Autograph Letter Signed, 3 pp recto and verso, 8vo (conjoined leaves), Lansdown, April 21, 1844, likely to Henry G. Bohn, modest soiling. Custom chemise. "GOOD GOD! AND AM I COME TO THIS?" ONE OF BECKFORD'S LAST LETTERS, WRITTEN TO A BOOKSELLER. Beckford died on May 2, 1844 of influenza. Here, just days before his passing, he raves to his book-buying agent that he must have the catalogue of the collection of Charles Nodier, the Librarian at the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal, at all costs. In full: "I will not be baffled in this manner. I must see the Nodier cat[alogue] again, even were it necessary to purchase another glimpse of it. When you get the cat. send it off by post under as many stamps as you please. Yr dull people in this last instance have ruined all by their luggage train negligence. I hope no more of that. I beg you will strain every nerve to obtain the cat. When recd, I shall write out my commissions on a separate sheet of paper. We are yet in time if you wd only have the graciousness to go out of yr present track & take a little trouble. I summon you, my dear sir, this time to pay me a little more particular attention. / DO NOT neglect me. / I have just recd the Southey cat- not from you I suppose. You never write but by main force. / Only think of not having acknow[ledge]d the return back of Nodier! Good God! & am I come to this?"
Autograph Letter Signed, 3 pp recto and verso, 8vo (conjoined leaves), Lansdown, April 21, 1844, likely to Henry G. Bohn, modest soiling. Custom chemise. "GOOD GOD! AND AM I COME TO THIS?" ONE OF BECKFORD'S LAST LETTERS, WRITTEN TO A BOOKSELLER. Beckford died on May 2, 1844 of influenza. Here, just days before his passing, he raves to his book-buying agent that he must have the catalogue of the collection of Charles Nodier, the Librarian at the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal, at all costs. In full: "I will not be baffled in this manner. I must see the Nodier cat[alogue] again, even were it necessary to purchase another glimpse of it. When you get the cat. send it off by post under as many stamps as you please. Yr dull people in this last instance have ruined all by their luggage train negligence. I hope no more of that. I beg you will strain every nerve to obtain the cat. When recd, I shall write out my commissions on a separate sheet of paper. We are yet in time if you wd only have the graciousness to go out of yr present track & take a little trouble. I summon you, my dear sir, this time to pay me a little more particular attention. / DO NOT neglect me. / I have just recd the Southey cat- not from you I suppose. You never write but by main force. / Only think of not having acknow[ledge]d the return back of Nodier! Good God! & am I come to this?"
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