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124 - Jean-Baptiste SAY (1767–1832). 3 letters, dated 1832 and und…
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Estimate €400 - €500
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Jean-Baptiste SAY (1767–1832). 3 letters, dated 1832 and undated, to ladies; 4 pages, in-8 or in-4 format, 2 envelopes. Monday morning, to Mrs Soehnée. Advice on sending newspapers to England: ‘They are not prohibited goods at English customs, but the customs officers must be able to see the contents of the parcel; if you include a written note, put it in a separate envelope’… She sent him the second volume of *The Dictionary of Relics*, probably so that I might read it”… He mentions a letter to be passed on to Jeremy Bentham. 30 October, regarding a letter from Naples which Keratry had copied and submitted to the censors: ‘The censors rejected it. It seems they have orders not to allow any comments favourable to the three revolutions in the South to pass. It is quite something that they allow the actions of these revolutionary governments to pass unchallenged’… February 1832, to Alphonsine Duméril (widow of Horace Say; Alphonsine Delaroche had remarried Constant Duméril). He sent her a clock which ‘might look rather nice on the mantelpiece in your drawing room’. The figure adorning it ‘must be a faithful reproduction, as it is modelled on an ancient Demosthenes from the Museum. There is no gilding to avoid the inconvenience of having a glass case that weighs down the clock and is prone to breaking”…
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About the sale Letters and Autograph Manuscripts – Part I
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Auction time 10/13/2026 at 2:00 PM
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