Sales catalogue 628: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/165
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 628: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    204 BURNEY (FANNY; MADAME D’ARBLAY). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED “FF. DARBEAY” f0O BISHOP OF EIMERICK 3 pp., owe, 16th july, 13530. £12 12s Sending the Bishop of Limerick a copy of one of her works, and also mentioning Dr. Johnson. ‘¢T am so much mortified not to appear more prompt in laying at your feet the only offering that, from my Pen I can dare bope might find a niche in your Lordship’s Library—for, will not the genuine traits of Dr. Johnson plead for its entrance there? that I am impelled to send off forthwith to say it will be ready to beg a place before the end of this week. ‘¢ Just as this poor Work, which your Lordship will receive, I feel sure, with benignity, whether with or—alas, without approvance, was all but one, a deep affliction forced me to stop the Press nearly for a week.’ [te. 295 BURTON (ISABEL, LADY, 1831-1896). Authoress and Explorer. Wite of Sir Richard F. Burton. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO°MR TINSERY, TEs PUBLISHER. 2 pp., OVO. NOD. £1 5s Concerning the proof correction of one of her books. “ . You don’t know how hard and laborious. it is to read every word of that vile MS., and compare with every word of proof. . . . Find me an intelligent Devil, a boy reader, make proper arrangements with him. I will make him read MS. & I will correct proof.”’ Etc. 2906 BYRON (LADY A. I. NOEL, 1792-1860). Wife of Lord Byron, the poet. AUTOGRAPH LETTER. SIGNED TO MONSIEUR THOM, MERET. 14 pp., 4to. 5th March, 1828. £1 5s ‘¢T have been prevented by indisposition and by the difficulty I found in obtaining the attention of any of the Committee for the London University, from replying to your communication. . . The information I have recently had from a member of that Institution to whom I named your wishes, tended to show that private applications would be wholly disregarded, and might indeed prejudice the cause of the individual by giving rise to the supposition that he had not sufficient reliance on the recommendations which must be publicly examined before the Council.’”’. Ete.