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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    370 Smart (Christopher), poet b. 1722,(1. 17^ A.L.s., lpage 8vo. to It. Dodslcy, Jan. 12, 174 7. Ordering some books. 371 Smeaton (John), architect and engineer, projector of the Eddystone Lighthouse b. 1724, d. 1792 A.L.s., 1 page 4to. to Janies Watt, Engineer, Oct. 31, 1782. Very scarce ; with portrait 372 Smith (Charlotte) b. 1749, d. 1806 A.L.s., 3 pages 4to. to Mr. Robinson, bookseller, Jan. 20, 1792 Sending the MS. of one of her works, adverting to her pecuniary diffi- culties, etc. [her splendid fortune had been squandered by her husband.] 373 Smith (Sir James Edward), founder and President of the Linncean Society . b. 1759, d. 1828 A.L.s., 3 pages 4to. Nov. 5, 1819 About his Lectures on Botany, and referring to his being appointed Honorary Professor of Botany to the Royal Institution. 374 Smith (Horace and James) Authors of the Rejected Addresses Two A.L s., 1 page 4to. and 1 page 8vo., both addressed to Tho. Hill 375 Smith (Rev. Sydney) b. 1771 A.L.s. I page 4to. Also a long and interesting Letter of W. Sydney Smith, sending a present of Books to the Patri- arch Alexander Smith and his family on Pitcairn’s Island 376 SoMERViLLE(William)poet,author of The Chace b. 1692, d. 1742 A.L s., 2 pages folio, to Lord Somerville, Eds ton, June 29, 1731. Extremely rare. He conveys his thanks for some poetry of Lady Somerville’s, which he had received, and which he will value as the Fragments of Sapho. Very interesting. 2>77 Somerville (William). Autograph Lines Addressed to Allan Ramsay upon his pub- lishing his 2nd volume of Poems, 2g pages folio, signed “ W. S.” Commencing “ Hail, Caledonian Bard ! whose rural strains Delight the list’ning Hills, and cheer the plains ; Already polished by some hand divine, Tby purer ore what furnace can refine 1” Etc. 37S Southey (Robert) poet laureate b. 1774, d. 1845 A.L s. 1 page 4to. to Mrs. Cottle. Fine proof portrait, ty-c. He sends for Mrs. Wollstonecraft’s Book on Norway and Sweden. He says, “ I want it for the lines to your brother, which 1 am about to begin this morning—it will give me Scandinavian Scenery,” etc. 379 Stanhope (Charles Earl of) philosopher b. 1753, d. 1816 A.L.s. 1, page 4to. to the Earl of Buchan, Aug. 20, 1812 Endorsed, “ explains some particulars relating to his improved inven- tion for multiplying impressions of prints.”