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"
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41207
£675
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MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist & Dramatist)
Brief Autograph Letter signed to Mrs Acton TINDAL
(Henrietta Euphemia Harrison, 1817-1879) Poet and Novelist) saying “Thank you my beloved friend! Be assured that you have been amongst the blessings of my existence - May God bless you all! Ever your affectionate...”, 1 side sm. 8vo.,with original autograph envelope, with a pencil annotation “A letter very dear to me!”, Swallowfield, Monday, no date but postmarked 23rd February
Item Date:
1854
Stock No:
41544
£125
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MITFORD
(Nancy, 1904-1973, Author)
Fine Long ALS ('Nancy Mitford') to Madame del Riego
(Teresa Clotilde, 1876-1968, Violinist, Pianist, Singer and Composer of Spanish ancestry), thanking her for her letter "it was so kind of you to write exactly the sort of praise one loves to receive. Most people don't really read what one writes, only what they themselves imagine. Half the letters I got were to order me to book rooms at 'Ste Fay' - how much with full pension! ... So you do see that yours made a change! ...", 2 sides 8vo., Rue Monsieur VII, Suffron 7665, 12th August
Item Date:
1961
Stock No:
38846
£245
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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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