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.

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    Browning (Robert)—continued. a letter as you promise, will oblige us greatly, and I shall no doubt be able to find out from people here, the best way of bringing it to bear with effect on the great person. We heard quantities about her the other night, from what may possibly be an authentic source, how she has grown visibly aged of a sudden (like Mephistopheles at the Brocken when he says he finds people ripe for the last day) and is getting more resigned to it than she had expected, seeing that with youth go ‘ Hell of passions’ (which is all she knows about it). Meanwhile, the next best thing to youth, and the Hell, and so on, is found to be strenuous play- writing. She writes in ‘the country and her friends rehearse, test effects, pro- phesy of hits or misses of the Paris auditory; whereat she takes heart and writes again, points this, blunts that: one might as well, or better, try and make articles for Chapman’s review. . . I have just done the little thing I told you of, a mere preface to some new letters of Shelley, not admitting of much work- manship of any kind, if I had it to give. But I have put down a few thoughts that presented themselves.’’ Etc. ' 24 BROWNING (ROBERT). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO FELIX MOSCHELES. 3 pp., 8vo. Warwick Crescent, 12th May, 1875. £7 10s fy I went round the Hall at the Philharmonic on Monday, in a vain attempt to find and congratulate you, though the words I should have used are unnecessary enough. You have got what you well deserve & I hope, will long enjoy it. ‘“‘T know nothing whatever about the picture beyond the point that it was rejected, and that Heyermans had been informed of that circumstance. I supposed the news went to him by such a circular as you now send me. . . I can only suggest that you either write to H. for instructions, or ascertain whether the picture has been really fetched and taken to the Albert Hall, or be at the kindness of housing the poor work (what chance could it have against the blaze of artistic perfection on the Academy walls this year?), in vour own studio till you hear what its ultimate destination is intended to be.’”’ Etc. 25 BROWNING (ROBERT). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO CLIFFORD HARRISON. I page, 8vo. Warwick Crescent, 28th January, 1886. £2 15s ‘‘Thank you exceedingly for the ticket. I shall do my best to profit by it whenever I am able, which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom: I shall take care, in any case, that your favour has been bestowed on a sympathetic occupier of the seat if not by myself.’’ 26 BRUCE (JAMES, 1730-1794). The famous African Traveller, whose published volume of travels in Africa was ridiculed as impossible. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (IN FRENCH) TO 'M. PANCKOUCKE, BOOKSELLER OF PARIS. 24 pp., 4to. Edinburgh, 9th December (1789). £5 5s An interesting letter sending 35 folios of his voyages, published the following year, mentioning terms, and asking for an answer to'a previous letter.