TO WILLIAM PENN CONCERNING PENNSYLVANIA.

767 LOGAN (James, 1674-1751). Scientist. Accompanied Penn to America as his Secretary. Afterwards Colonial Governor of Pennsylvania. A magnificent and most important A.L.S. to William Penn, the Proprietor and Governor of Pennsylvania. 8 pp., 4to. Newcastle, 22nd Sept., 1704. £25

An intensely interesting private letter of great length on the state of affairs in the Province.

It is of the highest historical importance and the greatest personal interest.

Logan in the letter gives Penn a strictly confidential account of the affairs of the Province, speaking his mind in unmeasured language about certain members of the Assembly and others whom he names, he also intercedes on behalf of Penn's son who was acting as DeputyGovernor in his father's absence in England, and who considered he was not receiving the same consideration as other members of the family.

The whole letter goes to show the terribly rotten state of affairs generally in Pennsylvania at the time, the dissatisfaction and the intriguing against William Penn and the Government seems to have been universal.

The following are some short extracts from the letter:

We are now in such circumstances that I cannot by the best lights I am master of forsee any probability of being regularly brought into ordr. again till under the Crown, and it seems all owing to those unhappy Charters, which being designed as favours, are mad. use of by ill men as tools for mischief. There is general infatuation got amongst us, as if we were preparing for Destruction.

"It will be not grateful doctrine I believe to Mr. Wm., but I must be of opinion, it would best answer thy circumstances and p'haps not prove to his Disadvantage for should thou go off the stage, I know not what would become of it. I have had some difficulty to carry even between my Duty to thee, and my Regards to him, but hope I have not quite miscarried in either. Lett me take the freedom to request thee to be very tender towards him in thy Resentmts., lest those he has already conceived from the abuses putt upon him should by any Addition precipitate him into Ruine, he has much good Nature, wants not very good sence, but is unhappy chiefly by Indiscretion, 'tis a pity his Wife came not with him, there is scarce anything has a worse effect upon his mind than the Belief thou hast a greater Regard to thy second children than thy first.

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That ridiculous old man, W. Biles, frequently affirms they will never grant one penny on any Acct. till they have all their Privileges explained and confirmed, that is till they have 5 times more granted than ever they claimed before and then 'tis alledged the Govr. knows the terms how he may have money, and if ye Publick suffer for it, it will lie at his door.

"If thou surrender the Govmt. and keep the Propriety, as I doubt thou must, the latter of necessity, the naming of the Council as well as the Govr. will be worth thy consideration and then of most I know there is scarce any man of sence more unfit or less a frd. to thy Propriety than that weathercock J. Guest, a desire to be somebody and an unjust method of craving and getting seems to be the Rule of his life." Etc., etc.

768 LIVINGSTONE (David, 1813-1873). African Missionary and Explorer. A very interesting A.L.S. concerning various specimens of ivory, etc., he was sending home from Africa. 2 pp., 4to. N.D. £3 3s

Having been unable to write to Professor Owen, may I beg you to say that the Elephant's molars are shipped on board the Persian and will be sent from Natal. A young Elephant's skull that lived two days with us is in a box inside the other and among the bones there is a bit of ebony with a hive of the smallest bees in existence in it. They do not sting and are

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only of an inch long. The ebony is from Shiramba above Senna.
Dr. Kirk has a foetal skull at Ietle. We cannot risk anything in this
craft.
Do as we will we are and always have been flooded in our
Cabin."

769 LONGFELLOW (Henry W., 1807-1882). American Poet and Novelist. A.L.S. 4 pp., 8vo. Cambridge (Mass.). 7 Dec., 1851. £4 4s A very fine letter in which he criticises the binding of an illustrated volume of poems and speaks of the great success of his Golden Legend," The illustrated volume is very handsome, and I am highly gratified with it.

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"In this copy the binder has made a little mischief, however. In signature S, p. 137, the Ship' very abruptly runs its bows into a Sonnet and both are stove in. Be so good as to look at this in other copies. In the proof sheets you sent me in July, sig. S, runs all right; here it is a repetition of E. É.

"I am glad to hear the Legend' reached you safely at last. It is successful here. Between Saturday and Tuesday two thousand five hundred copies were sold. Since I have not heard. We printed five thousand five hundred."

Etc.

770 LOUIS XIII. King of France (1601-1643). L.S. to Mons. de Candiac. 2 pp., folio. Montfrain, 30th June, 1642. £2 1OS

An interesting letter in which the King orders Monsieur de Candiac to go secretly into the Cevennes and take note of all the doings of the Sieur de Charagnac, who is suspected of conspiring against the "Royal Authority."

AS TO THE ROUND-HEADS AND CHARLES II.

771 LOUIS XIV. King of France (1638-1715). L.S. to the Comte de Cominge, the French Ambassador to England. 2 pp., large folio. Paris, 9 Mars, 1664.

£7 7s

A very fine and lengthy letter relative to the " W Round-heads who had taken refuge near Geneva and who were said to be intriguing against Charles II.

The letter concludes with a message in cypher.

Evidently after the restoration a number of the Parliamentarians fled to Switzerland.

772 LOUIS XVI. (1754-1793). King of France. D.S. I page, folio. Paris, 13th June, 1792, "L'an 4ieme de La Liberté.' Countersigned by General Dumouriez.

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£I IOS

A Document creating Mons. Servan a Commander in the Army. It is interesting to note that this document was signed when Louis was ruling under restraint, after the attempted flight and his acceptance of the Constitution of 1791.

and DE BRETEUIL (Louis A. le Tonnelier de, 17331807). French Minister of State. DOCUMENT SIGNED BY BOTH. I page, oblong folio (vellum). 20 Nov., 1786.

12s 6d

Being a Certificate awarding a pension to one Julie C. A. Blain des Cormiers, orphan of a naval officer.

774 LOUIS XVIII. King of France (1755-1824). A.L.S. I page, 4to. 23rd July, N.D. £3 3s An interesting letter signed "Louis Stanislas Zavier," and written during the reign of Louis XVI, when the writer was still Count of Provence.

Concerning the advancement of a military protégé of the Prince's, mentioning the Count of Laval and the death of the Viscount of Saint Chamans.

775 LOUIS PHILIPPE (1773-1850).

King of France. A.L.S.

(initial) to a Minister of State. 2 pp., 8vo.. Neuilly, 14 July, 1841.

£2 25

A very fine letter concerning a petition from the people of Nantes for a new bridge over the Seine, the one then existing in their town being ugly and inconvenient.

776 LOWE (Robert, first

Viscount Sherbrooke,

1811-1892). Politician. A.L.S. to "My Dear Melville." 3 pp., 8vo. Lowndes Square, 26th March, 1866.

£I IS

A long and interesting letter most seriously criticising Mr. Gladstone's Government Reform Bill, comparing American methods of government with those of England.

"I cannot tell what the effect of Gladstone's speech will be on the public. It is a simple avowal that finding Statistics against him he throws them aside and relies on our common humanity and Christianity principles which have at least the advantage of being independent of figures. Our trade is to be handed over to people notoriously inclined to protection. Lord Grosvenor is threatened with the loss of his Estate, the House of Commons with physical force, and the rest of us are bespattered with the coarsest abuse.

"People long for land just as much here as in America, only there the longing can be satisfied without an agrarian Law, here it cannot. People seem to forget that they can be just as effectually robbed by Law as by violence.

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