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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MAX MÜLLER
(Friedrich, 1823-1900, Anglo-German Orientalist and Comparative Philologist)
Autograph Letter Signed to “My dear Sir Robert”
saying that “Perhaps H.R.H. the Duchess may like to look at the enclosed about the Queen of Romania. I am here at Glasgow ‘fighting with lioins’, but protected by dear Dr Macgregor who does not think me a heretic. I hope the young Duke has escaped influenza...”, 1 side 8vo., black edged, 29 Bastingden Terrace, Glasgow, 12th January
Item Date:
1892
Stock No:
43394
£145
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