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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    1411 MARY OF MODENA (MARIE BEATRICE D’ESTE). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO LADY BELLAY. 1} pp., 4to. 24th June, N.Y. £8 10s ‘‘T have done as you desired me in your letter and have ritt to the Duke and Duchess that she would spake so that I hope it will be done to your contentment. I pitty you very much now that Mr. Fortree is at Ostend, but the comfortable peace will quickly send him home again to you.”’ Etc. 1412 MAXIMILIAN I (1493-1519). Emperor of Germany. DOCUMENT IN GERMAN. I page, oblong folio. Botzen, oth January, 1500. £5 5s The Emperor declares that since the death of the Cardinal of Brichsen the Governor of Augsburg has refused to pay a considerable sum of money due for bonds, and he therefore forbids any of his subjects to make any payment to the said Governor or his heirs. 1413 MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (FELIX, 1809-1847). The great composer. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO PROFESSOR MORITZ NAUMANN OF BONN UNIVERSITY. 3 pp., 4to. Leipzig, 19th September, 1839. £12 10s Interesting letter confessing the writer’s incapacity of being a good teacher. (Trans.) :—‘‘ Please accept many thanks for the great proof of confidence in my abilities which you showed in your letter. ‘‘T can feel with you how important the development and the future of such a gifted and beloved child must be to you, and I should like to see all steps taken which are likely to bring about the fulfilment of his ambitions and the perfection of his talent. But I should not be deserving of your confidence if I would not tell you frankly of the various scruples which make me hesitate to accept it at once. ‘© First of all I have from repeated experiences gained the conviction that I absolutely lack the talent for a true teacher, i.e., for the giving of regular, progressive lessons. May be I do not like it sufficiently, may be I do not have enough patience, in short, I am unsuccessful. Now and again some young people have stayed with me, but if I have been of any use to them it was always by our playing together, by free personal intercourse, by occasional discussions and arguments or sometimes even by quarrelling; all of which is not really consistent with good teaching. “T ask myself whether at such a tender age a systematic, uninterrupted and regular instruction is not better than anything else? ‘¢ Besides this the necessity of taking your son from home just at his age seems to me another point worthy of your serious consideration. I am speaking from personal experience ; for I remember very well that when I was fifteen there was a question of my being sent to Paris to study under Cherubini, and I know how grateful I have been to my father ever since that he refrained from it and kept me near him. me Continuing, the writer points out that his frequent travels and his regular absence from Leipzig during the summer months are another obstacle for teaching a young boy, and he gives advice concerning the course which the parents should follow in their son’s studies.
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