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  • BROWN JOHN: (1810-1882)
    Dec. 02, 2021

    BROWN JOHN: (1810-1882)

    Est: €120 - €180

    BROWN JOHN: (1810-1882) Scottish physician and essayist known for his three-volume Horae Subsecivae (Leisure Hours, 1858) and his dog story Rab and his Friends (1859) as well as his essay Pet Marjorie (1863) on Marjorie Fleming, the ten-year-old prodigy and alleged 'pet' of Walter Scott. A.L.S., J Brown, two pages, 8vo, Rutland Street, Edinburgh, 1st March 1866, to a friend. Brown apologises for not having sent an enclosure (no longer present) earlier and remarks 'I don't know if you will think any of it worth printing', further referring to some manuscript verses and concluding 'Our best regards to you both, & mine to all unseen but not unloved friends about you'. VG

    International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
  • Autograph Letter.- Ruskin (John), Autograph Letter to Mr Brown, [1882].
    Sep. 22, 2016

    Autograph Letter.- Ruskin (John), Autograph Letter to Mr Brown, [1882].

    Est: £200 - £300

    Ruskin (John, art critic and social critic, 1819-1900) Autograph Letter signed to "Dear Mr Brown" [?Dr John Brown (1810-82), physician and author]", 1p., 8vo, Friday, n.p., n.d. [1882], "I did not keep my door closed that afternoon but... I had appointed it with a young painter friend to make a drawing of me, and he had quite got himself settled... I will be at home tomorrow at ½ past five, and shall most gladly see your young Oxford friend", and expressing his intention of going to visit the painting, Le Père Jacques (The Wood Gatherer) by Jules Bastien-Lepage, folds, slightly browned. ⁂ Ruskin was a keen admirer of Bastien-Lepage's The Wood Gatherer which was exhibited at Arthur Tooth and Sons Winter Exhibition in London in 1881-82.

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