Three autograph letters signed, including one to William Roscoe.
Edgeworth’s Town (2) and Clewer: 17 January 1813-9 January 1838. 8 pp., folded sheet (varying in size, from 230 x 187 to 248 x 200 mm), the first with an integral address panel. Condition: the 1813 letter with folds, postmarks, red wax seal and seal hole; the 1814 letter with tape repair in two places, miniscule holes from former stapling, right edge browned; the back sheet (with seal hole) of the 1838 letter laid down on card, minor foxing. Provenance: from J. Wilson, November 1990. 17 January 1813: Signed from maria edgeworth to John Miles, a publisher at Simpkin Marshall, with an added note from her father, richard lovell edgeworth . Maria praises the recently published “ second part of Mrs. Leadbeater’s Cottage dialogues,” which she found “surpassing in interest & pathos,” and makes a point of distinguishing between this and the “higher life dialogues” she mentioned to Mr. Miles a while ago. She thanks Miles for “Rejected Addresses which have amused us much” and closes with a note about her “father’s paper on wheel carriages.” In a brief appended letter initialed “RLE,” Mr. Edgeworth comments, “This Mrs Leadbeater is a sad goose--she has disposed of a little jewel as if it were a piece of glass…,” and playfully feigns insult at being accredited with writing a particular article in the Dublin newspaper, “…this [Maria] would insist upon it, was my writing; and in consequence she roasts me… What filial piety Maria boasts! Medea boiled her sire, Maria - roasts.” 1 September 1814: Penned by maria edgeworth , signed “rich lovell edgeworth” to william roscoe . The letter describes “…A young gentleman who has had an undue quantity of latin and greek early hammered into him,” whom Mr. Edgeworth seeks to place in a school or with a tutor in the vicinity of Liverpool; he kindly asks Roscoe’s advice on the matter, given the latter’s “charac=ter and attainments.” Roscoe’s reply should be sent “under cover” to the “Rt. Honble John Foster” at Collon, Ireland. 9 January 1838: A letter signed francis b. edgeworth to “My dear Miss Lawrence,” thanking the latter and her sister for “having procur’d me the acquaintance of Mr & Mrs Cayley, & of Lady Byron…,” and touching on various topics.
Three autograph letters signed, including one to William Roscoe.
Edgeworth’s Town (2) and Clewer: 17 January 1813-9 January 1838. 8 pp., folded sheet (varying in size, from 230 x 187 to 248 x 200 mm), the first with an integral address panel. Condition: the 1813 letter with folds, postmarks, red wax seal and seal hole; the 1814 letter with tape repair in two places, miniscule holes from former stapling, right edge browned; the back sheet (with seal hole) of the 1838 letter laid down on card, minor foxing. Provenance: from J. Wilson, November 1990. 17 January 1813: Signed from maria edgeworth to John Miles, a publisher at Simpkin Marshall, with an added note from her father, richard lovell edgeworth . Maria praises the recently published “ second part of Mrs. Leadbeater’s Cottage dialogues,” which she found “surpassing in interest & pathos,” and makes a point of distinguishing between this and the “higher life dialogues” she mentioned to Mr. Miles a while ago. She thanks Miles for “Rejected Addresses which have amused us much” and closes with a note about her “father’s paper on wheel carriages.” In a brief appended letter initialed “RLE,” Mr. Edgeworth comments, “This Mrs Leadbeater is a sad goose--she has disposed of a little jewel as if it were a piece of glass…,” and playfully feigns insult at being accredited with writing a particular article in the Dublin newspaper, “…this [Maria] would insist upon it, was my writing; and in consequence she roasts me… What filial piety Maria boasts! Medea boiled her sire, Maria - roasts.” 1 September 1814: Penned by maria edgeworth , signed “rich lovell edgeworth” to william roscoe . The letter describes “…A young gentleman who has had an undue quantity of latin and greek early hammered into him,” whom Mr. Edgeworth seeks to place in a school or with a tutor in the vicinity of Liverpool; he kindly asks Roscoe’s advice on the matter, given the latter’s “charac=ter and attainments.” Roscoe’s reply should be sent “under cover” to the “Rt. Honble John Foster” at Collon, Ireland. 9 January 1838: A letter signed francis b. edgeworth to “My dear Miss Lawrence,” thanking the latter and her sister for “having procur’d me the acquaintance of Mr & Mrs Cayley, & of Lady Byron…,” and touching on various topics.
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