Sales catalogue 605: Maggs Bros

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/143
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 605: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    28/132 (page 18)
    AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. 3 pp., 8vo. Cheyne Row, 23rd December, 1844. £15 A very fine letter thanking his correspondent for a Mask of Goethe. «6 d«6U© shave fixed it advantageously on one of my Bookshelves, where daily, for a long while I hope, it will remind me in a beneficent manner of you and of him. Many thanks are due from me. This is, of all the portraits, medals, &c., which I have seen of Goethe, by far the most eloquent representation of him to me; a strange shadow of the very face itself, as it looked and lived in this ‘world. Wis (a ‘‘T return you many thanks; all the more grateful as I have not yet the happiness of being personally known to you. Your great Art with all its re- sources could hardly have furnished me a more interesting product than this very AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MR. JAMES MARSHALL. 4 pp., 8vo. Chelsea, 1st February, 1843. £7 10s Referring to his forthcoming book, ‘‘ Past and Present.’’ “. . . I hope that Forster will call upon you soon; that you will find one another mutually supportable Phenomena in this world, where it is not pleasant to be alone! . . . All good fellows I have ever heard of were often- times in that same ‘ minority of one’; they stood there, worked there, and it gradually became a minority of two, of many; gradually a majority and at length a universality ! ‘‘The Book I am writing will be at Press, if I prosper, in some six weeks, and out before the summer. It is properly a development of the very things I am now writing here to you. I think of calling it ‘ Past and Present,’ or some such title; it is partly historical, partly oratorical, dreadfully difficult to bring mats any of the ‘icals,’ or ‘ oricals’ and keep from looking too bedlamical! ”’ te. England. Compelled by her husband to receive his mistress at Court; showed kindness to his illegitimate children. DOCUMENT (NOT SIGNED BUT WITH TWO LINES AUTO- GRAPH) ADDRESSED TO WM. MONTAGUE, ATTORNEY GENERAL. I page, folio. Whitehall, 3rd September, 1662. £4 4s _ As to ‘conveying a Graunt unto our Rt. trusty and wellbeloved Wm. Arasettet th Brouncher of the office of chauncellor and keeper of our great seale.’’ LETTER SIGNED (IN RUSSIAN) TO THE PRINCE OF NASSAU- SIEGEN. I} pp., 4to. 26th August, 1789. £5 5s A very interesting letter concerning an incident in the war between Russia and Gustavus III of Sweden. (Trans.):—‘‘ It is with great pleasure that we saw from your account the trouble you took in landing the troops from the galleys to attack the King of Sweden, and stop his way. Although this sudden retreat thwarted the success which one ought to have expected from your enterprise with the help of the others; we hope, however, that the Commander-in-Chief of our Army will not delay to profit by the present cowardice of the enemy to invade his state, being