Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/742
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Lor 867—continued. turn to it with no less enjoyment than that I experienced when I first read it. ‘There are lines in it which were much admired by your venerable mother during the last year of her life. It would please the author of the poem to know how much interest she had taken in what he had written. As a Poet, my friend Whittier has a great reputation in his own country, and I believe his position here is continually improving. There is a goodness and a purity in his writings not exceeded in my view by any poet in our language. I hear nothing of your quiet but pleasant little town since my daughter left. &c. S68) Merepria (George) A. lL.s: 3¢ pp. Svo,-Aug?. 25th, 1893, to f | ; oO j wet Colles, about the Pall Mall Gazette, Bernard Partridge, Aminta, © / Lord Ormond and Leo Maxse u} rm tte. +27 p . ~ f 869 Buuntr (Wilfred Scawen) A. L.s. 1 p. 8vo, Cairo, Feb. 25, 1882, yoo f om with reference to his “ Sonnets of Proteus,’ for his corres- “ / pondent’s collection 870 Ropes (Cecil) A. L.s. 4 pp. 8vo [m.y.] to Fox, with 2 pp. 8vo, — {| } additional, containing sketch, plan and notes of rail extension 5 fo j- from Salisbury Rhodesia to Globe & Phoenix, an extremely | interesting letter : ) The second 100 miles can wait a little but we must join Salisbury and Gwelo Northern Extension so as to put future rails through Beira and not P. Elizabeth. &c. small filing holes 8?’1 CRUIKSHANK (George) L.s. 4 pp. 8vo, Nour. 27th, 1877, with 8 line auto. P.S. to J. Jeremiah, Esq. respecting the Urban Club, with a mention of G. A. Sala, with envelope, torn in fold ere). ~EWweo (Victor) AL las.“ Victor Hugo,” 1 full page; 8vo, A. A. 18 juin, 1866: He is leaving Guernsey for Brussels, regrets his tardy reply to his friend’s letter in which he feels a noble, beautiful and generous intel- ligence. Mentions his work “ Deux Routes de la Vie.” 873 RicHEPIN (Jean) Poet and Dramatist, Auto. MS. 2 pp. folio, (signed “* QO. Chanteclair”), “ Raccordailles 4 Jean Richepin,” with A. L.s. at end, to Maizeroy : Voila des vers inédits d’un poéte inédit. Il me semble qu’imprimées ils auraient bon air dans la série de Poétes de Amour, on Gils Blas illustré. KITCHENER (H. H., Earl Kitchener of Khartoum) A. L. s. 8 pp. 8vo, Vicosia, 2 July, 1881, to Mrs: Bovill : Mrs. B. told me yesterday I ought to marry. I very nearly ran away, however I summoned up courage to say that the happy pairs I saw around me did not lead me to the same opinion. NIGHTINGALE (Florence) A. N.s. “ F. N. in great press of business and illness,” July 17, 1871, to Colin Rae-Brown, referring to his work ‘* Noble Love”