Sales catalogue 591: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/133
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 591: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1241 CONRAD (JOSEPH). ‘* THE PARTNER.’ CORRECTED PROOF ,OF “7 Els SHOR? STORY: WITH THREE PAGES OF TYPESCRIPT AT END WITH AUTO- GRAPH CORRECTIONS THROUGHOUT. Together 19 pp., 4to. Preserved in buckram portfolio. £12 10s i242 CONSTABLE (JOHN, 1776-1837). Famous Landscape Painter. R.A. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO ALARIC A. WATTS. I page, 8vo. Charlotte Street, 13th May, 1320. £5 5s ¢. 6. 6. «6Perhaps you. . . will do me the favour of calling here or at Hampstead when you may choose for yourselves from the ‘ portefeuille ’ of an artist who little enough deserves the Rank your courtesy has assigned him,’’ 1243 COOK (JAMES, 1728-1779). The famous Circumnavigator. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO J. HARRISON, ATTORNEY At LAW. 14 pp., Ato. London, 24th February, 1776. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. III). £65 An interesting letter concerning a charge against his brother-in- law of defrauding the Customs. “6. )«6oT am told that the easiest way to get clear of such like affairs, is, after the writ is served, to petition the commissioners of the customs or excise to which it may belong, and to endeavour to make up the matter with the officers concerned. If this method is persued, I shall be ready to give any assistance in my power, which cannot be much, as I know not a single commissioner at either the one board or the other. This method of proceeding, supposes him guilty, the contrary of which he has not only asserted to you but to me also in a letter which I have just received.”’ Etc. 1244 CORELLI (MARIE, 1864-1924). Novelist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO E. T. REED. 34 pp., 4to. Stratford-on-Avon, 28th February, 1909. £1 15s ‘‘T was beginning to think you were frozen on the heights of Wimbledon Common! and was seriously meditating sending word to ‘ Punch’ as to your sad plight! I’m glad all’s well, and that you are really going to electrify a Leamington audience on the 10th, and come on to me afterwards to be consoled for any want of enthusiasm you may possibly encounter in the rather curious sort of folk who do in Leamington abide! Indeed I shall be delighted to welcome you here—I am almost off the sick list now, my only vexation being that I am not allowed to go out during this weather. ‘¢The carriage shall be at the Town Hall at 4.80—and I'll send rugs to keep you warm. Dont tumble over the foot warmer as you get in!—many of my friends (of the sterner sex do), and utter a very naughty word, which changes to a blessing, when they become conscious of a grateful heat around their nether limbs!’’ Etc.
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