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Auction archive: Lot number 3

CHARLES II, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO JANE LANE, 1654

Estimate
£2,500 - £3,500
ca. US$4,030 - US$5,642
Price realised:
£2,500
ca. US$4,030
Auction archive: Lot number 3

CHARLES II, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO JANE LANE, 1654

Estimate
£2,500 - £3,500
ca. US$4,030 - US$5,642
Price realised:
£2,500
ca. US$4,030
Beschreibung:

Charles II. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("YOUR MOST ASSURED AND CONSTANT FRIND CHARLES R"), TO JANE LANE writing with remarkable ease and intimacy to his saviour after the Battle of Worcester ("...I hope you doe not beleeve that hearing from a persone that I am so much beholding to, can be in the least degree troublesome to me..."), and assuring her that Mr Boswell's gossip that a letter from her to him "giving me good councell" had been read aloud and discussed in his bedchamber "is not the first lie that he has made, nor will not be the last", also informing her that he is sending her his portrait, 1 page, 4to, Paris, 20 March 1654, integral address leaf with complete red wax seal impression, damp stained and spotted, wear at folds, laid down on card

Auction archive: Lot number 3
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jul 2011
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Charles II. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("YOUR MOST ASSURED AND CONSTANT FRIND CHARLES R"), TO JANE LANE writing with remarkable ease and intimacy to his saviour after the Battle of Worcester ("...I hope you doe not beleeve that hearing from a persone that I am so much beholding to, can be in the least degree troublesome to me..."), and assuring her that Mr Boswell's gossip that a letter from her to him "giving me good councell" had been read aloud and discussed in his bedchamber "is not the first lie that he has made, nor will not be the last", also informing her that he is sending her his portrait, 1 page, 4to, Paris, 20 March 1654, integral address leaf with complete red wax seal impression, damp stained and spotted, wear at folds, laid down on card

Auction archive: Lot number 3
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jul 2011
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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