Catalogue of the very select and interesting collection of autograph letters, formed with great taste and judgment by George Linnecar, esq., of Liverpool ... : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson ... at their Great Room, 191, Piccadilly, on Tuesday, March 19th, 1850, and following day, at one o'clock most punctually.

  • Puttick and Simpson
Date:
1850
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Credit: Catalogue of the very select and interesting collection of autograph letters, formed with great taste and judgment by George Linnecar, esq., of Liverpool ... : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson ... at their Great Room, 191, Piccadilly, on Tuesday, March 19th, 1850, and following day, at one o'clock most punctually. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    307 Milner (Isaac) Dean of Carlisle b. 1751 A.L.s., 4 pages 4to. to his booksellers; Carlisle Deanery, Aug. 28, 1812. With printed memoir As to the publication of his new edition of his brother’s Ecclesiastical History. 308 Ministers of State. W. Burghley, Doc. s.,jine Lord Cary, Doc. s. Sir Fr. North, 1st Lord Guildford, Doc. s. Three Exchequer Documents, with signatures 309 Ministers of State. Marquis of Londonderry, A.L.s. Lord Melbourne, A.L.s. Lord Morpeth, A.L.s., and frank Duke of Rutland, A.L.s., and frank 310 Mitford (William) historian b. 1744, d. 1827 A.L.s., 1 page4to. to his booksellers, Exbury, Jan. 6, 1817. With printed memoir and portrait. Relating to the copyright of his History of Greece. 311 Mitford (William). A.L.s., 3 pages 4to. to Messrs. Cadell and Davies Exbury, Nov. 1817, with printed memoir Explaining some misunderstanding with his publishers relative to his “ History of Greece.” Also profit and loss account for this work. 312 Montgomery (James) poet. A.L.s., 4 pages 4to. to Messrs. Cadell and Davies. Hackney, May 5, 1831. Also manuscript of “Falkland’s Dream.” “ I have nearly discontinued writing any thing that can pretend to be poetry. Within the last four years I have composed only one elabo- rate piece (and in that I fear the labour is more apparent than the suc- cess), which I intended to have given to a publication to which it was understood that Sir W. Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and all the greatest names of the day were to contribute. In such illus- trious company I was willing to distinguish myself at any peril of com- parative failure, for to run with kings in a race of glory was sufficient honour and reward for me. The mighty ones, however, did not appear in the field, and I of course withdrew. That poem I have since been reserving as a leader or an auxiliary to a volume of miscellanies, if I live long enough to publish another, of which I am in no haste, espe- cially as I have every reason to believe that the public are quite willing to wait till doomsday for it. Now if Mr. Campbell, to whom I am ready to confide it, can conscientiously recommend you to accept the use of it for your next Number [of the Metropolitan] at twenty-five guineas, the copyright remaining with me, it shall be at your ser- vice. The Manuscript Poem occupies 14 closely-written pages 8vo. 313 Moore (Thomas) poet b. 1780 A.L.s., 1 page 4to. to Henry Colburn, Esq., Bury-street, St. James’s, September 30, 1823. With portrait Recommending to his notice a work entitled “ Thaddeus, the Rover,” which had been sent to him for perusal.