NASMYTH
(James, 1808-1890, Engineer)
Autograph Letter Signed to "My dear Bicknell"
thanking him for his note telling him "the day you propose to set out for Foreign Parts ... I shall hold myself ready to attend to your promised instructions as to when and where we are to forgather. I hope it won't be a sic transit though might spot the glory o'monday - but we must take our chance in such matters, awaiting your ... 'further particulars' as to the hour and the place ...", 1 side 8vo., Penshurst, Kent, 18th October
Item Date:
1878
Stock No:
40055
£275
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NIGHTINGALE
(Florence, 1820-1910, Nurse and Hospital Reformer)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed ‘F. Nightingale’ with the recipient’s name crossed out
saying that she has “had a most kind & amiable letter from our great Master (Quetelet) almost without an address. I have answered according to your behest, begging, entreating, recommending him in the strongest terms to set about his second Edit with less than an hour’s delay. I have reminded him that you asked him at St Petersburg. I return yours with many thanks, in haste...”, 1 side 8vo., on mourning paper, 35 South St. W, 8th November
Item Date:
1872
Stock No:
42309
£1475
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NORTH
(Thomas, 1830-1884, Antiquary & Campanologist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Alfred Ellis
concerning his "very valuable discovery at Barrow-on-soar & I am possessed of a Photograph of the relics ... the fact of yr finding no personal ornaments is simply in accordance with experience elsewhere and proves that the laws amongst the Romans enacted against the waste of trinkets and dresses by burying them with the dead was observed at Barrow ... Lamps similar ... have been found in other interments. The urn with two handles is of an exceedingly rare & valuable type ..." asking him to "preserve the fragments of what I have no doubt you properly imagine to be a lachrymatory or unquentarium; one is generally found in Roman interments. The remains of pottery too, should be carefully examined. I have little doubt you will trace the existence of a Pahera & a Prafericulum; that is a shallow saucer & a pitcher - vessels used for the funeral libation ... I notice in the Photograph a portion of an urn (pottery) that was also found ...", 4 sides 8vo., Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society, Southfields, 18th March
Item Date:
1867
Stock No:
15439
£95
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