MARTIN
(Albinus, 1791-1871, Architect and Engineer)
Autograph Letter signed to Alfred Ellis,
(1821-1879, son of John Ellis of the Midland Railway), saying he has received "the note on the other leaf [present] from Lucas' son ... [John] Lucas", 1807-1874, "was busy at a portrait of Sir John [Tyrrell] last year. I suppose he has been suddenly called down to ... put a flush of joyous colour into the face of the Bucolic Baronet now that the Tories are in again", Alfred's father "is a fine subject for the painter & bad as modern dress is the change made since West painted Wm. Penn and ... his father & mother is all in the right direction", Martin suggests making him "put his hat on and get a kind of Rembrandt effect by the shadow ... this would not do for the Railway Directors nor perhaps for the family ... the treatment of costume in a portrait is no small difficulty ... I cherish your cordial invitation ... If Edward Ellis", Alfred's eldest brother, "says a word against the Yankees let him name his weapons" (14th March 1858), with on the third side an Autograph Letter Signed 'W. Lucas Junior' to Martin saying that his father "was suddenly called away from town yesterday, he is now at Chelmsford staying at Sir J. Tyrrell's [sic], I ... have no doubt you will hear from him" (13th March 1858), in all 3 sides 8vo., Brighton and 3 St. John's Wood Road, 13th - 14th March
Item Date:
1858
Stock No:
15111
£65
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MASEFIELD
(Sir Peter Gordon, b. 1914, Aeronautical Engineer)
Typed Letter Signed to Mrs Dolphin,
thanking her for her letter "about the last flight of the R.101" following his enquiry "in the December issue of Hertfordshire Countryside", especially about "your sight ... on the night of 4th October" which adds "most usefully to the pin-pointing of the track ... It is extraordinary that, after so many years, so much can be established" by such kind help, he explains why airships usually kept to about "1,000 feet or less - which always seemed very low because of their size", 1 side folio, Rosehill, Doods Way, Reigate, 11th January
Item Date:
1975
Stock No:
17927
£65
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MASTERS
(Maxwell Tylden, 1833-1907, M.D., F.R.S., Botanist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Alfred William BENNETT ,
(1833-1902, Lecturer in Botany at Bedford College and St. Thomas' Hospital), saying he does "not know how good my word may be but at least I am as good as it as witness enclosed fulfillment of promise made", 1 side 8vo., Ealing, with note "June something probably 25",
slightly creased in bottom margin, faint trace of mounting on conjugate blank verso
Item Date:
1875
Stock No:
13884
£25
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MAX MÜLLER
(Friedrich, 1823-1900, Anglo-German Orientalist and Comparative Philologist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Patteson,
sister of John Coleridge Patteson, (1827-1871, first Bishop of Melanesia), thanking her "for the photograph" of her brother, "I can with some effort recognise the features, but I confess I wish to retain in my memory the more cheerful and hopeful expression of his Oxford days", (at Balliol, 1845-1848), "I wish I could tell you how deeply I feel for you, and how I admire the spirit with which you bear your irreparable loss, but words fail me ...", 2 sides 8vo., black edged, Parks End, Oxford, 13th April
a few small light marks
Item Date:
1872
Stock No:
54723
£175
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MAX MÜLLER
(Friedrich, 1823-1900, Anglo-German Orientalist and Comparative Philologist)
Portion of Manuscript concerning geology, signed in the margin,
“if the formation of the crust of the earth had been throughout regular and uniform, and if none of the lower strata had been tilted up, so that even those who run might read, no shaft from the surface could have been sunk deep enough to bring the geologist from the tertiary down and face to face with, the Silurian rooks. The same in language. Unless some languages had been arrested in their growth during their earlier stages, and had remained on the surface in this primitive state, exposed only to the decomposing influence of atmospheric action, & to the alterations of literary cultivation, I doubt whether any scholar would have had the courage to say that at one time Sanskrit was like unto Chinese, and Hebrew no better than Malay...”, 7” x 4”, no place, no date
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0
Stock No:
41846
£125
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