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2432 Wundarzt u. Physiologe, 1774-1842. - Bell, Charles, E. Br. m. U. Ainslie Place (Edinb.) 1837. 3½ SS. auf Dpbl. Schätzpreis: *R (300,- €) An den Wundarzt, Arktisforscher u. Zoologen John Richardson (1787-1865) in London. Der Poststempel ist vom 3.II.1837 datiert. "Dear John. This is the end of the week when my mind has some freedom... from hourly duties... Still I feel here as in a dream & that awake I might walk down to my friends in Westminster thro' the park!" 1835 hatte Bell die ihm angebotene Professur der Chirurgie in Edinburg angenommen u. im Jahr darauf London nur ungern u. zum größten Bedauern der daselbst Zurückbleibenden verlassen; aber auch in Edinburg war er unzufrieden: "... the errors I am forced to witness are painful... would some of our chairs are better filled - Monro & Home are either careless or incapable... Altho' I know that Brougham has nothing to do with Ministers, I wrote to him to get me a salery... He answered that he was so provoked at their refusing me a pension that he wd. not ask again... I paid £ 140 the other day for a printers account... I expect to be obliged to bind myself for no less a sum than £ 90. - Is it not hard. But for this I might make a respectable end of life... Let me not feel that I have lost my surest friends...". - Etwas abgegriffen, minimaler Textverlust durch Siegelausbruch. Jahr Haus Auktion Preis Einband Zustand
2432 Wundarzt u. Physiologe, 1774-1842. - Bell, Charles, E. Br. m. U. Ainslie Place (Edinb.) 1837. 3½ SS. auf Dpbl. Schätzpreis: *R (300,- €) An den Wundarzt, Arktisforscher u. Zoologen John Richardson (1787-1865) in London. Der Poststempel ist vom 3.II.1837 datiert. "Dear John. This is the end of the week when my mind has some freedom... from hourly duties... Still I feel here as in a dream & that awake I might walk down to my friends in Westminster thro' the park!" 1835 hatte Bell die ihm angebotene Professur der Chirurgie in Edinburg angenommen u. im Jahr darauf London nur ungern u. zum größten Bedauern der daselbst Zurückbleibenden verlassen; aber auch in Edinburg war er unzufrieden: "... the errors I am forced to witness are painful... would some of our chairs are better filled - Monro & Home are either careless or incapable... Altho' I know that Brougham has nothing to do with Ministers, I wrote to him to get me a salery... He answered that he was so provoked at their refusing me a pension that he wd. not ask again... I paid £ 140 the other day for a printers account... I expect to be obliged to bind myself for no less a sum than £ 90. - Is it not hard. But for this I might make a respectable end of life... Let me not feel that I have lost my surest friends...". - Etwas abgegriffen, minimaler Textverlust durch Siegelausbruch. Jahr Haus Auktion Preis Einband Zustand