MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Bennett
saying that she "had feared dear Mr Bennett that the advancing beacon's shortening days would prevent your excursion by the side of the Thames. I should have regretted it more had not my health continued so bad as to diminish my pleasure in seeing more friends whose society used to give me the most gratification. Last week during four successive days four sets of persons came to see me - such persons as the great Painter John Lucas, William Wood the Member for Oxford, the most distinguished of the new members in the house & the most charming person in conversation that I have ever known - & two other sets less publicly known but equally distinguished for talent - & great as the pleasure was it has so entirely exhausted & prostrated me that my eminent medical attendant has told my maid to let nobody in - & although that will of course not be acted upon to the letter the direction yet shows sufficiently what he thinks of the state of my health & my inability to receive any visits. The Talfourd family are coming to stay with a friend of mine 4 miles off next week. I suppose that I shall hardly be able to see them although invited for every day. I send you your share of a packet from American which I received the other day. Send me back Mr Field's letter please - He is very kind to us both - & you could not have a better introduction to the American Public. I think I told you how superb a man he was - certainly the handsomest I ever beheld. They praise the beauty of the American Women - but I have never seen one who would not look withered & faded by the side of a a pretty young English woman - of Mrs Bennett - for example - Make my best regards to her ...", 2 sides sm. 8vo., no place, no date, together with a copy (probably by Bennett) of the letter from James T. FIELDS to Mitfordthat is referred to saying "for the poems of Mr Bennett enclosed in your letter pray accept my thanks. I think I am doing something occasionally to make him acquaintances this side the water - I have already published the sonnet to Keats in one of our Magazines from which it has travelled the country through. Bryant copied it not long ago into his Journal the Evening Post & Willis likewise endorsed its beauty by a similar compliment ...", 1 side 8vo., Boston, 26th July
Item Date:
1848
Stock No:
41206
£275
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MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs BROWNING,
(Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861, Poet and wife of Robert) saying that she "does indeed rejoice, my very dear friend at the exceedingly pleasant manner in which the book ... is being noticed in the papers - It may do good - you must not think me unkind if it be some time before I can convey the copies in my hands & those coming to me to their destined owners. Unluckily every one lives beyond a walk & I have no means of getting them to the different persons except by taking them myself - since you left me I have had a severe attack of neuralgia pain in the face - which is almost always brought on by driving in the winter in an open carriage - so that I have been obliged to give up going anywhere beyond a walk for the present - indeed in the winter I never do get into the pony chaise without suffering severely - However I will continue to take them as soon as I can - & real difference there is none between an immediate delivery & a delay which I should of course explain as being caused by myself & not by you - That first volume of Mrs Browning must be as heavy as lead - & I should fear would go far to weigh down the ... portions of her poems - odd sort of criticisms the Leader has - I see Mr Home's Duchess of Malfi has stopped - but hard as the construction of Webster is his own is a million times worse - with Webster's five bits. I see that the Smuggler by James is published in the Parlor Library - let me have that please dear friend. Tom Cringle's Log if I have not got it which your bookseller will know & any ore of James's as they come out - love to the Mrs Bennetts ...", 4 sides sm. 8vo., no place, no date, together with an engraving of Mitford from the drawing by F. R. Say, 9½" x 7"
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0
Stock No:
41207
£675
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MOLESWORTH
(Mary Louisa, 1839-1921, Novelist & Children's Writer)
Autograph Letter signed to an unnamed correspondent "Dear Madam"
regretting that she cannot send her "one of my photographs, which I should have done with pleasure if I had any. I have never succeeded in getting a good one taken, but should I be more fortunate at some future time I shall remember your very flattering request ...", 2 sides 8vo., on mourning paper, 29 Avenue Klëber, Paris, 5th October no year
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0
Stock No:
39748
£150
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MOLESWORTH
(Sir William, 8th Baronet, 1810-1855, Politician in the Coalition Cabinet of the Earl of Aberdeen from 1853 as First Commissioner of Works and then Secretary of State for the Colonies)
Autograph Letter Signed to S. L. Levison,
saying he is “much flattered and gratified by your polite letter. I was aware that an attempt has been made to raise a cry against me for having edited the works of Hobbes. I am grieved at it, not on account of any personal insults, but as evincing the bigotry and intolerance which unhappily prevails amongst certain portions of this country, and which mistakes the efforts of those, who have... at heart the intellectual as well as the economical progress of the nation. If my constituents reject me for having shown due reverence for one of our most illustrious thinkers I shall not complain, but sorrow for their sakes at the reproach, which such a proceeding will cast upon them in the estimation of all enlightened men in this country and elsewhere. Wherever a fitting opportunity occurs I shall tell them plainly my opinion on this subject, and appeal to their good sense and hope to make an impression on them...”, 4 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope signed
Item Date:
1840
Stock No:
41837
£175
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MONTGOMERY
(Florence, 1843-1923, Children's Writer)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that she has "great pleasure in sending you my signature & must apologise for directing as I do as I do not know whether 'Cecil Wolseley' is a lady or a gentleman! ...", 1 side 8vo., 56 Cadogan Place, 18th December no year
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0
Stock No:
40217
£35
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