Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
February 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/726
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    KoT 200—continued. [Rienzi] is definitely fixed for the middle of the week, the 19th.— WAGNER (Cosima) A. L. s. 2 pp. 8vo, Bayreuth, 25 May, 1875 (2) xs Pasteur (L.) A. L.s, 1 p. 8vo, 16 7bre, 1891, to a doctor, making an appointment for a certain hour, which he chooses . . Co . . . on account of the interest of certain “ antirabiques” inocula- tions which commence daily at that hour 202 CoLtinawoon (Cuthbert Lord) A. L. s. 24 pp. large folio, Ocean off Cadiz, March 20th, 1807, with address to Captn. Mans- field, slightly worn in the folds tion and his strenuous opposition to their abolition. He speaks of the decline of the Navy through bad ship design, the Panorama and Serres’ picture of the battle [Trafalgar], 50. ete. 203} NIGHTINGALE (Florence) from Scutari, A. L. s. 4 pp. 8vo, tl Barrack Hospital, Scutari, April 5, 1835, a very fine letter to a mother announcing the death in hospital of her son, with details of the hospital management during the campaign At that time the mortality was fearful. The men said little. They were too weak to speak much. But we often said a prayer for them. And sometimes I heard them murmuring the words “Mother” and “ Home” even when partially delirious. That was an awful time ... (we once admitted four thousand in 17 days). cd. 204) Gorpon (General Charles G.) A. L.s. 2 pp. sm. 4to, Kartoum, 26 August, 1884, to the Senior Officer, R.N. Massawah, advising him of a successful attack on the Arabs. Reports the advance of Mahdi with 26 guns *,* This letter written during the famous siege was folded as small as possible and hidden in the hair of a messenger who managed to convey it from Khartoum. 5 /CARLYLE (Thomas) A. L.s. 4 pp. 8vo, Chelsea, 24 July, 1855, / declining to become a candidate for Parliament : ... Nor could I ever have hope to distinguish myself in such a cockpit. The British Empire seems to me as if melting down into universal diabetes of insane palaver ... This is very sad and hopeless; and has produced a Balaklave, not in the Crimea alone, but in every province of our affairs, etc. A LETTER OF EXTREME INTEREST O » / ir (20 206 THACKERAY (W. M.) A. L.s. 1 p.sm. 4to, Saturday, 13th March, 1. y., 13, Young St., Kensington. relating to arrangements for a Course of Lectures in Birmingham 207 StTEVENSoN (Mrs. M. I.) Mother of Robert Louis Stevenson, a Series of Ten A. L. s. (one incomplete), written from Samoa, Honolulu, New York, ete. to ““ Cummy,” containing a number of interesting references to her son and his work (10) WAAL
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