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"None; they are strictly prohibited, and under M. de Mazarin's own hand." "Have you the writing still?" "Yes, my lord; would you like to look at it as you return to take your cloak?" "I should, for I like to look at autographs." "Well, then, this one is of the most unquestionable authenticity; there is only one erasure." "Ah, ah! an erasure; and in what respect?" "With respect to a figure.
Some years ago there appeared, in a catalogue of autographs for sale, an extract of text and cut which was irresistibly funny. It can hardly have taken a dozen strokes of the pen: but they simply glorified the letter. In no sense, however, can the value and delight of Thackeray's letters be said to depend upon this bonus of illustration.
Some of the girls sent home for autographs of distinguished persons, which they pasted in their books. Rose Red, however, out-did them all. "Did I ever show you mine?" she asked one day, when most of the girls were together in the school-room. "No, never!" cried a number of voices. "Have you got one? Oh, do let us see it." "Certainly, I'll get it right away, if you like," said Rose, obligingly.
The steps of these transactions I will ask you to follow." "Is it necessary?" "It is. Also that now you set before me the autographs, together with their reproductions of every kind, on this table, and permit me to verify the collection by the list supplied by my lawyers." She frowned, and taking the packet from its resting place, unslipped the band and spread out its contents.
It seemed to me quite probable that Benedict, if living, would forget what he had done before his insanity, and that, if he were dead, some friend of his boy would engage in the suit on his behalf. I procured the autographs after I saw his boy in your hands, sir." "So you had not seen these particular signatures at the time when the alleged assignment was made." "No, sir, I had not seen them."
This dignified letter the First Consul suffered to remain unanswered for several weeks; at length he proposed to dictate an answer to me. I observed, that as the King's letters were autographs, it would be more proper that he should write himself. He then wrote with his own hand the following: Sir I have received your letter, and I thank you for the compliments you address to me.
One day I had been talking with the Princess and her guest on the treasures of the Imperial Library, and especially the wonderful collection of autographs, among them the copy-book of Louis XIV when a child, which showed the pains taken to make him understand, even in his boyhood, that he was an irresponsible autocrat.
The Lives were soon published in a separate edition; when, for a very few corrections, he was presented with another hundred guineas. Nichols's Lit. Anec. viii. 416. See ante, iii. 111. In Mr. Morrison's Collection of Autographs &c., vol. ii, 'is Johnson's receipt for 100l., from the proprietors of The Lives of the Poets for revising the last edition of that work. It is dated Feb. 19, 1783.
"I have a mania for autographs, and I possess one of yours, obtained at the period when the Opposition exalted you to the glorious rank of martyr. I have compared the two writings, and I find that you certainly wrote me, yesterday, the letter which you hold in your hand, informing me of the money embarrassments of young la Peyrade at the present moment."
Bruhl and the Polish Majesty, safe enough they, and snug in the Konigstein, are clear for advancing: "Die like soldiers, for your King and Country!" writes Polish Majesty, "Thursday, two in the morning:" that also Rutowski reads; and I think still other Royal Autographs, sent as Postscripts to that.
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