Sales catalogue 467: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/37
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 467: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Autographs— continued. [228] KEAN (Edmund). A.L.S. to Mr. H. Sigell. 1 page, 4to. March 7th (1825). Autograph address, signature and seal on reverse. £7 10s é A characteristic, theatrical letter, listing certain engagements and speaking bitterly on money matters. “Cawt go to Brussels, at any rate not till after my next Drury Lane engagement (not then, do not lke it). The authorities and paupers take away all the money. . . . I shall be in London Wednesday or Thursday, see that these usurers have got the bond.” Etc. ; {229| ———— Autograph Manuscript of 28 lines. I page, tole. Cmca ao 32: £5 5s “This is the hour, when sluggards are in sleep, That genius soars the air, or scours the deep, Brings to this vision, all the days gone by, This heart, the good & ill which in it le Looks on proud man, but as a wordly thing, Scarcely a shade twixt Beggar & a King, Whipt in his chiidhood, in manhood trained, In all the vices which the fallen stained.’ Etc. [230] ———— His Visiting Card as a Huron Chief, he being elected Chief by the Huron tribe of Indians when visiting Canada in 1826. One side bears his name and the other an engraving of himself in full Chief’s Costume, with the inscription “‘ Alanienouidet, Chief of Huron Tribe of Indians.’’ £1 1s A rare and interesting item.
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