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saying that she is "one of those few who have believed in me these many years; a fact whereof I have always felt very proud; more so than I well know how to say. Any little circumstance therefore which would seem to justify your faith is intensely welcome... In this light I value the associateship. It will now be my duty to take a share of the teaching in the schools and if either of your children should go to study there you know it will be a great gratification to me to devote to them the best I can do in that way. The last time we went to Camp Cottage you were all away... We have now six babies all told and the latest still keeps his mother nearly always at home so you will be nearly sure to find her when you come. I hope I may be no less fortunate but to save me a disappointment you must stay to dinner and there will I hope be no reason for your returning to Wimbledon that evening...", 3 sides 8vo., 6 Keswick Road, Putney, 30th January

(Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville, 1903-1989, Classicist and Medievalist who held senior chairs of Latin at Oxford and Cambridge) thanking him for his letter "It was very good of you to take this trouble. I have sent it to Batey, which I hope you won't mind, and I do hope now he will feel he can use my block without qualms. I think the present division of the words stems from Michael Burghess who supplied the press with such splendid copper plate engravings in the 17th century. They are large and the shield is not the only thing in the designs. The shield as used now, by itself and small, needs careful attention paid to the lettering (Burghess was not particularly a letterer). That was my reason for this slight re-arrangement It was not just a quibble. The Press I think knowing there have been variants in the past... This in itself I feel is a pity. There is no particular virtue in standardisation. But if it must be standardised then surely the most satisfactory design should be… Read More

saying that he will "probably come to town tomorrow.. but this must depend upon my getting a coach at Woburn as it is not the day for the Ampthill coach. This house is full of gay society & Colonel Charles... previous to his departure for America...", 1 side 4to., Ampthill, 21st August

saying he "could not ask for work to go better or faster - and one day I shall endeavour to return your kindness which I have done nothing to deserve. I am enclosing a note for Perdiguier [please could you put on the address], if he was responsible for the very kind words on the heading. Try and avoid colliding with Villemessant here on Monday...", 1 side 8vo., no place but with his red Monogram "N" with "Quand Meme" at the head, no date, circa Nadar was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs. His son, Paul Nadar (1856–1939), continued the studio after his death. The correspondent is possibly Philippe GILLE (1831-1901) who was a French dramatist and opera librettist, who was born and died in Paris. He was photographed by Nadar in the 1870s. He is probably referring to Hippolyte de VILLEMESSANT (1810-1879)… Read More

saying that in Rome "they expect spring weather" to begin in February, he is "writing now by an open window!", although he knows Rome well "there is constant food for thought", recalling "over and over again the lessons of childhood and manhood", 2 sides 8vo., Grand-Hôtel, Rome, 2nd February guard just touches ends of a few lines For Agnew's outstanding deals see DNB.

sending "the three originals asked for...", 1 side 8vo, 16 Chalcot Gardens, NW3, no date From 1906 the family lived in Chalcot Gardens, near Haverstock Hill, until moving from London to Houghton, West Sussex in 1920.

Lt. Col 48th Middlesex Rifles, replying to his "letter respecting the necessity of having, if possible, the full 'Government Grant' allowed to each volunteer corps upon the terms you suggest. I beg to say that my experience for several years, bears out all you state on this point, and I feel this matter so strongly that I am about to move in this matter myself...", i side 8vo., 263 Hampstead Road, the crest has been neatly cut out and replaced with plain paper

about the progress of a sketch, "Being able now to ascertain the time your drawing of Hy 7th Chapel will take in finishing I think it proper to inform you that if I was to charge you by time it would amount to 15 guineas but considering it is too high I intend to charge you 10 guineas, half to be paid on delivery of the drawing the other to go to accounts. I should have left the whole to go to account but having been obliged to put aside other things I find myself under the necessity of doing so. I shall set off for Paris on Thursday... and hope having the pleasure of seeing you... because should you not approve of the drawing you are perfectly at liberty not to take it. Every one of my pupils are coming with me to France...", 2 sides 4to., 34 Store Street, Bedford Square, 13th August Pugin produced views of London, jointly creating the illustrations for the Microcosm of London (1808-1811) published by Rudolph Ackermann, followed by plates for Ackermann's books about Westminster… Read More

saying he has "just had the pleasure of your welcome letter, and having to be in the city tomorrow morning I will at the same time see you at your office... if that will suit you. You may be sure that I will not occupy too much of your time..." 1 side oblong 8vo., Ida Villa, Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, 7th November Haag travelled widely, lived as a Bedouin, and painted scenes in Jerusalem hitherto barred to pilgrims. He contributed 4 engravings to 'Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands'.

asking him to "please show my painting to the person who gives you this note...", 1 side oblong 8vo., including the address of the recipient in Southampton Street, Strand, no date His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects, bringing the academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period. He was also a teacher with a long list of students. Transcription Monsieur Oback Maison Goupil 17 Southampton street Strand Prière à Mr Oback de faire voir mon tableau à la personne qui lui remettra ce billet. M. Gerome Translation Mister Oback Maison Goupil 17 Southampton street Strand Mr Oback, would you please show my painting to the person who gives you this note. M. Gerome

returning "your copy corrected, and a transcript throughout, of the Latin memorial and here follows, in English the concluding sentence, or, rather part of a sentence, beginning after the last period,and with the word Post that you may perceive the defect at the end: But after these and many such like duties (or works of benevolence) or services, rendered both to God and his/her country, and to me, his wife/her husband,and the his/her children.... As to your publication' as a well wisher to literature, I hope it may reward your pains, by meeting with many friends. On looking again at your letter since writing the above, I perceive the personage in question is a lady but the transition is easy, as amended above. But to proceed in answer to your enquiry, whether she was a native of Rumford? The Latin does not say so much, of herself it does not speak at all ... There is no word in the original for her or his the omission is no defect, but a grammatical licence... With respect to my account,… Read More

(Edward, 1819-1901, MP and Railway Entrepreneur) saying that he has heard that "through your kindness my wife & invalid son were shown every attention in their journey for his health and I beg to thank you most sincerely for conducing so much to their comfort...", 2 sides 8vo., St Mary's Tower, Birnam, 9th November

saying that he is "sorry I cannot come to your party tomorrow... I hoped to do so but find to my regret that it is not possible...", 1 side 4to., 54 Bedford Gardens, Kensington, 28th April no year

acknowledging receipt "of a registered letter containing 1,500 francs which you deliver to me in the name of Mister Jules Huret. Please, Madam, accept the assurance of my respectful sentiments...", 2 sides 8vo., no place, Saturday, October He was an art collector, with a noteworthy interest in the then "avant-garde" artists of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements. He bequeathed his collection to The Louvre in 1908, for which a new suite of exhibition rooms were arranged on the second floor of the wing between the Pavillon Mollien and the Grande Galerie and opened in mid-1914. Transcription Samedi octobre 98 Madame, Je m'empresse de vous accuser réception d'un pli chargé contenant 1500 francs que vous voulez bien me remettre au nom de Monsieur Jules Huret. Veuillez Madame agréer l'assurance de mes sentiments bien respectueux. I de Camondo Translation Saturday October '98 Madam, I hasten to acknowledge receipt of a registered… Read More

saying that "at last I beg to return the 2 Vol; (Mexico) you were so kind as to lend me, and but that you have so often forbade any apology would again attempt to excuse myself for having kept them so long. I don't think I ever committed a work with more satisfaction and may I say advantage... in respect of some particulars which made them exceedingly apropos. My avocations however afford me but little time to read consecutively and the entire perusal of the work have been interrupted by long intervals. Pray allow of this in excuse...", with a long postscript asking him to "do me the great kindness, in your next 'Punch' dispatches for Mexico... considered one of my... happiest efforts, & is not the worst idea for revolutionary principles introduced at Home...", 4 sides 8vo., 1 Vale Place, Hammersmith, 4th November Leech was best known for his work for Punch, a humorous magazine for a broad middle-class audience, combining verbal and graphic political satire with… Read More

sending "the full size moldings &c for the sarcophagus", 1 side black-edged, 28 Montagu Square, W., no date, c.

apologising for the fact that his "son Nigel left Salisbury without finding out your studio. I hope you will bear in mind the Dudley for wh. I enclose a circular. As I told you we occasionally admit drawings for the first year without any subs & I shall be very pleased if you will exhibit two or three..." he goes on to say that he has been ill "& it has left me so weak that I obliged to put off my lecture...", 3 sides 8vo., 9 Earls Court Square, South Kensington, 15th December

saying he is glad "to hear your programme is working out so well & trust you have done Scotland & Cornwall as well. I fear I shall not see you again this time as I am going to fly to Marseille next week... but try & come again in late May... & we can show you something better. All you say of the aesthetic influence of gardens & old families is only too true but it is sad these socialist Governments are only out to destroy the best that is in life in our beloved Country... I wrote to C. Williams this week & [am] glad you saw and appreciated dear old Sir Herbert Maxwell. Best of luck...", 1 side 4to., with original autograph envelope, Compton's Brow, Horsham, 25th March Both Millais, son and biographer of Sir John Everett Millais, and Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, (1845-1937, M.P., from 1877 7th Baronet of Monreith, Wigtownshire), were passionate naturalists and writers.  Millais' paintings of wildfowl are among the best ever published. Maxwell, in… Read More

Sending her "the two subjects you receive from me are fron Spencer's Fairy Queen and the Decameron... the first is Una with the Satyres,... & the other a secluded meadow scene from the latter...", 1 side 8vo., Newman St, 25th September His best-known painting is the Procession of the Canterbury Pilgrims, (now in Tate Britain), the engraving from which, begun by Luigi and continued by Niccolo Schiavonetti and finished by James Heath, was immensely popular. The commission for this picture was given to Stothard by Robert Hartley Cromek, and was the cause of a quarrel with his friend William Blake.

thanking him for "the Guinea you kindly sent me for the Artist's Benevolent fund & for your promised support at my table on May 5th. The dinner ticket shall be sent in due course...", 1 side oblong 8vo., 54 Bedford Gardens, Kensington, 4th February