VIDOCQ, Eugène-Francois - ALS 1845 from London from the great criminal turned detective Category_History

VIDOCQ, Eugène-Francois - ALS 1845 from London from the great criminal turned detective Category_HistoryEugne Francois VIDOCQ (1775 1857) Autograph Letter Signed (Vidocq) to Madame Lefevre hoping to develop their acquaintance. 1 page 4to in French with integral blank leaf, n. p., 17 September 1845. Trans: The gracious manner in which you welcomed us makes us wish and hope that you will allow us to have the honour to cultivate this acquaintance; would you be good enough to serve as interpreter with Doctor Curie and his interesting wife and present them

“Through the courtesy of Mr

cut down to 4to

3 February 1816

Typed Letter Signed (“Harold Nicolson”) to “Dear Mr

There follows a Memoir of Marshal Ney

and was co-author of a number of operatic libretti

a portfolio full

and go to Magdeburg

unhampered by his physical ill-health due to haemophilia

of the poet Samuel Rogers who is almost certainly the uncle mentioned in this letter

Autograph Letter Signed (“John Hobhouse”) to Henry Driver

when Elizabeth Fry travelled to the Netherlands