Sales catalogue 591: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/133
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 591: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Burney (Fanny, Madame D’Arblay)—continued. interesting family affairs ; and their simple life in their cottage at West Hamble. ““, . . While Ireland shews its coasts so easily open to the enemy, how can they subside? for though I dread no longer their conquest of the Island, I see not any rational motive to security for families or individuals living near the sea. Every landing that is effected to recruit the rebels with arms and stores, will offer opportunities for seizing prisoners near at hand. . . “I need not, I am sure, tell you how gratefully I enjoyed the society of my dearest Father when he was so good as to abide in our Hermitage. I hope he will try it for a longer time next year. Books (if he brings them?) quiet and leisure he may command, and he wants little else. : “Mr. d@’A. kisses your white hands. He is planting and transplanting all day long, and we expect to arrive at Spinnage this Christmas, which hitherto has eluded all his toil. Potatoes, turnips, and cabbages we revel in at pleasure. French beans, also, have been benign to us, and cucumbers refreshing, but our beans would not grow, and our peas flourished for the birds.’ Etc. 1206 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD, 1788-1824). Poet. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MRS. GRAHAM. 2pp., 4to. Ravenna, 2nd July, 18109. £85 “. . . I am honoured by the intentions of your countryman, and any questions which he may be disposed to ask, I will answer. The personage whom he is disposed to introduce into his landscape, was not a Moor, and the epithet ‘ black ’ which I do not remember (not having read the poem since its publication) is either a mistake of mine, or was intended in the Highland sense of the words, Dhu-voy- or beau- black, red or white, by comparison, as an Asiatic by origin is more swarthy than a European, without meaning that he was precisely japanned | with the best patent blacking.”’ Etc. 1207 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO JOHN HANSON. 3 pp., 4to.. Newstead Abbey, 17th January, 1809. £31 10s A very fine letter written to his agent regarding Newstead Abbey, the discharging of certain servants} the rebuilding of The Hut, and as to his proposal to reside in lodgings with only his valet and perhaps a groom. This letter was written by Byron soon after he, for the first time, had taken up his residence at Newstead Abbey, having received the place in a most ruinous condition from the hands of its late occupant Lord Grey de Ruthyn. The Hut which is mentioned in the letter was a small house near the gate of Newstead where Byron used sometimes to sleep for a night while the Abbey was let to Lord Grey. 1208 GALONNE (CHARLES ALEXANDRE DE, 1734-1802). Famous Minister of Louis XVI. Lived in exile during the Revolution. A zealous Royalist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO JOSEPH BONAPARTE. 2p, 400. 2rd April, “1802: And an AUTOGRAPH COPY SIGNED OF A MEMORANDUM TO THE FIRST; G€ONSUL. I page, folio. 19th November, 1801. £7 10s