Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/26
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AUTOGRAPH LETTERS—continued. 166 Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope, Zar/ of) A.L.S., 34 pp., 4to., London, June 14, 1746, a very fine and interesting letter, written while Chesterfield was Viceroy of Ireland [1745- 46], with his various suggestions for improving or creating local manufactures and industry 48 A fine letter, by the Author of the famous ‘‘ Letters to his son.” He first pro- poses the establishment of glass manufacture, and then turns to paper. 167 Collins (Wilkie) AvrocrarH LETTER SIGNED, 3 pp., 8vo., Oct. 18, 1866 £1 168 Conrad (Joseph) A.L.S. to E. Garnett, 4 pp., 8vo., Nov. 16, 10 p.m., N.y., a very fine letter on his difficulty in making him- self a name, and thanking Garnett for his kindness 410 . “Ido not think they will accept my terms. I do not think they care much for me—really. I rather fancy they fancy themselves very generous as it is—to the obscure scribbler. But I am of your opinion entirely. I had better make a stand now and taste the acrid savour of adventure.”’ 169 Cowper (William) A.L.S., 34 pp., 4to., Weston Underwood, Wednesday, Novr. 24, 1790, to Mrs. Balls, his cousin, née Harriett Donne, sister of Mrs. Bodham L9 ‘*T shall love the Turkeys the better for having procured me a letter from you my old friend and play-fellow in other days. We sent for them yesterday to the Waggoners House in a village five miles off and they arrived safe at Weston in the Evening: safe, and asI said in perfect health as they desire me to tell you . . . How then can you be old, while I who am so much your elder have still, as Falstaff says, a snatch of my youth. . .” 170 Cricketers.—A CoLuEcTIon of ELeven A.Lrs. SIGNED of CRICKETERS, includ- ing James Lillywhite, Stubberfield, H. Perkins, W. W. Read, &c., 1871-93 £1 10s 171 Cruikshank (George) AuroGrarpn Letter SIGNED, 2 pp., 8vo., July 4, 1870, 263, Hampstead Road, N.W., to J. Adams-Acton, Esq., requesting his help in moving one of his models £1 10s 172 De la Mare (Walter) A.L.S., one p., 8vo., 4th VII. 20 12s 173 De Quincey (T.) AurocrapH Lerrer SIGNED, Thomas De Q., 4 pp., 12mo., Sat. Night, March 18 (1837), to W. Tait, Esq., a fine letter on his work, mentioning an article he had written on Shepherd, believing him to be dead £6 . . “The Fact is, I thought him dead, and wrote with more freedom in that belief. Meanwhile his letter will do no harm to me, and next month I will make a short reply and as conciliatory as the circumstances will allow... On Monday morning I send you my article which has cost me an infinity of trouble. I should have sent it yesterday but I am keeping it for a revision more anxious than I usually practise or have time to practise.” 174 Dickens (Charles) A.L.S., }.p., 8vo., The Atheneum, thirty-first May, 1869, to Mr. de Morgan £5 ‘‘Tf you will look at the second volume of Forster’s ‘ Life of Landor,’ just pub- lished, you will see that the character is openly stated (obviously with my knowledge) to have been taken from him.’ . . . Dickens used Landor as the basis of his character of Boythorn in ‘‘ David Copperfield.”’
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