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Travellers Club. - Concerning alleged bridge of etiquette over a hat belonging to Lord George Loftus.

The title cited is from the title-page. The volume is labelled on the spine ‘St. Simon | Nouvelle Encyclopédie | MSS.‘, and on the front ‘L.D.L.S.’ The written leaves are numbered in the bottom right-hand corner from ‘d.73’ to ‘d.224’.

These items comprise letters to Smith from various correspondents and one letter to another person which was forwarded to him (1/31).

Transcript

London, 15 Piccadilly, W. 1 February 1899 {1}

Dear Sir,

My experience does not extend to the contents of public libraries; but only to the books which have passed through public sales during the last forty years. I may therefore congratulate you on the possession of the finest copy I have ever seen of the first edition of the Genevan Bible.

I well remember the feeling of incredulity with which I listened some ten or twelve years ago to Mr Makellar’s {2} description of his copy as being a really fine one. When I saw it at his sale I was taken by surprise, and determined to have it at any price.

I thank you for the cheque—a receipt for which is enclosed;—and I am, dear Sir,

Faithfully yours
Bernard Quaritch

Professor W Aldis Wright

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{1} The first three figures of the year are printed.

{2} William Makellar, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, who died in 1896. His library was sold by Sotheby’s on 7 November 1898. See List of Catalogues of English Book Sales now in the British Museum (1915), p. 434.

Journal kept at Ellaston, Bombay [Mumbai], Poona [Pune] etc. With a number of transcribed poems and various dedications to his sister Mary.

Printed pages to p. 224.

Draft for book, identified by Isaac Todhunter as drafts of pp. 12-17, 33-36, 38, 42-44, 177-180, and 320-397.

Drayton Mansions, Drayton Gardens, S.W. - Forwards a [book? or the enclosed circular?] featuring his books 'The Crimea and Transcaucasia' and 'The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger' with quotations from the 'Saturday Review' and 'The Times' in the same hand on the front.

Title written on inside front cover. Copies of letters dated 15 and 27 Jun. 1834.