MOORE
(Sir Norman, 1847-1922, 1st Bart., President of the R.C.P., medical biographer)
Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Paul Vinogradoff, 1854-1925, the Russian-born legal historian,
on his knighthood, saying "You have honoured England so much by your residence among us & by your illuminating teaching of our history" and praising his services "to both England & Russia", 2 sides oblong 8vo., 67 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, W., 13th February
Item Date:
1917
Stock No:
19212
£20
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MORREN
(Edouard, 1833-1886, Professor of Botany at the University of Liège, Belgium)
Autograph Letter Signed in French with translation, to Alfred William BENNETT ,
(F.L.S., 1833-1902), telling him that he does "not know if I have already thanked you for your present of your excellent paper on the absorbent glands of the Drosera, Pinguicula etc. I have now to thank you also for your flattering appreciation of my Discourse", (possibly that read to the Belgian Royal Academy on 16th December 1875, on 'The Theory of Carnivorous Irritable Plants') "which I have just read in ... Nature. I believe you have already paid tribute for some years to my minor botanical papers, but I cannot find any notes about them ... I beg you to put a x, on the enclosed list, against any you might have, and I will hasten to send you any that you are missing and which I still have ... Please be so kind as to tell me your private address", 3 sides 8vo., monogram 'M' at the head, Liège, Belgium, 26th May
traces of former mounting on blank fourth side
Item Date:
1876
Stock No:
13972
£145
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MORRIS
(Rev. Francis Orpen, 1810-1893, Naturalist, Wrote against Darwinism, Anti-vivisectionist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Suckling,
(Florence Horatia Nelson, 1848-1923, Writer, wife, 1876, of Thomas Suckling, 1844-1922, of Highwood Lodge near Romsey) profusely thanking her "for the very handsome volume you have so kindly sent me ... I have but one fault to find with it, after, of course, most hasty glance at it, that it is much too short (?) for so very handsome and so large a book. I can but hope that the high patronage you have, and some good reviews, which I am sure there ought to be, will give it your due reward ..." with two postscripts, the first asking for Circulars of it and the second saying that he has "just looked over it a very little - It is admirable - It ought to do you good - It will ...", 3 sides 8vo., Nunburnholme Rectory, Heyton, York, 18th February
Item Date:
1891
Stock No:
30530
£275
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MURCHISON
(Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871, Director General of the Geological Survey, 1st Bart.)
Autograph note signed,
saying he will be "at the Society at ½ p 2 ... Yours ever", blind embossed stamp of the Geological Survey, 1 side 8vo., 27th July
blank margins trimmed
Item Date:
1864
Stock No:
51904
£75
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MURCHISON
(Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871, Director General of the Geological Survey, 1st Bart.)
Signature and subscription
"yours faithfully", on Royal Geological Survey headed paper, 4½" x 2", no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41340
£30
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