made of eldern buds.’’—Fuller. ‘‘He that opposes his own judgment. against the current of the times, ought to be backed with unanswerable truths: and he that has that truth on his side, is a fool as well as a coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the currency or multitude of other mens opinions.’’—Defoe. ‘“T do not like that he names me so often, especially on his death-bed; ’tis a sign I shall not live long.’’—Webster.
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