The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-26
IUABLE LETTERS.
Prices for Epistles From
Famous Men.
a,cTIoN SALE N loNDoH

sun6epcs sosson HefaId.


q 4 - ss1rrapbs. old letters, old manu-
~ I'd books and old things generosity.
\ ~, i ! vast reservoir, in winch. some
& HS. 49, thing accumulate
So |lSin 0rte IL these saIesrocms stroied :
= q tw0 ago, allured ~ an edssf.,se.
3 II tIse Times. The Place o. anesson
77S ~ establish mcnt OF Messrs. sotneoys
S 1IlEfnSun 4 Hodge, on Wellington sfreei,
p IL end Of Waterloo bridge, nesf
100 q tho Strand. II h an estao.
s ~ veil known 70 the freguentsrs OF
~ 6aIes. For Messrs. sotheby have.
~ ffsno these last 145 years, announced
16dfxSs = s.auctioneefs OF literary
- eud works illustrative of the tine
& !: n 161nof uoie was on at Sotheby 's--a sale
80 doxe, duration. Il Was cataioguea
% - q autograph letters and mansi-
SS7@1- soor6urfsinx flne examples Of Napo-
|SS* 9eSweIi. Mrs. Browning. William
~ (yhnieaubriafd, and (mark the Pc
~ sstfine 81 these namesl q. Eliot, b.
& ~. ~. Hnstitt, r. Carlyle, w. Irv-
5Ss E.. Yanu. @. Lamb, W. Pitt. 9. Wash
- Ssld d waits. There were 'hne ex-
r s. - = TO. Of Shelley and Tennyson,
/ 116Slre. Gaavntof Rosa. Pee and Keats; "a
s lss:s ,zs,1.. 81 lesters relating 20 Dr. John
S . s.ensns mo@t important letters of
! y - rremiifon ana Nelson . - valuable
\ s61<., 81 letters relating 10 tho Mon
- xeteIliOn j" series Of Beaconsiieid
80 ma Earier letters. and letters from
I'll . ColasidRc, the greater portion hnv-
l& In collected by Mr.. William CHS
sgsccessor to Lord Btowcll ~ liter
Il ~ u1snfor n Ds. Johnson. There were
SxSove1. unpublished letters Of Dickens,
7S~rcxlpta 81 Thackersy, and an original
- q Johann Sebastian Bach. Inere
) many royalties, but royalties were a.
3 7Iu1oun9. especially those Of the Georgian
- cplstIes brought IS, los. i5s and
s -. Georgian royalties were always
- onoaeh; they have scarcely any
Is value In these days. Even letter
- III puFarry went for fl 81. There
y oonaething like dozen bonapartist
IN from Napoleon the Great TO Napo-
IN ~ Little, and their uncies, cousins
& lke1r aunts, but nobody seemed 70
- ~ thess imitation imperiaiists, whose
4 ~ found slow sale Ut anywhere from
d = guinea apiece.
16tt1f from Louise de In Rance. other
IIoo Aoufin, !" followed 1t l2s. O'Conneils
Ht a.. a letter from Pope Plus r.
& % only 81. The first large price was
voa fof N autograph poem by Shelley.
<fS oto1tod IN with 2-guinea bid, and
- 1noo1kod down 1t x23.
q 1ottof from Disraeli, written about
r. of1ractod some interest. a. showing
- 1napclnl dtfnculties with which the
~ pginlo minister was familiar in his
n 1oys II was sold for guineas.
(h6Iiny Ietters. Of which there were
966 Z darn and hall, brought good
80 g them (giying many details
~ ontntes ana furtunes1 bring
Another. written lust before
Z| S61h. brought xa3 10. But "the
q ~ s51r7nnt and interesting shelley
Z ~ jnnf. = d the catalogue had II.
= ~ ~. Il vas dated IL Norfolk
- london, March Q, 1915. and II Was
1E1c,, a. ~ Goodwin 4 few DAYS after
- lntier,a daughter Mary had yielded
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5s7iows.
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a.nshts. nor her offsprine. ought 10 re-
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- =. 49,. Nan vonr esnecial duty IN see
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esin r,ox,tion amons thoss who best annrn
rieta g.,.st noefry Tennxeon. whass nam,
vcu rp.fc hna. II hear arsvht hu, = aole.
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rrrs hut The iuares took notioe az M,
,,s.;5er volume. - do not Wish ,,v
rc.r ,n ,,i~ without one hold Str.,ke -
-. ihenselves. II when left ~ ,ben.