Verlag: Grafton Street London 29 February, 1856
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair conditon, lightly aged. Brougham's handwriting is bad, and the reading is in part tentative. He is 'extremely sorry to learn from Mrs A's letter' that the recipient has been indisposed. Brougham could not have made the appointment suggested in A[rmstrong]'s letter as he was 'in the House of Lords every day except Wednesday'. He has received the document, but has not been able to look into the matter, 'so oppressed as I have been with business which could not be postponed'. He will be free to do so after the following Monday, and will write to A then. Postscript: 'In presenting the bills respecting penal statutes next week I may have an opportunity of renewing my protest agt the abuse in question'. From the papers of the family of the second wife of the geologist Alexander Henry Green (1832-1896), previously Miss Wilhelmina Maria Armstrong of Clifton.
Verlag: 'Brougham i.e. Brougham Hall Westmoreland / morning? ? Oct no year but before his mother's death in ', 1839
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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2pp, 12mo. On grey paper. In good condition, lightly aged, in neatly-trimmed remains of windowpane mount. Headed 'Private', addressed to 'My dear M. D [M. P?]', and signed 'H. Brougham'. Thirty-four lines of text, in a somewhat challenging hand, resulting in the following tentative reading. (In his 1995 biography of Brougham's later life, Trowbridge H. Ford describes him 'dashing off so many letters as the new session approached, with his bad handwriting getting worse with every stroke, that only the greatest patience can lead to deciphering them'.) As it is very possible that the letter he sent to [illegible location] may not have reached the recipient, he writes to 'insist on your ot going on but coming up here where my mother expects you & will shew you our [Lions?]'. He finds it 'very vexatious that my letter some days [before?] never reached you in which I mentioned that I must set out early [Wedy?] for Liverppol where I shall be kept till Saturday at our Social Science Congress'. He asks to be written to at 'Richmond Hill, Liverpool' and concludes: 'The carriage will be at the station for you at each time a train arrives, to brig you up whether you come today or tomorrow'.
Verlag: Without date or place. 'Saturday Mg | Private'
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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2pp., 12mo. On bifolium with mourning border. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with 6cm vertical closed tear to first leaf, affecting a couple of words. The reverse of the second leaf carries a broken seal in black wax, and is addressed to Clanricarde. The letter begins: 'My dear Ld C: | We are in a great difficulty at the H. of Lords today for want of a third Peer.' He will esteem it a great favour if Clanricarde 'will come at ten and enable me to go on with the Causes - for otherwise there will be the whole expence thrown upon the packs'.
Verlag: 20 Northumberland Street London 4 December, 1856
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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6pp., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly aged paper. Brodie's hand is not easy to decipher, but the letter is fulsome in its praise of Brougham and his latest work. Brodie begins by acknowledging the receipt of 'the last volume of Lord Brougham's Works published by you', a copy of which he had 'previously got as a subscriber'. He continues: 'In my poor apprehension it is even, if possible, superior to its predecessor, & more than justifies the character I formerly ventured to sketch of that illustrious individual', He continues in his praise, with reference to 'Dean Swift', 'Captn. Macheath and his associates' and 'Peachum'. In his view, never did a Lord Chancellor 'enjoy such popularity. But times are altered. The power of conferring favours is in other hands & all who expect patronage here, trouble at his resuming the vantage ground so greatly his due'. He continues with a discussion of the position of the press in the matter of Brougham's reputation. He concludes: 'Why do I trouble you with all this: - It is simply as an introduction to a statement that, did I know how to get it published, I should be proud & happy to down a notice or review of this volume.' In a postscript he claims to 'know the author of the article [reviewing the volume] in the N[orth]. British Review. It discloses of the spirit I have alluded to'.
Verlag: Calehill Charing Kent; 29 October, 1840
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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At the time of writing Brougham was recuperating from a serious illness, and trying to dodge the Chartists, who were reorganising under new leadership. 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip from mount adhering to reverse of second leaf. The letter begins: 'Lord Brougham presents his compliments to Mr Lovejoy and assures him that it would give him very great satisfaction if he could be of any service to the proposed Insttitution to which he heartily wishes every success. But he has been oblig'd to refuse so many applications to be placed among the nominal numbers of Similar Societies that he feels it impossible to accept of what he should certainly have esteemed an honour.' Brougham offers, on his 'return to town', to be of 'use to the proposed Insitution by obtaining for it such information as the Useful Knowledge Society may possess, beyond what is published in The M. [J.?] Book'. He 'will thank Mr L. to let him know how the design in contemplation succeeds'. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge had been founded in 1826, mainly at Brougham's instigation. It is unclear who 'Lovejoy' was, or what was the nature of the 'Institution' referred to in the letter. There is a possibility that the recipient was the American abolitionist Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864), and that the letter relates to one of several American organisations based on the SDUK. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1813
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Full article published in Edinburgh Review, vol.21, pp.378-424. Manuscript, two pages, 4to, trimmed at bottom with loss of text, with light corrections and additions, giving the text for pp.407-8, excluding two lengthy quotations from the book to which Brougham gives the reference only. The trimming had led to the loss of the passage from "In the Conservatorii or charity schools [.] He gives as an instance one Conservatorio where four hundred . where four hundred.",apart from a few words (subject of pasage partly "repentant women" and vice in Naples). Subjects of the manuscript include Naples and King Ferdinand IV. Notes: A. Wellesley Index, vol. 1, p.451, identifies joint authors: Letter from Brougham quoted saying, "Jeffrey has sent Clarke's MS. to him for remarks; and begs Clarke not to reveal his share in 'Eustace'; Cock and Brougham MS. lists attrib. to Brougham". The Manuscript is in Brougham's hand, somewhat neater and smaller than his sometimes indecipherable letters; B. 'As a young lawyer in Scotland Brougham helped to found the Edinburgh Review in 1802 and contributed many articles to it.'.