Sale 2530 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, February 20, 2020

146 c   KIPLING, RUDYARD. Autograph Letter Signed, “Rud,” to John Hays Hammond (“Dear Jack”), reporting on his wife’s poor health and travel plans. 1 page, small 8vo; horizontal fold, paper clip impression at upper edge, remnants of prior mounting at corners verso. Burwash, 1 January 1931 [400/600] “. . . The wife has been ill—in bed for . . . weeks with rheumatism. She is a bit better now & we hope to get her away to Bath in a few days for treatment before we try to go abroad. . . . [T]he weather is and has been damnable for the last week.” 147 c   LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE DE. Autograph Letter Signed, “Lamartine,” to “Dear and illustrious Colleague,” in French, praising him and his letters, explaining that he had gone to Paris (not Maron), complaining that work on his History of Turkey consumes his mornings, and promising to meet with him one evening for a talk. 3 pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet; faint scattered staining, faint offsetting to third and terminal pages, folds. Manceau, 28 May 1854 [150/250] “Your letters are the most beautiful protestation against these years of complaining and of which you ought to boast. . . . “I am proud that my weak biographical pamphlets occupy a moment of a master of the great history [such as yourself]. “. . . The Labor improbus is the history of Turkey, the 3rd volume now takes away every morning of my life. . . .” 146