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 PREFACE. ^ 
 
 THE present Catalogue describes a large and unusually interesting collection 
 oi autograph letters, historical documents and other kindred matter. Space 
 forbids our giving more than a brief resume of its leading features. Among 
 Rulers, Princes and Court Favourites are holograph letters of Kings George III- 
 and IV. (also relics of the loiters childhood and schooldays J ; Queen Charlotte; 
 Edward VII.; Catherine II. of Russia, a long tntnesling lettet ; Marie Therese of 
 Austria, and her son-in-law Louis XVI. of France; Madame de Pompadour;. 
 Queen Elizabeth's favourite, the Earl of Leicester ; Mrs. Fitzhei bert ; Mrs. 
 Robinson, * Perdita,' the original MS. of her Memoirs ; fine signatures of Henrietta 
 Maria Queen of Charles I. ; the following Kings of France, Charles VIII. and IX., 
 Henri II., and Louis XIV, XV., and XVIII.; Frederick the Great; Frederick 
 Augustus II., King of Poland; Stanislas II., last King of Poland; the Emperor 
 Francis I. ; Henri II., Due. de Montmorenc}', Viceroy of Canada ; William Parr, 
 Earl of Essex ; and Queen Elizabeth's favourite, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, 
 Naval and Military include examples of such famous Admirals as Lord Howe,. 
 Jervis, Rodney, Keith and Hood, and such great generals as Robert Devereux, 
 the great parliamentary general ; Marlborough; the Great Conde; Turenne ; Due 
 de Broglie ; Charles de Rohan ; and Ulysses S. Grant. Statesmen, Authors, 
 Divines, etc., include holograph letters of Beaumarchais ; Borrow, an unpublisheeC 
 poem; Boswelli; Edmund Burke; Browning; Lord Byron an important letter 
 respecting his ' Political Ode' ; Campbell; Carlyle; Cavendish Duke of Newcastle ;. 
 Robert Cecil the first Earl of Salisbury ; Churchill ; Coleridge ; Congreve ; Crabbe^. 
 including his famous appeal and letter to Edmund Burke ; Cowper ; Dickens ; 
 Disraeli ; Fitzgerald ; C. J. Fox ; David Garrick ; Hogg ; Oliver Wendell Holmes ;: 
 Hume; Leigh Hunt; Ireland, the Shakespeare forger; Dr. Johnson; Charles 
 Lamb ; Landor ; Lang ; Longfellow ; Malone, editor of Shakespeare ; Marmontel ; 
 Cardinal Mazarin (8 lines holograph) ; George Meredith ; Mirabeau ; Mrs. Montagu,, 
 of 'blue-stocking' fame; William Morris; Mrs. Piozzi, formerly Mrs. Thrale, the 
 friend of Dr. Johnson ; Pitt ; D. G. Rossetti ; Rousseau ; Ruskin ; Sackville Lord 
 Buckhurst, the Elizabethan poet and dramatist; Savage, an original verse; Sir W- 
 Scott ; Madame Sevigne ; Southey ; Shelley ; Shenston ; Swinburne ; Tennyson ; 
 Thackeray ; Thoreau ; Voltaire ; John Wilkes ; Wordsworth and E. Young. 
 Other important letters and signatures are those of the Chevalier D'Eon ; Benjamin 
 Franklin ; Kate Green away, with two oj her charming drawings of children ; Warren 
 Hastings ; Angelica Kauffmann ; Edmund Kean ; Mrs. Abington ; Mrs. Siddons ;: 
 Macklin ; Livingstone ; Swedenborg ; Tate Wilkinson ; Sir Joshua Reynolds ;. 
 Sir Robert Walpole ; and Sir Christopher Wren, in connection with the rebuilding 
 of St. Paul's. 
 
 Abbreviations used in this catalogue. 
 A.L.S.=autograph letter signed. 
 
 L.S. letter signed (signature only in the person's autograph). 
 D.S.=document signed. 
 
 The genuineness of all autographs is, of course, guaranteed. 
 
 Under exbtins: conditions, orders by cable must be addressed in full'. 
 t)iz. ; MYERS, . 59i HrGH HOLBORN, LONDON, ENGLAND. 
 
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Catalogue of rare and interesting auwcraph letters, 
 
 HISTORICAL documents, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, &c. 
 
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 1 A'BECKETT (Gilbert Abbott) 1811-56. Dramatist and Comic Writer, Author of 
 
 Comic Histories of England and Rome. A.L.S., 4 pp. 4to, dated Park Village 
 East, Regent's Park, 15 April, 1838, to J. R. Bailey, congratulating him on taking 
 up *^your old and your proper position as first comedien of one of the first 
 theatres," goes on to say "/ hnow not what your influence may he at Covent 
 Garden, but if you could obtain for me the introduction there of '' A Family 
 Likeness,' you would add greatly to the many obligations your talent has already 
 placed me under," tear mended, £2 2s 
 
 2 ABBOT (Charles, Baron Colchester) 1757-1829. Chief Secretary for Ireland, and 
 
 Speaker of the House of Commons. A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, with postscript, dated 
 Kidbrooke, 20 Nov., 1811, to W. Shaw Mason, thanking him for a hook and 
 pamphlet. With armorial seal and Abbot's bookplate, 10s 
 
 3 ABINGTON (Frances) 1737-1815. Famous Actress, friend of David Garrick, original 
 
 representative of Lady Teazle, 1777. A.L., in the third person, 1 p. S\o, dated 
 Thursday morning, Dec. 5, no year " Will Mr. Humphreys do Mrs. Abington 
 the pleasure of taking part of a very small dinner on Sunday next! — She has a 
 hope that Mr. Murphy may make one — but is not quite certain; as he is not a man 
 of this World," £A 4s 
 
 4 A.L., IN THE THIRD PERSON, IJ pp. 4to, dated 12 Aug., 1779, to Mr. Humphreys, 
 
 "Mrs. Abington is perfectly aware of the reasonableness of his objections ; — but she 
 has particular reasons for wishing the Duke might know wTuxt has been done v^on 
 her subject since his grace left England," etc., £3 3s 
 
 An extremely rare autograph. 
 
 5 ACTORS AND ACTRESSES, eminent modern British. A Collection of 12 auto- 
 
 graph LETTERS AND SIGNATURES, 1854-89, including interesting examples of W. C. 
 Macready, Charles Kean, 1855, accompanied by a letter from his niece Patty 
 Chapman, Isabella Glyn, Fanny Addison, Winifred Emery, Fanny Stirling, Maud 
 Beerbohm Tree, Sir Squire Bancroft, Charles Wyndham and George Edwards, 
 
 TOGETHER WITH 3 ADMISSION TICKETS TO SiR W. W, WYNNE'S THEATRE AT 
 
 Wynnstay, 2 with hum,orous designs by H. Bunbury, the other a view of the 
 theatre by Evans, 1786, £2 2s 
 
 6 ALBANY (Louise de StOlberg, Countess of) 1753-1824. Widow of Prince Charles 
 
 Edward Stuart, the young Pretender. A.L.S., in French, with address, dated 
 3 N(yv., 1821, no place, 2 pp. 4to, to La Comtesse de Genlis, a complimentary letter, 
 £2 10s 
 A rare autograph. She was cousin of the last reigning prince of Stolberg-Gedern. After the 
 
 death of Prince Charlie became associated with the poet Alfieri. Survived the house of Stuart, 
 
 which became extinct at the death of her brother-in-law, Henry Stuart, Cardinal of York, in 
 
 1807. 
 
 Petition of Peter Butler op Boston in New England to O. Cromwell. 
 
 7 AMERICA — To his Highnes (by the especiall providence of God Lord Protector 
 
 of ye Comon wealth of England, Scotland, Ireland, etc.) The humble Peticon op 
 
 Peter Butler op Boston in New England MARRr. Humbly sheweth that yor. 
 
 Poore petr. having in July 1653 supplicated the rt. honble. Councell of State then 
 
 being about his great losses susteined by ye Spaniards at St. Domingo in His- 
 
 painiola about 30 months since, etc., 1 p. folio, n.d. but endorsed Whitehall, July 
 
 26, 1655, by Nathaniel, half brother of Sir Francis Bacon, "His Highness pleaseth 
 
 to returne this petition to the consideration and order of the Commissioners for ye 
 
 Admiralty Nathl. Bacon," with a further endorsement, dated 11 Aug., 1655 " The 
 
 Comrs. can doe nothing here but if the petr. make out ye matter of fact they will if 
 
 he please report that he may have letters of Beprizall in America," £9 10s 
 
 A highly interesting document relating to the old Colonial days of New England. Butler's 
 
 postscript to his petition is also of considerable Boston interest. " These are humbly 
 
 to supplicate and beseech yor. Highness (a concurring providence having made way for satissaccon 
 
 in New England by certain goods taken from ye Spaniards ^^ now in ye hands of MR. John 
 
 ENDICOTT, late GrOVERNR. OF Boston). That your Highnes be pleased to order ye said Mr. 
 
 Endicott to deliver unto yor. petr. or his assignees so much of ye goods or money as shall satisfy 
 
 his loss, &'c., or by a comission of Reprizall," signed Peter Butler. 
 
 [See Illustration]. 
 
 AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE— See Cumberland (Richard) for an later- 
 ^sting accoMnt of Gen, Burgoyne's oper£^,tioos in New York stftte. 
 
1 M'/EliS & Co,, S9. High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 8 ALFRED STEVENS' Monument to the Duke of Wellington in St. Paul's Cathedral. 
 
 Memorial, with the autograph signatures op 93 Members of the House op 
 Commons, to the Rt. Hon, W. E. Gladstone, M.P., First Lord of the Treasury, 
 2 pp. folio, undated, 18s 
 
 Among the signatures are those of A. J. Balfour, Jesse Collings, M. W, Ridley, J. Bryce, 
 S. Morley, H. S. Northcote, etc. 
 
 9 ANHALT ZERBST (Jeanne Elisabeth de Holstein-Gottorp, Princess d') Mother of the 
 
 Empress Catherine II. of Russia. A.L.S., in French, half page, 4to, with 
 ADDRESSED ENVELOPE AND SEAL, dated Zerhst, 3 Dec, 1747, to M.. Le Somery, 
 wHtten on deep mourning paper, some slight stains, 15s 
 
 10 ARCHER (Fred.) Noted Jockey. Portion op an A.L.S. "impossible to lose if he 
 
 will stand the Channel. No French horse has a chance. I am quite Jit," 7s 6d 
 
 11 ARNOLD (Matthew) 1822-88. Poet and Critic." Author of "Alaric at Rome," 
 
 "Empedocles on Etna," etc. A.L.S. , 1 p. sm. sq. 8vo, undated, but toritten at 
 
 Oxford, when fellow of Oriel College, betioeen 1845-47, £1 
 
 "It is really impossible for me to dine out again before Collections for I am actually loaded with 
 work, and I have to dine out to-night : to-morrow evening too is always my busieit one as we 
 have an Essay to do. I shall probably not go down till Monday," &c. 
 
 12 ARTISTS, CHIEFLY Royal Academicians op the Mid Victorian Period. An 
 
 INTERESTING COLLECTION OP 38 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, 1839-85, OF FAMOUS BRITISH 
 
 Artists, mostly addressed to H. Wallis relating to well-known paintings for his 
 exhibitions, and including fine examples from the pens of Sir E. Landseer, ^vith his 
 photograph, Holman Hunt, with his photograph, T. Uwins, B. R, Haydon, Peter 
 Graham, introducing McWhirter, and speaking highly of his attainments as an 
 artist, 1866, J. C. Horsley, R. Ansdell, E. H. Corbould, Millais, Birket Poster, 
 W. J. Frith, F. Goodall, John Pettie, Val Princep, James Sant, John Collier, 
 Edwin Long, E. M. Ward, Alma Tadema, Frank Dicksee, D. Maclise,. G. H. 
 Broughton, F. R. Pickersgill, F. D. Hardy, Vicat Cole, Marcus Stone, T. Faed and 
 others, £5 10s 
 
 13 ARTISTS, CHIEFLY EMINENT MID -NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCH AND DUTCH 
 
 Artists, a collection of 28 autograph letters, 1857-74, mostly addressed to 
 H. Wallis, including examples of Rosa Bonheur, last portion only, tvith signature, 
 L, Billotte, T. E. Duverger, H. Le Jeune, A. Toulmouche, L6on Perrault, E. 
 Lambinet, G. Brion, J. G. Vilbert, Madnazon, Y6rome, L. Veuillot, E. Hubert, 
 Heilbrith, P. T. Mays, De Jouy, Misnoui, Verbrockhoven, Peyral, Jacquet, Dubufe, 
 and others, 30s 
 
 14 ASQUITH (H. H.) Late Prime Minister of England. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated 18 Oct., 
 
 1892, to Hugh C. E. Childers, M.P., declining an invitation to dinner, 5s 
 
 15 AUTHORS— A series of 30 autograph letters op well-known authors, 1838 to 
 
 1897, including interesting examples from the pens of L. E. Landon, S. C. Hall, 
 Lady Blessington, Harriet Martineau, Amelia B. Edwards, Baring Gould, 
 Blanchard Jerrold, Louis Blanc, J. Ashby-Sterry, P. H. Gosse, Gladstone, Walter 
 Besant, W. Houghton, author of British Fresh Water Fishes, ivith a detailed 
 account of the breeding of the eel, Charles Hardwick of Manchester, giving a full 
 account of Eliza Cook in 1887, E. Lynn Linton, Florence Marryat, Albert Smith, 
 author of adventures of Mr. Ledbury, etc., J. R. Planch^, Jean Middlemas, E. b'. 
 Lytton, Frederick Locker, F. C. Burnand, and others, £4 4s 
 
 16 BEAUIWARCHAIS (Pierre Augustin Caron de) 1732-99. Eminent French Author. 
 
 A.L.S. "Caron Beaumarchais," 1 p. 4to, dated 2 vend6miare an 5 (23 Sept., 1797), 
 to "Le Oitoyen B6u6zach Ministre de I'interieur." " Vous connaissds, Ministre, 
 Tna passion pour le theatre, tous les artistes qui s'y rendent c^Ubres me sont cher. 
 Ne Soy^s pas surpris si f engage la citoyenne Vestris a vous alter solliciter pour le 
 redressement d'un tort qui lui est fait," etc., £3 10s 
 
 A very fine and characteristic letter of the famous author of the comedies of "The Barber of 
 Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro." Interesting also for the mention of the great 
 French actress Madame Vestris, who obtained a brilliant reputation at the Comedie Frangaise. 
 She died in 1804. 
 
 17 A.L.S., "Beaumarchais," 1 p., Svo, dated 24 pluvoise an 7 (13 Feb., 1799), to 
 
 "Citoyen Gr^tre^, Maison du Comte Grandesse, rue du pare royal," '' Madame de 
 Graridesse est trds pure ; mais les lettres du mari font peine a lire, par le ton con- 
 tradictoire avec cequ'il vous a dit, et dont elles sont pleines," etc.. Accompanied by 
 an English translation of the letter, £3 3s 
 
 A fine example of one of the last letters of this celebrated French author. He died on the 19 May 
 following. 
 
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 18 HARRINGTON (Sip Jonah) 1760-1834, Judge in admiralty and writer on Irish 
 
 History. A.L.S., 2 pp. 8vo, dated 14 Jan., 1827, to Thomas Moore, the poet, 
 relating to one of his works. 10s 6d 
 
 BATH-S'ee Montagu (Mrs. Elizabeth) 
 
 19 BERANGER (Pierre Jean de) 1780-1857. Famous French Lyric Poet. A.L.S,, 1 p. 
 
 8vo, dated Paris, 28 {month left out), 1848, to M. Coltu, 21s 
 
 A fine example of this eminent French Poet, the most popular of the French National 
 Song-writers. 
 
 20 BERRI (Charles Ferdinand de Bourbon, Duke of) 1778-1820. A.L.S. , with initials, 
 
 in English, 1 p. 4to, dated Paris, 15 March, 1816. To R. C. Bamett, relating to some 
 
 pictures, 15s 
 
 He was second son of the Count d'Artois, afterwards Charles X. of France. Served in the Army 
 of the Emigrants under tbe Prince de Conde, and was assassinated by an Orleanist partisan in 
 Paris. His son Henri, best known as the Comte de Chambord, was the legitimate heir to the 
 throne of France. 
 
 21 BESANT (Sir Walter) 1836-1901. Novelist and writer on Old London. A.L.S., 3i pp. 
 
 8vo, dated Frognal End, 9 Aug., 1898, " I have no recollection at all of seeing your 
 play or of giving you pei'mission to dramatize it. ... I have a great dislike to 
 matin4es, and I think they very seldom lead to anything while they are especially 
 disliked by the dramatic critics,'' etc., 7s 6d 
 
 22 BLACK (William) 1841-98. Novelist. A.L.S., 2 pp. 8vo, dated Reform Club, 2 ApHl, 
 
 no year, " I should esteem it a great honour if I could join the ranks of the contri- 
 butors to the Portfolio ; but the fact is that for many years back I have given myself 
 up so entirely to novel wHting that I find the writing of an ordinary article ahnost 
 an iinpossibility . . . as for the illustrations : / wonder what artist or artists 
 you have secured. The only man who seems to me to have caught the colour and 
 vivid light of those Hebridean Seas is Colin Hunter. Brett paints fairy-land ; and 
 Hook takes Cornwall along with him," 15s 
 
 23 BLANCHARD (S. Laman) 1804-45. Author and Editor. A.L.S., 2\ pp. 4to, dated ^ 
 
 Nov., 1839, to W. Jerdan, recommending a case for the Literary Fund, " That your 
 heart and judgement will tell you what to do in a case of urgency like this is the 
 conviction of my dear Jerdan, Yours tnost faithfully Laman Blanchard," lOs 6d 
 Edited Thackeray's paper the Constitutional, 1836, and George Cruikshank's Omnibus, 1842. 
 
 24 BLESSINGTON (Marguerite, Countess of) 1789-1849. Authoress, friend of Byron and 
 
 Count D'Orsay. A.L.S., 3 pp. 8vo, dated Gore House, 21 Nov., 1838, giving a list of 
 the portraits by Count D'Orsay, designed for her Tour {? The Idler in Italy). Men- 
 tions Theodore Hook, 21s 
 
 25 A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated 17 June, 1846, to Mr. Jerdan, asking him to dinnet next 
 
 Sunday, "A Professor of French Literature toill give us a specimen of his ability 
 in the evening," 12s 
 
 26 BLOOMFIELD (Robert) 1786-1823. English Poet, wrote the 'Farmer's Boy.' A.L.S. 
 
 with seal and address, 3 pp. 4to, dated London, 15 Sept., 1806, to the Earl of 
 
 Buchan, 30s 
 
 " My object has been to abide by the most simple methods of acquiring reputation, the standing 
 alone, as far as my abilities go, and as far as it can be done in justice to my friends. Thus it 
 has happened that of the many letters I have had from His Grace the Duke of Grafton, Sir 
 C. Bunbury, &c. , one from the Duke of York, and one from that most great and most 
 lamented man, Mr. Fox, that none of them have been made use of, though as well as those 
 from your Lordship, of a nature highly to be prized, they would hare made a proud and 
 conspicuous figure attached to any one of my publications." ... "A second Edition of 
 5000 copies of ' Wild Flowers' is just now publishing." . . . "4000 copies as a ninth edition 
 of the Farmer's Boy, are now going through the press, and the same number of the ' Rural 
 Tales' are immediately to follow." 
 
 27 BONAPARTE (Charles Lueien) Naturalist. Published 'American Ornithology,' etc. 
 
 Son of Lueien Bonaparte. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated Ley den,, 29 March, 1850, to Sir 
 Richard Owen, " You have certainly received by this time my bold attempt to a 
 species of the class of Birds & the three conspectuses of Mammalia, Aves, & 
 Fishes. I now enclose the proof sheet of the ^th not being toell satisfied with the 
 Fossils — who can enlighten the poor author better than you ! Pray correct it (on 
 every account but especially in that part relating to Fossils & their Classification or 
 numbering) & return it as speedily as possible," 21s 
 
 A rare autograph. 
 
 BOOTH (Barton) 1681-1733. Eminent Shakespearea,n Actor— 5ee Gibber. 
 
4 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 Unpublished Holograph Poem. 
 
 28 BORROW (George) 1803-81. Author. Wrote the 'Bible in Spain,' 'Lavengi-o,' 
 
 'Romany Rye,' etc. A Poem op 53 lines, with corrections and 8 cancelled 
 LINES, ENTIRELY IN BORROWS AUTOGRAPH, 3 pp. 4to, entitled "The 
 Pedigree of the Muse From Goronwy Owen." £10 10s 
 "When at the word, the Almighty said, 
 The heavens first abroad were spread. 
 The morning stars in beauty bold. 
 Arose a concert high to hold," &c., &c. 
 A fine characteristic example. Readers of Borrow's Bible in Spain and other works will 
 remember how often he intermixes poetry with his prose. As Mr. Wise in his Borrow 
 Bibliography nowhere mentions this piece, it is evidently unpublished. 
 
 29 BOSWELL (James) 1740-95. Friend and biogi'apher of Dr. Johnson. A.L.S., 2 pp. 
 
 ohlong 8vo, dated 26 May, 1783, "/ have tnade inquiry in tvhat manner you can 
 send to the British Mxtseum the Blanket which served you as a sail during your 
 very dangerous navigation. I am sorry that I am obliged to huri'y away to 
 Scotland without having toaited upon you at Greenwich," etc., part of lotcer fold 
 mended, and strengthened at the hack, £7 10s 
 
 Boswell took part in the great Shakespearian jubilee celebration at Stratford-on-Avon in 1769, 
 toured with Dr. Johnson in the Hebrides in 1773, elected member of the Literary Club in the 
 same year, published his ' Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides ' in 1786, and his celebrated 
 ' Life of Johnson ' in 1791. 
 
 30 BOSWORTH (Rev. Joseph,' F.R.S.) 1789-1876. Eminent Anglo-Saxon Scholar. A.L.S., 
 
 3pp. 8vo, dated Oxford, 30 Nov., 1863, to Mrs. C. A. White, relating to Miss Elisa- 
 beth Elstob, who published an Anglo-Saxon Grammar in 1715, 7s 6d 
 
 31 BURKE (Edmund) 1729-97. Famous English Statesman and Orator. A.L.S., 3 pp. 4to, 
 
 dated 5 May, 1796. ' ' My Lord, I know very well how little entitled I am to be trouble- 
 some to your Lordship ; and I am sure they are very few and very extraordinai'y 
 occasions, in wJiich I should find myself disposed to it; knowing, as I do, how 
 much and how successfully your Mind is employed, upon the most essential of all 
 our publick concerns. But, I confess, it is on that very Title I venture to take the 
 liberty of intrttding myself on your attention at this time. It is on a Business, 
 which, as affecting the Navy, peculiai-ly belongs to your Lordship, and as affecting 
 humanity, belongs to as all. The Gentlemari I have the honour of now recommend- 
 ing to you has done more towards the conservation of the health of both branches of 
 the Military Service, particularly of the Naval, than any man I have yet heard of. 
 It is Drt Carmichael Smith. His great knowledge and his application have given 
 an effect to what his humanity and publick spirit have impelled him to undertake. 
 I have knoion him for some years, and know more good of him than any other of 
 my acquaintance. He has hut one fault that I knoto of, hut it is one very usual 
 with merit, and its greatest enemy, his modesty,''' etc., weak in places, and slightly 
 mended, £8 8s 
 
 A very fine and interesting letter, recommending Dr. Carmichael Smith for the post of general 
 Superintendent of health for the Navy. Burke was Agent for New York Province in 1771, and 
 from 1766 to 1778, repeatedly attacked the Government for their conduct of American affairs. 
 In Feb. 1778, he delivered his great speech against employing Indians in the American War. 
 
 32 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated 28 Dec, 1782, to the Rev. George Crabbe, the poet. 
 
 "■' I do not know by what unlucky accident you missed the Note I left for you at my 
 house. I wrote besides to you at Belvoir. If you had received these two short 
 letters you could not want an invitation to a place where everyone cons'lders 
 himself as infinitely honoured and pleased by your presence. Mrs. Burke desires 
 her best compliments and trusts you will not let the holidays pass without a visit 
 from you. I have got the poem but I have not yet opened it," etc., .slightly damaged 
 and backed, £6 6s 
 
 An interesting letter, showing the great esteem in which Burke held Crabbe. He ends " ever 
 most affectionately yours Ed. Burke." 
 
 33 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated 10 Feb., no place or year, to Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, of 
 
 'blue stocking' fame. ''Saturday being a day of leisure, it is loith the greatest 
 satisfaction we find, that your kindness has made it something more than a day of 
 rest to us. It will he an old Sabbath in serenity and repose, and a modern festival 
 in cheerfulness and conversation," etc., £5 5s 
 
 34 BURKE (MPS. Jane) Wife of Edmund Burke. A.L.S., 1>^ pp. 4to, dated Beacons- 
 
 field, 17 Jan., 1797, to Thomas Venables, "Mr. Burke Jiad a very humane and kind 
 tetter from the Bishop of Man. It would indeed make Mr. Burke happy to get a 
 son of the Bishop's into the Academy, but Mr. Burke has not the least acquaintance 
 with Lord Comwallis, and in him the business lies," 21s 
 
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 Jfe BOURBON (Louis Henri, Due de) 1692-1740. Prime Minister of France, 1723-26. 
 A.L.S. li pp. 4to, dated St. Maur, 31 May, 1738. "Jeviens Monsieur de recevoir 
 voire lettre avec la decision de S. M. au Sujet du Salut des Gendarmes et Chevaux 
 legers" etc., 30s 
 
 Appointed head of the royal council of regency during the minority of Louis XV. , and afterwards 
 superintendent of that monarch's education, succeeded the Duke of Orleans as Prime Minister. 
 
 36 BROGUE (Victor Francois. Due de) 1718-1804. Marshal of France. A.L.S., i page, 
 
 4to, dated Benekenstein, 9 Oct. (1758). To the Officers of the ''regiment de la 
 
 Marine," giving them their orders for the forthcoming battle, £2 10s 
 
 A very interesting military document, being the original orders given by the Due de 
 
 Broglie to the above named regiment on the eve of the battle of Lutzelburg, to the gaining of 
 
 which he largely contributed. He also defeated the Prussians at Sonderhausen in 1758, and at 
 
 Bergen in 1759. He was afterwards Minister of War for France. 
 
 36a browning (Robert) 1812-89. Celebrated English Poet. A.L.S., 1 p. 8to, dated 19 
 Warwick Crescent, 16 April, 1886, to Lady Jersey, in relation to the performance 
 of Shelley's 'Cenci' by the Shelley Society, ^' I don't know tvJiether Dr. Furnivall 
 has satisfied yon or not; I can only hope he has done so. I have nothing to do with 
 the Shelley Society, but promised I would witness the performance of the 'Cenci' — 
 little supposing that they would publish that important fact in the newspapers" 
 etc., £5 5s 
 
 37 BRUMMELL (George Bryan) 1778-1840. Leader of Fashion in London and friend of 
 
 the Prince Regent (George IV.) Best known as Beau Brummell. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, 
 dated Calais, 1821, to M. le Chevr. Fonblanque, announcing the Death of Queen 
 Caroline, 21s 
 
 Accompanied by the address, and an example of the ribbon and wreath armorial bookplate of 
 William Brummell. 
 
 38 BRYDGES (Sir Samuel Egerton) 1762-1837. English writer, bibliographer, novelist, 
 
 and antiquary. A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated 20 Feb., 1815, to T. J. Brooks, " I fear I 
 cannot get as far as John St. this morning, as Com Bill and l^inance both come on 
 to day, etc. , 188 
 
 Founder of the Lee Priory Press, M.P. for Maidstone 1812-18. His bibliographical books are 
 numerous and valuable : his poems and novels mediocre. 
 
 39 BURNAND (Sir Francis C.) 6orn 1837. Burlesque Writer and Editor of "Punch." 
 
 A.L.S., 2% pp. 8vo, dated 29 March, 1887, to "dear Pasha," declining a supper 
 invitation, "But 10 O <fe C Crews have no charms for me . . . shall go back to my 
 work at night and then at a decent hour to bed," 5s 
 
 39a BURNE-JONES (Sir Edward Burne, r.a.) 1833-98. Eminent English Painter. 
 A.L.S,, with initials, 1 p. 8vo, undated, to Mrs. Holman Hunt, " Would gladly but 
 am engaged this blessed evening — do come in and see us of evenings and talk about 
 paints." 7s 6d 
 
 40 BURNEY (Charles, Mus. Doc.) 1726-1814. Famous English Musician, author of a 
 
 "History of Music." A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated CJielsea College, 13 July (1797), to 
 Edmund Malone. "I am grieved that the bones of our illustrious friend (Edmund 
 Burke J should not honour Westminster Abbey or St. Paul's — But every great man 
 toho has a monument in Westm^inster Abbey was not interred there," £3 3s 
 A most interesting letter to Malone, the editor of Shakespeare, about attending the funeral of 
 Edmund Burke in 1797. 
 
 41 A.L.S., 3 pp. 4to, dated Chelsea College, 25 Feb., 1808. "During the Spitsbergen 
 
 weather we have had this tointer, I have been exempted from much acute pain, 
 and kept cough, rheutnatism, and palsy at a respectful distance, by adhering 
 firmly to my resolution of not venturing i7ito the open air, but submitting to be 
 bedTTidden with blankets "nine times round me" . . . "I have long been tired of 
 vocal execution in music; 1 love simplicity, and wish not to degrade the voice into 
 a flute or a fiddle. The performance of every one who learns to sing of an Instru- 
 ment toill be Instrumental; and I have never known a great performer on any 
 
 ^instriim^nt, xoho liked an expression that did not resemble his own. But a voice 
 naturally sweet of tone, and well cultivated, can get at crannies of the heart, to 
 which an instrumental tone can never find the way," etc., £4 4s 
 
 A long and very interesting letter on the state of his health (he was 82), musical matters, and 
 famous Italian musicians, giving criticisms on the compositions of Millico, Aprili, Sacchini, 
 Bertoni, and others. Mentions that ' ' Millico used to bring his little harp to my house, which 
 he slung over his shoulder and accompanied himself there." . . . "iBertoni is now upwards 
 of 90 and principal maestro di capella to the State at St. Marc's in the room of Galuppi," etc. 
 
^ kYERS & Co., 59, Iligh Holborn, London, \V.d. 
 
 42 BURNEY (Charles, Mus. Doe.) 1726-1814. Holograph poem of fivk verses, 1^ 
 
 pp. 4to, "To Mrs. Thrale on I'eceiving from her a Gold Pen, 1778," £3 10s 
 "//^ bounteous Thrale could thus confer 
 Her Beauty Sense or Wit : 
 Who would not wish a gift from her ? 
 Who — not to beg — submit? 
 
 Paupers from Grubstreet at her Gate 
 Would crowd both Young and Old, 
 In humble guise to supplicate 
 For Thoughts not Pens of Gold." etc., etc. 
 Charles Burney was taught music by Dr. T. A. Arne, and was organist at Chelsea Hospital 
 from 1783 to 1814. His daughter Frances, afterwards Madame d'Arblay, was the authoress 
 of Evelina, etc. Mrs. Thrale was of course the well known friend of Dr. Johnson. 
 
 43 BURRITT (Elihu) 1810-79. Author, born in Connecticut, famous linguist and 
 
 advocate of peace in America and Europe. A.L.S., \% pp. 8vo, dated London, 
 24 Sept., 1849. "/ am, to sail for America next Saturday, but I hope not 
 good and all, as I intend to return next June to England. We have arran 
 to continue the Bond, and to make it more interesting or original than ever," etc., 
 10s 6d 
 
 Written on paper headed ' ' League of Universal Brotherhood ' ' containing the pledge of the 
 League. 
 
 44 BURTON (Richard F.) 1821-90. Explorer and Author. Translator of the Arabian 
 
 Nights. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, with heading in Arabic, relating to a map containing 
 the West Settlements about Kilva Kivinja, suggesting that they should be filled in 
 from Baron Von der Ducker's map, " only don't adopt German spelling," 16s 
 
 45 BYRON (Henry James) 1834-84. Actor, dramatist, theatrical manager, and novelist. 
 
 A.L.S., 4 pp. 8vo, dated 21 Nov., 1874, to W. H. C. Nation, relating to a novel he 
 had undertaken to write for Temple Bar, and referring to play writing, 7s 6d 
 Edited * Fun." Manager of the Criterion Theatre in 1874. Produced " Not such a Fool as he 
 
 Looks " and that most successful of modern comedies " Our Boys." Several of his pieces were 
 
 especially written for Mr. Toole. 
 
 46 BYRON (George Gordon, sixth Baron) 1788-1824. The celebrated poet. A.L.S. 
 
 "Byron," 1 p. 4to, dated 8 St. James Street, 1 March, 1812, to Perry, Editor of 
 the "Morning Chronicle," "7 take the liberty of sending an alteration of the two 
 last lines of Stanza 2d which I wish to run as follows 
 
 "Gibbets on Sherwood will heighten the Scenery 
 "Showing how Commerce, how liberty thrives, 
 I wish you could insert it tomorrow for a particular reason, but I feel much obliged 
 by your inserting it at all. — Of course do not put my name to the thing," £25 
 An important letter of Lord Byron, as it was the means of discovering a hitherto 
 UNKNOWN Political Ode by the great Poet. The Ode, addressed to the Framers of the 
 Frame Bill, first appeared in the "Morning Chronicle," 2 March, 1812. The letter itself 
 was first published in Prothero's edition of Byron's Letters and Journals, Murray, 1898. 
 Apart from its interest and value as an autograph, this letter is characteristic of the man and 
 the period. Though political life was under consideration it did not lessen the cacoethes 
 Scribendi to which the poet frequently alludes in his letters and journals. The appearance of 
 the poem in the desired issue of the newspaper records a deference paid to the writer's 
 wishes. The poet's Maiden Speech on " The Frame-work Bill was delivered in the House of 
 Lords, 27 Feb., 1812. Accompanied by the only copy printed in 4to. of the first 
 separate edition, entitled a Political Ode by Lord Byron hitherto unknown as his 
 production, London, John Pearsojt, 1880, with a view of Nottingham Castle by Paul Sandby 
 inserted ; inlaid. A note on the half title by the publisher says " The only copy printed in 
 ^to. J. P." 
 
 47 BYRON (Mrs. Caroline Gordon) Mother of the Poet, A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated 
 
 Southwell, 20 Sept., 1804, to Mr. Mason, " You will be so good as give Byron fifteen 
 pounds which I shall deduct frotn the quarter's allowance due the 25th of Dec. next, 
 etc., £2 2s 
 
 The handwriting bears an extraordinary resemblance to that of her famous son. 
 
 48 BYRON (John) 1723-86. British Admiral and Navigator, grandfather of the poet. 
 
 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated 29 June, 1784, to Mr. Sykes, I'especting money matters, 25s 
 Sailed as midshipman in the "Wager" in Anson's expedition round the world in 1740. The 
 " Wager " was lost and the officers and crew endured great sufferings in South America. Byron 
 published an account of these adventures. In 1764 he was sent on a voyage of discovery to the 
 South Seas ; in 17G9 he was appointed Governor of Newfoundland, and in 1778 fought an 
 indecisive action with a French fleet off Grenada. Known in the Navy as "Foul Weather 
 Jack," owing to his ill-luck in encountering heavy gales. 
 
MVERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. f 
 
 iO BYRON— Dallas (Alexander Robert Charles) 1791-1869. Divine and Theological 
 writer. A.L.S., 8^ pp. 4to, dated Wonston Rectory, 25 May, 1831, to Robert 
 Baldwin, asking his advice as to whether it loould he possible to sell cojyies of 
 Galignani's edition of the Correspondence of Lord Byron with his tnother and the 
 ivriter's father, R. C. Dallas, through a London bookseller in spite of the injunction 
 obtained from the Court of Chancery, just after Lord Byron's death, prohibiting 
 the publication in this country, " The original autograph MSS. of these letters of 
 Lord B. to his mother & to my father are in my sister's possession together with the 
 /?rsi AUTOGRAPH COPY OF THE " CuRSE OF MiNERVA " written at and dated from 
 Athens. These relics are considered valuable by some ivho have fancies of this kind 
 <fc money to indulge their fancies— for my part I tvonder that when I had them 
 during the injunction matter I did not put them into the fire — My sister thinks it 
 possible that £100 may be obtained for these papers for tvhich she ivould willingly 
 give them up — Do you think that this or any sum like it could he procxired " ? £2 2s 
 
 50 CAMPBELL (Thomas) 1777-1844. Scottish Poet. Author of " Gertrude of Wyoming," 
 
 (itc. A.L.S., 3 pp. 4to, d/xted 8 Victoria Square, Pimlico, 25 Oct., 1842, to John 
 Richardson, Esq., giving particulars of his intended publication by subscription 
 of his collected poems. {Illustrated edition, ^cith vignettes after Turner, London, 
 1848), his former earnings from the sale of his poems, present financial state, etc., 
 £2 2s 
 
 A long and very interesting letter. " For several years pasi the sale of \Lh books and that of mine 
 among the rest — has been going down lower and lower — so that the sale of my poems which for a 
 series of years before had yielded me at an average ;^500 — will not yield vie now if published under 
 the auspices of the traders — more than 60 or I'd per annum b' it may be less,'' etc. 
 
 51 A.L.S. 1 p. 8vo, dated 30 Dec, 1628, to John Came, declining an invitation 
 
 oiving to his time being so cut up that " / am obliged to cou7it it by hours and not 
 by days," lOa 
 
 52 CAMPAN (Jeanne Louise Henriette Genet) 1752-1822. Friend of Marie Antoinette, 
 
 and authoress of the Memoirs of that unfortunate queen. A.L.S. " Genet Camp an," 
 in French, 2 pp. 4to, dated 30 Aug., 1811, to a correspondent unnamed, asking him 
 to take an enclosed letter to her niece Madame la Baronne de Broc. Mentions 
 Queen JSortense, step-daughter of Napoleon, 25s 
 
 53 CANNING (George) 1770-1827. British Prime Minister. A.L.S., 2 pp. 4to, dated 
 
 London, 22 Jan., year slightly defective but apparently 1798, " / return to you at the 
 same time the Papers relating to the Cte. d'Entraigues, which I have submitted to 
 Lord Grenville, and have by his lordship's direction, ordered the Rapport to be 
 made out according to your desire," etc., 10s 6d 
 
 54 A.L.S,, MARKED "Private," 1 p. 8vo, datedQJan., 1826, to B. S. Jones, Esq., 
 
 India Board, " I have roritten to Mr. Wynn according to your desire, & I enclose 
 to you my letter to him," etc., 8s 
 
 35 CANNON (Thomas) Noted Jockey and horse-trainer. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated 29 Nov., 
 1886, to Miss Paine, in answer to her request for his autograph, 7s 6d 
 
 58 CARLYLE (Thomas) 1795-1881. Celebrated Essayist and historian. A.L.S., 3 pp. 8vo 
 dated Chelsea, 21 Feb., 1850, to W. E. Hickson, editor of the 'Westminster Review, 
 introducing Mr. McCall, "a man of much probity and veracity backed by real 
 talent of his oxen, and by an extensive course of reading and reflection which 
 furthermore distinguishes him — has written a Paper on some Book of Dr. Vaughan 
 the Preacher. His notion about Vaughan, as I have heard it orally from him, 
 agrees with my own. I have not seen this Paper : but I have no doubt it will 
 contain some hard-headed insight into the matter in hand ; and I should think it 
 might be well worth your examining with an eye to the Westminster Review, for 
 lohich, probably more than for any other Periodical, it may be adapted." .... 
 finishes *' Prove all things," especially all men; " hold fast by that which is good"! 
 £4 15s 
 
 A fine and characteristic letter from the famous ' Sage of Chelsea,' author of the French 
 Revolution, Frederick the Great, Sartor Resartus, etc., etc. 
 
 57 CARTERET (Sip George, 1st Baronet) died 1680. Second in command against the 
 Sallee pirates in 1637. Royalist, and Governor of Jersey. D.S., 1 p. folio, dated 9 
 Sept., 1664, being a receipt for ;[fll6 19s, portion of the amount for stores for 
 maintaining his Majesties whole fleet at sea for one whole year, men's wages and 
 victuals excepted, £1 
 
 Sir G. Carteret was a lieutenant in the Navy in 1632. Reduced Jersey for King Charles in 1643. 
 Granted estates there and in America in 1649. A proprietor of Carolina in 1663. Treasurer 
 of the Navy from 1660 to 1667. The document itself affords interesting particulars respecting 
 the cost of Naval Stores in the early years of Charles II. 
 
k MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 58 CATHERINE II., Empress of Russia. "The Great." 1729-96. A.L.S. " Oaterine." 
 
 in French, 4 pp. 4to, dated " a ma terre de Kolominska a Sept Werst de Moscou le 
 
 28 Juillet, 1767, to Madame de Bielke, " Je suis de retour de nion grand Voyage 
 
 depuis Six Semaine, et pendant ce terns d peine aije trouv4 le moment pour vous 
 
 repondre, quoique tout les jours je me disais demain j'eiyrires, et lorsque deinain 
 
 venait favais autant de tracas que la veille et au Sortir de lafetais si fatigue que 
 
 je pouvait dire come le Philosophe mari^ ; {Destouches's Comedy of that name acted 
 
 at the Th^tre-Frangais in 112^) A force de penser je n'ai plus dHd^e ; .... En 
 
 revange des Nouvelles de I' Europe dont Vous me faite part quelque fois je Vous en 
 
 conter^s d'Asie, j'ai fait ISOO Werstes Sur le Volga j'ai descendu dans les endroits 
 
 les plus remarquables, j'ai trouv4 les deux boi'ds du Volga d'une beauts au dessus 
 
 presque de Vexpression, peupUs et cultiv6s tres honetement, mats I'endroit que a le 
 
 plus attird mon attention est Sans contredit la Ville de Casan {Kazan) ; au premier 
 
 coup d'ceil Von voit que c'est la Capitale d'un grand Boyaume,'' etc., £15 
 
 Holograph letters of the great Empress are excessively rare. The present is an 
 
 unusually fine and interesting example. It was found a few years ago among the autograph 
 
 collection of Sir Charles Flint, who rendered useful services to the French emigres at the time 
 
 of the French Revolution. Printed for the first time in ' L' Amateur d'Autographes et de 
 
 Documents Historiques ' for August-September 1905, and a copy of the printed article, put 
 
 into correct modern French, accompanies the original letter. Sixteen other letters addressed to 
 
 Madam; de Bielke will be found in Vol. X of ' La Collection de la Soci^te imperiale d'histoire 
 
 de Russie, ' ' in which all the correspondence of the Empress Catherine obtainable is published. 
 
 59 CAVE (Edward) 1691-1754. Author and Printer. Inventor of a Spinning-machine. 
 
 A.L.S., 3 pp. dated 30 Sept., no year, to a correspondent, evidently relating to his 
 Spinning-machine, £3 3s 
 
 An holograph letter of Edward Cave is of extreme rarity. 
 
 60 CAVENDISH (William) 1592-1676. Eminent Royalist, spent nearly £1,000,000 in the 
 
 Service of Charles I., patron of Ben Jonson and Dryden. Wrote plays, poems, and 
 a treatise on horsemanship. A.L.S., 1 p. folio, dated Welbeck, 2 June, 1632, to 
 Thomas, first Baron Fairfax, a friendly letter, with particulars about his horses, 
 " Ffor my Stable of Horses I can nott mutch Comende them theye beinge ahnoste all 
 Coltes, but they fill me ivith hopes in that kinde ffor I must confess I never hadd so 
 manye so liklye. . . . My Lord you have great reson to . . . mutch att your 
 Godly and Christiari Resolution in nott affectinge the Babies off this Worlde yett 
 give me leave to desier you to take sum recreations & with delectation, for otherwise 
 your life woulde be to wearisum. My Lord ther lives not In the whole worlde anye 
 that is more affeetionatly your Lordps. most faythfull and most Humble Servantt 
 then W. Newcastle. " With armorial seal, £2 10s 
 
 An interesting letter from one of Charles I's. most distinguished adherents. He entertained James 
 I. at Welbeck in 1619, and Charles I. in 1633, Ben Jonson, on this occasion, writing the 
 masques. Governor of Charles Prince of Wales (Charles II.), from 1638 to 1641. Raised 
 troops for the King in 1642. Fought at Marston Moor in 1644. Created Viscount Mansfield 
 in 1620, Earl of Newcastle in 1628, Marquis in 1643, and Duke in 1665. His best known work 
 is the ' Methodc et Invention, etc., de dresser les ' Chevaux ' published when in exile at Antwerp 
 in 1657. Published in English in 1667. 
 
 61 CECIL (Robept, first Earl of Salisbury) 1563 ?-1612. Famous Elizabethan Statesman, 
 Lord High Treasurer, Son of Lord Burghley. A.L.S., 1 p. folio, undated, but 
 endorsed on back fold by the recipient "1 Nov., 1600, received from Mr. Secretary 
 CecyU." to Sir Thomas Postumas Hoby, " My good Cosen ujrpon ye Receipt of yor. 
 Ire. I was forced to deferr my Answer because the Counsaile mett not, and in this 
 case above all others you know I must be curious to shew either passion or afection. 
 For the m,ettr. I find it a very foule riot as it is sett downe," etc. From the Brindley 
 collection, £3 10s 
 
 Hogograph letters of this distinguished Elizabethan are very rare. He was secretary of state from 
 1596 to 1608, created Baron Cecil in 1603, Viscount Cranbourne in 1604, and Earl of Salisbury 
 in 1605, doubtless as a reward for securing the accession of James I. to the English throne. 
 Builder of Hatfield House. 
 
 (Jl V CECIL (Robert Arthur Talbot Gaseoigne) 1830-1903. Third Marquis of Salisbury. 
 Prime Minister. A.L.S. "Salisbury," 2 pp. 8vo, dated "^ Arlington St., i^Junct 
 1878, to the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, on his resigning his oflBce and in 
 relation to his successor, lOs 
 
 61b A.L.S. "Salisbury," 1 p. 8vo, dated 1 Feb., 1903, to Robert Sewell, on the 
 
 death of his father Dr. Sewell, Warden of New College, Oxford, 8s 
 

 
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 62 CHAMBERLAIN (Joseph) Eminent English Statesman, A L.S., 2 pp. 8vo, dated 
 
 Board of Trade, 20 Nov.. no year. To Mrs, Childers, ^* I am disappointed to find 
 that I must go to Birminghatn on Tuesday and Wednesday to keep engagements 
 tliere, and shall therefore he xtnahle to accept yoiir kind invitation to meet H.R.H. 
 the Duke of Cambridge and Sir Fredk. Roberts,^' 7s 6d 
 
 63 CHAMPAGNY (Jean Baptiste Nompere de, Due de Cadore) 1758-1834. French 
 
 diplomatist and Minister of the Interior. L,S., 2 pp, folio, da^cd * Le Ministre de 
 VInterieur, Paris, 19 Pluviose an 13' (1805), to 'Le Ministre del Finance,' "par 
 laqu>elle vous me demands mon avis sur la question de savoir si des Tabacs en 
 feuilles venus d^ Ainerique, en Pluviose de Van 12, sur les navires The hunter et The 
 Traveller, doivent etre soumis aux ancien droite, ou ne payer que les nouveauic," 
 followed by his opinion on the subject, 25s 
 
 Created Due de Cadore by Napoleon I. 
 
 «4 CHANTRY (Sip Franeis Legatt) 1781-1842. Famous Sculptor. A.L.S., 1 p. 8to, 
 no date, to H. W. Pickersgill, the artist, " I am at this moment making a bust of 
 the Duke of Wellington for the King (The guard room in Windsor Castle) I 
 expect to finish tloe model in about 10 days, you shall then be loelcome to it," 10s 
 
 65 CHARLES VIIL, THE AFFABLE, King of France, 1483-98. Document on vellum 
 
 SIGNED, 1 p. oblong folio, dated "a Court le 2SJan., 1483 et de nre Beyne le 
 premier.'' Begins "Charles par la grace de dieu Roy de France. _Au bailly de 
 tournay au a son leutenant general," and relates to the custody of certain castles and 
 their custodians, all named. Ends "par le Boy," with the bold autograph 
 
 SIGNATURE OF THE YOUTHFUL KiNG " CHARLES," £7 7s 
 
 A VERY RARE ROYAL AUTOGRAPH, which can easily be understood as King Charles died in 1498 
 at the early age of 28. The son of Louis XI. he was born in 1470, and succeeded his father 
 on the death of the latter on 30 Aug., 1483, when only 13 years old, thus the present document 
 presents one of his earliest signatures. The first years of his reign were much troubled by the 
 turbulence and revolts of the nobles, showing as in this writing the necessity for the safe 
 custodianship of castles in an important district in France. The great event of his reign was 
 his successful invasion of Italy in 1494, when he entered Florence, Rome and Naples almost 
 unresisted. 
 
 66 CHARLES IX., King of France, 1550-1574. Brother of Francis II., authorised the 
 
 Massacre of St. Bartholomew, D.S., on vellum, 1 p, oblong folio, dated 31 Jan., 1570, 
 to his 'gens de compte,' relating to charges on certain towns for artillery, right 
 side discoloured, but the other containing the King's Signature in fine state, from 
 the Upcott collection, £2 2s 
 
 Charles IX. succeeded to the throne in 1560, under the regency of his mother, Catharine de 
 Medicis. The civil wars of the Huguenots and Catholics fill up the history of his reign, leading 
 up to the awful massacre of St. Bartholomew, Aug. 24, 1572, preceded by the assassination of 
 the great Admiral de Coligny on Aug. 23rd. From that time Charles was the victim of the 
 most terrible remorse. Continually haunted by visions of the horrible scenes of those days, he 
 died, broken down in mind and body, in May 1574, 
 
 67 CHARLOTTE SOPHIA, Queen of George III. 1744-1818. A.L,S., "Ever yr. most 
 
 AFFECTIONATE AUNT AND SINCERE FrIEND CHARLOTTE," li pp. 8vo, dated 19 Oct., 
 
 1816, " My dearest little Coz, I cannot possibly leave London without writing a few 
 lines to thank you for all your kind <&: affectionate Attention of Yesterday. We 
 all agree you irutde it as pleasant a Party as possible. . . . We came Home 
 without any accident <fc what is more without meeting any thing hut Great 
 Waggons, & thanks to you My dear Princess I have at last seen how Beautiful 
 Londan locks by Night when it is all lighted up," etc., 30s 
 
 68 A.L.S., "Charlotte," 1 p. 8vo, dated 5 Jan., 1790, "My Lord lam ignorant 
 
 which Day is really fixed for Mr. Digby's Wedding Day. Should it be before 
 Thursday and Miss Julia Digby's Mother approves oj Her being presented before 
 the Birthday, you will be so good as to settle it for that day, but should the Wedding 
 not Ivaving taken place, or Mrs. Digby have only prepared Her Daughter's Birth 
 Day Dress, it rnay be put off till that Day," etc., 30s 
 
 69 . A,L,S., '• Charlotte," U pp. 8vo, dated 23 March, 1803, to the Rt, Hon. Henry 
 
 Addington, furthering a petition from Mrs. Howe, asking that the pension of the 
 late Miss Julia Howe might be granted to her Sister Lady Pitt, " I hope that you 
 will befriend two Ladies whose Brothers Seindce to this Country render thetn 
 worthy of the protection of their Sovereign <fc the Friendship of His Minister,^' 2o8 
 
 70 CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA MATILDA (Princess) 1766-1828, Eldest daughter of George 
 III., and wife of Frederick Charles William, King of Wurtemberg, A.L.S., your 
 FRIEND " Charlotte," 3 pp. 4to, dated Teinach, 21 June, 1821, to Hippesley the 
 banker, declining to withdraw her marriage portion of £80,000 from the Funds, 
 and giving her reasons for so doing, 12s 
 
la MVERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 71 CHATELAIN (Clara de) 1807-76, Composer and Authoress. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated 
 
 Castelnau Lodge, W., 2 Dec, 1865, to her publisher, asking for 12 copies of her 
 " Sedan Chair," endorsed " Send 12 in all, 6 gratis, 6 to he charged,'' 5s 
 
 72 CHURCHILL (Charles) 1731-64. Poet and Satirist. Autograph order Signeij, 1 p. 
 
 8vo, dated 9 Oct., 1764, to Mr. Almon Bookseller in Piccadilly, ''Please to pay to Mr. 
 
 Edioai'ds, or order on sight the Sum of 18-9-0 on account of your humble servt. 
 
 Charles Churchill," £2 28 
 
 A fine example of this rare autograph. Churchill became famous by his ' Rosciad ' and 
 'Apology,' 1761; attached himself to John Wilkes, and from 1762 until his death satirised 
 many authors and politicans. His collected works were published in 1763-4. 
 
 73 CIBBER (CoUey) 1671-1757. Eminent Actor and Dramatist, appointed poet laureate 
 
 in Dec. 1730. An interesting leaf from the Management Journal of Drur^ 
 Lane Theatre, 2 pp. 4to, containing instructions to Mr. Casselman respecting 
 the dismissal of certain actors, the engagement of others, and par'ticulars of their 
 Salaries, for Friday and Saturday, 9 and 10 Sept., 1726, all in the hand- writing 
 of Colley Gibber, and Signed by him and his co-managers Barton Booth 
 AND Robert Wilkes in four places, £4 10s 
 
 A remarkably interesting early theatrical document. Cibber was recognised as the leading actor 
 of eccentric characters from 1697 to 1732, brought out some thirty dramatic pieces between 1697 
 and 1748, made by Pope the hero of the Dunciad. The title of the chap-book, ' Colley 
 Gibber's Jests,' 1761, shows his notoriety. Booth played Ghost to Wilks's Hamlet at Drury 
 Lane in 1708, became by command of Queen Anne joint-manager of Drury Lane about 1713- 
 Among his best impersonations were Brutus, Lear, Henry VIII. , and Hotspur. Wilks 
 appeared as Othello in 1691 at Dublin, won his chief triumphs in the comedy of Farquhar, his 
 best parts include MacduflF, Sir Harry Wildair, and the Prince of Wales (Henry IV., part I.) 
 
 74 CLAIRON (Claire-Joseph-Hippolyte Leris de Latude, dite Mile.) 1723-1803. 
 
 Celebrated French actress, author of Memoirs. Receipt Signed '* Clairon," ^ p. 
 4to, dated Issy, 15 prairial, an VIII. (3 June, 1800), to Citoyen Brisson, 
 acknowledging the payment o/200 livres, the balance oj 600, that he oiced her for the 
 second edition of one of her works, £3 3s 
 
 A very rare French autograph. 
 
 75 CLARK (Charles) 1806-80. Proprietor of the Great Totham Press. Printed a History 
 
 of Great Totham, 1831. where he was a farmer. Reprinted scarce tracts, and 
 issued many satirical broadsides. A.L. in the third person, 1 p. sm. sq. 12m(), 
 dated 1 July, 1842. To Miss Alice Warncliffe, enclosing a humorous poem to 
 ♦* Tom Hood" on the birth of hie son, "printed at Charles Clark's private 
 PRESS, Great Totham," as a return for the pleasure derived from the perusal of 
 her poetical and other productions in the New Belle Assemble, 10s 
 
 76 CLARKE (Mary Victoria Cowden-) 1809-98. Compiler of the Shakespeare 
 
 Concordance, the Shakespeare Key, etc. A.L.S., 2^ pp. 8vo, dated 27, Porchester 
 Terrace, 25 Feb., 1852, to Mrs. White, ''The Series of Shakespeare studies of 
 Women" was commenced with the commencement of the 'Ladies' Companion,' 
 and seven papers appeared at intervals . . . I, happening not to see the 
 'Ladles' Com,panion' regularly, remained in ignorance xohether the eighth paper 
 (on Q. Constance), ever appeared or not; nor could I singularly enough, obtai)i 
 any satisfactory information on this point when I subsequently applied, and 
 therefore no more papers were written on the subject. It has been in contemplation 
 to collect those papers, and — adding others to complete the series — to publish themln 
 another form.; but whether this may ever be carried into effect, I can hardly yet 
 hiform. you," 2os 
 
 77 CLARKE (J. Stanier) Nelson's Chaplain. A.L.S., 3 pp. 4to, dated Tillington, 25 Ju7ie, 
 
 1818, partly written to John Bellamy, translator of the Bible, and partly to Mr. 
 Taylor, asking him to "endeavour to assist the many friends of Mr. Bellamy's 
 Translation of the Bible still further, than you have already done ; by either 
 propitiating the Editor of the Quarterly, or rendering him sensible not only of ye 
 Injustice but if a may use so strong a Term, the Wickedness of opposing, checking, 
 <fc thwartinq, a more just Translation of the icord of God, than had yet, or 
 perhaps is Itkely again for many years to appear. . . . But do not let Gifford, 
 or any of his Crew, know that this comes from me; or that I am interested about 
 it — or you will make him. still more inveterate against Mr. Bellamy," 15s 
 
 78 CLARKSON (Thomas) 1760-1846. Philanthropist. Agitated for the abolition of 
 
 Slavery. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated Play ford 9 July, 1845, to Mr. Sout, relating to his 
 Subscription to the Anti-Slavery Society, 58 
 
Myers & Co., 59, High Holbom, London, W.C. - ii 
 
 79 CLEMENS (S. L., 'Mark Twain') Famous American humorous author. Wrote 
 
 'Huckleberry Finn,' 'A Tramp Abroad,' etc. A.L.S., 1 p. large 8vo, dated Hart- 
 ford (U.S.A. ), W Aug., 1887, "Fes, they are the same words I used in a speech 
 about Mr. Arnold. And I ought to appreciate, and do appreciate, your chivalrous 
 _ & hearty disposition to right me, & I thank you for it besides; cfc if the 
 confiscated matter were sizeable enough, or in other ways important enough I 
 should be tempted to beg you to proceed," etc., 21s 
 
 80 COBDEN (Richard) 1804-65. Statesman. A foremost leader of the Anti-Cornlaw 
 
 League, 1838-46. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated 15 Cleveland Sq., no month or year, 
 relating to the first 3 sheets of some publication "/ depend on your giving a jealous 
 glance to see that there are no rivets in my armour," 8s 6d 
 
 81 COCKBURN (Sip Alexander James Edmund) 1802-80. Lord Chief-Justice of England 
 
 A.L.S., 2 pp. 8vo, dated Hertford St., no month or year, to "My dear Hayward,' 
 says " — are you disposed for a little country air — If so, come down and dine and 
 sleep at my cottage. Thackeray & Higgins are going down & I have one of the 
 handsomest womeri in England staying with me," 15s 
 
 82 CODRINGTON (Sir William John) 1804-84. English General. Distinguished himself 
 
 at Alma and Inkerman A.L.S., 2 pp. 8vo, dated Tower, Aug. 19, no year (post 
 mark on accompanying envelope, 1848), to the Rev. W. Valentine, in relation to 
 the band of the regiment of which he teas then Colonel, asking hitn not to use the 
 Duke of Cambridge' s name without first obtaining permission. *'My own name 
 certainly not — as the Band of the Regiment is not at all under my orders exept for 
 the military purpose of discipline, 10s 6d 
 
 83 COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) 1772-1834. Eminent English Poet and Philosopher. 
 
 Schoolfellow and friend of Charles Lamb. A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated the ^* Grove, 
 Highgate, Saturday noon," no month or year, respecting a letter for Mr. Talk, 30s 
 
 83a COLERIDGE (Sir John Duke) 1820-94. First Baron Coleridge. Lord Chief-Justice 
 of England. A.L.S., 4 pp. 8vo, dated 3 King's Bench Walk, S. Thomas, 1852, to 
 Dr. Sewell, Warden of New College, Oxford, giving an opinion on the terms of the 
 trust deed of the Herts, Fellowship, 68 
 
 84 COLERIDGE (Hon. Stephen) Born 1854. Author and Artist. A.L.S., 4 pp. 4to, 
 
 dated Law Courts, 30 May, 1880, to Joseph Halton, the novelist, respecting a 
 dispute over a play written in conjunction with Norman Forbes, the rights in 
 %ohich the joint author^ had assigned to Miss Calhoun for five years, "Sentimentally 
 of course ive stand on unequal grounds, Mr. Norman Forbes and I being much 
 more aggrieved at the resurrection of your version than you fiave any cause to be at 
 the birth of ours. The birth of our version was a genuine example of spontaneous 
 generation, ivhereas the resurrection of yours comes upon us as an unmerited 
 obstruction," etc., 15s 
 
 85 COLLINS (William Wilkie) 1824-89. Novelist, author of "The Woman in White,' 
 
 "Moonstone," etc., joined Dickens in writing "No Thoroughfare," in 1867. A.L.S., 
 1)4 PP- 8vo, dated 18 Nov., 1844, to J. Hogarth, "you have fallen into a very 
 strange mistake regarding the description of Rustic Hospitality. . . . The MS. in 
 question teas MY composition and not my father's (W. Collins, M.A.J and Tie never 
 even saw it until it had been fairly copied, and submitted to my mother's criticism 
 in the first instance." Accompanied by an engraved portrait of Wilkie Collins, 25s 
 
 86 COLMAN (George, the younger) 1762-1836. Dramatist. License, dated 2 July, 1836, 
 
 1 p. folio, granted to the Manager of the King's Theatre, Haymarket, for the 
 performance of the serious opera in Italian, in 3 acts, entitled 'I Briganti,' except 
 all words and passages specified by the examiner in the endorsement, signed by 
 THE Lord Chamberlain 'Conyngham,' and endorsed on the back in Colman's 
 AUTOGRAPH, "Omit all Sacred Expressions, and Apostrophes to Heaven and the 
 Almighty, in the representation of 'I Briganti' G. Colman, Examiner," £2 2s 
 Between 1784 and 1822 Colnnian wrote or adapted some 25 dramatic pieces, the best known being 
 ' The Heir at Law,' and ' John Bull,' both comedies. The present document shows his great 
 scrupulosity as examiner of plays, an office which he held from 1824 until his death. 
 
 87 CONGREVE (William) 1670-1729. Celebrated Dramatist. Schoolfellow and fellow 
 
 student of Swift. Autograph receipt signed, for the sum of £Sd 16s. lid., 
 
 received from Mes.srs. J. Warner <fc Co., 26 April, 1720, £3 10s 
 
 A fine example of the rare autograph of the author of ' Love for Love,' ' Way of the World," 
 'Old Bachelor,' 'Mourning Bride,' etc. Given the Secretaryship of Jamaica in 1714, 
 Flattered by Pope ; visited by Voltaire ; buried in Westminster Abbey. 
 
y kVERS & Co., 59, High kolborn, London, W.6. 
 
 88 CONDE (Louis II. de Bourbon, Prince de) 1621-86, Celebrated French General— The 
 
 Great Conde. L.S., 1 p. folio, dated Chantilly, 24 Nov., 1662, to M. Richard, 
 
 * Conseiller pour le Roy en la chambre de Bourgogue, a Dijon,' asking him to 
 
 arrange for a favourable resolution by the members of his Chamber of Burguyidy 
 
 on the advance the King {Louis XIV. ) required from that province. With fine 
 
 armorial seal and silks, also a second seal, ivith the silks broken away, £'d lOs 
 
 A fine example of the rare autograph of one of the most illustrious personages of his time- 
 
 Conde married a niece of Cardinal Richelieu and was at first known as the Due d'Enghien. 
 
 His first great achievement was the victory over the Spanish army at Rocroi in 1643, followed 
 
 by the capture of Thionville. The following year is marked by the battle of Friburg, and 
 
 the great victory at Nordlingen. Led the army of the Froude and besieged Paris. His last 
 
 great exploit was the victory over William, Prince of Orange (William III.) at Senef, in 1674. 
 
 Martyr to the gout, he retired in the following year to his seat at Chantilly, enjoying there the 
 
 society of the most eminent men of letters, among them Boileau, Moliere, and Racine. 
 
 89 CONDE (Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de) 1736-1818. General in Chief of tlie 
 
 Army of the Emigrants, A.L.S,, in French, 1 p. 4to. dated Steinbach, 14 Sept., 
 1794. To the Marshal de Castries, asking him to recommend him to the Duke of 
 Brunswick, and to assure that Sovereign of his knowledge of his friendship, 21s 
 
 90 CONSTANT (Benjamin) 1767-1830. French Politician and Orator, Tribune under 
 
 the Directory, Friend of Madame de Stael. A.L.S., in French, 2 pp. 4to, dated 
 Pai'is, 16 FlorMl an 7 (16 May, 1799), to Citoyen Jean de Bry, Ministre Plenipo- 
 tentiaire de la Republique francjaise A Strasbourg, 15s 
 
 A UNIQUE Cbabbe Document. 
 
 91 CRABBE (Rev. George) 1754-1832. English Poet, Wrote 'The Library,' 'The 
 
 Village,' 'Tales of the Hall,' etc. A.L.S., 6 pp. 4to, dated Bishopsgte. Street, June 
 26, no year (1781), to Edmund Burke, "It is my wish that this letter may reach 
 you at a time when you are disengaged, but if otherwise I intreat that it may not 
 be immediately read, as it is sufificient to try your patience without the additional 
 circumstance of asking your attention at an improper time. I think it right for 
 me to lay before you a farther account of myself, and lest ray present or future 
 conduct should appear in a light that they ought not I venture to inform you more 
 particularly of tne past, nor is this my sole motive. It is painful to me to be 
 conscious that I have given you only partial information, though the part I gave 
 was strictly true, nor can I with propriety beg your advice in my present difficult 
 situation, without relating the steps which led to it, on the other hand I consider 
 how much I have already troubled you and that you know probably quite as 
 much of me as you desire. I am apprehensive too, that I shall not rise in your 
 opinion by what I write, and it is my constant fear thai kind and benevolent as 
 you are, these repeated attacks upon your patience, may compel you to withdraw 
 your assistance and leave me to lament the importunity of my applications. These 
 reasons however do not ballance their opposite ones, they oblige me to fear, but 
 not to relinquish my purpose, and this long account is the result of a painful 
 Deliberation on the Propriety of writing it." 
 
 Here follows a complete autobiography unknown till quite recently, in which 
 Crabbe narrates^ the events of his youth, the hardships he went through as an 
 appirentice at Wickham Brook, as an unsuccessful apothecary at Aldborou^h, and 
 as a penurious "Candidate" for fame in London. He concludes: "I will wait upon 
 you. Sir, as soon as possible with a first copy of my poem correct as I have power 
 to make it. In this I shall yet presume to ask your opinion, on any other subject 
 it will now become me to be silent. Thus far I feel a satisfaction from what I 
 have written, that it is entirely unreserved and that it goes to one who knows 
 how to allow for Indiscretion and to pity misfortune," £25 
 
 This splendid autograph of six closely written pages, is and will remain unique as a Crabbe 
 documeat. It and the other letter to Burke, catalogued on next page, are the two most im- 
 portant documents in this very momentous period of the poet's life. The present letter is a 
 piece of autobiography that still exhales the^writer's anguish. But for it, we should never have 
 fully known the struggles he went through, when, against his father's will, he ' rebelled ' in his 
 Wickham Brook 'Solitude,' and when, later on, after his total failure as an apothecary at 
 Aldborough, he was driven by the sheer compulsion of famine to seek a shelter and an 
 occupation in London. Nor should we have had the complete tale of his repulsion from 
 Lord North's official gates at Downing St. We might never have guessed how this 
 wanderer amidst indifferent crowds found means to live between June 1780 and the end of 
 February 1781, until he resolved to call on Burke and implore that great Statesman's aid. 
 The help that his beloved and affectionate ' Mira ' gave him in his hour of need might have 
 been one of those tender, touching deeds that the ungrateful past forgets. Crabbe's own hand 
 brings it here to light again. He speaks, and his words, instinct with passion, make us realise 
 and sympathise in his feelings and sorrows* 
 
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 No. 92 (tos^ page 0/ /e^fer) 
 
MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 15 
 
 The famous appeal to Edmund Burke, 
 
 A LETTER WHICH CHANGED THE WHOLE COURSE OF CRABBB'S LlFE. 
 
 92 CRABBE (Rev. George) 1754-1832. English Poet. A.L.S., 23^ pp. folio, dated 
 1781, probably Febmary— March, to Edmund Burke, " / am one of those Outcasts 
 on the World who are ^cithout a Friend without Employment and without 
 Bread, Pardon me a short Preface. I had a partial Father who gave me 
 a better Education than his broken fortune would have allowed & a better 
 than was necessary as he could give me that only. I teas designed for the 
 Profession ©/ Physic, but not having sufficient to compleat the recquisite studies, 
 the Design but served to convince me of a Parent's affection, <fc the Error it 
 occasion'd. In April last I came to London with 3£ S flattered myself it was 
 sufficient to supply me with tJie common necessaries of lAfe. til my abillities should 
 procure ine more ; of these I had the highest opinion & a poetical Vanity 
 contHbuted to my^ Delusion ; I knew little of the World <fc had read Books only ; 
 
 I tcrote and fancied perfection in my Compositions, when I ivanted Bread they 
 proTnised me affluence, & sooth'd me with Dreams of Reputation, whilst my 
 appearance subjected to Contempt. Time, Reflexion, & Want, have shown me my 
 mistake; I see my Trifles in that which I think the true Light, <£: whilst I deem 
 them such, have yet the Opinion that holds them su/perior to the ordinary run of 
 Poetical Publications,'' a few words on the top lines of eachjpage slightly defective, 
 
 ablo loS 
 
 One of the two most important letters connected with this momentous period of Crabbe's life. 
 Burke gave instant attention to it, appointed an hour for Crabbe to call upon him, and the 
 short interview that ensued, entirely, and for ever changed the nature of the poet's worldly 
 fortune. He went into Mr. Burke's room, a poor young adventurer, spurned by the opulent, 
 and rejected by the publishers, his last shilling gone, and all but his last hope with it : he came 
 out virtually secure of almost all the good fortune that, by successive steps, afterwards fell to his 
 lot. See Crabbe's Life and Poems edited by his son.y Murray, 1847. 
 
 93 A.L.S., with address and postscript, 4 pp. 4to, closely written, dated Trowbridge, 
 
 II Sept., 1815, to Miss Charter, a long interesting and affectionate lettei\ 30s 
 
 W A.L.S., 4 pp. 4to, with address and postsctnpts, dated Trmvbridge, 9 Nov., 
 
 1824, to Miss Charter, an interesting long affectionate letter, " You will admit that 
 Rtnessis a just Plea far a Man's Silence, but not the Burden of seventy years— To 
 be sure if at that period there is no more than the Common Decline of the Faculties 
 & that gradual as it is in some cases. Your Judgement would be correct, but alas 
 my dear Lady this Period of Man's Life is geyierally attended by all kinds of 
 Infirmities of Body and Mind, with I know not how many weaknesses beside ; It is as 
 much as We can fairly do to gunrd against the pevishness and Impatience of our 
 Tempers especially when we are subject to some pain as this tenacious and trouble- 
 some 'Disorder of mine causes so repeatedly that I think it tvill not be conquered, 
 . . . It is not Disgust nor Dislike to the World ive live in nor by any Means is it 
 Indifference, but assuredly there comes on in life an Abstraction of Self from those 
 about us. ^ Our thoughts turn to the past or to the future <fc we are not so interested 
 in the Things immediately present, but I shall give you a proof iyideed of Infirmity 
 if I go on thus," £2 10s 
 
 95 A.L.8., Sl4 pp. closely written, 4to, dated Trowbridge, I July, 1815, to Miss 
 
 Charter, a long affectionate chatty letter, " Castle Building! I challange you any 
 day or at any Time and Place to build with me & I'll be judged by any competent 
 Master or Mistress-builder of Castles v)7iether mine is not as airy as majestic, 
 as large and as transitory as you can make for the life of you. It is strange indeed 
 if I who have built all my Life from ten years old & uptvards should now be out 
 done by such Lady as you, a mere Infant. Even at this Instant I have a Castle 
 building! Sttc/i a Castle! but I loill throw a veil of darkness round it: you shcdl 
 not see my Castle: it shall be built in secret and I alone will penetrate the 
 surrounding Gloom," etc., with seal, £2 2s 
 
 ^ -7- A.L.S., 3 pp. 4to, dated Trowbridge, 18 May, 1828, to his son the Rev. George 
 Ciabbe, a long and interesting letter, chiefly dealing with theological matters, giving 
 his ideas on a treatise by Scott, and Marshal's Mystei-y of Sanctification, and 
 quoting Harvey, author of the Meditation's opinion thereon, 30s 
 
 97 A.L.S., 3|^ pp. 4to, dated Beccles, 23 Oct., to his Son the Rev. George Crabbe, 
 
 an interesting letter, giving details about his health, doings at Beccles, ''I do not see 
 m,uch Company but am invited to go tomorrow to meet Lord Gosport <£• am told I 
 shall like him. An invitation to Yarmouth by Mr. Dawson Tuimer I am compelled 
 to decline." Much of the letter is occupied with a dissertatioji 071 the authenticity of 
 the Gospels, 90s 
 
14 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 dS CONTI (Louis Francois de Bourbon, Prince de) 1717-76. Distinguished French 
 General. A.L.S., with postscript, in French, 2)4 pp. 4:to, dated Paris, 27 June, 
 1771, relating to large sums of money owing to him by the King, 15s 
 
 99 CONWAY (Henry Seymour) 1721-95. Field Marshal. Commander-in-Chief 1782-3. 
 
 Fought at Dettingen, Fontenoy, Culloden, and Lauffeld. A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, no date. 
 to the Rt. Hon. Hans Slanley, "/ atn afraid it is not in my power to assist Dr. 
 Goldsmith's friend in the thing you mention," 15s 
 
 100 COOK (Eliza) 1818-89. Poetess. Conducted Eliza Cook's Journal from 1849 to 1854. 
 A.L.S., 2 pp. 4to, dated 5 St. George St., Albany Road, Camberwell, no month or 
 year but endorsed March, 1837, to W. Jerdan, editor of the "Literary Gazette," 
 tJianking him for a review of her poems, telling of her brother's death, and giving 
 interesting particulars about her recently published poems, 15s 
 
 The most popular of her poems was 'The Old Arm Chair' which appeared in the "Weekly 
 Dispatch" in 1837. Her complete collected poems were published in 1870. 
 
 101 COVENT GARDEN THEATRE— A very interesting series op 5 autograph 
 
 LETTERS RELATING TO THE RE-BUILDING OF COVENT GARDEN THEATRE AFTER ITS 
 DESTRUCTION BY FIRE IN 1808, AND THE CLAIM OF MR. DONNE, LANDLORD OF THE 
 
 Smugglers, in connection therewith, comprised of a letter from Sir Thomas 
 Lawrence, R.A., to Robert Smirke the architect, written on the day the theatre was 
 burned; a letter from Mr. Langdill to the same, dated 27 May, 1809, respecting 
 Donne's claim ; a letter from Smirke to Langdill, dated 30 May, 1809, announcing 
 the settlement of Donne's claim for 5000 guineas (autograph copy); a letter from 
 H. Harris, son of T. Harris, the proprietor of the theatre, authorising the settle- 
 ment; AND A letter, 3 pp. 4to, FROM J. P. Kemble, THE AcTOR, no date but 
 written at Dublin where he was then acting about June 1809, relating to settling 
 with Donne, mentioning points in connection with the New Theatre, and giving 
 particulars of the stage of the Dublin Theatre; also an original ground plan 
 FOR THE NEW THEATRE, SKETCHED BY J. P. Kemble, together 6 pieces occupying 
 11 pp. 4to, £3 10s 
 
 102 COSWAY (Maria Cecilia Louisa) Eminent Miniature-painter. A.L.S., in French, 
 2 pp. 4to, dated 26 Sept., 1810, to Madame Verniquet de Chavagnal, a friendly letter 
 congratulating her on her recent -inarriage, 21s 
 
 103 COWPER (William) 1731-1800. Eminent English Poet and Hymn Writer. Author 
 of 'John Gilpin.' A.L.S., 3 pp. 4to, dated Eartham, near Chichester, 7 Aug., 1792, 
 to Samuel Rose, Esq., Chancery Lane, '■'After much dust and heat and many 
 severe shocks and jumblings in our passage over the Sussex hills toe found 
 ourselves between 9 and 10 at night at the door of our hospitable friend Hayley. 
 . . . Mrs. Unwin endured the fatigue of her long expedition with much less injury 
 to her spirits than I expected, and being now a little refreshed by the undistur'd 
 slumbers of two good nights at Eartham, is more cheerful than I have seen her 
 many months. In short I have reason to hope for ev'ry good effect of this 
 excursion both to her and to myself . . . I hope that being accustotned in the way 
 of your pr'ofession to unravel perplexities, you will not find my state of this matter 
 too hard for you; for that it is perplex' d I doubt not, my head being at present 
 incapable of producing anything that is not so," £4 4s 
 
 104 CRANFIELD (Lionel, 1st Earl of Middlesex) 1575-1645. Lord High Treasurer and 
 Master of His Majesty's Great Wardrobe. Receipt Signed 'Lionel Cranfield,' 
 1 p. 4to, dated 15 Oct., 1621, /or £6,000 /7'o?h the Subsidies and Import on French 
 wines assigned for the expenses of the Great Wardrobe, 21s 
 
 Cranfield, originally apprenticed to Richard Sheppard, a merchant adventurer, was appointed 
 Surveyor general of Customs in 1613, Master of the Great Wardrobe in 1618, and Chief 
 Commissioner of the Navy in 1619. In 1621 he attacked Bacon, disliking his views on patents 
 and monopolies. Created Baron Cranfield of Cranfield in 1622, and Earl of Middlesex in the 
 same year. 
 
 105 CREBILLON, FILS (Claude Prosper Jolyot de) 1707-77. French Novelist. Wrote 
 • Le Sopha," Les Amours de Zeokinisul roi des Kafirans ' (Louis XV.), etc. Extracts 
 from 'Scene VIII.' and ' Scene derniere' of the prose comedy ' Le Chat Perdu,' in 
 French, 2 pp. folio, with three lines, dated 8 May, 1770, Signed 'CriSbIllon' 
 in the Novelist's autograph, approving of the play, written as " Censeur royal,' 
 30s 
 
 Cr^billon fils was a distinguished 18th century French Man of letters, and the son of a still 
 more distinguished father of the same name. Examples of his autograph rarely occur. 
 105A CREI6HT0N (Mandell) 1843-1901. Historian, author of 'History of the Papacy,' 
 etc. Bishop of London. A.L.S., 2^ pp. 8vo, dated 11 July, 1883, to a friend about 
 to ribit bim, giving information as to trains, etc., 7s 6d 
 
MYERS & Co., 59, High Holboro, London, W.C. tg 
 
 106 CRESWICK( William) 1813-88. Actor. His parts included Hamlet, Othello, lago, 
 Macbeth, and King John. A.L.S., 2 pp. 8vo, dated 8 Bloonisbury Sq., 1873, to 
 W. H. C. Nation, infcrrming him that the tenns for the Services of himself and 
 Son would be £35 per -week. Speaks of an original play, and suggests that Mr. 
 Walter Lacey would either of them be suitable for the character of Lord Self in it, 
 and that he should tvant £2 per night for the piece, not to run less than a month, 5s 
 
 107 CROKER (Thomas Crofton) 1798-1854. Irish Antiquary, friend of Tom Moore, and 
 author of 'The Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland,' 1825, etc. 
 Holograph Poem on a brook, dated 8 June, 1831, and signed ' T. Crofton Croker, 
 Rookery, Blueknock, Cork.' Consists of seven stanzas of 4 Hnes each, £2 2s 
 
 108 CROWQUILL (Alfred, i.e., Alfred Henry Forrester) 1804-72. Humorous Artist and 
 Author, Published over 20 humorous works written and illustrated by himself. 
 Also contributed sketches to 'Punch,' illustrated the 'Bon Gaultier Ballads,' 1849, 
 and designed a series of extra illustrations to Pickwick. A.L.S. "Alfrkd 
 Orowquill," 1 p. 8vo, dated 6 Feb., 1852, to T. P. Cooke, the Actor, asking him for 
 "a cJiaracteristic autograph to place in my cuHous Book of Records," with a 
 clever pen and ink sketch of a sailor at the head, evidently meant to 
 represent T. P. Cooke, who was reputed the best sailor that ever trod the stage, 
 £2 2s 
 
 109 CRUIKSHANK (George) 1792-1878, Famous humorous artist, caricaturist, and book 
 illvistrator. A.L.S. , 1 p. 8vo, dated 2es Hamp.stead Road, 3 Jan., 1874, to Major the 
 Hon. John Colborne, tlianking the Committee of the ' Temple Club ' for the honour 
 conferred upon him in electing him an honorai'y inemher, with postscript "/ ivill 
 do inyself the pleasure of being present at the Club on Monday evening if 
 possible," 30s 
 
 110 A.L.S., 1 p, 8vo, dated 263 Hampstead Road, N. W., 25 Nov., 1867, to J. R. 
 
 Ware, regretting his inability to be present at the annual " Urban Supper," 25s 
 With a fine characteristic example of his signature. 
 
 111 CUMBERLAND (Richard) 1732-1811. Dramatist. A.L.S., 7 pp. 4to, and postsa-ipt 
 dated Petworth, 18 Sept. (1777), to the Editor of the 'Morning Chronicle,' "/ hofl 
 last night a letter by express from Mr. Secretary Heron at Dublin Castle, there is 
 ad'bice that ' Captain Fisher of the Favourite transport, having left Quebec ye Hth 
 August in company wtth 16 Sail of Victuallers, had arrived at Corke; that two 
 days before he left Quebec advice had been received from Gen. Burgoyne, that he 
 Jiad possessed himself of Fort Edward with all its artillery and stores, ye Rebels 
 having abandoned it and fled by different ways; that Gen, Schuyler had left ye 
 
 uiiiny, which had melted away to about 1800 men: Gen. Burgoyne had been joined 
 by many friends to Government, particularly by a party from Albany ; that when 
 the eocpress left ye army, it was ready to march to Albany ; the forts of Ticonderoga 
 and Croxon point were garrisoned by Brunswickers a^id Canadians from Montreal 
 and Canada in general' . . . I lose no time in sending it (the Intelligence) to you, 
 as it is so pleasing a contradiction to all the stuff toith which the disaffected Papers 
 have of late been filled .... I have long forseen and predicted that Mr. Burgoyne 
 is gone to gather all the laurels of the War, and it is well if there shall be a sprig 
 left for the Brothers of N. York," etc., etc., £7 7s 
 
 A very long and important letter with reference to Gen. Burgoyne 's operations in New York 
 State, Henderson the actor, and the principles of criticism, particularly in relation to the attack 
 in the ' Morning Chronicle ' on Cumberland's drama ' The Choleric Man.' 
 
 112 CUSHMAN (Charlotte) American Actress, A.L.S., 1^ pp. 8vo, dated New York, 
 1 Aug., 1863, to Mr. Clarke, "7 am only too happy to co-operate with you in the 
 onatter of the 'Benefit of the Sanitary Commission fund.' — But I am soi^^—if it 
 roill be any disappointment to you, that I cannot act for other than a charitable 
 purpose during my present sojourn in America. I spoke to Mr. Booth upon the 
 subject of the Benefit & he so promptly promised his aid that I feel we may make 
 a very grand thing of it," etc., 21s 
 
 113 D'ARCY (Robert, first Earl of Holderness) 1718-78. Diplomatist. Ambassador to 
 Venice, 1744-46. Secretary of State, 1651-61. L.S. " Holdernesse," li pp. folio, 
 dated Whitehall 20 Aug., 1656, to the Attorney General, directing him to prosecute 
 .John Siswick, " to the utmost Rigour of the Law," for having stuck up at St. 
 Margaret's Hill, in the Parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, on the lith instant, a 
 most insolent, seditious, and treasonable paper. Jacob Bright, Michael Burrell, 
 James Warrington and John Wright are also named as being in custody concerned 
 in the ifnatter, 15s 
 
i6 MVERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, Londcn, W.C. 
 
 114 D'ARGENSON (Mare Pierre) 1696-1764. French Statesman. L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated 
 Versailles, 2o April, 1756, to M. De la Coste Messeliere, 10s 
 
 115 DEANE (Richard) 1610-53. Commonwealth Admiral and General at Sea. One of 
 the Regicides. A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated 'aboard the Triumph nere the Isle of Wight 
 ffeb .- 22 : 3 in the afternoone 1652," to Mr. Blackbui'n," I pray you do mee the favor, 
 to delivr. or cause to bee deliver'd the inclosed as directed for newes & the Lord 
 dealinge wth. us bothin Mercy & Correction Heave it to the bearers relation, £2 IDs 
 A rare holograph, with interesting shorthand notes on reverse of the remaining portion of the 
 
 blank fold, apparently in Samuel Pepys's shorthand. The letter is believed to have originally 
 formed part of the Pepys papers. Deane was one of the most noted of the commonwealth 
 admirals, was associated with Blake in the Naval Action with the Dutch oflF Portland in 1653, 
 and was killed at Solebay in the same year. He paid remarkable attention to the details of the 
 administration of the fleet. 
 
 116 Letter signed, 1 p. folio, dated 17 Aug., 1650, To the Commissioners of the 
 
 Navy, appointing a ca7*penter to the Centu/rion — " and desire you to cause the said 
 John Jordan to be entered Mr. Carpenter of the said ffrigot accordingly for this 
 ensueing expedition, with such alloivance of wages and dyat for himselfe and 
 servants as is usual in a ffrigot of her rate and quallity,'^ with seal, £2 2s 
 Autographs of any of the regicides are rare. Deane did not long survive his royal victim. He 
 
 was associated with Blake in the naval action with the Dutch off Portland in 1653, and was 
 
 killed at Solebay in the same year. 
 
 117 D'EON DE BEAUMONT (Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andp6 Timoth6e) 1728- 
 
 1810. The famous Man-woman. Best known as the Chavalier D'Eou. A.L.S., 
 
 " D'EoN DE Beaumont," in French, 4 pp. 4to, dated " An Camp de foest," 13 July, 
 
 1761, to his brother-in-law, M. de Gormon, a long and interesting letter written tioo 
 
 days before the defeat of the French at Kirchdenkern, in the Seven Years War, 
 
 giving details of the doings of the army and his share therein, says that he has had 
 
 a slight wound to his right knee, but hopes to rejoin his regiment in two days, and 
 
 begs his brother-in-law not to inform his another of it. Mentions Marshal, the Duke 
 
 de Broglie, the Prince de Condtf, the Prince de Soubise and others, £3 10s 
 
 D'Eon was eminent as diplomatist, swordsman, and writer. As secret agent of Louis XV. at St. 
 
 Petersburg in 1755 was instrumental in bringing about an alliance between Russia, France, and 
 
 Austria. Secretary to the French Embassy at St. Petersburg from 1757 to 1760, Captain of 
 
 dragoons in 1758. Afterwards minister plenipotentiary in London, secretly corresponding 
 
 with Louis XV. on a projected invasion of England. Obtained a true bill against Count de 
 
 Guerchy, the French Ambassador, for plotting his assassination. Generally suspected of 
 
 being a woman, large wagers being made upon the subject. Pensioned by the French 
 
 Government on condition of wearing woman's clothes 'in 1774. Adopted female attire in 
 
 1777. Lost his pension at the Revolution and made a living by exhibiting his skill as a 
 
 Swordsman in London and the principal English towns. At his death M. Elis^e, first 
 
 Surgeon of Louis XVIII., attended the dissection of his body, and his account leaves it 
 
 beyond doubt that D'Eon was of the male sex. 
 
 118 Power op Attorney in French, Signed " Le Cher. D'Eon de Beaumont," 
 
 H.\ pp. folio, dated London 7 Nov., 1768, appointing his Mother Dame Fran^oise de 
 Ciiaranton D'Eon de Beaumont his sole agent for his, house, gardens and vineyards 
 at Tonnere and Tissey in Burgundy, etc., and revoking his former appointment of 
 his brother-in-law, M. Thomas O'Gorman, in consequence of his failing to account 
 for divers sums of money received, which he had apparently applied to his own 
 purposes, with seal, 258 
 
 119 L.S., "D'Eon," in French, 2J pp. folio, dated London, 10 Nov., 1763, to 
 
 " Monseigneur," probably to his patron, tlie Cardinal de Rohan, complaining of his 
 treatment at the hands of the French Ambassador, the Compte de Guerchy, and 
 asking for a clear definition of the duties entrusted to him in London, 2os 
 
 120 • A.L.S., "La Ch^re D'Eon," 2 pp. 4to, dated Versailles^ Dec, 1777, to M. 
 
 Housieur Fagonde, complaining of his health, " La in^tamorphose que Von vfCaforc^ 
 de prendre, ne me rJussit par si bien que celle d'Ovide, H y a tant d'ouverture d ce 
 nouvel uniforme que le vent du Nord sans compter cehii de la cour, a ramon^ ma 
 cheminie du has en haut et a causd un terrible ravage stir ma poitrine," with seal, 
 £2 2b 
 
 121 A.L.S., " Ch. D'Eon," in French, 2 pp. 4to, dated Bath, 7 Jan., 1796, to Colonel 
 
 Mons«n, thanking him for his kindness during the recent visit of their Royal 
 Highnesses and asking him to convey to them ' m.es respects & mes remercimens 
 j|r*Jpow ^ haute protection qu'ils auroitent daign^s accorder d mon Assauts d'armes' 
 -.-£2 28 
 
MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 17 
 
 122 DAVY (Sir Humphrey) 1778-1829. Eminent Natural Philosopher. Invented the 
 'Davy Safety lamp.' A.L.S., 'i]4 pp. 4to, Rome, no date {endorsed 1820), to John 
 Parke, asking him to apply to the Papal Government on his behalf for a box 
 containing '^'^ some chemical apperatus for the experiments on the papyri that I 
 want to make by desire of our King at Naples," etc., to pass through the customs 
 without being opened. Part of the blank portion of the 2nd leaf torn off, 21s 
 
 123 DEVEREUX (Robert, second Earl of Essex) 1566-1601. Favourite of Queen 
 Elizabeth and friend of Francis Bacon. L.S., 'Essex,' 1 p. 4to, dated 13 June, 
 1597, to the Lord High Treasurer (William Cecil, Lord Burghley), "/ am so 
 beholding to my good friend Mr. Crompton, and have so manie wayes used him, tfc 
 his creditt at this tyme for ye furnishing of my self . . . as I must use all my 
 beste tneanes to procure him favor in other payments wch. he is to make. I do 
 therefor pray yor. Ex. that he may be at this instant ,<ipared for his privy e loane,' 
 etc., with seal, £5 
 
 Autographs of this celebrated favourite of Queen Elizabeth are very rare. He unsuccessfully 
 tried to induce the Queen on two occasions to give preferment to Francis Bacon, then a 
 struggling barrister, from whom he received much poHtical advice and literary assistance. 
 Distinguished as a Soldier, especially at Zutphcn in 1586. Took Cadiz in 1596. Appointed 
 Lieutenant and Governor General of Ireland in 1599, returned in disgrace in Sept. 1599. 
 Imprisoned in June 1600, set at liberty in August. Induced by Mount joy and others to 
 contrive a plot for securing the dismissal of Elizabeth's councellors, proclaimed traitor in Feb. 
 1601, tried at Westminster Hall, where his former friend and protege Bacon spoke for the 
 prosecution, condemned, and executed 25 Feb., 1601. Elizabeth is said to have been ready to 
 pardon him had he asked forgiveness. 
 
 124 DEVEREUX (Robert, third Earl of Essex) 1591-1646. The famous Parliamentary 
 Geneial, in command at Edgehill, 1642, took Reading in 1643, and fought the first 
 Battle of Newbury. A.L.S., ' Ro: Essex," 1>^ pp. folio, dated ' Chartle,' 10 Sept., 
 1634, relating to a dispute over some land between Sir Dillon and his Son and 
 himself, " / doe verie much desier to have thos lands within my holding to be 
 throwly planted according as may bee expected both for the King's service & Tny 
 oivn discharg," with armorial seal, £4 10s 
 
 Holograph letters of the great Parliamentary General are exceedingly rare. He was one of the 
 greatest Soldiers of the period. 
 
 125 DIBDIN (Charles, the younger) 1768-1833. Proprietor of Sadler's Wells Theatre, 
 for which he wrote plays, songs, and spectacles. A.L.S., 2 pp. 8vo, dated 2 
 Waterloo Terrace, no month or year, to Mr. Jerdain, respecting writing for his 
 paper, terms, etc., "/ have by me an examination of Macbeth, analizing the 
 nature of the characters; the conduct of the Plot, the fiction of the Witches, the 
 'inusic of the Piece, etc., 6s 
 
 128 DUTT (Shoshee Chunder, Rai Bdhddoor) Indian Poet. Wrote in the style of 
 Scott and Byron. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated Calcutta, 6 Oct., 1856. To the Editor of 
 tlie 'Belle Assembl^e' (Mrs. White), enclosing some of his Poems for insertion in 
 thai Magazine. Accompanied by a cutting from the Athenceum of 15 April, 
 1879, reviewing 'The Vision of Sumdru, and other Poems' by S. C. Dutt, 7s 6d 
 
 127 DICKENS (Charles) 1813-70. Famous Novelist. A.L.S., 3 pp., 8vo, dated 
 Devonshire Terrace, VI Dec, 1848, to Charles Manly, ''I do not regard the Mosaic 
 arab in question, as an important person; but any breach of faith is most 
 important; and into that I must enquire narrowly. I have already instituted a 
 searching investigation at the Printers' where my suspicion mainly lies, notwith- 
 standing that we enforce the greatest caution throughout the establishment. May 
 I ask you (for this is very necessary for me to know) to ascertain from Mr. 
 Webster whether the Mosaic arab implied to him that he knew the story from, 
 having read it, or from having heard about it — and whether he appeared to knoto 
 what its conclusion was," £3 10s 
 
 A fine and very characteristic example, written in the year that saw the appearance of ' Dombey 
 and Son,' and ' The Haunted Man.' 
 
 128 A.L.S., Ij^ pp. 8vo, dated Tavistock House, 17 Feb., 1852, to Charles Manly, 
 
 *' Nevertheless, I am so hardened as to say, in spite of this knowledge, that I shall be 
 very glad to have an Adelphi box for Saturday, if you should have one to spare. 
 I want it for some country people about me who I know right well would never pay, 
 or I wouldn't have the request on my conscience. That, / always consider a point 
 of honor," £3 3s 
 
 A fine example from the pen of the famous author of Pickwick , 
 
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 With long account op his impressions op Martin Chuzzlewit. 
 
 129 DICKENS— Barton (Bernard) 1784-1849. The Quaker Poet. Friend of' Lamb, 
 Southey, Crabbe, Fitzgerald, etc. A.L.S. "B." 4 pp. 4to, closely written, dated 
 Woodbridge, 8 June, 1846, to the Rev. George Crabbe, son of the poet, '*/ have 
 gone through Martin Chuzzleioit, hut not having the Book at this moment in my 
 study I have very likely spelt the fellow's name ivrong. It is equal in power and 
 diversity of genius, to any work I have read of the Author's — hiU, for all that it is 
 a harrowing, revolting, & excruciating Book — Bating Mark Tapley, Tom and 
 Ruth Pinch, and Main/ Graham, the Mysterious Prot^g^ of the half crack d elder 
 Chuzzlewit — the whole dramatis per soncB are fools, knaves, or fiends. Can a man 
 keep such company, for they will stick to you like Leeches, there is no shaking em 
 off, and be the wiser, better, or happier? touch pitch and some of it will stick to 
 you. Never was a hypocrite better hit off than in Picksniff, seldom lias ruffianly 
 rascality been drawn more con amove than in the delineation of Jonas C. — rarely 
 has low blackguardism been sketched more to the life than in Chevy Slyme, Madget, 
 & their peers; but paint em as cleverly <fc truly as you can they are not pleasant 
 company to keep — yet such is the skill and power of the author you can hardly 
 throw the book aside — but are forced to read on and on in hopeless suffering and 
 disgust," etc., etc. An engraving of Barton in his study occupies the top of the 
 first page, £2 10s 
 
 Extremely interesting to lovers of Dickens. Barton's collected poems were published in 1849, 
 with a life of him prefixed by his son-in-law Edward Fitzgerald of ' Omar Khayyam * fame. 
 
 180 DISRAELI (Benjamin, afterwards Earl of Beaconsfield) 1804-81. Famous English 
 Statesman and Man of Letters. A.L.S. 'Disraeli,' 2}4 pp. 8vo, dated Hughenden 
 Manor, 26 Oct., 1857, to Lieut. Ool. Rathborne, ''I was very inuch pleased with your 
 article — / think the catalogue of necessaries for the army very striking. It ivill 
 find its way into every paper," 25s 
 
 131 A.L.S. "Dis." 2 pp. 8vo, Grosvenor Gate, no date, to "My dear Walpole," 
 
 asking him to meet the Brinsley Sheridans and Mrs. Norton at dinner. 
 Accompanied by a portrait of Disraeli by A. Crowquill (A. H. Forrester), £2 10s 
 An unusually interesting letter from Disraeli, having the form of signature least known in his 
 
 correspondence, namely "Dis." It is also original evidence of the high regard and long 
 friendship of Disraeli and the Sheridans. 
 
 132 DISRAELI (Isaac) 1766-1848. Author. Wrote 'Curiosities of Literature,' etc. 
 Father of Lord Beaconsfield. A.L.S., 3 pp. 8vo, dated Athenceum, 22 May, no 
 year, to Lady Blessington, apologising for not having been able to see her for 
 three weeks, " The truth, the real truth, for there are I think many sorts of Truths, 
 is that I had hardly been in toion, two or three days, tohen I, and all in iny 
 domestic circle were laid hold of by that invisible and indescribable Foe to mankind 
 who is traversing all Europe and particularly Jermyn Street where I lodge." 21s 
 
 133 D'ORSAY (Alfred Guiilaume Gabriel, Count) 1801-52. Noted beau, dilettante, and 
 artist. A.L.S. in English, 2 pp. 8vo, dated 12 March, 1850 (post mark, Paris), to 
 John Du Pasquier, asking him to spend Easter at Paris, " You would see Lo^iis 
 Napoleon. . . . Will you oblige me by sending at once that portrait I painted of 
 Miss Nellie, from, Landseer's drawing. I mean the oil picture with the Canary on 
 her finger." 10s 
 
 Mentioned by Byron as an ideal Frenchman of the ancien regime. Joined the Countess of 
 Blessington in establishing a fashionable coterie in London in 1831. 
 
 134 DOUGLAS (Sir Howard, Bart.) 1776-1861. British General and Writer on Military 
 subjects. Governor of New Brunswick, 1823-28. A.L.S., 1 p. folio, dated London, 
 30 Jan., 1813, to J. Mallet, enclosing his accounts to 24: Nov., 1812, connected with 
 his late mission, 15s 
 
 He commanded a regiment at Quebec, and was employed on a mission to the Cherokee Indians 
 in 1797. Founder of Fredericton University. Elected F.R.S. in 1812. 
 
 135 EGAN (Pieree, the elder) 1772-1849. Author. Wrote ' Life in London,' etc. A.L.8., 
 2 pp. 8vo, dated 19 July, 1830, to T. P. Cooke, the actor, " Since I saw you on last 
 Tuesday night I have written a Piece in one Act, containing 9 Scenes. It is a Fire- 
 away-touch and take sort of thing — dfc full of fun and larighter from beginning to 
 end. . . . It is all life & bustle throughout — if you can strain a point to hear me 
 read it this afternoon — you have only to come half an hour soonei' on your road to 
 the Surrey — if you say No / shall send it immediately to Mr. Morris," etc., 25s 
 
 An interesting letter, giving particulars of the different characters in the piece, and suggesting 
 the names of sundry actors as suitable for them. 
 
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 136 EASTLAKE (Elizabeth, Lady) 1809-93. Authoress. A.L.S., 1}4 pp., 8vo, dated 15 
 July, 1858, to Mrs. Bartholomew, '*If I can I will call with this & yr Lady's 
 Companion where I have read tcith great pleasure the capital papers on the Pre- 
 Raphaelites — He is only too deferential to Denmark Hill {John Rtiskin), to call him 
 an authority at all," 8s 
 
 137 EDEN (William, 1st Lord Auckland) 1744-1814. Statesman and Diplomatist, . 
 Ambassador Extraordinary at the Hague during the French Revolution. A.L.S. 
 "Auckland," 1 p. 4to. dated Haghe, April 29,1791, an important letter "to M. 
 Dralce, Seer, de Legation iet Charg^ d' Affaires de sa M. Brittque. Gopenhague 
 Franco Hamburg." ' ' Brookes ai^rived here tcith your Dispatches. He was two or 
 three Hours too late for the Packet Boat but I gave him an order for an extra-vessel 
 & He sailed that evening tvith a fair wind. & certainly will have delivered your 
 Dispatches yesterday to Lord Grenville. It is not your fault if you cannot give 
 energy to a palsied Goverriment . ... it is only to be regretted that the Danish 
 Ministry feels itself to such a degree tied Hand and Foot by the Rxissian 
 Predominancy. The sort of neutrality which would consist in shutting the Danish 
 Ports equally against the vessels of Great Britain and of Russia, would under the 
 evident Circumstances be a mockei'y, nearly as offensive perhaps as any hostile 
 declaration,'" etc. Autograph address and part of wax-seal on fly-leaf, £2 2s 
 
 138 EDGEWORTH (Maria) 1767-1849. Novelist. Wrote ' Tales of Fashionable Life.' 
 ' Castle Raclcrent,' etc. A.L.S. , 3 pp. 4to, dated Edgeicorth Town, 24 Dec, 1819, 
 to "Mr. Hunter, Bookseller, St. Paul's Ch. Yard," '■^ I have read Miss Taylor's 
 insertions and corrections to Rosanna and the Lottery. I had not time to read 
 them all myself and I therefore put them into the hands of a judicious fnend whose 
 opinion is copied for you in this letter. I did not like what I read of these 
 insertions — / thought them flat, stale and unprofitable .... I have received only 
 3 cl»an sheets from you and have not had any proof s these ten days," etc., 21s 
 
 139 A.L.S. , in French, 2 pp., sm. 8vo, undated, to Madame Pastoret, a farewell 
 
 letter, 10s 
 
 140 EDWARD VIL, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910. A.L.S., "Albert Edward" as 
 Prince of Wales, 3 pp. 8vo, dated Sandringham, 4 Feb., 1873, to " My dear Bobby" 
 (the late Mr. Harbord Harbord), tellijig him that the sleeve buttons and stick 
 promised him tchen the Pririce was at Gunton are ready and that on his calling 
 for thetn at Marlborough House he would be delighted to present them to him. 
 Speaks of the recent successful ball at Sandringham, etc., a very friendly and 
 chatty letter, £4 4s 
 
 141 EDWARD AUGUSTUS. Duke of Kent and Strathern, 1767-1820. Fourth son of 
 George III., father of Queen Victoria, commander-in-chief of the forces in British 
 North America, 1799-1800. A.L.S. "Edward," 1>^ pp. 4to, dated Kensington 
 Palace, 27 March, 1818, to Charles Grant. M.P., thanking him for his promise to 
 find a clerkship in the India House for his godson, 15s 
 
 142 ERSKINE (Thomas, afterwards 1st Baron Erskine) 1750-182.S. Lord Chancellor, 
 intimate friend of Sheridan and Fox. A.L.S., 4 pp. 4to, dated 24 Jan. 1802, to 
 "My dear Jervis," " I have been turning in my mi^id what you said to me a few 
 days ago from our illustrious friend Lord St. Vincent in consequence of the 
 conversation xvhich your kind zeal and friendship for me had suggested to you ; 
 and I am very anxious to convey to him thro you my sentiments and feelings on 
 the subject, because I am sure that He as well as you ivill approve of thetn. I know 
 and feel my own high station in the profession {which I may say in a private letter, 
 no man ever held before for such a number of years) ; & I knoto and feel also the 
 Etiquette it imposes upon me tvith regard to my juniors hoivever accidentally placed 
 above me by temporary political offices," etc., 30s 
 
 A long and interesting letter, giving iiis views on tiie subject of professional promotion. 
 
 143 Wrote 'Armata,' a political romance. A.L.S., "Erskine," 1 p. 4to, dated 
 
 Brighton, .SO May, 1819, to Sir Richard Phillips, " The cause of reform has in my 
 opinion been ruitied by violent refortners however honest, and since the explosion of 
 the unjustifiable columnies against the Whig party, I do not see xchat steps they 
 can take on the subject of reform that loould be likely to serve the country. . . . 
 With regard to Bonaparte I think him the most inexcusably . . . man whc 
 ever existed — He had the happiness of the World in his hands & he sacHficed it to 
 his determination to be a despot in France," etc., 30s 
 
 In a postscript Erskine says " I desire to refer you to the first vol. of Armata on the Subject of 
 Bonaparte. ' ' 
 
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 U4 ELISEE (Marie Vincent T.) 1753-1817. The distinguished surgeon of Louis XVIII. 
 L.S., 4 pp. folio, dated 25 Jan. 1816, to the Comte de Vaublanc, 10s 
 An interesting letter relating to the re-organisation of the Faculties of Medicine and Surgery, 
 signed by Elisee as ' premier chirurgis du roi ' and also by Lefaivre as ' premier medccin duroi.' 
 
 145 ELPHINSTONE (George Keith, Viscount Keith) 1746-1823. Eminent British Admiral. 
 L.S. " Keith," 3 pp. folio, dated ' His Britannic Majesty's Ship Queen Charlotte, 
 in Leghorn Roads 23 Jan. 1800, to His Excellency Lievit.-Gen. Baron d'Ott, stating 
 the measures he proposed taking to stop the fraudulent use of Passes by vessels 
 sailing from Leghorn with provisions, <&:c,, alleged to be intended for the use of the 
 Allied troops and inhabitants of the Riviere Levant but in reality for carrying 
 their supplies to Genoa for the use of the French Army in that city and neighbour- 
 hood, 35s 
 Viscount Keith was largely instrumental in suppressing the Sheerness Mutiny in 1797. The 
 
 above letter was written shortly before he entered the harbour of Genoa, which he had 
 
 blockaded in co-operation with an Austrian force. 
 
 148 ESTERHAZY (Paul Anthony, Prince) 1786-1866. Diplomatist. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo 
 dated Chandos House, 5 June (1838), to M. Rothschild, asking him to pay the hearer 
 55 guineas on his account, 6s 
 
 147 FARQUHAR (Mary) Wife of George Farquhar, the Dramatist, who died in 1707. 
 L.S., 1 p. 4to, no date, but from some memoranda on the page toith address written 
 in May 1708, to the Hon Mr. Vice Chamberlain, " The exaction of the play house 
 make me very uneasy but hope through your authority and goodness it may be 
 greatly Qualifyd I liave made a through search into ye rates and atn well assurd yt 
 poor Mr. ffarquhar allotvd 35 for the charges of the house tho he teas promised by 
 Mr. Swinney who was ther manager of the neto playe house that lie should have it 
 free Mr. Wilks did then justify the same to Dr. Shadwell toho acquainting my 
 Lord Chamberlain therewith, who ordered him another benifitt day but thro' 
 mismanagement it provd of no advantage to hhn, the players I understand usually 
 allowd 40 for their benifit play but still I hope thro your poiverfull mediation it 
 may be reduced to a much less sume for ye cheif actors I presume may be easily 
 prevaild to quett their own charges upon Mr. ffarquhars account who has bin so 
 serviceable to them," £2 10s 
 
 A very rare autograph, and a highly interesting and valuable early theatrical document. 
 
 148 FAVART (Charles Simon) 1710-92. Celebrated 18th Century French dramatic 
 author. Reformer of the Comic Opera. A.L.S., " Favabt," in French, with 
 address and seal, 2^ pp. 4to, dated Ghent, 8 Feb., 1746, to his wife, telling her he 
 had obtained the management of the Theatrical Company jointly with M. 
 Parmentier, from Marshal Saxe, in spite of a legion of envious people, had been 
 asked what his business teas in Flanders, answering that he came to sing the 
 praises of Marshal Saxe atid to ridicide his enemies, accompanied by an English 
 translation, 30s 
 
 Not only a scarce autograph but a long interesting chatty letter. 
 
 149 FITZGERALD (Edward) 1809-83. Poet and Translator, friend of Carlyle, Thackeray, 
 and the Tennysons. A.L.S., with initials, 4 pp. 8vo, dated Woodhridge : 
 Thursday, no month or year, to Posh, his boatman, "J/ you are minded to come 
 over here on Saturday evening, for Sunday — to hear my nightingale — before you 
 go to sea — do so. But if you prefer your last Sunday at home, with your Family, 
 and your drum, &c. — why, that I dare say, is better than tne and my Nightingale 
 too. I am not very well, nor very merry. . . . Oh — / want you to do a little 
 favour for me : no more than to write out for me those two Songs ' My Old 
 Shipmate ' and ' My Bonny Boy ' — you can do this on Sunday, lohether here or at 
 home, I suppose ; unless you think that it is not proper loork for a Sunday. But 
 oblige me by writing them out somehow," £3 10s 
 
 A fine characteristic letter from the author of the well-known English poetic version of the 
 ' Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. ' 
 
 150 FITZHERBERT (Maria Anne) 1756-1837. Wife of George IV. A.L.S., with initials, 
 1 p. 4to, no date (about 1824^, to George Robins, the well-known auctioneer, 
 relating to a lease, " I do tl.ink that if Ld. Speyiser would do by me as he lias done 
 by the other lady at Batter sea & grant a certain number of year's, it xcould be 
 qiiite enough for '. . . George and might save ine some hundreds " with seal, £2 2s 
 
 151 FOX (Sir Stephen) 1627-1716. Statesman, aided Charles II. to escape after the 
 battle of Worcester. A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated Whitehall, 17 Oct., 1693, to John 
 Evelyn, relative to the employment of a Captain Harrison, 21s 
 
 Endorsed on the back by John Evelyn "From Sr. Ste: Fox Octr. 1693 reed. 24M ditto," most 
 probably from a reference to Ireland in the letter John Evelyn the younger, son of the 
 celebrated diarist. 
 
MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. it 
 
 152 FOX (Charles James) 1749-1806. Famous English Statesman. A.L.S., 4 pp. 4to 
 dated Bath, Tuesday, no year or month {endorsed Feb. 8, 1789), to Grenville, " To 
 keep the Duke of Dorset is very desirable as by so doing we gain Lord Sackville and 
 two if not three votes in the House of Commons ; and if we do not keep him I think 
 Beauchamp ought to succeed him. as I see a great difficulty in getting any thing 
 suitable either for Lord Hertford or him at home. I think it would be miserable 
 oeconomy of the good we have amongst us if ice tcere to put you into an Office lohich 
 cnn be executed by tJie Duke of Dorset or Lord Beaucham,p besides that upon ifs 
 present footing I do not know hoxo you wotild be able to live uponr the income of it 
 which is I believe under £7000 a year. If you did not dislike the Hague so much 
 there you might be of real sei'vice," etc., £3 3s 
 
 A most interesting political letter between two celebrated statesmen. Marked " private." 
 
 153 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, with address, also bearing signature, d^ted Downing St., 
 
 Tuesday, no month or year, but early in 1806, to R. B. Sheridan, A very important 
 LETTER, written either during or shortly after the formation of the Ministry of 
 " All the Talents," ''After your business is settled I must look sharp for- Bomilly 
 for tho' there may not be much opposition there may and certainly will be some 
 with Percival in a manner at iVa head, and in such a case being without a Lawyer 
 is, as I have often experienced, a ivoful thing," etc., piece of lower blank margin 
 torn away, injuring one word, £2 10s 
 
 A fine example of this celebrated statesman's autograph, from the Thoma* Grenville correspon- 
 dence, and particularly interesting as being addressed to Sheridan. 
 
 151- A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated Tuesday night, no month or year, probably June, 1800, 
 
 to William Porter, asking him to meet Mr. & Mrs. Ludbeg at dinner, 21s 
 Fox took the leading part in opposing North's American policy in 1774, and supported the repeal 
 of the tea duty. Accompanied by an admission ticket, written by the Duke of Bedford, to the 
 funeral of Fox in Westminster Abbey, with the Duke's seal. 
 
 155 FOX (Henry Richard Vassall, third Baron Holland) 1773-1840, Politician, 
 Traveller, and Translator. A.L.S. "Holland," 4 pp. 4to, dated Hanover, 8 Oct. 
 f endorsed by recipient 1792), to Francis Drake, British Minister at Copenhagen, 
 "The French, heaven be praised! have met with great success in their incursion 
 upon Germany and I really am as sanguine as they. Uncle Charles (C. J. Fox) 
 is hoping tliat if France is conquered the trouble and time it will cost must ruin all 
 the barbarians that have conspired to destroy it. By the bye to shock you I must 
 acquaint you tJiat the King of Sweden's assassins are received with open arms at 
 Hamburgh. This I confess is ichat even with my democi^atical principles I never 
 can approve. I should feel no hoiTor at the Frenchman who stabbed the D. of B. 
 or at the Pole ivho poisoned the Empress, self defence is ahvays excusable. But in 
 yicederi it was nothing but intngue and ambition," £1 10s 
 
 i58 FRANKLIN (Banjamin) 1706-1790. Famous Amciican Philosopher and Statesman. 
 Letter signed "B. Franklin," 2 pages, 4to, dated Philadelphia, March 6, 1787. 
 Addressed to Governor Sullivan, relating to a laiv suit concer-ning the brigantine 
 Susanna, and concluding "But I will not longer delay assuring your Excellency 
 of the good disposition of this Government towards the State over tvhich you so 
 worthily preside, and that nothing will be done here which can possibly be avoided, 
 that may have the smallest tendency to lesson the good understanding which ought 
 to be maintained among all the States of the Union," £10 
 
 A fine signature of the famous Benjamin Franklin, written in his 82nd year when Governor of 
 Pennsylvania, which important post he occupied from 1786 to 1788. The Governor Sullivan 
 to whom the letter is addressed was George Washington's celebrated General in the War of 
 Independence, John Sullivan, afterwards Governor of New Hampshire from 1786 to 1789. To 
 Benjamin Franklin is due the principal credit of procuring the treaty of alliance with France, 
 signed at Paris 6 Feb. 1778, which secured the independence of the American Colonies. 
 
 157 FRANCIS I., Emperor of the West, husband of Marie Ther^se, and father of 
 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. A.L.S., in French, 2 pp. 4to, dated21 Oct., 
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 standards, etc., £2 2s 
 
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 158 FRANCIS I., King of Naples, 1777-1830. A.L.S. "Francesco," in Italian, dated 
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 159 FRANCIS (Sir Philip) 1740-1818. Reputed author of "Letters of Junius." A.L.S., 
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 A very scarce autograph. Tliough generally credited with writing the ' Letters of Junius ' he 
 absolutely denied their authorship. 
 
 Royal Relic. 
 
 160 FREDERIC AUGUSTUS, Duke of York and Albany. 1763-1827. Second son of 
 George III. Translations from Terknce, the original exercise book, 67 11. 
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 English of Terence's Andrian, Act 1, Scene 1, The Adelphi, Act 1, Scenes 1—3, and 
 the Heautontimodoumenos, Act 1, Scene 1, the ichole neatly ivritten, on one side 
 the page, within a double red line border, original vellum, £5 5s 
 
 On the flyleaf is the following inscription in the Prince's autograph "Frederick, This Volume 
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 161 FREDERICK AUGUSTUS I., Eleetop of Saxony and King of Poland. 1670-1733. 
 
 L.S. "CONSANGUINENS ET AfFINIS StUDIOSISSIMUS FRIEDERICUS AUGUSTUS 
 
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 to William III. of England, informing him of his brother's death and of his 
 
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 Pultawa in 1709. 
 
 162 FREDERICK II., the Great, King of Prussia. Note signed, 5 lines, in French, 1 p. 
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 163 FRERON (Louis Stanislas) 1757-1802. Violent French revolutionist, associate o^ 
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 to 'Citoyen fabre d'Eglantine D6put6 a La Convention Nationale,' respecting an 
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 164 FURNIVALL (Frederick James) 1825-1910. Distinguished Shakespearian scholar 
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 the bookseller, and his taking up the Roxburgh Ballads, 7s 6d 
 
 165 GARIBALDI (Guiseppe) 1807-82. Celebrated Italian Patriot. L.S., with initials 
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 1 August, 1864, to Signor Negretti, 21s 
 
 166 GARRICK (David) 1717-79. Famous Shakespearian Actor, Theatrical Manager, and 
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 167 Verse of 4 lines signed "D. Garrick," 1 p. 8vo, undated, m,ounted and very 
 
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 171 GEORGE III., King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1738-1820. A.N.S. "George R." 
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 172 L.S., in German, 1 p. folio, dated St. James's Palace, 7 August, 1783, 12s 
 
 173 GEORGE IV., King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1762-1830. A.L.S. "G.R." with 
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 Relics of King George IV. 's Childhood. 
 
 174 Two infant's vests and a linen cap, used by George IV. when a baby, 
 
 given by his mother. Queen Charlotte to the Dowager Countess of Effingham ; 
 TOGETHER WITH 13 LEAVES, 4to, FROM ONE OF HIS COPY-BOOKS, nearly every leaf 
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 which it was written, ending with a copy of Pope's Universal Prayer, the whole 
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 Highly interesting relics of the babyhood and boyhood of King George IV., accompanied by a 
 letter attesting their authenticity. 
 
 175 A.L.S., with initials, 2 pp. 4to, dated, Roy at Lodge, 31 March, 1828, to "My 
 
 dear Albert," '' As I do not know what little offering on my Part, would be most 
 agreeable to you, as a faretvell Cadeau from me on your departure, I desire your 
 acceptance of the inclosed, that you mny suit your own taste <fc in that manner 
 recall me to your RECOLLECTION duHng your absence and stay at Florence," 
 etc., £2 2s 
 
 Schoolboy Relic of King George IV. 
 
 176 Original exercise book, 84 11. sm. 4to, entirely in the Prince's hand- 
 writing, containing a transcript in Latin entitled 'Extract of the First Oration of 
 Cicero against Catiline. Spoken before their Majesties in the Picture Gallery at 
 Windsor Castle on August 12,1778'; a translation into English of 'The Choice of 
 Hercules by Prodicus'; and a translation of 'Select Passages from Cicero de 
 natura Deorum. Lib: 2, Cap: 37, the whole neatly written, on one side the page, 
 within double red line borders, original vellum, £5 5s 
 
 On the flyleaf is the following inscription in the Prince's autograph "George P. This volume 
 begun Sept: 24, 1778." At the end are inserted two old engraved portraits of George I^ 
 io bis Coronation robes, and H.R.H. Prince Qctavius. 
 
s^ MYERS & Co., 59, High Molborn, London, W.C. 
 
 196 HALIFAX (Charles Montagu, first Earl of) 1661-1715. Famous Statesman. Docu- 
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 and payable to her Majesty the Queene Doivager (Catherine of Braganza, tcidotf of 
 Charles 11.) for two years ending at Michaelmas 1693, accompanied by Ireland's 
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 Charles Montagu, the friend of Sir Isaac Newton, originated the National debt and introduced 
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 to the holding of Courts Leete at the end of the XVIIIth Century and has a list of the ' ' several! 
 rents in arrears " with the names of the Manors, their tenants, and the amounts due from each. 
 
 197 HALL (Samuel Carter) 1800-89. Author and Editor. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, datedU 
 April, 1847, "' Our work on Ireland ' was, I assure you, the result of anxious labour 
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 198 A.L.S., 3 pp. 8vo, dated 50 Holland St., W., 15 April, 1879, to Maurice Lenahau, 
 
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 signed, 15s 
 
 A long and highly interesting letter. 
 
 199 HALL (Mrs. Anna Maria) 1800-81. Authoress. A.L.S., 4 pp. 8vo, undated, " Many 
 thanks for what you Said for my Patriot tales — Chambers is going to collect them 
 in one of his cheap .selections for the People,'' 5s 
 
 200 HAMILTON (Emma, Lady) Nelson's Mistress. A letter of 3 pp. 4to, dated 1 Feb., 
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 201 HARRIS (T. W.)5Theatrical Manager, A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, undated, to R. B. Sheridan, 
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 202 HARRISON (Frederic) 1831-191—. Author. A.L.S., 3 pp. 8vo, dated 3 Feb., 1891, to 
 (Charles Shaw) Lefevre, respecting the proposed restoration of the Elgin Marbles, 
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 203 HARTE (F. Bret) 1839-1902. American humorist and Poet. Wrote ' The Luck of 
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 no date, to Mr. Crauford, accepting an invitation, 15s 
 
 204 HASTINGS (Warren) 1732-1818. First Governor-General of British India. A.L.S., 
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 205 HAWKESWORTH (John) 1715?-1773. Author. Friend of Dr. Johnson. With him 
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 203 HAWKINS (Sir Henry, Baron Brampton) 1817 1907. Eminent Judge, nicknamed 
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 207 HEDGES (Sir Charles) died 1714. Politician and Secretary of State, 1700-1706. 
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 Savoy, 18s 
 
 Written at Bath while in attendance on Queen Anne during her visit to that city in 1703. 
 
 208 HELVETIUS (Claude AdPien) 1715-71. Famous French Philosopher and Man of 
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 1765 ' to Le Comte de Choiseul-Praslin, praising Frederick the Great, mentioning 
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 209 A.L.S., ' Helvetius,' in French, 3 pp. 4to, undated, to la Comtesse ... a 
 
 fine and interesting letter, £2 2s 
 
 210 HEHANS (Felicia DoPOthea) 1793-1835. Poetess. A.L.S., 3 pp. 8vo, dated Wavertree. 
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 211 HENRIETTA MARIA, Queen of Charles I. Youngest daughter of Henri IV. of 
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 our commands both for your voyage into some port of France and being therefor 
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 212 HENRY OF PRUSSIA (Prince) 1726-1807. Famous German General, Brother of 
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 continent,'" £2 10s 
 
 A fine and interesting example of a rare autograph. 
 
 213 HENRY IL, King of France. 1518-59. D.S. "Henrt," Countersigned, "Duthier," 
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 payment for repairs to castles, houses, etc., in his country and Duchy of Norntandy, 
 through his Secretary \Maitre Andr4 Rageau, and the Sieur de Laugey, stained on 
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 under the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis. which closed the war in 1559. By the same treaty Calais 
 was confirmed to France. His favourite mistress was the celebrated Diana of Poitiers. Died 
 of a wound inflicted in a tournament held to celebrate the peace. 
 
 214 HERSCHEL (Sir John Fredepiek William, flpst Baponet) 1792-1871. Eminent 
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 aio HERVEY (Fpedepick Augustus, 4th Eapl of Bristol) 17.30-1803. A.L.S. ^' Hbrvey," 
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 216 HOLBACH (Paul Heinpieh Dietrich, Baron d') 1723-89. Natural Philosopher and 
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 Holbach was the author of ' L' Esprit du Clerge,' which was condemned to be buri»t, 
 
ih MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 217 HOGG (James) 1770-1835. Scottish Poet and Author. The Ettrick Shepherd- 
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 28 July, 1814, to the Earl of Buchan, regretting his inability to attend the Wallace 
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 218 A.L.S., I'/i pp. 4to, dated Edinburgh nth (year added later 1814), to a 
 
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 210 HOLMES (Oliver Wendell) 1809-94. Famous American Essayist and Poet. A.L.S., 
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 him for copies of 'The World' containing a sketch of Holmes's life, "//' you have 
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 Accompanied by a cabinet photograph signed "Oliver Wendell Holmes, May 25th, 1886," and 
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 220 HOOK (Theodore Edward) 1788-1841. Novelist and Wit. A.L.S., 1^ pp., 8vo, 
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 Hook was the Lucien Gay of Disraeli's * Coningsby,' and the Mr. Wagg of Thackeray's 
 •Vanity Fair.' 
 
 221 HOWE (Richard, Earl Howe) 1726-99. The famous admiral. Won the great naval 
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 to Lord Sydney, Secretary of War, respecting a mistake made in the report of a 
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 restored in the Bay of Honduras to the Mosquito Shore. Supposes "the accounts 
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 A line naval letter in the bold autograph of the victor in the great naval fight — the glorious first 
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 brother Sir W. Howe, and forced the passage of the Delaware in 1777. From the ."iydnty 
 family papers at Frognal. 
 
 222 A.L. signed "Howe," 2 pp. 4to, Burton, 8 Augt., 1786, to Lord Sydney, 
 
 respecting candidates for the Navy and their promotion, particularly referring to 
 the son of Lord Vere '^that Lord Vere's son should be put on board Sir R. 
 Bickerton^s ships recommended to the Commodore's favourable notice as you 
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 to be made to him upon that point must be collected from your own inclinations 
 and those of Mr. Pitt." Throws much light on the subject of naval promotion in 
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 223 Printed signal instructions for the Channel, on sighting land, with 
 
 the different flags to be used filled in by hand, • Given on Board his Majesty's Ship 
 the Queen Charlotte at Spithead, 24 June, 1793,' with the bold signature ov the 
 Admiral "Howe," 1 p. folio, to Thomas Graves, Vice Admiral of the Red, £2 
 An interesting relic of the great Admiral Howe, especially in conjunction with the fact that the 
 signalling code was perfected and refined by him. 
 
 221 A.L.S. "Howe," 1 p. 4to, dated Seymour Place, 30 June, 1800, to Viscount 
 
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 225 HOOD (Samuel, 1st Viseount Hood) 1724-1816. Famous British Admiral. A.L.S. 
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 consent to any one ship of my squadron going over the Bar, and must entreat you 
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 An interesting navai letter written soon after his command of the rear in Graves's action off the 
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 226 1 p. 4to, dated Bath, 29 Oct., 1808, refers to his relative Sir Samuel Hood, the 
 
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 227 HOWITT (Mary) 1799-1888. Authoress. A.L.S., 4 pp. sm. sq. 8vo, dated the Elms, 
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 '*2chich if you think well to tise I shall be pleased," 6s 
 
 229 A.L.S., with initials, 3 pp. 8vo, utxdated, to Mrs. White, "Itoill let you see one 
 
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 glad. I am afraid to promise to write anything original lest I should disappoint 
 
 fou because I am very busy & my mind seems so anxious & weary just now that 
 have not power to do more than my appointed task," 7s 6d 
 
 230 HUGO (Victor Marie, Vicomte) 1802-85. French Poet, Dramatist, and Romance 
 Writer. A.L.S. "Victor Hugo," in French, 2 pp. 8vo, dated 12 July, 1867, 
 thanking his correspondent for drawing his attention to a very remarkable article 
 entitled ^Sensation Artists and Sensation Daubers.' A fine characteristic 
 example, 21s 
 
 2^1 HUMBOLDT (Alexander de) 1769-1859. Celebrated Naturalist and Traveller. 
 A.L.S., in French, 3 pp. 4to, dated Paris, 1 Dec, 1820. To his publisher, containing 
 siytne corrections for his Relation Historique, in connection toith the River 
 Orinoco, 15s 
 
 A highly interesting literary letter of the famous explorer, renowned for his scientific tour of 
 Spanish America. 
 
 25^2 HUME (David) 1711-76. The famous Historian and Philosopher. A.L.S., 1 p 4to, 
 dated Ninewells, near Bertvick, 17 Sept., 1755, to Strahan the publisher, " One of 
 your apprentices, by your order, wrote rne on a cover that, as soon as the Impressimi 
 of the Essays ivas over, you intended to write to me. I hope you will excuse tne for 
 putting you in mind of your promise. Your letters gave me always so much 
 satisfaction that I am very desirous of hearing from you. I have not got the 
 corrected copies of the three last sheets. I must therefore desire you to send them to 
 me. Otherwise that copy will be lost & useless," £2 10s 
 
 A rare holograph. Hume's chief work was his ' History of England,' while his thorough-going 
 empiricism formed a landmark in the development of metaphysics. 
 
 2:«^ HUNT (James Henry Leigh) 1784-1859. Essayist and Poet. Friend of Byron, Keats, 
 Shelley and Lamb. A.L.S. " Leigh Hunt," 4 pp. sm. sq. 8vo, Wimbledon, l^June, 
 no year, to Mr. Bennett, ''Letters enclosing verses too often put me to the pain of 
 not knoioitig what answer to give them,. Sometimes I am obliged to give none at all, 
 & so cut a very rude figure in the eyes of the correspondent. In your case it rejoices 
 tne to say, that I have been much gratified. Your Songs are very graceful, feeling, 
 &: above all, full of that right musical promise," etc., 30s 
 
 2.U A.L.S. "Leigh Hunt," 2 pp. sm. sq. 8vo, dated Chelsea, 18 Dec, no year, 
 
 " With the greatest pleasure will I do what you desire with regard to the burletta ; 
 and after to-day you may reckon it done ; — / mean, you may take your own steps 
 toith the MS. ; xinless indeed, I can at all further your vieios vdth helping you as te 
 those also. " With postscript. " / always feel as if T coidd say a thousand things to 
 you : but Time, critical Time, comes in, & cuts my rhetoric short," 25s 
 
 235 A.L.S., 1^4 PP- 8vo, undated, to his son, giving an account of a girl playing 
 
 the hai*pin his hotel in Wales, "/ Tiave often read of the custom of playing the 
 harp in Welsh houses of entertainment, & it is \iery delightful to realize it," 25e 
 
^o MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 236 HUNTINGTON (William, S.S.. i.e.. Sinner Saved) 1745-1813. Coal-heaver, Preacher, 
 and Theological Writer. A.L.S., 2^ pp. 4to, headed 1795, to Mr. Morgan, linnen 
 draper, opposite Newgate, an interesting religious letter, 35s 
 
 Accompanied by a clever liumorous caricature portrait in sepia and colour, in the style of 
 Rowlandson, entitled " Revenendissimo Viro — Wm. Huntington," depicting him, head and 
 shoulders, in wig and bands. Measures 7X by 6X inches. 
 
 237 INCHBALD (Elizabeth. n6e Simpson) 17531821. Novelist, Dramatist, and Actress. 
 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, undated, to H. S. Woodfall, junior, " The prologue you have sent 
 me does me and my play infinite honour; arid yet it reflects much more upon 
 yourself — hut I have to lament it did not aTrrive sooner," etc., £2 2s 
 
 An interesting as well as a rare holograph. Mrs. Inchbald acted under Tate Wilkinson in 
 Yorkshire between 1778-80, produced many comedies and farces between 1786 and 1805, and 
 edited * The British Theatre,' 1806-9. Her romances ' A Simple Story, ' 1791, and 'Nature 
 and Art,' 1796, have been often reprinted. 
 
 Illustrated with engraved portraits, etc. 
 2.38 IRELAND (William Henry) 1777-1835. Celebrated Forger of Shakespeare Manu- 
 scripts. Autograph MS. of the ' Frogmorb Fete,' with its highly abusive 
 
 PREFACE, containing AN ATTACK UPON THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH, daughter of 
 
 George III., 48 pp. 4to, Illustrated by the insertion of 22 engraved portraits 
 of George III., Queen Charlotte {in red) and their family; L. St. George 
 Skeffington ; Samuel Whitbread ; Earl of Liverpool ; Earl of Harrington ; Fawcett, 
 as Touchstone ; Mrs. Mattocks ; and others ; an autograph letter from Sir 
 L. St. George Skeffington (Fop and Playwright, 1771-1850, who introduced Ireland 
 to the Princess) to W. H. Ireland, dated 10 March, 1803 ; two scarce cari caturks 
 of Skeffington, one coloured, and an original water colour drawing of the 
 grounds at Frogmore, lialf calf, tvorn, £18 10s 
 
 Unique item of great interest in which Ireland in answer to an act of petty meanness on the part 
 of Princess Elizabeth, in connection with his ' Frogmore Fete,' lets his resentment have full 
 play. The title reads : — Frogmore Fete. As written by me W. H. Ireland. At the request 
 of Princess Elizabeth in 1802. And thus fairly transcribed for Posterity, A.D. 1805. Omnes 
 stultos insanire. The preface, dated December, 1806, and signed, occupies 12 pp., and 
 concludes by saying that he writes it "in order to commemorate, the refined taste of a British 
 Court at the commencement of this enlightened century. ' ' 
 No other copy of this MS. exists. We are told that Ireland made a second copy which ultimatel y 
 fell into the hands of a bookseller whose eflFects were afterwards sold by auction and was secured 
 by Princess Elizabeth herself who destroyed it so that the contents might not be made public. 
 A printed satirical poem, with notes, entitled * Frogmore Fete an Ode for Music, for the first of 
 April " 5 pp. , 8vo, extracted from a book, is inserted at the beginning. 
 
 230 IRVING (SiP Henry) 1838-1905. Famous EngHsh Actor. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dateddO 
 June, 1879, " / wish you would come and see some of the plays — you know you are 
 always more than welcome & it might pass away the time,'" 6s 
 
 240 JAMES (G. P. R.) 1799-18«0. Novelist and Historical Writer. A.L.S., 3 pp. 4to, 
 dated 16 Marsh, 1838, to W. Jerdan, relating to a dispute with Richard Bentley, 
 the Publisher, " Did I tell you that in the Robber I had accidentally named one of my 
 bad characters Faulkner? This, as you may suppose, I have changed throughout 
 substituting the name of Whistler in its place as the book is printed, for though I 
 had certainly no reference to Mr. Bentley^s Solicitor, he inight have supposed that 
 such was the case and felt hurt,'' 30s 
 
 241 JENKINSON (Robert Banks, 2nd Earl of Liverpool) 1770-1828. English Statesman, 
 A.L,S. "Liverpool," 1^ pp. 4to, dated 5 Jan., 1810, to Francis Drake, informing 
 him that lie had both written and spoken to Lord Wellesley on the subject of his 
 letter, and had been assured that as soon as his Lordship Jiad time to attend to the 
 matter it would receive his consideration, 15s 
 
 242 JERROLD (Douglas W.) 1803-57. Author, Wit and Editor. A.L.S., 1 p. sq. 8vo, dated 
 25 Nov., no year [postmark dated 1844 on envelope). To Mrs. C. White, 30s 
 
 AV INTERESTING LETTER RELATING TO " PuNCH'S SNAPDRAGONS FOR CHRISTMAS," published 
 1845, with illustrations by John Leech. " I am about to edit a little book — ' Punch's Snap- 
 dragons for Xmas.' The subjects must be all about Xmas — its festivities — New Year — Twelfth 
 Night, and so forth : all brief. Some light, some pathetic. Can you send me anything 
 within a few days." ACCOMPANIED BY THE ORIGINAL INTERESTING LITTLE PUNCH OFFICE 
 ENVELOPE, with Punch's anti-Graham green wafer, containing figure of a fox and inscription 
 " You'll be run down if you break cover," with Jerrold's signature in full on front cover. 
 
 213 A.L.S., 1>( pp., sm. sq. 8vo, dated 1 Nov., no year, to Mrs. C. White, relating 
 
 to a story by her, " which I like very much . . . you will perceive tJuxt I have 
 omitted some of the preface. . . . Could you not get rid of Mrs. Trigg without 
 the discomfort of suicide 1 " 15s 
 

 
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 2U JERVIS (John, Earl of St. Vincent) 1735-1823. Famous Biitish Admiral. A.L.S., 
 
 1 p. 4to, dated Bochetis, 30 Dec. 1784, ''May I presume to request your Lordship to 
 lay me humbly at the King's feet and represent to ?us Majesty, that Sir Thos. Parker 
 to tlie last hour of his life, maintained the most perfect duty and allegiance to 
 him," etc., £3 3s 
 
 A fine example of the autograph of this famous Admiral, who led the advanced Squadron in 
 charge of transports past Quebec, was entrusted by Wolfe with his last message to his fiancee 
 in 1759, carried important dispatches to Lord Amherst in 17G0, helped in the capture of 
 Martinique and Guadeloupe, was at the three reliefs of Gibraltar, and defeated the Spanish 
 fleet off Cape St. Vincent. 
 
 Relating to the Poet Crabbe. 
 245 JOHNSON (Dp. Samuel) and REYNOLDS (Sip Joshua)— Johnson (Dr. S.) 170984. 
 Famous Lexicographer and Critic. Autograph letter Signed Sam. Johnson, 
 
 2 pp. 4to, dated 4 March, 1783, addressed to Sir Joshua. Reynolds, returning a poem 
 by George Crabbe, with o'iticisms upon it — Reynolds (Sir J.) 1723-92, Famous 
 Artist, First P.R.A. Autograph Letter Signed, 1 pp. 4to, dated 4 March, 1783, 
 to the Rev. George Crabbe, the Poet, enclosing the above m.entioned poem, together 
 toith Dr. Johnson's letter upon it, both letters in fine state, accompanying the first 
 is a note in the third person, 1 p. 8vo, dated Admiralty, 26 ApHl, 1830, from 
 Mr. Crokei' to Mr. Hatchard, returning the latter the Johnson letter, £25 
 
 These two letters from the fore-most man of letters and leading artist respectively of their time, 
 form a link of surpassing interest in connection with the career of the poet Crabbe. All Johnson 
 and Reynolds autographs arc rare, but fine literary letters, such as this, of the former are 
 excessively so. Dr. Johnson says '' I have sent you hack Mr, Crabbers poem which I read with 
 great delight. It is original, VIGOROUS, and elegant. The alterations which I have made, I do not 
 require him to adopt, for my lines are perhaps not often better (than) his own, but he may take 
 mine and his over together, and perhaps between them produce something better than either, ' ' 
 etc., ending *^ I do not doubt of Air. Crabbers success." In sending Crabbe Dr. Johnson's letter. 
 Sir Joshua writes ''i/you knew how sparing' Dr. Johnson deals out his praises you would be vtry 
 well content with what he says — / feel viyself in some measure flattered in the success of my 
 prognostication." The poem above mentioned was Crabbe's Village. 
 
 [See Illustration]. 
 
 246 An original leaf from Dr. Johnson's private memorandum book for 
 
 THE year 1783, 2 pp. sm. 8vo, containing entries relating to his classical sttidies, 
 e.vpenditure, etc., accompanied by an autograph note from George Damel, 
 giving the history of this memorandum book, which he purchased in 1826, £10 10s 
 A most interesting and undoubtedly genuine relic of the celebrated Dr. Johnson, covering parts 
 of the months of Aug. and Sept. 1783. 
 
 247 JULLIEN (Louis Antoine) 1812-60. Eminent Musical Conductor. A.L.S. 
 "JuLLiEN," 1 p. 8vo, dated May 28, no year, to an editor, asking him to insert 
 the Times report of the Philharmonic Concert of the 2Ath in his journal, mentioning 
 Signor Boltenini "who Jias created a sensation unknotcn since the appearance of 
 Paganini," 10s 
 
 248 KAUFFMANN (Angelica) 1741-1807. Eminent Artist. A.L.S., in English, 1 p. 4to, 
 dated Rome, 31 July, 1807, to Lady Temple, "/ certainly intend to pass some time 
 in the above place — and the honour of seeirig your Ladyship at Tivoli will bee a 
 greate Inducement to effectuate my intention — my usual habitation is generally at 
 the Temple of the Sibil," etc. In a postscript she writes ''This moment I learn to 
 my great satisfaction that your Ladyship is aUso lodged at the Temple of the 
 Sibill — a fine situation indeed." £2 2s 
 
 249 KEAN (Edmund) 1787-1833. Famous Actor. A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, with address, also 
 signed, and seal, dated 24 Nov., no year {postmark 1823), to R. Philips, '' I shall save 
 you the trouble of writing further, as I shall be in London on Wednesday the 3rd 
 Dec. The Enemy has left an opening & I shall take an advantage of it. Chippen- 
 dale has written me, but the chief point of his letter is, that he lent you Is. on my 
 account to see the play of Caius Gracchus. I wish he had deferred that for personal 
 communication, for calculating all past circumstances — the bare mention rather 
 debases than exalts," £8 8s 
 
 An extremely rare holograph ; genuine letters of Edmund Kean being of the rarest occurrence. 
 
 250 A.L.S., 1 p. oblong 8vo, no Oale, ** Dear Alexander the Magnus farewell—with 
 
 great pleasure— My Servant waits for the Money — Edrmmd Kean. £1 Is due laat 
 
 night," EXTREMELY RARE, £3 3s 
 
31 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 251 KEAN (Charles John) 1811 P-1868. A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated Long's Hotel, Bond St., 
 5 Jan., 1848, apparently to the Lord Chamberlain, enclosing a copy (also in Kean's 
 autograph), of a letter received from Mr. Fox Cooper of the Strand Theatre, 
 proposing "to introduce the life of my father (Edmund Kean) in ao false and 
 degrading a view on the boards of the Strand Theatre, as Mr. Alexander Dumas 
 has thought proper to do on the French Stage," hopes that it may not receive the 
 sanction of the Lord Chamberlain ''as being personally offensive to my family 
 and to your obedient servant Charles Kean" 30s 
 
 WSi A.L.S., If pp. 8vo, dated 10 April, 1857, to Mrs. C. White, " I trust you will soon 
 
 come again & see our Richard 2nd for in little more than two years hence I shall 
 not have the opportunity of presenting you tcilh any more of these Historical 
 illustrations, as my term of management ceases on the 1st August, 1859," 10s 
 
 253 KAVANAGH (Julia) 1824-77. Novelist and Biographical Writer. Author of "Woman 
 in France in the 18th Century." A.L.S., 2^ pp. 8vo, undated, declining an 
 invitation on account of pressure of work, having a first volume in the press, while 
 the third is not quite finished, 5s 
 
 KEITH (George Keith Elphlnstone, Viseount)— see Elphinstone. 
 
 254 KEMBLE (John Philip) 1757-1823. Famous English Actor. Brother of Mrs. Siddons. 
 A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated 31 March, 1803, "My Dear Mun, I do not knoto what my wife 
 intends about going to the Priory — She has never left poor Sally these three days 
 and nights — but I will call at Mr. Siddons's and enquire for you this morning. 
 Mr. Sheridan never came near me, after keeping me at home all day {for the fourth 
 time)" 21s 
 
 Accompanied by an engraved portrait. 
 
 255 A.L.S., with address, also signed, 1 p. 8vo, dated 8 July, 180.3, to Thomas 
 
 Shaw, " There is an ample list for Mr. Wells — As you like it, and Katharine and 
 Petruchio the same night will do marvellously ivell, I hope — Will you be so good as 
 to send the list to Mr. Wells?" 2ls 
 
 At the top is the following list ' ' Stranger — Mountaineers — Pizarro — Richard — Merchant of 
 Venice — Macbeth — As you like it — Wheel of Fortune— Hamlet — Rule a Wife — Kat and 
 Petruchio. ' ' 
 
 256 A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, undated, to R. Peake, " I am undone for the five and twenty 
 
 pounds I was to have had yesterday. If you knew how heartily I acted, and how I 
 made poor Sleek Sir Benj. Hamnett cry last night, you would send to me in a 
 twinkling," 18s 
 
 See CovENT Gardkn Theatre. 
 
 257 KEPPEL (Augustus, 1st Viseount Keppel) 1725-88. Eminent British Admiral. 
 A,L.S., 1^ p. 4to, dated ' Gibr. Cent.,' 24 Dec, 1745, to ' Dear Adair,' " being captain 
 of a ship is being father oj a family in the most troublesome ivay & I wish the 
 relations of my fatnily on board ye Centurion wou'd find away to supply them 
 with what they want. I can't see them naked <fc have lent almost all of them 
 something . . . if they dont chuse their relatives shou'd have money I arn sure 
 I ivon't keep them to appear like black guards, people imagine the moment they send 
 their boys to sea there's an end of Expence but they must now and then spend a 
 little," etc., £2 2s 
 
 258 KOTZEBUE (August Friedrieh Ferdinand von) 1761-1819. Eminent Dramatist and 
 Man of Letters. A.L.S. " AuausT von Kotzebue" in German, 1 p. 4to, dated 
 Weimer 25 May, 1818, to Henry Colburn, Bookseller and Publisher, London, 25s 
 Kotzebue was the author of 98 dramas and other works. Wrote much against Napoleon. His 
 
 strictures on the conduct of the students of the German universities led one of them to 
 murder him. 
 
 259 LAMARTINE (Alphonse Louis Marie Prat de) 1790-1869. Famous French Poet. 
 A.L.S. in French, 1 p. 4to, dated Paris, 3 April, 1853, 6s 
 
 260 LAMB (Charles) 1775-ia34. Famous Essayist and Humorist. Author of Essays of 
 Elia Friend of Wordsworth, Coleridge, etc. A.L.S., and address, 1 p. 8vo, undated 
 (postmark, 4 May, 1826). to Leigh Hunt, " It was in my mind to have made one 
 among ye to-morrow among the fields, but my ears are opprest with a cold to extreme 
 & pitiable deafness, and. I dare not trust 'em to the bare North East. They will thaw 
 redente Favonio & I am with you then for the heath flowers. . . . Do you never 
 come this way 7 We shall be most glad to see you over a bit of mutton," £24 
 
 A fine and interesting Lamb letter. 
 
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 281 LANDER (John) 1807-39. African Traveller. Explored the River Niger with his 
 brother in 1832, and settled the question of the course and outlet of that river. 
 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated 25 June, 1838, to W. Jerdan, expressing his pleasure at 
 hearing that Mr. Wyatt had got the commission to execute the Wellington Statue, 
 etc., 7s 6d 
 
 262 LANDOR (Walter Savage) 1775-1864. Eminent English Writer and Poet. Author 
 of "Imaginary Conversations." A.L.S., 1% pp. 8vo, undated, to Leigh Hunt, 
 " Among the many congratulatioTis which toill he offered you on the tardy and 
 imperfect justice you have just received, none are more cordial than mine, may 
 you long enjoy comparative ease and affluense and what is better, but what can not 
 be enjoyed without them,, the glory of high and toell-directed genius," £2 2s 
 
 363 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, undated {postmark, 18 May, 1836), to Leigh Hunt, apologising 
 
 to him for overlooking his note, mentions Mrs. Dash wood, " who desires I will ait 
 for the picture,* 308 
 
 264 A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, Siena, 10 Sept., no year, " A thousand thanks, my dear Sir, for 
 
 the trouble you have taken. The Daily Chronicle has just noio reached me. Never 
 was there a more aelfsufficient and impudent blockhead than the printer — To begin. 
 I wrote plainly Sicania, not Sicilia. I never zorite mamma any 7nore than pappa. 
 I wrote can not — he prints cannot, presuming to connect me. Note how is the verb 
 cannot to be conjugated! I never deviate from ordinary practise without high 
 authority or strict analogy," etc., 21s 
 
 With pen and ink sketch. 
 
 265 LANDSEER (Sir Edwin Henry, b.a.) 1802-73. Famous Artist. A.L.S., 2 pp. 8vo, 
 dated 11 Nov., 1852, declining a proposal to execute a composition in silver of a 
 hawking Subject, 21s 
 
 Accompanied by a pen and ink drawing of a full-length figure of a man in antique costume, with 
 two other sketches of heads on right hand margin, and another on the reverse. 
 
 286 A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, undated, to Mr. Atkinson, " half past 4 o'c. by Lamp light ! ! ! 
 
 My Room is still full of people I am sorry to say lean not join your party," 5s 
 
 THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. 
 
 287 LANG (Andrew) Good Bargains, THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MS. OP AN 
 ARTICLE THIJS ENTITLED, written in Lang's characteristic scrawl, on 
 13 leaves, 4to, prepared for the press and marked in pencil, apparently by the 
 Editor for tohose Magazine it was intended, " By Andreio Lang, For June 1," 
 
 WITH the author's SIGNATURE AND ADDRESS, WRITTEN ON THE TOP RIGHT HAND 
 
 CORNER OP THE FIRST LEAP, preserved in a specially made cloth case, £15 
 A most interesting and entertaining article on the mortality of picking up bargains, instancing the 
 tale of the Bibliophile Jacob and Louis XlVth's copy of TartrufFe, and saying — '* If any 
 moralist asks whether I collect chivalrous deeds of this kind I can only say I never had the 
 chance. My only bargain was Keat's Lamia for fifteen shillings. It was bought cheap but a 
 bookseller in a large way of business sold it to me, and conscience does not prick me, moreover 
 I daresay he bought it for fourpence. 
 
 268 LAVATER (John Casper) 1741-1801. Poet and Physiognomist. Three lines in 
 HIS autograph in German, headed ' Wangbnzug ' with an original pen and 
 INK drawing op part OP A PACE IN PROFILE, from the nostril to the chin, within a 
 border of pink and black wash, A rare example, 2l8 
 
 289 LAWRENCE (Sir Thomas, r.a.) 1769-1830. President of the Royal Academy. A.L.S., 
 4 pp. 8vo, dated 4 Jan., 1826, to H. W. Pickersgill, R.A., " I fully acknowledge and 
 assert the right of every artist to remuneration for that use of his labors, which is 
 intended to be the source of profit to others ; although the Picture itself may have 
 pass' d from his possession," etc., 8s 
 
 Holograph Letter of Queen Elizabeth's celebrated favourite. 
 270 LEICESTER (Robert Dudley, Earl of) 15321.588. Husband of Amy Robsart, and 
 one of the most prominent men of the Elizabethan Era. A.L,S. 1 p. folio, dated 
 *^from. the Courte at Richmond, 2 Aug. 1579," addressed to " my loving frende Mr. 
 Richard Staffarton, keper of the Newe Lodge within her Majesties Fforest of 
 Wyndsor," directing him to deliver *' unto my loving frend Mr. Willm Davison" 
 one buck of this season *'to be taken out of your e xcalk," £21 
 
 A FINK EXAMPLE, ENTIRELY HOLOGRAPH, WRITTEN BY THE MAN WHO MORE NEARLY THAN ANY 
 OF HER OTHER SUITORS BECAME THE HUSBAND OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. FiNE EXAMPLES OF HIS 
 HANDWRITING SUCH AS THE PRESENT ARE OF EXTREME RARITY. The William Davison 
 mentioned in the letter was the famous Secretary to Queen Elizabeth, who was chiefly instru- 
 mental in obtaining her signature to the Death-warrant of Mary Queen of Scots. 
 
 [See Illustration]. 
 
34 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 272 LEECH (John) 1817-64. Famous Punch Artist, and humoious book ilhistratoc. 
 A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, undated, to Holman Hunt, " / expect Millais and oiie or two other 
 of our mutical friends to dine zcith me on Sunday next (12th) at six o'clock. Will 
 you come too ? " 21s 
 
 273 A.L.S., 3 pp. sm. Svo, dated 32, Brunswick Square, 9 July, 1862. to the Rev. U. 
 
 Clarke, "Idonotknoio whether literary etiquette permits one to "return thankk'" 
 
 ■ for a favourable notice — hut the sort of praise you have been kind enough to bestow 
 upon my sketches, is so exactly in tone what I value and appreciate that I xoill not 
 hesitate to send these few lines to say hoto much I am obliged to you," 15s 
 
 274 A.L.8., 1 p. Svo, undated, to G. Dalziel, relating to a drawing, " I have settled 
 
 the subject and should 7iot be very long about it tohen I commence," 12s 6d 
 
 275 A.L.S., 1 p. Svo, address and date cut off, to Messrs. Richardson and Wansey, 
 
 in relation to a receipt for £21 for a quarter's rent dated 3 June, 1854, 8s 
 
 276 LEMON (Mark) 1809-70. One of the founders and the first editor of ' Punch. 
 A.L.8., 4 pp. Svo, dated Vi^Aug., 1869, to C. W. Shirley Brooks, afterwai"ds editor 
 of ' Punch,' a friendly chatty letter, 10s 
 
 277 LEWIS (Matthew Gregory) 1775-1818. Author of 'The Monk.' A.L.S., 1 p. sm 
 Svo, \tndated " / have been seized tvith so violent a head-ache, that I find it quite 
 impossible to keep my engagement with you," etc., 15s 
 
 He published ' The Monk ' in 1795 and immediately became famous. Brought out the ' Castle 
 Spectre ' in 1798, and made Sir Walter Scott's acquaintance the same year. His writings are 
 memorable on account of their influence on Scott's early poetical efforts. 
 
 278 LIVINGSTONE (David) 1813-73. Famous African Missionary and Explorer. A.L.S., 
 4 pp. Svo, dated Bath, 18 Sept., 1864, to Mrs. Williamson, " I now seize a moment 
 just to say thanks for same in the throes getting ready a speech to he delivered this 
 evening in the Theatre — / never was intended for a public speaker & never like to 
 hear myself speaking so you may judge I am not in a proper frame of mind for 
 answering a lady's letter." With long postscript, " 19th the speech was got through 
 somehow . . . I must work as much as I can now my steamer being out at Bombay 
 & seven blackmen icaiting for me.'' A second signature to the postscript cut away, 
 taking with it about 3 lines of the other side. Accompanied by a reprint, within a 
 laurel wreath, of the lines on Livingstone that appeared in Punch for 25 April, 
 1874, £2 10s 
 
 279 LOCKER-LAM PSON (Fpedepiek) 1821-95. Poet and noted Book collector. A.L.S., 
 'F. Locker,' 3 pp. sm. Svo, dated o April, 1866, to George Cruikshank, giving a list 
 of names to be added to sotm committee, and asking "^ How goes on my little 
 draioing?" 10s 
 
 Author of London Lyrics, 1857, extended and re-arranged in subsequent editions. Collected the 
 choice Rowfant library. 
 
 280 LOCKHART (John Gibson) 1794-1854. Author. Son-in-law of Sir W. Scott. Editor 
 of the 'Quarterly Review.' Published his famous ' Life of Scott ' in 1838. A.L.S., 
 2 pp. 4to, dated Chief swood near Melrose, 23 Aug., 1830, to M. T. Sadler, M.P., 
 " I have by tne a very elaborate ci'itique on your recent ivork, of which such did I 
 consider the importance that I left the reviewer carte blanche as to space." Mentions 
 the Edinburgh Review's attack on the article, and asks his correspondent for his 
 opinion on that attack, 10s 
 
 An interesting letter, marked ' privat ?. ' 
 
 281 LOCKWOOD (Sir Frank) 1816-97. Solicitor-general. Black and White Artist. A 
 
 VKR^ CLEVER HUMOROUS PEN AND INK DRAWING DEPICTING LORD CHIEF JUSTICE 
 
 Coleridge as a Mounted Jockey, sketched in Court by Sir P. Lockwood, during 
 the hearing of the Case— Wood, versus the Earl of Durham, entitled in the Artist's 
 autograph at top " The C. J.," and Signed "i'\ Z.," 15s 
 
 LONDON— i>e Evelyn. 
 
 282 LONGFELLOW (Henry Wadsworth) 1S07-82. Famous American Poet. Wrote 
 ' Evangeline,' 'Hiawatha,' etc. A.L.S., 1^ pp. Svo, Cambridge, no date (endorsedby 
 recipieat 10 Sept., ISKJ), "lam really reluctant to trouble you with this package, 
 but cannot resist the temptation of sending it. If yo^i find it gives you too much 
 trouble, yon viust throw it overboard toithout mercy. I feel confident you toillfind 
 Freiligrath. Give him a tliousand friendly greetings from me," £2 2s 
 
 283 LOVER (Samuel) 1797-1868. Novelist, etc. Author of ' Handv Andy.' A.L.S., 2 
 pp. Svo, undated, to Daniel O'Connell, respecting a deputation of O'Connell'sffietids 
 to-be received by Lord Palnierslonat the House of Commons next day, March &th. 10* 
 
MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C 35 
 
 284 LOUIS XIV., King of France. 1638-1715. ♦ Le Grand.' D.S., 'Louis,' on vellum, 1 p. 
 oblong folio, dUited 'a St. Gei^main en Laye,' 12 May, 1667, being the King's 
 commission appointing the Sieur de Flanaconrt to a captaincy of light horse. 
 Mentions Turenne, the Due de Coislin, and M. de Cany, £2 2s 
 
 A very interesting military document of the period, containing an endorsement of 10 lines of 
 instructions from the famous French General and Marshal of France, Henri de la Tour 
 d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, and signed by him " Turenne." Signed also by LeTellier, 
 Chancellor of France. 
 
 Relating to the Battle of Fontbnoy. 
 
 285 LOUIS XV., King of France. 1710-74. L.S., in French, 1 p. folio, " Ecru au Camp 
 devant Toumay le 12 May, 1745," to M. de la Tude " lieutenant pour mon service a 
 Sedan," £4 4s 
 
 *'Le marechal de Saxe ayant ouvert la campagne en flandres par le siege de Toumay, mes 
 ennemis se sont aussit6t rassembles pour marcher au secours de cette place et k peine ai-je este 
 rendu a mon armee que j'ay eu la satisfaction de luy voir remporter vine victoire des plus 
 signal^es, le due de Cumberland a la teste des troupes unies des Anglais, Hanovriens, Autrichiens 
 et Hollandois s'est presente devant nous le 10 de ce mois et apres avoir employe tout la journee 
 a faire ses dispositions pour se former entre la ruisseau de Rumignies et le haut Escault, il a 
 commence I'attaque le lendemain a la pointe du jour ; le combat longtemps incertain s'est enlin 
 decide en nostre faveur a une heurs apres midy , et mes ennemis estant partout de faits ou rebutez se 
 sont retirez en desordre, abandonnant une partie de leurs canons en laissant sur le champ de 
 bataille plus de huit mille de leurs morts et de leurs blessez ' ' ; etc. 
 An extremely interesting historical letter in relation to the famous Battle of Fontenoy. 
 
 286 LOUIS XVI., King of France. 1754-1793. Husband of Marie Antoinette. Beheaded 
 at Paris, 21 Jan., 1793. A.L.S. "Louis," in French, 1 p. 4to, dated Versailles, 15 
 March, 1789, to Lavoisier the chemist, relating to his inflammable gas discoveries. 
 The King writes — your eocperiinents on inflammable gas prove how much you 
 have been occupied with that admirable science, every day shows new progress. The 
 Queen and some others whom I wish to ivitness your discovery, will assemble in my 
 room to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock, with autograph address initialled 'L,' and 
 remains of the royal seal, £5 5s 
 
 Holograph letters of this unfortunate Monarch are very rare. The present example is highly 
 important as showing the interest he took in scientific matters. 
 
 287 LOUIS XVIIL, King of France. 1755-1824. Full name Louis Stanislaus Xavier, 
 brother of Louis XVI. Surnamed 'Le Desire.' L.S., in full, with 1 line 
 AUTOGRAPH, in French, 1 p. folio, dated Choisy le Roi, 17 Oct., 1776, authorising his 
 treasurer to pay to S. de Vienne 563 livres which he had paid to Le Long the 
 Grocer for goods supplied on the occasion of the fete given to Louis XVI. and 
 Marie Antoinette at Brunoy, 9 Sept., 1776, 21s 
 
 88 LOUIS PHILIPPE, King of France. 1773-1850. Original pen and ink drawing, 
 representing some plants, with the date ' 7 Janvier, 1835' written beneath, 1 p. 8vo, 
 with inscription above ' Homtnage du present dessln du Roi Louis Philippe par le 
 President des Sauveteurs, ' Guerin de Tesseni,' and the official stamp of tlie 
 Sauveteurs. 10s 
 
 A curious relic of the last King of France. 
 
 289 LOWE (Robert, first Viscount Sherbrooke) 1811-92. Politician. A.L.S., 1%. pp. 8vo, 
 dated 11, Doicning St., 10 Dec, 1870, to Hugh C. B. Childers, First Lord of the 
 Admiralty, relating to a pension for the permanent secretary of the Admiralty, 5s 
 
 290 LUBBOCK (John, Baron Avebury, f.r.s.) 18.34-1913. Eminent Scientist, and Man of 
 Letters. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, datedSMay, 1877, to W. F. Wakeman, thanking him 
 for a memoir, '' Itis sad to hear of so many cases of wanton destruction of the most 
 interesting ancient remains," 5s 
 
 291 LYTTON (Edward George EarleLytton Bulwer, first Lord Lytton) 1803-73. Eminent 
 Novelist. Author? of Last of the Barons. Rienzi, Pelham, etc. A.L.S. " E. B. 
 Lytton," 3^ pp. 8vo, dated 25 Jan., 1862, to his publisher, relating to the proof of one 
 of his woi'ks, 12s 6d 
 
 292 MACKLIN (Charles) 1697P-1797. Eminent Irish Actor and Dramatist. Famous as 
 ' Shylock.' A.L.S., with address and postscript, 1 p. 4to, dated Dublin, 20 May, 
 1785, to his wife, a letter introducing Mr. Anthony Perry and giving minute instruc- 
 tions for his entertainment, etc., " I long to be at home very much indeed for the 
 eating and drinking here is most inviting, provoking, and to me most troublesome. 
 I shall be killed with kindness, I shall not stay to play so many nights as I intended, 
 for I cannot drink, study, and act. I shall not, nay indeed I cannot, play above 
 five or six nights," £3 3s 
 
 A very rare autograph. Of Macklin's dramatic productions, ' Love a la Mode ' and ' The Man 
 of the World,' one of th? be§t comedie? of the century, are the jno^t notab]e, 
 
36 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 293 MACKLIN (Maria) died 1781. Eminent Actress. Daughter of Charles Macklin. 
 Noted for her parts in Shakespeai-e's characters of Portia, Desdemona, and Rosalind. 
 A.L.S., 3 pp. 4to, dated 20 March, 1773, to her father, a pressing letter asking him to 
 como over to her benefit, " / hope nothing xoill prevent your coming, for every body 
 expects you, both the Town and Managers and Playei's and all." Also mentions 
 Mrs. Yates, ** The Toicn are taken up with her & your coming over & nothing else 
 istaWdof," £2 10s 
 
 A very rare autograph. The last page of the letter is filled with interesting theatrical gossip of 
 the time. On its reverse are six lines in C. Macklin's autograph giving the dates of writing to 
 and hearing from his daughter. 
 
 294 MACARTNEY (George, first Earl) 1737-1808. Diplomatist and Colonial Governor. 
 A.L.S. "Macartney," 1 p. folio, dated Vei'ona, 10 Aug., 1795, to Fran cia Drake, 
 informing Drahe that his Majesty had charged him tcith a particular comtnission 
 to the French King, with orders to reside near his person, 15s 
 
 Written during Lord Macartney's residence with the titular King of France at Verona. 
 
 295 MACGREGOR (Sir Gregor) South American Adventurer. Styled himself ' Gregor 
 Pi'ince,' Cacique of Poyais. A.L.S. ' Gregor P.,' 1 p. 4to, dated Paris, 18 Oct,, 1^8, 
 to Count de la Cruz, his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, 
 London, acquainting him that he had created Sir Edicard Irving, K.G.C., a Baron 
 of Poyais with the title of Baron Aguaro and grant of a Baronial estate of 12,800 
 acres' of land, with a stpplementaby letter,' also signed "Gregor P.," 4f^ pp. 
 4to, dated Paris, 20 Oct., 1823, to the same, giving details of his doings in Paris, 
 negotiations with the Court of Spain, etc. With armorial seal in red wax, 35s 
 Macgregor went to Caraccas to aid in the struggle for South American independence in 1811, 
 
 was general of brigade in the Venezuelan Army in 1812, distinguished himself in the campaign 
 of 1813-21. Assumed the title of Cacique and settled among the Poyais Indian in 1821. Failed 
 in his Schemes for colonising the Mosquito Territory. Restored to the rank of General of 
 Division in the Venezuelan Army in 1839. 
 
 296 MALONE (Edmund) 1741-1812. Shakespearian Critic, and Author. A.L., in the 
 third person, undated, to Lady Ailesbury, thanking her for copies of Dryden's 
 Letters, etc., " Were he Master of those happy terms of expression for which his 
 author toas so justly celebrated, he might perhaps have endeavoured to express his 
 sense of the goodness of her Royal Highness the Princess Elieabeth in interesting 
 herself in this matter . . . he requests that Lady Ailesbury loill have the goodness 
 to express to her R. H. the sentiment of gratitude and respect imprinted upon his 
 mind by herR. Highnesses gracious interposition on the present occasion which has 
 obtained these memorials of one of the most celebrated of our English Poets, that 
 otherwise perhaps might have been lost to posterity," £3 3s 
 
 An interesting letter in connection with Malone's edition of Dryden's Works, published in 1800. 
 
 297 MANNERS (John, Marquis of Granby) 1721-70. Famous English General. D.S. 
 " Granby," on vellum, dated 4 Oct., 1745, being the original commission appointing 
 Henry Cumbrey as Surgeon's Mate to his Regiment of Foot, 12s 6d 
 
 The Regiment of Foot referred to was probably the ' Leicester Blues ' of which the Marquis was 
 Colonel at the time of the Jacobite Rebellion. He chiefly helped to gain the victory at Minden, 
 1 Aug. , 1759. Appointed Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards Blue in 1758, and became twelfth 
 Commander-in-Chief in 1766. 
 
 298 MANNING (Henry Edward, Cardinal) 1808-92. Roman Catholic Archbishop of 
 Westminster. A.L.S., 3 pp. 8vo, dated W Dec, 1867, thanking his correspondent 
 for a book, ^^ I shall read it with great interest. It is the subject of chief moment in 
 our home affairs, as Rome is in our foreign,'" etc., 6s 
 
 299 MARIE THERESE L'AUTRICHE. 1717-80. Empress of Germany, wife of the Emperor 
 Francis I., and mother of Marie Antoinette. Last portion of an A.L.S. " Marie 
 Therese," in French, }4. p. 4t(), dated 1 Feb., 1760, "Ze prince et la princesse 
 viendrons aussi et ce sera bien pour la derniere fois que toute la famille sera ainsi 
 rassembl^e, il n'y d que vous qui manqueroit, et soyez persuad4e que mon amiti4 est 
 toujours la meme," £2 10s 
 
 An interesting example of a very rare autograph. 
 
 300 D.S., in Latin, 1 p. large folio, dated Vienna, Dec. 1750, being a passport for 
 
 John Francis Baron Pretlack. with the fine large armorial seal of the Empress. 
 Countersigned by Count Ulfeld, 2os 
 
 301 MARLBOROUGH (John Churchill, first Dulce of) 1650-1722. Famous English General. 
 D.S. " Marleborough," 1 p. folio, dated 17 Jan., 1691, being a receipt for £30 
 interest for 9 months on a loan of £500, paid by Francis Villiers, one of the four 
 Tellers of the Receipt of Their Majesties Exchequer, £2 2s 
 
 A fine signature of the celebrated Duke of Marlborough, who won the, battles of Blenheim, 
 Ramilies, Oudenarde, etc. 
 
MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 37 
 
 302 MARMONTEL (Jean-Fpan§ois) 1723-99. Celebrated French Poet, and Romance 
 Writer, Author of 'Bdlisaire,' ' Contes Moraux,' etc. A.L.S., in French, 2 pp. 4to, 
 dated Paris, 31 May, 1771, relating to the inscription for the monument to 
 Montyon, the philanthropist, which he executed at the request of the town of 
 Mauriac, " T^nwignez bien le plaisir que fai de pouvoir une fois marqtter ma 
 reconnaissance a la ville de Mauriac pour axioir Me le berceau de mesfaibles talents, 
 Je n'oublierai jamais que fai puise dans son sein le goUt de V^tude et Vainour des 
 lettres." Accompanied by the oflBcial copy of the answer to the letter, £3 3s 
 
 A fine letter from one of the most eminent of French XVIIIth century writers. 
 
 303 MATHEWS (Charles, senior) 1776-1835. Eminent Comedian. A.L.S., 1 j). 4to, 
 Fulhani, 20 Oct., no year, to Mr. Harley, relating to a promise to procure a piece in 
 Edinburgh, ''can only briefly say that I could not procure the piece in time to 
 forward to you. Howei^er I tvill persevere until I procure it ; and if it is to be had I 
 will send it to you at Hull," 12s 
 
 Mathews played in 400 different parts, was praised by Leigh Hunt, Horace Smith, and Lord 
 Byron, and was intimate with Coleridge and the Lambs. 
 
 304 A.L.S., 2 pp. 4to, Ivy Cottage, 12 Oct., no year, asking for his correspondent's 
 
 vote for the election of his son to membership of the Garrick Club, 6s 
 
 305 MATHEWS (Charles James) 1803-78. Eminent Actor and Dramatist. A.L.S., 1 p. 
 8vo, undated, to Mr. Roxberry, 6s 
 
 306 MAZARIN (Jules, Cardinal) 1602-61. Created Cardinal, 1641. The famous Prime 
 xMinister of Louis XIV. L.S. "Le Card. Mazarini," in French, WITH HALF A 
 PAGE (8 lines) ENTIRELY IN THE CARDINAL'S AUTOGRAPH, 1 p. 4to, dated 
 La Fere, 23 July, 1656, to M. Chanut, Coner. du Roy, according him permission to 
 meet and accompany Christina Queen of Sweden on her journey through France, 
 "fort volontiers commission de demeurer auprez d'Elle pour Vaccompaynir et la 
 servir jusques sur la frontiere." With the Cardinal's armorial wax seal and silks, 
 repeated twice, £4 10s 
 
 A fine and interesting example of the rare autograph of the celebrated Cardinal Mazarin. From 
 the discovery of a copy of the famous Gutenberg Bible in bis library it obtained its other name 
 of the Mazarin Bible. 
 
 With water colour drawing, and 3 pen and ink sketches. 
 
 307 MCGUINNESS (Bingham) Eminent modern artist. A.L.S., 1}4 pp. 8vo, dated 26 
 Dec. 1882, to Sir John Gilbert, R.A., "I got some iiice things in Bavaria but they 
 were chiefly old castles and street vieivs ; but so picturesque, Nuremburg Rothenburg 
 qvAxintest of all," 21s 
 
 Inset in the letter are two pen and ink sketches of his Bavarian subjects, another of a mountain 
 landscape. Finishes with a pretty water colour drawing of moorland scenery. 
 
 308 MEAGHER (Thomas Francis) 1823-67. Irish Nationalist, of 1848 celebrity. Known 
 as "Meagher of the Sword." A.L.S., 6 pp. 4to, dated. Executive Office, Territory of 
 Montana, Virginia City, 4 March, 1867, to John Francis Maguire, in connection 
 with a request for material for his projected work on "The Irish in America," 
 "Mrs. Meagher has a scrap-book in New York, containing almost everything that 
 appeared in the netcspapers in connection tvith the old 6dth (in which I first took the 
 field as a captain) and the Irish Brigade, from the day it was started to the day 
 tvhen reduced from a force o/ 2,000 men {it was never above that mark) to a battalion 
 of five or six hundred, I resigned the command of it, rather than be compelled to 
 fight it into utter extermination. . . . That we entered the Army and took part in 
 the War, from base motives, and tcere compelled to do so, is, indeed, as you say, a 
 lie — and as blasted a lie as ever a British tongue uttered against the Irish — a 
 chivalrous, and I may with perfect truth assert, a religious sense of duty and spirit 
 of fidelity to the Government and Flag of the nation of xvhich they were citizens, 
 alone inspired them to take up arms against the SoictJi," etc., £2 2s 
 
 Meagher endeavoured to raise an insurrection in Ireland in 1848, was transported to Van 
 Diemen's Land in 1849, escaped to America in 1852, where he founded the ' Citizen ' and 
 ' Irish News. ' Volunteered in the American Civil War and became brigadier-general in 1862. 
 Was Secretary of Montana Territory in 1865, and temporary Governor in 1866. Drowned in 
 the Missouri in 1867. 
 
 309 MEREDITH (George) 1828-1909. Celebrated Novelist and Poet. A.L.S., 1 p. Syo, 
 dated Box Hill, 12 June, 1900, to the Librarian of the London Library, returning 
 one book and asking for another, £2 10s 
 
 310 MILITARY— Belleisle, Brittany. Brasier (J.) A.L., 1 p. 4to, to the Hon. 
 Colonel Fairfax, Leeds Castle, Maidstone, dated eleven o'clock, June 13th, 1761, 
 respecting the taking by storm of Belleisle by the British Forces under Commodore 
 Keppel and General Hodgson, 10s 
 
3ft MYERS & Co., 59, High Holbom, London, W.C. 
 
 311 MIRABEAU (Honop6 Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de) 1749-91. Deputy for Aix and 
 Marseilles. President of the Assembly, Jan. 1791. A.L.S. " Mibabeau L'Ain^," in 
 French, 1 p. 4to, dated 6 Oct., 1790 (to the Due d'Aiguillon), " Celui qui vous 
 remettra, Mon cher Due, et un de nos Collegiies qui conime tant d'autres rencontre 
 sa mine dans la revolution," etc., £2 2s 
 
 A very fine example of this rare autograph. Mirabeau took an active part in the early history of 
 the French Revolution, and as Deputy for Aix his eloquence, talent, and boldness, rendered 
 him the idol of the people. 
 
 312 MOIRA (Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Second Earl of) 1754-1826. Eminent Soldier 
 and Statesman. A.L.S. " Moira," 3 pp. 4to, dated Edinburgh, 15 Dec, 1803, to 
 Major Doyle, " By Heavens the Wise Men of London, so far from making good 
 what they have toith drawn from me, think that I have still too tolerable a chance 
 of beating the enemy if he lands here. On my recommending the addition of three 
 companies (the men having already enrolled their names) to one of the best 
 Battalions of Volunteers in this City, the Ministers make a complaint to me that 
 the City has exceeded its regular number," etc., 25s 
 
 Lord Moira distinguished himself at Bunker's Hill in 1775 ; fought in battles of Brooklyn and 
 White Plains in 1776, and at Camden in 1780. Defeated Greene at Hobkirk's Hill in 1781. By 
 defeating the Mahrattas established British Supremacy in Central India. At the time of 
 writing this letter was commander-in-chief in Scotland. 
 
 With interesting relic of Beau Nash and Bath. 
 
 313 MONTAGU (Elizabeth, n^e Robinson) 1720-1800. Authoress and Society Leader. 
 Famous as 'blue stocking.' A series of 17 highly interesting and lengthy 
 autograph letters signed 'E.M." or "E.Montagu," mostly written at Bath 
 between 1757 and 1779, 8 of them to her husband, Edward Montagu, 5 to her 
 Sisters, the rest to Mrs. Vesey, Dr. Stilliugfleet, and L. Smelt. They are full of 
 details of her doings, amusing remarks on notable personages with whom she came 
 in contact, gossip, family matters, etc. There are also 6 long and interesting 
 LETTERS to Mrs. Montagu from her brothers, sisters and others, together with 
 
 about 30 OTHER AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, ETC. , FROM NOTABLE PERSONS CONNECTED 
 
 with Bath, the whole mounted in a folio volume, half morocco, lettered * Letters 
 
 from, to, and about Bath,' £15 15s 
 
 A most interesting volume full of material for the social history of Bath during the 18th and early 
 19th centuries. Loosely inserted at the beginning is A VERY RARE memento of Old Bath in 
 the shape of a small white linen table cover, 20 by 26 inches, printed in red with a design 
 formed of a pack of cards, with a medallion portrait of " Richard Nash, Esq., late Master of 
 the Ceremonies at Bath," the whole within a border exhibiting various hands at a game of cards, 
 with signature " Josh. Ware Invt. & Excudit." Among many other Bath items of interest we 
 can only briefly mention Dr. Friend, Dean of Canterbury's amusing letters to Miss Robinson ; 
 T. Gibbs, Mayor of Bath's note to W. Blathwayte, M.P., respecting the Avon Navigation 
 bill ; two letters from Sir C. Hedges, Secretary ef State, written at Bath when Queen Anne was 
 staying there in 1703 ; autograph poems of T. Haynes Bayly ; and letters from Prince Janili, 
 son of Tippoo Saib, Archdeacon Law, Mary Lloyd or Moser, R.A. , and H. Suard to 
 Mrs. Thrale. 
 
 314 A.L.S., 2 pp. 4to, dated Bath, 2 April, 1748, to the Duchess of Portland, in 
 
 relation to the illness of Lady Oxford, and writing in the highest terms of her, 25s 
 
 315 MONTGOMERY (Robert) 1807-55. Poet. A.L.S., 3 pp. 4to, dated London, 31 Aug., 
 1827, to the poet Crabbe, asking him to give his real opinion on a small poem» 
 nearly ready, called 'The Stage Coach,* also giving interesting details about 
 himself, " I am not that gentleman you alluded to {Mr. James Montgomery of 
 Sheffield), but, as you say — one following ' in the same track' — with the dis- 
 
 advantage of thirty years' less experience. I have been in London aboxd a year- 
 and coming as I did — without a single friend 
 
 to forward me,'" etc., 12s 
 
 316 MONTMORIN (Armand Mare, Comte de) 1745-92. French Statesman. Document 
 
 ENTITLED " MeMOIRE SECRET POUR M. LE COMTE DE MONTMORIN A LONDBES, 27 
 
 Nov., 1787," 4 11. folio, occupying 7 half columns, £2 2s 
 
 A very curious and interesting memorandum setting out in detail the method employed by the 
 French Government for obtaining both models and workmen " de la fameuse Pompe qui a 
 sauv6 un si grande nombre de vaisseaux de guerre & de la compagnie desindes," together 
 with another naval invention, both by a Mr. Cole, of which the British Admiralty had the 
 monopoly, and which the French authorities were very anxious to get hold of. 
 
 317 MORGAN (Sydney, Lady) 1783 P-1859. Novelist. Author of ' The Wild Irish Girl, 
 etc. A.L., in the third person, 1 p. 8vo, dated 10 June, 1844, in relation to a sitting 
 for her portrait, 7s Gd 
 
Myers & Co., 59, ttigh Holbom, London, W.C. 5^ 
 
 318 MONT ESSON (Charlotte Jeanne B^raud de la Haye de Riou, Marquise de) 1737-1805. 
 Wife of Louis Philippe Due d'Orleans. D.S., *' C. J. Beraud de la Haye," in 
 French, written across 2 pp. folio, dated Chateau de Saint-Assise, 4 Oct., 1779, 
 appointing Alexander Buisson game keeper of the Barony of Saint Port, and 
 Lordships of Saint-Assise, Boissy la Bertrande, Cesson, etc., in the department of 
 the Seine and Marue, ivith seal, 15s 
 
 Autograph of the Second French Viceroy of Canada. 
 
 319 MONTMORENCY (Henri IL, Due de) 15t)5-1632, Famous French Soldier and 
 Statesman, Marshal of France. D.S. "Montmorency," 1 p. folio, dated 24 
 Oct., 1021:5, ordering the ijayment of a Sum of Money to the Sieur de Canoy, counter- 
 signed by some official of the Duke, icith the Sieur de Canoy's signed receipt on the 
 reverse, and the Duke's armorial seal, in fine state, £7 7s 
 
 Afi.ne example of an extremely rare autograph, Henri II. de Montmoreney, last Duke 
 of the old line, was one of the most distinguished men of his day, and was idolized both by the 
 Court, Paris, and the whole of France. He was godson and particular favourite of Henri IV. 
 Created Admiral of France and Brittany in 1612, by Louis XIII., IN 1620 HE SUCCEEDED THE 
 Prince of Conde as Second Viceroy of La Nouvelle France, or Canada, and 
 confirmed the famous Samuel de Champlain in his post as lieutenant-general. 
 Rebelled against Louis XIII., was taken prisoner at the battle of Castel Naudari in 1632, and, 
 in spite of the intercession of our Charles I., all France, the Pope, and other European 
 Sovereigns, was, through the influence of Cardinal Richelieu, beheaded at Toulouse the 30th of 
 October following. 
 
 320 MORE (Hannah) 1745-1833. Authoress. Wrote ' Ccelebs in Search of a Wife,' 
 A.L.S., 2 pp. 4to, Bristol, 15 Nov., no year {about 1775-76), to David Garrick, 
 " What trouble you have. The papers announced to us the honour you did Percy 
 and me, by reading him. What a treat for the audience ! Indeed my obligations 
 to you are inexpressible, and I injure my feelings in tiding to express them. I 
 have tcritten to Cadell, so that I hope a fete days' delay rvill hinder nothing. Pray 
 
 see the Exc n. reviewed in the Westminster Mag -. {I think) for August; it was 
 
 done by Griffith, and is, unquestionably, the best paragraph he ever wrote," 21s 
 
 321 MOORE (Thomas) 1779-1852. Poet. The national lyrist of Ireland. Friend of 
 Byron. A.L,S., 1 p. 4to, dated 21 July, 1832 (to the Rev. G. Urabbe, son of the 
 Poet), " I ayn about to publish some verses ivhich I was tempted to write on receiving 
 your vei'y welcome and flattering present of your father's inkstand, verses not 
 worthy of their subject, but still sufficient to show my feeling of the gift," etc., with 
 postscript, " The verses are to appear in the Metropolitan — a magazine to which I 
 have been induced to become, for a short time, a contributor," 30s 
 
 322 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated22 April, 1832 (to the same), giving some advice as to 
 
 his memoir of his father, concluding with this postscript — "'Mr. Rogers (the Poet, 
 should you not have any objection to consult him) would be a far better critic, for 
 your purpose, than I am," 25s 
 
 323 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated 17 April, 18.32 (to the same), in relation to his memoir 
 
 of his father, ' The Journal of your Father, particularly, is a most interesting 
 document, and it is rather curious that some part's of it should so much resemble 
 the journalizing style of Byron— particularly that describing his frightful dream 
 after a day of enjoyment," 30s 
 
 324 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated 16 Nov. 1835, to W. Pickering, the publisher, in relation 
 
 to a dispute between him and the Rev. W. L. Bowles, of whom Moore writes highly 
 — " Unlike your friend, the Dunciad-man, I am a great lover of Bowles's verses (as 
 well as of himself ) and think, for music of versification, tve have none of us come 
 up to him." Also compliments Pickering on his beautiful style of publication," 25s 
 
 325 MORRIS (William) 1834-96. Poet, Artist, Manufacturer, and Socialist. Founded 
 the Kelmscott Pre.«s. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, undated, to Holman Hunt, '•/ teas away 
 when your note came, & note it is too late for me to show it to Jones as I am off 
 early today. I shall be at the Grange on Sunday, & ready for a talk," £3 38 
 
 326 A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated Kelmscott House, 30 Oct., 1890, to Mr. Reeves, the 
 
 publisher and bookseller, "/n a few days I shall bring you the first of Copy of 
 News from Nowhere," 30s 
 
 Started the well-known Kelmscott Press in 1890, for which he designed special type, and 
 ornamental letters and borders. 
 
 327 MULOCK (Dinah Maria) 1826-87. Novelist and Author. Wrote 'John Halifax 
 Gentleman.' A.L.S., 2 pp. 12mo, undated, to Mrs. White, in answer to her 
 message asking Miss Mulock and Miss James to write for the Ladies Companion, 
 at the same rate as Hogg's Instructor, " / am now busy over a novel, and Miss 
 James has no tale yet ready . . . Hogg's payment is £10 10s per sheet," 10s 
 
40 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 328 MURRAY (William, first Earl of Mansfield) 1705-93. Celebrated Judge. A.L.S. 
 "Mansfield," 3 pp. 4to, undated [endorsed 31 Oct. 1775), to Lord North, " A8 I 
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 The Prerogative of the King to send foreign troops to British Garrisons & 
 
 under what Restrictions is an untrod path of Constitutional Law and therefore 
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 particularly. It will necessarily involve the question of foreign troops to be 
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 A very interesting letter in relation to the policy of the Government in the early part of the war 
 v?ith the American Colonies. 
 
 With Music. 
 
 329 NACHEZ (Livadar) Autograph musical, manuscript signed, 1 p. 8vo, dated 
 Holmwood, 12 Aug. 1889, to Miss D. C. Price, entitled ^Album-leaf,'' containing a 
 bar of music to the words ' Thy life be bless' d in all its parts, be ever crown'd with 
 flowers,'' 18s 
 
 330 NAPIER (Sir William Francis Patrick) 1785-1860. General and Historian of the 
 Peninsular War. A.L.S., 3 pp., 4to, undated, to the Rev, B. White, relating to the 
 character of the Spaniards as drawn in his history, " In my next volume I shall be 
 free to say more in their favour because their true character or that which I suppose 
 to be their true character being fixed I may safely concede to them that which they 
 really possess of good. I hear however that I never shall be an agreeable Historian to 
 them or to their Admirers," etc., 25s 
 
 An interesting letter in connection with his ' History of the Peninsular War,' published 1828-40, 
 which placed him high among historical writers. 
 
 331 NAVAL WARRANT— The original printed form on vellum, filled up in ink, 
 dated 4th Sept., 1798, appointing Lieut. John Bryant, lieutenant of H.M. Hospital 
 ship "the Africa," signed " Spenckr, J. Gambibr and W. Young," 15s 
 
 George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, 1758-1834, was First Lord of the Admiralty and signalled out 
 Nelson and sent him to win the Battle of the Nile. J. Gambier was Admiral of the Fleet. He 
 took part in the capture of Charlestown in the American War, in 1780. 
 
 332 NECKER (Jacques) 1732-1804. Celebrated Financier and Minister of Louis XVI. 
 A.L.S. in French, 1 p., 4to, dated 8 Sept., 1790, written at the moment when he left 
 France, recommending M. Amabert whose help had been most useful on the Subjecfc 
 of Subsistances, 35s 
 
 333 NIVERNOIS (Louis Jules Barbon Maneini-Mazarini, Due de) 1716-98. French Poet 
 and distinguished Diplomat, A.L.S. "Nivernois," 1 p., 4to, dated Paris, 5 Jan., 
 1764, to M. de la Rochette, "J'avois devind dans le premier moment, et I'avois dit a 
 My Lord Hertford lors quHl vint ine communiquer tes plaintes du Ministere Anglois 
 . . . et que cette Lettre trouve4 en Amerique avoit et4 fabriqu4e et envoyie par les 
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 ference avec lui et U paroit vous rendre justice cussi bien qu'a moy a Ugard de cette 
 affaire," £2 2s 
 
 Nelson twice mentioned. 
 
 334 NELSON— Parker (Hyde) 1739-1807. English Admiral, served in North 
 America during the War op Independence, Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pp., 
 folio, St. George Leghorn Road, 4 Nov., 1795, to Francis Drake, respecting tlie 
 improbability in the writer's opinion of the French making any oebarkation 
 between Davona and Genoa, £3 10s 
 
 A MOST interesting naval letter, in which Parker states—" lam sure the Force at present 
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 Vado. The service I have this moment in contemplation for the Fleet under my command will 
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 Captain Nelson." 
 
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 335 NELSON— Ward (Horatia Nelson) 1801. Natural daughter of Lord Nelson and 
 Emma Lady Hamilton. A.L.S., 2 pp., sm. 8vo, dated Tenterden 15 Nov., 1857. To 
 Mrs. C. A. White fnot namedj, respecting some queries in a letter ericlosed by Mrs. 
 White from a Miss Nelson, states she does not know ivhat part of Lord Nelson's 
 
 family she can be, 10s 
 
 336 NORTH (Frederick, Second Eapl of Guilford) 1732-92. Prominent Statesman in 
 connexion with the American War of Independence, A.L.S., •'North," 1 p. 4to, 
 dated Bushy Park, 18 Oct., 1773, to the Duke of Devonshire, postponing an answer 
 to a letter signed by the Duke, and Lords Rockingham, Besborough, Milton, and 
 Upper Ossory tmtil he had consulted the other members of the Ministry. Hole in 
 blank upper portion mended, 21s 
 
 A fine example of a rare autograph. 
 
 337 A.L.S. "N.," 1 p. 4to, undated f endorsed 2 March, 1783^, to ,Tohn Robinson, 
 
 Esq,, marked '* most private to be burnt when read," '' I called here this morning 
 to tell you that I am certain that H.M. will send to me ; I am distress' d and per- 
 plex'd beyond measure, so great are the difficulties which I foresee in forming any 
 arrangement ; If you have any suggestion that you think it necessary to communi- 
 cate to me, I wish you would do it immediately that I may know it before I see the 
 great person," 21s 
 
 Best known as Lord North. The direct agent of George III., he continued in office against his 
 better judgement after the outbreat of War with America, but resigned in 1782. 
 
 338 O'CONNELL (Daniel) 1775-1847. Famous Irish Politician, called the "Liberator." 
 Autograph letter signed in full, 2)4 pp. 4to, dated Bath, 14 Oct., 1817. To 
 W. H. Curran on the death of his father P. J. Curran, £5 5s 
 
 A fine and intensely interesting letter — "As Brutus was called the last of the Romans — so Ireland 
 will weep over hint as the last survivor of those great spirits who ALMOST burst the iron bondage 
 of Britain and would have made her free but that the ancient curse is still upon her — and she 
 lingers yet in slavery. How naturally does the thought fly from his bed of sickness to the sorrows 
 of Ireland — the boldest, best, most eloquent, most enthusiastic, and perhaps more than all, the most 
 persevering of her Patriots he was and alas he leaves none like or second to him," etc. 
 
 339 Autograph Order, signed in full, 1 p. oblong 8vo, tmdated "admit Mr.- 
 
 DriscoU to take a sketch in gallery," 10s 
 
 340 ORLEANS (Louis Philippe Joseph, Due d') 1747-98. Best known by his republican 
 name of 'Egalite.' Cousin of Louis XVI. and father of King Louis Philippe. Guillo- 
 tined 6 Nov., 1793. L.S. in French, 1 p. folio, dated Palais Royal, 18 April, 1791, 10s 
 
 341 L.S. in French, 1 p. 4to, dated Paris, 9 April, 1785, to Mev^srs. Ransom Morlaye 
 
 and Hammersley, respecting a credit account for the Comte de Joinville in 
 London, 10s 
 
 342 OUIDA, i.e., DE LA RAMEE (Marie Louise) 1839-1908. Novelist. A.L.S. "Ouida," 
 3^ pp. oblong 8vo, 21 June, no year, ^"^ I cannot do what you desire for the annual 
 . . . I have not the pleasure of knowing Knatchbull Hugessen. Perhaps some one 
 played a tnck on you," etc., 12s 6d 
 
 343 PALMER (Sir Roundell, first Earl of Selborne) 1812-95. Lord Chancellor. A.L.S., 4 
 pp., 8vo, dated 16 July, 1866, to The Earl Russell, K.G., givhig his opinion that the 
 appointment of Layard to be Director of the National Gallery, without any Salary 
 or other kind of emolument, would not vacate his seat, 10s 
 
 344 PAOLI (Pasquale de) 1726-1807. Famous Corsican patriot and general. A.L.S., in 
 Italian, 1 p. 4to, undated, to his nephew Signor Leonetti, relating to India Bonds 
 left in Messrs. Drummond's bank at Charing Ci-oss. Accompanied by a French 
 translation, 15s 
 
 345 PARR (William, Earl of Essex) 1.513-71. Brother of Queen Catherine Parr. - Created 
 Marquis of Northampton in 1547. D.S. " W. Essex," 1 p. oblong 8vo, " Wilhn 
 Erie of Essex Captaigne generall of the king's maties oune bande of ho7-semen 
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 inclus — £XX ffor the wages of IIII ffootemen horsekeepers for the said XIIII daies 
 evry of theym at VId the daie— XVIII S," £3 10s 
 
 A fine example of a rare autograph. William Parr was appointed chief captain of the Men-at- 
 arms (King's Army in France), in July 1544, held many offices under Edward VI. and was 
 condemned to death for his share in the cause of Lady Jane Grey, but pardoned. 
 
 346 PARRY (Sip William Edward) 1790-1855. Rear-Admiral and famous Arctic Explorer. 
 A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated Admiralty, 29 Nov. 1829, to Capt. Cheyne, returning some 
 papers, 10s 6d 
 
43 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 ^7 PARDOE (Julia A. H.) 1808-62. Historical Writer and Novelist. A.L.S., 2 pp. 8vo, 
 dated 13 June 1853, to Mrs. C. A. White (not named), asking her to give a notice in 
 her magazine of a book by a Syrian protestant, in which she was much interested. 
 Accompanied by a portrait, 10s 
 
 :348 PAULUS V. (Camillus Bopghese) 1552-1621. Pope, elected in 1605. Papal Bull, 
 in Latin, on vellum, 1 p. large oblong folio, dated Rome, 1 June, 1605, with finb 
 LEADEN SEAL, detoxshed, 21s 
 
 Contains the signatures of over 20 Cardinals and Papal Officials. 
 
 349 PIOZZI (Hester Lynch) 1741-1821. Formerly Mrs. Thrale. The well-known friend 
 of Dr. Johnson. A.L.S., with initials, also a postscript by Gabriel Piozzi, 
 3 pp. 4to, dated 3 April {postmark 1789), to Miss Weston (afterwards Mrs. 
 Pennington), " We were there {Drury Lane) last night tho; and I have scarcely 
 slept since, for the strong agitation into which Southeme and Siddons together 
 threw me last night. Tis an odd thing, but I never saw the old Tragedy of Isabella 
 represented before in any place or by any people whatever." Also mentions Great- 
 heeds performance as Regent, and her Ode on the King's (Geo. III.) recovery from 
 his first illness. Her husband in his postscript adds, " / assure you I cried oil (sic) 
 the Tragedy, she (Mrs. Siddons) is an enchanting woman," £3 3s 
 A most interesting letter. The play referred to was no doubt Sothern's ' Fatal Marriage,* ia 
 which Mrs. Siddons took the part of Isabella. 
 
 350 A.L.S., with postscript, 2>^ pp. 4to, dated 'Streatham,, 10 Nov., 1790, to Miss 
 
 Weston, ^*I do believe however that Mr. Burke has in the glorious pamphlet you so 
 justly admire given us his own true and genuine sentiments; and 'tis on such 
 occasions that a writer shines like the sun with his own native and unborrowed fire 
 — This book will be a most extensively useful production at such a moment and 
 from stLch a man,'* etc., £2 10s 
 
 351 A.L.S., 1^ pp. 4to, dated Streatham,, 12 Oct. 1790, to Miss Weston, chiefly 
 
 relating to French affairs, 30s 
 
 352 A.L.S., with initials, 3}^ pp. 4to, dated 7 Feb. 1793, to Mrs. Pennington, 
 
 " Dear chairming Siddons goes on as usual, & another fair daughter is come home 
 to give her something more to do, & an old Tragedy written ages ago by Mr. Murphy 
 is coming out at last," etc., £2 10s 
 A long and very interesting letter containing interesting anecdotes of the imprisonment of Louis 
 
 XVL and the Dauphin, also writes about Hannah More's ' Village Politics,' a pamphlet of her 
 
 own, and the approaching war with France. 
 
 353 A.L.S., 4:% pp. 4to, begun London 12 March, and finished at Streatham Park 
 
 20 March, 1793, to Mrs. Pennington, a long and interesting letter, chiefly relating to 
 the reconciliation between herself and her daughters the Misses Thrale, .35s 
 
 354 A.L.S. , with initials, 3 pp., folio, dated Denbigh, 11 Sept., 1794, to Mrs. 
 
 Pennington, "Meanwhile as you say love seems banished from the Novels, where 
 terror fas in the Convention) becomes the order of the day. Miss (sic) Radcliffe 
 however plays that game best, which all are striving to play well — / am often weary 
 of her descriptions, but she possesses great power over the Fancy: her Tricks used to 
 fright Mrs. Siddons and I very much: but when somebody said her book was like 
 Macbeth — ay replied H.L.P. about as like as Peppermint Water is to good French 
 Brandy. I have written a Ballad for the Black Guards to bawl about the streets — 
 imitated from Newberry's well known Chapter of Kings written at first to teach 
 Babies the English History but lately set and sung at Catch Clubs Bow Meetings," 
 etc., £3 3s 
 
 This letter finishes with a copy of the ballad referred to above entitled ' The Chapter of King- 
 killers ' composed of nine stanzas of four lines each, with chorus. 
 
 355 A.L.S., with initials, 3}4 pp., 4to, dated Streatham Park, 10 Jan., 1801, to 
 
 Mrs. Pennington, "iKfj/ book once written was not a bit more off my hands, for 
 Stockdale and I are partners in the property — and if he is an honest man — so much 
 the better for your H.L.P. . . . Pretty Siddons told me about Hannah More. . . . 
 Our charming Friend in Great Marlborough Street has never been so free from 
 Complaint since I have known her, and her appearance in the character of 
 Constance transcends all which the Stage ever shew'd me. The dress is so appro- 
 priate aud becoming, that its first impression is prodigious and would be dis- 
 advantageous to one who could not keep up the interest it excites. Kemble seems 
 much out of health this winter and has a slowness tt/pon his manner which I do not 
 like ; but the Public is in high goodhumour with him," etc., £3 3s 
 
 A very interesting letter mainly relating to her new work * Retrospection ' just published, but also 
 about Buonaparte and French affairs, Hannah More's troubles, etc. 
 
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 356 PEEL (Sir Robert, second Baronet) 1788-1850. Statesman. A.L., in the third 
 person, 1 p. 4to, dated 15 Jan. 1842, to D. W. Harvey, acknowledging the receipt of 
 his letter and promising to inform his Colleagues of its purport, la 6d 
 
 '357 A.L., in the third person, 1^ pp. 8vo, dated 23 July 1842, to Mr. Waddington» 
 
 acknowledging the receipt of a communication, 5s 
 
 368 A.L., in the third person, 1 p. 4to, dated 5 Oct. 1824, to Mr. Woolcott, asking 
 
 him to make every exertion to complete his house, 6s5 
 
 359 Autograph Vebsr of 6 lines, signed "R. Peel" ; "Here lie the fruits of 
 
 Chantry'' s gun; Ttco Woodcocks — and the shot but OTie; Yet happier far for Church 
 and State; Had it hut been the Artist's fate ; To miss both bodies and to kill ; " TJie 
 bill and nothing but the Bill," 10s 6d 
 
 :S60 PELHAH (Thomas, second Earl of Chichester) 1756-1826. Statesman. A.L.S. 
 " Pelham," 1 p. 4to, dated! Oct. 1802, to The Eail of Lauderdale, " / will certainly 
 attend to Mr. Erskine's claims to the living of Alloa whenever it shall become vacant 
 upon the ground of his being the principal proprietor in the parish, and 
 recommended by you," lOs 
 
 Written on the blank leaf of a letter from James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, urging the 
 claims of Mr. Erskine to nominate a minister to the Kirk of Alloa, his ancestor having forfeited 
 the right owing to his share in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. 
 
 361 PITT (William, 1st Earl of Chatham) 1708-78. Statesman and Orator. Letter of 
 Attorney, signed "Chatham," 1 p. folio, dated 19 Aug., 1767, appointing 
 Thomas Tomtryns his Attorney to receive all moneys due to him, from Hts 
 Majesty's Exchequer, with Pitt's armorial seal, 80s 
 
 A fine example of the scarce signature of the man who strenuously opposed the harsh measures 
 taken in regard to the North American Colonies in 1774-5, and in M ly 1777 unsuccessfully 
 moved an address to the crown for the stoppage of hostilities, though he was not willing to 
 recognise the independence of the colonies. Supported the repeal of th:- tamp Act in 1766, 
 and was created Earl of Chatham in the same year. 
 
 .-362 PITT (William) 1759-1806. Eminent English Statesman and Prime Minister. A.L., 
 in the third person, 1 p. 4to, dated 12 Aug., 1794, to Mr. Gieville, acquainting him 
 of his appaintment as Vice Chamberlain, 21s 
 
 363 PIUS VI. (John Aug. Braschi) 171799. Pope, elected in 1775. D.S., in Latin, 2 pp. 
 folio, dated Rome, 3 Jan., 1785, relating to a pension to Vincent Lovalti, 'Claricus 
 with numerous official signatures, 21s 
 
 364 POMPADOUR (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de) 1720-64. The celebrated 
 mistress of Louis XV. Autograph note, unsigned as usual, ^ p. sm. 8vo, dated 
 "a PaHa 25fevrier, 1760," to her factotum giving him three different instructions, 
 numbered respectively 1, 2, 3, the first reads '^pourquoy ne m'avez vous par mandi 
 sy v peur estre Sre du Roy," the second "Laborde veut vous voir demain, s'il a 
 charge de I'affaire vis a vis du prince," etc. The third mentions le Caron and ends 
 "Je veux le voir tout bot^ tout erote" etc., corner torn off top right-hand corneTt 
 £7 lOs 
 
 Autographs of the famous Pompadour are excessively rare, and the present is a fine and interesting 
 
 example. The Laborde mentioned in the second instruction could be none other than the 
 
 author of the ' Choix de Chansons ' and other works. Madame de Pompadour first appeared 
 
 at Court in 1745, and from that period until her death in 1764 practically ruled France. 
 
 :365 PROWSE (William Jetfery) 1836-70. Humorist. Contributor to 'Fun.' Had a 
 
 remarkable talent for humorous verse. A.L.S., 4 pp. 8vo, dated 23 Dec, 1858. To 
 
 Mrs, C. A. White, giving an amusing account in prose and verse of how he 
 
 intended to spend Christmas, at Canterbury and Heme Bay, 8s 
 
 -366 Sonnet of 14 lines, signed, on the Death of the Prince Consort in 1861, 
 
 accompanied by a small pen and ink sketch of himself in volunteer costum,e, with 
 humorotis note beneath, 8s 
 
 367 QUIN (Michael Joseph) 1796-1843. Traveller and Political Writer. A.L.S., 2yi pp. 
 8vo, 11 Sept., no year, to W. Jerdan, giving his reasons for not answering an 
 invitation to dinner on the 6th, 5s 
 
 368 RACHEL-FELIX (Elisa) 1821-58. Famous French Actress, first appeared in London, 
 1840. A.L.S. " Rachel," 1^ pp. sm. 8vo, undated, ''Ma fatigue est telle qu'il m'est 
 impossible de vous accorder ce que vous me demandez pour un temps rapproch4 — 
 Je ne sais en vtfritt* sije pourrai tenir les engagements promis," etc., 158 
 
 :369 RICHMOND (Legh) 1772-1827. Evangelical Divine. Wrote 'Tales of Village Life. 
 A.L.S., with postscript, IX PP- 4to, dated 15 Jan. 1827, to Mr. Apsley Pellatt 
 asking for miniature glass decanters, &c., which he minutely describes, 5s 
 
44 MYERS & Co., 59. High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 o70 REACH (Angus Bethune) 1821-56. Novelist. The Holograph Manuscript op 
 
 THE FIRST PORTION OF A STORY ENTITLED " LODGINGS TO LeT," 56 pp., 4to, £2 2s 
 Apparently unpublished and probably written about 1843. Reach's best known work ' Clement 
 
 Lorrimer,' was illustrated by George Cruikshank. He also collaborated in sundry works with 
 
 Shirley Brooks, Albert Smith and others. 
 
 371 READE (Charles) 1814-84. Novelist and Dramatist. Wrote "The Cloister and the 
 Hearth." A.L.S., 1% pp. 8vo, Magdalen College, Oxford, no date, "Z am just now 
 a miserable man. I have two important stories to write, and few ideas .... J beg 
 to assure you that all this stuff about Shilly Shally is one amazing lie. The play is 
 literally as pure as snow. The situations areas innocent as those in ^'■Forgiven" 
 and " Our Friends are the reverse," etc., 15s 
 
 372 REYNOLDS (Sir Joshua) 1723-92. Famous Artist and First President of the Royal 
 Academy. Intimate friend of Garrick, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Edmund Burke, 
 etc. Holograph MS. op 1 page of one op his ' Discourses ' delivered before 
 THE Royal Academy, 1 p. 4to, comparing the characteristic points of Raphael, 
 Michael Angela, Corregio, Guido, Rubens, and other eminent artists, strip of blank 
 left-Tiand margin torn off and repaired, £7 7s 
 
 A fine and most interesting example of the extremely rare holograph of the greatest portrait- 
 painter that England has produced. Ranked by Ruskin as one of the seven supreme colourists. 
 His ' Discourses ' probably received some polish from Dr. Johnson, Burke, Malone, and 
 others, before they were published, but were essentially his own both in style and thought. 
 
 373 RICHARDSON (Samuel) 1689-1761. Novelist. Author of ' Pamela,' ' Clarissa 
 Harlowe,' etc. D.S. 1 p. folio, dated 12 April, 1740, being a receipt for £28 15s for 
 3 months annuity of £115 per annum, £2 10s 
 
 A very rare autograph, written in the same year as his novel * Clarissa,' a work which won its 
 author European fame. 
 
 374 ROBARTES (John, first Earl of Radnor) 1606-85. Field Marshal in the Parliamentary- 
 Army 1644, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1669-70, and Lord President of the Council 
 1679-84. D.S. " Radnor," 1 p. folio, dated 21 Oct. 1680, being a receipt for £375, his 
 allovirance as President of the Privy Council, "£250 thereof in lieu of an 
 allowance of diett of tenn dishes every meale formerly made to the President," 
 etc., 15s 
 
 375 ROCHAMBEAU (Jean Baptiste, Donatien de Vineur, Comte de) 1725-1807. Marshal 
 of France. Commander-in-Chief of the French Army in American War of In- 
 dependence. A.L.S. "Le Mar:6chalRochambeau,"2 pp. 4to, dated Valenciennes, 
 23 April, 1792, stating that the inhabitants of Mons are ready to welcome the 
 French, the Austrians hesitate about attacking, but that unfortunately his troops 
 are not ready, men, victuals, forage, horses, and clothing being wanted. 
 Accompanied by a type-written English translation, £3 3s 
 
 A very rare autograph. The writer commanded the French army in conjunction with 
 Washington's American forces at the Siege of York Town, the surrender of which by Lord 
 Cornwallis mainly led to the close of the Revolutionary War. 
 
 376 RODNEY (George Brydges, first Baron Rodney) 1719-92. The famous Admiral. 
 D.S., 1 p. oblong 4to, dated Office of Ordnance, Kingston, Jamaica, 9 July, 1782, 
 being a Bill of Exchange to pay W. Mitchell and J. Hunt the sum of £5584 16s lOd 
 equal to £7818 15s 7d Jamaica Currency, for Sundry Ordnance and Ordnance Stores 
 taken on survey on board the French Prize Ships 'Le Caton,' 'Le Jason,' and 
 • L'Aimable,' £2 10s 
 
 An interesting historical document in connection with Rodney's great victory over the French 
 fleet under De Grasse off Dominica in honour of which he was created Baron Rodney. He 
 was Governor of Newfoundland from 1748 to 1752, commandsr-in-chief on Leeward Islands 
 station, 1761, reduced Martinique and took possession of Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent 
 in 1762, held command at Jamaica from 1771 to 1774, and defeated the Spanish Fleet oflF Cape 
 St. Vincent in 1780. 
 
 377 ROGERS (Samuel) 1753-1855. The Banker Poet. Author of ' Pleasures of Memory,' 
 etc. A.L.S., SJ4 PP- 8vo, dated Petworth, 24 Nov. 1832, to the Rev. George Crabbe, 
 son of the Poet, expressing his great pleasure at Crabbe's Memoirs being dedicated 
 to him, " To have had my name connected with your Father's in any degree lias 
 always been esteemed by me a good fortune. What then must be my feelings on 
 such an occasion as this ? " Writes highly of the Memoir and goes on to say " The 
 Poems I delivered many months ago at his {Crabbe's) earnest request to Mr. Murray 
 who wished to consult Mr. Lockhart on the subject. Mr. Lockhart, I understand, 
 took them with him into Scotland, when he accompanied Sr. Walter Scott ; & read 
 them to Sir Walter in his last illness. The pleasure with which they were heard is 
 recorded in the Edinburgh papers," etc., £2 2s 
 
 A very interesting literary letter in connection with Crabbe*.s Memoir and last Poems. 
 
MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 4S 
 
 378 ROBINSON (Mary) 1758-1800. Actress, Authoress, and Mistress of George Prince of 
 Wales (afterwards Geo. IV.) Best known as 'Perdita.' A.L.S. 2}4 PP- *to, dited 
 18 Sept. 1793, apparently to General Sir Banastre Tarleton, a curious letter, best 
 expressed by a postscript " Adieu— Never ask me for a specimen of alliteration 
 again," 35s 
 
 Through Garrick's influence she appeared successfully as Juliet at Drury Lane in 1776, plajred 
 Lady Anne in Richard III., 1777 and other Shakespearian parts. Her portrait was painted by 
 Reynolds, Rowney, Hoppner, and Gainsborough. 
 
 Beautiful Perdita. 
 With an autograph letter to her, from her royal lover 'Florizel.' 
 
 379 THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT ENTITLED "Memoirs 
 
 OF Mary Robinson written by Herself," endorsed in the left-hand corner 
 of the first page, "Begun 14 Jan., 1798," 207 pp. 4to, all but 5 written on one 
 aide the paper only, and nearly the whole of the last 135 pages written on the 
 backs of letters, lohich must have painfully reminded her of brighter days, when 
 men like Reynolds, Gainsborough Hoppner, Romney, Cosway, and others were glad 
 to paint her portrait. Illustrated by several portraits of Mrs. Robinson, 
 George IV,, the Duke of Rutland, G. R. Fitzgerald, and others; A curious con- 
 temporary caricature of the Prince of Wales and Fox, with Mrs. Robinson 
 in the background and hanging above her a portrait of Col. Tarleton ; A drawing 
 IN SEPIA of "Mrs. Robinson's Cottage in the Wood of Saint Amant in Flanders"; 
 
 AN ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH POEM IN 5 STANZAS OF 6 LINES EACH, SIGNED 'M.R.' 
 
 ADDRESSED TO JoHN WoLCOT (Peter Pinder), with post mark dated 17 March, 
 1798, and seal; two letters from her daughter to Cadell, with proposals for 
 publishing the biography of her mother, and her own poems, and a draft for the 
 title of her mother's poetical works. Also an A.L.S., 2 pp. 4to, undated, from 
 George Prince of Wales (George IV.), addressed "Mrs. Robinson, Ship Inn, 
 Brighton," the whole bound together in 1 vol, 4to, in old dark blue morocco, line 
 border in gold on sides, gilt back and inside borders, £31 10s 
 
 The original manuscript of these most interesting and touching Memoirs, first published in 1803 
 in 2 vols., 12mo., containing, in her own handwriting, the intimate details of the dramatic 
 story of Mary Robinson the celebrated ' Perdita' for the earlier portion of her career, written in 
 the bold legible hand affected by the great ladies of the period, although, tawards the end, 
 signs of pain or weaknes on the part of the writer are plainly discemable. The story breaks 
 off abruptly at the mention of her interviews with ' ' the Doating Lover ' ' known to posterity as 
 * Florizel. ' The last page is occupied by a recapitulation of the misdoings and shortcomings 
 of the attorney's clerk it had been her misfortune to marry while still a child. Other pages 
 contain most interesting accounts of her relations with Garrick, Sheridan, and others. On pp. 
 168-9 is a list of her parts in Shakespearian and other plays, including Ophelia, Viola, Rosalind, 
 Octavia, Perdita, Cordelia, Juliet, Lady Anne, Lady Macbeth, etc. In turning over these 
 pages one recognizes the franks and signatures of the Royal Dukes of York, Clarence, and 
 Cambridge, the Duchesses of Devonshire and Ancaster, the Dukes of Grafton and Dorset, the 
 Earls of Carlisle, Jersey, Harrington, Tankerville and Yarmouth, of William Pitt and 
 Charles J. Fox, of R. B. Sheridan, Arthur Murphy and other literati, and of London's 
 greatest hostesses, but not of prudent Sarah Siddons, who, on the ' English Sappho * inditing 
 an ode in her honour, only replied frigidly to a third party that ' she longed for the possibility 
 of knowing Mrs. Robinson, for whom she felt deep compassion.' Yet, for all that, Mary 
 Robinson was one of the greatest women of her time. The Heir Apparent to the British 
 Throne was at her feet ; Royal Dukes, Ministers of State, and the nobility of both sexes 
 attended her parties. Her beauty was said to have outshone that of either Margaret 
 Wofiington or Elizabeth Farren, and she held thousands spell-bound with the stage craft she 
 had learned so successfully from the great David Garrick. 
 
 380 ROBINSON (Rev. Richard, D.D., first Baron Rokeby) 1700-94. Archbishop of 
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 dated Bath, 20 Jan. 1786, to Mrs. Montagu, of ' blue-stocking ' fame, a chatty letter 
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 381 ROUS (Henry John) 1795-1877. Admiral and Sportsman. A.L.S., 4 pp. sm. 8to, 
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 and ad renu I find from experience that Turf Refoi m is a painful subject, tae 
 know and hear of many things which we cannot prove in a Court of Justice," 
 etc., 7s 6d 
 
 882 ROHAN-GUEMENE (Louis Ren6 Edouard, Prince de) 1734-1803. Cardinal and Arch- 
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 Card de Rohan," in French, 2 pp. folio, dated 6 Dec. , 1787, appointing N. D. Minard 
 to be registrar, etc., for Coupvray, with armorial seal, defecttve. Accomp»nied by 
 » medallion portrait, 2l8 
 
4^ MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.(j. 
 
 383 ROHAN-SOUBISE (Charles, Prince de Soubise) 1715-87. Peer and Marshal of France. 
 Tool of Madame de Pompadour. A.L.S. " Le M. P. de Soubise," in French, 3 pp. 
 4to, dated " au Camp de Loesfeldt" 3 Oct., 1761, to the Marquis de Langeron, "ie 
 Prince de Condd a pris son parti en le comniencant et si nous r/ussissons a faire 
 revenir les ennemis nous ne sentirons que mediocrement le chagrin d'abandonner 
 une pareille entreprise. . . . Je ne crois pas que Luckrier soit venu de ce c6t/-ci. II 
 me semble qu'il etait vis a vis de M. le Comte de Lusaces et de M. de Closen. Les 
 paysans ont quitt^ les arms, M. de Wurmser est entre dans JEnibden, II a calme 
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 de Vaccomodei'. . . . Sij'apprends I'approche des ennemis je me ferai joiiidre par la 
 Maison du Roi et la brigade de Bouillon. Wurmser et Co^nmeyras sont partis 
 d'Osnabrugg sans niander ou Us allaient,'' etc. In a postscript he states that 
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 An important historical letter on the Siege of Meppen. Owing to the favour of Madame de 
 Pompadour the writer had an important command in the Seven Years' War, but was totally 
 defeated at Rossbach by Frederick the Great in Nov. 1757. In the following year he gained 
 two victories and made himself master of Hesse. His military career ended with the battle of 
 Johannisberg. 
 
 384 Printed Document, in French, filled up in ink, signed "LeM. P. de Soubise," 
 
 1 p. folio, dated Cassel, 8 May, 1762, being a protection order for the House of 
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 France at top, and heraldic achievement of the Prince de Soubise beloic, 21s 
 
 Signed by the Prince as Commander of the King's army in Germany. 
 
 385 ROSSETTI (Dante Gabriel) 1828-1882. Famous Painter and I'oet. A.L.S., with 
 initials, in French. 3 pp. sm. 8vo, undated to his brother, W. M. Rossetti, " J« 
 n'^cris plus, Hant deja d demi mort de Somineil," etc., £2 10s 
 
 Founder of the pre-Raphaelite School of painting. Friend of Holman Hunt, Millais, Sir E. 
 Burne- Jones, Swinburne and Meredith. Painted his last great picture ' Dante's Dream,' 
 1869-71, Published his ' Poems ' in 1870, and his ' Ballads and Sonnets ' in 1881. 
 
 386 A.L.S. , 1 p. 8vo, dated 28 July, 1869, to Henry Brown, sending a subscription 
 
 to his book on Shakespeare's Sonnets, 30s 
 
 387 ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jaeques) 1712-78. Celebrated French Author and Philosopher. 
 A.L.S., WITH ADDRESS, 1 p. 4to, dated Motiers-Travers, 24 fevrier, 1765, to M. M. 
 Garrigues de Luc freres et Cie a Geneve, £10 
 
 A fine and very interesting letter by the author of Emile, relating to a revolution in Geneva, he 
 writes " Un people cesse d'etre libre |quand les loix ont perdu leur force, mais la vertu ne perd 
 jamais la sienne et I'homme vertueux demeure libre toujours. . . . Pour moi, je prends le sen, 
 parti qui me reste et je le prends irrevocablement. Puisque avec des intentions aussi puresi 
 puisque avec tant d'amour pour la justice et la verite, je n'ai fait que du mal sur la terre, je n'en 
 veux plus faire, et je me retire aude dans de moi. Je ne veux plus entendre parler de Geneve, 
 ni de ce qui s'y passe," etc. 
 
 388 A.L. UNSIGNED, with address, in French, 1 p. 4to, Monsmorenci 24 avril, year 
 
 broken atoay but 1762, to 'M. Lem^ps Banquier, rue de Say oye a Paris,' "Jesuis 
 fort en peine de vous, mon ami; vous ne venez ni ne irCecrives ; dans la circon- 
 ' stance oil vous etes," etc. With postscript. ^' Si vous venez ilfaut vous arranger 
 pour passer ici une hintaine de jours." With seal, £6 6s 
 
 389 RUBENSTEIN (Antoine) 1829-94. Celebrated Russian Composer and Pianist,, 
 A..L.S., in French, 1 p. 8vo, undated, regretting his inability to attend the Duchew 
 of Buccleuch's soiree, 21s 
 
 390 RUSKIN (John) 18191900. Author, Artist, and Social Reformer. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo. 
 "Denmark Hill— a quarter of a mile beyond Camberwell," no date, to Thornton 
 Hunt (brother of Leigh Hunt), "it migM be more convenient to you to come a little 
 earlier and that we might chat over coffee and eggs and things wtth sorne diversion 
 from, both our intensities — we get so fearfully far into the Metaphysical Atmosphere 
 without some such material retardment arid sandbag," etc., 21s 
 
 391 A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated 10 March, 1869, to H. Wallis, respecting the frame of a 
 
 ■gxctwTe of vfhxca he yf TitQs^* but the picture is its own frame, lbs 
 
 302 A.L.8., 1 p. 8vo, dated lO Sept., 1866, to L. P. Ware, "It is a shame that you 
 
 should have been made anxious by claims urged with any petulance for so worthless 
 a drawing — no dealer loordd give eighteenpence for it," 15s 
 

 
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 393 RUSSELL (Sir William Howard) 1830-1907. The famous War Oorrespondenb. 
 A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated St. Grouse Day, 12 Axig., 1896, to Mrs. Pex'kins, postponing 
 their plans. 6s 
 
 Holograph letter of a celebrated Elizabethan Poet and Statesman. 
 
 304 SACKVILLE (Thomas, first Earl of Dorset and Baron Buekhurst) 1536-1608. 
 
 Poet, Grand Master of the Order of Freemasons, 1561-67, Lord Treasurer, 1599 till 
 
 death, and Lord High Steward. A.L.S., 1 p. folio, dated ''from the Court this 17 of 
 
 April, 1595," " To my veiry lovinge frend Mr. Richard Staffarton, esquire," 
 
 informing him that ''my good lord the lord treasurer and Sii' John Foscue have 
 
 granted me a warrant for couting trees loithin tJie woods, etc., within your charge" 
 
 and asking his help "for the better accomplishing the good effect thereof toicardsme, 
 
 for the wch I shall give you many thankes and he redy as occasion shalle afford 
 
 either for yourself or any frend of yours to do you the best frendship I can and 
 
 within my poxoer to show you,'' slightly injured by damp, £10 10s 
 
 Holograph letters of Thomas Sackville, one of the most celebrated personages of 
 
 THE Elizabethan era, are of excessive rarity. He collaborated with Thomas Norton in 
 
 the production of the ' Tragedy of Gorboduc,' the first English tragedy in blank verse, 
 
 acted in Inner Temple Hall in 1561. Planned, began, and wrote ' Induction ' for ' Myrrovre 
 
 for Magistrates' (1559-63), completed by W. Baldwin and G. Ferrers. Announced to Mary 
 
 Queen of Scots her sentence of death and took a very prominent part in all the chief affairs of 
 
 that exciting period. 
 
 [See Illustration]. 
 
 95 A.L.S. "T. Dorset," % p. folio, dated 27 July, 1607, to Mr. Auditor flPuUer, 
 
 relating to 'wood gi-ounds in ye County of Southn.' Mentions Sir Henry 
 Fanshawe, £5 5s 
 
 96 SAINT-GEORGE (N. Chevalier de) 1745-99. West Indian fencing master, violinist 
 and composer. L.S. "St. Geobg," in French, 1^4 PP- 4:to, undated (to the Pre- 
 sident of a district of Paris?), " St. George dont le patriotisme est reconnu depuisla 
 revolution et d^spres la conduitte quHl a tenu a Lille en flxtndres, ou it a reside 
 pendant deux ans, et ou il a commands une Compagnie de Garde nationale quHl 
 n'a quitde que pour servie en qualite d'aide de Camp Voluntaire de Messieurs du 
 7iou et MiaeziTisky la quelle conjointement avec les citoyens repondront de son 
 patriotisme a accepts le [commandement des hussards du Midi, d^sirant immorta- 
 liser par sa valeur et son enthousiasme pour la Libert^, ne pouvant prouver son zele, 
 et assurer ses succes qu' avec un corps epur^et approuv4 par les diff^rentes sections" 
 etc., £2 2s 
 
 St. George was famous for his skill in fencing and composed the music for several operas. He was 
 born in Guadeloupe. In spite of the proofs given of his patriotism he was imprisoned and only 
 recovered his liberty after the 9 thermidor. 
 
 307 SALA (George Augustus Henry) 1898-96. Novelist and Journalist. Editor of 
 Temple Bar, 1860-66. Special Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph in American 
 Civil War, 1863. A.L.S., with initials, 1 p. 8vo, dated Whit Sunday, St. Leonards 
 (1873). To Godfrey Turner. Accompanied by autographed envelope, 6s 
 
 398 A.L.S., on the back of his card as special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, 
 
 dated 14 April, 1880, to Godfrey Turner, introducing a Mr. Morris, 5s 
 
 399 SAND (Amantine Lueile Aurora Dupin, Dame Dudevant, called George) 1804-76. 
 A.L.S. " George Sand," in French, 1 p. 8vo, dated 7 Jan., 1874, to M.. Barr^, a 
 very friendly letter of thanks for good wishes, with postscript, "Je compte bien 
 earire mon nom moi meme sur voire exemplaire quand nous nous verrons,'^ 158 
 
 400 SAUMAREZ (James, Baron de Saumarez) 1757-1836. Admiral. A.L.S. , 2 pp. 4to, 
 dated London, 19 April 1808, to Admiral Keats, with armorial seal in red wax, 10s 
 An interesting letter, marked private, on naval matters and giving particulars respecting an 
 
 engagement between a Danish Ship and two British Men of War. 
 
 401 SAVAGE (Richard) 1690P-1743. Poet and Dramatist. Autograph verse of 9 
 LINES, SIGNED " R. Savage," 1 p. oblong 8vo, beginning "In m,y first Epistle I 
 have introduced My Remarks on our Histories as follows — 
 
 But of all plagues with which dull prose is curst. 
 
 Sure from ye false Historian come ye worst 
 
 Is there of Genius one ne'er partial seen 
 
 Thro Fancy thro Affection or thro Spleen " / etc. £4 4s 
 
 A very rare holograph. Savage gained the friendship of Steele and Wilks the Comedian, by his 
 
 comedy * Love in a Veil,' acted at Drury Lane 1718, and wrote the tragedy of ' Sir Thomas 
 
 Overbury,' also acted at Drury Lane, in which he played the title-role. His complete works 
 
 were published in 1775. 
 
48 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
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 402 SCOTT (John, first Earl ot Eldon) 1751-1838. Lord Chief Justice and Lord 
 Chancellor. A.L.S. "Eldon," 1 p. 8vo, undated, declining an application and 
 giving his reasons for so doing. Accompanied by an engraved portrait, Cs 
 
 402a SCOTT (Sip Walter) 1771-1832. JSovelist and Poet. A.L.S. , 2 pp. 4to, dated 
 Abbotsford, 16 July, 1822, to the Rev. George Crabbe (the Poet), expressing his 
 pleasure at the prospect of Crabb's visiting Abbotsford and give instructions as to 
 the best mode of getting there, " / have no call whatever from this place and shall 
 have no greater pleasure than receiving you here. I had some thoughts of going to 
 the Highlands for a few days about the middle of September but I can easily 
 postpone that trip shoxdd it interfere with your most ivelcome visit. If the King 
 comes I must be at Edinburgh for a day or two but I fancy you will avoid that 
 period of tumult & bustle, though if your health permitted it would be a curious 
 sight to see . . . remember you are to count your stay with us not by days but by 
 weeks. You shall be as quiet as at home and as comfortable as we can make you, 
 etc., £3 10s 
 
 403 A.L.S., \% PP- 8vo, Edinburgh, 25 June, no year, to John Richardson " Accept 
 
 a copy of Haliden Hill . . . As for the Carpenter affairs I am glad the marriage is 
 off for the Lady's sake and hope the matter will be soon arranged one way or other, 
 I do not wish to be put to any expence of consequence because I am ready to 
 acquiesce in their mode of construing the Settlement,'" etc., 30s 
 
 404 A.L., signature cut away, 1 p. 4to, 96, Piccadilly , no date (1819 or 20), " / am. 
 
 naturally anccious to see as much of you as possible before tee again part. If your 
 return from Hampstead will permit you to dine here at sioc o'clock it icould give 
 great pleasure to my kind hostess and inexpressible delight to me," etc., 21s 
 
 405 - — A.L.S. "W. Scott," 1 p. 8vo, Castle St., no date (after 1821), relating to a 
 meeting called for the purpose of raising a memorial to the late James Watt 
 (inventor of the steam engine J, enclosing a letter from Sir John Hope relating to 
 the same matter, 35s 
 
 Accompanied by the autograph letter referred to above from Sir John Hope, who commanded a 
 brigade at Salamanca in 1812, 1 p. 4to, dated Pinkie House, 8 July no year (after 1821), with 
 his armorial seal in red wax. 
 
 406 — — A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated Ashestiel, Selkirk, 14 Aug. 1807, to J. G. Wright, " I am 
 favoured with yours of the 12th mentioning that the Bleeting of Creditors before 
 tehom you laid my letter of the IQth toere disposed to accept of my proposal of a 
 cotnposition, I hope the Gentlemen who were not present toill lose no time in 
 transmitting their definite resolution as any delay on their part will oblige me to 
 withdraw my offer," etc., 30s 
 
 407 SELOUS (Frederick Courteney) 1851-1917. Famous Great Game Hunter and 
 Traveller. Took part in both Matabele Wars. Killed in the present war in 
 German East Africa. A.L.S., 1>^ pp. 8vo, dated Galatz, Mouth of the Danube, 
 Roumania, 12 June, 1894, in answer to a request for his autograph, 7s 6d 
 
 408 SEVIGNE (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de) 1626-96. French Writer. 
 Authoress of the celebrated ' Letters.' A.L., unsigned, in French, 4 pp., sm. 4to, 
 Ann Bochcrs, demanche, 20 Aug., no year, to M. du Plessis, Gouverneur de M. le 
 Comte de Vins, a Paris, ^^dans le giron de cette tribu de Grignan en vous estez fori, 
 aymi . . . Je ne puis vous rien dire de moy, ny de mon retour je ne veu.v plus 
 parler aussy les dragons ce sont des demons, its ont le diable au corps," etc., £21 
 Holograph letters of the most illustrious of the many famous French letter writers are extremely 
 
 rare. The present is a remarkably fine example. 
 
 [See Illustration]. 
 
 409 SEYMOUR (Frederick Beauehamp Paget, 1st Lord Alcester) 1821-95. Eminent 
 British Admiral. Took part in the Crimean and Maori Wars. Commanded the 
 bombardment of Alexandria in 1882. A.L.S., lyi pp. 8vo, dated '* Meteor." Kazatch 
 Bay, Black Sea, 24 Nov., 1855, to Mr. Andrews, asking him to send Lodge's Peerage 
 for 1856, Thackeray's Miscellanies, and recent Army and Navy lists — "/ believe I 
 am going next week to Kinbum where we shall have some work before the month is 
 out I suspect, as the Russians are in great force on the Isthmus and at Otchakoa 
 and they will try and shell us out of our anchorage there," 10s 
 
 410 SHEIL (Richard Lalor) 1791-1851. Dramatist and Politician. A.L.S., 3 pp. 4to, 
 dxited Dublin, 7 Sept. 1829, to the Editor of the 'New Monthly,' " This country is 
 full of agitation. The North and South are both throwing up volcanic matter. It 
 strikes ms that an article on Ireland would tell here. The Government would look 
 to it, as the ' New Monthly^ is greatly read, and wluit I write is copied into almost 
 all the papers,'* etc., lOs 6a 
 

 
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 No. 408. Madame de Sevigne 
 
MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 49 
 
 411 SHELLEY (Perey Bysshe) 1792-1822. Eminent English Poet. Author of '• Adonais," 
 " Queen Mab," etc. Promissory Note for £50 with interest, signed in full 
 AND entirely HOLOGRAPH, dated London, Nov. 2ith, 1817, 1 p. oblong slip. To 
 Horace Smith, joint author of Rejected Addresses, and endorsed by him, with 
 revenue stamp, £0 5s 
 
 An autograph of great rarity, especially when signed in full. Signature lightly scored through 
 in accordance with banking methods. 
 
 412 SHELLEY (Mary WoUstonecpaft) 1797-1851. Authoress, Wrote 'Frankenstein,' 
 etc. Wife of the Poet Shelley and daughter of William Godwin. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, 
 undated (to E. Moxon, the publisher), "lam in great want of a book which 
 describes vfiinutely the Environs of Constantinople," etc., 30s 
 
 413 SHENSTONE (William) 1714-63. English Poet. A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated 9 May, 1762, 
 to Thomas Percy, compiler of * Reliques of English Poetry,' *'/ have, this moment, 
 received the enclosed from Mr. M. Gotutn, which I send, less for the sake of these 
 partial Compliments with which he oppresses me, than to comm,unicate h%8 kind 
 intentions with regard to Mr. Percy's Publications. Dr. Boebuck, who with two 
 Scotch Gentlemen (a Mr. Stuart & a Mr. Murray) dines with me this day, has kept 
 the letter, according to his usual Flightiness, this month past in his Bureau,^* 
 etc., £3 3s 
 
 Autograph letters of the poet Shenstone are very rare. He was a contemporary of Dr. Johnson at 
 Oxford. His best known poem ' The Schoolmistress ' was praised by both Dr. Johnson and 
 Goldsmith, while his elegies attracted the admiration of Burns. His collected works were 
 published by Dodsley, 1764-69. 
 
 R. W. Elliston, the Actor's copy. 
 
 414 SHERIDAN — The School for Scandal, John Jarman the Prompter's Manuscript 
 copy of the play, signed at the end "John Jarman Prompter, Theatre royal 
 Birmingham, Aug. 20, 1813," 182 pp. 4to, afterwards the property op R. W. 
 Elliston, the well known actor and Manager of Drury Lane and Surrey Theatres, 
 with his autograph and signature on reverse of last leaf, and illustrated 
 by a portrait of Elliston, proof on India paper, by A. Cardon, an A.L.S.. 2 pp. Svo, 
 dated T. B. D. L., 30 Jan., 18^4, from Ellistoii to C. Farley, asking for 4 orders or a 
 private box, and the bookplate of C. R. Elliston, old half calf, with red leather book 
 label of B. W. Elliston on front cover, £4 4s 
 
 Elliston was lessee and manager of Drury Lane from 1819 to 1826 and during his reign inaugurated 
 its reputation for scenery. 
 
 415 SHERIDAN (Richard Brinsley) 1751-1816. Famous Dramatist, Statesman, and 
 Orator. A.L.S., 1 p. sm. Svo, undated, " Dr. Sir I should be glad to see you," etc., 21s 
 
 416 A.L.S., 1 p. Svo, undated {post mark 9 Feb., 1804), postponing presentment of a 
 
 draft, 21s 
 
 417 SIDDONS (Sarah) 1755-1831. The famous Actress. A. L. S., 1 p. 4to, dated Cheltenham, 
 12 Oct., 1823, to the Countess of Arran, "/ delay 7iot a moment to return my 
 acknmvledgments for the honour of your Ladyship's kind Invitation, which I 
 receive ictth equal gratitude and pleasure. Allow me dear Madam, to offer my 
 thanks to your Ladyship and Lord Ari'an for the numerous ^oorks of kindness 
 conferred on me and my daughter, and for your goodness to my beloved friend av^ 
 her Niece—after the offering of our united Sincere Begards to your Ladyship and 
 Lord Arran. We beg our kind remembrances to the divine Tartar," £6 6s 
 
 418 A.L., in the third person, 1 p., 4to, Gt. Marlboro. St., no date, to R. K. Porter, 
 
 the Painter, "She is sorry she has not time this morning to see the Historical 
 Picture, but on her return from Bath she will take the earliest opportunity of seeing 
 it." Accompanied by an engraving of Mrs. Siddons as Princess Katherine, £3 Ss 
 
 419 SIDDONS (Henry) 1774-1815. Actor, Son of Sarah Siddons. The original inden- 
 ture ON vellum, partly printed and partly filled in by hand, signed by Henry 
 Siddons, his father William, and John Philip Kemble, attested Charles 
 Kemble, 1 p. oblong Svo, dated 12 April, 1792, by which Henry Siddons bound 
 himself apprentice for 5 years to J. P. Kemble, the great Shakespearian Actor, 
 with three wax seals affixed, £4 10s 
 
 A document of unusual theatrical interest and importance, bearing the signatures of no less than 
 four famous actors. 
 
 420 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated 26 Oct., 1809, written as manager of the Edinburgh 
 
 Theatre, to the designer of the • Frontispiece ' at the theatre, in relation to some 
 grievance taken " at the advertisement in to-day's paper," lOa 
 
So MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 421 SISHONDI (Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de) 1773-1842. Historian. Author of the 
 ' Histoire des PraiiQais,' etc. A.L.S., in French, 2 pp. 4to, dated Geneva, 30 April, 
 1828, to Messrs. Treuttel and Wurth, Paris, asking them to take charge of his letters 
 until his arrival in Paris en route for England, and relating to the re-impression of 
 his work on the Italian Republics, 25s 
 
 422 SMEDLEY (Francis Edward) 1818-64. Novelist. Author of Prank Fairlegh, ilkis- 
 trated by Geo. Oruikshank. A.L.S., 4 pp. 8vo, dated 12 July, 1851, to Miss Bell, 
 giving her information respecting Mr. George Hall of Hall and Virtue in connection 
 with a book for children she was desirous to publish, 12s 6d 
 
 423 SOUTHEY (Robert) 1774-1848, Poet and Man of Letters. Poet Laureate. A.L.S. 
 2j^ pp. 4to, dated 5 April, 1797, to Mr. Cottle, Bristol, his publisher, " The copy on 
 fine paper which I sent to Ld. Carysfort wants the cancel 39-40, & one of the common 
 
 . ones 37-88. / am afraid these omissions are numerous by finding two ivithiyi the 
 small circle of my acquaintance. I heartily wish the edition was sold, that I may 
 make some alterations and additions myself, & rescue the Bristol presses from, the 
 disgrace of sending out a book so completely incorrect and inelegant . . . my 
 Nativity {if finished) may come with the parcel. I shall have a valuable addition 
 to my Letters in an account of the College of Surgery at Madrid. . . . I am 
 running a race toith the Printers again — tr'anslating a work from the French 
 (Necker on the Revolution) of which Dr. Aikin & his son translate the first volume. 
 . . . my time is now wholly engrossed by the race— ^f or I run at the rate of 16 
 pages a day — as hard going as 16 iniles an hour for a hack-horse. . . . How come 
 on Achmed Ardebeil & Coleridge's second edition ? Schiller's label & Love is about 
 to be rescued from the disgrace of its present English dress. A new translation by 
 the author of the Monk is in the Press," etc., £2 2s 
 A long and very interesting literary letter from the author of the ' Curse of Kehama,' etc. 
 
 424 A.L.S,, 2)4 pp. 4to, dated Keswick, 29 March, 1828, to Miss Woodroffe Smith, 
 
 '■* I have looked iri vain among papers which are laid aside, & dived with as little 
 success to the bottom of my desk for any note or fragment of Mr. Wordsworth's 
 writing. The fact is that I scarcely ever receive a letter from hitn; there is a 
 regular communication between the two families, but the females, on both sides, 
 are the secretaries. He dislikes the act of writing so much, that he always dictates 
 his compositions, <Ss his wife, sister or daughter write for him," Expects his 
 annual attack of 'hay-asthma' but hopes to get away in time to avoid it. Mentions 
 Mis. and Sara Coleridge, £2 2s 
 
 A long and interesting letter. 
 
 425 STAEL HOLSTEIN (Anne Louise Germaine Neeker, Baronne de) 1766-1817 
 Famous French Novelist and Writer. Best known as Madame de Stael. A.L.S., in 
 French, 1 p. 8vo, undated, to Lady Webb, a friendly letter, 21s 
 
 426 STANISLAS IL, Last King of Poland, 1732-98. A.L.S. "Stanislas Poniatowski,' 
 in French, 1 p. 8vo, dated Warsaw, 22 Sept., 1762, to the Duke de Calabritia, Envoy 
 from the Court of Naples to that of Poland, asking him to thank the King of Naples 
 for his present of ^'les livres des Antiquites de Herculanum," with seal, slightly 
 
 broken, 30s 
 Rare. Stanislas Augustus Poniatowski, the last King of Poland, was the son of a private 
 gentleman of Lithuania, and was elected King in 1764. In 1792 the Russians and Prussians 
 invaded Poland, and, in spite of the efiforts of Kosciusko, made a second partition of the 
 kingdom, and Stanislas was compelled to sign his abdication. 
 
 427 STANLEY (Edward Henry, 15th Earl of Derby) 1826-93. Statesman. A.L.S- 
 ♦Stanlky,' dated 11 April, 1857, to E. P. Thompson, relating to the disposal of 
 duplicate books in the British Museum, 7s 6d 
 
 428 STEEVENS (George) 1736-1800. Commentator on Shakespeare. 'The Puck of 
 Commentators.' A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated Hampstead Heath, 1 May, 1791, to 
 Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore, "On Saturday night, after my return from the 
 dinner at the Royal Academy, I found your favour on my table, and atn sorry it is 
 not in my power to furnish you with 'Mr. Anderson's Answer to the attack, <&c.,' 
 having already dispatched my copy of it to Dr. Farmer, who, by this time, I hope, 
 is breathing his native air at Letcester. The original publication of Elizabetha 
 I'biumphans shall be ready for you whenever you want it. No discovery of 
 additional blank verse has occurred since I wrote to you last," etc., £2 10 3 
 
 An interesting letter to the editor of the * Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.' Steevens at 
 Dr. Johnson's suggestion published another fully annotated edition of Shakespeare's works in 
 1773. Assailed the Irelands in connection with the Shakespeare forgeries and himself forged a 
 letter of George Peeie describing a meeting with Shakespeare. Issued his edition of Shakespeare 
 (without poems) to displace Malone's in 1793. His unpublished notes were embodied by 
 Isaac Reed in the first variorum Shakespeare of X803. 
 

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 429 STIRLING-MAXWELL (Sip William) 1818-78. Author of "Velasquez," etc. A.L.S;, 
 4 pp. 8vo, Oct. 2nd, 1851. to Dr. J. W. Donaldson. " Moore {the Poet) you knotv has 
 for some years been an idiot. Mrs. Moore missed some of his clothes, search was 
 made and the result wau that these, and many other odds and ends, were found in 
 the room of one of the maids, neatly parcelled out (like England by the Pope) toith 
 notes offering each for sale to this or thatfrierid of the deceased poet." " The shoes 
 in which Mrs. Moore last walked to Bowood " were reserved as an offering to Lord 
 Lansdown. " The deceased poet however got quite strong and hearty again." An 
 interesting letter, the latter part relating to Moore, Lord Lansdoione and the 
 Bowood cdterie in 1851, 21s 
 
 430 STRICKLAND (Agnes) 1796-1874. Authoress. Wrote Lives of the Queens of 
 England, etc. A.L.S., 4 pp. 8vo, undated {endorsed Sept. 1840), to Sir Thomas 
 Phillipps, Middle Hill, relating to tlie first series of her ' Queens of England ' arui 
 asking him to honour the work with a general review, 10s 6d 
 
 431 SWAIN (Charles) 1801-74. Poet. A.L.S., 2 pp. folio, dated 6 July. 1840, to the 
 Editor of the Literary Gazette (Jerdan), enclosing a poem for publication, and 
 writing about his work, " / have also a Tragedy whtch I think the best thing I have 
 written .... Southey, many years ago, advised me to try Dramatic Composition,'' 
 etc., 7s 6d 
 
 432 SWEDENBORG (Emanuel) 1688-1772. Pounder of the 'New Church' or Sweden-, 
 borgians. Legal Document, in German, signed by " Em. Swedenbobg," J. 
 Bergensherna, Carl Schultz and others, 5 pp. folio, dated 15 Oct., 1742, £5 5s 
 
 The autograph of the celebrated Swedenborg is excessively rare. 
 
 4a3 SWINBURNE (Algernon Charles) 1837-1909. Famous English Poet and Man of 
 Letters. A.L.S., 1>^ pp. 8vo, dated The Pines, Putney Hill, S. W.. 12 Oct., 1880, to 
 John Pearson, " / am obliged by the receipt of the copy you have sent me of Lord 
 Byron's Ode. which has great biographical interest. I congratulate you on the 
 Discovery," etc. With addressed envelope, £3 10s 
 
 An interesting letter in connection with the discovery of Byron's political ode, for the Poet's 
 letter concerning which see under Byron in the present catalogue. 
 
 434 TENNYSON (Alfred, first Baron Tennyson) 1809-92. Famous English Poet, and 
 Poet Laureate. A.L., in the third person, 1 p. 8vo, dated Freshioater, Isle of Wight 
 12 Feb., 1876, ordering a stove, 21s 
 
 435 THACKERAY (William Makepeace) 1811-63. Famous Novelist. Author of Vanity 
 Pair. Humorous autograph note in rhyme, signed W.M.T. & Co., no date, but 
 endorsed on the back Jan. 16th, 1852, 1 p. 8vo, " My dear Mrs. Hawes, ivhen the green 
 curtain draws, you shall have our {corrected to *'the ") applause, of yours vei^ truly 
 W.M.T. &Co.," £10 10s 
 
 A fine characteristic, and very desirable example of the great author's autograph. 
 
 436 THACKERAY— Ritchie (Lady Anne Isabella) Authoress. Eldest daughter of W. M. 
 Thackeray. A.L.S. , in pencil, \]4. pp. 8vo, dated 1 May, no year, to Mr. Carlisle, 
 relating to her father, " I also asked Mr. Venables but he also knew nothing of the 
 facts, he remem,bers walking away toith my Father after the lecture. He says he 
 thinks my Father must have been elected by the Committee," 10s 
 
 437 THOREAU (Henpy David) 1817-62. Famous American Author and Naturalist. 
 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated Concord, Mass., Sept. 15, 1854. To Sarah E. Webb, 206, 
 Henry Street, Brooklyn, L.I., respecting an address which appeared in the 
 Liberator, £10 10s 
 
 A most interesting literary letter from one of America's most distinguished 
 AUTHORS. Mentions his "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers " and " Walden," 
 and finishes by saying ' ' the ' Week ' probably is not for sale at any bookstore. The greater 
 part of the edition has returned to me. ' ' 
 
 438 TONSON (Jacob, the younger) died 1767. English Publisher. Eulogised by Dr. 
 Johnson. A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated Feb. 11, 1764, to the Rev. Mr. Percy, "/ am sorry 
 J have not been able to send you the two editions of Stiirrey^s poems .... you say 
 you want the editions of 1557 and 1587 — my friend's Editions are 1.557 and ISfiS 
 which I suppose are the right — icith these books I shall send you .^ome books tlutt I 
 have reed, from Mr. Doddesley & otlie^s. If you have done ivith Mr. Garricks Play 
 of Hick Scomer I beg the favour of you to return it because his Brother lias called 
 2 o»' 3 times to knoto if it was returned," 35s 
 
 A rare holograph as well as an interesting letter, written about the time when Thomas Percy, 
 "^^Ufafterwards Bishop of Dromore was editing Surrey's Poems. 
 
 439 TORKINGTON (George Byng, Viscount) 1768-1831. British Admiral. A.L.S. . 
 "Torbinoton," If^ pp. 4to, dated Bath, 1 Jan., 1790, giving instructions respecting 
 the furnishings of a coach he was having built, 7s 6d 
 
5a MYERS & Co., 59, High Holbom, London, W.C. 
 
 440 TRELAWNT (Edward John) 1792-1881. Author and Adventurer. Published 
 'Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author.' A.L.S., 2pp. 8vo, dated2Q Sept^ 
 1869, to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "As the song has been published their can he no 
 harm in your giving the true version of it. I saw Medwin shortly before he died, 
 his life of the Poet with corrections and additions will be republished in Nov." 
 etc., 21s 
 
 The song here referred to is one by Shelley of which Trelawney owned a manuscript. 
 
 441 A.L.S., 3}i pp. 4to, dated Brighton, 29 Aug., no year (post mark, 1835), to 
 
 Mr. Kirkup, a long gossipy letter on political and social matters, 10s 
 
 442 TROLLOPE (Anthony) 1815-82. English Novelist. A.L.S., 3 pp. 8vo, dated 4 Dec, 
 1875, to the Warden of New College, Oxford, *'/ cannot go down to Oxford before 
 the morning of Thursday because it is my duty to hunt on Wednesday .... a 
 hunting mun ts bound to hunt if he can hunt that he may in some degree justify 
 the expense," etc., 15s 
 
 443 A.L.S., 3 pp. 8vo, dated 27 Feb., 1879, to Mr. Ireland, relating to the proof of 
 
 one of bis novels, "I think we must strike out the words '■An original Novel.'' It 
 would seem to imply a special claim, to originality as made by the author himself. 
 It is an original novel, but it is not for me to say so. . . . Will you make your 
 printer send me the MS. I keep all my manuscripts," etc., 15s 
 
 444 — — A.L.S., 1 p. 8vo, dated 24 July, 1882, to Messrs. Bateman and Diprose, "/ beg 
 to explain that the trouble necessary in arranging the plot of a story is so great aa 
 to leave the price you name insufficient as a remuneration for any tale however 
 short," etc. Endorsed " £15 was offered," 158 
 
 445 TRUSLER (John) 1735-1820. Eccentric Divine, Literary Compiler, and Medica 
 Empiric. Author of 'Hogarth Moralized.' A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated Bath, 21 April, 
 1818, to Mr. Bramston, Wood engraver, ''The Bearer of this is Mr. Hervey a 
 miniature painter, who has a strong likeness of me. I wish to have a woodcut of it 
 if it can he xoell done & the likeness preserved. . . . I mean to prefix it as a Frontis- 
 piece to all my works which are very numerous, with your name as engraver UTider 
 it," etc., 15s 
 
 448 VAN DER GUCHT (Benjamin) died 1794. English Painter. A.L.S., 2 pp. 4to, dated 
 22 Sept., 1792, to Tbomas Barrett, giving him the first refusal of a portrait of Hugo 
 Van der Goes by himself, with a description of the painting, 8s 
 
 447 VOLTAIRE (Marie Fran ois, Arouet de) 16941778. Famous French Dramatist, 
 Historian, Philosopher, Poet and Man of Letters. L.S. "Voltaire oentilhob 
 OBD. DU Roy," in French, '6%, pp. 4to, dated Ferney, Nov., 1757, to M. De 
 lamichvdoire, intendant d'Auvergne, a long letter giving rules for ascertaining 
 the approximate number of inhabitants of any town, citing Breslau, London, 
 Dordrecht, Clermont, Jerusalem, Geneva, Brussels and Berne in support of his 
 statements. Accompanied by portion of a letter containing the address 
 "M. Tiriot chez M. de la Popliniere, ferm general a Paris," and bearing A pinb 
 srsAMPLE op Voltaire's armorial seal, £10 10s 
 
 Letters signed as above are most rare. Even the celebrated Maunoir collection, numbering Over 
 200 letters did not contain more than ten signed in full. 
 
 448 — — A PAOE OP 19 LINES, ENTIRELY IN VOLT AIRE'S HANDWRITING, SIGNED "V" 
 ENTITLED "METAPHYSIQUE," £6 6s 
 
 A fine and very rare example of this famous French writer's holograph. 
 
 449 WALDECK (Charles, Prince de) Commander-in-chief for Marie Th^r^se of Austria 
 in the Low Countries. D.S., countersigned "Maes," 1% pp. folio, dated Malines, 
 21 March, 1746, gi-anting compensation to the Sieur Greflfter de Robiano for 
 military damage done to his premises, with the Prince's fine armoHal seal, la 6d 
 
 450 WALPOLE (Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford) 1676-1745. Distinguished Statesman 
 and Prime Minister. A.L.S. "R.W." 2 pp. 4to, Chelsea, 5 Jan., 1729, to Lord 
 Townshend, an interesting letter relating to the Treaty of Seville, suggesting 
 "as a hint suggested to me by the Bishop of Bangor whether you will not rather 
 chose to lett ye treaty he published alone first for some few days to hear what is sayd 
 upon it but my reason chiefly is in order to wait for the arrivall of Lord Harington, 
 that we may talk with him together," etc. From the Sydney Collection at 
 Fkognal, £2 2s 
 
 Sir Robert Walpole was the first minister since the Restoration who made a special study of 
 finance and commerce and laid the foundations of free trade and modern colonial policy. He 
 formed the celebrated collection of Pictures known as the Houghton Gallery. 
 
 451 D.S. "Walpolb," part of 1 p. folio, top torn away, dated 8 Jan., 1725, 
 
 authorising the payment of £250 to Charles Duke of Queensbury, signed also by 
 Lord Halifax, W. Strickland, the Duke of Queensbury, and others, 21s 
 
MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, Lond-oiiV'W.d ' ''''''' ** -53'' 
 
 455 WALPOLE (George, 3rd Kan of Ortora) 1730-91, A.L.S. "Orfokd," 2 pp. folio, 
 dated 11 March, 1781, to Lord Stormont, respecting the raising voJnideers for the 
 Defence of Yarmouth, 10s 
 
 456 WATSON-WENTWORTH (Charles, 2ncl Marquis of Rockingham) 1730-82. States- 
 man and Prime Minister. A.L.S. "Rockingham," 1 p. 4to, dated 17 April, 1768, to- 
 a Ducal friend, about his health, and ending *'/ knotv nothing nev\" 25s 
 
 Premier of a coalition ministry July 1765, and mortified George III. by repealing the Stamp Act. 
 Supported proposals to grant independence to the American Colonies, and again Prime 
 Minister in March. 1782. 
 
 457 WELLESLEY (Richard Colley, Marquis Wellesley) 1760-1842. Statesman and 
 Governor-General of India. A.L.S. "Wellesley," marked " Px-ivate," 3'/^ pp. 
 4t<), dated Seville, 30 Oct., 1809, to Charles Arbuthnot, undersecretary for Foreign 
 affairs, an interesting political letter written while Ambassador to Spain, referring 
 to his acceptance of the Seals of the Foreign Office and writing in the highest terms- 
 about William Husskisson, 12s 6<i 
 
 458 WILKES (John, F.B.s.) 1727-97. Politician, Political Writer, and Historian. A.L.S., 
 
 1 p. 4to, dated Paris, 5 Feb., 1764, '*/ do not mean. Sir, to misspend my time i7i 
 making any remarks on the late pn'oceedings. They are so ohvicnis that they ivill 
 immediately occur to every man, roho is not lost to the jji'i7ic'iples of virtue, and 
 dead to the feelings of hononrand humanity. I am not able at present to say much,, 
 hut this I will add, that I am sure my countrymen, of the present age, and the- 
 faithfull histoinan's page, 7vill do justice to the uprightness ofiny intentions, to my 
 ai'dent love of the constitution of our happy island and to the honest efforts I have 
 made in the cause of liberty," etc., £4 4s 
 
 A fine and Interesting example of this rare autograph, written during Wilkes's exile in Paris. A 
 century and a half have gone by, since the name of John Wilkes was the bugbear of the nation. 
 Wilkes and No. 45 " were scrawled on every wall and might be heard at every turning of the 
 street. There is probably no other instance on record of an individual having been thrice 
 returned to Parliament for an English county, as often expelled, and as often re-elected by the 
 almost unanimous voice of the people. Britain owes to Wilkes a lasting obligation, for the 
 abolition of one of the greatest inroads upon her liberty, in the shape of General Warrants. 
 
 45J> A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, Great George St., 25 March., no year, to Mr. L)ell, Aylesbury, 
 
 '• / take the oppoi'tunity of the approaching holyday to be as little from Parliament 
 as vossible, tno' ice are to rise towards the Middle of April," etc., £2 10s 
 
 460 A.L.S., in the third person, 1 p. 8vo, undated, '■'He had heard only the first 
 
 pari of the affair till to-day, n'he7i Mr. R. communicated to him what happened 
 aftertcards in Lime Street, the Savageness and. brutality of the American he cannot 
 enough detest, but as he has spoken fully of it to his friend Mr. R. he tcill 7iot 
 enlarge on such a subject to a lady," 35s 
 
 461 WILKINSON (Tate) 17.39-1803. Actor, Author and Theatrical Manager. A.L.S., 
 
 2 pp. 4to, dated Leeds, 5 June, 17t)7, to Mr. Shields, " I can with the greatest truth 
 aver that with Mr. Kelly, Mr. hH-ledon, Mrs. Crouch, d:c., that the Established 
 Operas are acm-ne out, & the late ones tvill hardly meet a reception . . . . I have 
 as singers Mrs. Wilki7ison (late Miss Reynolds) Good Persim &: Voice, Mias 
 Baimet from C. Garden, Miss Duncan f7'om Dublin. Mrs. Mills (Late Miss Reys} 
 from Dublin, Mrs. Southgate. &c. Miss Wallis comes in Assize Week end of July 
 — I have not at this ju7icture any Star fo7- the Races latter pai-t of Augt. j mean, 
 to rely on netv Pieces not acted," etc., £3 3s 
 
 A very interesting theatrical letter, as well as a rare holograph. Wilkinson was the famous, 
 manager of the York circuit, to whose books we are indebted for so much of our knowledge of 
 the actors and actresses of two generations. He was a pupil of Foote and was first engaged 
 by Garrick in 1757. He was so remarkable a mimic that he could reproduce even the face 
 of a beautiful woman. This letter also gives a list of the places where he would be for the 
 following weeks, namely York, Pontefract and Wakefield, asks for a plan of ' Dermot and 
 Kathleen.' Speaks of Pitt, and says " l^he news here the A'in^s B Day, has thrown Me dr* 
 tvery Body into a state of great alarm," and finishes " / don't like Air. Incledov's going tO' 
 Ireland at the present time, as I think it full of danger. He has My best Wishes." 
 
 462 WILLS (William uenry; 1810-80. Miscellaneous Writer, original member oi 
 * Punch ' staff, and private isecretary to Charles Dickens. A.L.S., 2 pp. 8vo. dated 
 Household Wo7d8 Office, 15 March, 1850, to Mrs. White, ''after a careful and 
 attentive perusal of ' Spi'ing Flowers,' I am desired to i7iti7nate, iritJi 7nany regi^ets 
 
 that it is 7iot quite suited to the 71670 publication Sho7dd you be pleased 
 
 to ve7iiui'e anot7ie7- paper having in it a stronger ijiterest and a 7nost dii-ect and 
 earnest purpose it shall receive, M7\ Dickens bids we say, every atteidivn . . . , 
 Mr. Dickens desiies me to apologise foi' sending his ansxcei' in a7}other hand ; but 
 the quick accu7nulation of letters prevents his anstcering a tythe of ihe7n himself,'' 
 
 etc., 25s 
 
54 ' MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
 
 463 WELLINGTON (Arthur Wellesley, Duke of) Funeral Card for the Great Duke, 
 bearhig embossed bust portrait, surrounded by flags inscribed with the names of his 
 principal victories, a weeping figure of Britannia, etc., the whole icithin a black 
 border, accompanied by a copy of the Police Regulation for the Funeral Procession, 
 18 iVbv., 1852, 10s 
 
 464 WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, Duke of Cumberland. 1721-65. Famous Military Com- 
 mander, called the "Batcher." D.S. " William," 1 p. folio, dated Head Quarters, 
 Eyndhoven. 6 Sept. 1848 to General Sir John Ligonier, authorising him as Com- 
 mander of the British Forces in the Loio Countries during the Duke^s absence to 
 issue toarrants for the payment of the troops. With the Duke's armorial seal, £2 2s 
 A fine example of the signature of the man who defeated Prince Charles Edward at Culloden 
 
 in 1746. 
 
 465 WILLIAMS (Sir Charles Hanbury) 1703-59. Poet, Diplomatist, and Statesman. 
 Wrote 'Odes' published 1775. A.L.S., 3 pp. 4to, dated Hague, 31 July, 1753, with 
 postscript dated London, 7 Aug., to Lord Bateman, respecting his standing as 
 M.P.for Leominster, 7vhich borough he represented in Parliament from 1754 till 
 his death, 30s 
 
 A scarce holograph. At the end is an autograph note signed of Henry Fox, first Lord Holland, 
 dated Holland House, 7 Aug. 1753. 
 
 466 WORDSWORTH (William) 1770-1850. Famous English Poet. Succeeded Southey 
 as Poet Laureate in 1843. A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, undated, ''On the other side is a list of 
 Errata some of tvhich are so important to the sense that I beg they may be struck 
 off instantly upon a slip of paper or separate leaf, and inserted in such Books as 
 are not yet dispersed. . . . Tell Mr. Stone to tohom I -wish to write as soon as I can 
 find time that I think his collection jridiciously made. . . . But Mr. Stone is an 
 original person, & therefore alloioance must be made for his oddities — He feels the 
 Poetry & that is enough. The Preface does him great credit," £>'& 10s 
 
 487 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated Lowther Castle, 24 Aug., 1827, to Messrs. Taylor and 
 
 Hessey, " Would you have the kindness to direct & forward the enclosed to the 
 Authors of Guesses at Truth which I received some little time ago," etc., slight 
 defect injuring part of a zvord. With seal, £2 2s 
 
 Accompanied by a portrait of the poet and an A.L.S. from W. Wordsworth, Jan., dated 10 July, 
 1865, to J. Jones asking him to give the bearer a bound copy of his father's poems. 
 
 Sir C. Wren and St. Paul's Cathedral. 
 
 468 WREN (Sir Christopher)- 1632-1723. The famous Architect. A.L.S., 1 p. sm. 4to, 
 dated 21 March, 1694-5, giving an abstract of his examination of an account for 
 £634 7s. 5d., evidently from the person to whom it is addressed, in connection with 
 the rebuilding of St. Paul's Cathedral, £25 
 
 Holograph letters of the famous architect who rebuilt London after the great fire in 1666 are 
 excessively rare. The present example possesses exceptional interest particularly to Londoners, 
 as relating to the chief monument of his genius— St. Paul's Cathedral. 
 
 [See Illustration on previous page], 
 
 469 YORKE (Charles) 1722-1770. Lord High Chancellor, second son of Lord Chancellor 
 Hardwicke. A.L.S. , 2]4 pp. 4to, Richmond, undated, to Dr. Taylor, in answer to 
 a letter asking him to use his influence with the Master of the Rolls to obtain for 
 Dr. Taylor the preachership of the Rolls, £2 2s 
 
 A very rare holograph. Charles York is best known in connection with the question of Wilkes's 
 libel in the 'North Briton,' No. 45, and as having drafted the constitution for the Province of 
 Quebec, which was embodied in the Quebec Act of 1774. 
 
 470 YOUNG (Rev. Edward) 1683-1765. English Poet and Dramatist. Author of 'Night 
 Thoughts.' A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated 7 July 1701, to Mrs. Montagu, of 'blue-stocking' 
 fame, "Imput not the breach of 7ny promise to neglect, much less to disrespect. If 
 it shall please God to lesson my present uneasiness you shall soon find that I am 
 with great respect sincerity <& affection," etc. With postscript "I am obliged to you 
 for the Books ivhich I have now received," armorial seal in red wax, £4 4s 
 
 A rare holograph and a very interesting example as being addressed to Mrs. Montagu. His 
 celebrated 'Night Thoughts' was first published in 1742, -and at an earlier period he was a 
 member of Addison's literary circle. 
 
 471 A.L.S., 1 p. 4to, dated 21 July, 1761, to the same, "On yr very kind Invitation, 
 
 I have enquired if it is in my Powr to accept of it; but am not yet satisfied in 
 yt Point. Probabilitys will not eascuse me, if her R.H. shd. go to Kew. I shd. be 
 very Happy if I cd. be with vo u. I have so much to aay to you, that at present I 
 ahall say Nothing," etc. IflBMMM^eal, £4 48 
 
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