Sales catalogue 597: Maggs Bros

Date:
1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/138
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 597: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    609 WHISTLER (JAMES McNEILL). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO ‘‘ DEAR TEBBS.”’’ I page, 8vo. Old Chelsea, roth December. £4 10s ‘“The great day comes off at the Burlington Club next Friday, Dec. 13. at ee Fey Do not, I beg, miss it! . . . . I shall ask Gabriel and William ossetti 610 WHITMAN (WALT, 1819-1892). Poet. Wrote ‘‘ Leaves of Grass,’’ etc. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (in pencil). 2 pp., 8vo. Esopus-on-Hudson, 17th March, 1877. ALSO AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED OF MARY O. DORIS MENTIONING WALT WHITMAN. 2 pp., 8vo. Camden, 30th December, 1895. £15 15s Whitman describes his arrival at Esopus-on-Hudson. ‘“‘ We arrived here all safe at last (after adventures) had to cross the river, late of a dark night in broken ice, in a little row boat, mid a furious snow storm (this house is on the west. bank, Hudson). The Natives advised us not to try it, but Harry and [I said cross, & Mr. Burroughs consented, it was quite interesting. It looks like winter here, snow 8 inches deep in every direction, but I like it much, a far view from my window of miles of river, mountains, rocks & woods, quite a change of scene from N.Y. . . Harry has gone across the river in a row boat with Mr. B. all the forenoon & I have spent mine alone in the library writing & frequently looking out at the grand show of scenery in winter grab.’’ Etc. 611 WILBERFORCE (WILLIAM, 1759-1833). Diplomatist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HENRY BANKES. 5 pp., 4to. 25th September, 1806. £3 3s An interesting letter on parliamentary affairs, etc. He also refers to Napoleon, who had ‘disappeared from Paris. ‘ I am looking out with some curiosity as well as anxiety to see where Bonaparte (who has suddenly disappeared from Paris with a view as it is supposed to strike some military stroke) will come to light. I wish he be not too rapid for them once more. Tt really seems like the infatuation of Providence quos Deus vult perdere, etc.,’ that the King of Prussia should resist the strongest temptation to join the late confederacy while it was yet in untouched strength, and yet now, when Bonaparte has trampled on all his Enemies and exacted his own terms from Austria, after forcing Russia to retire home again, that he (Lord Grey) should select the present, above all others, as the time for setting bounds to French Encroachments, yet it may end well, but I own I fear it will not.’? Ete. 612 WILDE (LADY JANE FRANCISCA, ‘‘ SPERANZA,”’’ 1826-1896). Poet and Author. Mother of Oscar Wilde. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO CHARLES G. LELAND, AUTHOR OF ‘‘ HANS BREITMANN BALLADS,”’’ ETC. 4 pp., 8vo. N.D. £1 10s Referring to Leland’s book, ‘‘ Sunshine in Thought.’ ‘“‘T have been reading with great interest your admirable work ‘ Sunshine in Thought.’ It is full of the noblest impulses & truest philosophy, and, like all you write, it has a tendency to make humanity at once more strong & more tender, but it is a book to be accepted and thought out, not merely talked about.”’ Ete.