RUSKIN RECOMMENDS A SCULPTOR FOR A SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL IN MELBORNE
RUSKIN
(John, 1819-1900, Writer and Critic)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Colonel Robertson
saying that he is “glad to hear of your safe arrival in England; and as sincerely wish that I could be of any use to you, but I have long given up all discussions upon matters of art – there is only one way to get a good thing done; go to Munro, Woolner, Marochetti, or any other good sculptor you like, and let him do the thing entirely in his own way. All bye[sic] opinions are useless: mine, just now especially so, for my head is full of quite different matters, (so far as it is full of anything). I have been put into a state of enduring and intense disgust by the way the Prussians and English have been behaving these three years back; (Prussia backing Austria and England standing behind her counter, whistling, with her hands in her pockets) - which has left me neither head, nor heart for any of my old work; in fact I was made thoroughly ill by the peace of Villafranca and am now only coming a little round again - but what I am doing - or should do, will be very different from any of my old business. I hear very good speaking of Mr H. S. Leifchild, 111 Stanhope Sq. Mornington Crest. I suspect he would be able both to advise and do, in this business of yours....”, 3 sides 8vo., no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1860
Stock No:
43423
£1750
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SIMPSON
(Sir James 1792-1868, General)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Culborne
saying that she could not “tire me with reading your kind notes! I am always glad to get them. Nor am I tired of Hardwick Shooting! tho’ certainly the weather has used me badly, and if next Monday seems a promising morning, I will be with your Party by Eleven o’clock. If you will kindly let me know, I will obey your Summons tomorrow, should it be agreeable to Mr Milner Gibson and yourself for me to dine with you. I returned home yesterday... a dreadful day - pouring all the way, and it was worse at night for my Ingham trip. Why did you not tell me of your disappointed Carriage Companion?...”, 3 sides 8vo., Harringar, 6th November no year
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43413
£125
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SPOONER
(William A., 1844-1930, Theologian & Educationalist, Originator of the ‘Spoonerism’)
Autograph Letter Signed to “My dear Earlwood”
saying that he is “sorry to say that Jack got a rather severe blow on the head at a riotous scene after the Bunf[?] Supper... This has interfered with his work for some daHs but I hope he is nearly right again now. The riot was a bad one & seems to have been generally participated in by the men who attended the Bunf Supper but not I think by Jack - The men got for a time quite out of hand and the men who were more or less in charge quite failed to keep order. I have seen Wickham Legg & find that his reading party is quite filled up. I have recommended Jack to try whether Mr Jeffreys of BNC could take him. he is, I believe, an excellent teacher. If this should fail I will try to hear of some other reading party which may be going...” with a postscript that he and seen “Jack again & he tells me that Mr Jeffreys is also full. I am going to talk to Fisher about a reading party...”, 3 sides 8vo., New College, Oxford headed paper, 6th March
Item Date:
1911
Stock No:
43401
£125
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STEPHENSON
(Robert Snr, 1788-1837, Civil Engineer, Elder brother of George Stephenson, the ‘Father of the Railways’)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Bagnall,
a Civil Engineer in Liverpool, saying he has received his letter and “was happy to hear that you were fast recovering, I am sorry to inform that I shall be under the necessity of being... to a late Hour at the Colliery tomorrow Night, it will be uncertain my getting to you on Sunday, Therefore you had better come straight on to the Wool Pack Pendleton. I have not seen Mr. Gill since we parted at Liverpool. I have seen his Agent & he says we have nothing to fear. I will endeavour to see Mr. G. tomorrow, it being Market Day I hope I shall find him in Manchester, when I shall be enabled to inform you what he has done in the matter. There was nothing of great importance in the Magazine...”, 1 side 8vo., with two thirds of the integral autograph address leaf, Pendleton Colliery, 7th February
Item Date:
1834
Stock No:
43415
£175
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