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
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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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    345 Poets. Dr. John Aikin, A.L.s. R. H. Barham, [Ingoldsby Legends], A.L 8. Jesse Foot, A.L.s., about his Letters on the Death of the Princess Charlotte Eb. Elliott, [Corn Laio Rhymes], A.L.s., with Verses Mrs. Sigourney, A.L.s. 34 G Poets. W. Wordsworth, aut. note, and Card with sig. port. A. A. Watts, [Literary Souvenir], A.L.s. Tho. Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, Doc. s. IG02 Dr. Bowring, L.s., and port. James Bird, A.L.s. about his Tragedy of Cosmo 347 Pope (Alexander), poet b. 1688, d. 1744 A.L.s., page 4to., to Sam. Richardson, June 10, 1725. With portrait and memoir A friendly invitation to his house. “ Homer, (whom, I hope you will read, for that is the best way of thanking me), will tell you that hospitality is the glory of friendship, and that, in his days, no man visited a friend, without passing the night as well as the day with him, and making a libation to Mercury a bon repos. Etc. 348 Pope (Alexander). A.L.s., 2 pages 8vo., to Mr. Hughes, Twickenham, Feb. 18, 1719. Rare, with illustration “ I have been much concerned not to have waited upon you as I de- signed, since you obliged me with your play. I am since much more troubled to hear of ye continuance of yr illness. Would to God you might live as long as I am sure the reputation of yr Tragedy must! I am a fellow-sufferer with you in not being able to see it played having been and still being too much indisposed, to go to any public place,” &c. Mr. Hughes died the night before this letter was written and the night his tragedy was first acted. 349 Pope (Alexander). A.L.s., 2^ pages 4to. Twickenham, Nov. 15, . Rare. A very fine specimen On Mr. Allen’s illness and his own indisposition. He says he has derived relief either from his physician’s treatment or his own regularity of living, and fears that it could never have been the latter. Etc. 350 Pope (Alexander). Epitaph for Secretary Cragg’s monument in Westminster Abbey, autograph and signed, 1 page 4to. Also proof portrait “ Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, “ In action faithfull, and in honour clear, “ Who broke no promise, served no private end, “ Who gained no title, and who lost no friend, “ Ennobled by himself, by all approv’d, “ Praised, wept and honoured by the Muse he lov’d.”