Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/711
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    468 469 470 471 472 Common-Place Book, containing MS. Poems: The Rajpoot Wife, The Caliph’s Draught, The Rajah’s Ride, A Bihari Mill-Song, The Indian Judge, A Rajpfit Nurse, The Snake and the Baby, Basti Singh’s Wife, The Cholera in Italy, He and She, The Depths of the Sea, The Knight’s Tomb at Swanscombe Church, and Sohni, a Tale of Indus, finely written in a folio memorandum book Najine, a Reminiscence of Moscow, May, 1896, 8 pp. oblong 4to.— Hafiz, 6 pp. 4to.—A Fisherman’s Dream, 10 pp. 4to.—Enfin, 3 pp. folio ; and others a parcel Memories, MS. of 43 pp. 8vo.—My First Morning in India, MS. of 38 pp. 8vo (2) ARNOLD (Sir Edwin) A large Correspondence, addressed to him by Marquis Curzon (3), one mentioning his rare book on Persia, Holman Hunt, I. Zangwill, Sir W. Besant, F.-M. Earl Roberts, T. Kato (Japanese Ambassador), G. E. Buckle, Sir Wm. Crookes, T. F. Bayard, W. H. Lecky, F. R. Lawrence of the Lotus Club, New York, and others (about 250) ARNOLD (Sir Edwin) Eight A. L. s., R. G. Ingersoll, W. B. Kingston, Clement Shorter, W. H. Russell, J. R. Seeley, and a number of Letters of Japanese and Indian celebrities, arranged in two 4to albums (2) A473 474 MaAcqQuari& (Lachlan) served in India, 1787-1809, afterwards Major- General and Governor of New South Wales, Autograph diary, signed, 12 pp. 4to, describing in detail the attack on the Seringa- patem from 24th A pril-4th May, 1799, when the place was stormed and carried by General Baird, in which engagement Tippoo Sahib was killed.—A. L. s. 17 pp. 4to, 24¢h Alay, 1799, dealing in detail with the Campaign (3) InpIAN Mutiny. An Important Collection of upwards of 130 Auto. Letters, written by many of the leading British Officers engaged, including General J. B. Hearsey; upwards of 50 A. L.s. from Barvackpore, 1857, to Colonel Birch, C. Grant commanding at Barrackpore; seven A. L. s., Colonel Birch (2), J. Le Bas describing escape from Delhi, Major Cavanagh concerning origin of revolt, and others of A. Abbott, F. Gubbins, W. Mitchell, ete. arranged in a 4to album, half bound