SHARPE Samuel - ALS 1843 from the Egyptologist praising a poet Category_Sport

SHARPE Samuel - ALS 1843 from the Egyptologist praising a poet Category_SportSamuel SHARPE (1799 1881) Autograph Letter Signed (Samuel Sharpe) to Henry Austin Driver, passing on a compliment from his uncle on Drivers poetry. 1 pages 8vo with integral blank leaf, Highbury, 26 December 1843. I had the pleasure yesterday of showing my respected uncle Mr Rogers your short poem on the opening of the Institution. He read it carefully, and pronounced it very good writing. He also looked at your Byron & the Abbey, on which he gave an

as a Peer of the Realm

heard today and which may prove to be unjustly neglected

Autograph Letter Signed (“A d’Orsay”) to an unnamed correspondent

His precarious health led to his stepping down as the Sunday Times dance critic a year later

he even dared rub out the initial letters of the French Empire

Have the pictures sent

- & now her Friends

rather confusingly states that payment for the expenses was made in 1813

via Dieppe

continuing the discussion of Nunquam in relation to a novel by Villiers de l’Isle-Adam

but it was a holiday which took him to Whitby in 1890

Paris] will continue to enjoy their rights and liberties without being troubled nor pursued for anything relating to the functions they fulfil or had fulfilled