MILMAN
(Henry Hart, 1791-1868, Dean of St Paul’s, Poet & Writer, Historian and Ecclesiastic)
Long Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My dear John Townshend’
saying that he “knows not whether you have heard the cause of the exit of my family from home - we have had a most fearful fever around us and alas! in our house. Your godson Archy has struggled through after having been despaired of more than once - thank God. He is now recovering as rapidly and seemingly as completely as we could hope. My poor wife was attacked before him though not so severely as to cause alarm for her life, but... it will still require time to restore her perfectly. My second son also hardly escaped an attack, and was, and is perhaps weak, from the violent preventives necessary - of course immediately it could be done, we were ordered to remove. We have been three weeks at Richmond, and are now at Pinner - from both which places I run up in a very short time for business or duty - I am always here on Sundays. One of my smaller grievances (smaller they must be allowed to be after the harassing and painful weeks, which I have passed) is that I cannot see such friends as you during your very infrequent and brief visits to London... Where are you and how long do you stay? Is Mrs Townshend with you? You left no direction - I therefore take my chance of sending this to Mr Mainwairing. If you are staying in town do let me know - it will be shortest to direct to my brother ‘The Grove, Pinner’... as I do not know what day I may be in town... My wife and Archy will not, I think, return to town (I am dissuaded by the doctor) before our usual holidays... I shall probably fix in town the latter end of this month... but hardly hope to find you then...”, 4 sides 8vo., Cloisters, Westminster Abbey, 11th July no year circa
Item Date:
1840
Stock No:
41819
£225
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M'LEOD
(Norman, 1812-1872, D.D., the younger, Scottish Divine, Minister of the Barony, Glasgow, and editor of 'Good Words')
Strongly drawn woodcut portrait from a magazine
showing him head and shoulders in an elaborate decorative frame, with on the verso a detailed obituary notice, 2 sides 10¼" x 7¼", June
Item Date:
1872
Stock No:
51895
£10
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MOBERLY
(George, 1803-1885, Headmaster of Winchester 1835-1866, from 1869 Bishop of Salisbury)
AN in the third person to James Williams, apparently the porter,
desiring him "to bring him a list of all boys who return home after each Leave Out" over 15 minutes late, 1 side 2" x 6¾", (Winchester), no date, c.
Item Date:
1840
Stock No:
51901
£25
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EARLY PHOTO OF THE CASINO AT MONACO
[MONACO]
Very early photo of the Casino at Monaco
with a biplane flying overhead, 7" x 4½", Monaco,
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
24057
£75
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MONNERON
(Paris Financier, granted the privilege of Coining Copper 1791-1792)
Receipt signed by him on verso of an Order by Mazoir and Company,
Paris Bankers, for 11,000 livres [about £440] to P. Ch. de Proli, with the latter's endorsement in favour of M. Duplain de Ste Albine (15th June 1786), and Duplain's endorsement in favour of M. Monneron (20th June 1786), in French with translation, Paris, 30th April
right hand part only present of original order (recto)
Item Date:
1786
Stock No:
13856
£45
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