MARSH
(Catherine, 1818-1912, Philanthropic Worker and Writer)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear kind young friend',
saying "Not dreaming you were in the pew behind me and only hearing from the Miss Mackenzies that Mrs Henry Dundas was there - alas I could not divine it!", she thanks her for her "dear letter ... But I was obliged to give up eleven visits - to hurry home to invalids ... God bless you ... to realize and enjoy constantly the presence of your Saviour", 4 sides 8vo. and 3 top margins, 3 Onslow Gardens, S.W., 27th October n.y., c.
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
17917
£65
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MARSTON
(John Westland, 1819-1890, Dramatic Poet)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent,
telling him that Dr Forbes WINSLOW (1810-1874, Physician, Specialist on Insanity) "has consented to sit for his portrait for The National and we should be glad to avail ourselves of your obliging aid in taking his likeness ...", 1 side 8vo., no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
2008
£25
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MARSTON
(John Westland, 1819-1890, Dramatic Poet)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent,
returning "the Sonnet with two slight corrections ... both the author and myself are much gratified that you have liked the lines sufficiently to give them insertion in 'The Cornhill' ...", 1 side 8vo., 9 Northumberland Terrace, Regent's Park Road, N.W., 7th June
unevenly trimmed on bottom edge
Item Date:
1869
Stock No:
2009
£25
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MARTIN
(Sir Theodore, 1816-1909, Parliamentary Solicitor, Verse Writer, Translator, Biographer of Prince Albert)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Anna Swanwick , (1813-1899),
saying "You can judge of the difficulties of translation", sending his version of Schiller's 'Gods of Greece', "one of the most difficult I have rendered into English", and hoping "the original has not suffered greatly in my hands", 1 side 8vo., 31 Onslow Square, S.W., 2nd March
Item Date:
1893
Stock No:
17921
£30
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MARTIN
(Sir Theodore, 1816-1909, Parliamentary Solicitor, Verse Writer, Translator, Biographer of Prince Albert)
Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Eastlake,
saying "Do not let your natural horror at any brochure about Shakespeare keep you from reading the enclosed letters" written to an "excellent lady (now dead)" by Sir Theodore's wife, the famous Shakespearean actress Helen Faucit (1816-1898), "Lady Martin shrinks from the idea of ... herself ... as a writer, and most reluctantly let me have these letters printed ... I hope you will think I was not wrong", 2 sides 8vo., 31 Onslow Square, S.W., 14th November
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
17920
£40
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