Sales catalogue 522: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/78
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 522: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1275 WALPOLE (HORACE). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MRS. DICKENSON. Ig pp., 4to. Berkeley Square, 22nd December, 1780. £5 5s Thanking Mrs. and Mr. Dickenson for a brace of woodcocks, and explaiming why he had delayed so long writing to them, etc. s*. . . T have been so few days in town, that I can Zive you very imper- fect accounts of our friends. The poor dear Vesey is quite childish, but . . . not at all unhappy which, with the great. care taken of her, is the best we cou’d hope. Mrs. Carter comes next Monday; Miss More is at Hampton, but not coming this month. A person who lives opposite to Hampton Court, isi in a very ce way, and suffers terribly, but’ 1 do not believe disordered as reported.” ute. 1270 WALPOLE (ROBERT, OF HOUGHTON, 1650-1700). A leading Whig Squire. M.P. Father of Sir Robert Walpole, the Statesman. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO LORD TOWNSHEND. ao, folios’ oth) May, 1675: 18s In high praise of Lord Townshend and asking his advice. “ I must therefore still humbly crave yr. Lordships advice how to steer my course in this Fickle Age. Yesterday att ye faire I was assured of that I little expected, viz.:—that Mr. Strange had a particular command from my Ld of Yarmouth to come to offer me a new deputation. Public employment I never courted or desired, nothing butt yt Lordships comands and the honor of having a commission under you could have prevailed with me to undertake it.’’ Etc., etc. 1277 WARBURTON (WILLIAM, 1698-1779). Bishop of Gloucester. Friend and Literary Executor of Alexander Pope. Published an Edition of Shakespeare. 7 A VERY LENGTHY LETTER SIGNED, AND SUBSCRIBED, ADDRESSED IN HIS AUTOGRAPH ‘“‘ TO MR. WHITFIELD.”’ 30 pp., 4to. Oth December, 197 3.7 £10 10s This voluminous letter is really a clever discourse on the doctrine of Regeneration and New Birth, the writer dissenting in his views from Whitfield on the matter. He commences his letter as follows:— ‘““1t is a sore grief to me that I am forced to differ with you on any point. And I conjure you to be persuaded that my Dissent from’ your notion concerning Regeneration and New Birth does not proceed from a Contentious humour, much less any want of sincere affection for you; but from the very great importance of the subject concerning which we differ.’’ Etc., etc.