Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-07-05
CURIOUS AUTOGRAPHS.
SIGNATURES Of David Garrick,
Pope. Queen Bcss, Bloody
Mary.

New York sun.
The autograph.hunters OF this city will
be interested in sale OF autographs IN
London recently, an account OF which
has been received. The sale was note
worthy because there were in 1t so many
OF David Garrick s letters and signatures.
"Hegarth's tomb at Chiswick," ," said an
old autograph collector yesterday, sis at
once a monument to the genius that
lies within and oi that which, contrary
to the usual nature OF epitaphs, does
not lie without" This fine and touch
ing epitaph vas written by David Gar
rick at the request of Hogarth's widow,
and an interesting letter containing
these lines, written by David Garrick to
his friend, the Rev. Mr.. Hoadley, were
sold at recent London auction for so.
Garrick left an epistOlary correspond
ence replete with wit and sentiment,and
abounding in records OF his social life
and histrionic career.
Another letter written to Hoadley, a
few months before he lett the stage. in
which he says: 81 shall take my leave
of the stage. and bid farewell TO the
pumed troops and the big war, and
welcome content and the tranquil
mind" sold Tor so. Garrck quilted
the stage in June, 1916, and died Jan
uary 20, l71g. One letter written In
III, in which he lays it down AS An IN
valuable maxim that mo cONcomb can
be theatrical genius, sold for SD,
owing 10 the fact, probably, that no at.
tors were at the sale. a very interest
~. La, ,,i ii,
| play ye part 0I Scrub
for the first time, and
further ON: al rise or fall bv 'Otheilo,
very s0on,' sold for about Slj. The sale
also included a sCrawi by the great Mrs.
SiddOns, upon the subject of Cruel and
milk, which sold for II LIS, a letter
from Joseph Addison on official matters,
which sold for . los, and one from
James Boswell, which sold for G3 5s.
There was n caustic letter from AIexan-
der Pope, which sold for about $40, III
which he says Of his writings: IL pray
God they may never have other enc.
mir. than those they have yet me:
with, which are, first, priests; secondly,
women twhO are the fools Ot priests,
and, thirdly, beauX and tops who are
the fools Oi women" a letter from
Dickens was sold for 80. In it he says:
Let me SAY candihIy in one word that
have never, on my own behalf or that Of
my most intimate friend, made request
OF any kind the most remotely connect
e witt. the noticing OF Il work 10 any re:
viewer ! know, directly "riniircct!y. !
always most carefully abstain from DO
ing SO.
There was also sold document signed
bv Good Queen Bess, in reiert nee to d
delivery Of plate, winch brought SD,
and one signed by bloody Queen Mary,
which was grant Of hangIngs" ltor
bnrninys"l. sold for gI5 l5s. A letter
signed bv the duke Oi Somerset, vino
was bpLeadcd IN l55l, sold iOr Is,
and warrant oi Edward VI, coun-
tersigned By Somerset and others,
sold for ga, and Sir Isaac
signature TO receipt dated
April |, 1903, was sold for 60 l2s. The
autograph OF Mrs. Fitzherbert, 1.-The fair
Perdlta, - sold for e., and curious col
lection OF autographs, comprising those
OF old Gives, the miser; Miss Biftin, wi O
was born without arms; Count B1m-