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Lot 62

ENGLISH LITERATURE
Collection of letters and manuscripts, comprising autograph letters etc.

Amended

The Library of the late Hugh Selbourne, M.D., Part One

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

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ENGLISH LITERATURE

Collection of letters and manuscripts, comprising autograph letters etc. by William Godwin (two autograph letters, one addressed "To Philander/ to be left at/ Mr Johnson's, Bookseller,/ St Paul's Church Yard" and opening: "I received considerable pleasure from the sympathy, with the feelings of my own mind", 1798), Mrs Gaskell, Siegfried Sassoon (about his preface to Poems from Italy: Verses Written by Members of the Eighth Army, 1945), James Hogg the 'Ettrick Shepherd', John Payne Collier ("...Do not be affronted..."), Allan Cunningham ("...Peace and health be with you in spite of captious authors and high-trotting horses..."), Edward Carpenter ("...the people are fools, and the mills of God grind slowly. Nevertheless the work is not lost, and its outcome is sure. It is no good bothering about special results. They must take their own way (generally to the Crematorium!) but all the while something is being built up..."), Basil Hall, William H. Prescott, B.W. Proctor, Maria Edgeworth, Charles Cowden Clarke, John Masefield, and Rudyard Kipling (mistyped letter signed, complaining that his typewriter has taken a holiday); with an autograph manuscript by Robert Southey (extended quotation from Latimer) and marked-proofs by Richard Le Gallienne

Included in the lot are four autograph letters by William Harrison Ainsworth to John P. Aston of his father's firm Messrs Aisnworth & Co, Solicitors, of Manchester, written soon after his father's sudden death in 1824; the longest of which (comprising twenty quarto pages and dated October 1825) working out the terms on which they would collaborate on Sir John Chiverton (1826), which was to be Ainsworth's first novel and bring him to the attention of Sir Walter Scott.

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The James Hogg letter is not autograph.

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